I only really get upset when those close to me act nasty.
so are you going to dump him? Go for a fresh start? You know its far worse to be in a bad relationship than to be alone. At least if you're single you have possibilities and hopes - you have neither of those when you're stuck to a loser who oppresses you every day.
Dump the cowboy and ride a Stallion.
Bad people will cause bad things, even when you think they've made a change they often haven't. Especially if they haven't made a change you shouldn't be giving them any headroom.
And here I was expecting an Airplane! reference.
Personal experience suggests that telling women to dump their ******* boyfriends is sound advice that is almost always ignored...
I have not come across a place where I felt more immediately at home and enjoyed as much as geekhack. Its odd and eclectic and wonderful and even grammatically correct more often than not.I felt the same way when I joined up about a year ago and I have to say that I was expecting to stick around, but for some of the reasons you brought up, the fit felt right. It's not too large and not too small. It's not too young and not just full of jaded oldies. There's a good mix of three things you don't often see together: IQ, fun, and sanity. Finally, it seems that a lot of people here really do care even as cantankerous as a lot of us can be (not all on the same days thankfully).
Personal experience suggests that telling women to dump their ******* boyfriends is sound advice that is almost always ignored...
I have a sort of 'gay best friend' relationship with a lot of my female friends. It has its ups and downs...
It's probably just a geek best friend, same thing. Women like to keep geeks around to do crap for them, like fix their macs, then sleep with and date asshats.
Ahhh, so ch_123 essentially is being used to fix girls' macs while kishy does the sleeping. It all makes sense now...
It's probably just a geek best friend, same thing. Women like to keep geeks around to do crap for them, like fix their macs, then sleep with and date asshats.
And here I was expecting an Airplane! reference.
So.... this thread has somehow ended up turning into a group cry for the men. HTF did that happen? Guys... not the place to do the "women suck" thing.
Dumb quote of the day:
Women think men are sexists because they only date the *******s.
My dumb quote of the day:
"It's change we can believe in!"
-Barack Obama
Women like to keep geeks around to do crap for them, like fix their macs, then sleep with and date asshats.
BWahahahaa! LOL!
See? It's GREAT here! I think it's ****in' PERFECT! :peace:
Originally Posted by chimera15Show Image(http://geekhack.org/techforums/buttons/viewpost.gif) (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?p=200932#post200932)
It's probably just a geek best friend, same thing. Women like to keep geeks around to do crap for them, like fix their macs, then sleep with and date asshats.
Fix their...MACs? Who fixes MACs?
You know, like "How do you turn this on?" Or, " this stupid thing doesn't do what I think it should" when it's perfectly fine.
I had one girl_friend who locked herself out of her own computer and couldn't remember her own password. I had to crack the windows installation for her. lol
Personal experience suggests that telling women to dump their ******* boyfriends is sound advice that is almost always ignored...
As a Unix system, I'm sure that OS X is probably more tinerk-able than Windows is. I guess the issue is that tinkering with Unix requires prior knowledge or a particularly adventurous user...
Ahhh, so ch_123 essentially is being used to fix girls' macs while kishy does the sleeping. It all makes sense now...
As a professional photographer, with plenty of model/glamour Portfolio's shot, I'll volunteer to do tasteful shots of it :tongue:
As a professional photographer, with plenty of model/glamour Portfolio's shot, I'll volunteer to do tasteful shots of it :tongue:
InSanCen is from Wales, cool.
Everything I know about Wales comes from... you know, I dont think i've ever seen a movie set in wales.
You're hopeless aren't you.
You're right. I'm "Change-less" too.
You're right. I'm "Change-less" too.
InSanCen is from Wales, cool.
Everything I know about Wales comes from... you know, I dont think i've ever seen a movie set in wales.
As a result mac users we've seen rarely know how to actually fix their own machines, and we have a hell of a time hiring qualified mac techs. No problem finding enthusiastic mac users -- really hard time finding mac users who know how their systems actually work.
Actually, after taking a look at IMDB, there's quite a few things that happened in Wales (http://www.imdb.com/keyword/wales/).Torchwood is the darker and edgier (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier) spin off of Dr. Who.
To name a few that actually ringed a bell to me:
- Torchwood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485301/): I am yet to see any episode... but at least I've heard about it
I seriously doubt that there's this huge disparity between cluelessness amongst owners of one platform vs another with the exception of Linux (since you have to have some chops just to install that). People who buy the cheapest PC possible and people who spend extra money on a Mac for the sole reason that it's a Mac and they believe it's less hassle have a lot in common. They both are more likely than not to have a low technical IQ.
Rather, I'd venture to say the reason why you get more clueless Mac users is because there are fewer Mac users so if something breaks down, the average person might not have a handy fix-it friend to hit up for a free fix. Whenever someone asks me what computer they should buy, my response is "What do your more tech savvy friends own? Get that. You'll need to have someone sympathetic to call when something gets screwed."
I'm that friend for a lot of people in my town so I get called before the repair shops do. I know a lot of people and most of these requests for advice on their computer problems are for PCs and the reason is simple. There are far more PCs and people will avoid having to pay for computer repairs if at all possible. By the time you get a call, a PC may have already gone through two or three people like me who'll weed out all the easy issues.
Children of Men was one of the greatest movies i've ever seen. Its in my top 10 for sure.
(set in england somewhere :)
I'll have to check out Torchwood
Children of Men != Children of Earth.
Just FYI.
You're right that linux may be at one end of the spectrum, but definitely apple is at the other end and PCs are somewhere in the middle.
THis might be good in some respects but it does discourage computer tinkering and its benefits (including computer knowledge that results from tinkering). You're right that linux may be at one end of the spectrum, but definitely apple is at the other end and PCs are somewhere in the middle.
"Apple products have for the most part been highly proprietary in nature. Apple has always been inclined to discourage user tinkering or even maintenance on its hardware products, and while there is a degree of Open Source tolerated in aspects of OS X (Safari, for example), the elements that distinguish it as a Mac are off limits."
--from lowendmac.com, in 2008
“Apple seems they’re doing everything in their power to stop my kids from finding that sense of wonder. Apple has declared war on the tinkerers of the world. "
"A top software developer who cut his teeth hacking into the early Apples says that Jobs' Mobs' current attitude to people like him is killing off innovation.
Writing in his bog Mark Pilgrim warned that Apple's current policy of obsessive control was preventing tinkering. He said that both Apple and him got where he was today by tinkering but now that was becoming a thing of the past.He said that you don’t become a hacker by programming; you become a hacker by tinkering and it is the tinkering that provides that sense of wonder."
"That the iPad is a closed system is harder to forgive. One of the foremost complaints about the iPhone has been Apple’s iron fist when it comes to applications and the development direction of the platform. The iPad demonstrates that if Apple is listening to these complaints, they simply don’t care. This is why I say that the iPad is a cynical thing: Apple can’t – or won’t – conceive of a future for personal computing that is both elegant and open, usable and free. . . .
The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today."
Children of Men is a great movie.
But I'll never forgive the UK's horrible crime of producing Hugh Grant.
That was the one that blew up from miscellaneous malfunctions right?
It's aimed a bit more at adults, but it's nothing like Firefly. Some characters do die off though, so I guess that is a bit better.
Ah yeah, it was in that Iconian incident:
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Contagion_%28episode%29
There were a lot better ships in the fleet that had more history that would make better spinoffs. For instance the Kelsey Grammer ship,(looked it up: The Bozeman) was impressed into the fleet after it time traveled and nearly destroyed the enterprise in that one Groundhog Day episode. lol
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Bozeman
that one Groundhog Day episode. lol
Yeah, well it was on at a weird time. I had never heard of it till a friend mentioned it to me, and I'm a huge Whedon and sci-fi fan. I had to look it up on torrents at the time because there wasn't even a dvd of the eps out at that time.
Was a pretty good sci-fi show. I really loved how there was no sound in space, like it should be.
Yeah, well it was on at a weird time. I had never heard of it till a friend mentioned it to me, and I'm a huge Whedon and sci-fi fan. I had to look it up on torrents at the time because there wasn't even a dvd of the eps out at that time.
Was a pretty good sci-fi show. I really loved how there was no sound in space, like it should be.
Whoa! With all the Star Trek talk I read that as "a huge 'Wheaton' and sci-fi fan..."
Found that disturbing until I re-read properly. Much better. I love the Whedon-verse. (And Spike...but I guess that's a given. Who doesn't?)
I didn't know Whedon did Firefly. I'll have to check it out now. I always associated that title with a book by the same name that was hard for me to picture as a series, but perhaps they are unrelated.
friend of mine keeps trying to get me to rent the 'buffy the vampire slayer' dvd's -- apparently also done by whedon?
friend of mine keeps trying to get me to rent the 'buffy the vampire slayer' dvd's -- apparently also done by whedon?
Apparently!?
DUDE! Do you live under a rock?
But yes, also Whedon.
That is not to say that Whedon wasn't providing the material. I was one of the few who actually rather liked the original film, which he also wrote. In fact, much of the reason the series came to be was that he was disappointed with the direction the film took and wanted to remake it closer to the way he originally envisioned, darker and less campy, but still witty. I didn't watch the series for a long time because I didn't think Gellar had the chops to pull off the role of "Slayer" since she was so ... little.
What else is on now? Anything good?
Oh hey! just checked out the Firefly link on casttv and read the synopsis. This show is based on the crew of the Serenity?
see, when you talk like this its hard to imagine you dancing naked balancing an M on your head. ;)
ok, ok i'll definitely queue up buffy then. I think the title's silliness had put me off for a while but your rave review has convinced me to give it a go.
And I had a huge crush on the courtesan.
Isn't this the same actress playing Anna in the remake of the "V" Series? I like what they've done with that so far too.
(One of my favorites is a moment in the later seasons of Buffy when Spike inquires about the recipient as Buffy picks up a telephone: "Who you gonna call?" He asks innocently, only to pause briefly before shaking his head and muttering, "That phrase is never going to useable again, is it?" )
Also if you like those for any of the above reasons, I recommend checking out The Venture Bros. cartoon on cartoon networks adult swim if you haven't already. In a way its kind of the "anti-comic" in the style of "The Tick" as per the animated rendition of the comic, not the live action show.
And thanks for the heads up on Firefly- Too bad its only a seasons worth of eps, as I'm sure I'll be through those in no time. Which came first, the movie "Serenity" or the "Firefly" series? (and a side note- this WAS entirely unrelated to the sci-fi book I read. That one was Piers Anthony, I think.)
He presented me with a copy of his favorite book for my birthday one year (which I have yet to read), One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
along with a book of insights collected by Susan Hayward that has become one of MY favorites: A Guide for the Advanced Soul.
While I can admit to being a rare breed, I was also surprised to find that I wasn't as rare as I might have imagined. For a long time I have been in the company of the intellectual elite; so much so that I didn't actually recognize the extent of how elite. I used to understand the folks at MENSA (which I inquired about once in relation to a contest giving $1,000,000 away to the first person to solve a puzzle/riddle hidden in a book I had purchased back in 1990) to be "those smart people" that would be far more qualified to fix this ****ed up world than I. It is only in the last decade that I have felt any sort of social responsibility, due to discovering that I, much to my surprise and horror, am intellectually qualified for MENSA membership by evidence of my SAT scores. It was, in fact, another dancer with whom I worked that enlightened me when I expressed admiration upon discovering that SHE was a member of MENSA. The burden of responsibility came when I understood that as poorly equipped as I might be to solve the worlds complex problems, I was among the top 2% of the American population in terms of the tools at my disposal. Scary. If it is left up to folks like me to save the world, the world is in a whole heap of trouble!
I also find it an extreme irony that the first actual person I met that was a member of this elite IQ club was another stripper. Plus some of the wisest and most profound statements I have heard or read have been under the roof of the clubs I've worked in all over the country. One of my semi-regular visitors (who I didn't manage to frighten off when I forgot myself on occasion and accidentally used a word with more than two syllables) was an unusual young man just turned 18 years old who's gentlemanly manner put the other clientèle to shame by comparison.
- btw, I *loved* the Tick :)
I also find it an extreme irony that the first actual person I met that was a member of this elite IQ club was another stripper.
Most of the nasties I can handle ok, provided I am in proper frame of mind. I only really get upset when those close to me act nasty.
That actually doesn't surprise me... not that I'd expect that most people of upper end IQs want to be strippers or would regularly rub elbows with strippers, but that you may find a slightly higher percentage of people with high IQs in taboo professions than you would find outside of them. The person of average intelligence has more difficulty going against the norm. They're more likely to do what they're expected, act the way they think they're supposed to act, and vote the way everyone else votes. In general to go against the grain, you either have to lack the ability to understand the consequences, not care, or do so because you understand the situation and you've come to a different conclusion than society in general.
Whoa! With all the Star Trek talk I read that as "a huge 'Wheaton' and sci-fi fan..."
Found that disturbing until I re-read properly. Much better. I love the Whedon-verse. (And Spike...but I guess that's a given. Who doesn't?)
I didn't know Whedon did Firefly. I'll have to check it out now. I always associated that title with a book by the same name that was hard for me to picture as a series, but perhaps they are unrelated.
Now at the risk of exposing my lameness here (and forgive my un-geekiness when I ask)... Ummm, what exactly is an irc.channel?
It's actually pretty funny with the web, that Wheaton is actually now pretty connected to Whedon through Felicia Day(who was a slayer and did Dr. Horrible with Joss) and the Mediocre Films/Greg Benson group which Wheaton had done some stage work with and got to be friends with, and is now in the Guild. I wouldn't be surprised if he was in a project of Whedon's sometime in the future.
And since two of the main characters die in Serenity...the movie came out second...
Seeing the movie first kind of ruins a lot of the connection, empathy and understanding of the characters. Definitely not the preferred way of doing things. I waited for months for the movie to come out after seeing the series, and was really not surprised, but very sad that he'd actually kill off characters, but that's Whedon. lol
I was hoping it was edgier as in darker, the way firefly was a darker sci fi series.Oh, I don't know, it's plenty dark. Not as flippant as Firefly, but I think a lot darker.
Oh, I don't know, it's plenty dark. Not as flippant as Firefly, but I think a lot darker.
And by the way, nobody's gay in Torchwood, Everyone is Bi (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsBi).
Yeah he was really bi, except he hardly kissed/showed much any interest in any women, had a steady boyfriend, and made out with Spike. lol
If you have a steady boyfriend that's your same sex, I'm sorry, you're no longer bi.
Sexuality, like autism, is a spectrum.
thats the truth.
apropos nothing, someone in my apartment is cooking french toast at 1:30 in the morning. And the smells are seriously making me hungry.
I always liked freud's theory about compatibility in a relationship. According to freud since we're all deeply neurotic, compatibility is simply a function of two people having compatible or complementary neuroses. lol.
I'm hungry now. Thanks for that.
i gotta sit here and smell it for the next half hour :) Hmmm, it might be time for a trip to the corner deli.
At 2 in the morning?
I went and reheated some leftover Manwich. Shredded some cheese, loaded it all on some hotdog buns...no longer hungry.
someone in my apartment is cooking french toast
dont forget french fries. And I know how much the french love american cheese ;)
'french toast' just sounds so much more appetizing than 'eggy bread'.
How dare you make fun of me ?!
I'll go french-kung-fu on you, with my, er... french katana-of-awesomeness !
Now, without being an expert on the topic, perhaps I'm overstepping my bounds...but...
It seems to me that the concept of bisexuality is an attraction to both genders, be it equal or otherwise, but significant enough in both directions that you could end up in a relationship with either one.
According to what you seem to be suggesting, in order for someone to be bi, they would need to maintain two simultaneous relationships, one with a male and one with a female, dedicating equal time and resources of the emotional, physical, and financial nature to both (because, unless I misunderstood, you seem to be suggesting that a) your orientation will change exclusively towards the gender of who you are currently dating and b) you cannot be attracted to anything besides that which you are presently dating)
Bro, there's a lot of things wrong with that.
so are you british-french?
(if so, i have several more jokes about food ;) )
Just french (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=182310&postcount=6).
lol, so you are british-french.
See what I mean about this place?
:bounce: