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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: BigBrother on Sun, 20 February 2011, 20:25:58

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: BigBrother on Sun, 20 February 2011, 20:25:58

internet is too crappy for gaming and too shaky, waiting on a din5 connector for kbdbabel's model f xt adapter and i've nothing to do. too poor to go anywhere. any worthwhile suggestions?

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: .XL on Sun, 20 February 2011, 22:49:38

Download a bunch of music, and while waiting for that, tag and properly name all your current music. Once you're done with the music you already have, you'll have to tag and properly name all your new songs! Should keep you busy for a few days ;)

I'm about to get going with my 110gb of MP3 files tomorrow...

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: DanGWanG on Sun, 20 February 2011, 22:50:09

Play some old video games.  Time to bust out some FF7.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: .XL on Sun, 20 February 2011, 22:59:33

Quote from: ripster;298608

Or you could just clean and RetrObrite your keyboard

...looks like I've stumbled across a new project for my Compaq. Lulz.

I'm working on turning it into a clear board, dying the keys eventually, and throwing doubleshots on it. Now the retrobrite.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: BigBrother on Sun, 20 February 2011, 23:02:18

man, ripster, i just love your lego images. hilarious.

where did you get all the pieces?

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: BigBrother on Sun, 20 February 2011, 23:29:10

ripster, you don't seem to be that old though.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: Pylon on Sun, 20 February 2011, 23:33:23

Change your avatar into Big Brother from 1984.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: Izza on Wed, 23 February 2011, 04:23:38

(http://girlstalkinsmack.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dr_Phil_McGraw.jpg)

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: BigBrother on Wed, 23 February 2011, 04:41:19

(http://i.imgur.com/3ok7U.jpg)

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: signal11 on Tue, 01 March 2011, 22:17:02

A little late, but when I get bored, I do stuff like this, post to the appropriate forums and watch the fur fly:

(http://i51.tinypic.com/nlq5ux.jpg)

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: signal11 on Wed, 02 March 2011, 13:10:17

lol.  Woulda thought a forum with "geek" and "hack" in the name would have got it right away.  Guess not.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: itlnstln on Wed, 02 March 2011, 13:44:24

Quote from: DanGWanG;298607

Play some old video games.  Time to bust out some FF7.

I keep around a few emulators just for rainy days.  The Kindle helps, too.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: mike on Wed, 02 March 2011, 14:33:20

Quote from: signal11;303538

lol.  Woulda thought a forum with "geek" and "hack" in the name would have got it right away.  Guess not.

Some of us did. Interesting you used the SGI logo there given that the first products from SGI, Sun, and Cisco were based on the same 68000 workstation from Stanford.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: signal11 on Wed, 02 March 2011, 21:12:53

Quote from: ripster;303544

Hilarious.

Why don't you explain the joke while I go take a pic of my Java t-Shirt.

If you put it up, I'll maybe send you a pic of me in my OG Google boxers, but I'm not sure you could deal with the size of my e-peen.  Wouldn't want to scare you.

Quote from: mike;303584

Some of us did. Interesting you used the SGI logo there given that the first products from SGI, Sun, and Cisco were based on the same 68000 workstation from Stanford.

:)  

Those 68000s were before my time.  First SGIs I got to play with were MIPS machines.  IRIX screwed me up for a long time.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: mike on Thu, 03 March 2011, 17:08:00

Quote from: signal11;303897

Those 68000s were before my time.  First SGIs I got to play with were MIPS machines.  IRIX screwed me up for a long time.

Never got to play with one myself either, although we had one in storage for a bizarre reason. The relevant academics had this license for a package that would normally cost telephone numbers; the license was legally valid as long as this 68000-based machine physically existed, even though the software itself ran on other machines.

Never had that much of a problem with IRIX myself; at least once I caught on to the trick of installing it as minimally as possible and attaching an external hard disk with all the files from the full CD set copied to it. Mind you the collection of workstations that I got lumbered with took a couple of years to untangle and make sane.

Title: blinded in boredom
Post by: WhiteRice on Thu, 03 March 2011, 18:46:34

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blinded by boredom

This describes my teenage youth after the discovery of internet porn.