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Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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:^(

That's pretty pedestrian. Oh well... As long as it makes uncle happy, eh?

I could only find one shop within 200 miles that sold it, so I figured it was fairly rare. Could just be that it hasn't become popular out here.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
I could only find one shop within 200 miles that sold it, so I figured it was fairly rare. Could just be that it hasn't become popular out here.
Rock & rye's old school. Nobody really drinks it anymore, but it's made a minor comeback with the resurgence of rye whiskey. I'd look for something better as an addon for uncle. I believe the Sazerac company makes a rock & rye blend. It's almost certainly better than Mr Boston. Get him what he asked for, then something better to sample. Don't forget to pick up something nice for yourself ;^)
 

dasherHampton

Platinum Member
Jan 19, 2018
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sigh. I'm getting old.

I was on the phone with a girl working out some stuff. Nice young girl, typical youngster ditz-speak. She used the word "important" a lot.

But she never actually said the word "important". She pronounced it "impordend", with very soft Ds.

Every time she said it it was like another pin prick into my brain until I finally felt like reaching through the phone and choking her to death.
 
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What did you get?
Inspiron 15 7000 - model 7573, fully loaded. (16GB/512GB, 4k)

Given how many photos she has, I'm probably going to have to get the HDD bracket (contacted Dell parts and got the p/n already) so I can install something in the unused HDD bay.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
Hornets are trying to get in the house, and I feel threatened. I hear them banging against the window. I have to turn the kitchen lights off when I go to bed now or I'll have hornets in the house by morning. I guess they're coming in through the attic?? I can't wait til good weather's here...
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
Some of my kitties have been AWOL. The last couple days, only Minime's shown up for breakfast, and she's my least favorite cat. Fathead, Mom, and kittens are nowhere to be seen. There's still food left in the plate. Even if some of others have come, they aren't all accounted for. Hope they're all ok.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
82,854
17,365
136
Some of my kitties have been AWOL. The last couple days, only Minime's shown up for breakfast, and she's my least favorite cat. Fathead, Mom, and kittens are nowhere to be seen. There's still food left in the plate. Even if some of others have come, they aren't all accounted for. Hope they're all ok.

they got adopted, and cant leave. ask your neighbors.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
they got adopted, and cant leave. ask your neighbors.
I don't talk to neighbors. That would set a bad precedent :^P

I don't think Fathead's adoptable. Maybe with a good bit of work, but it took longer than a year for me to even touch him. Mom would make a great pet. She has a cute face, and a sweet disposition. Not sure about the kittens. They're pretty wild, but too young to tell if they'd settle down. Snatching one up, and just keeping it would probably be a viable strategy. They're young enough to chill out once they figure out they aren't gonna be eaten.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
82,854
17,365
136
I don't talk to neighbors. That would set a bad precedent :^P

I don't think Fathead's adoptable. Maybe with a good bit of work, but it took longer than a year for me to even touch him. Mom would make a great pet. She has a cute face, and a sweet disposition. Not sure about the kittens. They're pretty wild, but too young to tell if they'd settle down. Snatching one up, and just keeping it would probably be a viable strategy. They're young enough to chill out once they figure out they aren't gonna be eaten.

I dunno. theres plenty of crazy old ladies that will take in ANYTHING. And sometimes they move away and leave the cats.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWmSToylW6M

 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
Holy shit that's a lot of cats. I have an aunt that's a crazy cat lady. Never saw her place. I hear they got the cats cleaned out, but she may have acquired more.
 

DietDrThunder

Platinum Member
Apr 6, 2001
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Built a new PC for my wife. It has been almost 10 years since my last build. I always upgrade our PCs, but her PC has some bulging capacitors and was a bit flaky. Anyway, I had everything assembled and tried to powered it up. All the fans and fancy LED lights powered on but it didn’t turn on, no POST, nothing. I spent almost an hour before figuring it out by READING THE INSTRUCTIONS. It clearly states to “DO NOT forget to plug in the 8 pin ATX power connector or it will not boot.” I had plugged in the 24 pin ATX power connector, and since the old motherboard didn’t have an 8 pin, my brain mistakenly thought it was an either the 24 pin OR the 8 pin. Once I plugged in the 8 pin, the PC works great. I feel really stupid but alls well that ends well.
 

snoopy7548

Diamond Member
Jan 1, 2005
8,091
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I was away for the past ~2 weeks and crabgrass has taken over the side of my yard along the blacktop. Looks OK after mowing, but I'll need to kill it.
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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403
126
We spent all day shopping for a laptop. Didn't finally make up our mind until like 9:30 PM.
I'm tempted to get a laptop off Slickdeals, for $500. My past ones have been cheap, in the ~$200 range, but I'd like something better (mainly for Android/Unity/.NET development, but some games). Since my current one works fine I'm having a hard time justifying the money spent. But it would be nice, lol.

sigh. I'm getting old.

I was on the phone with a girl working out some stuff. Nice young girl, typical youngster ditz-speak. She used the word "important" a lot.

But she never actually said the word "important". She pronounced it "impordend", with very soft Ds.

Every time she said it it was like another pin prick into my brain until I finally felt like reaching through the phone and choking her to death.
Southerners can pronounce it that way. I sub to sootch00 on YouTube and he'll always say "impordent" and "ah-GIN" and whatnot. Not sure if that's what she was saying though.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
I got a new to me(dell refurb) computer today, and I can't get it to boot. Keep getting grub errors. I fucked with it for a few hours, but I think it's beaten me. I was hoping to just plug my old drives in and be on my way, but it's looking more like a reinstall now. Might be for the best. The machine came with a ssd I wasn't gonna use right away, and I can switch over to gpt instead of legacy. Waaay more work than I wanted, but it'll be a good excuse to modernize, and change some of my methodology. I think I'm gonna do away with the /home partition. It makes things more complicated without any great benefit. In case of reinstall, it isn't much harder to put everything in one partition, then copy /home over.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,938
12,384
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www.anyf.ca
I've never had good luck transplanting linux sytem tbh. Always end up with the dreaded ctrl+d grub errors and never know what to do from there. Even trying to go from physical to virtual or from one virtual platform to another, I usually end up having to reinstall.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
I've never had good luck transplanting linux sytem tbh. Always end up with the dreaded ctrl+d grub errors and never know what to do from there. Even trying to go from physical to virtual or from one virtual platform to another, I usually end up having to reinstall.
This is the first time it hasn't worked for me. I can usually just move drives around, and it picks up where I left off. Oh well. It was a pretty good run for this machine. Over 8 years on the same install. Just upgraded as I went. Testing-Wheezy-Jessie-Stretch
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,686
7,912
126
Oh, and those big ass hornets are still beating themselves against the window, trying to get in. I feel like I'm living in a horror movie. As hot as it's been, it could very well be hell. Maybe I died, and just haven't realized it yet :^/
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
69,559
27,864
136
I got a new to me(dell refurb) computer today, and I can't get it to boot. Keep getting grub errors. I fucked with it for a few hours, but I think it's beaten me. I was hoping to just plug my old drives in and be on my way, but it's looking more like a reinstall now. Might be for the best. The machine came with a ssd I wasn't gonna use right away, and I can switch over to gpt instead of legacy. Waaay more work than I wanted, but it'll be a good excuse to modernize, and change some of my methodology. I think I'm gonna do away with the /home partition. It makes things more complicated without any great benefit. In case of reinstall, it isn't much harder to put everything in one partition, then copy /home over.
Just install Win 10.
 
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