@scottalanmiller said:

I dislike transitions in general. From sitting to standing, getting off of the couch, getting into bed, getting out of bed, getting into the shower, getting out of the shower, starting to each, stopping eating. Doesn't matter, I always like to continue what I am currently doing. It's weird.

I can appreciate that. I hate getting into the shower almost as much as I hate getting out! I just dislike change in general.

Bridge!

@Minion-Queen said:

That's why you have both! Not that Steam isn't better but....

Yeah...Steam is SO MUCH NICER! Oh well...

@nadnerB said:

@g.jacobse said:

So, several months ago the cable service was cut when the city came in a had to put in new drain line. It took about four days to get service resourced.

Well would you believe THEY CUT THE SAME LINE AGAIN?

What is wrong with people... UGH.

What happened to calling 811 before you dig?......

If your 811 before you dig is the same (or similar) to our 1100 before you dig, then this is good,obviously, because there is less chance to cut a cable

However, not everything is done the way the documentation says that it is. While onsite, the person laying the cable might decide to take a different route with the cable to save money/avoid something unforeseen/whatever. This rarely makes it back to the documentation. So the 811/1100 crowd might say "no worries, all good" but the neighbourhood phone lines are buried right where your about to dig...

True.. this is why cable, water, gas, power lines are 'toned' They are able to tone the line starting either from the service point or from the building...

So - I get to be an irate person tomorrow when I call.. This in addition to waiting for TWC to install a new modem at a remote site (apartment for the DVR). Not a secure closet,.. a linen closet in the tenants apartment... UGH!

Very cute.

@thanksaj said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

Modern calculators have way more power than older video game systems.

I was told our TI-84 calculators are more powerful than what they used to send men to the moon...that's just scary...

Especially when you consider the new, full-color TI-nSpire calculators they are making kids get nowadays...

@Dashrender said:

Power, Water and Sewer I can understand - but phone, cable, internet - we're not talking huge items here. While I will agree that the government should PERHAPS own this and allow at cost access, I don't see running more fiber/copper, etc into neighborhoods as physically restricted as water and sewer.

It's not as restrictive but once you don't have the right to do it, you don't have the right to do it. It's a black and white issue in many cases. No one wants twenty carriers running lines down the telephone poles. It gets very messy very quickly. And if you go underground then you are looking at digging up a whole city to let a new carrier in. It's not impossible, but it is just as effective as water or sewer in most cases and definitely as restrictive as power.

@technobabble That's awesome!

For me morning break time for Lunch
Second break "Sleeping"
3rd break "Snack time"
Sometimes if pretty busy i can only use my 2 breaks.

My girls routinely go to really old stuff. They don't do it often, but they keep all of the old stuff in rotation.

@NetworkNerdWifey said:

Why can't this be what's all over my facebook newsfeed instead of. kardashian's bare hiney?

I like the mod where she's a centaur best. Too freaking funny!

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller First time I read one of your RAID posts I was bowled over, so much delicious info. Then it was nearly duplicated the next day, different post, and the next day, etc. Always wondered why you didn't have a ready made copy pasta but the type speed explains it.

I have about a dozen articles that I link constantly, but people need a certain about of "written every time" it seems. It's tough, I write basically the same thing on many different topics all the time.

Here is a list of a lot of the ones that I link all of the time specific to RAID. I've put together a reference page to make it easier.

http://mangolassi.it/topic/121/raid-link-blast

@garak0410 said:

@thanksaj said:

I like it so far! Never knew Steve Martin played the banjo!

Check this one out...love it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvu_kS6x4QY

Ok, that's quite funny.

@IRJ said:

@thanksaj said:

@IRJ said:

@thanksaj said:

@IRJ said:

1800 flowers is just a middle man who connects you to a local florist anyway

Exactly. I know it's the local floral shops that get the business. I just hate calling places. Like once I'm on the phone, I'm fine. But something about me just HATES calling people I'm not close friends with on the phone. If I know I'll get someone I don't know, it's even worse!

Local Florists will give you better options. They might have something seasonal that isnt on 1800flowers.

Yeah, true. I just hate talking on the phone.

I'll be the middle man and save you $20. you can paypal me $10 😛

Hmmm....tempting...

@Hubtech said:

not if they went to scott's back yard. from what i hear....

Depends on who you ask...him or @Dominica ... 😛

ME was really a punishment from Microsoft. They had warned people not to use the DOS family anymore yet people just kept using Windows 98. So MS decided to poison the well, so to speak, in regards to their DOS line and to make some last minute money from the people that refused to listen to them. They had given many years of warning to migrate everything to Windows 2000 or later but people just ignored them. Microsoft waited to do it until NT 4 had been replaced because Windows 2000 felt so much more modern. They didn't want to make the experience poor for anyone.

But Windows 2000 adoption was terrible. So they brought out ME to show people why they needed to switch, and fast. Then they brought out XP with lots of extra polish and charm that 2000 lacked. The play worked and people moved over completely within a year or two. It was executed perfectly on Microsoft's part. And anyone that listened to Microsoft didn't get hurt because they gave so much warning and were so public about it.

You actually used a Commodore 64 as the server? Hard to imagine when that was possible.

@scottalanmiller said:

I was a fan of their work before they made Wallace & Gromit. They used to make shorts about animals being interviewed at the zoo.

Oh cool!

just shakes head

@scottalanmiller said:

About time, what's it been, nearly three decades?

Wow...that long...that's crazy! I loved those movies. Then he starred in Burn Notice which I liked a lot.