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if you've ever successfully caught a football thrown to you in your life, there may be a high paying job opportunity for you in Seattle -- nm - crash davis Sep 8, 09:55 2
- I have! - Beryllium Sep 8, 10:07
- I'm out! -- nm - DJ Hackett Sep 8, 09:58
OK, I've found a solution for the web hosting issue. I set up an account on another server, and tonight I'll work on migrating everything over. - Beryllium Sep 8, 09:53 2
- Great! Don't forget to halt commission-free too. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 10:04
- slacker -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 09:58
why are we here? is ticker talk broken? -- nm - eighteen reasons not to pick mandy lane Sep 8, 09:50
hey Raul, or anyone else - can you give me a quick primer on how to recover a portion of the film of a Halo game and transfer it to other media - crash davis Sep 8, 09:47 13
- Go into Theatre; it'll give you your last 25 games. You can then get clips and save/FF/Rew capabilities there. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 09:51 9
  - thanks, actually the clip might be better from your perspecitve if you were watching us from start to finish :) -- nm - crash davis Sep 8, 09:52 8
    - well, you can publish your video via the game, and then send a link to your friends via the same page. that would probably be the best. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 09:59 4
      - you were on the other side - how much of that did you see? -- nm - crash davis Sep 8, 10:01 3
        
        umm, not sure I saw any of it. not sure really. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 10:02 2
        
        Just enough to laser beam them. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 10:04 1
        
        oh, heh. crash, you if snap a picture of it via the theatre, you can upload it to bungie's site - tRuMaN Sep 8, 10:05
    - I wasn't. I was blessed enough to come out of the shelter and see the aftermath, but it was high comedy. - Will Hunting Sep 8, 09:57 2
      - *unfortunate post that will fuel David's ego* - crash davis Sep 8, 09:59 1
        
        He did kill me while I was laughing at you 2 fools. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 10:03
- Not my specialty, but I found this. Looks like it's not default functionality but you can use 3rd party software (on your PC, not your 360). -- (link) - Raul Sep 8, 09:49 2
  - gracias - somehow Krusty and I managed to high center a warthog on a tower -- nm - crash davis Sep 8, 09:52 1
    - Try rolling an Elephant on Sandtrap. That's fun. Keeping it "on its back" is the tricky part. -- nm - Raul Sep 8, 10:05
Not exactly on the topic of the article, but Politico's "7 Thins to Watch as McCain, Obama Battle" is rife with type-os. -- (link) - Raul Sep 8, 09:39
Is Sarkozy trying to show the world how diplomacy is done right? (link) - Raul Sep 8, 09:33
MSNBC pull Slappy and Happy from their nightly anchor spots. -- (link) - Raul Sep 8, 09:20 2
- a shame in some ways, a blessing in others. -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 09:22 1
  - Thank god -- nm - Brian Williams Sep 8, 09:56
Another US attack inside Pakistan (using a drone, this time). Kudos to US forces for stepping up attacks on the real enemy. - Raul Sep 8, 09:10
This morning, my alarm clock woke me up to Keane's "Is It Any Wonder". Talk about an earworm. -- nm - Raul Sep 8, 08:42
Good job, PC World: Lists companies that provide DVD copying software. Reminds everyone that this is illegal. -- (link) - Raul Sep 8, 08:16 2
- not all are illegal... - the colin Sep 8, 08:58
- I think if the software is commonly available, they can be providers of information on where to get it. - JaxSean Sep 8, 08:48
I had such a rough weekend that I am suprised that I am still sane. - tRuMaN Sep 8, 06:44 54
- fwiw - MrsCY and I lived together, split up after 2 years, moved into separate homes, then got back together after 2 months and got married - that was - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:45
- Any time and you know I mean it, ANY TIME. - Trish Sep 8, 07:38 16
  - *starts planning on calling trish whenever the sum of the time equals 17.3* - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:45 15
    - No, you're not. - Trish Sep 8, 08:53 14
      - wow. I thought he was looking for suggestions on how to get thru this successfully, not looking for oil on the fire. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:21 13
        
        there was an almost two hour phone call between two parties that most folks here are not privy to - it would - crash davis Sep 8, 09:37 2
        
        true. plus, we gossiped a lot about crash. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 09:57
        
        gotcha. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:41
        
        that depends on how one defines "success" I guess. -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 09:23 9
        
        well, he has stated that he didn't see it coming, he's trying not to be bitter, and they will try to work things out. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:25 8
        
        doesn't mean he can't also indulge in visceral and base emotion. - znufrii Sep 8, 09:32 7
        
        True. I just thought that calling his wife a bitch was over the top and wouldn't be tolerated if the tables were turned. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:35 6
        
        fair enough. - znufrii Sep 8, 09:36 5
        
        absolutely -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:38 4
        
        so have you two worked this out? :) -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 09:45 3
        
        yup. we're good. -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 09:46 1
        
        don't answer for me, you bitch. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:50
        
        I called znu and we have a counselling appt set for tomorrow. I hope he shows up. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 8, 09:46
- what happened? doing okay now? -- nm - the colin Sep 8, 07:03 35
  - to answer the second part now, no. to answer the first part - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:11 34
    - Sorry Tru. - CrankYanker Sep 8, 08:31
    - Dude...that totally blows. I'd offer some advice, but it would probably suck. - Jim Sep 8, 07:50
    - i'm so sorry to hear that. if there's anything i can do to help, let me know. -- nm - the colin Sep 8, 07:41
    - Holy crap, that sucks. - znufrii Sep 8, 07:25 9
      - part of the reason I am willing to at least mention this on St is that some of you - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:48 8
        
        A lot of us have gone through it - even long term relationships count - we all come out on the other side - Epiphany Sep 8, 08:51 3
        
        and - znufrii Sep 8, 09:08 2
        
        although, a friend of mine ended up breaking every cd that belonged to her ex and felt much better afterwards. - Andie Sep 8, 09:12 1
        
        I'm still surprised they didn't dock our security deposit for the hole I punched through the bathroom door. - znufrii Sep 8, 09:18
        
        wow, tru, so sorry. -- nm - Andie Sep 8, 08:01
        
        It's why we're here. - znufrii Sep 8, 07:58 2
        
        I thought we were here to hit on the chicks (and amoxy). -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 08:06 1
        
        well yes, that too. - znufrii Sep 8, 08:10
    - I am very sorry - this is a harsh thing to go through - hopefully everything will be worked out and you both will come out stronger for it. - Epiphany Sep 8, 07:21
    - Wishing you all the best. Sorry this has happened but good luck with the counseling. -- nm - Diva Sep 8, 07:16
    - What. The. Fuck. I'm so sorry. -- nm - Amy Sep 8, 07:15 1
      - see this is why I had to talk about this on st. also that she knows about tt but not st, so I am safe-ish here. and there is no dr. tron for st. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:16
    - I'm so sorry to hear that. -- nm - Roger More Sep 8, 07:14
    - Yikes. Sorry dude. - JaxSean Sep 8, 07:14 14
      - Sorry dude. I know how rough this can be. - pmb Sep 8, 07:17 13
        
        yeah, we are going to try to work it out. - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:20 10
        
        I have a small suggestion - Epiphany Sep 8, 07:31 6
        
        she told me there is no other man. - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:39 4
        
        Not that i'm familiar with the situation, but one would think if there *was* another person, when you're talking at that level, there's no reason not - JaxSean Sep 8, 07:52 2
        
        *nods* true, but she would at least tell me, I know that much about her -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 08:07 1
        
        I know I have only met you guys once, but, she has been going through a lot, right? School and career and I think she just is - Amy Sep 8, 08:12
        
        I do not think it is naive - you know her better then anyone. No reason not to believe her. -- nm - Epiphany Sep 8, 07:42
        
        This is good advice. -- nm - Diva Sep 8, 07:38
        
        at least you have the guest bedroom. - znufrii Sep 8, 07:29
        
        I have known couples who have gotten back together after actual separation, but I tend to agree with you that it's harder. - pmb Sep 8, 07:29 1
        
        I am trying not to be bitter about all of this. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:30
        
        This should have gone under Tru's post. -- nm - pmb Sep 8, 07:18 1
        
        its ok, its monday. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 8, 07:20
    - I sympathize and wish you all the best. -- nm - mara Sep 8, 07:13
Tonight, I'm guessing the Patriots are wishing they'd bought a ticket to the Brett Favre lottery. -- nm - Raul Sep 7, 21:51
That's some fucked up polling coming out of Gallup. Clearly, small, old, white men bounce incredibly well. - Raul Sep 7, 21:11 3
- I don't like that Realclearpolitics.com is using the "likely voters" number in their average. Is that the figure they always use? -- nm - Raul Sep 8, 09:34
- I have much more confidence in Obama/Biden than I did in Kerry 4 years ago. - JaxSean Sep 8, 07:16
- eh, RNC/Palin bounce. Give it a week or so. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 7, 21:36
In case you missed it: DMac posted that now till sometime Monday is commish free. -- nm - Beaker Sep 7, 13:42
My computer has downloaded and installed 348 Windows updates since April 2004. -- nm - CrankYanker Sep 7, 09:14
Three days 'til the end of the world. -- (link) - Raul Sep 7, 07:45 4
- the world isnt ending in three days. those are just the low-energy tests. - Guy Sep 7, 22:09
- I'll happily accept the end of the world if it means the end of all these doomsday countdown - Mr. Havens Sep 7, 09:57 2
  - no, see, this one isn't prophecy, it's scientific possibility. like that meteor that might hit in 2012 -- nm - mafic Sep 7, 13:38
  - Valentine's day. Bummer. -- nm - Peter Venkman Sep 7, 09:59
*yawn* -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 23:35
Four days 'til the end of the world. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 18:43 1
- That mean no more free commish? -- nm - BAD Sep 6, 21:00
SKETCH! -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 18:01
You know, we had our first spammer sign up last night. I've nuked the spam post links and overwritten their password ... - Beryllium Sep 6, 12:04 6
- That's kind of cool, though. It's sort of a badge of honor, isn't it? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 7, 13:00
- Cutting off everyone's hands just to stop the spammers seems a little extreme. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 18:41
- (and no, spamlet, I don't mean you. heheh.) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 13:05
- took longer than I expected. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 12:57 2
  - they had the unfortunate luck of replying directly to my posts, so they showed up in the RSS feed ... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 13:03 1
    - give give them any tips! -- nm - zork Sep 6, 14:48
"Amazing Prophecies Hillary Clinton to be Dictator" -- Seems like a pretty lousy prophecy in that ad. -- nm - David Sep 6, 11:32 8
- I can vouch for that in our house -- nm - Bill Clinton Sep 6, 11:44
- It could still happen. She could found a third party in the next week or two, win the election, and then convert the USA into the HSA ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 11:38 6
  - no, see, all she has to do is get named president pro tem of the senate, then engineer the assassination of whichever ticket wins the election, and - mafic Sep 6, 13:04 2
    - My way involves less murder. - Beryllium Sep 6, 13:06 1
      - maybe, but my way's still more likely. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 14:55
  - Clicking the link (ka-ching!) leads to this: - David Sep 6, 11:55 2
    - lol nice -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 11:59 1
      - hrm, my comma got lost there -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 11:59
Looks like no commish free again on HSX this weekend as well. -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 10:07 5
- Bad's post gets an L5 -- (link) - Beaker Sep 6, 13:20 1
  - Nice. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 18:49
- I'm starting to think they got rid of it, but just don't want to announce it so they don't have to deal with the uproar. - mafic, elitist Sep 6, 10:22 1
  - They would have to change all the references to it in the help files and whatnot. -- nm - mara Sep 6, 13:05
- Wonderful. A real corporation would at least announce this sort of thing ... heh ... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:10
I have returned. I'm *so* glad that SlackerTalk didn't explode while I was away. Unfortunately, my co-hosting partnership appears to have disolved ... - Beryllium Sep 5, 22:02 19
- Just transfer it all to EZBoardz! -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 07:47 1
  - *smack* -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:10
- Maybe you could make slackertalk a subscription basis site, especially if you offered anonymous email addys. - Trish Sep 5, 22:37 5
  - heh, I doubt that would work out well as far as being a drop-in TT replacement - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:11 1
    - Yeah, I call those nocternal emission dreams. -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 11:26
  - id rather pay to not listen. someone get working on a slackertalk morgue! -- nm - Guy Sep 5, 22:38 2
    - But that's an easy solution, sweetie. - Trish Sep 5, 22:44 1
      - sweet bird of prey? -- nm - Guy Sep 5, 22:47
- How much storage/bandwidth do you need? There are tons of hosts out there cheaper than that. -- nm - David Sep 5, 22:36 7
  - Yeah, what David said. Bandwidth on a mailing text message board has gotta be minimal, and CPU usage almost non-existant. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 07:32 6
    - I don't really trust shared hosts after my last experience when running my own code, so I'd like to avoid that situation - which means a higher cost - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:10 4
      - Email me if that doesn't work out. Crystal Tech is shared hosting that will never fail you. -- nm - David Sep 6, 11:30 3
        
        Do they default to register_globals on or off in their php configuration? - Beryllium Sep 6, 11:37 2
        
        I used to write code that had globals on. But everyone I used always had it off by default. Finally just rewrote my code. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 18:43
        
        We don't use php, so you're talking to the wrong guy. - David Sep 6, 11:54
    - "mailing" = "mainly" -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 07:39
- It wasn't my fault. I didn't post any anime penes here!! -- nm - Qale Sep 5, 22:35
- I would think a ST collection could be taken to help. -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 22:04 1
  - That's a possibility, although I would be more comfortable with a business arrangement than a pledge drive. I could also look into cheaper hosting. - Beryllium Sep 5, 22:09
Welcome to Toronto - I had taken fewer than 10 steps in Toronto when a bird pooped on my head. -- nm - Dano Sep 5, 21:28 3
- Yup. That's pretty much every Canadian's impression of Toronto. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 07:37 1
  - And torontonians impression of the rest of canada is "geez, it really sucks there - the birds don't even care enough to crap on you" -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 11:39
- Mission accomplished, my pigeon -- nm - Dignan si Sep 5, 21:42
Five days 'til the end of the world. Some people are trying to stop it. -- (link) - Raul Sep 5, 21:19 4
- Part of the LHC will be the world's largest fridge. It could hold 150 000 fridge full of sausages at a temperature colder than deep outer space. -- (link) - Guy Sep 5, 22:41
- Speaking of which, the lecture at our Arch. Society holiday dinner will be Ed Krupp of the Griffith Observatory, speaking on the Mayan 2012 prophecy. -- (link) - MojaveMeg Sep 5, 21:39 1
  - It's quaint that you're making plans for events after Sept. 10th. -- nm - Raul Sep 6, 07:33
- im both excited and a little frightened by it - Guy Sep 5, 21:35
roll you bastard -- nm - BAD Sep 5, 21:03 1
- word -- nm - Spawn Sep 5, 22:02

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