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01-03-14, 06:31 PM
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01-03-14, 06:32 PM
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01-03-14, 06:41 PM
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01-03-14, 06:55 PM
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(not that i like MGD, but ****, beggars can't be choosers)
01-03-14, 07:01 PM
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For clarity, you have used **** twice now. Does it rhyme with **** or ****? That would help understand magnitude, in a vague non-commital way.
01-03-14, 07:03 PM
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In other news, I severed all links to Windows last weekend, and updated my Linux Mint 10 to 16 XFCE. Today a good friend of mine bought me Skyrim on Steam. Nuts.
01-03-14, 07:12 PM
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I've donated some hardware to my 14yo nephew and we're building him a Steam box. Should be fun - he's never built before, but he's enthusiastic. Oh, unfortunately he has an almost non-existent budget. This means that I may be forced to buy an AMD 290 for myself so that I can gift him my 5850.
01-03-14, 07:12 PM
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OK Addictites, tell me if this would raise red flags to you:
My wife, one semester from being a NP, is on a church sponsored medical mission to the Amazon (think river not .com). They travel by boat to villages that receive no medical care but once a year when this boat pulls in. The group is very excited to be in a new village today, that has not been previously visited, because they want to diagnose an illness that has KILLED 30% OF THE TRIBE IN A YEAR. Call me crazy, but I don't get positively excited by that. I get zombie apocalypse excited by that.
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My wife, one semester from being a NP, is on a church sponsored medical mission to the Amazon (think river not .com). They travel by boat to villages that receive no medical care but once a year when this boat pulls in. The group is very excited to be in a new village today, that has not been previously visited, because they want to diagnose an illness that has KILLED 30% OF THE TRIBE IN A YEAR. Call me crazy, but I don't get positively excited by that. I get zombie apocalypse excited by that.
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Turns out that even though Ebola is pretty bad ass, some infected serum had gotten into the reusable glass syringes in use, and they sisters had inadvertently inoculated the entire village with Ebola.
The lecture sounded like something Steven King would have written.
Anyway, I'm sure your wife is where she should be right now.
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01-03-14, 07:15 PM
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An astonishing, dangerous cold snap is about to descend on the U.S.
.....it came from the North Pole, descending in the dark of night. Beware the Polar Enchilada.
.....it came from the North Pole, descending in the dark of night. Beware the Polar Enchilada.
So long as I don't have to ride a bike.
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01-03-14, 07:17 PM
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It takes me 45 mins after a storm like last night just to shovel out the walks here. I rode the bike AFTER that fatso.
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01-03-14, 07:37 PM
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0.5° again today. Heading to the negatives. Oh my!
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01-03-14, 07:41 PM
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The chili came out pretty well. Too spicy for the wife, but the FiL is getting acclimated to a bit of heat and went for seconds. It's hard to make a mild chili that has any flavor.
To complete the manliness of the scene, we ate while watching football on TV with a cat on my lap. Wait, scratch that last part.
To complete the manliness of the scene, we ate while watching football on TV with a cat on my lap. Wait, scratch that last part.
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01-03-14, 07:48 PM
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I've donated some hardware to my 14yo nephew and we're building him a Steam box. Should be fun - he's never built before, but he's enthusiastic. Oh, unfortunately he has an almost non-existent budget. This means that I may be forced to buy an AMD 290 for myself so that I can gift him my 5850.
As a pleasant surprise during that process, I found out that 3 of the 5 existing processors in AM2+ motherboards are actually AM3 chips, so could be reused. What I recalled as Athlons were actually one Phenom and two Athlon IIs, all black editions.
Oops, my nerd came untucked. Sorry.
01-03-14, 08:06 PM
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Now we're talking.
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01-03-14, 08:16 PM
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Sign below if you are a hardcore cyclist who rode today anyway:
01-03-14, 08:21 PM
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Me.
The snow was mostly unmelted on el sector de MUP, but I rode on it anyway. On some roads they dumped about as much salt/brine on the surface as there was snow. By afternoon, all that was left was the layer of salt. What a mess.
I didn't see any other cyclists out there. Big surprise.
The snow was mostly unmelted on el sector de MUP, but I rode on it anyway. On some roads they dumped about as much salt/brine on the surface as there was snow. By afternoon, all that was left was the layer of salt. What a mess.
I didn't see any other cyclists out there. Big surprise.
01-03-14, 08:43 PM
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Me.
The snow was mostly unmelted on el sector de MUP, but I rode on it anyway. On some roads they dumped about as much salt/brine on the surface as there was snow. By afternoon, all that was left was the layer of salt. What a mess.
I didn't see any other cyclists out there. Big surprise.
The snow was mostly unmelted on el sector de MUP, but I rode on it anyway. On some roads they dumped about as much salt/brine on the surface as there was snow. By afternoon, all that was left was the layer of salt. What a mess.
I didn't see any other cyclists out there. Big surprise.
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01-03-14, 09:11 PM
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01-03-14, 09:18 PM
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The troll threads are coming fast and furious now, and they're bleeding into each other.
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01-03-14, 09:23 PM
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01-03-14, 09:48 PM
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For Christmas, I put together an FM2 based box for my 13 year old, and have been very pleased with the graphics power of the A8 for a middle of the road gamer. I got him a stand alone graphics card, but have yet to install it as the APU is doing well on its own.
As a pleasant surprise during that process, I found out that 3 of the 5 existing processors in AM2+ motherboards are actually AM3 chips, so could be reused. What I recalled as Athlons were actually one Phenom and two Athlon IIs, all black editions.
Oops, my nerd came untucked. Sorry.
As a pleasant surprise during that process, I found out that 3 of the 5 existing processors in AM2+ motherboards are actually AM3 chips, so could be reused. What I recalled as Athlons were actually one Phenom and two Athlon IIs, all black editions.
Oops, my nerd came untucked. Sorry.
Yeah, the upgrade path was one of the things that I loved about AMD. The stuff that I gave the kid was a DFI mobo (they ROCKED in the day) that had seen three generations of of CPUs, the last of which, a 940 Phenom II, went along with it.
