Racer Ex 

hammy56

probably a sign to take some meds and go back to bed. duh.

hammy56

in other news, I "updated" to Internet Explorer 9, and now BF pages load much slower. wtf? I wish I could afford to go back to a mac...

jeebusaurousrex

https://www.google.com/chrome

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

botto 

people still use explorer?

wait, you earn your living as an artist, yet you don't have a mac?

hammy56

^ yeah I figured i could use another browser, I just dont understand why explorer7 was better than 9? Only for BF, all else is fine...probably trying to tell me to stay off BF.

Crash716

Just got a look at our new kits thru Hincapie...

I always get excited this time of the year...and the new BH's look pretty sweet too...

Enthalpic

If you feel that you are incapable of succeeding does that make it more or less likely that you will enter races? Do you avoid difficult tasks where failure is likely; or do you enjoy tackling a seemingly impossible task?

Maybe it’s just me but I feel like that survey wasn’t reviewed enough. Survey questions have to be very carefully worded to get meaningful results.

I think something like this would work better:

On a scale of 0 to 7 where 0 is “no agreement” and 7 is “I fully agree” how much do you agree with the following statement:

“When I feel like I have a low chance of success, I am unlikely to participate in races.”


I don’t race because it is easy; I race because it is hard.

hammy56

we had 2 mac ibooks, circa 2003 ish. they finally chit the bed and I cant afford one right now. someday. I had to settle for a cheapo HP pos for now...

botto 

was that from grumpy's friend's survey?

i found the questions so inane, that i didn't get past the first page.

shovelhd

Sometimes you don't have a choice, i.e. Active-X only pages. Unfortunately, some of the support sites I rely on for work don't play nice with browsers other than IE. For everything else, it's FF.

shovelhd

After racing in that quagmire, are you surprised?

Running is stupid. JMHO.

botto 

that wasn't so bad. saturday was actually worse.

caloso

Yes. I'm thinking of having it printed on a t-shirt.

Psimet2001 

Nothing like banking a lot on telling everyone how much money you can save only to continually be like "these numbers just seem so high.....something is up but no doubt the general idea that we can save a lot is still valid"...


Then when trying to finally resolve the discrepancy you stumble on a glitch with MS Access 2007. I found a query that acted like it was a full outer join (not possible in Access) when it was distinctly an inner join. Was able to modify and then reproduce the error and glitch multiple times. How do you explain to a machinist/boss that your numbers weren't right because of "Microsoft"?

FML

botto 

what language was that?

caloso

It also reads like it was translated from another language, or perhaps written by someone whose first language isn't English.

Psimet2001 

I believe it's called, "fat 30-something dork in a dead end job moonlighting as a wheelbuilder". It's a poor dialect only practiced at night in basements and usually under the influence of solvents associated with archaic devices known as "sew-up"s.

caloso

Take it to the Geek Status thread, Prophead.

Psimet2001 

I always figured I was too stupid to post there.

*creaking sound as door swings open*

jwible

The problem with Access is it's not a real relational DB. How was the query that failed written, query builder, sql, wizard?

Psimet2001 

Built it in the design view using the visual query builder, but the SQL statement text/syntax is right on as well. Really weird. Something on the back-end for sure.

substructure

So would it be creepier if my costume was more like this guys:



and/or this guys:



Or go with the backwoods serial killer with bloody, dirty overalls and a flannel?



I have the sack for the mask, a big zipper for the mouth, a nice, wooden button, etc. I'm getting ready to mix up some blood and maybe put onion flakes in it for, like, bits o' flesh and stuff.

botto 

all of those are improvements on your normal, day to day, look.

substructure

Only slightly now that I have a full on beard.