Randox

Don't know what that is, and I don't really care. I might have phrased that better though :P What I mean is that I am normally interested in the news in so far as making conversation. If no one is talking about it, then I don't have much reason to care. As I said, the news tends to make me sad, so I invite as little of it into my life as I need to.

To be fair, if you describe it as "I have sex for a living", I think that's a job a lot of us would probably enjoy. But then you have to think it through about the weird stuff people are going to get you to do, and the people you are going to be having sex with, and yeah. I don't think that's for me. Interesting point about people having their price. The money wont make you enjoy a job you hate, but it can make it worth while. It would be interesting to see the numbers on people who have sex for a living because they feel they have no other option (and maybe they don't), because they are forced into it, and because its something they chose even when they had other options. Of course, I doubt those numbers would ever be possible to obtain accurately.

I don't like pie, at least not one that has a crust (to be really specific, I like Shepard's pie which is beef, corn and mashed potatoes). I like pound cake, and icecream cake, but not a big cake person either. Especially not cheese cake :ohnoes: Dessert isn't a normal thing in our house. Neither me nor my brother are big on desert, which is either why we never have it, or perhaps we aren't big on it because we never have it. Not sure which is the cause, but we only ever have dessert when we have company, and I always forget there will be desert, so I never leave any space for it. Of course its a moot point now since most desserts contain foods that make me sick, so its probably just as well that I was never big on them to begin with. Been a long time since I had a sandwich with cheese. I never thought about it, but grated might have tasted better. Grated cheese is just awesome in general, and that awesomeness goes way up when you melt it on/in something.

I totally forgot that while I was at my cousins house, they have Skyrim and I got to see it. Seeing as how I am somewhat bored with RuneScape and only doing some flash powder factory here and there, I think I might be getting this game after all. At least I will be next week once I am back with my PC. And a first for me. The time between Christmas and New Years is killing me. I want to be home, and I want the celebration to happen already. Why can't it be new years tomorrow <_< On a happier note, the weather worked out perfectly this year. A nice load of snow right before Christmas Eve, so everything was white but we had time to plow all the streets. And it stayed cold so that we had full snow for Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing day, and it mostly stuck around for a fourth day too. Then it really started to melt yesterday, so that we were getting some green patches, and today it went up to 11C and rained the whole day, which pretty much annihilated any snow that we had left. Couldn't have timed things better. I don't know when the last time we had a white Christmas was, but it was long over due. Now what we need (after new years, I don't want to freeze to death waiting for the fireworks) is some cold weather (perhaps localized to someplace near my house, but not actually at my house :shades: ) to freeze the lakes over so that I can skate on them. Or I could just go to the rink I suppose, and enjoy their non bumpy ice. That's probably better than wishing for colder weather, since we'll get that aplenty and I'm not going to enjoy it. And next time I'm at my cousins, I need to try out their outdoor hot tub. We somehow managed to not have time for that today, because none of us bothered to look at our watches until it was almost time that we had to leave. Ah well, I've been in hot tubs outside in winter before (great fun :thumbsup: ). Still, that was years ago, would be nice to have another go at it. And you don't have to walk through 30 ft of 2ft deep snow to get to this one, which is a bonus. I guess the latest I'll get my chance is Easter. Some years Easter is super cold, and some years its shorts and tees (the joys of a moving holiday).

:lol: I love how the Sun is making sure people know that America doesn't have a total monopoly on the crazy. Only two papers where I am. Like all papers, they struggle with anything involving science (because the writers were studying journalism, not not science), but so does every other paper. Other than that, they tend to be pretty good, and reasonably unbiased, though I'll admit I normally stop reading the paper around elections because its all bull anyway. I hardly ever browse the news though, since I find it depressing (though I will give our main paper credit for trying to put at least one happy story in there on a daily basis). If anything really major happens, either the people in my life will tell me about it, or the good people here at tipit will post something.

I've managed an RSI once, but it wasn't actually RuneScape that did it, it was 12 hours strait of minecraft, and several thousand clicks and key presses (got it in both arms the next morning). After a day of having my arms feel like they were on fire, I figured out that robax platinum (muscle relaxant and something else combined) was highly effective for pain releif, which was nice since my arms were like that for 3 or 4 days, and generic pain killers like Tylenol did absolutely nothing to help. The problem as it related to RuneScape was that I had to stop playing for about a week, and I managed to do this while I was finishing up my 99 construction goal. Now, lucky for me I was doing it with a friend, and I had a good lead, so he caught up and passed me while I was unable to play (for the first week anything more than 5 minutes typing aggravated it). Once I got back to the game, I finished Contruction off in bursts to avoid making the damage any worse. I got my 99 construction, and I think the injury was gone within a month. It was a real eye opener how much damage you could do to yourself in just a day, and I have been quite careful ever since to make sure that I don't do any heavy clicking or other repetitive movements for extended periods of time, since going through that just once was more than enough to last me my entire lifetime. As a bonus though, can actually feel it coming on now (its possible there might be some long term damage in there), and the second I can feel any kind of hint of the old injury, I just stop. So I guess I have an early warning system. I also got programs in minecraft that can handle some of the repetitive work for me so that I don't risk an injury in that game again.

I've had my mouth frozen 3 times. Twice when they had to pull baby teeth, because two of my teeth managed to fuse their roots to my jawbone, which was preventing them from falling out on their own. The third time was for a skin graft, because one of my gums was a bit too low, so they took a bit off the roof of my mouth and stuck it in my gum. If I pull my lip down, its still visible as a pinkish patch. The skin never took on quite the right colour. Anyway, the freezing worked just fine for me. Maybe its not as effective inside your teeth (never had a cavity), though I can't say I have ever heard that complain before. Perhaps you are resistant to the anaesthetic they are using? (pain killers don't work very well on certain people for some reason). Went up to see my cousins who are sort of my age today (a bit younger). Nice visit, and I think that is the first time I have ever been in their house for a purely social visit (they live over an hour from me). Every other time its either been them hosting a party, or my staying in their house to go to a summer camp that was nearby.

If anyone is familiar with the game Riven (Myst Series), then I feel like you should create that map, and place the void where the seal over the void was in that game. It would only take, oh, 2,000 hours or so to do, but it would be really cool. Even if you only did temple island.

I don't know if the grind at courses is a problem for you or not. I know it is for me, and its slowed down the same goal (except I am getting the no fail aura and using summer pies rather than going all the way to 90). I've put in a few hours at the factory, and I find its fairly easy to get good at it. Within an couple hours you should be able to figure out a style of play that can get you something around 60k xp/hr at least. I'm not up on all the meta game play, so I don't really know for sure how that stacks up against various courses (and using the barbarian assault horn). For me, its immaterial because I enjoy the factory most of the time, and I simply don't enjoy courses. And once you master the factory, well then the xp should easily be able to match or exceed whatever you are getting on whatever the best course for you is.

Ha, if I wanted to capture the whole picture I'd probably need to take a couple extra courses, and I'd be writing a book :P Human dynamics are very tricky. I just feel that argument I presented is the most likely scenario for the majority of cases. Also, there is something to be said about the society not liking men with long hair because society doesn't like men with long hair argument (a circular argument). The problem here is that at the end of the day, none of us can be entirely certain where our biases come from, or why we like or dislike certain things so much. It might not be the real reason, but it is the reason as far as we know, because we cant know the underlying cause. We are not privy to our own learning process, in that we can't observe it in ourself, and there are limits in what you can observe in others. This makes it a very difficult point to argue. On a side note, I would love for there to be a way to hook you concious mind into your unconscious mind so that you can observe how it thinks. I figure dreams are about as close as we will ever get, and if dreams are anything to go by, we would probably never be able to make sense of it anyway.

I imagine if you used a proxy server to make it look like you weren't in Texas, you would be able to download it. I think the problem is that the client somehow breaks state laws there, so its unavailable to people who have an IP address that resolves to that state. Also, the client isn't very big. You could probably have someone email the thing to you.

Delapaz, you and I should debate more often. I know it would help me improve at least. Something interesting I am finding trying to support the long hair being unattractive because most guys don't take care of it, is that I cant do it. It actually doesn't fit. I understand reasonably well how the mind associates experiences with traits, but its just not jiving here. At least not using the greasy hair argument. The problem is that the cause is to observable. Also, if it happened this way, you would think that al guys with long hair have greasy hair. That's how the link would form. Whether it looks good or not is going to come down to accepted norms, and I don't really want to get into the concept of fashion because I am not qualified to speak on that subject. That is incredibly complicated and not entirely understood psychology, and also way beyond the original scope of this thread. Instead, I am going to take society not liking long hair on guys not to mean that it looks bad, but that it would be a hindering feature when trying to get a job (for most jobs). First off, the fact that most men don't have long hair now is very important. The more guys with long hair, who are outside the stereotypes that I am about to touch on there are, the less this can hold true (and the more society would accept them). Second, the fact that long hair would appear to be linked to very specific personalities and phases of emotional development. Also note that the fact I can lump people up like this with ease is a sign of how ingrained these stereotypes are in my mind, which means you get to see my bias (I get to see it too, which is fun). -Hippies (long hair, braided, they tend to smell bad/like pot) -Stoner artists/musicians (long hair, not greying, tied in a pony tail) -Professors in thought subjects like psychology and philosophy (long white or grey hair, tied in a pony tail) [the wise old man] -Rebellious (long hair, teenager) I haven't put long untied hair on the list because I have association for it. On a related note, if I were hiring people for a job people that fall into the first, second (unless its a music or art related job), and fourth categories would be more likely to get rejected by me. The third would be highly specific to the job, more so than I will explain here. So if you want to get a job from me and you have long hair, your best bet would be to wash it, and not tie of braid it, or long story short, I am going to assume your either lazy or have bad attitude. And its not going to be a concious thing. As it related to my point, I can't do the same thing for most people with hair that is sub shoulder length, because its so common and the people who have that style are so varied, my mind cant find enough correlation to link a personality trait to it. The exception here would be what I am going to call the punk styles (mohawk, spikes, shaving part of your head, shaving letters into your hair etc). Lumped together those are the worst possible hairstyles you could have in a job interview with me, because I am flat out going to deny you the job. As to the history point, when long hair was the norm, it would be like generic short hair is now. It was normal, and your brain wouldn't be able to link it to personality traits. It takes a lot of people doing something different to make something new an accepted norm, and long hair on guys hasn't reached that point yet.

Err, isn't that a Siberian Husky? You let a Husky lose outside? I've never encountered one that wouldn't immediately run away if you did that. I find that they aren't very big on listening to commands (they actually seem to have a very similar mentality to cats), though they are very big on giving you the cold shoulder if they are upset with you. Still, very cute, and quite intelligent!

People who don't knock on my door before coming into my room. Even if the door is open, I'd appreciate someone poking their head in before just barging right on in. Also, since I am at home right now for the holidays, suggestions that I call up old friends and have them over. Guess what? If I actually want to see someone, I don't need a prompt to arrange it. I just spent 3 strait days where I was around other people for pretty much the entirety of each day, and my parents know full well that I find that kind of thing exhausting. Going to need a day or two before I want to see anyone again, with a few exceptions. On the other hand, this might be the first time I have ever been legitimately awaiting going back to school, because it means I get to live in my own terms again. Cant wait!

Reductio ad absurdum can be a nice way of proving a point, as long as you acknowledge what your doing. I think I might have lost you though. I think part of it is accepted norms. Most guys have short hair, at least in this Continent, so that is the accepted norm. To our minds, a normal male has short hair. So anyone with long hair is automatically abnormal. This is why guys grow long hair to rebel. Assuming that most people are healthy to the casual observer, then being healthy is also an accepted norm. Accepted norms can become lumped together, so in a very roundabout way, short hair is equated with things like being healthy, and not being a rebellious prick. Since what we are attracted too is our minds way of guiding us to whatever it thinks is an acceptable or desirable mate, abnormal traits are a problem. While short hair =/= healthy, and even your mind isn't going to see the issue as that black and white, abnormal can mean undesirable, unless the abnormal trait provides an observable advantage. Now lets consider that most guys, objectively, take really bad care of their long hair, in that it is either messy, or greasy, or it smells bad, or a combination. Your brain is going to equate this with things like lazy and dirty, which translate into poor provider and sick. By association, this leads to long hair being categorized as an undesirable trait. Because it is outside of the accepted norm, then baring any other distinguishing feature, long hair is going to become linked to all the things you notice about people who have long hair. That the grease and stink are actually in the hair is a fluke. It would work just the same as if 90% of the people you ever met smelled like they just shit themselves. Your brain would eventually learn that people with long hair shit themselves. Also, we are much more likely to pick up on the negative than the positive. This is useful in a survival setting because it means we don't have to eat the poisonous berries that look and smell and taste the same as the delicious berries 30 times to figure out that berries that look and taste and smell like that might make us sick. even if we got the good ones the first 100 times, if we got the bad ones, and that was all we ate all day, and it made us sick, we would stop eating both kinds. Likewise, the sabre-toothed tiger only has to attack you once for you to avoid it. It also means that or minds are extremly discriminating, which is part of why you end up with sexist and racist people. Some guy has a really bad experience with one girl, and his mind ends up projecting that onto every other girl on the planet. My point here is that you don't even need a majority of guys with long hair to be objectively repulsive. If its bad enough, it would only take one. Since the chances are that you are going to run into some gross, long man (head) hair before you hit puberty, it is very possible for these undesirable traits to map themselves onto the part of the brain that tells you who is a desirable mate. In other words, it will become part of what you consider to be attractive or unattractive. The reverse (*really* positive experiences) are thought to be how people might form a fetish. A little tired, so I hope that was all largely coherent, and didn't jump around to much.

If its working fine with the client, then I think its probably an issue with Java. The client doesn't use your systems Java (the idea is that it doesn't even require you to have it installed). I mean, it could be something with the browser, but using a different browser should have eliminated it if that were the case. You could try either doing a system restore if you like, to a point before you started having any trouble. If any setting somehow managed to get changed, and that is what is causing your issue, this would be the easiest way to fix it. If you'd rather not do that, then I would say totally remove java from your computer, and do a clean installation of it. That should get it back to working condition.

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Take a good look inside the slot, since you might be able to see any damage. If you dropped the headset, and it yanked on the socket at all, its quite possible the socket is damaged. If it was very minor, it might just be that it was still making a connection after you dropped it, and it just happened to be during the time you were away that the break managed to come into effect. Not sure what the audio jack would cost on its own, but if its something not to expensive, it might be worth replacing it (you seem fairly handy working inside the case). You wouldn't even need to install it to test the theory, just unplug the old jack and plug a new one in with the side of the computer off and see if that works.

All around a good Christmas. This marks the first year where I didn't get a single real toy for Christmas. Instead, I got some clothes, and a stack of books that's like 2.5 ft tall. Gonna have trouble getting through them all before next Christmas (where I will get even more books). I find I get tired of the visiting though. This is also the first year in my lifetime we have left the house on Christmas. All things considered, its nice not having to deal with all the cooking, but the visiting other people makes for a long day. I'm the 3rd youngest person on one side of the family (older than the only two people in either family closer in age to me than my brother who has 5 years on me), and the 4th youngest on the other side (but their all like less than 3, so they don't count for my purpose here). My point being, I'm an adult now, so I am expected to sit and make conversation. But all the conversation today was mostly between my parents and grand parents. That's cool for a while, but its not something I participate in a lot, so it gets quite boring for me after a while (and don't say join in because everyone is talking about people I've never heard of, and things that happened years before I was born, so I don't really have anything to contribute). I guess I've reached that point in my life where I am starting to look towards finding someone I want to spend my life with (might have found that someone already, only time will tell), getting my own house that I own, and being able to establish our own holiday traditions. Tomorrow might actually be better. I get to see my only cousins who I particularly enjoy spending time with (because their 2 and 4 years younger than me), which is a huge bonus for me. I only see them a couple times a year. Of course it will be at one of my Aunts houses, the one we can never get away from. Not looking forward to the 40 minute going out the door process. Also, company for brunch, but I really like the people who are coming over. They talk about things that interest me more, so I can actually participate rather than listening to other people all day.

Aluminum/Aluminium is more than a dropped letter. With color/colour you at least have a word that is pronounced exactly the same way. The extra "I" in the British Aluminium not only changes the pronunciation of the word, it adds an entire extra syllable (or rather, the north american dropping of the "I" removed an entire syllable). On a side note, I hate hearing it said as "al-oo-min-ee-um" (its al-oom-an-um here). I don't mind the British prnunciation of Glacier quite as much (they say glass-ee-er), though I think the Glay-see-er pronunciation sounds nicer (because I'm used to it). Here is one for you guys to think about, because even in the context of this being English, this has never made sense to me. Open and Closed. Why is it that we say "The store is open" and "The store has been opened", but when you reverse the state of being it becomes "The store is closed" and "The store has been closed. Even better, both of the following are gramaticly sound: The store is open The store is opened I know the second one sounds awkward, but that's because you don't normally hear it that way (I've seen a book store or two that actually have an "opened" sign). However, only one of the following is gramatically sound: The store is close The store is closed I've never been able to understand why 'open' can be substituted for 'opened' like that. It's so commonly used that way, that using opened instead actually sounds weird.

I'd think about it, but Dogbert has never worn a santa hat to the best of my knowledge (and my knowledge of Dilbert cartoons is comparable to trekkies who speak klingon, excluding the current year because I don't get the paper, so I have to wait for the book). Though many years back, he did get a crown for Christmas that was reminiscent of a (blue?) part hat. If I had a scanner knocking around, I would hunt that strip down in my collection and pull an avatar from that. Sadly, I did not bring my scanner home. Going to be helping clean up the house tomorrow. I am bothered by how we still cant avoid having some amount of cleaning detail on either Christmas Eve, or even worse, Christmas Day. My parents really need a (much) smaller house, since its a constant disaster as far as shit not being put away. Too much stuff, and way to much space. Oh well. I am starting to realize that I don't really enjoy all the stuff leading up to Christmas. There is so much that needs to be done, that I become more aware of as I get older, and its so much stress. The party and church service tomorrow will be nice, but I don't really start relaxing until the Grinch (the first of our Christmas movies). That will be the first event of the day where there is no rush, no time we have to be someplace by. There will be nothing else that has to be done that night (at least nothing involving me). Just time to relax. And with someone else cooking on Christmas, that might even carry over onto Christmas day.

I trained them 1 level at a time, alternating to a different skill each time one leveled, always in the same order of attack>strength>defence. I did this until level 85, at which point I took them all to 99 without training the others at all, in the same order. In this case, I purposely saved defence for last because it would save time. At my spot, defence past 85 contributed nothing to my xp rate, so having 99 att and str first would give defence the highest possible xp rate. Now that they are all 99, I train on accurate where possible, because it is my favorite of the 3 skills. I figure I might as well try to maximize its rank. It currently stands as my highest xp skill, and I doubt I will ever trump it myself since there are no other skills that will continue to see much training past 99 (except health, but its so slow it wont catch up).

I cleaned my bedroom from 3pm to 8pm today. Under the bed and on top of the wardrobe too. Didn't change the bedsheets though, febreeze that shit. Gross. Started wraping presents. It's not so bad once you get into it, but I find it takes me forever to get worked up to actually doing it. Last time I checked the forecast we were supposed to get a cm of snow today, spread out over the entire day, which means we would have been back to a green Christmas no matter how cold it managed to get. To my delight, when I woke up today there was already 5 or 6 cm down, and its still snowing now, which is awesome. If it stays sub zero for the next two days, its looking like a white Christmas \:D/ The Christmas tradition is being shaken up this year. Normally there are a couple people we have over that are like an aunt and uncle to me, but are only very loosely related, for dinner, but we are going to have them on boxing day instead with a few other people. Also, we are having my grandparents over for breakfast on Christmas day, which is different. And for the first time in my life time, we are not having Christmas dinner here, we are having it at my brothers house. All things considered, I think this is awesome because of the way Christmas works in this house. It will make getting to the presents a bit faster with a lot less waiting around and interruptions. The way we do it is that you get to look at your stocking when you get up, but no wrapped presents until after breakfast, and once everyone is gathered in the living room. We normally finish breakfast perhaps a bit before noon, and then normally there is another hour or so consumed by getting dinner ready and getting everything on to cook. I think our record is just starting the unwrapping at like 2:30 or 3 in the afternoon, which was a bit much for me because I was a bit younger and more restless back then. Also, we are going to my grandmothers church for the Christmas service this year, because she really wants to go there, and because my Mom wasn't to enamored with last years service (it was kind of depressing) at our church. I'll be fine with that for a year, but in general I really like our Church. I also see that we finally got the Grinch (animated) and the Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD, to replace our VHS ones. They were getting a little worn out. We also watch those two movies (in that order) on Christmas eve when we get home. Oh, and we need to get an admin post here so that we can have green and red :shades:

I feel like everyone missed a point (or maybe I got this flat out wrong, and please correct me if I did). I can see why we wouldn't do this on the grounds of accommodating outdated computers. That's how you hold up progress. Duvnull, it sounds like your computer is a prehistoric dinosaur, and I'm sure you would replace it if you could. In the mean time, the rest of the world isn't going to bend over backwards (because this does increase other peoples workload) to accommodate people in your situation, but I think you (can) understand that. The proposal was for more than accommodating computers that are at their limit when running RuneScape though, and this is where maybe I am just making shit up. I would expect that a mobile version of the site would accommodate being shrunk from side to side a bit better than the main site, as in it can reformat itself to some degree to avoid creating a horizontal scroll bar, even if it is kept quite narrow. This would be useful for people to look things up on the main site while actually playing the game, especially for people with better computers who are running the game in realizable mode, which will consume all the space you can give it. So no, I wouldn't support this on the grounds of making it easier on computers. I'm sorry, but there is no logical end to how accommodating you make yourself, because there are people still running computers that are less powerful than a smart phone on 56k modems. If we tried to support everyone, then we all might as well never buy another new computer again because there will always be someone running a computer like that. At some point, sites have to say enough is enough, and choose a break off point. But there is a second feature here (I think), which is the ease of use while gaming thing, and I think that might be worth some consideration if the crewbies feel that it either would be user friendly enough, or would be worth the time to make it that way. I don't see why making sure the site is supported would be an issue, since I imagine you guys would already be making sure that the site works, so that people can use it on their phones. But perhaps there are some potential hiccups that might arise from PC's running a site meant for a mobile browser that I am unaware of. My point is, it would be nice to see someone try to respond to his entire proposal, rather than the first part.

First off, I thought K4lyn was a girl (I assumed it was a play on Kaitlin), and I thought Star was a guy. Don't worry, your not the first people I have gotten backwards. Not all girls are slow shoppers. With clothes, yeah, girls are going to be slower, and there are reasons for that. First, girls have more options, more things to consider when picking out clothes, to consider than guys do. I'm not going to go into details here, but take a look at #4 on this cracked article to get an idea of what I am talking about (that point is about why it takes so long to get ready, but the fashion spectrum applies to shopping too). Also, it takes more time to get a good fit for girls. A guy can just know what size he is, and take his stuff home where he either tries it on on his own time, or assumes its good to go and doesn't even bother with that. For a lot of clothes (bathing suits are probably the worst offenders here), that just doesn't work with girls. You would be doing an enormous amount of returns if you didn't try most stuff on in the store. Plus that's kinda fun for a lot of girls, but that's not the point. Also, guys can take a while too on those rare occasions when they don't know exactly what they want. The most common instances of these seem to be wandering into either the tool section of a store (which is often the entire store, unless your in Wal-Mart), and when guys wander into a games store without planning.