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  1. The key to something or other is vagueness.

    1. PacManPlus
    2. Bryan

      Bryan

      ...or something like that.

  2. Car goes in for oil change. Turns out, it needs a new head gasket. Moral of the story? Never change your oil.

    1. Cobra Kai

      Cobra Kai

      meh, try stop leak first.

    2. Emehr

      Emehr

      Was it blowing white smoke before you took it to the oil change place?

    3. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Didn't take it to an oil change place, I took it into my usual mechanic for scheduled service. It's had head gasket problems before. Can't say that makes me any happier about it, just that it wasn't wholly unexpected. Not cheap on a Subaru either.

  3. Waiting in line at a FedEx store. Funny fact - the "Ex" is supposedly short for "Express"! Who would've guessed?

    1. Zach

      Zach

      Hmm. Maybe it stands for ex-express.

    2. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      Fed is short for federal and ex is short for example. They're just simulating the sluggishness of the U.S. Federal Government.

  4. Ha! I ran a green light today. Take THAT societal conventions!

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    2. Dave Neuman

      Dave Neuman

      The moral of the story is ...

    3. SoulBlazer

      SoulBlazer

      I went the speed limit on the Interstate!

    4. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Parking between the lines. All. Day. Long.

  5. The moon actually is made of green cheese. It's just that our concept of what green cheese is, is completely wrong.

    1. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      The Matrix fooled us again!

    2. Zach

      Zach

      "Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things." -Nietzche

    3. desiv

      desiv

      "Nietzche is dead" - God

  6. A roach coach hot dog and a Coke sounds like the perfect lunch today.

  7. Prince Fielder's batting average plummeted to 340 over the last couple of days. Bet he wishes his weight would do the same.

  8. Currently testing what will become one of the best 2600 homebrews ever. But I may be biased.

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    3. Cebus Capucinis

      Cebus Capucinis

      Imagine if you plugged in the VCS FuFme, but then accidentally put in the X-Man cart.....YEOWCH!

    4. LS_Dracon

      LS_Dracon

      The world warriors

  9. Best song mash-up ever? Jump Into The Fire on High

  10. RAID 5 + 2 drive failures = Next time, I'm formatting as RAID 6

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    2. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Seven. I was expecting it sooner or later, but was hoping for later. It's an old Apple XServe RAID, and replacement drives are no longer available. Fortunately, I have a back-up. Unfortunately, it's on another Apple XServe RAID.

    3. Albert

      Albert

      Man, that's scary, as I just setup a RAID5 recently. I am setting up a second identical RAID5 as a backup, but haven't done that yet. Maybe I should use RAID6 instead.

    4. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Our current servers are all set up as RAID 6. The Apple ones were retired previous-generation arrays, repurposed for video editing. And they're not SATA - they're 750GB PATA. Not made any more, and way overpriced if you can find any.

  11. WonderCon, day 2. Wondering why I bothered to shower... nobody would ever notice.

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    2. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Saw two Stormtroopers desperately trying to hear each other talk. Probably should've installed comlinks in those helmets.

    3. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Part of me misses collecting comics and buying related toys, t-shirts and merchandise. But the wallet part of me doesn't.

    4. Thorsten Günther

      Thorsten Günther

      Claudia Christian anywhere there? "We have an open door policy." "And an open airlock policy."

  12. Visiting Wondercon today. Looking at all of the cosplayers here makes me realize that either 1) I need to lose some weight, or 2) I need to gain a whole lot more weight.

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    2. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Lou Ferrigno looks surprisingly small sitting behind a table signing autographs for no one.

    3. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Cosplay + mask of any kind = really poor peripheral vision.

    4. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      Spending the evening at Disneyland. Funny... not nearly as many costumed weirdos here.

  13. Trying to sing along to old Steely Dan hits on Spotify. Can't hit those high harmony parts anymore. Must be getting old.

  14. Tweets are the bumper stickers of the internet.

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    2. Cebus Capucinis

      Cebus Capucinis

      Yes. #iagree #couldnthavesaiditbetter #amenbrother #perfect

    3. Albert

      Albert

      You're supposed to use those on Facebook.

    4. Cebus Capucinis

      Cebus Capucinis

      Huh? #confused #lolwut #peoplewhodothisannoyme

  15. If I had my way, Twitter would be limited to 50 ch

    1. Buck

      Buck

      I see what you did there! ;-)

    2. shadow460

      shadow460

      limit it to 20 charac

  16. It's not "procrastination", it's "anxiety management strategy".

  17. Can someone kindly tell me where February, and also the last ten years, went?

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    2. Albert

      Albert

      You still have until the 31st to enjoy February, it's not all gone yet!

    3. Zach

      Zach

      Of course as you get older a decade is a smaller proportion of your life.

    4. KevinMos3

      KevinMos3

      When you find out, please let me know.

  18. Why is Peter Brady hosting the Oscars?

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    2. Albert
    3. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      I'm not watching - just channel hopped past them. Now if Cindy Brady was hosting, that would be awethome.

    4. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      If it were Jan Brady hosting, all she'd say, "Marsha, Marsha Marsha!"

  19. I'm only ankle-deep in the hoopla. I need more hoopla.

    1. carmel_andrews

      carmel_andrews

      more of the white stuff then

    2. Bryan

      Bryan

      Consider yourself lucky. Once I got knee-deep in the hoopla and I began sinking in my fight.

  20. Hey look! It's a... oh, never mind. You missed it.

    1. accousticguitar

      accousticguitar

      Rats! I always miss it!

    2. DaveD

      DaveD

      I caught it. Now I need to see a doctor and get rid of it. --Navin R. Johnson

  21. I've been posting at AtariAge for 10 years... I'm not sure if that's cool or depressing.

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    2. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      Everybody post your "member since" dates! It will be fun, like that time you dropped your cell phone into a toilet full of floaters.

       

      Member Since 23 Apr 2001.

    3. Stephen

      Stephen

      Member Since 6 Nov 2001. When did the site go live?

    4. Albert

      Albert

      In April 2001.

  22. Ignorance is... um... something.

    1. purduecrum

      purduecrum

      Yeah, I don't know either.

    2. Itchy Koala

      Itchy Koala

      What's an ignorance?

  23. refuses to set his status.

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