Nathan Strum

See you all Wednesday!

It’s going to be hard to go to sleep tomorrow night. Like the night before Christmas of ‘77, when I was 10.

Can't wait... it's going to be fun! ? 

Gunta gleeden glokin globin

It'sh English. Jusht ha to shound i ou phonetically.

I guess I'm the only one who thinks there needs to be a "Talk like 'Michael McDonald sings" day. Thash doo ba.

Hey i found a fingernail in my pizza.

Actually, the animals were already dead before the pizza was made (I hope!), so strictly speaking, you're right: the making of the pizza didn't harm them.

Still, I appreciate their tasty sacrifice.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

why?

It wasn't meant so much as a condemnation of modern computing, as it was a statement about having a really bad day at work, computer-wise. But the resulting comments were far more interesting.

If you can suffer through the ads on this page it's actually quite good.

That article is a good start, although it only scratches the surface. Their support for enterprise and educational customers is absolutely abysmal. When they pushed out CC 2019 a year ago, the licensing broke for labs. They've since removed their document warning administrators, but it said, in part:

"What happens if I try to update lab environments to Creative Cloud 2019?

First, please do not attempt to upgrade lab environments to Creative Cloud 2019 at this time as, unfortunately, Creative Cloud 2019 is not currently available for labs. If you attempt to update shared environments (labs and classrooms) to Creative Cloud 2019, the apps installed on a machine will run in trial mode."

They posted this after CC 2019 shipped. It took months for the licensing issues to get sorted out.

Photoshop 2020 was a train-wreck of bugs and crashes when it shipped in the fall. We're still patching it.

Look on the bright side. The CEO that was running things at Adobe now works for Maxon. So we got that going for us. Which is nice. That and the total consciousness on our death beds thing. 

Maybe it's not too late! George Lucas could do another Special Edition with an all-new CGI lightsaber fight between Luke and Darth Vader. Then they could make new action figures to go with it.

I have some scissors and super glue you can borrow..

While they're at it, they could add Jar-Jar Binks, to help move some of those Jar-Jar action figures that nobody wanted.

During the climactic scene where Vader turns on the Emperor and rescues Luke, Jar-Jar could walk across the screen behind them and fart.

@roadrunner: I don't particularly care about the Marvel movies, either. I know that puts me in the minority, but by now I'm used to it. But as Nathan says, to each their own.

I did a whole buncha stuff to get over a cold recently: Drank tons of OJ and apple juice, ate garlic on stuff (esp potatoes=virus fighter), superdose Vitamin C, echinacea, lots of sleep and vitamins...That cold never stood a chance!

Oh and VapoRub all over if I felt it in my chest!

I thought the "universal cure" was chicken noodle soup.

Einstein said so, after a particularly long lunch break.

Lunch Is Life

Chicken or beef?

Spoiler free review: "It sucked. Hard."

Why? Instead of wasting money on that crap, you could have bought a homeless person something to eat.

Or put the money into the Coleco Chameleon Kickst... oh... nevermind.

Guardians 3? Aren't most of them dead?

It'll be a short film.

Good Days Rock! I hope you have many more! (BTW, I'm not being sarcastic or snarky or anything, just in case ya wondered

Just take off the lid and swap out the broken parts!

oh wait

At the moment, it's working again. Maybe because I spent money at the Apple store last night on a couple of new hard drives, and I appeased their wrath.

Spoke too soon. Still randomly shutting down. Now I have to figure out if I want to pay money to fix a seven-year-old iMac, or pay money to buy a "brand-new" one that hasn't been updated in two years.

Selfie sticks?

Gangnam style?

The cotton ball diet?

Nathan's hepetic lesions?

Parachute pants?

I tried to post a status today, however it was removed before I got the chance. Admin now using a Flux Capacitor to moderate.

I used to post status updates like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.

Look on the bright side, at least you still have one good knee.

If you zoom in on the packaging, it mentions "Dental Repairs" Under the heading "Blowtorch."

Dentists perform dental repairs, and they need tools to do it. Is this such a stretch? You're on a site where the last machine produced by the website's namesake has had its plastic molds repurposed into dental cameras (as well as scam video game revival consoles, but that's a subject for a different discussion, one with 9,805 replies)

^That's Right! I've got a lot of reading to do! Soon as I fire this puppy up and finish these dental repairs!

I use my Apple Watch for vending machine purchases, so I don't have to go into my pockets like an animal.

Using a $20 bill in the metro farecard machine to add $1 in credit and getting back 19 golden Sacagawea dollar coins as change is one of the great pleasures of life.

Also, my body outputs lots of things that I wouldn't want to put into it. What's the problem?

Use a debit card & make the owners pay a fee for not accepting coins. (Credit & Debit card companies charge a fee for every transaction.)

The machine charges the user a fee - so it costs extra to use a debit card.

Getting tired of these handhelds with these tiny weenie little screens, considering the market these would appeal to they should consider the failing eyesight of the older generation. I mean come on.

these days I wont even consider anything with less than a 5' screen and even then I prefer at least a 7' screen.

That all said though they really do not seem to be offering anything we do not already have or can do better and cheaper.

Small screen plus tiny, left-handed joystick does not an enjoyable 2600 experience make.

Mark Hammil will never not be cool!

Because Carrie Fisher liked to flip him off?

100 seconds wasted on the intro I'll never get back.

Wow... sorry to hear that. :/

YES, that was brilliant.

Oscars?

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

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

Don't ya hate Vague memories?...What movie has the guy saying "I care" after the girl says Nobody cares...?

Oh... it was that one with that guy in it, and that girl. And the other guy. But the line was different because she asks the guy if the other guy cares about anything.

I think it was either a historical drama, or a war documentary. Had something to do with a war anyway, that happened a long time ago.

In a Galaxy Far Far Away?

Cheers!

By now, they must have issued more security updates for Flash than there are lines of code in the Flash code base. What the hell is so wrong with Flash that it needs so many "updates"?

There isn't a native Flash for FreeBSD (my OS of choice), and I'm glad. Not being able to look at a YouTube video on occasion is worth it to avoid all the hassles.

The are no security flaws in the player. The player IS the security flaw.

The rule is stupid. Ball in glove + foot on bag = out. What happens after that is irrelevant. Also, orange caps? Yuck!

Replay is awful, as well. Man running to third on a close play at first, he's tagged out, meanwhile call is disputed at first, they change the call -- now what do you do with the runner? Imho replay is ruining the game.

Agreed on the replays. They should only use them to check on whether or not a ball is a home run. I think that's still a legitimate use.

Canada only? BAH!

In one of my work related finance reports for stock pricing I had heard as part of their reboot of their brand JCPenny was "thinking" of doing a catalogue of toys and gift items again....don't remember them being a major player in toys like Sears but we will see

I've seen the online scans - they're great. Atari games, electronic handhelds, Hot Wheels, Star Wars… it was everything all in one place. The Amazon of its day.

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

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

When you find out, please let me know.