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Title: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 25, 2008, 11:10:01 PM
Ok, I've been looking for a pretty long time, but have yet to find the one thing that would make my life complete (because I'm shallow.

This one item would be a good pair of either classic blast or flight goggles. The kind with good leather straps and either glass or very hard plastic lenses, that'll last a long time.



This is also a thread for anyone else that can't find something they want people to be keeping their eyes open for, be it torrents, items, or anything that exists on the internet.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Fortinbras on May 26, 2008, 01:04:20 AM
Atome Fabrik makes some interesting goggles.  The site seems to be down at this very moment, but Warren Ellis linked to it and a picture of some of their work (http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5952) on his blog recently.  Not exactly the blast/aviator goggles you've got in mind, but an option if you want to go a bit stranger.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kazz on May 26, 2008, 01:56:43 AM
For the "I want goggles, but I don't want to see" crowd.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Arc on May 26, 2008, 02:17:50 AM
:goggles:

"Vintage", cheap. (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260242249501)

Vintage, expensive. (http://www.sip-scootershop.com/pages/index.php?PORTAL=Froogle&COUNTRY=US&ID=18475&PORTALID=0&EXPLODIM=px&_requested_page=%2Fpages%2Fdetails.php)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Friday on May 26, 2008, 02:24:37 AM
Ryg, why the fuck do you want goggles

they do nothing
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 04, 2008, 06:21:30 PM
Where do you go to purchase non-translated manga?

inb4 Japan
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on June 04, 2008, 06:25:42 PM
I know that the Kinokuniya bookstores have non-translated manga, but you might be able to order some from their website (http://www.kinokuniya.com/).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on June 04, 2008, 07:08:16 PM
Kinda been wanting to get a pair myself, for skiing. Probably one of the only times I can justifying wearing them without looking like a douche!

Then again:
(http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8593/avigoggles2nq3.jpg)

 :slow:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Niku on June 04, 2008, 07:21:34 PM
Where do you go to purchase non-translated manga?

inb4 Japan

I've had good relations with Sasuga Books (http://www.sasugabooks.com/) in the past.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on June 25, 2008, 06:15:07 PM
Anybody know what's decent for a TV Tuner card these days?  Specifically for playing my Pee-Ess-Too and Wee on.  Don't mind having to swap out gpus if it means an upgrade from my 7950GTX, but I only have one PCI-E slot and my tower is too badly thought out to handle anything double-stacked (like the 8800, GOD DAMN YOU).

Tried an external TV-to-monitor box but it contracted the curse of suck.  My sister's using it now.  I want something that feeds off my pretty, pretty PC's graphic capabilities.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Saturn on June 26, 2008, 07:22:19 PM
 just what I always wanted, a Rei whos butt i can stick in my computer  (http://techitorial.com/buffalo-announces-ultra-man-and-rei-ayanami-usb-flash-drives)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 26, 2008, 09:00:37 PM
just what I always wanted, a Rei whos butt i can stick in my computer (also ultraman)  (http://techitorial.com/buffalo-announces-ultra-man-and-rei-ayanami-usb-flash-drives[url=http://just what I always wanted, a Rei whos butt i can stick in my computer)

Sadly, that link is fail.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on June 26, 2008, 09:58:04 PM
This one isn't. (http://techitorial.com/ultraman-does-usb-now/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Silversong on June 27, 2008, 06:02:30 AM
Ry: My friend Kristie loves goggles, and she usually buys them at anime conventions, or she has one nice set that actually came from a hardware store.  You can unscrew the lenses and everything.

And you need goggles so you can be a proper steampunk engineer.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 27, 2008, 01:20:36 PM
I was wondering when you'd get here, Silversong. I never got a chance to thank you for your wonderful PDS 07 gift!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 02, 2008, 07:45:35 PM
I got the goggles a little while ago. They will undoubtedly show up in Otakon photos.

Now I ask and ask, and ask for more. If anyone comes across any working source of any number of songs by "Trouble Over Tokyo" I'd be much obliged. I can only live with just two songs in youtube quality for so long.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 02, 2008, 08:16:02 PM
What about Doktor Sleepless/Dr. Horrible-style goggles?

Because it's never too early to think about Halloween costumes.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on August 02, 2008, 09:03:44 PM
Shuttup, Thad, you'll ruin my surprise.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Fredward on August 03, 2008, 01:00:18 AM
...wait, so who here isn't dressing up as Dr. Horrible for Halloween?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Niku on August 03, 2008, 02:42:37 PM
I'm going as Moist.  :(
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 03, 2008, 03:06:26 PM
Pink Pummeler.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kashan on August 03, 2008, 03:36:17 PM
Fat gay fanboy.  ::(:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on August 11, 2008, 04:26:26 PM
For your Dr. Horrible costume needs, just straight up buying welding goggles (http://cgi.ebay.com/Safety-Welding-Goggles-Glasses-Flip-Down-No-Fog-Lens_W0QQitemZ270264318778QQihZ017QQcategoryZ67019QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) seems to be your best bet.  The only ones I can find on eBay are all green, so you'd probably want to spray paint them grey or black.  And if you actually search for them as Dr. Horrible or Steam Punk goggles, that will quadruple the price for the same object.

You can also find a more steady reliable from the CVF Supply Company (http://cvfsupplyco-store.stores.yahoo.net/weldinggoggle.html).

As for coats, straight up mad scientist coats probably cost  a bit more than just chef coats (http://www.dmdevice.com/m-mantili.html).  The last two on that page almost fit the bill, but need modification.  Also, there's no place to order them as near as I can find.  A good runner up is the "Howie" style lab coat (http://www.bocsafetyproducts.co.uk/prod_desc.php?prod_id=560&id=5&cat_id=51&sub_cat_id=53), but it just doesn't quite match up.  Looking around, the reason it probably can't be found stock is that it is originally from Firefly (http://shallowthoughtsfromiowa.blogspot.com/2008/07/dr-horribles-lab-coat-its-simons-lab.html).

Gloves are easy, every site points them out as Tillmans (http://www.airgas.com/browse/product.aspx?Msg=RecID&recIds=381355&WT.svl=381355[/url), just rip off the logo.

That should get you started on the look, but you'll have to practice the laugh on your own.  Nobody gets anywhere without practicing the laugh.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 26, 2008, 01:16:43 PM
So.

Any of you in the continental U.S. looking for a roommate?  I'm a little, erm, thrown-the-fuck-out right now*.

Credit's good, have deposit + first month, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, will go anywhere I can drive to and not have to acquire citizenship.  I am serious.


* More like "left very rapidly".
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: MadMAxJr on August 26, 2008, 01:49:26 PM
At the most, I could have a guest for a week, but I don't think my contract allows for roomies.  I've known you long enough that I could probably put up with you that long.  If something puts you in the eastern Kansas City area for some reason, I'll lend a hand however possible.

Had this happened to you about two weeks ago I would have had a good lead for you in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Norondor on August 26, 2008, 05:19:09 PM
I need a roomie when i move up to SF.

Of course, work's been FUCKING scarce and i need money to move up to SF.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Norondor on August 26, 2008, 05:19:57 PM
That said i could probably get it instantly if i didn't find begging distasteful and i probably wouldn't mind living with you. Whether you could put up with me is another matter altogether!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kazz on August 26, 2008, 05:53:42 PM
There's a large house in central NH which will have a single person (my mom) living in it for nine months, starting in September.  I'd have to discuss it with mom and dad, of course, and I personally would not be around much.  But if you're desperate, it's not the worst situation?  Maybe?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 26, 2008, 06:12:43 PM
I'll keep my ear to the ground, but I'm with Jr here -- could put you up in the guest room for a few days but it's not really big enough for a person to live in there long-term.  You don't really want to be in Tempe this time of year anyway -- Lord knows I don't.

I knew some people who were looking for a roomie recently, but I think they took care of that.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kashan on August 26, 2008, 11:28:29 PM
Hmm, how many people can I shove into my one bedroom condo?  ::D:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 27, 2008, 08:41:44 AM
If we know what you mean?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 28, 2008, 09:46:47 PM
Thanks to all for the offers of temporary lodgings; those have been taken care of now, and I have a tiny... tiny space within which I will meticulously inventory every item which I have ever owned.  Okay, not literally, but to give you some idea, my first NES is down here in this junk pile somewhere, and eventually I will have to look at it and decide whether to chuck it or attempt to transport it to whatever new permanent location I find (that one won't be much of a decision, but the rest of the stuff from that era is much more vague.)

That said, I will probably have my eye out for something permanent for perhaps many months (seeing as how I now have to somehow pay quarterly taxes after butchering my tax account to cover the rest of the rent), so if the situation arises, keep me in mind, y'all.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 28, 2008, 09:58:58 PM
...My first NES is in the room I said you could crash in for a few days.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 28, 2008, 10:02:05 PM
They should have drinks sometime.  Compare tattoos weird foamy stickers from Nintendo Power.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 28, 2008, 10:03:46 PM
I call it the Trophy Room.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 28, 2008, 10:07:08 PM
When I told my sister that I planned to put all the games I've worked on in a trophy case, she told me I'd never get married.

Stuff like that is why I'll never be in any danger of starring in a hentai comic.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 28, 2008, 10:16:35 PM
When I told my sister that I planned to put all the games I've worked on in a trophy case, she told me I'd never get married.

Stef told me if I want girls to notice me I should ditch the goofy T-shirts and start wearing track jackets.  (To which I responded, "What's a track jacket?")

The girl I had a fling with my last semester of college literally told me that she first noticed me because of my T-shirts.  (And the first time we made out, Adult Swim was on in the background.)

...Stef is probably right in terms of quantity.  But I stand by my decision in terms of quality.

I'd settle for some quantity right now, but this is fucking ridiculous weather to be wearing a track jacket in.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 29, 2008, 02:26:33 AM
...what's a track jacket?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kazz on August 29, 2008, 03:18:32 AM
TRACK JACKETS (http://images.google.com/images?q=track%20jacket&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi)

warning: kinda gay
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 29, 2008, 04:49:05 AM
eeewwww.


edit:  what kind of jackoff would wear that shit if they were not about to, in the middle of, or had just been exercising?  Well, I suppose it's fine for a light jacket, but really?  That's fashion?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: patito on August 29, 2008, 05:47:53 AM
I used to wear track jackets I still have a few of them I think (I didn't even know they were track jackets until this thread), fat lot of good that did me, I guess they're not for everyone.

Or I was into track jackets before they were in? :shrug:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 29, 2008, 08:59:09 AM
You were a trend setter.  I guess.   ::(:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 29, 2008, 09:25:25 AM
It's mainly for outdoor runners in areas where it's likely to rain suddenly.  For that purpose, it's fine.

But if you're wearing one in Arizona, you're just a fucking jackoff.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 01, 2008, 11:04:47 AM
There are two options for track jackets in New York from what I've seen:

1) You're skinny: it means you're a hipster, you wear the jacket with your Kang hat and converses.

2) you're fat: you are in the mob, even if you didn't know it.
Title: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Classic on October 27, 2008, 10:51:48 AM
Anyone have any idea where I can get Shattered Lands/Wake of the Ravager? Those SSI Dark Sun games?
Underdogs used to have it, and I used to have it, but right now I can't find it.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Shinra on October 27, 2008, 11:10:03 AM
 :sarcasm:

Uh. Google. Duh.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Brentai on October 27, 2008, 11:26:07 AM
Google. Duh. Click.

NOTE: Finally found the original post where I reference GDC (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=88.msg1964#msg1964), and it turns out I've been using it wrong the whole time.  So as they say... :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Classic on October 27, 2008, 04:17:45 PM
In my defense:
I did do a search through mininova, isohunt, and pirate bay for
"SSI Gold Box"
"SSI Dark Sun"
"Dark Sun Shattered Lands"

Checking Google was the next, obvious step, but I was already late for class.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Thad on October 27, 2008, 10:19:13 PM
...aaaaand starting a thread here took less time HOW?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Classic on October 27, 2008, 10:29:25 PM
:whoops:
It's my first day?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: King Klown on October 28, 2008, 04:23:02 AM
Google doesn't have all the answers contrary to popular belief. I couldn't find a single place to download Dungeon Keeper!
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Norondor on October 28, 2008, 05:25:20 AM
Google "Dungeon Keeper Torrent," hit "i'm feeling lucky." (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3306247/Dungeon_Keeper_Gold)
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: King Klown on October 28, 2008, 08:49:01 AM
Google "Dungeon Keeper Torrent," hit "i'm feeling lucky." (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3306247/Dungeon_Keeper_Gold)

You are more powerful than I sah.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Classic on October 28, 2008, 09:48:14 AM
So, basically all of yesterday (and Sunday) was a horrible amalgam (no... too pretentious... Needs something different. AH! Eureka!) katamari of bad decisions.

It actually never occurred to me that I should google for direct download sites for the Dark Sun games, I had thought they were in the 100meg range, rather than the <25 meg range.
D'oh.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Thad on October 28, 2008, 10:10:25 AM
...my roommate is also terrible at Googling.

Of course, he was still using AltaVista two years after the rest of the world switched to Google.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Brentai on October 28, 2008, 10:20:13 AM
...and Yahoo before that.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Büge on October 28, 2008, 10:21:32 AM
Hey, that's nothing. My dad still uses webcrawler.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Kazz on October 28, 2008, 10:25:40 AM
I just misspell a popular website and then use whatever search engine pops up.

(FYI my penis should be really huge any minute now)
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Sharkey on October 28, 2008, 10:25:51 AM
Lycos, bitchez.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Classic on October 28, 2008, 10:47:59 AM
I get it. I see what you did there.
The joke is that the Lycos mascot is a dog!
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: clutch on October 28, 2008, 01:16:00 PM
...my roommate is also terrible at Googling.

Of course, he was still using AltaVista two years after the rest of the world switched to Google.

Someone told me about Dogpile the other day as if it something were new or useful. That shit was no good back in grade school, and just glancing at the page today (it's a slow-loader on top of the rest of its problems) it does not appear to have improved with age.

Oh, and then there was the guy that told me to use Babelfish to translate a letter I wanted to send to my French friend Fabrice. Yeah, as if I'd trust that thing again after it fucked up my essay in 6th grade Spanish.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Brentai on October 28, 2008, 01:22:46 PM
I've actually used Babelfish to carry on conversations with real French people.  The trick is not to give it full sentences or, in fact, anything approaching context.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Kayma on October 28, 2008, 03:30:59 PM
Babelfish has its uses, but Google Translate is leagues better. Is "leagues" a proper measure of translation proficiency?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Bongo Bill on October 28, 2008, 03:44:17 PM
Stadia. Or li.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: François on October 28, 2008, 05:45:06 PM
Hell, if you guys ever want something translated from/to French, e-mail me and it'll probably be done within 24 hours. **Special Service!**

unless it's like a book or something, I'm not a machine

or rather, I'll do books, but you gotta pay
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Fredward on October 28, 2008, 05:51:56 PM
How much would I have to pay for the entire city of Montreal?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: François on October 28, 2008, 05:55:48 PM
I estimate it at 12 million, plus or minus 25% depending on weather. Expenses not included, and I charge for the storage medium.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: clutch on October 29, 2008, 08:21:56 AM
Hell, if you guys ever want something translated from/to French, e-mail me and it'll probably be done within 24 hours. **Special Service!**

But you're French-Canadian. Any translation you do will go on at tangents about sovereignty for Quebec, hockey, and poutine. You people do go on about those things.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: François on October 29, 2008, 09:03:43 AM
Man, we can be professional when the times demand it. Take Francis Bouillon or Patrice Brisebois as examples. Even they would resist the lure of an off-rink poutine and keep their eyes on the puck, regardless of the amount of crisp, golden fries, luscious hot gravy and mouth-watering cheese curds waiting for them. Frankly, the implication that we are limited to these topics is insulting and borderline racist; it makes me feel like we should enclose the entire province in a giant bubble and launch ourselves into space. I wouldn't even care where we'd be going as long as it's someplace where there aren't any god damned Canadians.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Mongrel on October 29, 2008, 05:33:02 PM
I should get you to translate the giant collection of french comic books I have. I mean, I can read them just fine, it's just that nobody else here can.

 :sadpanda: :sadpanda: :sadpanda:
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: sei on October 29, 2008, 10:00:50 PM
Lucky Luke and Asterix?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: clutch on October 30, 2008, 01:56:33 PM
Man, we can be professional when the times demand it. Take Francis Bouillon or Patrice Brisebois as examples. Even they would resist the lure of an off-rink poutine and keep their eyes on the puck, regardless of the amount of crisp, golden fries, luscious hot gravy and mouth-watering cheese curds waiting for them. Frankly, the implication that we are limited to these topics is insulting and borderline racist; it makes me feel like we should enclose the entire province in a giant bubble and launch ourselves into space. I wouldn't even care where we'd be going as long as it's someplace where there aren't any god damned Canadians.

Well, that may all be true, but I was really more concerned about dialectic differences. I didn't want to mention it because I know you guys are touchy about it.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Büge on October 30, 2008, 02:19:37 PM
You mean the fact that compared to an educated Parisian, most Quebecois sound like country bumpkins and salty sailors?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Brentai on October 30, 2008, 02:25:07 PM
Everyone sounds like a country bumpkin or salty sailor to a Parisian.  Whether they're educated or not.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Classic on October 30, 2008, 03:20:40 PM
 ::D: I suddenly want to launch Paris into the sea.
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: Fredward on October 30, 2008, 03:44:08 PM
You mean the fact that compared to an educated Parisian, most Quebecois sound like country bumpkins and salty sailors?

Having talked to a few real Frenchies in my short time here, apparently the Quebecois speak a mutated dialect of 17th century French. For instance, the Quebecois word for "drink" is the French word for "potion". Confirm\deny, Zed?
Title: Re: Finding "abandonware"
Post by: François on October 30, 2008, 05:49:26 PM
It's mostly true, though I'm not sure about your example. The French word for potion is "potion", and I've never heard it used with a meaning other than "elixir".

A better example would be "embarquer/débarquer". In France, those words, meaning "entering/leaving a boat" ("barque" is a slightly antiquated word for "boat"), have fallen into disuse as boats became less and less a common feature of life. However, in Québec, these words are still very widely used, but we apply them to entering and getting out of cars and other vehicles. Now, for that, a Frenchman would use the more general "monter/descendre (de voiture)".

That said, if you consider accents and phonetics rather than actual vocabulary, it would appear that we are much closer to 17th century French in Québec than in France. You see, in Québec, we only live side-to-side with each other and the English. (And Native Americans, of course, but that's unfortunately very minor.) Whereas the French are surrounded by a variety of strong language populations in their own rights and their speech has evolved in reaction to this environment. I've heard Parisians say that Québec French is actually purer by comparison, for that reason.

Ironically, we in Québec are often shocked at how much the French are borrowing from the English. They say "shopping" where we would say "magasinage", "parking" where we would say "stationnement", "e-mail" where we would say "courriel", and so on. It's really quite strange. Maybe we've grown more defensive and protective of our linguistic heritage. We can't take it for granted, or we risk losing it.

Still, France French and Québec French are best described at twin brothers, separated at 10 years old and growing up in different families afterwards. There are definitely differences, but it takes only minimal effort for a Québécois (or any other Francophone, really) to adjust his speech and be understood in any French-speaking country in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophonie).

EDIT:
You mean the fact that compared to an educated Parisian, most Quebecois sound like country bumpkins and salty sailors?

Parisians think anyone from outside Paris sound like country bumpkins and salty sailors. That includes every other region of France. (Marseillais have a great accent, by the way. Very expressive and somewhat fun to hear.)

You know the difference between God and a Parisian? God doesn't think he's a Parisian.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on October 31, 2008, 04:08:02 AM
I love the Québec accent. I always prefer it over regular French as the languge sounds like it's enjoying itself more. Plus, it's not really that odd to have a bias in favour of one's countrymen, I suppose.

Oh and Newfies (Newfoundlanders) speak with a horrendous accent. The funny thing is that they're in the same boat as Québec: At first glance hearing, it soulds like horrible degraded redneck patois (only eastern maritime, as opposed to southern drawl or mountain gibberish), except it turns out that of all the English dialects spoken over the entire planet, Newfie speech is the closest to pure Middle English*.

*I'm pretty sure that the gross overuse of the word 'bye' (boy), is just a Newfie thing though.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on October 31, 2008, 04:13:42 AM
Lucky Luke and Asterix?

No nublet, those can easily be obtained in English, as can Tintin and Moebius. Series like that are just the tiny tip of a gigantic iceberg.

The French/European comics industry is no less productive than the North American or Japanese ones, but they do seem to make it outside of Europe far less than the competition makes it out of their respective home zones.

Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Zaratustra on October 31, 2008, 04:41:48 AM
European companies in general seem to be pretty lasseiz-faire about international publishing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: SCD on January 02, 2009, 12:40:57 AM
Goggles you say?

Hey, I pretty much have a decent pair I believe I can find duplicate - although they like to rust like the dickens. 

Also, if you're in NE USA, or know someone from Ontario, there's a military surplus on Princess St in Kingston, On that has some more modern ones that work well


Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 02, 2009, 08:47:12 AM
These (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IBEBB0/ref=pd_luc_sbs_02_01) are on Amazon's "People who bought Dr. Horrible also bought these items" page. And they're cheap!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on January 02, 2009, 11:11:23 AM
And they feel weird.  They were a part of my Dr. Horrible costume, and the actual body of them is made of a flimsy rubber.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 03:31:09 PM
Hello internets!

I'm finding myself in posession of a webcam and would like to become a (very selective) camwhore. Can anyone tell me: Is there such a thing as free feed hosting? Can you point me to a link?

Appreciation, Guildenstern.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 05:18:50 PM
Thank you, mystery person. You know who you are! (http://www.stickam.com/sytes)
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Post by: Guild on January 24, 2009, 01:19:32 AM
Hey internets, is this (http://www.surplus-savings.com/index.php) at all legitimate? My instincts say no, and my brain also says "there's no possible way."
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Post by: François on January 24, 2009, 01:45:41 AM
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Our amazing partner relationships allow us to bring these low prices to you.

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amazing partner relationships

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amazing partner relationships

(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/220/crimekw1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

(yeah that was the first remotely usable result I got out of GISing "crime")
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Post by: Cait on January 24, 2009, 06:23:58 AM
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Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 25, 2009, 03:29:08 PM
Hey, one of you Internet People. Help me find: a reasonably high-fidelity recording of the Goofy Holler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofy#Goofy_holler).
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Post by: Kazz on January 25, 2009, 05:03:46 PM
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The sound effect is also used in films that do not contain the Goofy character, such as in the film Cinderella, when both the King and the Grand Duke fall from a chandelier.

 :wat:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on February 01, 2009, 09:31:00 AM
Quick question: What's the best place to host a half-GB .zip file (mostly a package of 366 high-res images) for random idiots to download it? I expect anywhere from 50-500 downloads within the space of the first month, with volume drastically dropping after that, though there will always be something of a trickle.

I have no hosting space of my own, and I'd rather keep it midly anonymous anyway.

Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on February 01, 2009, 09:41:46 AM
MegaUpload (http://www.megaupload.com), probably.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on February 01, 2009, 12:53:40 PM
why does everyone use rapidshit and megacrap

sage
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Post by: Mongrel on February 01, 2009, 01:06:44 PM
sage

Uh, is this a website/alternate host?

Because Google sure (http://www.ammsa.com/sage/) isn't (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage) clarifying (http://www.sage.com/) your (http://www.mysage.ca/index.cfm) post (http://www.sagepub.com/home.nav).
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Post by: Fredward on February 01, 2009, 02:07:10 PM
 :facepalm:
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Post by: Brentai on February 01, 2009, 02:09:06 PM
Bless you for not knowing IM.

Bless you so very much.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Bongo Bill on February 01, 2009, 02:20:38 PM
Iron Mongrel is the luckiest man on these boards.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on February 01, 2009, 03:10:19 PM
Iron Mongrel is the luckiest man on these boards.

 (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg) If only it could go back to being merely a cooking implement for me...
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on February 01, 2009, 03:24:12 PM
I was about to ask what it is too, but it seems ignorance must sometimes be a bitter refuge.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on February 01, 2009, 03:49:50 PM
Of course, I do hate you all. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sage)

Pronounced like what you would scream when a Medic hits you with an unlockable.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Disposable Ninja on February 07, 2009, 03:58:14 PM
Hey, what's the new, totally awesome and free media player the kids are all using these days? I thought it was Zoom media player, but now it turns out that it's no longer free.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Fredward on February 07, 2009, 04:09:09 PM
For music, foobar2000 (http://foobar2000.org) is tiny and works like a charm. For everything else, the answer is probably VLC Media Player (http://www.videolan.org).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on February 07, 2009, 05:11:14 PM
Make fun of me if you must, but I'm still using Winamp.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on February 07, 2009, 05:12:50 PM
Yeah, me too. Not sure why I'd want to change, but I'm open to it in case there's a good reason.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on February 07, 2009, 06:10:02 PM
I consider VLC to be a much worse movie player than Media Player Classic.  I'd drop Winamp and switch to Foobar if I could get Outer Heaven to work in MPC.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on February 07, 2009, 06:27:46 PM
I switched to Foobar2000 because Winamp wanted all of my memory.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Catloaf on February 07, 2009, 06:28:26 PM
Does foobar work with real player files?  Because I need something to read those fuckers for school and I refuse to download spyware.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on February 07, 2009, 06:30:48 PM
Just search for a Real Player codec/extension thing; pretty sure VLC should have one. If you're on OSX, I am pretty sure Perian has it. And if you don't have Perian on OSX you're doing it wrong.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on February 07, 2009, 07:01:23 PM
Make fun of me if you must, but I'm still using Winamp.

 (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)

v2.95 here. oldversion.com, oh how I love you so.

P.S. Realalternative works pretty well if you absolutely have to read Real Player files.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Fredward on February 07, 2009, 07:27:23 PM
I consider VLC to be a much worse movie player than Media Player Classic.

I don't blame you, VLC has a lot of "quirks". I sometimes even turn to using Windows Media Player (*shudder*) for DVDs. VLC has pretty amazing file support, though, which is why I keep it my standard.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on February 07, 2009, 07:35:06 PM
I keep VLC around for those kinky things I can't just drag-and-drop into MPC.  That comes up pretty much once every 300 times I masturbate.

For everything else... yeah.  I mean it's even the only thing I can get my TV Tuner to play through.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on February 07, 2009, 07:50:23 PM
Seriously, is there a way to get Shoutcast (Outer Heaven, specifically) to work in Media Player Classic?  When I try it now, the program doesn't play anything, but the process runs in the background and my router lights blink like it's actively streaming, even when I close the window.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on May 11, 2009, 11:43:04 AM
Does anybody have the secret bonus Magic: The Gathering wallpapers in 1280x960? I'm talking about the ones you had to complete jigsaw puzzles to get. They were for upcoming sets... now I can't access the puzzles anymore. All of the product pages don't work on the WotC site.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Healy on May 13, 2009, 11:45:32 AM
Hey, does anybody know where I can find a proxy? I'm not trying to bypass blocked sites at work; just covering my tracks around a guy I've been kind of a dick to in the past.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on May 13, 2009, 11:50:29 AM
Try Tor (http://www.torproject.org/)?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Healy on May 13, 2009, 03:03:22 PM
That seems... a little heavy duty. I didn't kill the guy's wife or anything, just called him some bad names on the internet. Thanks, though.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 12, 2009, 04:57:57 PM
What's a good DVD-playing program I can get for free? I can't find any.
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Post by: Kayma on June 12, 2009, 04:58:35 PM
VLC?
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Post by: JDigital on June 12, 2009, 07:35:37 PM
I think Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) does it too.
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Post by: Brentai on June 12, 2009, 07:52:41 PM
MPC trips over legitimate DVDs with bad copy protection but otherwise works okay.
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Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 19, 2009, 08:40:28 PM
I wanna do a screenshot LP of a playstation game. Problem is, Fraps doesn't seem to work ePSXe. Any word on a screengrab program that will work with ePSXe, or a halfway decent emulator that works with fraps?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on June 20, 2009, 12:27:22 AM
Quote from: Help file for the latest version of ePSXe
ePSXe v1.0.1 changes are :
...
Added a snapshot maker in key F8. (you need the "snap" directory).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on July 17, 2009, 06:09:05 PM
Friends, I'm trying to remember the name of an NES game that I played for maybe two seconds ages ago. You're a king who starts classless, but your goal is to master 3-4 jobs and use their unique abilities to reclaim your castle. There's a knight, mage, and a thief (notable because he won't be randomly attacked by townsfolk touch of death). Does the description ring any bells?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on July 17, 2009, 07:23:32 PM
Maybe you're misremembering Wizard and Warriors 3?
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Post by: Classic on July 17, 2009, 07:25:35 PM
That's it. Thanks!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2009, 05:29:56 PM
Can anyone recommend a reasonably good, free mp3 editor?

I don't need to do anything complicated, just truncate/splice together some poorly hacked-up mp3 files. Three seconds with Google gets you a barrelful of links to download software, I just don't want to download some advert-shit pile of crap. Plus not everything that says mp3's really does so, some of them convert it to .WAV and then convert back.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on July 18, 2009, 05:31:32 PM
audacity

you might need the LAME encoder to actually save in mp3 but it's easy
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Post by: sei on July 18, 2009, 10:59:42 PM
I use mp3splt-gtk for splitting/truncating mp3s, and might use mp3wrap for joining them, but I haven't had to join any yet.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: McDohl on July 19, 2009, 06:35:08 AM
GoldWave is a pretty good thing, and it's shareware, as far as I know.  It doesn't cripple itself after X days.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on September 22, 2009, 01:10:51 PM
I'm looking for a good icon making program.
Something that let's me convert pngs to icos.
I've been led to three. One didn't work, the second one barely did, and the third tried to infect my system with a virus.

Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on September 22, 2009, 01:46:56 PM
There is a plugin for Photoshop that does it. You just save as an ico.
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Post by: jsnlxndrlv on October 10, 2009, 06:31:04 AM
So, who knows of a good program to convert MP3s into OGG?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Doom on October 10, 2009, 06:56:46 AM
I use Audacity for my TF2 mic spam. It seems easily capable of swapping between MP3, OGG, WAV and stereo/mono and sound qualities on the fly! (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Smiler on October 10, 2009, 07:02:18 AM
Foobar2000 not only is a great music player, it can also convert music formats!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on October 12, 2009, 03:23:47 PM
I've got a dodgy old Dell Inspiron 8000 from 2001 that I've taken apart for fun on several occasions.  Its monitor can be disconnected quite easily and is of higher quality than my desktop monitor, and I want to know if anyone's ever made an adapter to hook it up to a desktop computer via VGA or DVI cord.  The answer's probably no, but I'm curious.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on October 28, 2009, 06:12:05 PM
I need a program that can create a slideshow with 0.1 second intervals between frames with no stupid fade or flippy or sliding effects and I should be able to insert background music.

Help
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Post by: yyler on October 28, 2009, 07:09:16 PM
Microsoft PowerPoint.
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Post by: Büge on October 28, 2009, 07:18:11 PM
Powerpoint can make automatic slideshows?
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Post by: TA on October 28, 2009, 07:22:09 PM
Completely automatic?

Sounds like what you're looking for is some sort of video maker thing.  VirtualDub or something.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on October 28, 2009, 07:52:14 PM
Powerpoint can make automatic slideshows?
Yes. You can set a delay between changing slides, adding new things to the screen, and all sorts of general wonkiness.

However, I forget how/if it's possible to have a single background track start with the first slide and continue without stopping...
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on October 28, 2009, 08:34:29 PM
Powerpoint does it all. I learned it in 3rd grade. I got in trouble for my presentation.
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Post by: yyler on October 28, 2009, 09:01:24 PM
To be honest I don't know how to do it with the current version of PowerPoint, which uses the new, incredibly terrible and confusing Microsoft Office ribbon. But it should just be a couple settings somewhere on the animation tab. I am pretty sure I could use one music file for the entire presentation using PP2000 or whatever, so you should be able to now. I am almost certain I did that. You might still have to embed it on the first slide though and then hide it. Just make sure your slide transitions are set to none or whatever you deem appropriate.

It's actually a useful application, and before the damned ribbon, was surprisingly easy to use.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on October 31, 2009, 09:41:18 PM
This is totally retarded but: Does anyone have, or know where I can get OpenOffice v1.1.x?

I have some old graphics files that I need to work with and they ONLY seem to want to work with Open Draw 1.1. I mean, I don't really need all of OpenOffice 1.1, just the OpenDraw part.

There's too many parts of my file that just won't work in OD 2.1.

Neither Google, nor OldVersion.com have been really helpful (I was actually blown away that Old Version doesn't keep Open Office available).
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Post by: TA on October 31, 2009, 09:47:05 PM
This might be it? (http://www.oldapps.com/openoffice.php?old_openoffice=10)

I know you say OD 2.1 won't work but OpenOffice appears to be up to 3.1.1, is it possible the newer versions might be able to open those things if only long enough to save them in a more recent format?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 01, 2009, 10:11:27 AM
Aha!

Perhaps this will work better. Then kew suh!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 01, 2009, 10:38:17 AM
Silly question.. does anyone here know any Russian?

I know that "crazy" in Russian, roughly transliterates to "Bezoomniy", but I'm going to go out on a limb that that's not what's used casually (as it has several syllables). Anybody know what someone would actually say in casual conversation?

Just wondering.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 05, 2009, 03:28:55 AM
I don't know about Russian.

I was wondering if any of you guys have ebooks or pdfs or whatever of the Player's Handbook/MM/anything from D&D 3e. NOT 3.5.

There is a fair chance I might be joining a game elsewhere and the DM seems to want to use strict 3e, and I can't fucking find it anywhere. The changes in 3.5 are (as far as I am aware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons#Dungeons_.26_Dragons_v3.5)) completely insignificant in any meaningful sense, but he could prove stubborn. Help?
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Post by: Envy on November 05, 2009, 05:29:40 AM
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3358684/D_amp_D_3E_-_166_books_from_various_publishers_(d20_rules) First link on google.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 05, 2009, 10:29:01 AM
I want to call Envy a dick here but... Google is usually the answer to that sort of request.

Ah well.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 05, 2009, 11:17:46 AM
I don't know how I didn't find that. Probably the wrong search terms. Thanks.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 05, 2009, 11:28:54 AM
Shit shit shit. No, that still has only the 3.5 Player's Handbook and MM.

Fuck it. I am going to make him do 4e. It isn't impossible to find 4e stuff.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Doom on November 05, 2009, 11:47:51 AM
Tell him to grow up and use 3.5e. The changes were for the better(Two Weapon Fighting feats not being convoluted, Haste balancing, making the base classes flow a bit better.)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: JDigital on November 06, 2009, 06:30:23 PM
You can use the 3.0 SRD (http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html). Anything missing from the SRD didn't change in 3.5.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 13, 2009, 03:57:41 PM
(http://bayimg.com/image/faejeaacn.jpg)
This is what my taskbar looks like without the programs running.

(http://bayimg.com/image/faejgaacn.jpg)

And this is what it looks like after the programs are open.


Any idea how to change what icons the program use or, even, better, some sort of registry edit so it doesn't change the icon at all?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on November 13, 2009, 04:03:10 PM
Don't pin them to the taskbar?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 13, 2009, 04:08:49 PM
That's not a solution?

I'd guess they are using the actual .exe icon at that point, so... ugh. On Macs, there is a way to go into actual applications and just change their icon resources. I don't think it is quite as easy to do on Windows. durrr see below

What are you using to do that, the .png replacement?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on November 13, 2009, 04:10:33 PM
This is simple.  Click the Start > Programs > WhateverProgramYouWant then right-click > Properties > Change Icon.  You then have to unpin/repin it to the taskbar.


This method is almost unchanged since Windows 3.1 
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 13, 2009, 04:18:10 PM
Well, did what you said, Constatine and it is still the default icon when the program runs. That is what I want to change. That little icon that is the default icon.

No matter how I change the icon, when the program runs, it goes back to the default. Program turns off, icon goes back to what I set it as.

I think Yyler was on the right track. Or what you said doesn't work on Windows 7. Or I am retarded.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on November 13, 2009, 04:19:50 PM
I hate to use the old "Works for me" line, but it really does.  Maybe it's because I have Aero disabled?


Let's employ science to see if that's the case.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 13, 2009, 04:23:03 PM
But Aero rules!

Lottel, one weird thing I noticed about the start bar icons is that they are usually shortcuts to other shortcuts. I forget where they are actually stored... maybe C:\Windows\something or Users\You\Start Menu\something. I can't remember nor can I figure it out right now.

If you were doing shortcuts before, try just changing the icon of the exe?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 13, 2009, 04:30:15 PM
Tried it without Aero and in Windows Classic. Still doesn't work, Constatine.

Well, I thought I was changing the icon of the program but... I guess I wasn't?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 13, 2009, 04:31:39 PM
This is dumb, but: when you drag something to the start bar to pin it, it copies whatever properties that shortcut has. E.g., the only way for me to get Chrome to launch with user scripts enabled from the start bar was to copy a shortcut there that already had that flag enabled. So maybe try getting rid of your programs, changing all the icons, and then re-adding them? Is that how you already did it?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 13, 2009, 04:40:26 PM
Well, I did that, but apparently I have to change the exe's icon. Annnnd they don't like it when you try to do that.
Gonna keep trying.

Edit: Well! That didn't work. I think what I need to do is edit the icon inside the exe. Greeaaaat.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 13, 2009, 05:54:38 PM
I found a program (the only one google recommended) Icon Changer and it didn't change the embedded icon. The help section just said "Try restarting!" That didn't work.
So I tried using Restorator. That worked. Sort of. It made my icons ugly and pixelated versions of what I wanted them to be. And on top of THAT every time I used said program Windows popped up saying "ARE YOU SURE?!" and no matter how many times I told it to run as administrator, it kept asking.

So I will keep trying to figure out a nice way to do this. Found out if I edit a certain reg file  I can get it to do ALMOST what I want. It keeps the icons that I choose, but then each addition window of that program open is a little sliver on the side of the button and you have to use Aero Peek to click it. So close, yet so far.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on November 13, 2009, 06:48:12 PM
I'll repeat it here from the Good News thread:

If anyone's near these shops, (http://www.byluisvenegas.com/shops.html) I would appreciate you picking up this magazine (http://sf.carnalnation.com/content/38473/4/candy-first-trans-fashion-magazine-launched) for me.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 13, 2009, 07:03:27 PM
Your shops list link doesn't work in either this page or the next.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on November 13, 2009, 07:10:21 PM
follow the link (http://www.byluisvenegas.com/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 14, 2009, 05:08:44 AM
.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on November 14, 2009, 06:18:37 AM
...

FINE

Quote
ON MANY SPECIAL AMERICAN APPAREL SHOPS WORLDWIDE

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AUCKLAND
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DO YOU READ ME?! GBR, Auguststraße 28, 10117
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GAGOSIAN

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PARIS
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STOCKHOLM
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Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 14, 2009, 07:43:56 AM
... wait, you went to the trouble of posting that but there no Toronto location?  ::(:

Anyway, I actually wouldn't have had a problem going to a smut or LGBQ bookstore to get you a copy, but I draw the line at buying anything from American Apparel.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on November 14, 2009, 08:23:50 AM
Do you actually think I'd bother posting it if I could get it just a short bus ride away?

I've gone to Toronto for less.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 14, 2009, 08:28:11 AM
I live close enough to New York to get there eventually if no one else grabs one sooner. The only problem is having to be there with people who I can tell "oh hold on one sec, I need to stop over here to grab a tranny mag."
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on November 14, 2009, 09:24:41 AM
A tranny fashion mag.

Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Envy on November 23, 2009, 09:27:08 PM
Anyone with Audacity. I'm having a problem with the recorded audio not converting properly. http://yfrog.com/3maudacityproblemj Is what it comes out like. Could one of you possibly help?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: SCD on November 26, 2009, 09:31:28 AM
Question

I am looking at starting up a portfolio website, something like my "firstnamelastname".com/.ca, which are both either parked or available in the .com side of the house.

Anyone have any ideas of where they would prefer to do the webhosting?"  so far, all I have in mind is hostpapa.ca, which is a pretty lame start. 

No, I'm not interested in asking Terra for hosting, nor am I willing to go for free - I have learned in other walks of life that you get what you pay for...
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 26, 2009, 10:38:57 AM
My hosting's through A2 Hosting, but they're merely acceptable I find.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 26, 2009, 10:43:34 AM
I know a lot of people who like using Site5. I use LunarPages, and I have zero complaints with it.

Just for the love of God do not ever use Dreamhost.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 26, 2009, 12:11:59 PM
I think I have some domains through dreamhost, but no hosting.

*phew*
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on November 26, 2009, 12:45:10 PM
bbbut it was like ten bucks for a year!

:painful: :gameover:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 27, 2009, 09:32:02 PM

Alrighty. I made a new start button.  I didn't like the ones I was using so I figured "Hey. I can make buttons. I make icons and things, how difficult can this be?" So I got to work  and made my button and replaced. I got it working buuuut...

It's transparent. Which makes it really hard to see with most backgrounds. And on top of that, there is a black box when I hover over it.

Any one have any ideas?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on November 27, 2009, 09:41:17 PM
You messed up when creating the images for hovering/when creating the background image, is my guess.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 27, 2009, 10:38:51 PM
Alright. Strange. Redid all the doohickery and it works, no errors or flashing boxes.

Fairly pleased with the results.
(http://bayimg.com/image/oafhmaacb.jpg)

Now that I'm fairly sure what to do, I'll start on more complicated things.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on December 29, 2009, 10:05:16 PM
My wife got me Avatar: Book 3 for Christmas, because it's the only season I don't have and I've wanted it for a while. However, she got it on iTunes because it was on sale for $15.

The long and short of it is: I want to burn these to DVD, or at least convert the DRM'd files to something that I can copy over to my PS3 and watch on there, like I do with most of the TV shows I download. There appear to be several programs online that can do this, but each one only lets you convert about one minute of video for the free trial, and the full versions cost between $30-40. If anyone knows of a free method to do this, I'd love to hear about it.

I could just torrent each episode, but dammit, my wife paid money for this and she'd be sad if it went to waste. Plus the Nickelodeon logo in the corner of each episode (and all the stupid pop up ads and whatnot) would give that away.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on December 29, 2009, 10:39:35 PM
Well, before you do anything major, make sure they actually have DRM. Most iTunes files these days don't, beyond "This was purchased by xxxx".
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on December 29, 2009, 10:52:32 PM
How do you check? And if they don't, is it easy to just burn them or whatever?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on December 29, 2009, 11:17:19 PM
The easiest way to check video files is to just burn them, actually. If iTunes doesn't let you, then there you have it.

iTunes alone will let you remove DRM from videos for I think $0.60, but I don't actually know how to do that. And it seems the best program to remove DRM from files, doubleTwist, was relaunched as a media manager that probably no longer does that.

And all the freeware I can find is for older files only.

If you're lucky, you could possibly copy the files somewhere new and edit the extension to .mp4, since what they are now is just Apple's protected version, and then it's possible you could open them in VLC or WMP and save them as something new. But not likely.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on December 30, 2009, 01:33:00 AM
Once you have the DRM off the files, I'd recommend DVDFlick (http://www.dvdflick.net/) for the making DVDs out of them.  No idea how to do the DRM, though.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on December 30, 2009, 04:06:34 PM
Thanks for the advice. I'm having a hell of a time finding a free program to remove the damn DRM. I even started downloading cracked versions of the programs that cost money, and those are either full of spyware and viruses or just don't work for some reason.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on January 29, 2010, 10:03:13 PM
Ok gents. I could use some help if you have any to spare.
I've recently got it so I can turn 4chan transparent Here are the results. (http://bayimg.com/image/bakhfaaca.jpg)
Now, Facebook seems to have a similar thing going on so I am trying to duplicate the results over there.
I can fake it for a few seconds (http://bayimg.com/image/lakhcaaca.jpg) but then the background turns black and I can't refresh it back to transparent.
I am using stylish if that helps. I've got greasemonkey as well but I am not good at doing stuff with that.
Any ideas? I can post the codes I am using but they are a bit ugly.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: yyler on January 29, 2010, 10:08:29 PM
You're going to have to delve into Facebook's javascript or ajax or whatever they use, because it's constantly changing the state of the page even if there is nothing to change. Hang out on Facebook and watch it for a few minutes. Shit pops up at you, numbers change, etc.

Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on January 29, 2010, 10:15:46 PM
Well, there are tons of Facebook skins you can get and they never have a problem (until an update and then only for a short time) so I know it is possible for a skin to stick around.

I'm checking out the other ones and they are so complicated and wordy, but that's for all the other things like font and headers and all that. The background part is just a few lines and I've tinkered with that. I am just not having any lasting luck.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on March 10, 2010, 06:35:03 AM
Does anyone know where I can watch the old SNL Dog Show skit?  With Mr. Bojangles.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Healy on March 23, 2010, 06:12:58 PM
Can anybody give me step-by-step instructions on how to convert mp3s into ogg with Audiciaty or whatever?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on March 23, 2010, 11:42:46 PM
Err... I got an old version of Audacity but there are "Export to WAV/MP3/OGG" options right there in the File menu. The online docs (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/menu_file.html) lead me to believe they're still there.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on March 24, 2010, 05:41:43 AM
There are. I don't think you even need a separate encoder for ogg.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Healy on March 24, 2010, 01:02:19 PM
Thank you. In the future I will try being less dumb.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on March 24, 2010, 02:07:58 PM
Thank you. In the future I will try being less dumb.

Oh, Healy, if only the entire Internet possessed but a fraction of the wisdom contained in this post...
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on March 24, 2010, 02:46:35 PM
Easy for you to say, Canadian.  We Americans have a standard to live around.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on March 24, 2010, 05:17:21 PM
The standard is slipping. You know, pratfalls.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Envy on March 25, 2010, 10:55:29 PM
The standard of having a brainslug?

Also if anyone know's where to find any of the old Vampire the Masquerade pins. It's for a gift. The world of darkness website offers the new requiem though they dont have any of the old stuff anymore.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on March 26, 2010, 09:14:47 AM
I might have a "BITE ME" pin from one of their Gen-Con LARPs. They were given out with the registration packets for you to wear if you wanted to participate. I didn't, because I'm antisocial and filthy even by the standards of Gen Con attendees.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on March 27, 2010, 10:38:59 PM
So is it possible to get an authentic but disarmed Claymore anywhere?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 29, 2010, 07:13:12 AM
You might be able to get a training claymore, which is either a fake, solid plastic replica, or the shell with the guts ripped out and replaced with scraps of metal to simulate the weight. As to where, I really couldn't say. Maybe a surplus store? Unscrupulous soldiers take shit like that fairly often when they ETS. Or you could try one of the companies that sells training aids like replica weapons to police and such, although I don't know if they'd deal with a person as opposed to a government entity.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 01, 2010, 12:58:53 PM
I need information on Netbooks. I've been going through sites checking out all the makes and models, and ACER seems to be the best bet. ACER has a habit of looking good on paper and not running so well from what I've seen though.

Really, anyone who has experience and can just recommend a model flat-out, I can do all the checking. If you know a bit and have a few choices though, I want it mainly for word processing and basic internet browsing, but expect it to become my main computer at some point in the future, so storage space would be nice, and a good processor doubly so.

tl;dr, I need a compy with priorities in this order:

Battery life
Size
Price
Everything else
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on April 01, 2010, 02:08:03 PM
I admit to not being entirely certain of the difference between a "netbook" and merely a "small, low-powered laptop".  I have an Acer Aspire Timeline, one of these (http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-Timeline-AS1810TZ-4013-11-6-Inch/dp/B002PHM3RY), which I've found to be really excellent for word processing, internet, video, and general portability.  It's a lot easier to maneuver than my old huge-ass Dell.

If you're looking for a primary computer, though, you probably don't want a netbook.  You should look for something more powerful.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2010, 02:18:02 PM
You might be able to get a training claymore, which is either a fake, solid plastic replica, or the shell with the guts ripped out and replaced with scraps of metal to simulate the weight. As to where, I really couldn't say. Maybe a surplus store? Unscrupulous soldiers take shit like that fairly often when they ETS. Or you could try one of the companies that sells training aids like replica weapons to police and such, although I don't know if they'd deal with a person as opposed to a government entity.

Oh geez, haha, I thought TA was asking about the sword (de-eged), not the damned landmine.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on April 01, 2010, 06:29:38 PM
Me too. I was confused when Ted mentioned that soldiers swiped them when they were discharged.

Unless he was referring to the Royal Regiment of Scotland!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on April 01, 2010, 06:42:20 PM
how exactly do you disarm a sword
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on April 01, 2010, 07:00:12 PM
Like a showsword, you know?
They aren't really that sharp.

Sword is the first thing I think of when you say 'Claymore'
Basically the only thing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2010, 08:00:58 PM
how exactly do you disarm a sword

What Lottel said: you dull the edge.

Swords for purist SCA and recreationist types exist that are manufactured as closely as possible to originals (sometimes using only archaic smithing methods for the really crazy ones), only the sword is never given a properly sharp edge.

That's not to say you couldn't do some harm with one, but it's more "2x4" harm vs "bisectin' folks" harm.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on April 01, 2010, 08:09:55 PM
I guess the process of blunting a sword is one I would never in a million years use the verb "disarm" to describe.  "Disarmed claymore" seems like it has one really obvious meaning and not really any others.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on April 01, 2010, 08:14:00 PM
I guess it depends on whether or not the other Claymore is a part of your vocabulary that you steadily recognize. I know what it is, but I really have to think or be reminded.
Because, honestly, swords
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on April 03, 2010, 05:04:14 AM
Yeah, if I weren't a soldier myself, (http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/img-author-photo---sean-connery_145.jpg) would have probably been my first thought too.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on April 03, 2010, 05:55:38 AM
I'll take the penis mightier, Alex.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on April 18, 2010, 06:33:26 PM
Bought my dad a TB external harddrive for his birthday. His XP computer's motherboard is seeing it's last days and I'm trying to back everything up. Problem is the built-in back up software doesn't work with XP apparently.
Any (preferably free) back up software I should use for this thing?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on April 23, 2010, 12:35:55 AM
A stack of DVD-Rs and your burning program of choice is the only real way to make sure you get all the data. I have yet to find a "backup program" that gets everything.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 23, 2010, 03:25:44 AM
Oh hey, this thread.

Got two requests, not sure if anyone can help with either:

1) I've been wanting a copy of the original Tetris chiptune tracks from the original gameboy version of the game for years (come on, you guys know which ones). But in all my searches in song-sharing land I've only found half of track #1.

2) I need a couple pictures (hopefully from different angles) of Tweeg's tower from Teddy Ruxpin. Can't find episodes up on YouTube or anything like that (they have the theme, but there's no really decent image of the tower).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on April 23, 2010, 04:19:09 AM
Oh hey, this thread.

Got two requests, not sure if anyone can help with either:

1) I've been wanting a copy of the original Tetris chiptune tracks from the original gameboy version of the game for years (come on, you guys know which ones). But in all my searches in song-sharing land I've only found half of track #1.

Done.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 23, 2010, 05:33:36 AM
Lyrai gets to be player 1.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on April 23, 2010, 05:35:55 AM
I'm mad at you because now I have to wait 8.5 hours to play tetris but I will be hearing it all day long
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on April 23, 2010, 05:36:32 AM
in my mind
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 23, 2010, 05:36:46 AM
D:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 23, 2010, 05:37:09 AM
Mental illness is a terrible thing to waste.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on April 23, 2010, 05:39:59 AM
 :wakka:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on May 02, 2010, 01:08:50 PM
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6301/koalaman.jpg)

I know this is a photoreference and I know I've seen the photo it's referencing but fuck if I can remember where or what it was.  Help me, internet!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Detonator on May 02, 2010, 01:32:36 PM
Here you go (http://firstfriday.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/saddam_gun.jpg)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 02, 2010, 07:32:46 PM
Okay, here's a shot in the dark.

There's a show (I'm pretty sure animated) where in the credits for each episode one of the writers had a nickname that was a small quote from the episode. My sister randomly remembered it the other day, but we couldn't think of what show it was.

Because we both remembered watching every episode of it after figuring this out though, it was probably something we used to have on DVD which would narrow the field to Futurama, Boondocks, Venture Bros. or Arrested Development.

This is all far too vague for google.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on May 02, 2010, 07:44:48 PM
All I can think of is the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror ending credits
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on May 02, 2010, 07:50:28 PM
Maybe they would know over at  what was that one (http://community.livejournal.com/whatwasthatone/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on May 02, 2010, 08:29:14 PM
Venture Brothers does that.  It's not always a quote, I don't think, but it's specific to the episode and frequently is a quote.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on May 02, 2010, 08:41:39 PM
Bought my dad a TB external harddrive for his birthday. His XP computer's motherboard is seeing it's last days and I'm trying to back everything up. Problem is the built-in back up software doesn't work with XP apparently.
Any (preferably free) back up software I should use for this thing?

Whoops, didn't see this until now, but Toucan (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan) is pretty good in my experience.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Detonator on May 02, 2010, 08:45:12 PM
There's a show (I'm pretty sure animated) where in the credits for each episode one of the writers had a nickname that was a small quote from the episode. My sister randomly remembered it the other day, but we couldn't think of what show it was.

Kimson Albert from Venture Bros.  If you check Wikipedia, it will tell you the nickname in each episode's page, under "production notes".
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on May 02, 2010, 11:52:42 PM
Whoops, didn't see this until now, but Toucan (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan) is pretty good in my experience.
Thanks. I'll try it.
Grabbed something. It copied over the C: and that was it. And then only the non-vital files.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on May 04, 2010, 01:26:28 PM
Well, I broke down and bought some videos on iTunes. The rips of Adventure Time weren't good enough quality and when I blow them up fullscreen, they look terrible. (And supporting the show isn't bad.)
Now my problem is fullscreen mode. It takes up one monitor but makes the other one black. Anyone know a way to watch it in fullscreen but leave the other monitor working? Or at least know of a way to play those files in VLC?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on May 17, 2010, 09:20:06 PM
Is there any Greasemonkey or Chrome extension that can be used to eliminate all blog or news posts about Sarah Palin?  I'm not usually big on altering reality, but I think it's the only way I can remain sane.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on June 06, 2010, 07:38:17 PM
This has been driving me crazy: any of you guys remember that guy who invented a crappy tabletop game that was played with your forearms? He tried to submit it to some inventing TV show and they told him it sucked, and he was all sad because he spent years and his life savings on it. His website had a rap about the game. What the hell was the game called?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 06, 2010, 07:51:14 PM
Bulletball.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on June 06, 2010, 08:01:12 PM
That was the most incredibly depressing thing.  I guess developing Bulletball had been the last thing he and his wife were doing before she died and then completing it and making Bulletball a success became his life's goal, as a last monument to her.  And he had to sell his house and car and everything because he would not give up on Bulletball.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on June 06, 2010, 09:47:51 PM
Bulletball.

Thank you! God, that really is so sad. The Bulletball rap is still a thing to behold, though.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Healy on June 06, 2010, 10:04:57 PM
Does anybody have high-quality scans of the newspaper cover and inserts to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on June 07, 2010, 07:04:39 AM
Bulletball Bulletball B-Bulletball

It's...

a b-buh buh

;________;
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 07, 2010, 08:21:13 AM
Can anyone recommend a good, cheap(preferably free) program to copy DVDs?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: NexAdruin on June 07, 2010, 10:08:30 PM
DVD Decrypter?
http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/ (http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on June 09, 2010, 06:19:37 AM
If my screen at work flickers intermittently (maybe every 2 minutes for less than a second) do you think someone is spying on my computer?  Someone told me it was a possibility but there is also a possibility that he is retarded.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 09, 2010, 06:49:00 AM
Let's go with Retarded.

Oh and the problem is either a dying screen, some software failure (least likely), or your screen's refresh rate.

Handy link 1 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Correct-monitor-flicker-refresh-rate)
Handy link 2 (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/video/modesRefresh-c.html)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on June 09, 2010, 07:21:34 AM
Thanks. I hope it breaks so I can get a new laptop for work.  Our 5 year lease is almost up anyway.

I've tried my best to break it so far.  But even drowning it in coke has not helped.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on June 09, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It'll just get really anxious and want to go clubbing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 27, 2010, 10:55:34 AM
Does anyone know...

1. Where I can get mould-making silicone and resin moulding?

2. What kinds of mould-making silicone and resin moulding is good for casting small, detailed parts?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2010, 08:19:37 AM
Say, anybody here willing to receive a package for me?

Might be buying something from a dorkus who'll only ship to the US (trying to browbeat him into shipping to Canada, we'll see). I can PayPal you the cost of re-shipping it up here.

It'd be better if it was one of you living in a northerly state (cheaper to re-ship) and who isn't living on a shoestring (i.e. someone for whom spending $15 or $20 in cash and then getting that back via PayPal is a real problem).

Thaaannnnks.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on June 30, 2010, 10:28:15 AM
It's a trap.
It's either a bomb or something dangerous he is getting sent to you guys to through off suspicion of him or some random embarassing sexual think.  "Donkeys in Cosplay and the Weeboos Who Love Them: Sephiroth Edition" or something
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2010, 11:56:05 AM
Terr'rists!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on June 30, 2010, 02:10:06 PM
Maybe you guys can help me with this.

http://twitter.com/droidlanding (http://twitter.com/droidlanding) is running a contest where they hid 12(maybe more) Droid X phones across the United States and they keep dropping hints as to their locations.

The reason I'm talking about this now is because a few minutes ago it was revealed there is one in my general area. (#7)

I have a theory it's at an Airport here in the Pacific Northwest, but the "#7 will be found in warmer climates" and the "Northeasters: buy your plane tickets"  is really throwing me off.

http://twitter.com/finddroidx (http://twitter.com/finddroidx) / http://finddroidx.wordpress.com/ (http://finddroidx.wordpress.com/) is a "Crowd sourcing" project aimed at collecting the hints and putting together a map, but that's as much help as I've been able to find.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 30, 2010, 02:18:24 PM
Perhaps it's hidden in the dumpster behind a travel agency.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on June 30, 2010, 02:49:12 PM
So after thinking about it, I realized they really can't straight up hide it somewhere. They'd have to have someone they're paying watching it.

The problem is that they can't hide it somewhere that's really obvious, because a random, un-involved passerby would get it. They can't tell employees of wherever it's hidden about it, otherwise they'd take it (Unless they're a Verizon employee.)

For example, they can't really hide it in the airport and not tell anyone because of the whole "Suspicious object" problem. But if they tell people I can almost promise you an employee at the airport would take it, or tell a friend to take it if they're legally ineligible.

So maybe it's just at the Verizon store near the airport and I have to ask for it. :shrug:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2010, 05:44:27 PM
Say, anybody here willing to receive a package for me?

Might be buying something from a dorkus who'll only ship to the US (trying to browbeat him into shipping to Canada, we'll see). I can PayPal you the cost of re-shipping it up here.

It'd be better if it was one of you living in a northerly state (cheaper to re-ship) and who isn't living on a shoestring (i.e. someone for whom spending $15 or $20 in cash and then getting that back via PayPal is a real problem).

Thaaannnnks.

Nobody? Bueller? Bueller?

I'll take a southerner, if no northerners are available... it's not like it'll make more than buck or two's difference.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 30, 2010, 07:00:18 PM
The memory of the Dirty Christmas Delay is still fresh.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2010, 08:46:50 PM
Well, I aisn't asking NIKU.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on June 30, 2010, 08:56:38 PM
I think he's talking about the botched turnaround job that I ended up paying twice for.

But fuck it, it's not fair for me to do all that for one of our Canucky friends and not extend the same level of goodwill towards you.  My only real concern is that I'm not just southern, but in fact on the very ass-end of California.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2010, 09:19:34 PM
Eh, as long as you reship it, I'll pay the whatever. I don't think it'll be a very large box, it's some game figures.

If you're okay with it, PM me your address.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on July 04, 2010, 11:39:26 AM
Anyone know a place I could get a decent free monster movie font? I need it for a project and I'll be damned if I'm doing this freehand.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on July 04, 2010, 12:13:35 PM
eh? (http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on July 04, 2010, 12:51:06 PM
Semi-official Rocky Horror "Double Feature" font. (http://www.rockyhorror.com/downloads/font.php)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on July 04, 2010, 12:59:48 PM
Alright, four-way tie:

Zombie (http://www.dafont.com/zombie.font)

True Crimes (http://www.dafont.com/true-crimes.font)

Danzig (http://www.dafont.com/danzig-4p.font)

Last Man on Earth (http://www.dafont.com/last-man-on-earth.font)

This is for a 60'sish monster movie poster takeoff for a Facebook app. Think I like Last Man on Earth the best of all of 'em.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on July 04, 2010, 01:12:07 PM
No way, man.  Danzig is tops.  Give it an emboss around the edges, angle it going off into the distance and then add some receding lines and it'll be awesome.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on July 04, 2010, 01:14:50 PM
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)

That's totally The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, cheesy 70s gogo-monster shit there.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on July 05, 2010, 03:01:16 AM
Which is, coincidently, to continue from the other thread, the ACTUAL worst movie ever made ever. It is sort of incredible how unwatchable it is.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on July 05, 2010, 04:11:33 AM
Like the climax of the film is the army going in to a dark sewer system in the middle of the night, with the cameraman waiting outside. They soon emerge empty-handed, and it just cuts out.

A narrator comes in and theorizes of whether or not The Incredibly Strange Creature Who Stopped Living And Became A Mixed-UP Zombie had ever actually existed in the first place (it had not apparently).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Rosencrantz on July 05, 2010, 07:01:11 AM
Like the climax of the film is the army going in to a dark sewer system in the middle of the night, with the cameraman waiting outside. They soon emerge empty-handed, and it just cuts out.

A narrator comes in and theorizes of whether or not The Incredibly Strange Creature Who Stopped Living And Became A Mixed-UP Zombie had ever actually existed in the first place (it had not apparently).

Ummm... wasn't that "Monster a Go-Go", not "TISCWSLABAMUZ"?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on July 05, 2010, 08:33:45 AM
PERHAPS

That you can recognize this makes me weep for the time you have clearly spent subjecting yourself to Monster a Go-Go  :(
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on July 05, 2010, 05:27:26 PM
Blambot (http://blambot.com/) is a good source, but note the license (http://blambot.com/license.shtml): fonts are free for nonprofit use OR indy comics, but you need a commercial license for anything else.  (So it'd work for your Facebook app as long as you don't charge for it.  Or, I suppose if the app is some sort of webcomic-y thing, you can charge for it.)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on July 11, 2010, 04:49:11 PM
An episode of old TMNT wherein Shredder and Michelangelo switch bodies, anyone know the title?

Such an episode may be a figment.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Esperath on July 11, 2010, 04:54:16 PM
Cowabunga Shredhead (http://www.tv.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1987/cowabunga-shredhead/episode/70671/summary.html)?

Ninja Turtles cowabunga shredhead (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsdk1)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on July 11, 2010, 05:27:14 PM
Perhaps!  Looks about right.  Thanks!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on July 23, 2010, 07:21:27 PM
Is it possible to transfer a firmware update to a Blu-Ray player if you only have dial-up internet and a netbook without a CD burner?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: teg on July 23, 2010, 07:31:32 PM
USB flash drive?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: teg on July 27, 2010, 09:46:50 AM
Can anyone recommend a wireless alternative to a mouse?

I've decided that when I get an HDTV I'll use my laptop's HDMi-out to turn it into a giant monitor, leave my laptop closed somewhere off to the side, and get a wireless keyboard that I can use anywhere in the apartment. That just leaves a mouse. If it comes down to it I'll use my wireless one, but I'd sooner have something that I can use without having to set it down on a flat surface.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on July 27, 2010, 05:06:12 PM
Apparently you can set it up with a Wiimote if you've got Bluetooth on the thing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on July 28, 2010, 05:52:57 AM
Can anyone recommend a wireless alternative to a mouse?

I've decided that when I get an HDTV I'll use my laptop's HDMi-out to turn it into a giant monitor, leave my laptop closed somewhere off to the side, and get a wireless keyboard that I can use anywhere in the apartment. That just leaves a mouse. If it comes down to it I'll use my wireless one, but I'd sooner have something that I can use without having to set it down on a flat surface.

This (http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Cordless-Optical-Trackman-USB/dp/B00006B9CR/ref=pd_cp_e_3) might be something to look into. Its a wireless trackball.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Niku on July 28, 2010, 04:56:09 PM
Apple just released a magic touch screen or what the fuck ever.  Media centers and the like are probably the one instance where it'd be better than a mouse.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on July 28, 2010, 09:24:26 PM
This (http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Cordless-Optical-Trackman-USB/dp/B00006B9CR/ref=pd_cp_e_3) might be something to look into. Its a wireless trackball.

Own one; use it for my HTPC.  Recommended.

Apparently you can set it up with a Wiimote if you've got Bluetooth on the thing.

Rather counterintuitively, Wii Remote support is piss-poor under Windows compared to Mac or Linux.  In my experience, the Windows 7 Bluetooth stack doesn't recognize the thing half the time, and the most common way of getting it to work if Windows DOES see it is through a scripting program (http://glovepie.org/) with bizarre license terms (http://www.flysim.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=862&sid=7e9ae823eede86c8ab9614ca4309b44f).

It might actually work in this case with WiiuseJ (http://code.google.com/p/wiiusej/) since, IIRC, that will let you use the thing as a mouse right out of the box, but you won't be able to do any button reassignment or anything.

(I really want to create a program that maps buttons to keys/mouse clicks using WiiuseJ, with maybe a nice little XML config file structure, but fuck if I've been able to find that kind of time.)

Course, there's also a hardware issue there; you need a "sensor" bar (which is actually just some IR LED's, as most of you probably know) that doesn't require the Wii to be turned on in order to run.  Can be done with candles, or you can just rewire the thing to use USB.  I bought me a Sensor Bar HD (http://www.videogamebundle.com/sensorbarHD.html) and am pleased with it; I find it's less jerky than the sensor bar that comes with the Wii.  Pity it doesn't have an off switch, but it's not like diodes use a ton of juice or anything.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on July 29, 2010, 12:22:13 PM
Someone tell me if they know if things like these are available in any store:

(http://content.schwans.com/sdcImages/productImages/55358LG.jpg)
http://www.schwans.com/products/productDetail.aspx?id=55358&c1=10433&c2=11493 (http://www.schwans.com/products/productDetail.aspx?id=55358&c1=10433&c2=11493)

I have been craving a bagel dog recently but all my normal go-to places stopped carrying them.

I'll buy them from Schwan's as a last resort but goddamn that's expensive just to get over a bagel dog craving.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 29, 2010, 12:42:29 PM
Have you stalked the frozen sections of B.Js and Walmart?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on July 29, 2010, 12:58:27 PM
Speaking of elusive foods, I have been questing mightily for years to find this stuff:

(http://ilovepeanutbutter.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/1/7/17010004_lg.jpg)

I found it once at my local organics grocery, but it's all but disappeared from shelves. According to the website, it's available all over the USA, especially New York, but I haven't been able to find it or any of its brothers (http://ilovepeanutbutter.com/index.php/peanutbutter/peanut-butter.html) around here.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on July 29, 2010, 01:10:42 PM
Pack of Six jars on amazon for $22. (http://www.amazon.com/Peanut-Butter-Co-Heat-16-Ounce/dp/B001GQ3E32) Spiced Peanut butter? What sort of spices? I have a hard time imagining spicy peanut butter.

Also:
Oh god yes (http://www.amazon.com/Peanut-Butter-Co-Chocolate-Wonderful/dp/B001GQ3E3C/ref=pd_bxgy_gro_img_c) :want:


Have you stalked the frozen sections of B.Js and Walmart?

There's no BJ's wholesales in my state, sadly. And the nearest Walmart is like 30 minutes away. Guess I'll call them and hope the employees aren't to :derp: to know if they have it or not.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Niku on July 29, 2010, 05:20:21 PM
http://www.viennabeef.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=32&DEPARTMENT_ID=25 (http://www.viennabeef.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=32&DEPARTMENT_ID=25)

HAVE ALL THE BAGEL DOGS YOU CAN HANDLE

Do you have any bagel shops around?  We've got a local one that makes absolutely killer bagel dogs with jalapeno sausage, and they're better than any reheated kind you're gonna find anywhere.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Envy on August 01, 2010, 10:13:50 PM
This would be the best place. I'm trying to find a dvd box set of Captain Harlock. My results only turn up what looks to be the later series and not the original 42 episode run.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on August 03, 2010, 01:54:05 PM
So, I've got a .mkv video file, video encoded in x264.  I want to append a couple minutes of blackness to the front of it, then merge in an audio file.  What's a good program for doing this, ideally that doesn't involve having to recompress or convert it?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: teg on August 04, 2010, 07:00:53 AM
What are some good (preferably free) audio and video converters?
Specifically, I want to make some FLAC files iPod-compatible and some MKV files PS3-compatible.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on August 04, 2010, 03:02:35 PM
If you want to make something iPod compatible, Handbrake is probably your best bet.  It's pretty limited in output, but aimed for taking things in good formats and turning them into things Apple products can ready.  PS3, dunno.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: SCD on August 04, 2010, 05:23:44 PM
Here's one for those who have a tablet (JDigital, R^2 I'm looking at you).  I have had a toshiba M750 for a few months with the fullest of love.  It's a tablet laptop, with a swivel screen, and a pretty swanky stylus that has an eraser top, a side button and the pencil end. 

So far, the only love I'm getting for sketching application (by love, I mean auto-recognition of the stylus) is microsoft OneNote 2007. 

Is there any drawing or sketching programs that are better and you would recommend?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on August 04, 2010, 06:10:39 PM
Let me direct your attention to OpenCanvas. (http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: teg on August 04, 2010, 06:41:54 PM
Corel Painter is a classic.


Allow me to add to my earlier request: mkv to something else. avi or mpeg would probably be best.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: teg on August 05, 2010, 03:11:53 PM
Does half.com ship to Canada? It's (surprisingly) not mentioned anywhere on their site.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on September 10, 2010, 07:47:23 PM
I'm looking for a particular piece of art. It's got a guy about to smash a suspicious-looking lump in the carpet with a chair. You couldn't miss it. It sort of looks like this:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/whatever/idunno.gif)

I know there's a lamp and a dresser in it, and the lighting is all dramatic and stuff. It's black and white.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on September 25, 2010, 01:36:22 PM
I am using these boards to ask for financial advice.  We are now officially old and boring.

Does anybody know if paying off all credit cards in full every week hurts your credit score?  Apparently debt that gets charged up and paid off within the month doesn't get hit with interest (what) or reported, so it ends up looking like you're not even using the damn things.  TRUE/FALSE?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on September 25, 2010, 01:42:42 PM
I was told by my bank that I should charge it, get billed and than pay it off. That's pretty much how you have to do it. If you don't wait until you're billed it might not get properly reported?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on September 25, 2010, 02:21:33 PM
SCD, perhaps you are mistaking me for that other boards-comics-drawing chap, one Disposable C. O'Ninja. My computer hardware is shit, my drawing tool is a mouse, and only recently did I move away from doing comics in MSPaint.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on September 25, 2010, 02:23:41 PM
Yeah, you can pay it before interest is due and it should show up as you using credit just fine. So if you ring up something, just pay for it about three weeks later or so and you'll be fine.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on September 26, 2010, 10:15:44 AM
Does anybody know if paying off all credit cards in full every week hurts your credit score?  Apparently debt that gets charged up and paid off within the month doesn't get hit with interest (what) or reported, so it ends up looking like you're not even using the damn things.  TRUE/FALSE?

I don't do it as often as every week, but probably every other week, and when I had them turn on my power a year ago, they told me there was no need for a deposit because my credit is excellent.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 09, 2010, 12:59:01 PM
Question for the vets here (or anyone who has a good answer for that matter).

Okay, this is probably a stupid question, but I've been searching on and off for days.

I'm trying to find out more about the history of pre-industrial military logistics. What was carried, how it was packed, what types of were issued for shorter terms (where more perishable items could be made available) and longer term (where preservation becomes crucial), etc. etc. As for time period, anything from the Napoleonic Wars/war of 1812, endless small and medium wars of the 18th century, War of Independence (though a lot of the Colonial support was purely local), Pike & Shot era, or even the late medieval period would be nice (part of what I'm ignorant about is just how much military supply has changed from say, 1350 to 1850).

Ideally, I'd love to find some detailed primary source manifests/quartermaster lists/whatever, with data from at least two distinct time periods. But at this point I'll take what I can get.

There's some modern information online from WWII, Korea/Vietnam, and more recent wars (the majority of info is about post-1990 logistics & supply), but I can't find anything older. Maybe I just haven't hit the right search term yet, but I haven't found much worth a damn. I know this has little to do with modern regular service (and I doubt any of you actually know the information I'm looking for), but I was wondering if one of the surprisingly large number of vets we have here know a military source I could start looking at. Anything really - just something to give me a starting point.

I imagine I'll actually have to go out and hunt up primary sources at major libraries/Fort York downtown or something, but I thought I'd take a stab in the dark here first as a last-ditch attempt to find online resources.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 09, 2010, 01:15:49 PM
Not an expert, but I think for the time period/region you're looking at they basically dealt with it by avoiding field engagements altogether.  Almost every old battlefield in Europe was somewhere near a village that the victor could harrass for food and lodging.  That's why we have the third amendment - that shit kind of got out of hand after a while.

Napoleon's success was at least partly due to his ability to go further out and/or to places other armies couldn't.  Another testament to the power of a nice set of cans.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 09, 2010, 01:25:44 PM
I know that for the most part foraging is important, but large organized armies going back to Classical times had some form of supply trains and logistical support.

Hmmm... Classical and early medieval sources would be okay too come to think of it. I actually suspect you wouldn't see huge changes between Classical times and the pre-Napoleonic era (assuming an army large enough to require logistical support), with things picking up after 1800 or so, but I really can't say that for sure until I actually do real research.

One feature of pre-modern armies that I know has changed is the massive contingent of camp followers that followed large armies around for thousands of years to sell them things and supplies. After all, individual soldiers have often been almost entirely responsible for their own support and supply. But this has varied enough times in history that there ought to be some form of organized supply for any of the time periods I want to look at.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 06, 2011, 06:52:11 PM
Years back, before the days of Youtube, I remember watching a web series about zombies who were not only sentient but just as cogent as any human. It was mainly a comedy with I think a side of attempted horror. The main setting may or may not be a coffee shop. It's probably actually completely unwatchable but damn it I remember it fondly, if in poor detail.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on April 09, 2011, 07:46:01 PM
Zombie College maybe?

Zombie College is pretty unwatchable, despite being written by the dude who made the best Futurama episode to date: A Bicyclops Built for Two
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on July 15, 2011, 08:50:08 PM
Where's the option to change the password on my Steam account?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on July 15, 2011, 09:24:22 PM
Steam/Settings menu, Account tab, "Change password or secret question..." button. Does it not show up?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Dooly on July 15, 2011, 09:46:56 PM
I was digging around the "<username>'s Account" section in the client and the website.  I'm all set now.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on July 18, 2011, 10:09:36 AM
When I worked at a restaurant and had to sharpen a knife, I'd get handed this big brick of volcanic rock that you soak in water. Then you'd rub the flat of the blade across it and your knife would end up sharp enough to cut daylight.

Where can I get one of these stones?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on July 18, 2011, 12:21:47 PM
Try sports and outdoors supply stores. A place with a giant rack of hunting and pocket knives probably has a good supply of wet or oiled sharpening stones.  You can try a culinary outlet if you feel like paying about double the price.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 13, 2011, 03:16:02 PM
Recommendations on a simple video editing software, usable on the basic formats (mpg, avi, etc.)?

All I really need it to do is horizontal mirror the entire video file. No changes to the sound are needed.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: JDigital on August 13, 2011, 05:59:33 PM
If you just need to mirror it and not upload the resulting video anywhere, VLC will let you enable a video flip filter. Hit CTRL+E, go to Video Effects -> Basic -> Transform -> Flip Horizontally.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 13, 2011, 07:55:57 PM
Keen beans. That might do for now.

I still wouldn't mind actual software that changes the file though.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 13, 2011, 10:59:04 PM
My answer is always the same:

The King Downloads Sony Vegas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM2b5cfeZo#)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: JDigital on August 13, 2011, 11:03:55 PM
VirtualDub will do that and output the result to AVI.

Windows Live Movie Maker (free) will also do that, and output the result to WMV.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on August 14, 2011, 09:06:17 AM
VirtualDub is real finicky about codecs it'll read and write to, though.

Adobe Premiere will do it but that is a big, complicated, and (technically) expensive thing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Demogοrgon on August 14, 2011, 09:46:53 AM
ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org/) -i in.avi -vf "hflip" out.avi
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on August 19, 2011, 02:01:13 AM
Back when I was in high school, I played a demo of a computer game. I could play the full version 3 times, before I had to buy it. Having no source of income, I never was able to buy it. I remember having a really,r eally fun time with it, though.

I remember vague details about it: It was a space game. You were in space, you had to..I think take more planets than your opponent. THe logo of the game featured an Earth with a cowboy hat, and on bootup, it'd go "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHA!" or something like that. To defeat other dudes, you'd build stacks of ships, and when encountering, it'd line them all up, 4-5 on each side, and they'd take turns until one side died.

I remember COMPLETELY BREAKING THE GAME when I managed to get Biological Ships, which I think looked like giant squid. They were weak, but cost a very small fraction of what the other ships cost, so I just made a huge mob of them and killed everything.

Anyone know what game I'm talking about?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on August 19, 2011, 02:42:28 AM
Is it possible you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho)?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 21, 2011, 10:29:23 AM
Suuuuuuuuuuuper NERD! time, hoping maybe Max, Ziro, or someone else can help.

Trying to find a twin/companion for this figure (http://www.coolminiornot.com/167091), a games day promo, readily available in the early 2000's

I want to see if I can find some older Warhammer minis, specifically ones from the late 90's or early 00's that will match. The stock heroes/singles/commanders maybe.

Anyway, the Warhammer nerds I know tell me that the usual resources consulted for older figures are Solegends and CcmWiki, but neither have any of the High Elves from the early 2000's or late 90's. Do any of you have older catalogues or alternate resources? Or ideas even?

Newer/current stuff is no good. Apparently they changed the scale of the newer models so they're more like 35-40mm. I already got screwed when I picked up a newer figure that looked similar (Fuck you GW!).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Spram on August 25, 2011, 07:08:31 PM
(http://i53.tinypic.com/1z192ms.jpg)

This is a stock image.
I love that girl.

More of her. Hahah, that's not gonna happen. :(
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on August 25, 2011, 07:20:47 PM
Is it possible you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho)?

YES.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 03, 2011, 06:05:30 PM
Does anyone happen to have a Game Boy Player disc and/or a Gamecube component cable?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on September 03, 2011, 11:07:56 PM
If memory serves, you can get a Gamecube component cable used from Gamestops that still have them in stock for a song.

$5 it would seem! http://www.gamestop.com/browse/storesearch.aspx?sku=900572&CCTest=1 (http://www.gamestop.com/browse/storesearch.aspx?sku=900572&CCTest=1)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 04, 2011, 03:46:13 AM
Yeah, none of the stores within a 100 mile radius have them. :/
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on September 04, 2011, 07:08:24 PM
A store near me does. Next time I'm in the area I'll check it out.

You might check Monoprice as well. They had their own brand of Wii cables there for hella cheap, perhaps they've got some older junk?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 04, 2011, 07:12:04 PM
I checked Monoprice, no such luck.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Bongo Bill on September 12, 2011, 04:49:27 AM
The Outer Heaven management wishes to offer a substantial bounty to anyone capable of providing a digital copy of this film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_II_%281990_film%29). nevermind Smiler found it already
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: patito on September 12, 2011, 08:54:36 AM
Oh my god, I've been wanting to watch that for a million years.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on September 12, 2011, 09:29:23 AM
Lost forever to obscurity, I'm afraid~
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on September 12, 2011, 09:30:59 AM
Wait a s...

Quote
Terminator II (also known as Shocking Dark, Alienators and Contaminator) is a

 :oic:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Envy on September 13, 2011, 10:19:02 PM
 I doubt anyone would be able to find anything, but this was back in the mid 90s around 95 or 96. Seeing if anyone knows where I can find some old footage of Twitch. It was a video game review show maybe even the first? I remember it from like a short minute or so from a old vhs I found in a pile. It was like a young X-Play.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on October 24, 2011, 08:15:34 PM
Does anybody live near these guys (http://www.potomacdist.com)?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on October 24, 2011, 08:19:42 PM
I have a friend near there why
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on October 24, 2011, 08:26:07 PM
I want to buy a package of these (http://www.potomacdist.com/detail.asp?itemid=kmcscdpb), but shipping to Canada is $25. Whereas the real cost of stuffing them in an envelope and sending it via USPS is probably around $5-10.

EDIT with further explanation: The same quantity of sleeves are like $50+ everywhere else I look.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Caithness on October 25, 2011, 06:41:03 AM
If "Potomac Distribution" means what I think it does, I live near them.

Ah yes, their phone number has a 703 area code. That means they're in Virginia.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on November 04, 2011, 11:04:04 AM
Dudes and Dames:

I am looking to get a drawing tablet laptopy thingy in the coming month. Ideally it can run Photoshop but I guessss that's not a huge deal so long as I can export it in a format I could edit in Photoshop on another computer.

Anyone happen to have an opinion on these?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on November 04, 2011, 11:10:48 AM
What's your price range? I may have some relevant knowledge in this area.

The Asus EP121 is basically a Wacom drawing tablet spliced with a mid-range PC, so it fits the bill but it's kind of pricy. (http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Slate-EP121-1A010M-12-1-Inch-Tablet/dp/B004HKIIFI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320433856&sr=8-1) I mean, shit, this thing can run Starcraft 2 it's so powerful.

Another one I can suggest is the "HP Touchsmart TM2". The one with the i3 Processor. (http://www.sophiesystems.com/hp-touchsmart-tm2-2100-tm2-2150us-xg892uar-12-1-led-tablet-pc---refurbished---core-i3-i3-380um-1-33ghz---brushed-aluminum.aspx) However that looks like it's harder to find.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 04, 2011, 12:53:15 PM
Was looking at the Slate/EP121 a few months ago.  It's definitely not, like, a gaming laptop but it's good for everything short of that.

Consensus is that for drawing, no, obviously it doesn't replace an actual professional-grade Wacom, but it's fairly competent for drawing on if you want a screen to doodle over and can't justify buying a Cintiq.

Price is high for a tablet or even a notebook but fairly cheap for a drawing tablet, being only slightly more expensive than the lowest end touchscreen-Wacom and of course, you get a fairly competent tablet and/or ultraportable notebook out of the deal too (it even comes with the kb/dock which is super nice).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on November 07, 2011, 09:13:59 AM
Sweet jimminy christmas that EP121 is sexy as hell.

Having a hard time justifying a thousand-dollar purchase that is not a nice couch, but by the looks of it Brentai's right about this being cheap for a Wacom tablet. Suppose Photoshop is heavy enough that you do need it to be a PC of sorts as well.

The Touchsmart's an option, but I absolutely loathe how they run their business. I guess it's expected that their software is fucking terrible but I'd just hate to be stuck with an operating system I couldn't purge them from. Really would not like to give HP any of my money.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on November 07, 2011, 09:44:25 AM
Okay, so it's not really helpful, but another option would be the Samsung Slate which has a Core i5 in a Windows 7 Tablet. (http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE700T1A-A01US-11-6-Inch-Slate-Win/dp/B005OUQ9JC) Same price as the EP121. But it's about 1.5x more powerful. The 128GB Model has extra features for $500 more. But again, this is all just for your info of what W7 tablets can do these days.

I'll get back to you shortly with something that'll be better at solving your problem
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 07, 2011, 10:06:07 AM
I haven't really seen many other options that include a pressure-sensitive touchscreen.  There might be some odd Android tabs out with it but art programs are generally terrible on Android (probably because artists hate the idea of sharing a device with engineers).

Also if your couch is a thousand USD it had better be a power reclining sectional or something.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on November 07, 2011, 10:14:46 AM
Yeah, I own an Asus Transformer but I really can't suggest it for your purposes. Solid for anyone looking for an average tablet at a good price, however. (And it'll drop soon due to the new transformer coming around, as well)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on November 07, 2011, 10:18:05 AM
I'm taking a look at this Photoshop Touch (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-touch.html) app thing they announced earlier this month for the Android. It looked like it might do the trick for letting me sketch something on the tablet, then export it to PDF and touch it up on a desktop. Android tablets are like 200-500 tops, which would be nice.

Unfortunately, looks like you can only export images to THE ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD™ and you need to pay a monthly fee for that (which will ratchet up the cost of doing such a thing for a year or so well into Might As Well Get The EP121 territory). Plus, well, yes, the touch screen on the Android is not really built for that. It's not pressure-sensitive or generally thin and responsive enough to be sketching on.

It feels like there should be some older and cheaper Wacomish thing that can just run Photoshop without being a piece of shit, but I guess tablets are only now really starting to get interesting.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on November 07, 2011, 10:20:43 AM
Also if you haven't sat on a thousand dollar couch you have not yet truly Taken A Load Off

They conform perfectly to your cheeks, melt you into the fabric until you and your couch are but one.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on November 07, 2011, 10:30:01 AM
DEATH COUCH

THE COUCH THAT EATS
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 07, 2011, 10:42:44 AM
DEATH COUCH

THE COUCH THAT HUNGERS
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 07, 2011, 11:16:18 AM
I've sat on pretty much every couch.  I almost paid $4000 for a custom full-leather, but when you get right down to it the returns on a couch are pretty diminishing.  A $4000 couch is inarguably more comfortable than a $700 one, but only like... a hundred dollars more comfortable, not $3300.

Where were we?  Oh right, basically your conundrum I that pressure-sensitive pads that are also screens are inherently pretty expensive, so unless you can really invest in something like that I'd say learn to appreciate a nice Bamboo.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on November 07, 2011, 12:04:20 PM
Brentai's ass demands tasteful and refined couches.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 07, 2011, 02:32:46 PM
What about Kazz's Ass?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 07, 2011, 04:14:37 PM
As you guys type this, I am sitting on a couch my grandmother paid $200 for new. I think my butt is sad now.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on November 07, 2011, 04:32:38 PM
#Firstworldproblems
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on November 07, 2011, 04:39:42 PM
My butt didn't know what it was missing! Now all I can think about is "This seat can be $3,800 more comfortable!"
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on November 08, 2011, 12:03:37 AM
Mothra:

Another one. Might be what you're looking for. This is just a reference page, not a shopping page. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220713) Might be hard to find but I see a few on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/T101MT-EU17-BK-10-1-Inch-Convertible-Tablet-Netbook/dp/B003D1DZBY).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on November 08, 2011, 12:10:05 AM
What about Kazz's Ass?

(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6296/defaultgvj.jpg)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 16, 2011, 10:46:06 AM
Anybody know anybody who's willing to rent a room in or buy a brand new (built this September) mobile home in San Juan Capistrano, OC, California?  My parents are moving and need to either sell it off or cover their mortgage.  Their awkward position means rates/prices are probably pretty reasonable (for OC).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on December 06, 2011, 08:08:05 PM
Ended up caving and getting the EP121 for the full GRAND. I have not dropped that caliber of cabbage on anything since I had to get my front axle fixed but holy fuck guys

this tablet

no regrets
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on December 06, 2011, 08:14:01 PM
I'm going to get my mom one of these balla custom bamboo-wood iPhone cases (http://www.signicase.com/) for Christmas. She's into nature and loons and such, and I've found a few decent pictures to adorn the back, but I'm wondering if anyone has any images saved somewhere that might look good on one of these.

It can only do one color - black - so anything silhouetted or easily-made-silhouetted-with-photoshop's-color-overlay would be what I'm looking for. Right now I've got this:

(http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/9222/mom04.png)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on December 06, 2011, 08:49:58 PM
Honestly, I'd say you're set.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on December 06, 2011, 08:59:15 PM
Yeah, that looks pretty sweet as it is.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on December 06, 2011, 09:18:37 PM
Forgot the link in the last post - http://www.signicase.com/ (http://www.signicase.com/)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on December 06, 2011, 09:36:51 PM
Damnit Kabbage I'm trying to resist dropping my rapidly decreasing holiday fund on that tab as is.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on December 07, 2011, 10:42:50 AM
It is just rad as hell, Brentai
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on December 07, 2011, 10:52:00 AM
The minimal keyboard input takes some getting used to, though it comes with a wireless one if you want to set up the tablet like a monitor and completely defeat the purpose of having a tablet PC.

Also: Going to keep the amount of clutter to a minimum, but I think I might try Civ 5 and see how it works with a tablet pen. Older DOS games like X-Com are still kinda iffy with the touchscreen. Might try Master of Orion 2.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on December 08, 2011, 01:53:48 PM
Question for the Canadians who buy console games.

I have not bought any of these in years and my brother wants some PS3 games for Christmas. Who generally has the best prices? EB? WalMart? Google is not really helpful here, nor is RedFlagDeals.

Also, what's the deal with buying used PS3 games these days (I have not followed all the right-of-first-sale activation code stuff, so I dunno if there's a problem with buying used?)?  The main thing he wants is the Uncharted trilogy, I think.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on December 08, 2011, 02:25:12 PM
Uncharted 3 has the online pass bullshit that you'll need to pay $10 for on the PSN if you buy it used. It comes free in new copies.

U1 and U2 should be fine buying used.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on December 08, 2011, 02:34:34 PM
EB's good. Their prices are reasonable. If you have any old games lying around and want to trade them in, they'll be accomodating (within reason, I mean. Don't come in with a floppy-disk copy of King's Quest V and expect to get back money that can be measured in dollars).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on December 08, 2011, 03:03:10 PM
Amazon's my go-to (for pretty much everything) here in the States, and I can't imagine them running business much differently in .ca.  Looks like your base price is about five funbux more for #3, but that in USD is what I usually consider an acceptable extra cost to get it from Az direct.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on December 08, 2011, 05:05:04 PM
Uncharted 3 has the online pass bullshit that you'll need to pay $10 for on the PSN if you buy it used. It comes free in new copies.

U1 and U2 should be fine buying used.

This is good, because I was probably going to see if I could buy U1 and U2 used and get U3 new (since it's fairly recent).

Sadly, Amazon is useless in Canada.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Smiler on January 04, 2012, 03:59:10 PM
I'm trying to sell a sealed copy of Assassin's Creed Revelations for the PS3 for 30 bucks. Would anyone be interested or know someone who would be?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on February 06, 2012, 03:34:29 AM
Dear Internets:

Geneon Entertainment, which licensed many good anime, and many bad anime, went belly up, taking their anime with them.

This has made finding a box set of Fate/Stay Night rather butt-frustratingly hard.

A) Anyone selling theirs?
B) Anyone have a Hastings or any other store that has a remarkable propensity to have sealed old stuff on their shelves in their area they wouldn't mind sticking their head in and seeing if they have one?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 09, 2012, 07:52:53 PM
So, the DVD release of Mysterious Cities of Gold. I assume one of you has it, or has had it pass by you. Does it have a subtitled version on those disks?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on February 09, 2012, 08:43:13 PM
From which language?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 09, 2012, 09:03:33 PM
Japanese plz. Gotta weeaboo it up.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on February 09, 2012, 09:27:57 PM
Man, no one ever wants to fromagaboo it up. :sadpanda:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 09, 2012, 10:05:35 PM
Only if it's Wakfu.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on February 09, 2012, 10:33:01 PM
Which is basically French artists being huge weeaboos.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on February 09, 2012, 10:46:51 PM
Man, no one ever wants to fromagaboo it up. :sadpanda:

Well I actually asked because I prefer the European version.  In English though.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 09, 2012, 11:10:39 PM
Dunno which version I'm watching through netflix, but the sound has a lot of noise* in it and Esteban sounds like Fivel. Also water apparently has somnolent properties in this version.

EDIT:
*Signal noise, it's got a lot of background recording hiss. Not overuse of ambient sounds or something quite so trite.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on February 10, 2012, 06:49:00 AM
Man, no one ever wants to ouiaboux it up. :sadpanda:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on February 10, 2012, 11:05:46 PM
Anyone know of some glorious, catch-all repository that lists all anime available to stream and on what site it's available? Something like canistream.it (http://www.canistream.it/), but with anime episodes specifically.

I usually prefer to catch things legally before I resort to being the dirty, bloody pirate I truly am, but between hulu, netflix, anime news network, crackle, crunchyroll, funimation blah blah, and all their varying levels of subscriber exclusivity, hunting things down can be a pain.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on February 15, 2012, 12:43:12 PM
Alright... back when I was in the hospital, my uncle's 90-year-old aunt sent me the quinessential Hang In There!! cat get-well card. It was very nice of her, and now that I'm better, I was going to send her one back.

I bought a card with nothing but this picture, and have covered up the existing text:

(http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3226/kitteninfrogcostume.jpg)

I need CAT FROG puns people! I am STUMPED
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 15, 2012, 12:56:47 PM
Is it cool to evoke racial slurs against French People?
Le Chat Noir. That's french  and famous or something. And that little kitten's got a little black fur.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Caithness on February 15, 2012, 01:41:12 PM
"You'll be happy to know that I've bounced back."
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 15, 2012, 01:50:10 PM
"You'll be hoppy to know that I've bounced back."
Cheese is king.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on February 15, 2012, 01:59:11 PM
"In the hospital, all cats are green"
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on February 15, 2012, 02:09:28 PM
"You'll be happy to know that I've bounced back."

(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/793/notbadz.png)

Cait you have my thanks
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Defenestration on February 15, 2012, 02:21:46 PM
Why would you buy a card and not have pun already in mind? I find it hard to believe there is not all sorts of cat cards littering any one greeting card aisle. The frog part makes it a bit hard.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on February 15, 2012, 02:24:48 PM
Why would you buy a card and not have pun already in mind? I find it hard to believe there is not all sorts of cat cards littering any one greeting card aisle. The frog part makes it a bit better.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on February 15, 2012, 03:13:14 PM
Man cards to the elderly are not the kind of thing you really hammer out on the conceptual level before moving forward. You find a card with a picture of a kitten in a frog costume on it, you buy the card and you work out the formality of accompanying text later.

The meat and potatoes of this thing is going to be a written letter I'll fold up and put in card itself, basically giving her the rundown of how things are going and what I'm thinking and where I'm considering going, because that's the kind of thing you kind of hope you'll get when you're old and you get a piece of mail from someone you sort of know.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 15, 2012, 03:31:22 PM
If your grammy likes muppets:
"This is Kitten the Frog reporting!"
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on February 15, 2012, 06:19:36 PM
I need CAT FROG puns people! I am STUMPED

Paging Dr. Lottel. Paging Dr. Lottel.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on February 15, 2012, 06:34:17 PM
Ok. Fine.  Use bounce back and say "you'll be hoppy to know" or something.

I'M GOING BACK TO BED.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on February 17, 2012, 12:00:26 PM
I was thinking of doing this but I kind of like the simplicity of the one stoic jump joke. I think if I leave it as it, it doesn't blow its load before she reaches the end of the card.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on February 17, 2012, 12:30:31 PM
GOOD. That's exactly what I told Kayma!
It's wonderful and Caithness is a cool guy~
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on March 03, 2012, 12:37:27 PM
So I'm frapsing some game stuff, converting to .mp4, and linking to people.  But there's a problem with my process!  Fraps severs the video when it gets to 4gb and starts a new file, so I end up with a bunch of big, short videos that I need to stitch together into one thing.  What I'm doing now is appending them all together in VirtualDub, saving one giant 50gb AVI, and then converting that with Handbrake into a more manageable format.  There's got to be a better way!  What is that way?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Smiler on March 03, 2012, 03:45:37 PM
I hope you are using .avs scripts to combine the files, because if you are encoding a video twice, that is bad.

Basically you want avisynth to make a script that strings all of them together, and then encode from that with something like megui.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on March 11, 2012, 07:27:05 PM
Reposting my request for people who don't read the comics thread.

I am thinking of pulling the trigger on some very hard-to-find old Moebius books which would complete my collection, but the only place they are available is Amazon and Amazon seriously has to be the worst fucking site in the world for internet commerce (nobody ever offers international shipping, the few who do have exorbitant rates, and inventories are actually completely segregated by nation - no US seller or their wares appears on Amazon.ca, etc.).

Can someone receive and re-mail three books for me?


Doubleplusgood if you're comfortable fudging customs forms with something like "used magazines $25". Rather not pay $40 import duties on three beat-up old comics, rare as they might be.

Don't feel super-obligated if this is too much trouble - I have a few other folks I can ask elsewhere.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on March 27, 2012, 03:44:37 PM
Uhm, an awkward question. How do you go about getting a non-responsive site creator to take down your name & content? Anything short of paying a lawyer? And would that even that do anything?

Issue is some guy decided to use my Candy in the Van picture for a comedy article on some hipster art-and-articles site a few years back. Only he's such a bad writer that it sounds like the timecube guy wrote it (I guess if you write something so shittily incoherent only you find it funny, it'll always stay indie!). Worse, now when you search my name in google it looks like I'm attached to some crazy rambling defense of NAMBLA.

I have already sent emails asking nicely but there's no reply (tellingly, there's no site admin or individual member contact - only a submissions email address).

Sooooo, because I would like to be able to, you know, ever pass a pre-interview screening anywhere ever again, I want the guy to just take my damn name down (hell he could even keep the picture if it game down to it, so long as my name didn't come up on the google results).

I mean, it at least links to my actual source page, so anyone who find it via Google can in fact link to the source and see with about thirty seconds reading that the picture is harmless. But it doesn't look like that when the Google search hits your eyes and I can't count on random people I've never met to be that diligent. This is not something I really want to take chances with. Nor do I want to wait around until it actually bites me on the ass to deal with it.

Sure, maybe no one here has any answers, but I figured I'd ask, just 'cause I really don't know what to do or try next.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on March 27, 2012, 05:37:07 PM
Dunno how important this is to you in a monetary sense, but there are services out there that specialize in scrubbing reputation-damaging shit off the internet.  It's assumed that they have Ways of doing this, or else you can just demand your money back.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on March 27, 2012, 05:38:42 PM
Uhm, an awkward question. How do you go about getting a non-responsive site creator to take down your name & content? Anything short of paying a lawyer? And would that even that do anything?

Issue is some guy decided to use my Candy in the Van picture for a comedy article on some hipster art-and-articles site a few years back. Only he's such a bad writer that it sounds like the timecube guy wrote it (I guess if you write something so shittily incoherent only you find it funny, it'll always stay indie!). Worse, now when you search my name in google it looks like I'm attached to some crazy rambling defense of NAMBLA.

I have already sent emails asking nicely but there's no reply (tellingly, there's no site admin or individual member contact - only a submissions email address).

Sooooo, because I would like to be able to, you know, ever pass a pre-interview screening anywhere ever again, I want the guy to just take my damn name down (hell he could even keep the picture if it game down to it, so long as my name didn't come up on the google results).

I mean, it at least links to my actual source page, so anyone who find it via Google can in fact link to the source and see with about thirty seconds reading that the picture is harmless. But it doesn't look like that when the Google search hits your eyes and I can't count on random people I've never met to be that diligent. This is not something I really want to take chances with. Nor do I want to wait around until it actually bites me on the ass to deal with it.

Sure, maybe no one here has any answers, but I figured I'd ask, just 'cause I really don't know what to do or try next.

The threat of legal action may be enough. See if a lawyer-y friend can draft up a "Take this down or we'll find a lawyer and sue you" in a professional enough sense to rustle this guy's jimmies.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on March 27, 2012, 06:01:03 PM
Sadly, while I know probably know over a dozen lawyers, they're all... lawyers. So no pro bono stuff.

I feel like the bigger issue here is getting valid contact information for the site admin or owner, regardless of whether it's me or a lawyer talking to them. If anyone was wondering, the site is http://www.madatoms.com (http://www.madatoms.com)

EDIT: Aw FUCK ME. Now that site is the TOP HIT for my name on Google. 
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on March 27, 2012, 06:07:23 PM
"These people are using my intellectual property without my permission" sent to Google might get the site un-indexed, which would fix the important half of the problem.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on March 27, 2012, 06:08:39 PM
Now there's a thought. Not something to try just yet, but if nothing else, I can try that route if I don't get any reply elsewhere.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on March 27, 2012, 07:24:53 PM
I just went to http://www.ipaddressreport.com/ (http://www.ipaddressreport.com/) to check it out.

The www.madatoms.com (http://www.madatoms.com) report:

IP Address:   98.129.110.93
Hostname:   no reverse DNS for this IP

More info about this host
Country:   United States
IP address owner:    USR Content Inc
9725 Datapoint
San Antonio
TX 78225
US

hope that helps!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on March 27, 2012, 07:41:20 PM
Not really, that's the same I came up with. No real contact info for an admin and google searches only bring up that site.

Trying to hunt down the DeviantArt solicitor first, see if I get anywhere like that.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on March 29, 2012, 07:18:08 AM
Whois just says it's GoDaddy.

Which may actually be good enough -- if you send GoDaddy a DMCA takedown request they may comply.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2012, 09:20:13 PM
So I still haven't gotten a reply. Looks like I'm going to have to try the DMCA takedown route

So GoDaddy has a specific set of instructions for takedown notices: http://www.godaddy.com/Agreements/ShowDoc.aspx?se=%2B&pageid=TRADMARK_COPY (http://www.godaddy.com/Agreements/ShowDoc.aspx?se=%2B&pageid=TRADMARK_COPY) Specifically, under section B, articles i-vi.

I now have three problems to work out before I can get to the next step:

1) What the hell constitutes an acceptable electronic signature in this case?
2) *I* have to provide valid contact information? If I had that, I wouldn't be in this boat! Regular infringers don't bloody well post their legit contact information up! Is this just some kind of dodge to get people to give up? I doubt label lawyers have to provide valid contact information...
3) It does not seem clear if I can get my name removed. Which is of course the most important part.

Anyway, Google doesn't seem much help there and I doubt calling GoDaddy's general customer service will get me anything besides DURR HURRRRR WHAT. Anybody have any speculation (or even potentially legit answers) on any of the above questions?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on April 01, 2012, 09:46:12 PM
I honestly think the best thing you can do is call someone. Like, a real honest person and get some real answers. We can guess all we want about what you should do or what people you talk to will say, but at the end of the day you need to get on the phone and talk to someone until you get an answer.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2012, 09:52:45 PM
I would love to do that. That would be fucking perfect. That would be infinitely superior to dicking around like a flailing retard with DMCA notices. And I would give you at LEAST 75% odds that actually talking to someone would be enough.

But as mentioned in a previous post, not only is there no valid contact information for this website (which actually used to be owned by Fox Atomic, as it turns out. No idea who owns it now!). They originally contacted me through a DeviantArt account they no longer check (the date activity stops coincides roughly with the 2009 shutdown of Fox Atomic and the layoff of 6 employees there). It's clearly still in operation (the site itself updated on the 30th), but I don't even have a name for an admin, headline content guy, editor, or anyone.

EDIT: FWIW, I am still trying to find contact information. After an hour's worth of searching earlier, I discovered a woman who said she'd actually be hired as an illustrator last June. I'm trying to see if she has any valid information.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on April 01, 2012, 10:03:01 PM
No but I mean, even if you have to call godaddy and pull out the big guns (threaten to have your lawyer contact them (even if you don't have a lawyer)) you should get someone on the phone.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on April 01, 2012, 10:06:11 PM
Alternatively, why don't you just log onto twitter and then tweet, "Why are you stealing my shit?" at @madatoms? Hell, go on reddit and start a post about how they're stealing your shit.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2012, 10:10:34 PM
I thought about registering for Twitter to do just that (I don't have an account right now), but that guy doesn't seem to use it for actual conversations, just to list site updates.

And the GoDaddy things is separate. That's not a situation where a phone call will fix things. Their legal dept has specifically laid out that page as the requirement for takedowns and there are numerous stories from people who have not followed it and have received rejection emails from GoDaddy's DMCA compliance team. It must be a written or email request, formatted as described.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on April 01, 2012, 10:14:52 PM
You seem to be saying "I'd like to do something about this, but putting forth even the smallest amount of effort to actually get it done really isn't worth trying" a lot.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2012, 10:55:20 PM
You know, when I'm at a roadblock and explain the roadblock, the block is not "because I'm lazy/scared/just don't wanna do it".

I've just spent about four hours googling and sending emails out. I may in fact have a line on a name, but have to do further research. But if it doesn't pan out, I thought I could ask for some ideas, hence my questions here. I am trying several different avenues of attack. If one is a dead end, I will hopefully have others.

I looked at Twitter, the guy just uses that account for automatic site update notifications. He does not reply to anything with it. I got my buddy to send a tweet and it didn't go up on the feed and there's no reply (so far).

I don't have any valid site admin contact information yet. Do you see something I've missed? Maybe you think I was lying or blind when I said the site doesn't have that info listed?

The research I've already done has confirmed all but a few details of the takedown request process. I was mainly hoping for help with those details. It's not like I expect you guys to do this for me.

The only thing I can think of is that I haven't called GoDaddy's regular customer service yet. But why do I need to? It's definitely not part of the takedown process. I guess I can do that in the morning just so I can come here to post and say I did it? Is that what you want to hear? That I went through the motions of finding out the basics when I've already done so through Google research because you think I'm lazy and/or stupid? That's three steps ago - I already have the information they would give me, which is what the takedown process is. I just wanted help with following it.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 01, 2012, 11:04:50 PM
Longshot question: Does anybody have upgraded an upgraded LinkedIn? Maybe through or for work? (It's the $25/month version).

I think this may actually the guy (or is at least someone who knows The Guy): http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matt-houghton/21/249/300 (http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matt-houghton/21/249/300)

I need upgraded LinkedIn to see the guy's full profile. I'd like to avoid paying $25 to do so if I could (Yes I sent him a direct message, no reply yet).
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on April 02, 2012, 10:49:08 AM
Well, it took me less than eight hours to get a response agreeing to take down any art or use of name that would be questionable. I used the really unheard of method of e-mailing them. You should try it.

Me to them:
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Hello,

One of the articles on your website is headed with a picture I drew. I wouldn't have a problem with this, but for the fact that the picture is associated my name and is now associated with your website, as a result. I would like to have you remove the image from your website, and would prefer to not have to use a take down notice with your host, or involve a lawyer; I am willing to do either or both of these things, as necessary, if you don't remove my name and IP from your website, however.

I don't want to be a jerk about this, but the article has my name and work associated with a defense of child molestation, which sickens me personally and otherwise.

Please respond if you are willing to cooperate on this, and I will send you the details for the image and name removal. Thank you for your time.

Them to me:
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Hi James,

I'm troubled to hear of this issue regarding Madatoms. Of course we have no intention of misrepresenting anyone nor their work. If you could fill me in all the details of the problem, I will be more than happy to address the issue as soon as possible. We make a point to always do our best to commission original artwork directly from the artists, so I assure you this is a rare and unfortunate case.

Thanks,
Dave

So basically what I'm saying is, you should probably actually try to do stuff, rather than assuming it won't work.

EDIT: Oh, I just sent this e-mail to the clearly posted "SUBMISSIONS (AT) MADATOMS.COM" address on their website, just to see if this would work. Looks like it would.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ziiro on April 02, 2012, 10:55:03 AM
Guy on a buffalo to the rescue
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 02, 2012, 11:24:22 AM
I have no idea how that happened, because I emailed them three times at THAT EXACT EMAIL ADDRESS. I was actually doing stuff and not just posting about it. I emailed, I emailed contributors, I got a twitter post in, I tried contacting the dude over LinkedIn (he has a LinkedIn Profile, but no Facebook), I contacted GoDaddy.

Like Ocksi, I am not making that up just to be a prick to you. I really did email Madatoms three times at that very same email address.

Why would they respond to you and not to me? I used language that was very very similar to what you posted too.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on April 02, 2012, 11:28:46 AM
I'm not saying you're posting just to be a prick. I am saying people have suggested very simple things that anyone can do, such as signing up for Twitter to talk to them or contacting their known service provider to find out your options. Your responses have uniformly been "THAT WON'T EVER WORK, I LOOKED ONLINE."

But those simple, five-minute actual attempts are way more effective than doing hours of research to try to figure out how you can possibly get anything done.

That said, I have the dialogue open, so if you want to give me the necessary details, I will do the talking for you.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 02, 2012, 11:30:16 AM
Are you even reading my posts where I say "I did X" at all? At all? Did you even read the post above yours?

SURPRISE! I AM NOT IN FACT LYING ABOUT HAVING DONE THOSE THINGS.

Emailing them directly was the very first thing I did, before I ever asked ANYBODY for help.

EDIT: Alright alright, if they're replying to you and not me, then please ask them to just contact me at my email mb[underscore]w e s t b e r g at hotmail dot com OR mb[dot]w e s t b e r g at gmail dot com
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on April 02, 2012, 11:31:24 AM
Edited my post above. Read that.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 02, 2012, 11:38:14 AM
As did I after I saw your edit.

Better to just get them talking to me directly instead of awkward third-party talk. Just explain I've been trying to reach them unsuccessfully.

I appreciate it.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on April 02, 2012, 11:40:45 AM
Ocksi, because there's a pagebreak, it'd be nice if you quoted yourself instead of just referring someone back to your edit.

Also as baffling as it is that Mongrel's attempts got him soundly ignored by the admin and yours got an immediate response, I don't know that we need to dwell on it.

Oh, and he edited his post.
Emailing them directly was the very first thing I did, before I ever asked ANYBODY for help.

EDIT: Alright alright, if they're replying to you and not me, then please ask them to just contact me at my email mb[underscore]westberg at hotmail dot com OR mb[dot]westberg at gmail dot com
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 02, 2012, 11:42:26 AM
Yeah, I dunno why they're replying to him and not me. Like, maybe their spam filter is eating emails sent from hotmail addresses, but I sent one from gmail too. So who knows? What's your email provider Ocksi?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on April 02, 2012, 11:47:39 AM
I sent the guy a request to contact you at the gmail address, with a bit of explanation as to the why I was involved at all. With any luck, you'll hear from ol' Dave soon.

Also, the email I received was from madatomsjobs at gmail.com if you need to talk to Dave and he doesn't come to you first.

I used my gmail address.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 02, 2012, 11:51:37 AM
Well, thanks again. Sorry for gettin' mad.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on April 02, 2012, 12:15:24 PM
Got a response saying he contacted you.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 03, 2012, 11:16:41 AM
So they took it down - which is good!

But it's still in the cached Google pages. Should I bother submitting a cached page removal request to Google or will it clear naturally after a while?

I tried searching to see how long stuff stays cached with Google and got wildly differing replies... days, months, years, whatever, with most people saying it all depends on how often Google re-spiders a given page. If somebody knows a bit more about the google caching process, I'd appreciate a hint.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on April 03, 2012, 11:26:06 AM
I wouldn't worry about it, but I guess if you're still concerned about it you can check back in a week.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on April 03, 2012, 11:38:29 AM
Sounds good. She how she goes.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 07, 2012, 03:46:09 AM
Apparently I was going through the oldest of old threads the other day at work and now I can't find a post I was looking for again.

Someone proclaiming that they would totally be excited for X game, except Xenoblade should keep them busy until Y comes out.

Solve for Y.


[size=supergigantic]IGNORE ME
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 06, 2012, 01:40:08 PM
So R2's LP has inspired me to play Final Fantasy Tactics.

While finally getting on that boat, who wants to let me know which Arc the Lad and Ys games were actually worth playing?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on May 07, 2012, 08:21:22 AM
Arc the Lad 2 is fantastic. 1 is really short and the save transfers, so no reason not to power through it if you can snag the collection or something.

If you only play one Ys game, play The Oath in Felghana. It's on Steam.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 06, 2012, 05:47:15 AM
I WANT TO LEARN FRENCH.

SOMEBODY PLEASE TEACH ME FRENCH.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Friday on June 06, 2012, 05:58:08 AM
Well, I can tell you that eating enough French babies doesn't work. Yet.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on June 06, 2012, 06:28:55 AM
Friday I am almost certain that is not how French cuisine works.









Add more butter and tarragon.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 06, 2012, 06:54:12 AM
Uh Buge, I can't teach you, but I could speak french with you.

What prompts this sudden interest in multiculturalism?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 06, 2012, 10:10:01 AM
The reason is twofold. One, because all the best comics are in french. Two, because having french under my belt makes me twice* as employable here in Canada.

*not a real statistic
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on June 06, 2012, 10:16:51 AM
I could French it up more around here but as far as teaching goes I wouldn't even know where to start. My French is impeccable but that derives more from habit and attention and tons of reading than from actually knowing the rules and such. :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on June 06, 2012, 10:26:49 AM
You and your fluent speaking make me sick.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on June 06, 2012, 10:40:18 AM
You're probably better off pirating Rosetta Stone and using the fluent speakers here for practice than actually trying to learn from people with no teaching experience or awareness of how a non-native speaker would have to think.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on June 06, 2012, 12:03:21 PM
Right. It's like, if I see or hear a mistake I can easily explain what went wrong and how to do better, but to start someone up from scratch, before even mentioning the amusing extra little quirks of French like gendered nouns and the twenty-odd tenses*? It's not that I don't want to help, but I'm brutally unqualified for it. I mean, I started learning English by playing Dragon Warrior games with a dictionary in my lap, and that gave me a huge leg up when I started receiving formal instruction in the language at school, but it did take a straight-up professional teacher to give me a real grasp of grammar and complete my basic vocabulary so I could talk about more than just tremendous blows and finding that damnable Sun Crest.

*: Avoir, "to have"

Indicatif présent
j'ai
tu as
il a
nous avons
vous avez
ils ont

Indicatif passé simple
j'eus
tu eus
il eut
nous eûmes
vous eûtes
ils eurent

Indicatif passé composé
j'ai eu
tu as eu
il a eu
nous avons eu
vous avez eu
ils ont eu

Indicatif passé antérieur
j'eus eu
tu eus eu
il eut eu
nous eûmes eu
vous eûtes eu
ils eurent eu

Indicatif imparfait
j'avais
tu avais
il avait
nous avions
vous aviez
ils avaient

Indicatif futur simple
j'aurai
tu auras
il aura
nous aurons
vous aurez
ils auront

Indicatif plus-que-parfait
j'avais eu
tu avais eu
il avait eu
nous avions eu
vous aviez eu
ils avaient eu

Indicatif futur antérieur
j'aurai eu
tu auras eu
il aura eu
nous aurons eu
vous aurez eu
ils auront eu

Subjonctif présent
que j'aie
que tu aies
qu'il ait
que nous ayons
que vous ayez
qu'ils aient

Subjonctif passé
que j'aie eu
que tu aies eu
qu'il ait eu
que nous ayons eu
que vous ayez eu
qu'ils aient eu

Subjonctif imparfait
que j'eusse
que tu eusses
qu'il eût
que nous eussions
que vous eussiez
qu'ils eussent

Subjonctif plus-que-parfait
que j'eusse eu
que tu eusses eu
qu'il eût eu
que nous eussions eu
que vous eussiez eu
qu'ils eussent eu

Conditionnel présent
j'aurais
tu aurais
il aurait
nous aurions
vous auriez
ils auraient

Conditionnel passé, première forme
j'aurais eu
tu aurais eu
il aurait eu
nous aurions eu
vous auriez eu
ils auraient eu

Conditionnel passé, deuxième forme
j'eusse eu
tu eusses eu
il eût eu
nous eussions eu
vous eussiez eu
ils eussent eu

Impératif présent
aie
ayons
ayez

Impératif passé
aie eu
ayons eu
ayez eu

Infinitif présent
avoir

Infinitif passé
avoir eu

Participe présent
ayant

Participe passé
eu

I ain't putting this out there to discourage anyone, and we don't use all of those tenses in common speech, but we're not talking about sticking "will" in front of an infinitive to make it future tense and "-ed" after to make it past tense.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 06, 2012, 12:16:29 PM
I mean, I started learning English by playing Dragon Warrior games with a dictionary in my lap

I should do that with Blacksad and Songes: Coraline! I'll be speaking "La Belle Langue" in no time! :D
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on June 06, 2012, 12:19:45 PM
I have a feeling this will still end in only being able to talk about tremendous blows.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 06, 2012, 01:17:41 PM
During conjugal visits with François.



Songes: Coraline

Haw haw haw. Come on, you don't need to READ that. The words are wholly unimportant.

I sure wish they'd get on with volume 2, though.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on June 15, 2012, 02:44:15 AM
So I want to get my dad a portable music player for Father's Day. He disliked his old Sansa Fuse, and doesn't want to deal with iTunes and that shit. He wants to take mp3s and just drop them onto the device.

So far the only suggestions I've gotten from people are "Store brand $20" and Creative Zens. Any other suggestions from anyone?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on June 15, 2012, 07:06:12 AM
Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) works with straightforward drag-and-drop, is easy to install, has an inordinate number of different options, and supports a variety of devices -- not sure how many actual CURRENT devices it supports, though.

I stuck it on an old iPod Photo and it worked pretty decently.  Not for very long, but I think that's because the battery in the thing is dead and not because of anything wrong with RockBox.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: James Edward Smith on June 15, 2012, 07:18:52 AM
What does it actually do? Why does it exist?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on June 15, 2012, 07:30:52 AM
Basically it's designed as a unified frontend/backend for all sorts of portable music players.  It supports a whole lot more formats than a typical player, and has a better interface than what you often get with a cheapo device.  It also supports skinning and some low-end apps if that's your thing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Smiler on June 15, 2012, 08:50:24 AM
You haven't lived until you've played Doom on a shitty scroll wheel.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on September 01, 2012, 12:46:50 PM
OK. SO. Law type things here.

I'm not entirely sure but at every job I've been at, I was told it was the law that the business reimbursed drivers for gas mileage. My current job doesn't reimburse drivers at all.
Whether or not that's not entirely legal, they ARE telling people they are paying us. They file paperwork and send it up through corporate they pay us for gas.  I've seen them do it every time I leave work.
Now, I know that's bad, franchise-wise. I could get the owner of this franchise in a lot of trouble with corporate for falsifying reports.
But am I being taxed for this money I'm not actually getting? Is there a way to check without tipping off my bosses?
I've already been taking photos and whatnot of various safety violations and health code violations that I am not allowed to fix. I don't know what to do with this stuff, but I feel it's a good idea to keep record of it, in case there's a need for it.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on September 01, 2012, 01:26:28 PM
I think they'd probably be taking it directly out of your paycheck if they were.  I don't think that's something that you fill out later on your tax form.  But I could be mistaken.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on September 01, 2012, 02:25:03 PM
OK. SO. Law type things here.

I'm not entirely sure but at every job I've been at, I was told it was the law that the business reimbursed drivers for gas mileage. My current job doesn't reimburse drivers at all.
Whether or not that's not entirely legal, they ARE telling people they are paying us. They file paperwork and send it up through corporate they pay us for gas.  I've seen them do it every time I leave work.
Now, I know that's bad, franchise-wise. I could get the owner of this franchise in a lot of trouble with corporate for falsifying reports.
But am I being taxed for this money I'm not actually getting? Is there a way to check without tipping off my bosses?
I've already been taking photos and whatnot of various safety violations and health code violations that I am not allowed to fix. I don't know what to do with this stuff, but I feel it's a good idea to keep record of it, in case there's a need for it.

Pro-tip; Whistleblow on that shit. If you get canned, the government will make the company pay you for a years salary. If you don't, your workplace improves.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on September 01, 2012, 02:34:35 PM
I'm not really optimistic, because everything I know about wistleblowers indicates that they get fucked and fucked hard, but this is the same establishment that's been looking for an excuse to fire you, no?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Shinra on September 01, 2012, 02:38:25 PM
OK. SO. Law type things here.

I'm not entirely sure but at every job I've been at, I was told it was the law that the business reimbursed drivers for gas mileage. My current job doesn't reimburse drivers at all.
Whether or not that's not entirely legal, they ARE telling people they are paying us. They file paperwork and send it up through corporate they pay us for gas.  I've seen them do it every time I leave work.
Now, I know that's bad, franchise-wise. I could get the owner of this franchise in a lot of trouble with corporate for falsifying reports.
But am I being taxed for this money I'm not actually getting? Is there a way to check without tipping off my bosses?
I've already been taking photos and whatnot of various safety violations and health code violations that I am not allowed to fix. I don't know what to do with this stuff, but I feel it's a good idea to keep record of it, in case there's a need for it.

Lottel, where do you work? If it's food delivery, do they give you a portion of the delivery fee? Because if they do, they're probably marking that as mileage.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on September 01, 2012, 03:33:03 PM
Also: Who the fuck really cares about getting fired from a food delivery job? 

I mean, we all know that the entire female population of the midwest wants to have Lottel's babies, but he doesn't actually have any kids yet*, so it's not like he has dependants. 



*(that we know of)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on September 01, 2012, 03:34:39 PM
I'm not really optimistic, because everything I know about wistleblowers indicates that they get fucked and fucked hard, but this is the same establishment that's been looking for an excuse to fire you, no?

They used to but then my boss started banging some dude and is no longer a cranky bitch. And I don't say things like that often.

Quote from: Shinra
Lottel, where do you work? If it's food delivery, do they give you a portion of the delivery fee? Because if they do, they're probably marking that as mileage.

I get paid minimum wage plus whatever tips I get.


I do want to whistle blow on some of this stuff, but I don't know how 'bad' this stuff is.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Shinra on September 01, 2012, 05:47:45 PM
If they're not paying you a mileage fee per run report their ass for tax fraud.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on September 24, 2012, 03:49:45 PM
Didn't we have a podcast thread at one time?

I'm looking for some podcasts to listen to while I do other things. The small list of podcasts I used to listen to stopped a few years ago apparently.

Honestly,  I'd prefer RPG podcasts with episodes of actual play,  but I'll take nice quality podcasts about anything other than politics.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on September 24, 2012, 04:13:20 PM
Hmm, maybe Role Playing Public Radio (http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/)? I've only listened to a few episodes of theirs a long time ago, but it was pretty entertaining and they're still updating.

Otherwise the only podcast I'm keeping up with nowadays is Roguelike Radio (http://www.roguelikeradio.com/), which is very interesting if you, uh, enjoy roguelikes.

And if you're into absurdist comedy I can recommend the Tweet Me Harder (http://tweetmeharder.com/) archives; the show itself is concluded but it's still over 75 hours of material.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on September 24, 2012, 07:50:51 PM
I listen to This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) pretty religiously.

Also, John Oliver from The Daily Show does a podcast called The Bugle (http://thebuglepodcast.com/) that's great, but as you might imagine deals exactly with politics and you told me not to recommend such a thing but I did it anyway.

Janet Varney (voice actress of Korra, and all around cool lady) has The JV Club (http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/the-jv-club/) which I'm having trouble describing.

Everything else I listen to is about video games. Player One Podcast, Giant Bomb, the 1up.com stuff etc.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on September 24, 2012, 07:53:08 PM
Ugh. I love John Oliver and his comedy but politics make me sad.
Ugggh.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on September 24, 2012, 07:59:55 PM
Mostly they make fun of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. It's really great.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on September 25, 2012, 10:26:52 AM
My subscription list (all through iTunes):

Radiolab (http://www.radiolab.org) - "Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience."

This American Life (http://www.orgthisamericanlife.org) - "There's a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always."

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/bullseye) - "Bullseye is a public radio show about what's good in popular culture. With a keen editorial eye, Bullseye sifts the wheat from the chaff, and brings you hot culture picks, in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary creative people and irreverent original comedy."

Jordan, Jesse, Go (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/jordan-jesse-go) - "Jordan, Jesse, Go! is a freewheeling comedy podcast about life in your twenties and everything else."

My Brother, My Brother, and Me (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/my-brother-my-brother-and-me) - "My Brother, My Brother and Me is an advicecast for the modern era featuring three real-life brothers."

Judge John Hodgman (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/judge-john-hodgman) - "Have your pressing issues decided by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman, Certified Judge."

Mike and Tom Eat Snacks (http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/mike-and-tom-eat-snacks/) - "Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanagh eat snacks and talk about it!"

Hang Up and Listen (http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/hang_up_and_listen.html) - "Slate's sports podcast."

TEDTalks Audio (http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tedtalks-audio/id160904630) - It's TED talks without any visual.

Comic Book Club (http://comicbookclublive.com/?cat=3) - Live comic book talk show with great guests.

Selectbutton.net (http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewforum.php?f=9) - A so-so discussion of old games.

Stop Podcasting Yourself (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/stop-podcasting-yourself) - "Vancouver's top comedy podcast? Hosted by Graham Clark and Dave Shumka, with weekly guests."

Also, I think the thread you're thinking of was Mothra's trapped in a box thread.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on October 02, 2012, 06:19:44 PM
Looks like the Internet service I signed up with a few years ago in hopes of trouble-free movement from place to place has backfired: my whole apartment is a dead zone for Clear service.

So what's the state of broadband Internet service these days? Do I have any better options than -- ew -- Comcast cable?

(Posted from my Blackberry, which is a poor solution.)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on October 02, 2012, 06:57:51 PM
Without knowing your location, I'm going to have to go with "Probably not."  Broadband competition is basically an oxymoron in the US.  In my location we've got two options: overpriced cable and slightly cheaper, vastly inferior DSL.  It is not much of a choice.  And from what I've read that's true in most of the country.

Which is why anyone who says we don't need net neutrality regulations because the free market will take care of it is completely full of shit.  I expect that if we HAD a free market it would take care of it, but we don't; there is no broadband competition to speak of in this country, and when there's no competition there's no incentive to treat your customers halfway decently.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on October 03, 2012, 05:38:08 AM
What's the disadvantage of DSL? All I know about is that the speed slows down if you're far from the local hub, but I live in a metro area (Denver, CO, incidentally) so I can't be THAT far. I think.

Apparently the options around here are Comcast and CenturyLink. :/
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on October 03, 2012, 07:30:44 AM
'Round here, at least, DSL is significantly slower than cable.  (Like, at my address, I can't get more than 3Mbps.  I check this routinely because I would very much like to switch to something that isn't Cox.)  YMMV.

It also uses the phone lines, so my understanding is they're usually pretty pushy on wanting you to pay for a land line with it, to the point of sometimes not allowing Internet-only service.  Again, YMMV.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on October 03, 2012, 08:53:11 AM
That's disappointing.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on October 05, 2012, 01:41:44 PM
Got nine emails from Clear today trying to get me to pay my missed back payment and restore service. I'm on automated payments, but some problem leading to the legit cancellation while I'm moving is just the sort of :trollface.jpg: that life likes to throw my way.

Called customer support, the automated answer told me they sent those emails to everyone by mistake, then hung up.

Comcast is coming out on Tuesday. Sigh.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: on December 16, 2012, 10:24:04 PM
Okay I found it.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 01, 2013, 09:33:56 AM
I'm going to be on all wireless internet soon. From what I've seen there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between wireless receivers for desktops, but does anyone happen to know one that really stands out from the crowd?

I'll also have access to the router so if there's a reciever / router combo that work particularly well together I should be able to get it set up.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Nickasummers on January 01, 2013, 10:31:17 AM
I don't know a TON about receivers for desktops, but I have used a couple, and here is what I do know:
If you have room in your computer, get a card, not a usb one.
If you have to get a usb one, don't get a tiny one so it is "out of the way". I made that mistake. The problem is they heat up like mad because wifi takes a lot of power, the really small ones will overheat and be damaged because of it. My old one was the size of a very small flash drive and it actually got hot enough to burn me once. It broke after about 8 months of heavy use.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on January 01, 2013, 10:50:11 AM
Your best bet is probably to just go with whatever brand the router is.  They all should work about the same but you know the manufacturer is going to be testing against its own receivers when they build the transmitter.

Also what Nick said - if you use a USB 2.0 device you're going to be bottlenecked by the 35 MB/s data rate minus whatever else is on the same bus (802.11n has a data rate of 75 MB/s - layman's terms, you're getting jacked).  If you have a USB 3.0 port/device you should be fine, but the ideal is to just get a PCIe card.  1x is more than enough.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 05, 2013, 01:59:13 PM
The success of a wireless connection can probably be summed up best by the fact that I'm on my netbook in the room with the router in it right now, asking a new question.

Powerline networking. I know nothing about this technology, and even though it's been around a while I'm skeptical. Does anyone know if it really is as easy to set up, compatible, and fast as advertised? I'm specifically looking at this guy right here (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Actiontec+-+500+Mbps+Powerline+Home+Theater+Network+Adapter+Kit/5215483.p;tab=reviews?id=1218625358741&skuId=5215483) and rather not get burned again right after buying a 60 dollar network card that's going to be sitting in its case.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on January 05, 2013, 02:03:48 PM
what did you dooooo
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 05, 2013, 03:01:23 PM
I don't know if it's just the distance or the number of things in the way, but the cisco card seem horrible anyway. It interfered with my speakers and mouse/keyboard even when it wasn't getting a signal.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on January 05, 2013, 03:41:14 PM
Have you tried changing the frequency of your router?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on January 05, 2013, 03:45:31 PM
Addendum to Thad: There are programs you can run (inSSIDer on Win., Wifi Analyzer on an Android phone, etc) to check out WiFi networks in your area and see what frequency they're on. Set your router to the least congested one. This is a necessity if you live in an apartment.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on January 05, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
The success of a wireless connection can probably be summed up best by the fact that I'm on my netbook in the room with the router in it right now, asking a new question.

Powerline networking. I know nothing about this technology, and even though it's been around a while I'm skeptical. Does anyone know if it really is as easy to set up, compatible, and fast as advertised? I'm specifically looking at this guy right here (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Actiontec+-+500+Mbps+Powerline+Home+Theater+Network+Adapter+Kit/5215483.p;tab=reviews?id=1218625358741&skuId=5215483) and rather not get burned again right after buying a 60 dollar network card that's going to be sitting in its case.

I set up a powerline network for my brother a long time ago, using a dlink DHP-300 (I'd link you to it but it's no longer being made). It was pretty rad, I don't think it ever dropped the connection in the several years we ran it. It ended up only connecting a PS3 and an XBox360 most of the time so I can't tell you how it holds up under real heavy use or anything, but it was stable for what we used it for and it required virtually no attention whatsoever once it was up and running.

In any case, if you ask me if I personally trust the technology, then I have to say yes.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 06, 2013, 09:41:03 AM
Have you tried changing the frequency of your router?
Addendum to Thad: There are programs you can run (inSSIDer on Win., Wifi Analyzer on an Android phone, etc) to check out WiFi networks in your area and see what frequency they're on. Set your router to the least congested one. This is a necessity if you live in an apartment.
Current state of affairs:

Router is a Linksys E2500, Adapter is Linksys WMP600N

I've been playing with channel and channel width mainly and no real success. As far as I've gotten is getting my computer to connect to the 5ghz and not the 2.4. So sound and wireless devices work fine, however when it connects it's an incredibly weak signal that flickers on and off sometimes faster than I can complete the connection.

It's only traveling through four walls at most with a maximum distance of forty feet, plus the 2.4ghz signal is consistent, so any kind of booster seems ridiculous. Outside that, though, my limited networking know-how is out of ideas for how to get wireless working.

EDIT: inssider does not recognize there is any 5ghz signal even right next to the router when my computer is connecting to it.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on January 07, 2013, 01:50:38 PM
I'm not all that familiar with using 5 ghz. If you set everything to use some band on the 2.4ghz spectrum, do things run stable? That might tell you something
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 07, 2013, 05:32:56 PM
Checked all the channels and nothing seemed to do the trick quite right on 2.4.

Turns out there's a whole slew of other issues with their connection anyway. To the point where plugging in one computer to the router kills the connection on only my stepmom's ipad and nothing else.

So rather than continue messing with it and cause issues I don't understand I'm sending back the card if I can and dealing with the cost for a second modem for the (hopefully) few months I'm here.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on January 22, 2013, 10:11:15 AM
I need a decent piece of free writing software, licensed for commercial use, that lets one write in a wiki format.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on February 22, 2013, 01:21:10 PM
Any kind of helmet that already looks like or item that would fit on a head that resembles Sunred's helmet (http://www.downloadost.com/ost/big-astro-fighter-sunred-tentai-senshi-sunred-op-mizonokuchi-taiyouzoku-ost.jpg).

I have plans for a very easy convention costume.


Follow up: what does his shirt say? (http://shinmaru.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/sunredkayokodishes.jpg)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on February 22, 2013, 01:32:35 PM
LINKS.

http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E3%81%BB%E3%81%BB%E3%81%88%E3%81%BF&eng=&dict=edict (http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E3%81%BB%E3%81%BB%E3%81%88%E3%81%BF&eng=&dict=edict)

http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%BF%94 (http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%BF%94)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Caithness on February 22, 2013, 01:46:05 PM
His shirt says something different every time, but that one is something like "returning the smile".
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Lottel on February 25, 2013, 11:32:06 PM
Other than using iTunes, what's the best way to listen to and subscribe to podcasts with my computer?
Currently, I am using my phone and an app on that to listen to a few but if I am already using my computer, I'd like to not have to use two devices. I am currently subscribed to podcasts through google reader and that's fine for subscribing but kind of bad for listening to them.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Kayma on February 26, 2013, 10:22:19 AM
It is a mystery. I would love a desktop podcast manager that has a great Android app with it, but these are the things of dreams.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 04, 2013, 02:42:44 PM
I need some help. I'm writing a story and I don't trust Google Translate to give me the proper syntax for French sentences. The phrase I need translated is "I will obey Ms. Kensington."
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 04, 2013, 02:48:48 PM
Silly, you can just ask me.

That should be "J'obeirai Mlle. Kensington."

(Zed, just yell at me if that's wrong or whatever)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on June 04, 2013, 03:02:13 PM
Merci!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on June 05, 2013, 03:43:04 AM
Sorry mang, that would be accurate with a lot of verbs, but in French we don't obey people, we obey to people. "J'obéirai à Mlle. Kensington." It's a transitif indirect.

Not one of the easier ones to remember, I'll admit.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on June 05, 2013, 03:57:21 AM
Et voila.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 06, 2013, 04:23:35 PM
Happened across a very nice tube TV left behind at a rental property today.  Brought it home, and the picture is gorgeous -- on the bottom 75% of the screen.

Near the top, there's this line -- you can see a clearly delineated single line each of red, green, and blue when the screen is blank, and when there's a picture onscreen that section resembles the "pinch" effect in Photoshop, like everything is squeeze together around that line.  And then the top portion of the screen is blank.

Had that problem with an old TV once; that was definitely a magnetism issue.  So I suspect that may be the case here, too.  On the other hand, this seems like a late-model enough TV that it should degauss every time it's powered on, and repeated cycling hasn't made a visible difference.

Most of the talk I've seen online about manual degaussing involves pictures with discoloration, though it's mentioned that picture distortion can occur as well.  I haven't seen this exact symptom described in the material I've read, though.  And there are other things that can fuck up a TV picture, like crossed wires -- which is why giving a TV a good whack really DOES fix picture issues sometimes.  (Tried it; no luck.  Don't want to whack it TOO hard.  Saw a couple people suggest a rubber mallet; don't have one onhand.)

There are cheap Chinese degaussing coils on eBay; I'm tempted to throw down $10 for one of those and see what happens.  Alternately, I could just try a refrigerator magnet -- consensus seems to be that this is a bad idea but also that if you're just going to get rid of the set anyway then it's not like you've got anything to lose (and anyway any damage done with a permanent magnet can be undone with a degaussing coil later, provided you don't actually get it close enough to the TV to actually start ripping components out).

Anyone have any experience with this stuff?  This is pretty much the perfect TV for retro gaming -- 20", lightweight, flat screen, and it's even got component video.  It beats the hell out of the 20" screen I've been using.  Or it would, if I could fix the issue with the top of the screen.

Should I buy a cheap degaussing coil, start by trying with a refrigerator magnet and THEN decide whether I want to buy a cheap degaussing coil, or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely and could this be caused by something completely separate from fucking magnets?

The best guide I've found so far is at repairfaq.org (http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/crtfaq.htm#crtmdg).  If anyone knows of a better one I'd be interested in hearing about that too.  (I've no intention of actually taking the thing apart.  This is a sweet screen but not worth the hassle of disassembly or the risk of electrocution.  And while I took a couple EE courses in college, that was a long time ago and I'm by no means an expert.)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on August 06, 2013, 08:43:40 PM
It might just be that the TV is set weird.  There actually is a standard setting that does that, oddly enough - futz around in the muckier parts of the calibration options and see what happens.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on August 06, 2013, 09:27:32 PM
There actually is a standard setting that does that
What? Why would that ever be useful to a TV user?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 07, 2013, 01:19:40 AM
It might just be that the TV is set weird.  There actually is a standard setting that does that, oddly enough - futz around in the muckier parts of the calibration options and see what happens.

Yeah, as soon as I found the manual online and determined how to get the menu up without a remote (you press both volume buttons at the same time!) I went through all the video settings.  Mostly just your standard color/brightness/tint/etc.  There's a setting for whether to keep the image as pure 4:3 (slightly letterboxed) or to stretch it to fullscreen, which sounds a little like what you're talking to, but that's not it; the picture is pinched either way.

I think I went through all the available settings, both under Video and under Installation.  I was looking to see if there was a menu option to force a degauss, but didn't see anything like that either.

I DO have a working 20" TV here, and one of the suggestions on that guide I linked was to stick two close together, facing each other, and then power the good one on to see if its degauss is strong enough to affect the other one.  Guess that's another thing I could try.  If I can find a space where I can FIT two 20" CRT's face-to-face.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 09, 2013, 11:59:49 AM
I've seen a couple different sites suggesting it's the vertical circuit (http://www.justanswer.com/tv-repair/48itu-magnavox-20mt4405-17-vertical-problem-top-screen-cut.html).  And like I said, I'm not really interested in taking the thing apart.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 12, 2013, 03:34:49 AM
Somebody on here once linked a truly bizarre parody of the Dr. Who theme (more or less), which looked to be half 80's "CGI" along with non-musical sections of people mumbling a situation/operations control room or something. I know it's on YouTube, but for the life of me I can't find it again.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on August 12, 2013, 03:46:22 AM
Somebody on here once linked a truly bizarre parody of the Dr. Who theme (more or less), which looked to be half 80's "CGI" along with non-musical sections of people mumbling a situation/operations control room or something. I know it's on YouTube, but for the life of me I can't find it again.

That sounds like something docfuture would make! Let me see...

Could this be it?

Lost Doctor Who Intro (RARE) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMM1eJCvB4#)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 12, 2013, 03:49:42 AM
That's the one!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 21, 2013, 04:53:25 PM
Having had a bit more time to actually watch some things on the TV, I can now state that the picture is not simply pinched near the top, it's inverted -- there's a ghost image of what's supposed to be on that top couple of inches, upside-down and at about half its proper height, overlaid on top of the video that's supposed to be there.

Makes it kind of a bastard to watch anything 4:3; it cuts people's heads right off.  But I imagine it'd be all right for letterboxed movies.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 21, 2013, 04:56:01 PM
I think you might be entering packrat territory with this one, Thad. 

EDIT: You know the greatest place ever to dumpster dive? Outside a storage facility. You get people ditching relatives' stuff after that relative has died, or maybe people come back and they've already bought new stuff, or maybe they just don't care. But you can get a ton of stuff in good working order.

One guy I know who has a workshop in the same building as a storage facility even got a whole freaking coin collection that way. Someone literally just threw out a suitcase full of money!
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 21, 2013, 05:15:55 PM
Well, I'm using it just at the moment.

Long-term?  Well, next time I'm in touch with some of my more technical friends I'll ask if they or anybody they know does tube TV repair.  If I can get a good deal on it I think it's something I can get a lot of miles out of.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on August 22, 2013, 04:13:08 AM
BEARD MEN

My little brother asked for a beard trimmer for his upcoming birthday. I'm usually clean-shaven, so I've never needed to seriously invest in a decent razor, but he's got a pretty hefty grizzly adams going. I'd want to get him one that lasted for a while, and whose battery would not die in like four months.

What do you folks use?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on August 22, 2013, 04:17:09 AM
Squizzle has just recommended the REMINGTON MB-300 (http://www.amazon.com/Remington-MB-300-Titanium-Mustache-Trimmer/dp/B001BNSPN4/).

Quote
<Squizzle> I use this and can endorse it with small reservations.
<Squizzle> The plastic slidy spacer thing can break if you're clumsy or indelicate with it.
<Squizzle> But it works well and trims nicely.
<Squizzle> And as a friend who borrowed it noted, "I've used a lot of electrics, and this is he first one that didn't make me want to kill myself".
<Squizzle> Also, don't be always clean-shaven, or always wear the same beard. Facial hair grows quickly, and you should play around with your options.
<Squizzle> I recommend growing a beard for a couple of months in summer.
<Squizzle> Just let the thing grow, maybe trimming moustaches for neatness.
<Squizzle> But it keeps the sun off your face and lets your skin recover from the minor trauma that is regular shaving, and makes you feel like an axe-murderer.
<Meikai> I thought maybe you were going for coup d'etat and was very disappointed >:I
<Mothra> Noted
<Squizzle> NOTHING I DO IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
<Squizzle> MOM
<Squizzle> MOMKAI
<Mothra> Squizzle you are a king among men
<Squizzle> I'm more of a Mumm-Ra.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 22, 2013, 04:46:42 AM
I only shave weekly, so sometimes I need to trim down before doing a proper blade shave. The trimmer adaptor on my electric razor (which I don't use much anymore, because it's starting to get wonky) is wearing out. So I could actually use a good recommendation too, preferably something with a really good... *ahem*... nose hair trimmer.

Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on August 22, 2013, 04:54:30 AM
The last time I tried to use an electric on my nose hairs I smelled blade oil for hours after the fact. Use a cuticle trimmer and be careful.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 22, 2013, 05:03:07 AM
I used to use an electric on my nose hears but it was cheap and would cut up the inside of my nose. I actually pluck now. A bit painful, but I'm used to it now and lets me go way longer between "trim sessions". If I don't, I have monstrous nose hair that constantly tickles me from inside my face, which drives me fucking CRAZY. But it's tedious and I can miss hairs, so I could potentially be interested in an electric again if it was REALLY good.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Classic on August 22, 2013, 05:28:41 AM
I've heard that plucking those hairs is bad because they're helpful to your body's immune system.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on August 22, 2013, 05:51:35 AM
Well, your nose hairs are a filter.

I don't pluck everything, just the long ornery ones that I feel constantly. The problem is that that's most of them, LOL.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on August 23, 2013, 05:59:25 AM
Why is it that people say you can find anything on the internet but I can't find that episode of Beat The Geeks with the KISS Geek anywhere?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on August 23, 2013, 09:19:21 AM
Narrowed it down to season two episode 42. It's in your hands now.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Büge on August 23, 2013, 01:07:56 PM
I know the episode.

I just can't find it anywhere.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on August 31, 2013, 03:44:10 PM
...so I've been talking about wanting to find someone who can fix CRT's for WEEKS now and for some reason my wife never thought to mention that oh yeah her stepdad did that for a living for a number of years.

Fortunately he's visiting and I happened to ask somebody about it while he was in earshot.  He says he'll check it out for me tomorrow.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Ocksi on September 10, 2013, 06:06:30 AM
I'm fairly sure R^2 is the only professional cook and Mothra is the only Bostonian here, but if anyone does desserts professionally in the Boston area and is looking for work in an upscale restaurant, I have a friend in "hire on the spot" need, as their dessert guy walked out this morning.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: R^2 on September 10, 2013, 07:39:00 AM
And here I just signed a six-month lease.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 11, 2013, 12:18:38 AM
I need a bagless vacuum. Preferably one that isn't huge and is pretty inexpensive. I don't really know anything about which companies have the best performance or longevity.

Anyone have specific or company suggestions?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on September 11, 2013, 02:55:04 AM
The only vacuums I've actually been pleased with are from Dyson, but that's probably going to fail pretty hard in the  "inexpensive" column.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on September 11, 2013, 03:01:55 AM
Starr's got a nice Kenmore one but it's both big and an older model so I don't think that'll help you much either. Plus the filter on that one gets clogged a lot, but that's because when we vacuum it's like vacuuming up an entire cat rather than some failing of the vacuum.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on September 11, 2013, 10:54:54 AM
Yeah, I've been pretty happy with Dysons as well, but ultimately I went back to bag vacuums.  Bit more hassle, but between allergies and asthma I think it's the better call for my house.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on September 23, 2013, 04:13:11 AM
Anyone happen to know a website where I could commission some minor pixel art? My older brother's been working on a flash game, and I can draw pretty much everything he needs, with the glaring exception of an excavator tractor.

Would be ideal if I could just pay some shlub to make up six or seven tiles of a small excavator facing different directions.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: TA on September 30, 2013, 04:02:37 AM
This is a google search for what might technically be mildly nsfw text (https://www.google.com/search?q=>Stand+on+the+coffee+table%2C+grab+a+beer%2C+raise+it%2C+and+shout+at+the+top+of+my+lungs+"TWILIGHT+SPARKLE+MAKES+MY+DICK+HARD").  It produces one link.  The link is to a page that is down, but Google clearly still has a copy, to generate the search result with added information.  I can't find any way to actually access that copy.  Anyone know how to get some resolution on this exciting narrative?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mongrel on October 27, 2013, 03:27:36 PM
So what are people using to watch region-locked YouTube content these days? Because this stuff is getting a lot more frequent and my usual proxy pages won't do YouTube video anymore. Googling for answers just produces a river of untrustworthy shit.

Proxtube was recommended in a couple places, but does it carry any additional baggage?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on October 30, 2013, 11:55:52 AM
So, as someone who just started trying to learn guitar with Rocksmith 2014, do any of you music people have any suggestions, other than give it time (there might not be any others) for how to make my fretting hand not feel like small monsters are eating my fingers?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Royal☭ on October 30, 2013, 05:06:05 PM
On the low e, rock your finger back and forth until you can no longer stand it. Do this several times during an hour each day. You'll be good within in the week.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on October 30, 2013, 07:29:31 PM
Dunno about 2014 but the original seems to drill the fuck out of you on Well OK Honey at a certain level until you're no longer coming away from it with huge canyons in your fingertips.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Joxam on October 30, 2013, 08:14:40 PM
I am currently doing the lessons. Endless scales and shit but its fun. I have to admit, after thinking it was a problem at first I don't mind the little bit of pain, it makes you feel like you're doing something. I spent two hours today playing so it can't have hurt that bad, you know. I think I'm setting myself up for failure by finger picking though. Not because I'm finger picking, but because EVEN I know I'm doing it wrong. Have to look into it a little more tomorrow after work.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Beat Bandit on October 31, 2013, 12:30:56 AM
Marceline likes the pain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsJcquWoQXo#)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Brentai on November 01, 2013, 05:09:39 PM
And then Lenny Kravitz makes all your entire fingers look like grilled hot dogs.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Healy on November 05, 2013, 07:33:24 AM
Outside of the ol' "Biff! Pow! Comics aren't just for kids anymore" headline, has biff ever been actually used as a sound effect? In, like, anything.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: François on November 05, 2013, 08:09:45 AM
It must have been used in 60s Batman at some point.

EDIT: Yup: http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas.htm (http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas.htm)
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Mothra on December 02, 2013, 01:58:55 PM
I'm going to get my parents one of those Netflix/Amazon Prime/Possibly Youtube streaming boxes for Christmas, as they're pretty much completely fed up with commercials and the paltry selecton on regular TV.

I saw Detonator had this thing called the Chromecast (http://www.amazon.com/Google-Chromecast-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B00DR0PDNE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1386037252&sr=1-1&keywords=chromecast), which is great, but it needs you to use a computer from which you stream Netflix or Youtube or whatever. That's a possibility, but my parents use their laptops while the TV's on, so having something that requires the use of one computer isn't ideal.

I'm leaning strongly toward a streaming media player of some kind, but it's hard to tell what's good and what isn't. Amazon lists (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/13447451/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_e_1_4_last) the Roku 3 (http://www.amazon.com/Roku-3-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B00BGGDVOO/ref=zg_bs_13447451_5) fairly high, but that's far from a reliable sign of quality. The Sling Media Box (http://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-SB350-100-Slingbox-350/dp/B009FU8BTI/ref=pd_sim_e_2) seems like a possibility as well.

Anyone have any experience with streaming media players?
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Caithness on December 02, 2013, 02:19:17 PM
As far as I know, the Slingbox just lets you stream your existing cable TV/over-the-air channels to the internet. Kind of the opposite of what you're looking for.

As far as actual suggestions, an Apple TV or any of the current/previous generation video game consoles should also work.
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Post by: TA on December 02, 2013, 02:25:23 PM
I'm going to get my parents one of those Netflix/Amazon Prime/Possibly Youtube streaming boxes for Christmas, as they're pretty much completely fed up with commercials and the paltry selecton on regular TV.

I saw Detonator had this thing called the Chromecast (http://www.amazon.com/Google-Chromecast-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B00DR0PDNE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1386037252&sr=1-1&keywords=chromecast), which is great, but it needs you to use a computer from which you stream Netflix or Youtube or whatever. That's a possibility, but my parents use their laptops while the TV's on, so having something that requires the use of one computer isn't ideal.

I'm leaning strongly toward a streaming media player of some kind, but it's hard to tell what's good and what isn't. Amazon lists (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/13447451/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_e_1_4_last) the Roku 3 (http://www.amazon.com/Roku-3-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B00BGGDVOO/ref=zg_bs_13447451_5) fairly high, but that's far from a reliable sign of quality. The Sling Media Box (http://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-SB350-100-Slingbox-350/dp/B009FU8BTI/ref=pd_sim_e_2) seems like a possibility as well.

Anyone have any experience with streaming media players?

Is the TV itself good?  Because a friend of mine does all that through one of Samsung's Smart TVs, without needing additional boxes.

Failing that, yeah, a PS3 should be able to do all of that I think.
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Post by: Mothra on December 02, 2013, 02:27:02 PM
Yeah, Sling is out, now that I'm looking at it.

Game consoles are a maybe? Seems like a dedicated media player would be able to do the job better.

Apple TV's a maybe, but they're not nuts about Apple now that they've gotten so huge and shitty as a company. Plus I feel like there's probably some iTunes or iStore bullshit they'd have to work around.
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Post by: Mothra on December 02, 2013, 02:28:11 PM
Is the TV itself good?  Because a friend of mine does all that through one of Samsung's Smart TVs, without needing additional boxes.

Failing that, yeah, a PS3 should be able to do all of that I think.

The TV's good, but they're looking to get a new one since my nephew accidentally left this huge block of dead pixels across the bottom.
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Post by: Niku on December 02, 2013, 02:58:00 PM
If they want physical disk options, a PS3's not really a bad option right now.  DVDs, Blu-Rays, and all the major video streaming services as well as media streaming from a computer without tying up said computer if they want it.  If they don't care about discs at all, I've heard pretty good things about the Roku but have no firsthand experience.
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Post by: Brentai on December 02, 2013, 04:21:59 PM
Careful with getting PS3s for non-technical people, I tried that with my parents and despite both of them being fairly computer literate and throwing in the remote they still managed to be terrified of the thing somehow.  Just the idea that it has a more complicated function than playing Blu-Rays and Netflix made them recoil.

I got them a regular-ass Blu-Ray player instead and they were totally happy with that!  Pretty much all of them do the standard Netflix/Hulu/YouTube schtick as well now.  Roku on the other hand is the most recognizable brand of dedicated streamer and as such has about a bazillion more apps than the standard buried in its ecosystem, which is good if they ever need something that Hulu hasn't got and are feeling adventurous.  Besides that though I wouldn't bother with other media devices (for them I mean; there are plenty of crazy things out there like the Chromecast or the Raspberry Pi for people who like to tinker).

The TV's good, but they're looking to get a new one since my nephew accidentally left this huge block of dead pixels across the bottom.

Practically any TV from a major brand has its own app ecosystem now too, so if they're actually going to buy a new one then a dedicated box might be redundant.  They're not always good apps though...
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Post by: TA on December 02, 2013, 05:01:13 PM
The TV's good, but they're looking to get a new one since my nephew accidentally left this huge block of dead pixels across the bottom.

Practically any TV from a major brand has its own app ecosystem now too, so if they're actually going to buy a new one then a dedicated box might be redundant.  They're not always good apps though...

The one my friend has is this model (http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN55ES6100-55-Inch-1080p-120Hz/dp/B007B9PP1C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386049176&sr=8-1&keywords=UN55ES6150F).  It is quite excellent and has served us very well.  I would recommend it, or one like it from Samsung - that's last year's model, so you can probably get better.  Check Samsung's site.
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Post by: Mothra on December 02, 2013, 05:11:13 PM
True. I should look into that. It might not even be necessary to buy a media box if there's already one built into the TV.
Title: Re: Calling All Internets
Post by: Thad on December 03, 2013, 04:14:32 PM
I've never had much interest in streaming features on my TV because I have a PC hooked up to it, but Samsung is indeed an excellent brand at making both televisions and Android devices, and I would expect they would know their shit as far as combining the two.
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Post by: Kayma on December 05, 2013, 03:08:47 AM
I don't remember what the question was, but I'll say that I've had 3 Samsung TVs in the last so many years and they've all been excellent.
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Post by: Mongrel on December 05, 2013, 05:18:15 AM
Uh, how excellent can they be if you had to go through 3 of them in as many years? :wat:
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Post by: Kayma on December 05, 2013, 05:35:54 AM
Oh, you. Different sizes, different purposes. They're all great and kicking.
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Post by: Joxam on December 05, 2013, 09:28:53 AM
Silly old people thinking you should only own ONE TV. What is this, the fifties.
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Post by: Lottel on December 06, 2013, 11:54:24 AM
Tablets are getting good enough for cheap enough where I think I'll buy one for me for Christmas. I've been a very good boy this year, you see. But before I have you all nodding in agreement, let me cock it up by saying I want a windows tablet/laptop thingy.
I've been without a computer for a few years now and can't stand it anymore. I've been making do by using my phone for most everything and for video, slinging it over to my ps3. I want a tablet mainly for reading comics/various books and a computer because typing anything longer than a paragraph is such a bother I've basically flipped off all of my internet friends and said fuck it.
I've been checking prices at the local shops (because prolonged shopping via a phone is a bunch of bullshit) and have noticed that the regular standalone tablets are roughly the same price as the lower end of the combos, sometimes higher. The Surface looks pretty good and the few people I know who've purchased them said they are pretty great but can chug if you try to do too much at once. The lady at Best Buy said this little Asus number is just as good for $200 cheaper but I've never heard of anything good coming from Asus. And of course I missed the Black Friday sale of the Surface being only $200 but I'm hoping I'll snag one during the post Christmas sales.

Anyone have any suggestions for me? I'm looking for something fairly cheap that can preferably run steam for a few low-intensity indie games and maybe even minecraft.
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Post by: Thad on December 06, 2013, 12:06:46 PM
Yeah, sounds like the Surface is about what you're looking for -- the Surface RT only runs limited, App Store-provided programs, while the Surface Pro sounds well out of your price range.

I'm surprised by the negativity toward Asus -- the Nexus 7 is a legitimately excellent tablet, and their full-on Win8 laptops are pretty solid in my experience (my wife's had two (first one was stolen)).  I've always thought of them as a pretty solid brand.

Course, I've never had a high opinion of Acer and yet here I am buying their Chromebook.  Reversals abound!

I'll let you know how the Chromebook goes, BTW -- "Ubuntu on a Chromebook" actually sounds like a pretty good match for what you're talking about.  It's not Windows, but it'll run the Linux version of Steam just fine; indie games abound and yes Minecraft runs on Linux too.  I've opted for the non-touch version, but the touch version is only $50 more if that's something you're jonesing for.

I'm not saying go right out and buy one, even if that does sound like something you'd consider; I'll let you know how installation goes.  (I've found that Chrubuntu installation scripts are finicky as hell on the Samsung Chromebook and if you don't have exactly the right one it can easily break partway through an install.  Course, I'm not sure if the BIOS is as locked down on the C720; you might not even need Chrubuntu.  I'd just as soon take ChromeOS off entirely and just run Xubuntu.)
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Post by: Brentai on December 06, 2013, 12:25:58 PM
Yeah I think you might be confusing Asus with Acer. Common mistake, but Asus actually makes solid products (like, say, this Asus Windows tablet I have right the fuck here) and Acer makes, well, shit.

The old Transforms are still selling for sub $200.  They're starting to chug a bit with updates and they have no official support anymore, but these things only matter of you're gaming, trying to use Flash, or plan to drop the thing off a cliff.
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Post by: Thad on December 06, 2013, 04:32:26 PM
It might bear adding that Asus has been widely considered to be the best brand of motherboards for at least as long as I've been buying motherboards.

Acer...well, let's just say that I'm roughly as surprised by all the reviews saying Acer makes the best Chromebook as I was a few years ago by all the reviews saying Mad Catz made the best joystick.  What a difference endorsement and oversight by a big name software publisher can make.
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Post by: Lottel on December 10, 2013, 04:17:42 PM
Well, the Asus T100TA is getting pretty decent reviews and it's sub $300 for a 32gb model including keyboard and reviews indicate that it can play low-intensity games.
So this looks like what I'll be purchasing in the next few days. Thanks for your help, chums.
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Post by: Healy on December 31, 2013, 07:23:27 PM
Would small-ish books make a good Geocaching trade item? I'm mostly worried about rot.