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[Zaratustra]

you have to flip your monitor.
TURN-WAYS

[Thad]

My monitor died.  And non-widescreen monitors seem to be a thing of the past, so I'm probably gonna be losing vertical pixels on top of several hundred dollars.  Yaaaay.

I bought a wide 24" a little over a year ago, and my major concern was making sure that I didn't lose either vertical inches or pixels.

Assuming your old monitor was a 1280x1024, there ARE reasonably-priced 1920x1200's out there -- and even a more-standard 1080p gives you a few dozen more vertical pixels than what you've been working with.  Last I checked (which was maybe a year and a half ago), Samsung was the best-priced name brand.  I managed to get a 24" for about $230, but that's not the going price; that required monitoring dealzmodo for several months.  I assume you don't have that luxury, but on the plus side this IS the biggest time of year for sales.  (I'm not recommending going out on Black Friday -- I never do -- but there are bound to be other sales over the next couple of weeks.)

[TA]

My old one was 1600x1200.

Non-widescreen seems to be a dying breed - Newegg has all of two 1600x1200 monitors and both are fancy LED thingers for $900+ - and I have DVI but not HDMI on my video card.  So I'm looking at 1920x1080s or 1920x1200s, but 1920x1200 doesn't seem to exist on Newegg for less than $280 or smaller than 24".

I'm gonna head over to the Micro Center, see if they have any promising things.  I'm sure there will be sales over the coming weeks but I kind of need a replacement as soon as possible.

[Mongrel]

you have to flip your monitor.
TURN-WAYS

You silly. The picture will be inverted transverse mirrored if you do that. It has to be turned Widdershins.

[TA]

Yeah, looks like 1080p is the only viable thijg.  Only 1920x1200 here is a 28" $340 beast.

[Thad]

20" 1600x1200 Dell; closes in 30 minutes.  Bidding likely to spike at the end but it's currently at $118.52.

[TA]

I ended up getting a Samsung at Micro Center.  1080p, 23", $190.

[R^2]

So now that my van is repaired, I guess I'd better go get my tags renewed so I can legally drive it huh

So I go in ready to pay the $80-90 in fees to let me drive for another year.

But the clerk asks, "Have you been having trouble with your insurance?" Groaaan. "No, but I've had trouble with the county understanding my insurance."

See, last December I switched insurance companies. My existing policy was set to expire on the 20th, so I got a replacement policy on the 17th and let the first one expire. For three days I was covered by two policies at once.

Only some moron at the county gub'mint office put in that my first policy expired on the 7th, not the 20th, so they had on record that I had a lapse in coverage for a week and a half. That's illegal in Georgia.

I got pulled over in February and warned about this, went to the county clerk's office, and thought I had it straightened out.

I got pulled over for it again in June, had a court date in July (I think), and was pretty sure that by supplying the judge with papers from both insurance companies about the ending and beginning dates of my policy coverage I'd gotten it straitened out again.

Alas, they'd levied me with a $25 fee for lapsed coverage anyway, and didn't tell me about it -- not when I was pulled over either time, not at the county clerk's office, and not in court. And when I didn't pay the fee they didn't tell me about, they put on another $60 charge, to be paid whenever I got my tags renewed.

Boy, they sure know how to kick a guy when he's down.

[Spaco]

Lemme buy ya a beer in ATL while I'm there during the holidays, R^2.

[Stush]

I had my licence test today, the vicroads person said I drove really well and did most of the stuff really well.

But I failed.

I was on a T-Intersection, turning right, and there was a truck on the other side turning left, a big one with cars on the back, he needed the space I was in to turn, so he indicated for me to go first, I waited a little bit, and then went in front of him, no danger to myself or anyone else, I got an instant fail for that. Now I have to wait a month and pay another hundred bucks or so.
I've been switching between depressed and angry for a few hours now, I'm pissed because EVERY SINGLE PERSON i ask about this says that they'd do exactly what I'd do, and my instructor said that 99% of drivers would do that too. So it's like, I failed because I did the sensible thing. Which really pisses me off.

[TA]

You're in one of those backwards countries where they drive on the left and hamburgers eat people, right?  'cause, um, yeah, you're not supposed to do that.

That lots of other people would also make the same mistake doesn't transmogrify it into a good driving habit.

[NexAdruin]

He was waved to go on. Generally, it isn't sensible to sit at an intersection and argue with a big truck about who should go first, especially when everyone knows it makes more sense for the car to go first.

Don't really see how that's a bad driving habit...

[McDohl]

The powderkeg that is my mother finally blew tonight.

Dad and Sister have taken off, who knows where, and mom is in the bedroom crying.  I have no idea what to fucking do.  I'm in tears myself, here.

[Büge]

* Büge hugs McDohl.

[Classic]

Not exactly a shit day, but in spite of feeling better and doing better by most rubrics of health, I just had a coughing fit so violent I vomited.

On the plus side, my throat and nasal passages finally feel clear of phlegm and mucous!

[A²]

My mother is cancer free, somewhat. So why is this posting in shit days?

There is a hole in her chest now. Like, you can slide your hand into it, it's where they had to cut out to get the tumor. Each night, for what has now been told to be 3-4 months, my father and I have to remove the gauze from inside of it, clean and swab out, restuff it, and package it.

Aside from being disturbing as "staring into an deep hole on a human body" can be, my mother finds it extremely painful, even moreso when she has to shower, so I have to stand right there and see her next to tears.

My father has not taken this, or my brother's recent attempt to beat the stupidity awards well, and his back pain continues to get worse and worse.

My brother's attempt was he told a friend he could stay after she "Suddenly needed a place to stay" and THEN found out it was because she was kicked out for getting in massive arguments with her abusive boyfriend, AND the kid is the kind who just steals everything and the mother doesn't do anything and he freaked out and almost didn't find the balls to tell them "no"

My chem teacher is a huge bucket of fuck. He is completely incapable of knowing how to teach, is insufferable and has at least twice now fucked up my grades and I would have missed it had I not already been paranoid about the C I'm barely getting in the class.


All this stress piling up has made for frequent headaches and severe tooth pain.

[teg]

So apart from my trouble with Play-Asia as detailed in the Internet Superstore thread, this happened:

I was working last night, prepping the new releases to be put out on Tuesday. I take my cash for a moment to swap out this guy's game and he picks up one of the unlocked movies on the counter and starts looking at it. I tell him that it's out next week if he wants to rent it etc etc. Anyway, when he leaves, I grab the movie he was looking at and open the case. The disc is gone. So I have to go out to the parking lot and interrogate the guy. He insists that he didn't take it and I don't want anything to go too sour, so I just let him go. We'll be checking the camera today to see if he actually did take it. If he did, I'll probably get a write-up for leaving the movies on the counter even though there's no other place for them and he'll probably get off scot-free.

[Ted Belmont]

After 8+ years, and several moves, my TV is finally borked.

[Classic]

It's the final move, but the first one that's to a better place.

[Ted Belmont]

I turned it off for about 20 minutes, and when I turned it back on, it was fine! It's a Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus/Chrimbus miracle!