Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 244668 times)

beat mouse · « **Reply #350 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 10:24 »

between cafe crepe and blenz on every block there is no excuse to run out of cheap coffee in vancouver. the strongest argument for cutting down on your coffee expense is to drink less entirely.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #351 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 10:55 »

fuck fuck fuck the insurance company says i did $3700 in damage to the car and it's totaled.

jhocking · « **Reply #352 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 14:31 »

How old is the car? They might have simply assessed "well the car is totaled, here is the total value of the vehicle."

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #353 on:** 03 Sep 2010, 20:53 »

just back from Machete (which was awesome by the way) and now I am drinking shitty bourbon and watching my best friend get a tattoo on our kitchen table

yeehaw

Jimor · « **Reply #354 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 02:27 »

Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 03 Sep 2010, 10:55

fuck fuck fuck the insurance company says i did $3700 in damage to the car and it's totaled.

I'm losing track of forums/threads. Did we talk about the "salvage" option on totalled cars here recently? Where you can take the money the insurance company offers you, then do enough repairs to make the car safe/drivable, but leave out cosmetics. Sometimes this means you can get enough extra time out of the car if you can't afford to get a new/different one.

What happens then is that the title on the car is marked as "salvage", and it cannot be insured for damage itself, and it cannot be sold or traded in later except at salvage value (which is practically nothing). You simply buy liability insurance to satisfy legal requirements for driving in your particular state.

Depending on circumstances and actual damage, it can be a viable alternative to letting the insurance company take title and trash the car.

valley_parade · « **Reply #355 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 08:23 »

Quote from: Jace on 31 Aug 2010, 21:58

Quote from: Dimmukane on 31 Aug 2010, 16:06
I found out last night that it is hard to make out with adult swim as background noise.

Making out with the wrong girls.

Yeah wait. I had makeouts a few weeks back to the latter half of Boris' Akuma No Uta.

(Life goal #9,285: check)

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #356 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 09:41 »

Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 03 Sep 2010, 07:19

Is his head shaped like a football? Doesn't look like it from the photo, but you never know.

Strangely enough, it kinda was. Vacuum pump deliveries will do that to the human head. Mercifully, this rights itself way before anybody would ever dream of punting him.

He is of course the sweetest kid ever. Cramps,however, are now starting and that is hell on his tiny frame. And our ears. It's sort of ... sad that you can't really do anything for the little one.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #357 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 09:45 »

Just so everyone knows, it wasn't the girl's fault; I couldn't stop giggling at what Dale was saying on King of the Hill. The next couple nights that we were doing that, I learned to shut up.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #358 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 17:15 »

Joe, it's a 97 Accord in pretty bad shape, so I'm sure it wouldn't take much to have totaled it. KBB says for Fair condition, the trade-in is only $1525, and private party would be $2735. I'm not sure what we're going to do now, the salvage thing - the body shop next to our warehouse quoted us $900 to fix it - or actually get me a new car - I have some gift money from my grandma to put towards a car, which I never used because the Accord was actually my sister-in-law's.

Patrick · « **Reply #359 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 19:00 »

Last night my friend and I sat on the corner with our guitars, played the same 5 Beatles songs over and over for 90 minutes, and made $34.

This was enough to buy us both a very tasty dinner (and our waitress was one of my former coworkers from Home Depot, she was my favorite person to work with, she's kinda my bestie), our own packs of smokes, and a 4Loko.

One of the best nights I've had in a long, long time. 'Cept for getting chewed out by a drunk friend of mine for not making out with her. Whatever.

jmrz · « **Reply #360 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 19:10 »

I AM TOTALLY GOING TO JAPAN! FOR MOSTLY FREE!!!!!

I applied on a whim to a 17day cultural exchange that my university is offering and I found out on Friday that I got in! I am staying at Shohoku College which I am lead to believe is right near Tokyo. I get a weekend with a host family and a day in Tokyo for free time. The host university pays for my accommodation at their dorms and for the activities we'll be doing. My university pays for my travel insurance and gives me $750AU. All I have to do is pay for the flights and my food and a few other bits of transport. The $750 will pay for about half the flights.

I will be there Nov19 - Dec5 and I am SUPER EXCITED.

Jimor · « **Reply #361 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 19:35 »

You will have so much fun in Japan! So much to see and do. Congrats.

Slick · « **Reply #362 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 19:51 »

Tania I hope by this point that you have bought a coffee grinder. Says the guy who just borrowed a bunch more money to pay for a bunch more school. And who is also thinking of regularly blowing lots of money on bussing out of town. And also is in debt. And also has a history of making poor economical decisions. And also is eating a grilled cheese, a kielbasa sausage, and cherry tomatoes, all with globby gravy on them.
Tania my decision making process is not the best but I hope you have a coffee grinder.

I think most of what I came here to blog about came out in the 'list of bad decisions I've made' so I guess I'm done here now.

tania · « **Reply #363 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 19:58 »

i did buy a grinder james! also some coffee to grind in my new grinder! i went to salt spring coffee which apparently makes the best (according to various opinions) organic and fairly traded coffee in vancouver and the very friendly dude (everyone here is so nice and it's so weird) at the shop recommended me this blend. i haven't tried it yet but it smells amazing. this was definitely The Best Decision.

basically what i am saying is you should definitely visit me

Slick · « **Reply #364 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 21:00 »

I am pleased that you bought a coffee grinder.

I was thinking of visiting Vancouver for the zine fair but now that I think about it it is not a very economical decision for a weekend (because it doesn't look like I can take a lot of time off school).

Vancouver people sound like the opposite of PEI people.

tania · « **Reply #365 on:** 04 Sep 2010, 21:17 »

vancouver people have a lot of piercings in their face and dye in their hair and ink in their skin and for the most part kind of look like they are way too cool for my sorry butt (and probably are). they also seem to REALLY love coffee and sushi here because you can't go like 10 god dang steps in any direction without running into one of those two things, at least that's what i have seen in my limited downtown experience, although in their defense sushi and coffee are both delicious in their own way and so i have no problems with this at all. on my way to salt spring coffee i walked for about 45 minutes down main st and must have passed at least 50 independent coffee shops and sushi places and ALL of them looked like they were doing great business. every fifth store was a coffee shop or a sushi place. you could probably open up yet another coffee or sushi place on that street amid the one jillion other shops and your business would find some way to thrive. vancouver really, really loves their coffee and sushi. it's insane.

also everytime i look around and see mountains and trees and rivers i forgive vancouver for thinking it is cooler and better looking than i am because frankly it's right, it kind of is. i have so much more still to learn about this city. further research will follow.

beat mouse · « **Reply #366 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 02:20 »

You are thinking like an outsider still. Vancouver isn't cooler or better than you, you live in Vancouver now.

Christophe · « **Reply #367 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 06:16 »

So yesterday I had to drive two hours back to my parents' place in my car without air conditioning. Turning it on would break the fuse that controls the AC, dashboard, and windows.

Man, fuck my car. As soon as I drive back home I'm never taking it out of town again.

Inlander · « **Reply #368 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 06:51 »

Today was the last day of the Melbourne Writers Festival. It only goes for a week. I went to a session on writing about music which featured Robert Forster, among others. Man, I could listen to Robert Forster talk all day. Then I went to a session about politics in fiction which featured China Mieville, among others. I haven't read any of Mieville's work - in fact until very recently I was under the misapprehension that he was some long-deceased American writer for some reason - but what he had to say about the appallingly casual "ironic" use in contemporary society of slurs such as "bitch" and "cunt" was so agree-worthy (it's late on Sunday night, I can't be bothered thinking of the right word) that I went and bought a copy of the City and the City from the festival bookshop and queued up to get it signed just so I could thank him. We chatted for a few seconds in which we agreed the admiring use of the word "raped" that's prevalent today is horrifying. He seems like a nice man, though intense.

Graphite · « **Reply #369 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 07:13 »

I've heard so many good things about Mieville. One friend described him as taking Gaiman-type premises and then doing them in a far more complex world-building way. He's high on the list of authors-to-seek-out-after-semester. Hearing about the views of his that you just mentioned only makes me more keen.

McTaggart · « **Reply #370 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 10:47 »

I had my wisdom teeth out on thursday and I simply cannot wait until I'm healed up enough to eat a burger. My sister even sold me on the idea of one from the Cataby Roadhouse. They are apparently the best burgers for about 100km. Hmm.

Patrick · « **Reply #371 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 11:01 »

Quote from: tania on 04 Sep 2010, 19:58

i did buy a grinder james! also some coffee to grind in my new grinder! i went to salt spring coffee which apparently makes the best (according to various opinions) organic and fairly traded coffee in vancouver and the very friendly dude (everyone here is so nice and it's so weird) at the shop recommended me this blend. i haven't tried it yet but it smells amazing. this was definitely The Best Decision.

basically what i am saying is you should definitely visit me

You know, considering that all yr fair trade and organic stuff is more expensive than your typical common-market goods, and considering that you are talking about not having a whole lot of money an awful lot lately...

I mean, yeah, morals and all, but there's something to be said for not starving.

vegkitkat · « **Reply #372 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 17:54 »

Hey blogthread,

So I just moved to Halifax. My parents just left. It has just dawned on me that I have no friends here (yet?). I do have my sister, but she's much older than me so we can't really get drunk together. This is just my freakout on the internet. I hoped you've enjoyed.

kat

Slick · « **Reply #373 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 18:53 »

Kat Halifax is not a terrible place. Andy and her neo-hippy punk friends are there. Most of them are downright adorable.

Papersatan · « **Reply #374 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 21:04 »

Two days ago I got a bag of peppers from my dad, who got them from a friend. Yesterday I decided to put one in the Chinese noodles I was making for dinner. I chopped one up into little pieces and then I decided to test how hot it was, so I could decide how much to put into the noodles. I haven't decided yet if I am glad that I did this or not. Good thing: I threw the pepper out and didn't ruin my dinner. Bad thing: touching the pepper to my tongue (note I didn't actually *eat* it) made my mouth burn for 45 minutes and my lips, which I apparently brushed with it, burn for almost 2 hours. the three fingers which touched it while I was cutting it still hurt today. Afterwards I looked up online pepper identification guides. As best I can figure it was one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhut_Jolokia_pepper. Good news is I am unlikely to ever eat anything hotter since the only things listed on wikipedia's scoville page as hotter are police grade pepper spray and pure capscaicin. In the future I will identify peppers before I put them in my mouth.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #375 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 21:55 »

I usually try to make sure I know what I'm putting in my mouth, but I'll make an exception tonight.

I made cake. I think it's cake. It was basically throw together a bunch of flour, sugar, milk, eggs, etc. etc. stuff from my cupboards, no measuring, then bake it on 350 until I remembered to take it out. It's...really good, actually.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #376 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 22:43 »

New computer decision time!
Do I want:
- Windows laptop (cheap, ugly as hell, I'm just going to put OSX beautifying/functionality packs on it anyway)
- 13 inch Macbook Pro (small, mobile, can plug into existing widescreen monitor)
- 21 inch iMac (big lovely screen + good ergonomics)

Drill King · « **Reply #377 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 23:21 »

Quote from: vegkitkat on 05 Sep 2010, 17:54

Hey blogthread,

So I just moved to Halifax. My parents just left. It has just dawned on me that I have no friends here (yet?). I do have my sister, but she's much older than me so we can't really get drunk together. This is just my freakout on the internet. I hoped you've enjoyed.

kat

I LIVE HERE
SERIOUS I WILL HANG OUT WITH YOU
FOR SERIOUS

Lines · « **Reply #378 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 23:42 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 05 Sep 2010, 22:43

New computer decision time!
Do I want:
- Windows laptop (cheap, ugly as hell, I'm just going to put OSX beautifying/functionality packs on it anyway)
- 13 inch Macbook Pro (small, mobile, can plug into existing widescreen monitor)
- 21 inch iMac (big lovely screen + good ergonomics)

MACMACMACMACMACMACMACMAC

JD · « **Reply #379 on:** 05 Sep 2010, 23:47 »

Fuck yesss Fringe Festival

scarred · « **Reply #380 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 00:26 »

Quote from: Linds on 05 Sep 2010, 23:42

MACMACMACMACMACMACMACMAC

KvP · « **Reply #381 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 01:45 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 05 Sep 2010, 23:47

Fuck yesss Fringe Festival

Are you out in Philly, perchance? I have friends who are composing / performing at the PA Fringe festival.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #382 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 03:06 »

As per the advice I give every single time on a decidedly PC-enthusiast forum, it's cheaper, more effective and more fun to build your own from parts.

squawk · « **Reply #383 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 03:10 »

Seconding tommy's post! Because for school last month I ordered a white HP dv6 for barely $700. Basically same specs as tommy's. Design-wise it's pretty much a mac rip off which I think is awesome. It even has the one piece track pad! I love it. It is beautiful. It looks quite a lot like the one pictured, actually. But better.

Plus you can play Sims 2 and 3 and SimCity 4 on it

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #384 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 03:21 »

my kitten just sneezed on my butt. i did not realize a kitten is like a two year old. also my hamster snuck out of his cage (both doors were closed still, and i'd secured the cage so the kitten couldn't knock it down from where it was) and got killed. everyone kinda saw it happen, but i was determined that i would make it not happen. i didn't figure the hamster would be suicidal and make a break for it. i can't be too mad at the cat, especially seeing as how he was found in an engine outside so he had to be a lil killa like a normal wild cat to survive

Lunchbox · « **Reply #385 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 05:20 »

Ninjas, I have built my own PC heaps of times before! I still have my frankenputer that I started building in 1998. I just want something pretty!
I also love OSX so if I go Windows I'm gonna put a dock and a skin on it so it looks/works pretty similar, like I did to my old Windows laptop.
Also Tommy - I just searched for the HP Dv6 and the lowest price I can find is 1394, while a macbook pro is 1399? Also I can't find any places that say it comes in other colours. Maybe I'd be best to go to a store.
Anna, I totally play Sims 3 on my old crappy macbook anyway!

DECISIONS. SO HARD.

edit: Ooh, I found a cheaper, lesser spec dv6 but it's still not got a white option... and it's all out of stock.

Jace · « **Reply #386 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 06:08 »

When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.

jmrz · « **Reply #387 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 07:45 »

Mac!

Also, if you get a student friend to buy it on your behalf, you can get it a little cheaper.

vegkitkat · « **Reply #388 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 07:51 »

Quote from: Drill King on 05 Sep 2010, 23:21

Quote from: vegkitkat on 05 Sep 2010, 17:54
Hey blogthread,

So I just moved to Halifax. My parents just left. It has just dawned on me that I have no friends here (yet?). I do have my sister, but she's much older than me so we can't really get drunk together. This is just my freakout on the internet. I hoped you've enjoyed.

kat

I LIVE HERE
SERIOUS I WILL HANG OUT WITH YOU
FOR SERIOUS

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Lines · « **Reply #389 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 08:38 »

Quote from: Jace on 06 Sep 2010, 06:08

When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.

Not always. I flirt with the guys at the genius desk and they do it for me. The only part I ever paid for was a new hard drive on my last laptop because it was out of warranty and one battery as well.

tania · « **Reply #390 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 09:01 »

i got a new ipod that way too when i dropped it and bungled up the hard drive and really should have had to pay for a new one. instead i somehow got a brand new one for free with a shorter warranty, even though both me and the apple dude knew i had obviously dropped it. i think the people at the apple store probably have a lot more room to bend the rules than other places do, you just have to use your feminine charms to figure out where they are.
sorry dudes. maybe you'll get lucky and a girl at the apple store will think you're funny or something.

McTaggart · « **Reply #391 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 09:26 »

Quote from: Jace on 06 Sep 2010, 06:08

When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.

When parts break in Macs you Applecare it.

Dazed · « **Reply #392 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 09:58 »

Yeah I've had loads of shit replaced on my macs throughout the years (I've used them pretty much exclusively since I was a kid, even when they blew). If worst comes to worst, you just send them out through the store to a flat-rate repair place, and they fix/replace literally anything that is wrong for relatively cheap.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #393 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 10:23 »

Quote from: Jace on 06 Sep 2010, 06:08

When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.

What? This is not true.

Ohai new page, backing me up.

My computer's like 11 years old, I just keep switching shit out and upgrading it.

Verergoca · « **Reply #394 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 10:33 »

Usually after lunch at work, we walk around a bit. Today, was a bit different.

Today a collegue asked me if i wanted to come along on this beast, to go and refuel it for a wee bit.

Work is fun ^_^

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #395 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 14:31 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 06 Sep 2010, 10:23

Quote from: Jace on 06 Sep 2010, 06:08
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.

What? This is not true.

Ohai new page, backing me up.

My computer's like 11 years old, I just keep switching shit out and upgrading it.

Yes! Please don't throw away your Mac if it gets broken! My boyfriend works for iFixit, which is a pretty cool website that sells Mac parts and offers repair guides for free online. It is super easy, even for the not-so-tech-savvy kind of person (i.e. me): I replaced my MacBook fan a couple of months ago, no problem.

Alex C · « **Reply #396 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 15:09 »

Apple vs. PC really is a bit of a wash from a repairs perspective if you're a gamer like me. A borked drive is dead easy to get replaced with either platform and if your PSU goes it's hardly surprising to find that the motherboard also went down with the ship. If that's the case than I usually just buy what amounts to a "new" PC anyway since I sort of enjoy having an excuse to pick up a new GPU and processor.

scarred · « **Reply #397 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 15:53 »

If you're a gamer, you ~~probably~~ don't have a Mac, period.

scarred · « **Reply #398 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 15:53 »

And I say this with nothing but love for my Macbook Pro.

Metope · « **Reply #399 on:** 06 Sep 2010, 15:58 »

Guys, I'm in Glasgow now! Everything about my room is perfect, it's so big and pretty! The Indian couple who owns the flat and also live here are so nice, when I arrived they had made me dinner and then they showed me around, it's so great! The last flatmate (a German girl) arrives on Wednesday, and we're going to check out the city together. I'm so excited! I can't beleve I'm here already!

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