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[jhocking]

The main advantage really is not having to put on pants to go Christmas shopping.

[nobo]

It is totally 3 emoticon easy, especially because 1. I wasn't charged for shipping, 2.  i managed to find something for my impossible girlfriend, and 3. as was already mentioned, this was done sans pants

[Vendetagainst]

I am going to a Maps and Atlases concert with my friend, Gus on Saturday! I am excited about this for multiple reasons:

1) It will be my first concert
2) Math rock seems like an awesome idea
3) Gus is a cool dude
4) Music is nice!

[michaelicious]

What an excellent first concert. Maps & Atlases are great! Who are they playing with?

[Vendetagainst]

I am not sure, actually. All I know is that the entrance cost is twelve dollars and that it's way up on the northwest side. I'm very excited, though!

Maps & Atlases

12-13-2008 20:00 at SUBTERRANEAN (All Ages) w/ Pattern is Movement, Netherfriends
2011 North Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Cost: 12

You folks should come.

[Patrick]

Dear blog thread,

My girlfriend's stepdad is an abusive cuntfuck. I swear to god if he keeps his shit up, I am going to pummel his ass into the fucking ground. I've seen the way he treats Tara and her mom and I know it's even worse when I'm not there.

What's nice is that I've got an excellent network of friends up there. I am in the process of making absolutely fucking certain she can get a silent alarm out to somebody who can call the police in case he does something really horrible to her or her mother. Helps ease my worries a little bit, but it's nothing compared to how much better I'd feel if I were there.

Love,
Me

(way to start off my morning, having to deal with a cunt stepfather... I feel so shitty for Tara right now)

[michaelicious]

I am not sure, actually. All I know is that the entrance cost is twelve dollars and that it's way up on the northwest side. I'm very excited, though!

Maps & Atlases

12-13-2008 20:00 at SUBTERRANEAN (All Ages) w/ Pattern is Movement, Netherfriends
2011 North Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Cost: 12

You folks should come.

UNNGH Pattern is Movement! That is gonna be such a great show. I wish I was from Chicago

[Ladybug]

Blog thread,

Today I found myself in a situation which I think may very well go into the top 5 situations where being 5'3" sucks. The 8AM bus is packed now when everyone has exams, and today I found myself squeezed in between three guys all 6'3"+, so I was basically standing there feeling like a little kid and also had a backpack in my face and people all around me, completely unable to move. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic. Today's exam went to hell, unless there's some miracle I pretty much failed it (evil and ambiguous questions plus some trick questions), but my other three haven't gone too badly.. I still have two out of the three most difficult ones left, though. The biggest problem with failing this one is that I should, in theory, re-take it next semester, but it happens to crash with another one I have to take, which again crashes with a third one I have to take. Which means I will have to take two extra classes next fall, and just hope they don't crash then. This messed up study progression sucks, but I guess it's my fault for failing shit. I know that I'm not the only one this fucks things up for, though, so it's stupid that they put two exams that are needed for the same degree on the same day, even if they're for different years.

That being said, I have a calculus exam on Monday that I am absolutely not prepared for, but I will try to be a machine from tomorrow morning, and pass it. Tonight I'm having a completely exam free day (aside from the fact that I had one this morning that I'm still sort of upset about, but I will get over it), and it is going to kick ass, with knitting, handball, gingerbread, Pepsi Max, maybe some light cleaning of the dorm room, laundry, candles and Christmas music.

[tania]

i moved into this house in april and some cock on my street has a car and the alarm goes off at LEAST one a day, all the time (sometimes in the middle of the night, sometimes incredibly early in the morning) and every time i hear that fucking alarm it doesn't stop for like three full minutes. who the hell are you and are you so clueless that you do not realize how much everyone hates you and your stupid car, also don't you realize you live in guelph where everyone is a poor indifferent student and they don't even lock their doors. NOBODY IS GOING TO STEAL YOUR CAR.

anyone who owns a car, please do not have a car alarm if you know it goes off all the time because all you are really going to do is make hundreds of strangers hate you and some of them are probably going to do terrible things to your car and house simply out of spite.

[michaelicious]

That last sentence sounds like a threat.

[valley_parade]

Tania: stealing yr cars out of spite.

[tania]

no, i am going to just sit here and complain but otherwise do absolutely nothing because i am a wonderful person. i just can't speak for everyone.

ideally i should maybe follow the sound to his house next time it happens and ask him politely to do something about it, but i did something similar with my neighbor who has a little yappy dog he leaves outside to bark really loud at all hours of the day, plus he's the same guy who plays nickelback really loud in his truck at 6am. anyway i knocked on his door and he ended up being this massive shirtless furious looking man who told me i had no business telling him what to do with his dog and his truck and essentially to fuck off and leave him alone.

the moral of the story is that i resort to internet whining because i am sort of afraid of people

[0bsessions]

The obvious solution is to send the dude anonymous mailings questioning the masculinity of a dude who goes to the effort of driving a truck, but listens to Nickelback and owns a little yappy dog.

[Patrick]

the moral of the story is that i resort to internet whining because i am sort of afraid of people

Get a giant fucking sound system and a German Shepard. Play nothing but Def Leppard at all hours of the night, and when he comes to your door all threatening-like, sic Fido on his nuts.

[tania]

but then i would make everyone else on my street angry, like even angrier than they probably already are at dog man and car alarm guy and i do not want to be that person

also sometimes he wakes everyone in my house up with rihanna instead of nickelback but i guess that is not much better

for now i have been using the strategy of repeatedly thinking about them going away on their own in the hopes that thinking about something enough makes it real. or maybe i'll try again to talk to them in january if the problem persists. i don't know. why do people gotta be such dicks in the first place.

[Caleb]

I can sympathize with the loud music at 6AM thing.

The dude who lives next to me left his truck door open and his radio blaring country music a few times.

[Slick]

Can't you call bylaw? I know it probably makes you feel like a dick to call bylaw/the police on somebody but if you've gone over and tried it the nice way that's that and you've got to try something else.
If it's a serious thing like everyday, that is.

[Jace]

Dudes car alarm might be on the same frequency as the police, fireman, and ambulance radios. The guy who lived across the street from me at my old house had that problem. So whenever there was an emergency vehicle using their radio within about half a mile of this guys truck, the alarm would go off.

[KvP]

for now i have been using the strategy of repeatedly thinking about them going away on their own in the hopes that thinking about something enough makes it real.

To fans of Oprah, this is known as "The Secret". I have a friend who keeps telling me it'll change my life. I am skeptical.

Blog thread,

How does one write a cover letter? I am told it is easy, but since this is all official-like for a job I want to know exactly what I'm doing.

[Jace]

To fans of ancient chinese proverbs, that is literal. Its really not a secret, but it takes some willpower to have it actually work.

[tania]

unfortunately for oprah, my classes are telling me this is a form of denial that is associated with poorer physical and mental health. looks like i am going to have to sack up after all.

[Inlander]

Tania, why don't you write a note and tuck it under the car's windscreen-wipers? Or is there too much snow in Canada at this time of year for the note to survive?

[Tyler]

James has it right here. If it is so loud its bothering neighbors, you can call the police.

[Caleb]

An angry typed note left in the dead of night.  With the right wording it could be quite effective.

I approve.

Calling the police might work as well.  It depends.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

no no no you gotta cut & paste from magazines; it's the only way to be sure.

[Allybee]

wah wah wah college admissions process

[Aimless]

Warning, long post ahead.

But I feel like it's my obligation to dedicate a post to the most annoying XP problem I've ever had. Like, seriously. The most annoying. EVER.

Some time ago (like, some months ago), my computer decided to go totally stupid on me and stop installing new USB devices... eg. regular old USB flash memories of the kind that even stone-age computers with XP can recognise and use with minimal work (the definition of which does not include "installation") on the part of the user. Upon plugging in a USB drive, my computer would recognise it, throw up the "add new hardware wizard", mess about for a few minutes and then completely fail to install anything.

Thing is, there seemed to be no real hardware problem. My old ipod shuffle worked just fine, as did my USB mouse. But I could add nothing new (how like life ).

Updating windows didn't help (curiously enough, my computer had been completely unable to update windows for a very long time despite continually downloading and "installing" the updates). Uninstalling the USB devices, no help. Repair XP? Ha.

Today a little angel went and bought me a handy 8 GB USB drive. I thought that perhaps things had changed since I finally coaxed my comp into getting SP3, but when I stuck it in, I realised my curse was still upon me.

So I got mad and took to google... and learned two things:

1. I wasn't alone. Thousands of people have had this same problem.

2. There didn't seem to be any good working solutions that didn't involve reinstallation of XP. No-one seemed to be in the know.

It was way past my bedtime, but I'd decided that I wasn't gonna go to bed until I'd solved my problem (and posted about my success ). Google had let me down a little, but I persevered and finally chanced across the solution:

Incidentally, the paths that XP searches during a plug'n'play installation are defined
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath

Good call Martin..

After inspecting the registry key and cross-referencing it to another machine I found that it was all jacked up.

The default entry for this key appears to be '%SystemRoot%\inf'

However, the entry on the problematic machine was set to dozens of invalid paths..
It looks like this, '\inf;\drivers\USBMouse;\drivers\Stick;\drivers\Wlan;' and so on.  I deleted all this without prejudice and inserted the default entry, then rebooted.

Thanks.. The problems is now solved.

I went and took a look, and found the signs of Satan's work in my registry. I cleansed it, and, voila, problem solved.

I have performed the mandatory jig, and now all I want to do is spread the knowledge so that other victims can also help themselves.

Perhaps one day one of your machines will turn on you in a similar fashion. On that day, I hope you will quickly recall this thread, and thus avoid prolonged suffering.

Until then, rejoice with Aimy. And weep a little with him for his pitiful discipline, ffs he shoulda been in bed sleeping hours ago

PS. It might be time for a reinstall.

[sean]

Blag Thread,

I got into college today! Horray!

That is all.

[KvP]

Good show.

[Dazed]

Congrats.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

congratulations, clobs!


blog:

today i bought The Dark Knight...ON BLU RAY!!!!

god i am so futuristic.

[tania]

cut & paste from magazines

okay i have decided on this because i am maybe kind of weird, but also now incredibly curious to see whether or not he gets really freaked out and it actually works. then if it doesn't i guess i'll do the normal thing and call the police.

also, congrats on college!

[AanAllein]

Graduation ceremony tonight - my first one, as I didn't go for my undergraduate degree. Because it's a graduate diploma I apparently get a sweet gold stole (although academic dress hire is annoyingly expensive).

[ViolentDove]

To fans of Oprah, this is known as "The Secret". I have a friend who keeps telling me it'll change my life. I am skeptical.

Blog thread,

How does one write a cover letter? I am told it is easy, but since this is all official-like for a job I want to know exactly what I'm doing.

It depends on the job, as usually cover letters will be specific to the type of position offered, and the job ad itself. If it's a technical position, I would recommend asking someone you know in your field to provide you with an example, or getting a book on the subject from a University library (same goes for your C.V. as well, there are specific ways to write your C.V. which differ between professions). For example, I had to learn the correct way to present my technical publications on my C.V.

I guess my tips for cover letters would be: always err on the side of formal language, make sure you get someone else to read over it for grammar, clarity and dodgy spellcheck issues, keep it concise (half a page or under is preferable, unless the job ad specifies otherwise), and specifically address the criteria outlined in the job ad. The last part is very, very important. Use examples that cover the criteria, and say why you think your training/previous experience at Workplace X. or University B. make you uniquely and best suited for the position.

[Christophe]

Dear Blog Thread,

I don't know where else to post this (other than Music Talk) but Guys. Guys. Guys.

Chuggo has his own Wikipedia article now. By definition of being about Chuggo it is officially the greatest article on Wikipedia.

It's either going to be vandalized to fuck or deleted forthwith, but in any case--

He's on Wikipedia now, he needs sources he can cite
AHHHH C'MON FUCK A GUY

[tania]

Chuggo's life hit a rough patch in 2005 when he was featured as one of Toronto's Top Ten Most Wanted Criminals. He was accused of sexually assaulting women on subway platforms, but was later exonerated because he was incarcerated at the time of the incidents.

oh dear

[ruyi]

wah wah wah college admissions process

sympathies

[Dimmukane]

Bowel thread,

I am going insane trying to remember the name of an old fantasy movie.  It involved a kid with a book (no, not Neverending Story or the Pagemaster).  There were also fish with razors on their backs that at one point threatened to destroy the raft of the protagonist.  One was caught and eaten.  The series of threats that Wesley gives to Prince Humperdink in The Princess Bride are more or less carried out on the antagonist in this film, a witch in a tower.  I do not know when this movie was made, but it seemed to be shot with the same cameras as Willow.  In fact, it was kind of a rip off of Willow in some important ways, but it was not Willow.  I absolutely cannot figure this out.

[squawk]

The local Toys R Us video game area has a bunch of poster frames way up near the ceiling. Today I found out that a long time ago they gave away a shitload of old promo posters, including this fucking badass Metroid poster and a Mario Galaxy one, for one cent. I'm so distraught right now! I wanted that Metroid poster for so long! I guess I should have acted sooner... but I never get to go to Toys R Us! GAH DAMN IT

i'm really sad so i think i'll just go pay money for one on eBay. maybe from now on i should get promo posters from the video game stores when the game is actually out and new

[Ozymandias]

Anna.

That is actually the saddest thing I've heard all week.

I am not being factitious.

[Slick]

Do you mean 'facetious'?

[Ozymandias]

No, the Firefox spellchecker is telling me I mean factitious so that's what I mean.

Shut up, James.

[Blue Kitty]

Factitious

1: produced by humans rather than by natural forces
2 a: formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional standard b: produced by special effort

[Ozymandias]

Shut up shut up shut up

[squawk]

Leave Jordan alone you assholes

He understands

[Slick]

Yeah sorry Jordan that totally killed my boner for you.

[Ozymandias]

Man it is not my fault I spelled it wrong and I was like "Hey, that's spelled wrong. I will right-click so I don't have to think about why," and that's what Firefox gave me and I was like "well, that doesn't look like it's like that but I mean, Firefox can never be wrong," but it can and usually is.

[tania]

well, firefox also once spent an entire day trying to get me to change every word to "star bucks".



don't trust everything firefox tells you.

[Patrick]

Man Tania I think your browser's trying to tell you something

[Blue Kitty]

I think Firefox once told me I meant "tout" when I typed "out"
.
Also, thanks to your mistake I now know a new word.