Totally non-stripping topic that might be interesting.
AbbieNormal
Maryland
Time for another of those "get to know your fellow posters" questions. What kind of computer equiptment do you use for this board? Let's try not to start the Mac/PC wars, but I thought it might be interesting to see what we use.
I have a Dell workstation running RedHat 8, A G4 Powermac running OSX v10.4, and a 12" Powerbook running the same OS. All are connected on a home network to a cable modem.
It is my goal to get a G5 Powermac to replace the aging G4 before Apple goes to Intel chips. Of the computers I still use the G4 mac the most.
I have a Dell workstation running RedHat 8, A G4 Powermac running OSX v10.4, and a 12" Powerbook running the same OS. All are connected on a home network to a cable modem.
It is my goal to get a G5 Powermac to replace the aging G4 before Apple goes to Intel chips. Of the computers I still use the G4 mac the most.
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Yoda, if it makes you feel any better I have a very manly chili recipe that uses beef, not ground beef, no beans, no tomatos but 3 different chilis. I also can do a mean rack of ribs. Tonight I'm making steak. Don't let all the salad talk fool you.
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Actually I almost never order a Ceasar salad anymore, not only is it hard to find a good one but they give me heartburn. In fact there are only two things that almost always give me heartburn - Ceasar salads and martinis. Unfortunately they go really well together at a good restaurant, and are guaranteed to keep me awake all night long. But one must sometimes suffer for the cause.
2 heads Romaine lettuce
1/2 ts Fresh ground black pepper
1/2 ts Salt
8 tb Parmesan cheese
10 dr Worcestershire sauce
2 md Lemons, juice of
4 oz Garlic flavored oil
2 Coddled eggs
1/2 c Croutons
Break romaine lettuce into 2-inch strips, discarding outer leaves. Then pour oil over lettuce. Sprinkle pepper and salt over lettuce. Toss several times, add eggs, Worcestershire and lemon juice. Toss several times again. Sprinkle with cheese, add croutons, toss one more time. Serve immediately.
1. Rub large wooden salad bowl with cut clove of garlic ...
2. Mix anchovies, oil, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, salt, mustard and pepper in salad bowl.
3. Add romaine; toss until coated; sprinkle with croutons and cheese; toss." -- from Betty Crocker's New Cookbook, 1996, p. 318."
She left out the raw egg. Guess that's considered risky these days.
AN, why have all the bars switched to the great big olives for their martinis? Their flavor is way too strong, it destroys the drink. The little Spanish olives are just right but you never get them anymore unless you go to a little old-fashioned neighborhood bar.
Really good reds should be allowed to breathe a little, but we're talking 10 minutes or so, not a week. But I don't drink stuff that good very often - too expensive. If I don't finish a bottle of red, I refrigerate what's left. That's not as bad as it sounds, reds are meant to be served at 55-60 degrees, which is considered room temperature in Europe, not the 75 degrees of our overheated homes and restaurants here. In most US restaurants the reds are too warm.
Now I only drink wine. My typical bar conversation: "What red wines do you have by the glass?" "(names several), which would you like." "Whichever one was opened the most recently." If you're in a bar that doesn't toss all opened wine out every night at closing (they should, and I always ask), I either order the house red (which is likely to be freshest because they sell the most of it) or if I want one of their more expensive wines I ask them to open a fresh bottle for me. I've found that a lot of places will.
Every Christmas I used to give myself a bottle of good cognac. It never made it to New Year's Day.
I don't know how many people sent martinis back because it had gin instead of vodka. Why do you think James Bond always specifies a VODKA martini? Because that's different than a martini! Oddly, the "shaken not stirred" makes absolutely no sense for a vodka martini, unless your goal is to water it down. Martinis are traditionally stirred because gin, being rather fragrant and full of volatile compounds was supposed to be mixed, but not agitated (which breaks the volitale compounds down) so that when it hit your mouth the full fragrance and taste were released. With vodka it wouldn't matter, except for the fact that shaking is going to break up and melt more of the ice used to chill it into the liquid. So Bond was actually ordering a weak, wet vodka martini.
AN, I know what you mean about scotch not agreeing with you as much as it used to. I used to drink martinis (back in the days where that meant only one thing - gin and dry vermouth, but don't get me started on that subject, it's another pet peeve) and cognac in winter (nothing better than a bottle of cognac, a roaring fire, and an Agatha Christie novel on a cold winter night.) But it got to the point where I liked them more than they liked me. Now I only drink wine. It's called "aging."
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They also have a venti, which is italian for twenty. It is a twenty ounce coffee. No wonder we all work so many hours. I don't think Italians use ounces though.
I also hate Starbucks. I like Dunkin Donut's coffee more. Tim Hortons if you're in or near Canada works too. Also you don't have to speak Italian to order it.
Shadowcat, I wouldn't mind sharing my address with you but I'm not especially interested in the movie anymore. Didn't someone say that "you can never go home again."
And AN, you have hit on yet another of my pet peeves. I used to be able to walk into any coffee shop and within seconds get a black coffee to go for around a buck (actually it used to be 25 cents but that's another story.) Now I have to stand in line vof hzlf an hour behind all the yuppies buying their $5 concoctions that nobody ever heard of but that take 10 minutes to make. What's this world coming to? I won't set foot in a Starbucks because (1) they caused all this crap and (2) their coffee is terrible and grossly overpriced. The one thing I always hated about traveling to the left coast was that you couldn't get a decent cup of coffee, it all tasted like something else. End of rant.
Louis Farrakhan: Not a lawyer.
Al Sharpton: Not a lawyer (this is starting to sound like Adam Sandler's Hannukah song)
Jessie Jackson: Not a lawyer (although his son and I went to the same law school, about four years apart.)
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It's obviously hard to get. Probably afraid of lawsuits. Damn lawyers.
Disney re-released it about 1971, so I saw it as a very young boy.
The only problem that I have with this is that it's come at a very high price, and the people who have to pay the price are a very different group than those who have recived the benefits. Personally I think we've worshipped at the alter of economic efficiency a little too much. I'd prefer a kinder-gentler society with a little less economic growth but more equitable distribution of wealth. I think most of us would be happier if that were the case.
But how to get from here to there? One way is to support your local stripper. Which is of course why I do. It's a great way to transfer wealth from haves to have-nots.
I think the thing that disturbs me the most about modern technologies is the extent to which they've failed to live up to their promise, not because of the technology itself but how it's been misused. For example, when computers first came out everyone was projecting that we wouldn't have to work as many hours in the future because of the improvement in efficiency that they promised. Do you see anyone working fewer hours as a result of computers? I see just the opposite. Similarly when I'm at the gym it often occurs to me that the reason we're all there is because our modern conveniences have robbed us of needed exercise. Kinda funny when you think about it.
I think my mother would agree with you to a great extent. We have so many more conveniences and luxuries and time, but we don't seem to know how to use them. As I mentioned in passing, there is the example of the wash. Washing clothes takes a fraction of the time and effort it used to take, but we now have so many more clothes, and we wash many after a single wearing that overall we don't save labor. We have TV instead of newspapers, but we're certainly no better informed. We have home theater systems, so now we sit on the couch eating cheetos instead of getting out on the town for a show or a dance. We used to have front porches, where all the neighbors would go on summer evenings to cool down and socialize. Now we have air conditioning and back decks with privacy fences. Kids used to just play in the neighborhood. Now they are shuttled around from activity to activity, never left without adult supervision, and hence never required to develop social skills to deal with others, or to develop any sense of themselves and their interests. I think so many are ADD because they aren't ever required to think for themselves. I see a lot of the things we've lost, and agree with you. Of course I don't want to give up all the advances we've made, I just think we need to keep them in perspective. They are things, and they don't define us.
Wow, talk about really being off topic from strip clubs...
Everyone in our area had party telephone lines - if your neighbor was on the phone you couldn't make a call but you could listen in. I also remember that we used to have a big block of ice delivered every Saturday for our ice box. I also remember houses being quarentined when someone had something like chicken pox. I still think that's a great idea to quarantine houses where serious infectious illness is present, why don't we do that anymore? The first movie I ever saw was "Gone With The Wind" in it's original version. I think the second one was "Song of the South." Anyone remember that one? It's not shown much because it isn't very PC. I was in high school when movies began appearing in color. And in college when color TV started to become popular - the first ones were awful. I bought my first car for $135 and sold it a year later after I installed seat belts and turn signals - it had neither when I bought it. But nothing ever went wrong with it. And the back seat was like a big sofa, wow what a great car for the all-night drive-in. But maybe my greatest memory is seeing Chuck Bednarik make that shoe-string game-ending tackle that beat Penn State - I believe it was the first football game I ever saw. Penn - Penn State was a big rivalry in those days. My uncle had just returned from WWII and was a Penn State student. He had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for participating in something like 60 bombing missions over Germany. He never talked about it. Another uncle who had been a simple farm boy never recovered mentally from the hand-to-hand combat he experienced on the ground all across Europe and was an alcoholic the rest of his life. I never understood growing up why no one in the family ever criticized him for his drinking. It was years before I understood.
We're blessed with the healthiest, wealthiest and safest country the world has ever known. So why are so many people so unhappy? What ever happened to civility? I find the loss if civility to be the greatest disappointment of my life. And I think the misuse of technology has been the major cause.
There are things in research and development now that make the technology in sci-fi entertainment look possible or even quaint and old-fashioned. A cold beer and a warm naked 19 year old blonde with a smile on her face never seems to go out of style though.
I write code on my Celeron too. I don't need a high-powered machine to write or test code, only to run it in production scenarios -- which of course I would never do on my home PC.
What kind of a geek engineer would I be if I went out & bought a computer?? All of the other geek engineers woulda laughed at me, and then they wouldn't let me sit with them at their geek table in the cafeteria at work. They can be so cruel.
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My pc is old even by my standards since I used to do a lot of pc gaming. It's a Pentium III. My favorite games used to be Axis and Allies, Total Annihilation, Warcraft, Age of Empires II (I think) and RTS (real time strategy) in general. I haven't bought an Xbox or playstation since I don't believe you can get the thinking sort of strategy game I enjoy. I don't really enjoy the click, click, click or pressing buttons as fast as possible to try to beat an opponent. I think that is not strategic thinking but a press the button competition. I seem to be busy with relatives now and reading and surfing the internet especially at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/
which seems to have taken all my time away from playing pc games much anymore. I have to work time in to go to strip clubs sometime. :)
Since my time seems limited, I have tons of now older pc games to play and finish and this pc I have is just fine for that and surfing the net.
I'm not really not completely divorced from modern technology. I just know that there is no way I could keep up with most of the people on this board.
Chitown, I'm guessing you have some sort of Windows machine on your desk.
In deference to Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, I outsource all my IT stuff.
I could give your inquiry to my IT guy, but he is already having enough culture shock in reference to his upbringing in Singapore that he doesn't also need to be exposed to this board. It might kill him, or at least make him paddle himself.