Topic: Alright, WTF is the deal? Why is the whole board MIA?

[Quemaqua]

Julia just went to one of those with her Uncle, and he gets way into them and has a getup and act and everything.  But he wasn't at his home one, so they just went as tourists to the "original" out here in Marin somewhere... though I think it since moved to Gilroy because it got too big.

[Ghandi]

That's funny we went the same weekend in different states of course, did you just go for one day or camp out the whole weekend like me?

Just one day.  It was tons of fun. We just drove there in the morning since it was only an hour or so away. I spent 12 bucks on 3 beers. I felt raped.

[Quemaqua]

I felt raped.

I have news for you: you were.

[Ghandi]

Funny, I always pictured more crying.

It was worth it, though. I had a blast. There were some very funny shows, and the beer + good company only helped things.

[shock]

I paid 8$ for a shot once.  I was really drunk. ;(

[Cobra951]

Some people pay $100 for a shot at this place I like to go to.  What the heck is the name of it, Louis XIV?  Ridiculous.

[Pugnate]

Some people pay $100 for a shot at this place I like to go to.  What the heck is the name of it, Louis XIV?  Ridiculous.

That's like 50% of Masterpiece Prime! What the hell is wrong with these people?

I should open a bar.

If I had enough, I'd open a casino. Easiest money in the world.

[scottws]

Some people pay $100 for a shot at this place I like to go to.  What the heck is the name of it, Louis XIV?  Ridiculous.

Yeah I saw a bottle of that stuff at the Party Source in Newport.  It was $1,200.

[Cobra951]

. . .
Flash - monster hog
Firefox - eating 25% of my CPU right now (2.4-GHz P4)--probably cumulative effect of idle Flash crap in some tabs.  Memory use is like 360 MB.

Hahaha!  Confirmed.  I got a nifty process viewer today called Security Task Manager.  It shows that the Adobe Flash plugin in Firefox is responsible for every bit of the 20% and up CPU usage that Windows task manager shows for the browser.  It also eats 192 MB of RAM all by itself.

[scottws]

I don't know what it is with Adobe's/Macromedia's stuff.  I guess it is all bloated.  I mean even Adobe Reader is a beast, especially v8.

Flash is so bad that my g/f's PIII laptop basically is worthless for anything with Flash.  We're talking like 0.5 fps.

[Cobra951]

It's unbelievable.  There is no active animation, video or audio going on anywhere.  That's simply what it takes to keep Flash capability idle across several tabs.  I know that a P3 is too slow for it.  My ex has one.  I gave it to her.  Good PC for everything except 3D games, and of course Adobe bloatware.

[scottws]

Yeah I just don't understand.  I mean my g/f's laptop can handle other videos fine.  It struggles a bit with DivX but it's not too bad.  But Flash just brings it to its knees.  I don't know why something so horrible is so popular.

I suppose Flash is a powerful web tool, but I just don't get why its used for video at all.

[Antares]

I've got two weeks left here in lovely Artesia, NM.  I can't wait to get out.  Right now I'm in the process of trying to find a place to live in a town I've only driven through once without the luxury of being able to travel there.  I think I've got a line on a good place but won't know for sure until this weekend.  Close timing considering I need to move about 1000 miles in 15 days, but I'm sure it will work out somehow.


An update on my last few weeks since I haven't been around much.  I've been, beaten to a pulp by three instructors at once with nothing to defend myself but a foam baton, sprayed in the face with OC (pepper spray), practiced underwater combat , fired an automatic weapon for the first time, ran 7 miles and felt like it was an easy day of PT, learned to drive around a racetrack, and made an extremely questionable decision involving a female. Also, my body has stopped responding to caffiene.  A few days ago I fell asleep within 10 minutes of drinking two 16oz rockstars in a row.

[Quemaqua]

Jeezus dude.  I think that's great.  I feel like, on certain levels, I'd love to have a job that entailed that kind of training.  It would be great to have a more compelling reason to get fit other than "Because I should".