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Feb8-13, 05:02 PM   #18242
 
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Thanks I might try that. I'm hoping that when I am less tired I will recall the correct words and be able to google it.
I find it generally works better with just the main tune and not the words, like Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes doesn't come up if I sing the words but does when I hum the main tune of it.
Feb8-13, 05:46 PM   #18243
 
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I'm in the process of overhauling my home network. My primary motivation is to reduce the network latency -- and more importantly latency variation -- of my gaming computer (and secondly to get my printer up and working again.) (Yeah! )

Unfortunately I seemed to have fried my router last night. It was probably ESD from carrying it around, walking on the carpet in the cold weather. It won't even reset to its factory defaults. (Oohh. )

Fortunately I just ordered another router a couple of days ago (with a built-in WiFi and new cable modem) (Yeah! )

Unfortunately it won't arrive until next week. (Oohh. )

Fortunately, I just happened to have a brand new router just laying around (both wired and WiFi). I had intended to use it as a dumbed down print server, but now it's functioning as my primary router. Times are changing quickly. (Yeah! )

Maybe it's not a bad thing. I was thinking to myself yesterday morning before this all happened, "What the heck am I doin' with all these routers!?"

Many more network changes to come next week.
Feb8-13, 05:52 PM   #18244
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I find it generally works better with just the main tune and not the words, like Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes doesn't come up if I sing the words but does when I hum the main tune of it.
I remembered, it was jackass by beck. And the good version is blocked on youtube and I've lost the cd.
Feb8-13, 07:42 PM   #18245
 
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Keep at it HeLiXe. Try not to let them get under your skin and stay focused on your goals. Wishing you the best.
Thanks so much Borg :)
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Reading this paragraph, I can assure you, absolutely none of this matters.

-Dave K
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Helixe - some places are "where seldom is heard an encouraging word.."
Perhaps that clicque isn't really very healthy . Cultivate friends who are kind and positive.


Just keep on plugging away at school.
Some smart people just don't have that gift of "sparkling conversation", i never did and remember pining to be more 'cool'.


LOL that happened to me in kindergarten and many times since. I know the feeling well.

It's mid winter now - see what springtime brings your way.

old jim
Yes Jim I can tell you understand this well...your very first line is something I have been thinking about for a few weeks now...not one encouraging word in my offline life. Thanks so much for your reply-- this is meaningful to me. I used to be cooler when I was in high school but now I am really weird and reserved lol I don't know what happened.
Feb8-13, 08:21 PM   #18246

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The latest issue of Science says that Alan Alda, via Scientific American, is looking for the best explanation of what time is. The caveat is, that you are explaining it to an 11 year old.

http://scim.ag/AldaFlame

Alan Alda has to be one of the 10 coolest people in the universe.


Alan Alda
Feb8-13, 08:30 PM   #18247

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OMG!

Alda, 76, made his name in the 1970s when he played wisecracking army doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the hit television series M*A*S*H. Over the years, he has become fascinated with science. From 1993 until 2005, he hosted Scientific American Frontiers, a documentary series that ran on public television. From 2001 to 2002, he played famed theoretical physicist Richard Feynman in the Broadway play QED.
I would pay good money to see Alda play Feynman.

Or is that on the next PBS pledge drive:

And for a $100,000,000 pledge, OmCheeto can get a video of the play, as recorded by Ralph, 87 rows back, with the 1988 camcorder he borrowed from his sister
Feb9-13, 12:58 AM   #18248
 
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Another devastating storm!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21392242
Either I read more news or weather is just going through long period crazy cycle! Recently I was reading something that blamed El Niņo/La Niņa for increasws power outages in the US in recent years.
Feb9-13, 01:24 AM   #18249
 
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Another devastating storm!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21392242
Either I read more news or weather is just going through long period crazy cycle! Recently I was reading something that blamed El Niņo/La Niņa for increasws power outages in the US in recent years.
The Nephew of El Nino hit San Diego today. It's bitter cold and it actually hailed here for a while. (Though, it could have been golfballs the size of hail. I didn't actually inspect any of them.)
Feb9-13, 02:06 AM   #18250
 
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Everyone say a prayer for Turbo. Not because it will help but just to annoy him.
Feb9-13, 04:17 AM   #18251
 
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The Federal Government of Nigeria through provisions in Section 419 of the Criminal Code came up with punitive measures to deter and punish offenders. The Advance Fee Fraud section deal mainly with cases of advance fee fraud (commonly called 419) such as obtaining by false pretence through different fraudulent schemes e.g. contract scam, credit card scam, inheritance scam, job scam, loan scam, lottery scam (...)

This is to officially announce to you that some scam Syndicates were apprehended in Lagos, Nigeria few days ago and after several interrogations and tortures your details were among those mentioned by some of the scam Syndicates as one of the victims of their operations.

After proper investigations (...) your name was found in Western Union Money Transfer database amongst those that have sent money through Western Union Money Transfer to Nigeria and this proves that you have truly been swindled (...)

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and as a consequence of our investigations it was agreed that the sum of Two hundred thousand US Dollars ((US$200,000.00) should be transferred to you (...)


I wonder if they interrogated and tortured Jimmy Snyder's Nigerian Princess too.
Feb9-13, 06:26 AM   #18252
 
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I wonder if they interrogated and tortured Jimmy Snyder's Nigerian Princess too.
No, she sent me the $20 million. It's not her fault that I squandered it away.
Feb9-13, 11:42 AM   #18253
 
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Some parts of the Internet are very slow today. I had to cancel a Google search, and Yahoo news is not performing well.
Feb9-13, 12:48 PM   #18254
 
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Some parts of the Internet are very slow today. I had to cancel a Google search, and Yahoo news is not performing well.
I'll be praying for a speedy recovery for your Internet connection.
Feb9-13, 01:26 PM   #18255

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Feb9-13, 03:48 PM   #18256
 
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Can't say I like her other works, but this one is absolutely perfect.
Feb9-13, 04:36 PM   #18257
 
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(by Dorothee Golz)

Can't say I like her other works, but this one is absolutely perfect.
Really nice.
Feb9-13, 04:41 PM   #18258
 
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I remembered, it was jackass by beck. And the good version is blocked on youtube and I've lost the cd.
So it wasn't one of your own. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday
(wiki, sorry)

According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.[6] Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.[7]

McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work (known as cryptomnesia). As he put it, "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no-one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it."[7]
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