Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #4,601
yomamma said:
Stop whining because we stole mac's idea and made it better. Now mac has surrendered! Microsoft software for all macs! bwahaha!
You have a pretty screwy idea of 'better'. My boss gave me her old 900mHz Pentium 4 machine, and all I use it for is to run my watch software and a couple of games. This G3 at 233mHz puts it absolutely to shame for speed of actually doing something useful. It's twice as fast on Excel or Word. I have no way to compare Photoshop, because the PC doesn't have it, but it's damned fast (loads and opens Photoshop 6 in 7 seconds). :approve:
And if you call a dual-processor 2.7mHz G5 Power Mac 'surrendering', you should seriously consider getting professional care. :-p

Moonbear said:
More like stole it and made it worse. I love my macs. My old PCs are good as doorstops though. :smile:
Damn straight. I wouldn't bother with the PC at all if Timex had made Mac software for the watch.
 
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  • #4,602
Evo said:
No easier way. The prior "quotes" disappeared with the last upgrade. Before then they would be still be visible. Without them a lot of responses don't make sense, forcing you to manually add them back. :devil:

Okay. I thought I remembered that working before. Must have been prior to the upgrade. Is it no longer possible with the new version, or do we just need to ask Greg and Chroot nicely to add it back?
 
  • #4,603
QUESTION!

is anyone here a musician?

or plays around with MIDI-based equipment?
 
  • #4,604
Danger said:
I have no way to compare Photoshop, because the PC doesn't have it, but it's damned fast (loads and opens Photoshop 6 in 7 seconds). :approve:
I've used Photoshop on both Macs and PCs (the most recent version for each). There are features on the Mac version that I don't think exist on the PC version (or they are hidden in some horribly non-obvious menu somewhere). I kindly allowed my PC-using colleagues to use one of our Macs when they wanted to do some Photoshop work and we couldn't figure out how to do stuff on their PC that seemed like pretty basic functions to me. :approve:

And if you call a dual-processor 2.7mHz G5 Power Mac 'surrendering', you should seriously consider getting professional care. :-p
Stop making me drool. I haven't upgraded to a G5 yet. But one of my colleagues got one and it was like watching a bunch of guys admiring a new car the way we all gathered around in awe! But stay away from that anemic Mac mini. What a waste! They really screwed up on that one.
 
  • #4,605
cronxeh said:
QUESTION!

is anyone here a musician?

or plays around with MIDI-based equipment?
I'm kind of a musician, if you've got a musicy music question I could probably help, but if it's a MIDI question, I'll be of no help at all.
 
  • #4,606
Moonbear said:
Okay. I thought I remembered that working before. Must have been prior to the upgrade. Is it no longer possible with the new version, or do we just need to ask Greg and Chroot nicely to add it back?
Hmmm, good question... It sure would be nice to have that back.
 
  • #4,607
so again, moonbear, and danger, what types of macs do you use?
 
  • #4,608
Huckleberry said:
I thought it was strange that he came by here too. I feel like someone took a quick dip in the backyard pool while I was asleep. When the motion detector lights woke me up I looked out there to see what was going on, but the culprit was gone. Then I notice this little note that says "Astronuc was here" and a little picture of Kilroy underneath it. And I was like "WHAT!"
Ninja training. :biggrin:
 
  • #4,609
yomamma said:
so again, moonbear, and danger, what types of macs do you use?

PowerBook G4 is what I use from home, but it travels with me everywhere and is my primary computer unless I need the larger monitor for working with images, and a G4 Power Mac at the office.
 
  • #4,610
My school has a lot of iMacs. :rolleyes: I, personally find them to be terrible and time wasting computers. "control" "copy image" "hide internet explorer" "show microsoft power point" "control" "paste image" :rolleyes:
 
  • #4,611
yomamma said:
so again, moonbear, and danger, what types of macs do you use?
Sorry, dude. I wasn't ignoring you. I answered this, but somehow it ended up in the McDonald's thread.:confused:
G3 Power Mac, at least 5 years old. 233 mHz, but I can overclock it to 300 if I want to. (I don't want to because it's in a confined area and might overheat.) 95 Mb onboard RAM with 150 Mb virtual. 1Gb hard drive. Sometimes I link it to my old Quadra because it has some programmes on it that this doesn't, such as Quark Express. It can also link to the docking station for my Duo Books, and my co-worker is giving me an old Mac of hers tomorrow, but she doesn't know what kind it is. If it's hotter than the Quadra, I'll probably hook it up to this permanently. (Most importantly, it's got a 17" monitor, because this 13" thing had been driving me nuts.)
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  • #4,612
yomamma said:
My school has a lot of iMacs. :rolleyes: I, personally find them to be terrible and time wasting computers. "control" "copy image" "hide internet explorer" "show microsoft power point" "control" "paste image" :rolleyes:
I have no idea what you're talking about. I've certainly never run across anything like that. :confused:
 
  • #4,613
Danger said:
I have no idea what you're talking about. I've certainly never run across anything like that. :confused:
Haven't you ever used an iMac?
 
  • #4,614
yomamma said:
My school has a lot of iMacs. :rolleyes: I, personally find them to be terrible and time wasting computers. "control" "copy image" "hide internet explorer" "show microsoft power point" "control" "paste image" :rolleyes:

Huh? You seem to need to learn to use the Mac! Are they still running OS 9.x? In OS 9, the task bar isn't as convenient, but in OS X, you can have a bunch of applications all open at once and just use the task bar to bring whichever one you want to the top. If you're copying a lot of things back and forth between two applications, you don't need to minimize one to open the other, just open them slightly offset from one another and you can click back and forth, or resize the view so they are side by side. You can also just drag images onto the desktop without copying, and then insert the files from the desktop. That way you don't have to keep switching back and forth between applications at all, just do everything in one, then everything in the other. You can even get a 2- or 4-button mouse and program it to do what you are used to using those buttons for on a PC until you've learned the shortcuts.
 
  • #4,615
yomamma said:
Haven't you ever used an iMac?
No... only Power Macs, LCII's, Quadras, and Duo Books.

Moonbear said:
but in OS X, you can have a bunch of applications all open at once and just use the task bar to bring whichever one you want to the top
Now you've got me confused. I do that in OS9, except just clicking on a window brings it to the front with no task bar involved. If it's hidden, Finder brings it forward with one click. If I want to copy or move something from, say, my games folder to my blueprints folder, I just click on it and drag it to 'Documents'. After it's been sitting on that for a couple of seconds, 'Documents' opens and I continue dragging to 'Art Files'. A couple of seconds on that opens it, and I continue dragging it to 'Blueprints' then drop it.
 
  • #4,616
Wow this has a lot of pages :bugeye: , going for 149! :biggrin:
 
  • #4,617
yomamma said:
Wow this has a lot of pages :bugeye: , going for 149! :biggrin:
Your preferences are set differently. It's page 394 on mine.
 
  • #4,618
Danger said:
Now you've got me confused. I do that in OS9, except just clicking on a window brings it to the front with no task bar involved. If it's hidden, Finder brings it forward with one click. If I want to copy or move something from, say, my games folder to my blueprints folder, I just click on it and drag it to 'Documents'. After it's been sitting on that for a couple of seconds, 'Documents' opens and I continue dragging to 'Art Files'. A couple of seconds on that opens it, and I continue dragging it to 'Blueprints' then drop it.

In OSX, you don't have to click on "Finder" for a drop-down menu of open applications anymore. Instead, they show up in a task bar that you can position at the bottom or side of the screen. And unlike that task bar that OS 9 uses that gets in the way a lot, you can set the one in OSX to hide until you mouse over where it should be (yes, I use mouse as a verb, hopefully the grammar police aren't watching). You can also set it so it magnifies whichever icon you're pointing at, so if you want to keep it small, you can still see what you're hovering over to decide what to click on (good feature for aging eyes).
 
  • #4,619
Moonbear said:
In OSX, you don't have to click on "Finder" for a drop-down menu of open applications anymore.
I'm getting confused again. I responded to this about 10 minutes ago, and now it's not there. That's what happened to the response to yommama's question before, and I found it posted in the McDonalds thread. I wonder if this one went somewhere else too. :confused:
 
  • #4,620
No, this one is here. I saw the one in the McDonalds thread too and was wondering what it was doing there. Maybe you have 2 PF windows open and clicked on the wrong one somehow? I've done that before when reading long threads.

Argh, I'm being bombarded by popups tonight.
 
  • #4,621
Danger said:
I'm getting confused again. I responded to this about 10 minutes ago, and now it's not there. That's what happened to the response to yommama's question before, and I found it posted in the McDonalds thread. I wonder if this one went somewhere else too. :confused:

Weird. :confused: This thread is periodically possessed. It's the immortal, demon thread. :devil: (:rolleyes: Is Integral around?)
 
  • #4,622
Moonbear said:
(:rolleyes: Is Integral around?)
That would explain a lot. Maybe I should stop referring to him as 'the old fart' and see if things clear up.
 
  • #4,623
Danger said:
That would explain a lot. Maybe I should stop referring to him as 'the old fart' and see if things clear up.

That, or you're just forgetting what thread you're in when posting replies again.

As for me, it's bedtime. I'm very slowly overcoming the insomnia. I seem to have found a dose of melatonin that makes me sleepy a little earlier each night, but without leaving me sleeping for 12 hours.
 
  • #4,624
Moonbear said:
That, or you're just forgetting what thread you're in when posting replies again.
I actually considered that for a second until I remembered that a quote response always goes back to the same thread that you're in when you quote it.

Moonbear said:
As for me, it's bedtime.
Okay, good-night. I'll probably pack it in right soon too.
 
  • #4,625
Danger said:
I actually considered that for a second until I remembered that a quote response always goes back to the same thread that you're in when you quote it.

As long as you were using the quote button and not copy/paste methods, then yeah, you had to have been in the right thread when you posted.

I saw that post show up in the McDonald's thread after seeing the question show up here first, and was rather confused about it. I think someone else wound up with a case of double posts last night too (where the same reply shows up two or three times in a row with the same time stamp). The system should block that if it was the result of a twitchy finger pressing the "send" button. Must've been a server hiccup.
 
  • #4,626
Moonbear said:
I think someone else wound up with a case of double posts last night too
Good. At least now I don't feel picked-on. :rolleyes:
 
  • #4,627
Danger said:
Good. At least now I don't feel picked-on. :rolleyes:

Don't get too comfortable. We'll still pick on you, it just didn't have anything to do with your posts jumping threads (or at least I don't think it did). :biggrin:
 
  • #4,628
Moonbear said:
Don't get too comfortable. We'll still pick on you
I consider what you guys do as 'sparring', not 'picking on'. The latter kind of infers that I'm defenseless, which I am in web matters. The coolest thing about the sparring is that people switch from ally to foe at random, depending upon the particular post that they respond to. You can't turn your back on anybody, but there's always somebody watching it for you. :biggrin: :rolleyes:
 
  • #4,629
watching.. stalking.. breathing heavily in the background of your telephone conversations..

yes.. yes indeed
 
  • #4,630
cronxeh said:
watching.. stalking.. breathing heavily in the background of your telephone conversations..

yes.. yes indeed

So, you're a stalker, huh?
 
  • #4,631
well actually that was in reference to Danger's "there's always somebody watching it for you" and the big brother
 
  • #4,632
cronxeh said:
well actually that was in reference to Danger's "there's always somebody watching it for you" and the big brother

*cues music* "It always feels like, somebody's watching you, oh oh oh..." :biggrin:
 
  • #4,633
The coolest thing about the sparring is that people switch from ally to foe at random, depending upon the particular post that they respond to. You can't turn your back on anybody, but there's always somebody watching it for you.
This is awesome.
I recognize that it feels good when someone agrees with a post I've made, and it feels bad when someone argues with a post I've made. Then it goes to a whole other level. If the argument is personal then I'm very upset and I learn little. If the argument is fair and in the spirit of understanding then it feels even better than if they agreed with me.
 
  • #4,634
Huckleberry said:
This is awesome.
I recognize that it feels good when someone agrees with a post I've made, and it feels bad when someone argues with a post I've made. Then it goes to a whole other level. If the argument is personal then I'm very upset and I learn little. If the argument is fair and in the spirit of understanding then it feels even better than if they agreed with me.

Agree? Disagree? I didn't think he was talking about the usual discussions, but the elbow jabbing we do in this thread. :biggrin:
 
  • #4,635
Moonbear said:
Agree? Disagree? I didn't think he was talking about the usual discussions, but the elbow jabbing we do in this thread. :biggrin:
Correct, but Huck has a good point too. I love a good opposing viewpoint as long as it's a reasoning exchange about a subject that I know something about. Personal attacks are pointless and generally a sign that the wielder is getting desperate.
 
  • #4,636
Danger said:
Correct, but Huck has a good point too. I love a good opposing viewpoint as long as it's a reasoning exchange about a subject that I know something about. Personal attacks are pointless and generally a sign that the wielder is getting desperate.

Well, sure, but if I just left him to make his good point, then I wouldn't have had anything to say. But I'm seriously craving pie now that I've read MIH's thread! I'd go out and get some if the thunderstorm passing through right now didn't have hail with it.
 
  • #4,637
Moonbear said:
But I'm seriously craving pie now that I've read MIH's thread!
Yeah, a nice pork pie with gravy would be excellent right now! Unfortunately, I just finished a couple of KFC Big Crunches, so I won't be hungry again for at least 3 hours.
 
  • #4,638
Moonbear said:
Well, sure, but if I just left him to make his good point, then I wouldn't have had anything to say. But I'm seriously craving pie now that I've read MIH's thread! I'd go out and get some if the thunderstorm passing through right now didn't have hail with it.
I splurged for my birthday and bought a fresh strawberry pie from the best pie place here. Mmmmm.
 
  • #4,639
Evo said:
I splurged for my birthday and bought a fresh strawberry pie from the best pie place here. Mmmmm.
Oooh, that sounds good. Do you use light or dark gravy? :-p
 
  • #4,640
Danger said:
Yeah, a nice pork pie with gravy would be excellent right now! Unfortunately, I just finished a couple of KFC Big Crunches, so I won't be hungry again for at least 3 hours.

You're just as bad as those UKish folks! I've never had a pork pie, but I do enjoy a good beef or chicken pot pie. I haven't had one of those in ages! That's something I don't know how to make myself, especially with that thick, rich brown gravy! Mmmm. Yes, I actually really like British pub food. Though, I haven't figured out why they call them mushy peas. :confused: They aren't mushy at all! They were quite tasty.

But, that's not the kind of pie I was craving...I was thinking dessert. A nice mixed berry pie would be just the thing! But, thanks, now you have me craving a second dinner AND dessert. I'm sitting here with a tub of vegetable cheese spread and crackers trying to stop my tummy from growling.
 
  • #4,641
This is funny. :biggrin: (MIH, this is for you)

Help Desk Log

---------------------------

Monday

------

8:05am

User called to say they forgot password. Told them to use password

retrieval utility called FDISK. Blissfully ignorant, they thank me

and hang up. God, we let the people vote and drive, too?


8:12am

Accounting called to say they couldn't access expense reports

database. Gave them Standard Sys Admin Answer #112, "Well, it

works for me." Let them rant and rave while I unplugged my coffeemaker

from the UPS and plugged their server back in. Suggested they try it

again. One more happy customer...


8:14 am

User from 8:05 call said they received error message "Error

accessing Drive 0." Told them it was an OS problem. Transferred them to

microsupport.

continued... http://www.jurai.org/~funaho/humor/tech.support.diary
 
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  • #4,642
I've always wanted to try a "pasty". I think it's a New England thing - sort of like a mini-deep-fried meat pie? I've heard it's pronounced to rhyme with "nasty" rather than "hasty". Have you guys ever tried those?
 
  • #4,643
Moonbear said:
You're just as bad as those UKish folks!
Common elements. Remember that we're part of the Commonwealth.

Moonbear said:
I'm sitting here with a tub of vegetable cheese spread and crackers trying to stop my tummy from growling.
So get some exercise... of your dialing finger. Order a pizza. :-p
 
  • #4,644
Math Is Hard said:
I've always wanted to try a "pasty". I think it's a New England thing - sort of like a mini-deep-fried meat pie? I've heard it's pronounced to rhyme with "nasty" rather than "hasty". Have you guys ever tried those?

It's a British thing (Welsh or Scottish I think). They're good! When I lived in MI, they had a Highland's Festival served them there...yummy! They weren't deep fried though. It's shaped like a half pie. I guess the idea was that the miners could take them to work with them, and at lunchtime, when their hands were filthy, they could hold them by the crust, eat the rest of the pasty and throw away the crust. What a shame, since the crust is the tastiest part!
 
  • #4,645
Math Is Hard said:
I've always wanted to try a "pasty". I think it's a New England thing - sort of like a mini-deep-fried meat pie? I've heard it's pronounced to rhyme with "nasty" rather than "hasty". Have you guys ever tried those?
I have always referred to pasties as Cornish, but they probably have similar fare in Wales and Scotland.

My mother and her mom made them quite often.

My mom's recipe and instructions for Cornish Pasty
 
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  • #4,646
Ah, Cornish sounds right. I was trying to remember. And, duh, it wasn't a "Highland" festival, but a "Celtic" festival (it's been a while since I was there). Quite fun to watch things like caber tossing. Though, the competitors cheated and wore spandex shorts under their kilts! Then there was a sheep dog demonstration, and a bunch of sheep escaped into the woods, at which time the demo had to be postponed while the shepherder went and found his sheep (I was there with a Welsh guy who was a fellow post-doc at the time, and we contemplated if we should offer to help him find his sheep, then decided they really wouldn't get that far and we didn't really want to go running around in the woods...he found them and was able to get them back as soon as the crowd dispersed a bit).

But, yeah, that's why I wasn't sure exactly which part of the highlands pasties are from. (I did have fun for a while pronouncing the word to rhyme with hasty. :smile:) My Welsh friend is easily embarrassed by such things. :devil:
 
  • #4,647
Moonbear said:
(I was there with a Welsh guy who was a fellow post-doc at the time, and we contemplated if we should offer to help him find his sheep
Have you forgotten that entire conversation with Brewnog? No shepherd in his right mind would let a Welshman anywhere near his sheep! :eek:
 
  • #4,648
Moonbear said:
Quite fun to watch things like caber tossing. Though, the competitors cheated and wore spandex shorts under their kilts!
I guess that's better than having their cabers hanging out! :biggrin:
 
  • #4,649
Ever just had one of those days?

Today has been one. Started out this morning when my co-worker, male, aged 32, seemed in perfect health, keeled over and died. :frown: Makes you realize that you never know.

My work laptop is dead, and the replacement they gave me doesn't work.

Driving home in the pouring rain, it appears my brakes are almost gone

I got home and had a letter from AARP letting me know that I now qualify for membership.

I knocked over my bedside lamp three times tonight, breaking the bulb each time and now I am out of bulbs. (I wonder if AARP membership gives discounts on lightbulbs)

I broke my full length mirror.

All the recipes everyone posted in the recipe thread made me really hungry and all I have to eat is a can of tuna.

I just realized that I have no clean underwear for work tomorrow.

I forgot the dog was in my bedroom and he peed on my favorite goosedown pillow. :cry: There is no saving it.

How was your day?
 
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  • #4,650
Damn, Evo! I'm sorry! That sucks! :frown:
*stuffs Haagen-Daaz and fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies into Evo's computer*
oh, almost forgot.. hang on...
*stuffs clean pair of underwear into Evo's computer via UTP (underwear transfer protocol)*
 

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