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Post by lois on Aug 12, 2013 20:08:14 GMT -6
Remind me, what brand of computer are you using these days? My parents bought a new laptop for my son for graduation. They didn't listen to my advice, and got him a ___________________. He's already needed someone to work on it . I have both a Gateway and a Toshiba. When one breaks I switch to the other so I can keep getting on the internet, otherwise I would be away from the forum so many times you guys would probably forget who I was. I like my Gateway computer. When something goes wrong it is usually my doing.
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Post by skywalker on Aug 12, 2013 20:12:50 GMT -6
Yup, me too. I usually do such boneheaded things like touch it...or look at it...and heaven help us all if I actually turn it on and try doing something on it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 23:23:38 GMT -6
My HP bit the dust after 8 years..now I have a borrowed Vizio I figured after 8 years..the HP was entitled
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 12:14:57 GMT -6
My Hp lasted 8 yrs. too! I like my Dell. I passed my expensive Toshiba down to the kids, and I still have to get it unwhacked for them every now and then!
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Post by skywalker on Aug 13, 2013 19:56:17 GMT -6
The first computer I ever had was a Toshiba laptop that lasted seven years before it kicked the bucket. It was a good little puter which is why my second laptop was also a Toshiba. That one lasted about three months before it went in to cardiac arrest and the hard drive had to be replaced. After that it went about two weeks and quit working again. I guess they don't make them like they used to.
The Gateway I have now cost half as much as my new Toshiba (the third one) and it works just as well. I use the Gateway most of the time because the way I kill computers I figure it's only a matter of time before it goes kaput. If one is going to die I would rather it be the cheap one than the expensive one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2013 1:17:40 GMT -6
Speaking of computers sky I broke the safe at work again today lol... I put a one dollar bill into the bill acceptor(like the ones on vending machines) and it wouldn't take it. I tried it three times then the safe started making this noise: "REEEEEE! REEEEEE! REEEEEE!" I was standing there looking at it like Looked at my customer at the counter and said, "Great. I broke the *&$# thing!" The customer replied, "Hit it with a hammer!" "Good idea..." The safe spit a little slip of paper out of it. I tore it off and read it. BILL ACCEPTOR NUMBER TWO IS JAMMED. PLEASE CREDIT LORELEI CASHIER #14 WITH THE BILL JAMMED IN BILL ACCEPTOR NUMBER TWO. I have worked for that company for almost a year now and I have never seen that darn machine ever do that before...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2013 12:03:52 GMT -6
Gosh, the way that reads, sounds like you get the credit for jamming it! (no, you get the dollar back when they fix the stupid thing )
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Post by skywalker on Aug 20, 2013 22:14:09 GMT -6
I was out running just now and I got hit in the head by a bat. Not a baseball bat but a real bat...the kind that flies. No, somebody didn't throw a baseball bat at me...it was a real live bat with wings and stuff. What kind of a silly retarded bat would smack somebody in the back of the head while they are running?
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Post by auntym on Aug 20, 2013 23:41:20 GMT -6
I was out running just now and I got hit in the head by a bat. Not a baseball bat but a real bat...the kind that flies. No, somebody didn't throw a baseball bat at me...it was a real live bat with wings and stuff. What kind of a silly retarded bat would smack somebody in the back of the head while they are running? god punishes...LOL
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 2:07:15 GMT -6
You always have such terrible luck when you go out running...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 0:51:35 GMT -6
I was out running just now and I got hit in the head by a bat. Not a baseball bat but a real bat...the kind that flies. No, somebody didn't throw a baseball bat at me...it was a real live bat with wings and stuff. What kind of a silly retarded bat would smack somebody in the back of the head while they are running? Take a stick and tie it to a string. Swing it around your body when a bat is present,,,,,,,
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Post by skywalker on Aug 22, 2013 11:14:04 GMT -6
That's him! It's the one with the silly grin on his face. I don't think swinging a stick would have helped much. I didn't even know the furry little fiend was there until he smacked me in the head. I was wondering how long it would take for the batman jokes to start showing up. BTW...I'm Batman.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 1, 2013 17:12:16 GMT -6
Another Halloween has come and gone and once again it leaves behind some interesting memories. I had kind of a weird experience last night. I went out and ran 18 miles which meant that I didn't need to wear a Halloween costume because I started out as a crazy person and ended up looking like a zombie. That's not the interesting part though. The interesting thing is that a couple of freaky things happened that were perfectly fitting for a Halloween. I started running late in the evening because I had to work all day so it was already getting dark when I started. It wasn't long before it was totally black except for the lights from a nearby parking lot. For some reason a bunch of spiders must have decided to invade or something because the air was filled with floating spider webs. I could see them reflected by the lights as they sailed on by on their journey to wherever they ended up. Many of them were stuck to trees and light poles and hanging off of power lines. They were everywhere. As I was running along minding my own business I felt something small hit me in the face. I reached up and brushed it off and it fell down and clung to my arm. I looked down and saw that it was a little hairy black nasty-looking spider. I really do not like spiders, especially when they are crawling on me. I quickly brushed the thing off of my arm and it then fell down and latched onto my shoe and started to crawl up my leg while I did a weird disco dance in the street trying to get the darned thing off of me. Luckily nobody could see me making a fool of myself because I'm sure I looked pretty foolish. After that little episode the weirdness really began. I was still running along minding my own business when a coyote ran across the street in front of me and crawled under a fence about twenty feet away. It then started jogging alongside of me keeping pace with me. I have never seen a coyote do that before. Usually they head for the hills as soon as they see a person but this one seemed almost tame...almost. After about a quarter of a mile it disappeared into the bushes. About a half hour later I had stopped to get a drink of water and as I started running again I suddenly heard a weird thrashing sound in the grass behind me. I quickly whirled around thinking I was being attacked by a rabid elephant or something but instead saw that crazy coyote come running past me as fast as he could go. He disappeared into the bushes again. About an hour later when I had finished running (finally ) I was walking across this big empty field towards the truckstop where I had parked when I once again heard something running up behind me. I turned around and saw that same coyote charging at me at full speed! He looked like he was going to attack! When he saw me facing him he veered off to one side and circles away from me. I turned and started walking again and once again heard the pitter patter of feet coming up behind me. I whirled around again and there the animal was charging towards me again. Once again he backed off when he saw me looking at him. I kept walking backwards for a while and the coyote kind of milled around and acted like he was looking at the ground but I knew what he was thinking. He was obviously waiting for me to turn around again. I soon did but almost immediately whirled back around and once again the crazy beast was charging straight at me! Once again he backed off when he saw me facing him. I finally decided to just walk backwards all the way to the truckstop so I wouldn't get mauled by a crazy coyote. When I got to the truckstops where all the lights and people were the animal finally gave up and ran off back into the darkness. I have no idea what that crazy animal was thinking. Coyotes usually do not behave like that at all. I don't know if he was actually trying to attack me (which would also be extremely unusual) or was just playing some silly coyote game. It was definitely weird though and especially because it was Halloween. Maybe it was a werewolf trying to put the chomps on me so it could turn me into a werewolf too. Stupid werewolf.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2013 1:24:30 GMT -6
Sounds like the coyote was playing with you.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2013 9:27:11 GMT -6
At first I was laughing, because you're such a great storyteller, Sky! And then, I got serious. Have you not heard about this? kdvr.com/2013/10/16/man-suffers-injuries-while-fighting-off-3-attacking-coyotes/And in August a young guy had to pry a lone wolf (with jaw problems) off of his head, within 30 miles of where my kids were camping with their dad in Minnesota. It does sound like the coyote wanted to run with you at first. Then as he got hungrier I guess your speed made you look a little more like a deer. I wonder what could have happened if you had sat down to drink your water?? I'm so glad you're OK!
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Post by skywalker on Nov 3, 2013 14:42:42 GMT -6
I doubt that a coyote could hurt me even if it wanted to. They aren't very big. I've never even heard of one attacking a person before unless it was a small child and they don't do that very often either. I don't know what that crazy fiend was up to. It didn't seem aggressive at first and I'm still not sure it was later on either. It was just very weird. I know a little bit about predatory behavior and I know that animals like wolves, coyotes and dogs always attack from behind (unless they are trained domesticated dogs). A pack of wolves will surround its prey and while one wolf distracts the animal from the front another will attack from behind usually biting at the legs then running away when the animal turns around at which point one of the other wolves attacks from behind. They keep doing that sometimes for hours or even days until the prey animal either bleeds to death or succumbs to exhaustion. That's why I knew if I turned to face the coyote he would back off. Maybe it was just playing some silly Halloween coyote game. It will still weird though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2013 14:54:57 GMT -6
I know a little bit about predatory behavior and I know that animals like wolves, coyotes and dogs always attack from behind (unless they are trained domesticated dogs). A pack of wolves will surround its prey and while one wolf distracts the animal from the front another will attack from behind usually biting at the legs then running away when the animal turns around at which point one of the other wolves attacks from behind. I had three wolves do that to me once. Two of them jumped out of the woods onto the road in front of me, growling at me. I heard a rustling behind me, slowly turned around and saw another one trying to sneak up behind me out of the woods and when he saw me he froze and also started growling at me... it was pretty terrifying. I very slowly bent down and picked up a large rock that happened to be next to my foot... and slowly and confidently walked away from them. They followed me cautiously for about a minute, staying several feet behind me before they retreated back into the woods. Thank God I was able to intimidate them enough into deciding I wouldn't be an easy dinner for them...
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Post by skywalker on Nov 4, 2013 17:11:11 GMT -6
That was good thinking, Lorelei. Animals can sense fear. If you had panicked and tried to take off running or something you would probably be wolf poop right now. Acting confident caused them to lose some of theirs. Of course I'm sure it helped that you are an amazon. Wolves don't normally mess with amazons unless they want to get their furry butts kicked. I was attacked by a pack of dogs about a year ago while I was out running. One was a big ugly stupid looking pit bull and another was a giant sheep dog that looked like a wooly mammoth. I proceeded to give a mighty bonsai scream and charged straight at them like a lunatic. That made them think twice. Apparently they had no idea they were dealing with a lunatic. Lunatics can be even more dangerous than amazons.
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Post by casper on Nov 7, 2013 18:33:18 GMT -6
I know a little bit about predatory behavior and I know that animals like wolves, coyotes and dogs always attack from behind (unless they are trained domesticated dogs). A pack of wolves will surround its prey and while one wolf distracts the animal from the front another will attack from behind usually biting at the legs then running away when the animal turns around at which point one of the other wolves attacks from behind. I had three wolves do that to me once. Two of them jumped out of the woods onto the road in front of me, growling at me. I heard a rustling behind me, slowly turned around and saw another one trying to sneak up behind me out of the woods and when he saw me he froze and also started growling at me... it was pretty terrifying. I very slowly bent down and picked up a large rock that happened to be next to my foot... and slowly and confidently walked away from them. They followed me cautiously for about a minute, staying several feet behind me before they retreated back into the woods. Thank God I was able to intimidate them enough into deciding I wouldn't be an easy dinner for them... Holy cow Lorelei!! It's a good thing you didn't get ate up. It sounds like the wolves were stalking you for dinner! I liked skywalkers story about the coyote. Only he could get himself into a mess like that. Its cool that it happened on Halloween too. I wish I could have seen the coyote. I don't think I've evr seen one before. I've seen a few wolves and bobcats and things but no coyote.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 7, 2013 21:16:48 GMT -6
A coyote just looks like a small skinny wolf...unless he's charging at you in the darkness. In that case he will look more like a rabid demon werewolf from Hades.
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Post by skywalker on Feb 3, 2014 20:45:01 GMT -6
I just took some Star Wars quiz to find out which character I was and it said that I was... ...Luke Skywalker. Imagine that. I always wondered why I was able to sign up on the old MUFON forum when there were already several thousand members and yet nobody had taken the nickname "skywalker." People must have known I was coming. Here's the quiz if y'all want to take it. I assume the link works. www.zimbio.com/quiz/Ukldm8Pi5Ub/Star+Wars+Character?result=lR7oWcH3DZp
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Post by casper on Feb 6, 2014 19:15:35 GMT -6
I took the silly quiz and it said I was Chewbacca. I'm not a big giant bigfoot. It said I was friendly andloyal. Maybe that's why.
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Post by casper on Feb 6, 2014 19:23:59 GMT -6
Oh heck! I don't mind being Chewie. If I was a bigfoot I could run around and smash stuff and people would argue about if I existed.
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Post by skywalker on Feb 6, 2014 22:13:43 GMT -6
Dude, you look just like Chewbacca. As hairy as you are you guys are probably twins.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2014 13:25:44 GMT -6
well, I guess I'm "Queen Amidala" . Something 'bout being a "peacekeeper" . . . . .
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Post by auntym on Feb 7, 2014 15:45:56 GMT -6
Hahaha... i am:
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Post by skywalker on Feb 8, 2014 7:49:44 GMT -6
Hahaha... i am: 900 years old?? That can't be right, auntym...you don't look a day over 750.
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Post by skywalker on Feb 8, 2014 7:55:45 GMT -6
well, I guess I'm "Queen Amidala" . Something 'bout being a "peacekeeper" . . . . . That sounds kind of like you, Jc. This crazy quiz appears to be pretty accurate so far. It got me and Casper right on.
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