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Holy FUCK!

Post by Jane Eric » Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:47 am

Step away from the keyboard and nobody will get hurt. Holy Fuck! I'm #10 in the top ten posters. How the fuck did that happen? Really. What an eye~opener. Time to get out to the workshop or something. Must create. Must step away. must Must MUST.

Dang.

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Post by III » Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:52 am

Avatars

(i'd use the subject line, but it's almost invisible)

if you want to do a jpeg, you can crank up the compression. if you do it as a gif, you can reduce the size of the color table. if you turn of dithering, it allows for longer runs in the rlc, thus reducing the file size.

in large part, it depends on the image that you choose, because some just suit themselves to compression better than others.
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Post by Zane5100 » Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:56 am

blahblahblah...

Now I feel better.
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Post by PJ » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:07 am

Jane Eric wrote:there's two places to Fuck! on the e-playa, how can that be bad? I mean, there's ~two places to Fuck! on the e-playa~ we oughta get started.
A dearth of locations has never been the bottleneck.

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Post by Halo Joe » Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:35 pm

Lydia Love wrote:Have you checked the "top ten posters" thing in the memberslist yet?

If you still feel pathetic you can at least know you're not as pathetic as some...of...us...
Quiet you!
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Post by RebA! » Thu Sep 11, 2003 6:04 pm

Are any of you or know a jason haber? I just got a friendster thing from him and i dont know who he is. As much as I love having more friends i would like to know who i am adding to my list
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Post by Ivy » Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:05 pm

Yes--
Well, sort of.
I think it might be the same person.

See, I had an ad on Obtainium looking for website design in exchange for my seamstress skills. A few months went by and no one answered, until one day he wrote to me about the offer. In the mean time, my dad redisgned my website (I don't really like it, but I've got to keep it for a while; don't wann hurt my dad's feelings). he was looking to make a men's suit out of Twister mats. I said I would try, and I gave it my best shot (some of you may remember me bitching about in before BM, along with the &**^(&(%(%& Oklahoma costumes...)
Anyway, I finshed it and shipped it to him, and we had the best intentions of meeting up and exchanged playa addresses, yadda yadda yadda. You know how it goes on the playa--totally forgot all about it.
So I'm working in the cafe right after the burn, when it starts to get busy and this guy in a Twister suit comes up to my register.
So I'm like, "Nice suit."
He says, "Thanks."
I say: "I made it."

We were finally introduced.
Didn't have much time to talk, but it was still cool to meet up. Probably on of the best parts of working the cafe.

Anyway, what was that about making a long story short...?

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Post by PJ » Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:23 pm

Ivy wrote:a men's suit out of Twister mats
.jpg?

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Post by Ivy » Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:53 pm

.jpg?
That's one of the reasons we had "palnned" to meet up...I did want to get some pics of it, but never happened. If anyone sees any, I hope you'll send 'em my way.

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Post by nymphgonebad » Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:55 pm

PJ wrote:
Jane Eric wrote:there's two places to Fuck! on the e-playa, how can that be bad? I mean, there's ~two places to Fuck! on the e-playa~ we oughta get started.
A dearth of locations has never been the bottleneck.

there's fucking on e-playa and i wasn't invited? sniff.

the princess is saddened

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Post by Lydia Love » Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:10 pm

I get to be in a show called 'Love Letters' with talented people who give a shit about doing good art.

<happy dance> Wheeee!

Just had to get that out there.
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Post by PJ » Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:49 am

princess strych-9 wrote:there's fucking on e-playa and i wasn't invited? sniff.
It didn't last very long. You might have found it more frustrating than satisfying.

I blame over-stimulation due to Reba's animated cow pictures.

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Post by JonoVision » Fri Sep 12, 2003 9:57 am

There's hangovers, then there's LoneStar hangovers..... uurgh.

My van seems to be paying me back for having transported me to Mexico without a problem back in 2001, then sitting in storage for 2 years while I gallavanted around England and Asia. At least it's been picking relatively good places to break down - just outside Lordsburg, NM, where a couple of local mechs who'd never had their heads under anything that didn't come out of Detroit or Osaka managed to do a bandaid solution that allowed me to limp all the way to Austin. At least I got my lovely rideshare companion home in time to be at work. Then after $300+ worth of fuel pump at the Underground Metaphysical VW Repair shop in Austin, it got me 40 miles toward Dallas before conking out in Jerrall, TX. Funny, the last time I was there I was huddling under an overpass while a tornado ripped overhead (and went on to kill a dozen or so people in the nearby trailer park). Anyway, it's good to be back in The State That Rhymes With Excess, whatever the circumstances.

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Post by PJ » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:06 am

JonoVision wrote:...a tornado ripped overhead (and went on to kill a dozen or so people in the nearby trailer park).
Probably didn't even make the evening news. Most Texan trailer parks lose that many from drunk driving on any Friday night.

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Post by JonoVision » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:26 am

Fuck.... Johnny Cash, 1932-2003 R.I.P..... a damn fine man

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Post by Lydia Love » Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:55 pm

RIP John Ritter as well.

Ok Ok he's doesn't have a fraction of the cool factor of the man in black - but I feel sad anyway.

My little sister is going to be crushed. Ritter was the cartoon voice of Clifford The Big Red Dog.
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Post by Lydia Love » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:01 pm

While doing dusty laundry today I ran across a ziplock bag with a strange organic substance enclosed. It was gifted to us on the playa and somehow never got consumed.

Glad I searched that pocket before loading it into the washer.






p.s. I just ate some
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Post by PJ » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:28 pm

Lydia Love wrote:My little sister is going to be crushed. Ritter was the cartoon voice of Clifford The Big Red Dog.
Yeah, well, he shouldn't have shit on my lawn.

Had to rent a backhoe and dump truck to clean up that last one.

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Post by herself » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:43 pm

hey you

YEAH YOU

post on my board!

and if you can't post, bitch about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://famouslibrarian.com/servlet/ListThread

[reminds me of last year when III was trying
to get people to post on his thing and no one
wanted to do it, oh well.....]

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Post by herself » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:44 pm

And by the way mr iii

tell me this is not a good url:

http://famouslibrarian.com/servlet/ListEplaya?thread=2

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Post by Badger » Fri Sep 12, 2003 9:30 pm

Hi everybody.

I'm back.

So, can someone tell me how to place one of them cutsie smiley things into my posts?
Desert dogs drink deep.

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Post by TestesInSac » Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:06 am

herself wrote:hey you

YEAH YOU

post on my board!

and if you can't post, bitch about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://famouslibrarian.com/servlet/ListThread

[reminds me of last year when III was trying
to get people to post on his thing and no one
wanted to do it, oh well.....]

[bitch]WTF? Either Sacramento, CA is too much of a cow town to list in the dropdown, or else you just don't want me there.[/bitch]

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Post by PJ » Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:57 am

Badger wrote:can someone tell me how to place one of them cutsie smiley things into my posts?
No.

But if you need a really talented artist to create your very own custom image of bad things happening to cows, contact RebA.

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Post by III » Sat Sep 13, 2003 9:47 am

>tell me this is not a good url:

>http://famouslibrarian.com/servlet/ListEplaya?thread=2

a better url would be one that had a mnemonic key for the thread, rather than a number. relational databases are good enough that, say, the first 12 characters from the thread title make a sufficient key and give some indication as to what you're reading.

either a url tells me what i'm going to be looking at, or it doesn't. if it doesn't, it doesn't really matter how it fails, i think.

btw this is all just my personal amateur opinion based on 20 years of passing interest (i.e. i never got paid for it) in hci, and i'm not really all that picky about urls in bbs systems, and i think it kicks ass that h is coming up with an alternative.
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Post by Badger » Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:07 pm

PJ, you above most all othere I'd hope to speak to at the Meet and Greet. Forgive my gag reflex when you pulled out the, um, Cow Uterus Probing Glove(TM).

I did have to step away for some air.

So many of you other sick fucks I wanted to meet.

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Post by PJ » Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:19 pm

Badger wrote:Forgive my gag reflex when you pulled out the, um, Cow Uterus Probing Glove(TM).
My work is done.

Badger wrote:where's my fucking gift?
You left without the glove? I can only imagine where it ended up.

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Post by TestesInSac » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:29 am

There's something about a teddy bear with a bazooka (or LAWS) that gives me a demonic giggle. Thanks, Badger!

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Post by Badger » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:36 am

I thought some of you might like it. Got a few dozen sick avatars waiting to be presented.
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Shit, Shit, Shit....

Post by Last Real Burner » Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:58 am

Here is my pic from the meet and greet

Image

Anybody remember seeing me... it all seems so hazy...

perplexably,
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Re: Shit, Shit, Shit....

Post by PJ » Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:10 pm

Last Real Burner wrote:Here is my pic from the meet and greet
My eyes get like that too when I forget to bring goggles. Is that Rob's back you're massaging?

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