Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Liese S. - Aug 19, 2009 4:53:33 pm PDT #10984 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I use a totally made up something for most of my security answers. It started out with mother's maiden name. The first time it came up, they let me phrase the question. So I made it, "Are you going to tell us your mother's maiden name?" And the answer is something along the lines of "nofreakingway" which I use for lots of things.

I also used to give "Fictitious" and "Name" as my first and last names.

It's actually harder to remember my SO's secret answers. "Dude, what was your kindergarten teacher's first pet?"

And then there's my mom's, which are a conglomeration of random letters and numbers with various capitalizations stuck in there for good measure. She uses the first letters of a phrase you'll remember method, which I taught her but don't use. She's awesome.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 19, 2009 5:16:47 pm PDT #10985 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Our password for the network at the theatre is random capitalizations of "When is lunch? It's at noon."


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2009 5:22:19 pm PDT #10986 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm never sure how to spell my mother's maiden name, so often (but not predictably so) I use my maternal grandmother's maiden name. Just confuses things.

I have varying degrees of formality and security of passwords depending on what they give access to, but I don't use fake names for anything other than my extra gmail addresses. And I couldn't tell you what names I used for those.


NoiseDesign - Aug 19, 2009 5:35:00 pm PDT #10987 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I memorize random series of characters.

Yes, I know I'm a freak.


DCJensen - Aug 19, 2009 5:38:46 pm PDT #10988 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I sometimes use the numbers from my bicycle combo padlock...that I had in school...30 years ago.


Sean K - Aug 19, 2009 6:36:54 pm PDT #10989 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I am like Drew. I have a set of about six bizarre and semi-random passwords, eight to twelve characters long, that I use under different circumstances. Like, if the site is financial in nature, I use one of the two longest. If the site is fluff, I use one of the two shortest. I also have four different 4 character numerical passwords for things like ATM codes.

Especially the web site passwords, there is no possible way to guess what they are. And I have them committed to memory.

I also have at least two combinations of Drew's memorized. I'm not as crazy as Drew, but I'm in the neighborhood.


Vortex - Aug 20, 2009 1:13:39 pm PDT #10990 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Anyone have any idea why everything I print from Firefox is suddenly 50%? Word docs, PDFs, etc. are fine, but for some reason, Firefox is printing very small. I've tried printing to the big printer and the one attached to my computer. If I print from IE, it's fine.


dcp - Aug 20, 2009 1:23:28 pm PDT #10991 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Check the settings in File-->Page Setup ?


§ ita § - Aug 20, 2009 2:10:07 pm PDT #10992 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm not sure where the buttons on this mouse are. Perhaps the eyes? Hell of a job.


DebetEsse - Aug 20, 2009 3:40:30 pm PDT #10993 of 25501
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I think the top of the skull is in 2 parts that are the buttons. There's the arc above the nose-hole, and then the crack running up from that.

Very cool