'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'

Jayne ,'Safe'


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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


§ ita § - Aug 20, 2009 5:30:08 pm PDT #10994 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

For some reason an articulated skull is much grosser to me that a mouse made out of a real skull. Although if that's really sheep it must be a lamb. Maybe that's how come--the skull hasn't fused yet.