Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.

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

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megan walker - Apr 16, 2012 9:07:39 am PDT #19877 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Zen Master,

I no longer have that version of Windows, but can you go to the picture file, right-click, and choose "set as desktop background" as an option?


amych - Apr 16, 2012 1:53:24 pm PDT #19878 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Dana! I did a little thinking on the WordPress links question, and didn't come up with anything super-awesome that wasn't either spammy & gross or Too Much (and needing custom work) or just way out of date. And then this rolled through my twitter feed just now, and it looks just lovely for a giant collection of links and descriptions and associated tags: [link]


Dana - Apr 16, 2012 3:35:25 pm PDT #19879 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Awesome, thanks! I will read up on it a lot.


omnis_audis - Apr 16, 2012 4:51:54 pm PDT #19880 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

For those of you who miss BBS days... a Google search via simulated BBS, with cool sounds and everything: [link]

I recommend the "search" function rather than the "lucky", as the lucky just takes you to the page, rather than letting you experience the read out of search hits.


Zenkitty - Apr 16, 2012 5:33:54 pm PDT #19881 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I no longer have that version of Windows, but can you go to the picture file, right-click, and choose "set as desktop background" as an option?

That worked! I am still baffled - when I tried it before, I didn't have that option.

Thank you, megan walker, you've saved me from the embarrassment of having my Editor in Chief see a saucy Benedict on my desktop. (If he'd asked me if that was my boyfriend, I was totally gonna say yes.)


Dana - Apr 16, 2012 5:39:42 pm PDT #19882 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Does Zen know the spikelust story?


megan walker - Apr 16, 2012 5:41:21 pm PDT #19883 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Thank you, megan walker, you've saved me from the embarrassment of having my Editor in Chief see a saucy Benedict on my desktop. (If he'd asked me if that was my boyfriend, I was totally gonna say yes.)

We don't want another "spik-el-oost" situation!

In other positive tech news, not only will dropping cable save me $50+/month over the next year (even with upgrading my DSL, switching to Netflix streaming with 1DVD, and adding HuluPlus), but it turns out by not using the cable box I can finally watch 1 channel while taping another.

ETA: spik-el-oost x-post!


Zenkitty - Apr 16, 2012 5:43:28 pm PDT #19884 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Does Zen know the spikelust story?

I do! Sometimes just for fun I say "spik-el-oost" and LAUGH.


meara - Apr 16, 2012 7:23:53 pm PDT #19885 of 25501

Hee. When I started at my last company, I was still very amused by that, and somehow ended up using "pikelust" (minus the S??) with a number on the end as one of my passwords.

Turned out that was the one password you couldn't change (most made us change every 90 days). I had it for four whole years.


Vortex - Apr 16, 2012 8:23:33 pm PDT #19886 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I do! Sometimes just for fun I say "spik-el-oost" and LAUGH.

me too!