Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.

'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Sep 01, 2009 11:16:28 am PDT #6509 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I want to celebrate by buying a MacBook, but even I recognize the irony inherent in that choice.

Take the money you'd use to pay debt, save it until you have enough, then buy the MacBook for cash.

That's probably what I'm going to do, although I also need to build up my emergency fund enough to calm my paranoiac mind.


meara - Sep 01, 2009 11:18:39 am PDT #6510 of 30001

Not sure, Java--a friend of mine who worked for the cable company came over, tried to make it work, failed, and ended up talking to someone at the cable help until she got it working for me. But mine is an older tivo (DVD-burning, but not two-channel).


Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 11:19:57 am PDT #6511 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

If you have an old computer you're a big ass hard drive and a tuner from a homemade DVR. Listings aren't free though, I have to pay $20/year to get them.


erikaj - Sep 01, 2009 11:21:36 am PDT #6512 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Yeah, KO is brilliant. But he knows it, too, damn him. He can spell "Unassuming" but it's not really in his bag of tricks. Although watching him rip Beck's spelling nearly gave me a pedant-gasm. Also, I'm not sure that GB knows what "oligarch" means, either. Not that I'm completely sure, but I didn't free-associate it on national telly like Beck.


aurelia - Sep 01, 2009 11:22:36 am PDT #6513 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

If you have an old computer you're a big ass hard drive and a tuner from a homemade DVR.

Ha! I have an old Mac clone and none of the necessary skills.


Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 11:24:20 am PDT #6514 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

An old Mac clone probably wouldn't work. Old PCs are more the ticket.


aurelia - Sep 01, 2009 11:34:02 am PDT #6515 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Something like #9 [link] sounds good to me, but I don't know how old that post is or what other options exits.


Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 11:35:26 am PDT #6516 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Also, I'm not sure that GB knows what "oligarch" means, either.

There are plenty of people who would say we already have an oligarchy.


Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 11:39:06 am PDT #6517 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

My gmail notifier is telling me I have an e-mail, but I can't connect to see it. That's just not right.


tommyrot - Sep 01, 2009 11:39:38 am PDT #6518 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, I haven't ever had to ask anyone in the building I live in to keep their noise down since I lived in the dorms in college. (When I tried it then the usual reaction was for the noise-makers to intentionally make more noise.)

Anyway, I think the person who lives below me is a crazy person. Usually once I'm asleep I sleep like a log, but Sunday night the guy suddenly cranks his stereo at 11:30 PM, waking me up. I put on clothes and was about to ask him to turn it down when he did it on his own.

So last night I go to bed with earplugs on. Then I still get woken up around 1:00 by loud music, which the guy turns way down after a few minutes. He also makes weird noises, such as random loud bangs and strange vocalizations I can't begin to describe.

So what's a polite way to tell him being loud late at night is simply unacceptable? Apparently no one was in my apartment for several years - maybe he doesn't know someone has moved in?