Hanzo21 wrote:

Yeah, they weren't dumped. They are around $8 a bottle now. Someone drank them. Bring on the girls? It's hard to meet single girls at the workplace. Bars are no good. Church is no good. I don't know how to meet girls any more.

exactly.....where's the single girls at?
maybe we can join the otaku in Akiba, and just hang out at the maid cafe's....and get lucky and hook up with one of them hot j-girls....yeah right...!

qilver wrote:

exactly.....where's the single girls at? maybe we can join the otaku in Akiba, and just hang out at the maid cafe's....and get lucky and hook up with one of them hot j-girls....yeah right...!

Hanzo21 wrote:

At lunch on Friday us old dudes were wondering if the college campuses were all wireless "Hot Spots" now. And if everyone had a laptop they carried to classes (for notes and math problems).

I wouldn't be surprised, especially the pricier campuses.

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We did all our math work with paper and pencil. The computer was at the lab and was considered a tool. Hardly anyone had one of their own.

Same here.

We did have calculators, but the computers we had used punched cards(!) and we had to watch out jobs being processed on a single monitor...

After finals, we were so happy to be done with that crap, we went to the top of the engineering building and threw our boxes of punched cards off the roof: the court below was covered with cards...

bmwracer wrote:

Same here. We did have calculators, but the computers we had used punched cards(!) and we had to watch out jobs being processed on a single monitor... After finals, we were so happy to be done with that crap, we went to the top of the engineering building and threw our boxes of punched cards off the roof: the court below was covered with cards...

the time during when i went to college....the computers/internet was slowly taking off....and it was about the time when students got assigned an email address, and finally they set up a computer room for internet/email use, it was all new at the time. Now it is everywhere, laptops etc........

Catching up here before I do some marking.

I remember back in grade 4 when computers were just tools and not really used in the mainstream. Then around grade 6 we started to get some in the classrooms, but mostly as typing tools. Then of course there was a boom.

Now, as a teacher, we expect everything typed up when work is handed in, since it's common for on household to have at least one computer. The progression was speedy, to say the least. But then, all type of technology starts slow, and then has it's boom.
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Laundry.

Cleaning my room. It's a mess. I hardly have any walking space.
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bmwracer wrote:

Same here. We did have calculators, but the computers we had used punched cards(!) and we had to watch out jobs being processed on a single monitor... After finals, we were so happy to be done with that crap, we went to the top of the engineering building and threw our boxes of punched cards off the roof: the court below was covered with cards...

LOL
Had to use those punch card for awhile. But never got to throw them off the top of building.

There was one special command that could be put on the card to automatically format the code (Pretty Print). But it took up a lot of cpu and it was forbidden.

Hanzo21 wrote:

That would be cool! Lot of crack downs recently though. A friend in Canada sent some La Fin du Monde to my house in Texas. The box had been ripped open and re-taped. There was a note from the Postmaster saying the contents were discarded (yeah, right). The empty bottles were in the box though. But we can get it here anyway. That's pretty much of a man's beer. If you haven't tried that one... give it a shot. Don't get the 12 ouncers, get the lieter bottles with the cork.

I used to drink this stuff in colledge. A little bit pricier, but almost 10% alcohol.

Was the note coherent or something like "sdhkjer er dump, ssch WHAT?"
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tabana wrote:

I used to drink this stuff in colledge. A little bit pricier, but almost 10% alcohol. Was the note coherent or something like "sdhkjer er dump, ssch WHAT?"

Come on Toshi!

Checking emails at work: 170 emails, 168 of them spam.

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That would be cool! Lot of crack downs recently though. A friend in Canada sent some La Fin du Monde to my house in Texas. The box had been ripped open and re-taped. There was a note from the Postmaster saying the contents were discarded (yeah, right). The empty bottles were in the box though.

That's awful...and illegal, right? Tampering with someone's mail? I bet they drank it and then stuck the note in the box.

Things like that happen here in Scotland a lot. There was a documentary on the tele a couple of years ago that revealed what goes on in the Royal Mail service and exposed a lot of crimes committed before the mail is even sent to its destination. Also a common thing here...mail bags being dumped into rivers because the mailperson was too lazy to complete his/her route.

I'm off to bed now...got another week to get through.

Tu_triky wrote:

Come on Toshi!

Every time you type that...... it reminds me of a song they used to use to advertise the cricket over here.....

"Come on Aussie come on, come on........"

Gives it a whole new meaning.

I am now imagining "Come on Toshi come on, come on........" to the same tune

Watching Mets-Cards.

Watching Broncos-Raiders.

Reading about how to merge subs with MPEG2 files.

Anime Dad wrote:

Every time you type that...... it reminds me of a song they used to use to advertise the cricket over here..... "Come on Aussie come on, come on........" Gives it a whole new meaning. I am now imagining "Come on Toshi come on, come on........" to the same tune

i see...i bet toshi had a lot more fun than a bunch of boring cricket players hittin' a ball with a wooden stick.

No doubt..

Another person who doesn't appreciate cricket?

Anime Dad wrote:

No doubt.. Another person who doesn't appreciate cricket?

perhaps...but if toshi is hittin' the skins with japanese ho's....cricket doesn't have a chance.

Is this supposed to be Toshi the... dog?

On Topic: Finishing up a Civics lesson before hitting Pretty Girls.
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Wynter wrote:

Is this supposed to be Toshi the... dog? On Topic: Finishing up a Civics lesson before hitting Pretty Girls.

Toshi the dog...what the hell are you talkin' about?


Pretty Girls...what a waste of life force.