The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Cool_Z 1,547]

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24GB download ????? With my connection (which is "normal" where I live) it would be a 10h dowload... this is crazy !

[Duke87 1,070]

(5342)

If you have no internet at home, how are you posting here?

[raynev1 1,886]

5343

Happy Thanksgiving .

[Chptrk 86]

5344.

As a Thanksgiving present to my cousin I took a look at his computer. I cleaned up 356 viruses (after he'd paid bestbuy to do it. Not to mention clicking anything on firefox opened up an ad page) and turned Windows update back on (it hadn't ran since December 2014). 204 updates later he's all better and I'm at a loss cuz I thought he was decent with computers.

[Muck308 55]

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I should do a cleanup myself. Firefox has been weird for me lately. I can't get any audio on soundcloud or youtube but I can get audio from other sites. I've cleared my cookies and updated but the issue remains. I would just switch to chrome (which runs audio without issue) but I'm too lazy to move all my bookmarks and then deal with the fact I can't possibly remember all of my passwords. It's no trouble to reset passwords but... ugh... maintenance. One of these days I'll get around to it.

Anyway, greetings from the Carolinas. I've driven the new car in 11 states in the first 5 months. ME, NH, VT, MA, NY, OH, WV, VA, NC, SC and of course, PA. I was in NJ in June but with another vehicle. I poked around Rock Hill, SC today. Beautiful little town.

[Duke87 1,070]

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Road trips are awesome.

 

[raynev1 1,886]

5347

I too liked going on road trips , seeing things I never seen before is cool .

[Larks2242 251]

5348.

 

Speaking of trips, I just finally got around to booking my trip to Australia.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5349)

That's a plane trip.

[Muck308 55]

5350

You can always rent a car when you arrive. Driving on the other side of the road is... interesting. Whereabouts are you headed, Larks?

[Larks2242 251]

5350

You can always rent a car when you arrive. Driving on the other side of the road is... interesting. Whereabouts are you headed, Larks?

5351.

Melbourne, But first 11 hrs in LA and a bit of time exploring Hong Kong.

 

I don't think I can, I know I am not old  enough in the US, You have to be at least 24 to rent, besides that is too much of a liability for me to be comfortable with since I am unaware of  their road laws.

[Skimbo 304]

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Finally got rid of the "clerk of red tape"

Now I'm allowed to do lobbying

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5353

 

We finally have internet and are pretty much settled in to our new existence in the Cleveland area.  I started working last week and after a string of 10 hour days I'm ready to go back to Japan and teach again, but we can't do that until next year at the earliest because of our lease and whatnot.  Anyways, the job itself isn't bad, I've picked up a few new CAD skills, but the commute sucks, big city highways are always awful places to be.

 

Also, Larks, you asked for clarification on how Japan is crowded: yes, the countryside is crowded, too.  People don't have yards and their small properties are usually surrounded by a 6-foot-ish concrete wall, with the houses built almost right up to the wall.  Farming villages have the buildings clustered close together and then they drive a kei truck or walk to their plot of land to grow vegetables or whatever.  Surround it all by mountains or Tokyo and despite being far lower density it's still pretty crowded compared to the American countryside.

[Muck308 55]

 

I don't think I can, I know I am not old  enough in the US, You have to be at least 24 to rent, besides that is too much of a liability for me to be comfortable with since I am unaware of  their road laws.

5354

True. There's always PT. Sounds like a great set of destinations. Have fun, man!

[Ocram's Razr 963]

5355

TIL: Nixon was responsible for the strife currently afflicting Latin America and the southern states.

Shower thoughts: If time travel is invented before I die (which would require longevity treatment and/or mind transfer into clones to become available soon), I would go to Eastern Washington in 1960 with a biological age of 12. I would use my knowledge from the Baccloreate of Science in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry I will earn in 3 years to get rich off research others conducted in the 1970s and 1980s of our timeline. Using the money earned from research breakthroughs and the Stock Market, I would donate to Herbert Humphry's campaign. It would be pretty fun to also raise a son who would be a designer baby with genetics similar to a nephew with many beneficial mutations. That would require marrying a wife with the genetics I desire in my son that neither of my parents have. Btw, I would be an "active senior" in 2015 of the altered timeline since my (forged) birth certificate would say I was born on August 1, 1948; I'd be a Baby Boomer orphan son of a Mexican soldier and American nurse.

 

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--Ocram

[Duke87 1,070]

(5356)

Time travel was actually already invented in 1985, but the machine was destroyed.

That said, I was promised a hovercar and I feel cheated.

[raynev1 1,886]

(5357)

^ So that's why time seems to keep repeating itself .

I believe they lied about destroying that time machine .

[philforhockey51 4,211]

5358

Only one was destroyed...the train is still out there....

but if time repeats that's deja vu which means you're in the Matrix and that's a different movie  

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5359

 

I'm still waiting to get bit by the radioactive spider to get my spider powers.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

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I like adding extra cinnamon to my mocha, hoping that with the added Spice, I will become the Kwisatz Haderach and fold space.  "He who controls the Spice controls the universe!"  Then I remembered that in "Dune," the Spice was really sandworm poop...

 

[raynev1 1,886]

5361

Yuck , sandworm poop . No extra spice for me please .

[Duke87 1,070]

(5362)

Greetings from the local laundromat.

Yeah I got nuthin' else. :P

 

 

[Larks2242 251]

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Passing time I guess.

[Vahr 341]

5364

Boop.

[jmsepe 2,038]

5365.

Anyone who have heard Psy's new song? 

[Duke87 1,070]

(5366)

I have not

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

5367

I was cleaning up some of my old things and came across some Micro Machines. The younger of you may not know what they are but for those that do...

remember this?...  Speed talking it's a thing

 

 

 

[Muck308 55]

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Oh my. I had many micro machines. I suppose it's possible they are still in my parent's house.

[raynev1 1,886]

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Wow , @philforhockey51 that's a blast from the past . I didn't mess with them much , my thing was Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars . I had hundreds .

[Duke87 1,070]

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Indeed, Micro Machines were not on quite the same scale as Hot Wheels/Matchbox and therefore could not be mixed with them... at least in the eyes of a kid who always had a lot of attention for detail.

I had hundreds of the more "standard" die cast cars as well, most of them survived my childhood and are now in a box somewhere in my parents' attic. There were some that didn't survive, chiefly of the cheap all-plastic knock-off variety. Aside from Hot Wheels and Matchbox I definitely had some cars from a brand called Corgi, as well as Johnny Lightning (remember those?)


One particular fact of note is that the Hot Wheels and Matchbox brands have both been owned by the same parent company (Mattel) since 1997. They thus are not actually competitors as one might think (though they used to be).