The Moose Factory (virtual Bar & Grill)

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

defcon pilot:  10AM to 2AM.  Good grief!  I only did that when I was running benchmarks for clients.  When does he get any time for himself?  You should encourage him to take time to smell the roses before he keels over.  SC4 is definitely play.  If anyone thinks otherwise, try writing application code, or worse, operating system code.  There is nothing like writing a device driver to ruin your entire week.

simcityblowup:  Yes, your pic is good now.  In fact it is undersized.  If you like, you could resize it to be exactly 300 x 50 and no one would complain.  If you are having a fight with sloppet, please take it outside.

[brancra 1,150]

blondetwiggy:I remember the last of school/work I missed:

May 13th...

1995.

Well, isn't the weather just beautiful this time of the year? The air just seemed to be filled with new vigour, and the promise of optimism and good vibes.

simcityblowup: Having a fight with sloppet would be like attacking a very large bees' nest with a stick. You'll get stung if you pick that battle.

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

brancra: Don't say that to anyone around where I live right now, unless you consider cloudy, cold, and rainy for the past week, with thunderstorms, small hail, and possible funnel clouds earlier today good weather.

hym: You can still miss days, but you have to be really sick.

[sloppet 3]

If you are having a fight with sloppet, please take it outside.quote>

Ok, let's meet in front of the Supermarket, no knives, no baseball bats, just me and you, we fight to the frst blood, if I will fall down, you can't kick me, if you will fall down, I can't..er.. have a cookie!

^ - for prople that don't know m, that was a joke!

simcityblowup: I like you... You're not a bad person, and not a bad ST member... BTW, I like here everyone except DT, dirk, N_O_Body, the staff, 120,000 registered members, and ofcourse the member that is reading this post...

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

@ brancra: You must not get sick very much.... (that or like to go places sick) I tried to stay really healthy this year, 'cause if I miss one day of algebra I'll be totally lost.  I'm barely getting it as it is.  lol, you always have a funny way of putting things and making me laugh...  

@ leech: same here... the weather is awful

Well, it's off to school.... ugghh... bye

[simcityblowup 0]

@sloppet: Ok, let's end this nonsense battle and start to accept each other. Peace!

[hym 358]

@defconf_pilot:  Well, it might be average for a home schooler, but I tell other people that and they absolutely freak out.  Tell them that I don't get spring break and most other school holidays, and they go berserk.

@N_O_Body:  I have to agree with your statement about writing OS code.  I want to write a wallpaper changer since XP doesn't come with one, and I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to do that.  I know that I'll figure it out once I have the time to learn, but it doesn't make me respect the fact that writing software is often difficult.

@Leech10:  For me, there is no such thing as missing classes, no matter how sick you are.  You could have pneumonia, and you won't miss any classes.  If you're too sick to do classes, they are postponed until you are well enough again.

[sloppet 3]

@sloppet: Ok, let's end this nonsense battle and start to accept each other. Peace!quote>

haha!

[simcityblowup 0]

@sloppet: Er... What do you mean by "haha"?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Brancra:  Ah yes, spring.  The pollens, the stuffy nose and head, the runny eyes, the tight lungs, just wonderful.  However, we went driving the other day in the apple country up on the escarpment at it is definitly apple blossom time.

@hym:  There are lots of wallpaper changers around.  Even MS-plus has one.  Walks though either My Pictures, or a given list.  Don't invent the wheel, find it on the net.

@simcityblowup: "haha" = LOL

[hym 358]

@N_O_Body: Mind telling me where MS is hiding its XP wallpaper changer? I've checked the internet and have seen nothing saying that XP has an automatic wallpaper changer. I'd use the other ones out there, but I'm not really enthused about them.

[Voar Tok 4]

N_O_Body: Do you know of a website or anything that will scan your computer to see what codecs you are missing for something. Some of the Spore trailers won't work, and WMP10 can't find the missing codecs.

brancra: I used to have a problem with that. Thankfully, it's not a problem anymore.

[Firebird 40]

Hey  Voar, click link number 4 in my sig. It will lead you to a Quicktime movie download for the Spore trailer. Assumeing you have Quicktime player that is.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

hym:  Not sure it is available anymore.  Try here. I think you have to use IE to download these/

Voar Tok:  Off the top of my head, while I know they exist, I can't think of one.  You should be able to get a general codec pack from the MS download site.  It you do, be sure not to load the one named mmswitch.ax unless you have the hardware it has been aimed at.  What kind of a movie is it?  If it is divx, you might need the divx package.

[sloppet 3]

One chocolate icecream with meat please!

[defcon pilot 0]

Well, I don't really need the trailers, although from the looks and sound of it, Spore's pretty good. It might even become more popular than SimCity or The Sims. Hopefully I can get the Mac version for my laptop. Only problem for me is that I already can't wait for it to come out when it's slated to launch next year.

If you go to the SimCity Central forums, there's a section devoted to Spore. You can post suggestions, ask questions, etc.

[Voar Tok 4]

N_O_Body: I downloaded the Divx codecs the other day, but that was to no avail. Rybolton sent me a copy of WMP9 codecs he had on his computer. That didn't work either. I'm going to keep looking. Perhaps I'll find the elusive codec.

fire_bird: I'll have to check that link out later when my internet is not crawling along at dialup speeds.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

sloppet: Served with mystery meat.  Mystery meat is what you get in meat loaf in a school or college cafeteria.

defcon pilot:  Have patience.  Waiting will fill.  2Q (June?) 2007.  I liked the trailer.  Quite exciting.  I'll have to see if my son will buy me a copy next Christmas.

Voar Tok:  I take it you have no way of finding out what the name of the codec is?  If you had that you could google for it.  I just did a search on "codec packs" and got lots of pages.  Remember, if you pick one of the all in one packs, be sure to kill the infamous mmswitch.ax

[hym 358]

@sloppet:  I'm curious, how can you like chocolate ice cream with meat.  The idea of chocolate ice cream is bad enough, but adding meat to it!?!

@defcon_pilot:  Well, I'm not looking forward to Spore as I'm not interested in it.  I watched the E3 demo for it.  I thought it was funny that Will Wright got attacked right after saying the game was about social interaction.

@N_O_Body:  Can I get the biggest steak possible?  I don't care if it's beef, llama meat, or whale.  I'm hungry.

[Voar Tok 4]

N_O_Body: Nope. Part of the wonderful world of idiot-proofing everything, WMP has the audacity to tell me that it couldn't find the file and then not tell me what file I'm missing. The error report barely said anything, and what it did say didn't help in the slightest. Anyway, I'll be looking for codec packs now.

EDIT:  I downloaded this for starters.  I'll let you know how it pans out.

EDIT: 4000th post in the Moose Factory!

[defcon pilot 0]

Yep, the trailer looked interesting.

The launch date is set sometime in April or May 2007, though that's unofficial as of yet.

[Firebird 40]

I hope you find what you are looking for Voar. And, I remember when I crawled along the internet at dialup speeds....horrible times.....I am sad for you.

And , the Moose factory just passed 4000 replies!!

[hym 358]

Over 4,000 replies!!! We're going to pass up the Post Your Picture thread! YAY!!!

*notes that this post will help in this endeavor*

[brancra 1,150]

Yet, we should also note that the picture thread has nearly five times as many views as the Moose Factory thread does.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

hym: 16-oz porterhouse served, medium rare (a point) with shoe string potatoes and steamed broccoli.  Llama milk on the side.  Enjoy!  You can have seconds if you are still hungry after that.  Candied mome raths for dessert.

Voar Tok:  Good luck with that.

Late Bulletin

This just in:  Oilers 3 Mighty(?) Ducks 1.

Watched the last period.  After losing two at home, what do you suppose will happen to the Ducks in Edmonton?

Moose predictions:  Fried in Oilers.

[sloppet 3]

sloppet: Served with mystery meat. Mystery meat is what you get in meat loaf in a school or college cafeteria.quote>

That's why I don't eat at the cafeteria...

[Voar Tok 4]

Well, since I made the 4000th reply, I guess I should treat everyone to dinner.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

^Why thank you, on behalf of the hungry youth of Simtropolis.  Let's see now that's about 120,000 orders ...

Looks like the Stanley Cup will between the Oilers and the Sabres.  Should be a great series, eh?

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

I'm hungry...

*Orders many pancakes*

[Firebird 40]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body ^Why thank you, on behalf of the hungry youth of Simtropolis.  Let's see now that's about 120,000 orders ...quote>

I order a medium rare steak, with fries, salid, Hawaiian sweet rolls,xtera large pizza, chicken nuggets, popcorn, lasana, a taco, chocolate chip cookies, clocolate cookies, sugar cookies, sugar cookies with chocolate chips, chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream, vanilla ice cream with chocolate swirles, patato chips, and...a blueberry muffin.

And all goes toward Voars bank account.

*Fire_birds mouth waters as he thinks of all the food*