Recent content by Fiera

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    What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at work?

    I rebooted our print/file/backup server in the middle of the day after checking the backups. It was used by about 100 people in the office.
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    UPS strikes again...

    that was my first thought. I'll call Frozen and tell them to make sure everything is in the package
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    Who successfully avoided watching Friends last night?

    Played Star Wars: Galaxies all night. no TV in the computer room
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    comcast can go #@%# themselves

    G4 is another gamer network. they carry it on digital cable here in charlotte. it looks like a very, very low budget public access station.
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    UPS strikes again...

    <rant> I ordered some parts from FrozenCPU last weekend, supposed to be delivered yesterday. Leave work a few minutes early to go home and get the package from the apt office. they don't have one. UPS hasn't updated the tracking info. Finally at 7:01 it's updated. May 7, 2004 12:35 A.M...
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    Fry's is opening a midwest outlet!!!

    some days I miss Chicago... then I remember the traffic :disgust:
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    How many cups of tea do you normally make out of one tea bag?

    3 or 4, but I never let the cup get completely empty before topping it off.
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    When are we going to see X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter on a MMORPG scale?

    Not really, if the only thing the network broadcasts is the objects position, you shouldn't have any lag at all. Granted you have a few more steps in figureing out how and where it will move, but you are still only sending coordinates back and forth.
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    Unoffical Poll: Airsoft vs. Paintball

    AutoCocker is a style of gun, mine is pnumatic feed both ways on the bolt, air pushes it forward to fire the ball, then back to reload. edit: Autococker is a closed bolt gun. There are three stages of the firing mechanism. The first part of the trigger pull releases the hammer, firing the...
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    Questions about razors........

    Nope, but if they are really cryo treated they should last next to forever. My grandfather used to do cryo processing. have one razor blade that would last for years. I guess with the new ones you'd wear out the plastic and stuff on them. I don't think cryo fixes the plastic the same way it does...
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    Questions about razors........

    I use mine for about 3 weeks shaving every 2 or 3 days
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    rose petal game...or in my case a headache cause I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT!

    it took me a few minutes, but it's not really the way most people would look at it, the name of the puzzle gives it away...
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    *GAME* Guess this 80's cartoon!

    15 of 20, never watched 5, 6, 12, 14, 16
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    School Zone: 25MPH When children are present.

    There used to be a place in Asheville where the speed limit was 20, but the school zone sign said 25. they finally took the sign down after about 6 years...
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    XM Radio picks up Air America (The Liberal Channel with Al Franken)

    Never said it wasn't a good idea to listen to the other side. With the exception of Fox News name 1 other 'conservitive' station. and just because they have Rush or O'Reilly once a day does not make it a conservitive station.