ProfessorTomoe

The irritation is annoying but my vision is improving. The color spectrum and light levels seem a little off but not problematically so. I believe the chunk out the iris may have expanded part of my peripheral vision somewhat but I notice no other difference.

My condolences.

Hopefully they'll chew the driver a new one and handle your laptop with all care and speed.  Might not get it to you today, but if not then first on the list tomorrow.  Either that or they suck, we'll just have to see which it is.  ;-)

This is not good. Sirleck plans to arrange a Justin Bieber concert in Moperville.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

I have just spent the past week looking into the development of gunpowder and this was the exact mental image I didn't need. Thanks, Critter. I now have new meanings for 'blow job' and 'banging hot' I easily could have done without. 

So, the US department of Justice has announced that they're suing North Carolina over the whole anti-trans bathroom law. That's not what makes me mad. Reading some of the reactions makes me mad, like how many feel that doing this will allow perverts and pedophiles to be able to sneak into women's bathrooms to spy and rape. someone even commented saying "they're making the .04% trans comfortable by putting the 50% female population at risk." WTF? As far as I'm concerned trans people go to the bathroom for the same reason most of us do, to have a piss or crap, not to peek under bathroom stalls, it's more like the law NC put out would "criminalize the .04% trans so that they could keep out the .00000005% sex offenders" (all percentages based on the tweet I saw and I highly doubt they are accurate anyway). If people are worried about sex offenders posing as members of the opposite sex to sneak into public bathrooms, then the laws for sexual offenses needed to be beefed up more. Also a lot of the reactions focus on those that are born male but identify as female using female bathrooms, I hadn't seen any mention of those born female identifying as male and I wonder if it because those same people that are complaining about this would be like "well that that's their risk if they want go into a bathroom with real men and it's their fault if anything happens". It does seem like the majority of those complaining about this are males while a lot that are defending this action and debating against the complaints are female. But still it was really aggravating to see the stupidity in all that.

Nice beach balls.

Please don't apologise. We all need to vent sometime. Even though it is always possible to find someone worse off than yourself, personal troubles have the added pressure of being... well, personal. You need to carry them all the time and occasionally it just gets to be too much. In fact, it is wiser to vent in this way than to keep that frustration bottled up; you risk the pressure escaping at inopportune moments and in the wrong kind of context.
If it is any help, I am sorry you are going through this and hope that you will find a way through it. You have my support and my best wishes in this.

So, anyone from the old forum might remember me complaining every now and then about Dad not paying child support.
Mom just found out through his facebook that he's published a book, Ceres 2525.
Guess who hasn't seen an increase in child support since it was put on the shelves?
Mom's in a good mood, though. Because we get to call some lawyers.
...where's the smiling devil emoticon when you need it?

When you type in the tags, a drop down menu will appear below them that lets you select one as a prefix.

My dream car is a literal dream car. It originated in a dream a friend of mine had. For some reason he had won a fortune and he wanted to buy the world's most expensive car. So he went to a car dealer and there learned that they happened to have it on display. A French car, of all things, named... "LeSnob."
When he shared the story with me, we were both laughing ourselves sick at the sheer hideousness of the name for the thing. It did not for a moment even attempt to conceal that the sole purpose of owning this car was car bragging rights. We then decided that it was probably so expensive that even Donald Trump couldn't afford it and that my friend declared that the best part of owning the LeSnob was to once a day every day of the year to take a turn around Trump Tower to remind Trump that he couldn't afford one.

"It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!"

Let's try this, however short-lived it may be. Post your "dream car" in this thread, be it one you had or one you wish you could have. The sky's the limit.
To begin, a video of the beautiful new Bugatti Chiron. I'll take two, please.
http://www.powernationtv.com/post/beautiful-sounding-bugatti-chiron

Vorlonagent, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

"...and my colleague, Professor Tomoe, is rapidly running out of limbs!"

Vorlonagent, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

He's also more likely to fake a seizure.

The "bathroom ordinance" failed due to lack of support by the rest of the Rockwall, TX city council. Only the Mayor voted for it, and he's apparently the only one who had a problem.

The "bathroom ordinance" failed due to lack of support by the rest of the Rockwall, TX city council. Only the Mayor voted for it, and he's apparently the only one who had a problem.

:Vern walks over to the rowing team and examines the orange juice, finding a pair of very small pants floating in it:
Vern: "Waiting to be zipped up."