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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((So... the big secret recently is... my folks got their eviction notice for smoking in the building... so, they have a meeting with the caretaker and HRA in the afternoon... I'll be there (we're in the same building). In their favor... the caretaker had a cop, and went to HRA without talking...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((IRL: So, the new mega-tower works... actually, pretty sure it's worked for the last month. Every time I tried booting it, I had the TV on the wrong input. It's nice and fast... Threadripper 3950, 24-core, 48-threads, 3.8GHz with a Titan X video card, 2 1TB M.2s (one is boot drive), about...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((IRL: so, tomorrow. mental health appointment... Wednesday is the foot clinic appointment... to see if the insoles are helping (hint: they aren't)... may end up in surgery to try and fix the hallax ridgus on my right foot... never had surgery before. I'm all OEM, so far))- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
Oh... and, that one is a hard PG-13 or up rating... not for language... based around a scene from the first Addams Family movie- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
(For Halloween: the addams family - girl scout cookies.docx)- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((OOC: so, finally got a response from the motherboard seller... they're saying I got the wrong RAM... when I found the CMOS battery, there wasn't a millivolt of charge left (it was taped to the top of the I/O ports))- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
(It's a ASRock TRX40 motherboard... this is ground I've never been on before... each tower I build is at least twice as good as the last)- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
(IRL) So... been building my new computer, a 24-core beast with 256gigs RAM... and now that I have everything, it won't boot... no video from the Titan X, or the Radeon 4650 I tried (from box of parts), not sure... I know the VRM fans don't spin and neither does the chipset fan by the M.2...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((And, thoughout this process, I want to port my number (have the info for that) and use the phone I have (Samsung Galaxy S9... gotten for free through Airtalk... note to anyone: if you choose a nice phone through them, you are locked into a 120 day "commitment" to get the phone for free, and...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((The 'net is the main way to apply for jobs now, so I need that, and I've moved/changed Lifeline providers before without an issue, so no idea what the problem is. I have active Verizon through ACP, active Lifeline through Airtalk... is that somehow the issue? If anyone knows, please let me...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((Will lose my ACP internet towards the end of the month, unless anyone knows about it ending sooner. Trying to switch my Lifeline phone to a better provider that doesn't shut me off after four and a half gigs of data, nothing but failure so far and "call here" and "it's on their end" and the...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
@Lucy ... don't know if you really want wolf spiders in your home... I'd go for jumping spiders, they can't bite... wolf spiders are the fast movers, and they can bite.- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
[continuing] I'm just curious... the absence of the major's leaves a gap that I'm not sure what to do with anything... we (the Left Behind) could do a story together (or some stories separate), and that'd be cool, but without being able to use any major's, I'm not sure where to take anything...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
[continuing] I don't have the time to be here a whole lot, I don't have much beyond mom to help with my rent (and once I have a job, that'll take up more time, though I will keep working on stuff (both for here and not) as often as possible, and post when possible on here. I have a question...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
[continuing] I'm sorry if any of my posts are/could be inflammatory or anything... some of them are stuff I've had in the pipeline for a while, and I messed with it enough to get it postable... that's why there are dates showing when I started working on stuff... I'm not, and never have been...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((OOC: So, I am still here (at least, while ACP is still a thing, then I have to tether my phone to my laptop, send it's internet to Ethernet to my router and setup my other laptop to access that... I managed it once totally by accident)... updating stuff I'm working on is not a fun process (if...- Jon Eckart
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Heirarchy
S.O.U.L Contract (Yes, I edited it a bit to link to my copy of it, didn't touch the rest). I consider what's on the TECS Wiki to be canon, though there is some leeway and creative license (?... is that the right word?) with how that info is used on here, to my knowledge. Remember, I'm not the...- Jon Eckart
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[Chat Log] Nov-Dec 2019
((So... is it me or does the board not process double-space between sentences as double-space? Kinda bugs me, but I'll live))- Jon Eckart
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Heirarchy
((OOC: Please note, that being that I cannot get ahold of Chase or any of the board or other long-time members to get permission to use their characters, I chose to use my own characters in their place. For the time being, Assistant Director Kirk McDouglas from the Philadelphia branch office is...- Jon Eckart
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Lucy:
popularized by a Twitter account in 2010. It is named after the misunderstood giant in the 2003 film Big Fish. Older or alternative terms used locally include simply "the fog" or sometimes "Big Mama", Seasonal Names: It is often associated with the terms "June Gloom" or "Fogust" due to its prevalence in the summer months. -
Lucy:
ha ha now I have another what I learned....why can you only eat certain flowers but not others?
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Lucy:
Did you know....the horns on the viking's helmets are a myth? The popular image of the "horned Viking" can be traced back to the 1870s. Costume designer Carl Emil Doepler created horned helmets for Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen to enhance the characters' theatrical presence. (I BELIEVE in the Where in Time game, they tell us this too....)
