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Happy Birthday to Taw!!!
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:30 pm
CV - I have much the same thoughts about people who make that bizarre gesture with their little finder and thumb extended to indicate a phone call. No-one holds a phone like that in real life! (except a total berk)
BP & Id - thx mates!
and now to my favourite part of the evening..
Bizarre Rabbit Thing - you couldn't play F.E.A.R. on "redoubtable" Typhon
well it's minimum resolution is still twice as high as your 12" EGA monitor can go. Borrmir handled it rather well with even the lowest framerate at 47fps and was solid as a rock. Extraction Point is shaping up to be harder, bigger fights, AI seems tweaked up a bit, nastier evil ghostie things, and some cool new kit, and Alma is a lot more complicated than she is in the first one (she's so creepy) Story contues straight on from where it left off. Still you'll never know, stuck back in 486 land - how is W'95 holding up for you?
And crystallised ginger has been mined in Tawkalnistan's mines for generations! it's to be found in the warm underground springs of natural sherbert which we pipe into our gardens as fountains, bubbling up through the peppermint rock beds. Next you'll be telling me you don't know anything about the two turtles that carry the Earth through the universe either..
BP & Id - thx mates!
and now to my favourite part of the evening..
Bizarre Rabbit Thing - you couldn't play F.E.A.R. on "redoubtable" Typhon
well it's minimum resolution is still twice as high as your 12" EGA monitor can go. Borrmir handled it rather well with even the lowest framerate at 47fps and was solid as a rock. Extraction Point is shaping up to be harder, bigger fights, AI seems tweaked up a bit, nastier evil ghostie things, and some cool new kit, and Alma is a lot more complicated than she is in the first one (she's so creepy) Story contues straight on from where it left off. Still you'll never know, stuck back in 486 land - how is W'95 holding up for you?
And crystallised ginger has been mined in Tawkalnistan's mines for generations! it's to be found in the warm underground springs of natural sherbert which we pipe into our gardens as fountains, bubbling up through the peppermint rock beds. Next you'll be telling me you don't know anything about the two turtles that carry the Earth through the universe either..
Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:40 pm
*Calls out from shadows* See? Not even a thank you! I gave him a gift for his birthday (i.e. the subtle and carefully crafted sentence about Typhon's inadequacies), and although partaking of the gift and insultin' me PC (which he loves doin'), is there any indication that appreciated it? No! Fine, be that way. As for your "fountains"... bah!
Anyway, you can hardly speak about the "glory" of your PCs. After all, you just scavenge bits and pieces from broken PCs and/or steal, sorry "borrow" items from your workplace. Indeed, I have seen the technical specifications of your machines; they are chimaeras (ironically) formed from Socket 478 CPUs, RAMBUS RAM and ISA graphics cards! Don't ask me how much you must have spent (or "borrowed" ) on converters! Indeed, you are a veritable "Womble from Wimbledon" with your hotchpotches of computer hardware. Bah! Bah, I say!
Anyway, you can hardly speak about the "glory" of your PCs. After all, you just scavenge bits and pieces from broken PCs and/or steal, sorry "borrow" items from your workplace. Indeed, I have seen the technical specifications of your machines; they are chimaeras (ironically) formed from Socket 478 CPUs, RAMBUS RAM and ISA graphics cards! Don't ask me how much you must have spent (or "borrowed" ) on converters! Indeed, you are a veritable "Womble from Wimbledon" with your hotchpotches of computer hardware. Bah! Bah, I say!
Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:20 am
*coughs roughly* What's this? The Tawmiser is even older? What top scientists thought was a theoretical impossibility has come to pass! Well, that just means one more year closer to victory, you old codger 
And what else do I see, extremely frugal Tawlings are there. I see they are wise enough to buy you gifts that won't excite you so much that you faint from the rush of endorphins. Of course if you view that as just plain-old cheapness, well "Like father like son" as they say Happy birthday Taw! And may your bones groan posthaste!
And what else do I see, extremely frugal Tawlings are there. I see they are wise enough to buy you gifts that won't excite you so much that you faint from the rush of endorphins. Of course if you view that as just plain-old cheapness, well "Like father like son" as they say Happy birthday Taw! And may your bones groan posthaste! Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:40 am
what's this? is the Eskwilurxian insult industry so impoverished that Ol' Floppity hisself ahs to drag his over-glucosed acolyte Jughead out of the vat of fermenting GB he'd fallen into, just to up the ante on the word-weapons?
Although admittedly a bit too much of your Mulah's virtuous frugality may have rubbed off on the junior offspring, a good dose of long-range guilt seems to have done the trick, for a nice shiny new copy of Rainbow 6 Vegas for PC was waiting for me when i got home tonight (yet another game unplayable down the Burrow due to lack of sufficient virility in Typhon!) I think the fact that I sent him an email saying "oi git-features, I queued up for 2 hrs in the pouring rain for your flippin' Harry Botter book, and all I get is an out-of-date bar of chocolate which you scoffed anyway!"
Wabbit - you are correct in that much of Tawakalnistan's IT equipment is "acquired" through means which might not stand up to well on a full purchasing audit, however as you know all system admins have means by which the normal defences of the beancounters can be circumvented (this includes the invention of fake web pages for Google cache purposes that describe non-existent but very convincing computer "problems" - should said beancounters choose to do some research into why 4gb of DDR2, a Core 2 Extreme and a 7800GTX Ultra were necessary for the cd library computer!) Ah the simple joys of trade accounts with major suppliers and the old 5-fingered discount...)
TET - I'd love to say that Mrs Taw has an unerring instinct for games, however in this particular instance said information was supplied by my good self, and I'm beginning to suspect that the funds to purchase them were also, the Grand Exchequer of Tawaklnistan's Central Bank (a shoe box under the bed where I keep ready cash) is looking rather empty. She does however excel at Galaxian and Frogger (as does your Mullah)
Dru - only where yours truly is concerned! anyway you shouldn't be posting here during the day, haven't you got some Ladas to weld together?
To be fair, nothing could be quite as bad as a few years ago, which the remaining old lags here will remember. I'd come home from work on my 40th to find Mrs Taw and the kids out at some bash, and a note saying "sorry no time to make you tea, sort some out yourself." So being k-nackered after a hard day's toil, I nipped down to the local chippy which does do a crackin' fried cod n chips, came home, laid 'em out ont he table ready to eat, lovely golden fish, when the phone went. off I go to answer, it's Mrs Taw ringing up to wish me happy birthday. bit of a chat and then went back into the dining room to eat me tea. Lo and behold, there's the bl**dy cats tucking into me fish n chips, wolfing down big chunks of cod like furry pelicans, taking no notice of me at all. "oi you thieving little rats" cries I, cats look up, stare at me for a few seconds, then carry on scoffing me fish. I chased the little thieving ferrets off the table and out they zoom with half a fish int heir gobs each, leaving me with squashed chips and some fish flakes n batter covered in cat fur. As Mrs Taw hadn't doen any shopping that week, all i ended up having was a Vesta boil-in-the-bag curry and a Ry-Vita.
All- on my much longed-for return to the Grand Palace tonight after a week of toil in the land of the heathens, I got more presents, money and cards (the one's delayed in the postal strike) and another cake! This haul should keep me going for a few months, so I'll say thank you all for the good wishes and goodnight!
Although admittedly a bit too much of your Mulah's virtuous frugality may have rubbed off on the junior offspring, a good dose of long-range guilt seems to have done the trick, for a nice shiny new copy of Rainbow 6 Vegas for PC was waiting for me when i got home tonight (yet another game unplayable down the Burrow due to lack of sufficient virility in Typhon!) I think the fact that I sent him an email saying "oi git-features, I queued up for 2 hrs in the pouring rain for your flippin' Harry Botter book, and all I get is an out-of-date bar of chocolate which you scoffed anyway!"
Wabbit - you are correct in that much of Tawakalnistan's IT equipment is "acquired" through means which might not stand up to well on a full purchasing audit, however as you know all system admins have means by which the normal defences of the beancounters can be circumvented (this includes the invention of fake web pages for Google cache purposes that describe non-existent but very convincing computer "problems" - should said beancounters choose to do some research into why 4gb of DDR2, a Core 2 Extreme and a 7800GTX Ultra were necessary for the cd library computer!) Ah the simple joys of trade accounts with major suppliers and the old 5-fingered discount...)
TET - I'd love to say that Mrs Taw has an unerring instinct for games, however in this particular instance said information was supplied by my good self, and I'm beginning to suspect that the funds to purchase them were also, the Grand Exchequer of Tawaklnistan's Central Bank (a shoe box under the bed where I keep ready cash) is looking rather empty. She does however excel at Galaxian and Frogger (as does your Mullah)
Dru - only where yours truly is concerned! anyway you shouldn't be posting here during the day, haven't you got some Ladas to weld together?
To be fair, nothing could be quite as bad as a few years ago, which the remaining old lags here will remember. I'd come home from work on my 40th to find Mrs Taw and the kids out at some bash, and a note saying "sorry no time to make you tea, sort some out yourself." So being k-nackered after a hard day's toil, I nipped down to the local chippy which does do a crackin' fried cod n chips, came home, laid 'em out ont he table ready to eat, lovely golden fish, when the phone went. off I go to answer, it's Mrs Taw ringing up to wish me happy birthday. bit of a chat and then went back into the dining room to eat me tea. Lo and behold, there's the bl**dy cats tucking into me fish n chips, wolfing down big chunks of cod like furry pelicans, taking no notice of me at all. "oi you thieving little rats" cries I, cats look up, stare at me for a few seconds, then carry on scoffing me fish. I chased the little thieving ferrets off the table and out they zoom with half a fish int heir gobs each, leaving me with squashed chips and some fish flakes n batter covered in cat fur. As Mrs Taw hadn't doen any shopping that week, all i ended up having was a Vesta boil-in-the-bag curry and a Ry-Vita.
All- on my much longed-for return to the Grand Palace tonight after a week of toil in the land of the heathens, I got more presents, money and cards (the one's delayed in the postal strike) and another cake! This haul should keep me going for a few months, so I'll say thank you all for the good wishes and goodnight!
Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:08 pm
happy birthday to Taw, happy birthday to Taw, Happy birthday to Tawakalna, Happy Birthday to you!
wow. its been a while again.
Esqy, does your PC still use rambus ram?
Taw, i still have (and use) that XP disk you gave me.
OtherOldies, hi there.
New people, who the hell are you?
Edited by - Aod2 on 8/4/2007 3:15:27 PM
wow. its been a while again.
Esqy, does your PC still use rambus ram?
Taw, i still have (and use) that XP disk you gave me.
OtherOldies, hi there.
New people, who the hell are you?
Edited by - Aod2 on 8/4/2007 3:15:27 PM
Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:05 pm
well, the escape from that bolivian gulag in the middle of the rainforest surrounded by water infested with sharks WAS a bit hairy, but not a /miracle/ so to speak.
it actually feels nice to be back.
.
Edited by - Aod2 on 8/4/2007 6:05:09 PM
btw, Pete, i'm rather jealous of two of my friends. they've both just got nice new PCs (built by ME btw) Athlon64 X2 5500+, 2GB DDR2, 8800GTX 768MB. sickeningly fast PCs)
oh, and neither of them were purchased from that money-grubbing-git-mark-proudfoot
Edited by - Aod2 on 8/4/2007 6:09:32 PM
it actually feels nice to be back.
.
Edited by - Aod2 on 8/4/2007 6:05:09 PM
btw, Pete, i'm rather jealous of two of my friends. they've both just got nice new PCs (built by ME btw) Athlon64 X2 5500+, 2GB DDR2, 8800GTX 768MB. sickeningly fast PCs)
oh, and neither of them were purchased from that money-grubbing-git-mark-proudfoot
Edited by - Aod2 on 8/4/2007 6:09:32 PM
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