Goofus Maximus

Well, I managed to finish it in 15 minutes...

He does nunchucks the way I do CS...

MTV is too stupid to be the Devil; maybe a minor imp!

I bet they turn it into a music download service competitor to iTunes!

Man, I want to know the backstory on this one! Was that a School setting, with a Teacher telling the Family why little Terry was being expelled, or a Hospital/Social Worker, or what?

I must add my "reformat/reinstall Windows" voice to the crowd, because even when you uininstall drivers, they tend to leave stray stuff in the registry and on the HDD, that can mess things up for subsequent driver installs and/or hardware changes.

This is especially true when you switch chipset brands, like going from Audigy to AC97 or NVidia to ATi...

Still a text-based dungeon crawler, but WITH THY GRAPHICS! LOL

I tend to like all these homestarrunner game thingies, like Peasant Quest...

I hear that Avast (another free AV) does a better job than AVG (which I use), but more people have problems with it, too.

Remind me not to get a G15. I just use a standard $10 keyboard, and Logitech Wheelmouse Optical, and I never touch the "mouseware" stuff. I despise all those "extra" features they put in those things. My processes are trimmed down to 21 with AVG and all that nvidia stuff running.

I have a Sharp PC-5000 (I think it's name is) that's sitting mouldering away in my closet. 16 line black&white LCD (no backlighting), with a really nice keyboard, about 16 kbytes of RAM, top-of-the-line '286 CPU, and only weighs about 10 lb. It runs DOS 2.1 off bubble-memory cartridges, with SoftWrite, Softcalc, and SoftComm. Still works, too! I also have the optional 5.25 dual floppy drive unit for it. I didn't get the integrated thermal printer for it, though.

Alas, for the "coolest hardware I ever loved passionately", I have an Astro-Physics 6" Apochromatic F8 Refracting Telescope with two-inch eyepiece adaptor, oak tripod, german equatorial head... and a shocked astigmatic objective lens. This thing could beat out 10" reflectors due to it's unmatched contrast and image sharpness. It's precursor to this Starfire Apochromatic Refractor.

I miss this terribly. The sort of optics place that could fix my problem would be a place that maybe Johnny Carson or Bill Gates could afford, but not me.

As Paris Hilton shows, being stupid and having money aren't mutually exclusive.

I really knew that it was a prank from the start, since the media would have been all over this story like mud on a pig, just from seeing the slogan on the side of the plane they regularly board... I'd figured it was photoshopped though.

Wikki is my friend

"Planets" is the name I was looking for, though I played some Trade Wars too.

I took the first real steps (after the "Tandy 3000/dot matrix printer" disaster of much earlier, with a Packard-Bell Pentium 60mhz running Windows 3.11. That computer lasted for 5 years, and held up well against Pentium 133 and 166 computers and Windows 95

What roped me in was Doom, which we would laughingly try to play over a 14.4 modem connection. The friend who first showed me Doom II (on a '386SX) also got me addicted to Bulletin Boards, with all those door games like the ever famous Legend of the Red Dragon, or that one game I can't remember the name of, where you and your spaceship trade with and conquer planets, competing against others doing the same. Trade Wars? I can't remember.

The ANSI art, the RipScript, the eternal quest to free up more conventional memory without crashing the computer, and trying newer and different AT strings for one's modem. The days when DOS was king, and a 1.44 megabyte floppy was a lot of portable storage. "Multimedia" and the CD-ROM drive were new things (and had to be hooked up through one's sound card). All those PWads and IWads for Doom. YakWorld, I remember you well. The days when you set a bunch of zipped files for download via Z-Modem overnight, while you went to bed after having conquered three new worlds for your interstellar empire, chatted with friends, and posted on forums at your favorite BBS hangout.

Those were the days.

Bleh. I grew up with "Easter", and Easter it will always be for me. None of this PC Renaming stuff for me!

I keep getting guff about my easter eggs! I'll have you know those are 10 seconds worth of hard work with the "elliptical select/gradient bucket-fill" method!

Anyhow, I seem to have survived waking at 4:30AM and running about like a madman right up to 12:00 Noon, so I'm good.

I hate sunrise service! As the sound guy, I have to be there an hour before everyone else (except the pastor)

At least it was indoors today, due to the showing of a video.

... ick...

Being a MegaTokyo fan, does that make me an Otaku-by-Proxy?

One of my main addictions is an overly huge web-comic/manga list in my bookmarks, with new, newest, comics, favorite comics, and infrequently updated comics. All the folders are overflowing!

But he keeps trying to wear them anyway!

I'm not going to worry since I have nothing password-protected that is worth the fuss if the password is broken. Not even my e-mail is that interesting.

You're likely looking at your own cache, Fatty. Link gives me the 404 foible as well.

Not as interesting as some anime cases some Otaku have made, like this.

Boy I need my brain scanned. How did I miss that they were talking about XIII and not VIII?!?!?! I had to have this fact pointed out to me.

I'm getting old. Senile. Visually Impaired.

Hopefully you don't have Starforce problems. I hear that there's a class-action suite against them now...

For Christmas, get that guy a book on trimming and topping trees before one cuts down the trunk!

Argh. I never really noticed the bad language, yet I don't know how I missed reading it. Sorry! **Caution: Foul Language (and misleading information)**