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by Voronwë
December 7, 2007, 4:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Growing Older -Ear Wax
Replies: 19
Views: 2218

Re: Growing Older -Ear Wax

very awesome!
by Voronwë
December 3, 2007, 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Blast From the Past
Replies: 14
Views: 1858

Blast From the Past

Just cleaning up some old files....found this gem.

Thank you Sparticus!!!

ILOVEFUROR.jpg
by Voronwë
July 31, 2007, 12:39 am
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Anyone still playing?
Replies: 11
Views: 2966

Re: Anyone still playing?

37 Champ, Landroval, Voron

i play a couple days a week, couple hours at a time.

generally i find it entertaining.
by Voronwë
July 31, 2007, 12:35 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Gametap
Replies: 17
Views: 2606

Re: Gametap

Yep still working at GameTap (capital "T" :p) glad you think it is cool There are definitely still some kinks we are trying to work out, but i think we're really bringing a compelling product out there. There are a lot of cool games in the pipeline too for the balance of the year. And if t...
by Voronwë
July 31, 2007, 12:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sylvus on the precipice of history....
Replies: 23
Views: 1892

Sylvus on the precipice of history....

As Sylvus' long chase for his giant star finally comes to a close
by Voronwë
July 31, 2007, 12:25 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: "There's a New Home Run Champion of All Time...
Replies: 12
Views: 1803

"There's a New Home Run Champion of All Time...

... and his name is Henry Aaron!" had to say it one more time before the greatest record in the history of sports ever is tainted. No record will ever again have this significance both in sport and society. For those who don't know how good Hank Aaron was as a player: 1st All time Home Runs (75...
by Voronwë
June 23, 2007, 2:08 am
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Evendim patch Wednesday
Replies: 11
Views: 2931

Re: Evendim patch Wednesday

No sir it is I!! Voronwë!!
by Voronwë
May 24, 2007, 10:51 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: NASA says it has proof that Dark matter exists
Replies: 20
Views: 2606

For every good thing that comes out of NASA, a thousand cost overruns and mismanagement mar the result. NASA is one giant bureauacracy(?) that spends too much money on lobbyists. A private organization with their kind of backing would have a colony on Mars by now. yeah right. nothing is stopping a ...
by Voronwë
May 19, 2007, 12:08 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Censorship is alive and well on XM Radio
Replies: 97
Views: 10119

this isnt a free speech issue

there is no law enforcement action

this is a media corporation making a decision about what content it is willing to have associated with its brand.

pretty big difference.
by Voronwë
May 11, 2007, 12:59 am
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: No more marriages!
Replies: 17
Views: 4208

Dregor Thule wrote:It's pretty remarkable that in a game with elves it's the hobbits being framed as homosexual :P
it is evolution that made them so they can choke down cawk without bending over

it is how they spawn
by Voronwë
May 9, 2007, 11:25 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: 11 Things You can do on Linux that you can't on Windows
Replies: 41
Views: 4224

12. Run 3D applications while using an Nvidia card. (Vista drivers from Nvidia don't work yet. Some $400 card I payed for.) Statement is totally false may be some issues with some of the newer ones, but i bet 90%+ of nVidea cards work fine on Vista mine does. as for this post, Winnow you are about ...
by Voronwë
May 9, 2007, 11:17 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: MSNBC on Jack Thompson
Replies: 22
Views: 3144

if you listen to "Blizzard of Oz" backwards it tells you to kill yourself!!!!
by Voronwë
May 9, 2007, 11:15 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: 3 Words
Replies: 16
Views: 3081

as long as Smoltz or Hudson doesnt go down we are in good shape

i love how the Yankees are in last place as well
by Voronwë
May 6, 2007, 6:04 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Vegans are evil! Kill baby
Replies: 14
Views: 1904

natural selection
by Voronwë
May 4, 2007, 12:27 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Dell to start shipping with Linix pre-installed.
Replies: 7
Views: 1098

hasnt dell been shipping some boxes w/ Linux installs on them for years?
by Voronwë
May 4, 2007, 12:27 am
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: No more marriages!
Replies: 17
Views: 4208

in game marriage is ... gay
by Voronwë
April 28, 2007, 4:38 pm
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Update
Replies: 39
Views: 8772

i think LOTRO is pretty fun

i went through beta, and subscribed.

i'm definitely not a hard core MMO player anymore, so i'm just looking for a fun game with interesting content and not too wrought with time sinks

so far so good
by Voronwë
April 21, 2007, 9:27 pm
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Character names
Replies: 69
Views: 14268

Voron - Elf Champion, Landroval
by Voronwë
April 14, 2007, 10:54 pm
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Character names
Replies: 69
Views: 14268

re-rolling on landroval...i'm a sucker!!!
by Voronwë
April 14, 2007, 7:55 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: W's taxes
Replies: 1
Views: 628

$400K in salary

and probably the rest were disbursements from stocks, funds, etc

when you are truly wealthy like W, annual income is really not a measuring stick.
by Voronwë
April 14, 2007, 7:52 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Greatest Game Ever
Replies: 19
Views: 2783

abstaining

the answer is either Doom 2 or Quake 2

or Galaga

or Soul Kaliber

wtf is Duke Nukem 3???!!!
by Voronwë
April 14, 2007, 7:49 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Obligatory annual 'Go Wings!' post for playoff time.
Replies: 127
Views: 17358

in spite of the fact the Thrashers are down 2-0 in the series...thanks in large part to a total fluke goal today...the important stat

Outhitting the rangers about 50 -15

Jagr is a pussy

that is all
by Voronwë
April 3, 2007, 10:26 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Shots fired at CNN
Replies: 3
Views: 636

hell yeah they carry guns. anyway, i do still work for a unit of Turner (just not @ CNN), and my wife does work at CNN Center as well. In fact i was at the building a couple hours before the incident. The building connects via this big mall like food court to an Omni Hotel, Philips Arena (where the ...
by Voronwë
April 3, 2007, 1:48 am
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Character names
Replies: 69
Views: 14268

yeah that is less fun to me ;-)

i went over to the Shire and got the deliver the mail to Michel Delving quest....which was not really that interesting then gated back to whatever elf town i hung out in.

not to derail the names thread though =)
by Voronwë
April 3, 2007, 1:44 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Greatest Other Game Ever
Replies: 16
Views: 1991

Graphic adventures dominate the list, and yet game manufacturers say that graphic adventures are a dead genre. How many of them are still played regularly? Well, look at the new Sam & Max episode 1, its been getting pretty good reviews, and Episode 4 are on the top 5 most played on Gametap, onl...
by Voronwë
April 3, 2007, 1:39 am
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Character names
Replies: 69
Views: 14268

Voro - lvl 12 champion, but i probably am not going to purchase a sub, just wanted to take a peak at the game. 'go grab 5 blackberries' 'kill 12 insects' that kind of shit doesnt really do it for me. At least through level 12 there wasn't anything that i came across that encouraged multiplayer inter...
by Voronwë
March 26, 2007, 11:23 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Battlestar Gallactica - The Final Five?
Replies: 94
Views: 13730

i thought the season finale was weak

this is my favorite TV show in a long time too...
by Voronwë
March 18, 2007, 1:32 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Greatest Arcade Game Ever
Replies: 5
Views: 1008

I put more quarters in Cyberball 2072 than any other game probably.

voted for Galaga.

Couple other ones that arent on there that kicked ass: Smash TV, 1942,
by Voronwë
March 16, 2007, 12:37 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Ok now can we close the borders!!!
Replies: 36
Views: 5445

the reason Target doesnt fire them is not for fear of alienating Muslims it is because when you have billions in assets, the last thing you want are 12 people whose lives are so vapidly meaningless they have nothing better to do for 5 months than to sit around and have some civil rights lawyer malig...
by Voronwë
March 13, 2007, 11:25 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: DST Patch. $4000.
Replies: 33
Views: 6929

funny, the only thing NOT fucked up at Turner with respect to DST are the blackberries....
by Voronwë
March 10, 2007, 11:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sovereign Remedies...
Replies: 33
Views: 4024

i find tylenol to work on pain as well as aspirin, napricin sodium, ibuprofen. Should i be in more pain than those can handle Demorol, Vicodin, or Hydrocodone should knock it out. If that doesnt work add one glass of wine homeopoathic remedies and such....might as well try to ride a mule down the ex...
by Voronwë
March 7, 2007, 7:21 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: DST Patch. $4000.
Replies: 33
Views: 6929

if you add up all the hours people at my company spend fixing their fucking calendar requests it would total tens of thousands of dollars, so i dont think $4K is a bad deal

of course our company was too cheap to spring for it....they cap our email at 150MB....

that was pretty sweet....10 years ago
by Voronwë
February 25, 2007, 11:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Who are better pilots?
Replies: 46
Views: 7581

You can't bullseye womprats in an F/A-18 No, but I can usually take out the city block around it or pretty close to it well guess what, that exhaust port, right below the main point is pretty heavily shielded, so GOOD LUCK WITH THAT AND OH YEAH< THE PROPULSION SYSTEM OF A CoNVENTIONAL JET WOULD NOT...
by Voronwë
February 25, 2007, 4:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Who are better pilots?
Replies: 46
Views: 7581

You can't bullseye womprats in an F/A-18
by Voronwë
February 12, 2007, 1:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hour by Hour
Replies: 96
Views: 22101

WHY THE FUCK HAS THIS THREAD NOT BEEN DELETED?Q??!?!?!?!?!

THIS COMMUNITY WILL NOT STAND FOR A THREAD LIKE THIS!!!!

Kyoukan and Kylere have found common ground!




oh yeah, get bent Pilsbury
by Voronwë
February 12, 2007, 1:17 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama Announces Presidential Bid
Replies: 37
Views: 5086

Forget CNN mistaking his name for "Osama", our fucking president did after the Democratic National Convention in 2004...except our president had no idea who Obama was, and thought they were talking about Osama....
by Voronwë
February 11, 2007, 5:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Great Alarm Clocks
Replies: 44
Views: 11870

have kids, that will render alarm clocks obsolete
by Voronwë
February 7, 2007, 6:54 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Billions of dollars in cash "missing" in Iraq
Replies: 18
Views: 1464

yeah i'm pretty sure Halliburton, Blackwater, KBR, etc are taking hundreds of millions of dollar payments **********IN CASH ************ High, this is Stephanie from Accounts Receivable. We noticed that your wire transfer of $100 Million from Credit Suisse arrived today. I'm sorry we require unseque...
by Voronwë
February 7, 2007, 12:54 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: New OS Driver Support Nostalgia?
Replies: 103
Views: 25695

i am thinking that article was written based on a pre-retail version of Vista. I think it is pretty unlikely that i just magically picked the right hardware 1.5 years ago that Vista would support for burning DVDs, a NIC, sound, video, etc. My problem with 2gb of RAM (4 x 512MB DIMMs) on my motherboa...
by Voronwë
February 7, 2007, 12:47 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: What IS, America's favorite past time...
Replies: 28
Views: 4731

Jim Rome is a douchebag America's favorite passtime is watching TV. the expression used to describe baseball was coined long before television, which has fundamentally changed all of our lives. If the question is what is the most popular sport, the overwhelming answer is football. From the small tow...
by Voronwë
February 6, 2007, 7:18 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: New OS Driver Support Nostalgia?
Replies: 103
Views: 25695

i went 64 bit, and i get an error about not having a sound card driver (some embedded Yamaha thing in my mobo) but the sound works, so i dont give a shit

the few apps 32 bit apps i've installed so far work fine
by Voronwë
February 4, 2007, 6:00 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Speaking of a bunch of Morons...
Replies: 46
Views: 7849

ë=m¢²
by Voronwë
February 2, 2007, 12:03 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Speaking of a bunch of Morons...
Replies: 46
Views: 7849

Yeah, I heard part of the interview on NPR on my way home tonight. If anything, they need to learn not to piss off the press. Hair and the 70s? Like that has any relevance whatsoever. Regardless, if I see one of those in Atlanta, it's going in my office. they were all looted before the Police even ...
by Voronwë
February 1, 2007, 2:39 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Speaking of a bunch of Morons...
Replies: 46
Views: 7849

Re: Speaking of a bunch of Morons...

The City of Boston goes bugfuck over some blinky signs posted in high visibility areas. Total monetary losses as a result will be in the millions BPD says their response cost $500,000 and of couse massive traffic delays etc will add up. So the terrorists seem to be winning. The same signs were post...
by Voronwë
January 31, 2007, 10:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: What a bunch of morons
Replies: 47
Views: 5262

almost every culture has an archetypal ritual involving male bloodletting or injury. we have them as well, though they are not so visceral as this example Most American males are circumcized, that only exists in our culture due to its roots as a primitive ritual. Communinion in Christian churches us...
by Voronwë
January 31, 2007, 12:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Stupid computer user re-education tool
Replies: 30
Views: 3804

if i can explain to my father-in-law the concept that the flash memory in his digital camera is not the PERMANENT ARCHIVE for his photographs and he doestn have to go to Target and buy a new one every time he takes 300 pictures, i will claim victory. for fucks sake though, i just got all the family ...
by Voronwë
January 30, 2007, 3:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: So, where do you stand on earwax?
Replies: 33
Views: 4126

tactical nuke on denmark from orbit

only way to be sure
by Voronwë
January 30, 2007, 3:35 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: New OS Driver Support Nostalgia?
Replies: 103
Views: 25695

it cant be worse than installing debian linux via cd on a machine whose cd-rom uses a scsi interface located on the sound card

of course linux is free too ;p
by Voronwë
January 29, 2007, 1:35 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Vista Licensing Caveat
Replies: 17
Views: 2703

potentially another reason to upsell people to Ultimate.

Doesn't it have enhanced recovery functionality?