Easterhay disappeared about a year ago after obvious trolling posts, including fairly personal attacks on zombie's work. He doesn't seem quite as antagonistic this time. I don't think he is twooffour.
Yes folks, in one foul swoop a spellchecker will defiantly improve your spelling. What have you got to loose? Even though it gets a bad wrap some people still make due with Internet Explorer. I have been waiting with baited breath for a browser with built in spell checking and now its really working!
Album name approved.
*Executive memo ends*
thecolorsblend said:
Whatever it is, I hope it includes "Requiem" in there somewhere so that people will stop using that goddamn word all the time.
^ Requiem for the Straw Man?
Episode VII - The Empire Strikes Next
Imrahil said:
Do you constantly find references to 1932 in your everyday life?
Mrs. Wibbsey won't shut up about it.
Yes, if you do a recovery it will be completely wiped. Try Alt+F10 during boot and see if a recovery menu appears.
Must be an international difference. I was selling and recovering XP laptops six years ago and the recovery partition/blank disc thing was the norm and still is with most of the major brands here.
Not sure why everyone thinks it's weird or unfortunate that there are are no discs. It would be very rare to get an XP disc with a laptop six years ago. You are prompted to create your own backup or recovery discs and often given blanks for this specific purpose.
As I said above, this information is stored on a hidden partition and can recover your laptop to factory settings without discs. This type of recovery will format AND install Windows AND install all the hardware drivers that were present when the machine was brand new. Obviously some of these should be updated once the recovery is done.
If you want to try reinstalling Windows, most laptops of that age will have a hidden partition which stores the same content as backup discs. Pressing a certain key combination during startup will start the recovery menu, but the keys depend on the laptop. Google "recovery menu" and your brand name or model number.
I'd like to know more about "Secret Santa" and why his gifts are so rubbish.
Surely you could talk it up for an OP that was currently obsessed with your time period in another 20 years. But I can't complain :)
*drunken rant belonging in Politics thread deleted*
Adium is good at making threads with lots of pages.
Star Wars was basically all I cared about in terms of Sci-Fi and toys from age three until age eleven or twelve. I had Star Wars wallpaper when I was eight or nine and Star Wars themed birthday parties. I saw Star Wars at age 4 in 1978 but I don't really remember that first experience. My parents went first to check it out because they thought Chewbacca might be too frightening. One of my earliest memories is from 1980, I had seen Star Wars several times by then and I remember seeing it almost back to back with The Empire Strikes Back when it came out. The line for tickets went literally around the block and I have not seen anything like it since. I still remember the brand of chips my Dad ate and my brother and I wearing our favourite Star Wars t-shirts.
After the movie I was so excited I got my Dad to go and ask the usher if there would be another Star Wars movie and what it would be called. My Dad came back and said "Revenge of the Jedi". It was one of the best moments of my childhood. Though I remember seeing Jedi three years later it was more just the film that I remembered, whereas with Empire at six years old it was the entire experience that stayed with me. I also saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at a drive-in movie theatre with my family, the first time I had ever been to a drive-in. My parents made us all close our eyes at the end, but I peeked and had face-melty nightmares.
My entire Christmas list was always Star Wars stuff and I still have most of it today. You can almost tell how old I was looking at the figures. The 1977 figures are trashed and missing weapons, the 1980 figures are a bit dinged up but reasonable and the 1983 figures are almost perfect. By the time I was nine I just stood them on my shelf instead of ruining them in the dirt. I remember playing with Luke Hoth and my Tauntaun in my parents' freezer and drawing Sarlacc pits on cardboard and cutting them out for dioramas. Playing on the weekend was usually outside, often roaming the neighborhood at a young age with no need for supervision. We rode our bikes or dressed up to play Star Wars with plastic masks, capes and lightsabers. Later it was Indiana Jones, sometimes Ghostbusters. We went adventuring in the nearby pine forest, collected toads from the swamp and made our own bows and arrows.
My Dad was kind of an early adopter, we had a video camera and VCR when I was eight or nine and an aunt who owned a "video library" We soon had our own copies of the trilogy, which were watched religiously every weekend. Our aunt lived interstate though and I remember it cost $300 just to join the local video library when it first opened. Movies were about $20 to hire. We also had an Atari 2600 and games like Combat, Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Defender. I did not like putting money in arcade machines like most of my friends. I remember Dragon's Lair was insanely expensive when it came out. It would charge a dollar to kill you before you made it inside the castle when most games were still twenty or forty cents. I played it once. Our first computer was an Apple IIE and it seems there is no trace of my first computer game on the internet (Wizard I). Other games I played were Karateka, Montezuma's Revenge, Mask of the Sun, Alpine Adventure and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? The computer at my school required a whole room and we learned DOS working on terminals.
I was ten in 1984 - one of my favourite years for movies. I was a bit young to see some of them until later but it was still very memorable seeing Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom, Star Trek III, The Karate Kid, The Neverending Story and The Last Starfighter all on the big screen in such a short period. I got a digital watch, an early model Walkman and the Nintendo Game & Watch "Lion" when my parents went to Hong Kong and bought a bunch of duty free stuff. Later I got a few double-screen Game & Watches like Donkey Kong and Oil Panic. I could clock my Donkey Kong Game & Watch several times but could never even beat the first screen at the arcade.
I started skateboarding at age 12 after seeing Back to the Future and have a scar on my stomach from a skitching accident. I wore a denim jacket with the sleeves rolled up and mirrored sunglasses for at least a couple of weeks. My denim jacket had no pattern inside the sleeves so I wore a flannel shirt underneath and it was boiling hot. I made my first skateboard from a plank of wood and a roller skate when my parents wouldn't buy me one. They realized my home-made job was far more dangerous and ended up buying me a real skateboard. I broke my arm within the first year.
My favourite TV shows were The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Knight Rider and The Greatest American Hero. My parents wouldn't let me watch The A-Team so I used to spend my pocket money on A-Team paperback novels. I collected the novelisations of my favourite movies or movies that I wasn't allowed to watch and bought every issue of Mad Magazine, mostly for Mort Drucker's artwork. I remember going into a Hi-Fi store with my Dad to look at the first Compact Discs when they came out. I wrote letters to my friends. A Mars bar cost forty cents. You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and... hey! Where are you going?
I've heard his TV show is terrible, but I didn't hate his stand up. I remember it being fairly uncomfortable but thought-provoking and funny enough to count as actual comedy. I thought I hated all ventriloquists due to the likes of Dunham and his ilk, but then I saw Ray Alan.
I hate Jeff Dunham and everyone that thinks he is funny.
Johnny Ringo said:
Did you see from the Ladle to the Grave: the Shallow Gravy story?
No, but I will correct that. Cheers!
GO TEAM VENTURE!
I thought Venture Bros. was finished but I just discovered the Halloween special and found out there will be two more seasons!
Nah, I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't even seen The Invisible Man. It's just my terrifying Dr. Suess Halloween costume.
What's Reddit?
Who am I and why am I here?
Here's a list I had handy if you are looking for others twist:
Science Fiction Theatre (1955-1957)
The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
The Outer Limits (1963-1965)
Night Gallery (1969-1973)
Tales from the Darkside (1983-1988)
The Twilight Zone (1985-1987)
Amazing Stories (1985-1987)
The Outer Limits (1995-2002)
The Twilight Zone (2002-2003)
The Dead Zone (2002-2007)
Also, this thread should be called "TALES OF INTEREST!" :P
I watched the whole original series of The Twilight Zone fairly recently and really enjoyed it. Then I tried The Outer Limits and didn't make it through the first season. I might give it another try or I might just skip ahead to Night Gallery.
Can anyone recommend or comment on these 80s anthologies?
Tales from the Darkside
Twilight Zone
Amazing Stories
^ What this means.
Is it better to watch the classic series in production code order rather than air date order? I did it accidentally and the beginning of the serial mentioned something from the last serial I'd seen, but by air date it hadn't even happened yet. Not that it's much of big deal, I'm watching the third and fourth Doctors concurrently anyway.
I'll likely get into the audio adventures as well, but I'm kind of overwhelmed by the volume of material in the Whoniverse. I'm already familiar with Pertwee and Tom Baker which is why I started there, but I'm not sure whether to keep going with the fifth Doctor or check out the first two next. Any suggestions appreciated!
No way... I had no idea that series existed. Must watch immediately!
^ Good to see those self-imposed rules for managing your time have led you on productive new endeavours.
;)