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Oh, no. We've got that in Japan, too - November 11 (11/11) is National Pocky Day.

Also OT but car dealership ads are the. worst.

Especially if you are an unfortunate soul who lives within earshot of a TV set in a few select localities. This guy is a multi-millionaire. He is not going to stop carpet-bombing the sensibilities of decent folk with his one-word catchphrase any time soon.

I don' think holidays are e fen a thing anymore. It's just work till you drop. "Public holidays", at least for my own, usually snooze parties.

uh
so, my dad's motherboard just got fried
He wants to make a new computer now, what should we look for? We need a new motherboard + RAM + CPU. He wants something like a budget gaming computer, powerful enough to play games, but not so new that it can't play older games.

I mean, his computer was a Windows XP, he's had it for a while.

consider a separate partition if you don't feel like using dosbox emulation, using the XP registry key from the old computer

i ain't up to date on current part pricing though

I saw the Series 2009 $100 bill (U.S.) for the first time today and all I wanna say about it right now is that whoever thought the thing we needed most on it was a garish pinstriped gold white-outlined blobbed-around giant Helvetica-looking 100 thought wrong, even if it is for the benefit of the visually impaired.

I’m sure Poor Richard would be amused nonetheless, being a printer by trade and something like an 18th century forum troll.

i guess i might as well say
my dad just looked up the parts he needed on my computer
and then built an entirely new computer

we'll tackle restoring his old one later i guess

Loss of battery life is likely something you'll only end up noticing after several years, since it's the result of wear and tear on the battery's internal components due to electricity running through them. If the battery is on, this wear and tear is going to occur anyway, although there might be a slight difference depending on if it's plugged in or not.

So if you tend to turn your DS off, rather than putting it into sleep mode, then "topping it off" is more efficient. If you keep it on most of the time, it probably won't matter.

Either way, you're probably not going to notice much of a difference for several years. I've had my DS for...somewhere around 2-3 years, and the battery life has dropped by maybe half an hour, even with me leaving it plugged in overnight almost constantly.

the sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages ™

I've had my DS Lite for 2-3 years. Its battery life is now 3 minutes. I kept it plugged in near-constantly.

so I got myself a new amp:

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Hey, you "sleep is for the week" suckers (a group which includes myself)

A lack of sleep causes toxin buildup, including the components of plaques found in Alzheimer's patients' brains. Go the fuck to sleep y'all

Aw hell, it is almost 6AM on a Monday, and I am still awake. I have to get to a 9AM class.

I know I have a problem.

But at least for now, the roads are safe due to a magical chemical concoction called “coffee”.

(yes, it is brewed in America, but that does not make it AMERICAN COFFEE)

From the linked personnel page, apparently not.

Then again, photos for a “this is every single one of our researchers” site tend to be forced and occasionally spited, so imagine away.

What.

that sounds like the worst crossover of weekend at bernies and cheech n chong that i've ever heard of

I'm getting a lip piercing tomorrow. And another one, a while after that. So excited and kind of really scared rn.

Oooo, post the results in the photo thread!

why are you getting piercings if you are scared :o ??

I maintain that piercings are awesome. Especially if they involve chains.

My desire to get a tattoo is at odds with my crippling fear of needles.


...also lack of funds but that's more likely to change than my fear of needles.

I can't stand piercings. Ear piercings I can tolerate, but anything else just makes me outright uncomfortable.

I think minimalistic piercings can look cool.

I'd really like to get Viewtiful Joe's ear piercings thingies myself if only i could figure out how they're called.

I want to get a bunch more ear piercings but i never actually wear earrings in my regular earlobes anyway. It's probably been a year or so since i last did, and i apparently have the gift of piercings never closing over so the holes are still there.

I don't normally wear earrings either, but I found these ones in a store in Miyakonojyo and they're just too great.