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DivW
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Hi everyone, i know that this is gross misuse of the forums but to build a better community spirit, which you might have noticed has sort of been a bit loose recently, i thought i'd ask how everyone's day was.

My week so far has been allright, i have had 24.5 out of 25 on my Georgraphy test, my computing test went by without a sweat (don't know if i passed though) and my Graphics test was easy (computer terminology, easy for an Ad. Higher Student). The other day i was at Glasgow University for the tour, it was really boring but i think that when i actually go (if i do go) then it will probably be pretty good. I've had some good meals this week, seen my Girlfriend plenty, seen a film, but not had enough sleep.

How's everyone else been?

I know this could be considered spamming, but it's pretty harmless so please don't lock this thread. -Dave

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IMO threads like this are exactly what Gen Disc is for - it's when monkeys come along and treat the place like a gateway to their own forum that peeps get annoyed and tired of trawling through it all.

My week has been tiring - I don't get nearly enough sleep, like maybe 4-5 hours a night. I haven't even done that much, been working on a mini-game, some snippets for folk, nothing stressful - yet I'm knacked!. Most of the week at work I've been sitting on the forums avoiding any kind of non-DB coding . I've listened to every Pearl Jam album every day this week (about 120 songs) - I've only brought in my PJ .mp3's so far - gotta get more .MP3's copied for work (before any lectures, I backup all my albums onto my HD - I have no patience for downloading .mp3's). I should really feel guilty on payday this month, 'cos I've done very little to earn it!.


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School, nuf said. My brain hurts so much that i think it'll explode.
I have to code multiplayer on the weekend, plus some AI and add the graphics that me 3d guys are gonna give me. Fun. No, really, its actually fun (i enjoy it). I should go to be now, cos if i don't i won't be able to wake up tommorow. Nah, i think i'll stay for a little while longer

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Pincho Paxton
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It's been OK! It's my Birthday tomorrow, so I'm going out tonight, and some friends have got a buffet set up for me.

Pincho.

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eh went to my class for 3 days stright which is a good thing can't go today or tomorrow i think i ate some bad food =\ but i dunno almost threw up this moroning at 3AM errr not good for me.

But life is fine gonna see my GF soon so everything will seem better and gonna get my 2d engine up and running better i hope.

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DivW
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 17:16 Edited at: 12th Feb 2004 17:18
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Happy Birthday Pincho!

WOO!

Can i ask how old you are, or will you be too embarrased?

-Dave

PS: Everyone should keep writting about their week so far...

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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y shud i care about this week? next week is when im not at school

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Hmmm I'm an old dood! 41!

Probably the oldest on here!

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Van B
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Yep, Pincho is older than dirt, it's official. They should make you a moderator to keep all these newbie spammers in line, sorta like the angry next door neighbor.
You'll need an old geezer shaking his fist smilie, and a packet of rich tea biscuits.

I'll bet your like me and can't wait to retire, just so you can laze about messing with your PC all day . I'm 29 in March, god 30 certainly sneaks up on you!.


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Pincho Paxton
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Yeah I was only 18 when I got my first Speccy! So good timing for the computer generation really.

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My week has had its ups and downs. Monday I locked my keys in the car while it was running. The problem is that when my engine gets too hot it sprays anti-freeze because of a small hole in the radiator. Therefore, I was scared because I figured I only had 15 minutes to get into my car. Good thing I still had a broken key in the passenger side door, so 50 minutes later I managed to open it and shut off the engine.

Did my car overheat, you ask? Well, don't ask me why, but it didn't! Man, my car overheats even when I have to wait too long in a fast-food drive thru! But, I just said "Jesus, don't let my car overheat" when I was panicking trying to break into my car. I couldn't shut off the engine manually under the hood because my hood has to be released from inside. Ahh, what an experience that was.

Now I have tons of stuff due in school--- some AI research paper due Monday, Mandarin test Monday, Linux admin. lab due today, and a personal website that seriously needs updating. Forgot to mention my game, ROBOI needs to get more work done! And my fiance needs her daily lovin'...

Sorry for the essay


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Quote: "god 30 certainly sneaks up on you"

Is that like Joe 90? But with higher beings and all that?

I'm 30 BTW. Was doubley annoying as I had always said I would give up smoking when I was 30. I've finished with eating the furniture now, and will be 31 at the end of the month. Ah... smoking...

Cheers

Ps. Oh, and Pincho, what was it like to crank up the PC's you had when you were a child? And did you have the advanced punch card reader or just the normal one?

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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Oh, and my week was rubbish. Lots of boring work. Go to Dubai. Is well into the weekend already.

Cheers

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No cranks, but the z80 did have an elastic band to hold the 16k memory expansion in! LOL! Wow expanded from 1k! What power!

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Did you ever have the speccy printer? Friend of mine had one. I was seriously envious at the time. Even though the printout was only fit for small hamsters and mice. Even better was he had about 5 speccies in a network (I kid you not!). Was most impressive. Same guy had 24Mb of memory in a PC (erm... 386 I think at the time....), when the rest of us were considering 4Mb as a bit over the top. Hell, I think Windows couldn't even handle over 16Mb at the time anyhows. But he "liked" the extra. Git.

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Hmmm. And another mate of mine made a big disco light board from an Oric 1 and some fairy lights. Could even do moving patterns (stars etc) and everything. All his own work.

And another mate basically made a computer out of his desk. He took apart one of the original Amigas and fitted each bit into his big wooden desk. All nicely done too.

Erm.... I had lots of C90 tapes. Erm.

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Happy BDay Pincho

My week has been great! thx

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This week sucked...and the past 5 did too...

School related sucks in general...
Being landed in summer classes on your first 3 months of highschool is very encouraging either...

Besides, there is nothing to do...no pc..no tv..no Dreamcast...and I was going to buy myself an MP3 player but the damn bank got thier claws real deep in my money... "Youth spending limits" my ass...


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Quote: ""Youth spending limits""


Haha, you're kidding. Nothing like being persecuted for your age, eh?

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I remember those specy printers - silver bog roll.
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Quote: "Nothing like being persecuted for your age, eh?
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Damn right. Those basterds only give you 20$ at a time in one day...Thats very hard when you are trying to purchase a $220 MP3 player or a $300 Xbox...

(Money isn't an issue as I have 360$ on my account...it's just hard getting it@ )


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$20 limit!? That oughta be outlawed or something.

Well, it seems like you could go in and close the account, then that'd force them to fork it all over at once. Or would they fork it over in $20 installments?

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Hehe...yep, in this damn country, you aren't a person till your 18...
untill your 18, you're just a...um..a thing that wanders around...thats it.

I mean I tried everything! I even wrote myself a check for $200 and went over there to demand it be cashed at once! But nope.


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Age discrimination

I thought discrimination was illegal.

I had a ton of that in real extreme forms. So it ticks me off everytime I hear about it.

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Quote: "when the rest of us were considering 4Mb as a bit over the top"


yeah, when my 386 had 4 meg the only use I had for it was a ram disk, but boy was that great, since mostgames then were only a disk or 2 in size you could load them stright in to memory. oh yeah, disk as in 720k floppy not compact disk.

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Quote: "I thought discrimination was illegal.
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Eh...it's up to the government...it has nothing to do with age discrimination...that's why oyu don't see kids running to strip clubs...(Altohugh in the bank's case I'm really pissed because it is my money after all...)


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Let's see.

Work: Finally getting my XML project back on track now that the vender is willing to talk to me and share specs. In a burst of programming, completed the EARS transmission program with ZIP file compression to boot.

Home: Uploaded four jet fighters to the game beaver archive, turned around and made a custom set of Burger War textures and re-mapped them to the same jet fighter models. Finished parts 1 and 2 of my game design treatment class. Working on part 3 which is due tonight. Haunting the forums as usual, made a quick rain demo that I liked (will probably use it in my next big game) and hawking the virtues of point based design systems for weapons and spells. I have not spent as much time on VirMin or Cluster War as I'd like. I let my wife and her friend stab me with needles since they are both taking a plebotomy class. And, bought/borrowed some anime drawing books for my son, who's into drawing Love Hina characters lately.
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My Day was actually pretty good.

It started with something that would happen any day knowing the people in the back of the bus. They were caught smoking pot, and the punishment is still being decided. Gotta hate it when you get the bad people from new york (be in mind, I dont mind the well mannered people from new york, we just get the bad ones down here).

Afterwards, it was pretty fun, hockey tournament in gym (I hate hockey, but we won two games), played quite good in band, had a bit of fun in Spanish and Earth Science, and then we practically played in Geometry.

Yep, pretty good day.

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Woke up late. Fed my dog, wrote down an idea that came to me in a dream (somewhat rare for me), cooked eggs & made toast, and started school while the Serious Sam 2 Demo was downloading... finished schoolwork about the time the demo finished (awful download speeds made it take hours on end), installed it and played through (at really low detail cuz of this computer's low end video card). Made dinner for the family-- enchilads w/ refried beans and hot chocolate for dessert. At various times throughout the day, wrote another 2 pages of scene for my novel and some concept work on my various computer ideas.

If you disliked reading that as much I did writing it, I don't need to explain why I don't keep a blog.

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I dont know what to say mouse

umm, i woke up in a trance, gott dressed, had breakfeast (record today --- cereal in less then 5 minutes!) brushed my teeth, went on ebay, went to school, my bud and i almost got busted for surfing the web 10th period, learned how to hack a bit in 6th period (not major, just getting icons on the desktop, the damn school computer erases memory) then came home, won a 4-track on ebay, played guitar, did homework, more guitar, dinner, guitar class, morehomework, now im here
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10th Period!!!
We only have 7 and my high school has like 4 or something with some cray "block schedualing"


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Age discremination is called being ageist(though i doubt that's spelled right).
In America there are no youth spending limts!

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@Megaton - Strange--- I had a job when I was 16 in Canada, and I opened a new Chequing account @ CIBC, and had a $100 daily limit from the ATM machines. I could always withdraw more than that in person, and I ultimately didn't have the stranglehold that you do. Is the $20/day thing a new law? Or maybe did your parents create the account for you and dictate those ridiculous rules?


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I know: CMC 101 is so close to the border thta he made a deal with the devil that, it granted the ability to work at all the banks in Canada, he will give him his soul and torment all of the people there. Megaton, he picked you. He was conspiring with LinuxUser to giv hime free pepsi when he takes over a bank! He then met Saddam Hussein who became the new prime minister of canada! HAHAHAHA!!!

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of course, Ge3ri is Satan!

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Mr X, i think what u smoke is cut with rat poison.

I'm only kidding. Well so far this week i've just been on here in comp, Shougie's on addictivegames.com, shooting fireballs at Kelly Orbourne. Steve's playing some game with a castle in it from b3ta. I'm just on the forums as usual.

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Er, this 'age discrimination' is a very good thing... who knows what the world would come too if today's crazy youth were treated with the same rights and priveliges as adults. Respect your elders and your parents... for now, at least...

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it's called ageism (spelled differently)!
First off, i would love to rule the world! i could rid it of hate! I'll just kill off everyone (joking)

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Quote: "Respect your elders and your parents... "


Uh...this has nothing to do with that...I just want my god damn moolah!


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