Random Drunken Thoughts Thread

[seatazzz]

I (once again) have fallen down that deep dark rabbit hole known as 'upgrading'. A month or so ago I ran a really long ethernet cable from one end of the house where the router is to the garage so my new PC could be hardwired instead of wifi. The other day I decided it would be cool to run my work laptop hardwired, so put the pc back on wifi. I didn't like that so I got me an ethernet switch, and some short cables because I'm too cheap to buy a crimper and make my own out of some of the long cable I have stashed around here. Today I thought it would be cool to run my nintendo switch off ethernet instead of wifi, except the old ethernet to usb adapter I have is, well, old, and the nintendo doesn't like it anyway. It's always 'I just need one more thing to make this all work', and soon I'm getting questions about my amazon purchases.

 

[Skeeter686]

I still have a partial spool of CAT-5e cable from when I decided that I needed to run an ethernet jack in every room of the house. In my defense, we were still getting together, in person, for LAN party death matches around that time.

We've since moved and the current home has CAT-6 run to every room for phone jacks, so it'd be super easy to convert those to ethernet jacks if I wanted to.

 

[balrog]

I miss LAN parties. Sorta. I have not missed running any wire anywhere. I have the scars. Prior owners put wire lath and plaster then recent owners drywall over that. Like having tile on mud on wire lath on linoleum. Easier to burn the house down and start over.

For some reason, SWMBO is not a fan of that option.

What were we talking about again?

 

[day_trippr]

Warning: potential learning ahead

 

[day_trippr]

When DOOM with head to head (to head, etc) capabilities came out in the early 90s my boys were pre-teens by a scoche - and naturally they loved the heck out of the gory game We had family frag-fests often, and at least a couple times a month had their friends bring their family PCs over for some epic battles.

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

Now I have 7 square feet of fast gaming monitors for a 72" wide array and have no issues playing visually chaotic games. Something happened along the way but damned if I know what Weird...

Cheers!

 

[Skeeter686]

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

A friend of mine used to get motion sickness when she'd play, unless she had a couple drinks first. With a slight buzz, she was fine. I always thought that was so weird!

 

[balrog]

When DOOM with head to head (to head, etc) capabilities came out in the early 90s my boys were pre-teens by a scoche - and naturally they loved the heck out of the gory game We had family frag-fests often, and at least a couple times a month had their friends bring their family PCs over for some epic battles.

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

Now I have 7 square feet of fast gaming monitors for a 72" wide array and have no issues playing visually chaotic games. Something happened along the way but damned if I know what Weird...

Cheers!

Good thing it went away before MS Flight Sim came along, eh?

 

[Snuffy]

Then, I got my first 20" CRT...and discovered vertigo when trying to play the game! I suddenly couldn't last five minutes before I had to quit, and eventually stopped even trying to play.

That CRT was irradiating your frontal lobes. Probably made the hair on your arm stand up when you switched it on.

 

[seatazzz]

For the longest time my monitors were just on their own desk stands, and quite low. Got me a dual-arm desk mounted stand last week; took a while to get used to monitors up higher, but now my neck and back don't hurt as much during long sessions of 'work' (read: mariokart8) or sitting for hours on HBT. And I now have tons more room on the desktop for other things. My cable mismanagement is awful but nothing has caught on fire....yet.

 

[Broken Crow]

Other threads have got me thinking about 'efficiency' and because I'm drunk, I ended up thinking about where my drive for efficiency began;
It was a cold December day in '72 when 5-year old me stood by my fathers grave. At the time I knew there were millions of people on the earth and we'd been around a while and if 'they didn't drop the bomb on us', we'd be around for a while yet... I could understand why someone like Einstein or some discoverer would have a grave and marker but to hear what others said about my father he was just a drunk and a drain on everyone and contributed nothing to the larger world. Why wouldn't they at least bury non-contributors vertically so they take up less space?...after all, with all the folk on earth by the time I die there won't be any room left not just for me, but for trees, stores, houses and factories. OK: so we're raised with an in-built arrogance that makes us think our feelings are worth paying to waste a piece of valuable property...heck; we all just turn into fertilizer anyway, why not raise crops in graveyards then instead of saying 'so-and-so was a waste in life but hey: Good bread!, or Mmmm, Corn!'

 

[balrog]

Truly some deep thinking.

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[balrog]

And another beer. Of course.

 

[day_trippr]

My last resort is the peanut butter jar and a spoon. Goes really well with my nitro'd chocolate stout...

 

[Snuffy]

My last resort is the peanut butter jar and a spoon. Goes really well with my nitro'd chocolate stout...

Every once in a while, a man just needs a big ole spoonful of peanut butter. And maybe a yogurt.

 

[balrog]

Every once in a while, a man just needs a big ole spoonful of peanut butter. And maybe a yogurt.

or a bourbon.

 

[balrog]

You know how when you buy a bag of lettuces, it gets all nasty in a couple days?

Yeah, that doesn’t happen with cookies.

 

[day_trippr]

Looks like "King of the Hill" will come back and I guess in recognition Alamo Beer will actually be brewed...

https://www.kens5.com/article/news/...exas/273-5be1b182-bd1e-4631-887e-9308bdf3d49d

 

[balrog]

1) This is supposed to be a story to "fuel my mind"
2) I have had my morning coffee
C) I have a rudimentary knowledge of what a pyramid scheme is
δ) What is it that growth can only? Why does that hurt my brain? Why am I troubled by trying to figure this out? Who invented liquid soap, and why?

 

[balrog]

Isn’t reading surreal?
I mean, you sit and stare at marked slices of tree for hours, vividly hallucinating.

[Edit: Yeah, I have a Kindle Paperwhite, but I still like the marked slices of tree]

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[seatazzz]

Speaking of reading, why do some people think I'm weird that I re-read books over and over? I mean, it's not like anything different is going to happen. I know the storyline, I know the characters. It's like sometimes my mind just wants the comfort of listening to old friends tell me the same story yet again. Also that I'm in my late 50's and I still read books from my childhood. Not Dick & Jane (although they were pretty funny) but classics I read in my early teens. And yes I'm old enough to have read Dick & Jane in early grade school.

 

[day_trippr]

Which genre do you find most re-readable?

There are precious few non-technical books I've read more than once. One was "We Took To The Woods" by Louis Dickenson Rich, another was "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean, and another was "The Stand", an epic novel by Stephen King. I'd be hard pressed to name another...

Cheers!

 

[seatazzz]

Which genre do you find most re-readable?

There are precious few non-technical books I've read more than once. One was "We Took To The Woods" by Louis Dickenson Rich, another was "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean, and another was "The Stand", an epic novel by Stephen King. I'd be hard pressed to name another...

Cheers!

I reread the unabridged version of The Stand about every 3 years or so. Takes me a week to get through it. Mostly I read historical fiction, Harry Potter, and my all time favorite Vision Quest by Terry Davis. The movie did NOT do that book justice. They got it all wrong.

 

[day_trippr]

I read "The Stand" the first time in two days. It was an obsession and I could not stop but for a few hours in the middle for a long nap before finishing it. By far the best book I've ever read wrt entertainment value. I dreaded the movie release because I knew the intensity could never be conveyed on film...

Cheers!

 

[mac_1103]

There are very few books that I've re-read, and when I have it's usually been decades after the first reading. Unless you count the first fifty or so pages of Ulysses, which I've probably read a couple of dozen times.

 

[Pkrd]

I never reread books but have repeatedly listened to a bunch of audiobooks.

 

[seatazzz]

I read "The Stand" the first time in two days. It was an obsession and I could not stop but for a few hours in the middle for a long nap before finishing it. By far the best book I've ever read wrt entertainment value. I dreaded the movie release because I knew the intensity could never be conveyed on film...

Cheers!

I was so angry at that movie. Molly Ringwald as Frannie???? UGH!!! They got the Walkin Dude fairly well cast, as well as Trashcan Man, but for the most part it was awful.

 

[Broken Crow]

Speaking of reading, why do some people think I'm weird that I re-read books over and over? I mean, it's not like anything different is going to happen. I know the storyline, I know the characters. It's like sometimes my mind just wants the comfort of listening to old friends tell me the same story yet again. Also that I'm in my late 50's and I still read books from my childhood. Not Dick & Jane (although they were pretty funny) but classics I read in my early teens. And yes I'm old enough to have read Dick & Jane in early grade school.

I'll bet those same people who think re-reading is weird listen to the same songs over and over day in and day out....I first read The Stand because one of my '100-favourite' songs 40-some years ago was "The Stand" by the Alarm (based on the book) and I wanted to see if the feel of the song was good match.. I thought it was. Heck, Led Zepplin is one of the reasons I first read The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings which I've read many times over...the Cure's "Killing An Arab" got me reading not just "The Stranger", but all of Camus. No one bats an eye when you heard the same Led Zepplin tunes on the radio 20 times a day, but re-reading a book? I guess some people also just like to look at the pictures.

 

[balrog]

I rewatch movies.
I reread books.
I go through old pictures of my kids when they were teeny tiny.
I relisten to songs.
I even make some recipes of beer over and over again!

I fear however that the horror genre is something to which I have never developed any attraction.