xkcd

by **Plasma Man** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:17 pm UTC

You know what's awesome? Dressing up as pirate for halloween, thus sneaking in an extra "talk like a pirate" day.

by **rath358** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:06 am UTC

karmic. it doesnt crash on me nearly as often. <3

by **angelfire** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:02 pm UTC

naps are awesome
a 45min snooze a day and youre back to your usual perky self

by **cephalopod9** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:17 pm UTC

I have a new box of markers! I got the 12 colors kind, which has gray and pink. (I keep wanting to spell it "grey" which in my mind describes a slightly cooler(as in hue... but I guess I like it better too.) color than "gray")

by **picnic_crossfire** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:15 pm UTC

1. This thread is being bookmarked for its pure awesomeness.
2. Colors. Colors are awesome. I walk, I stop, I look around, and I think, "Colors are awesome."

by **singlefin** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:25 pm UTC

picnic_crossfire wrote:1. This thread is being bookmarked for its pure awesomeness.

Recursion is awesome.

by **Fifi** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:34 pm UTC

Getting 12 hours of sleep is AWESOME!

by **Magilla** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:56 am UTC

My new motorbike is scary awesome. Srs.

by **Apparently Anonymous** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:45 am UTC

When the alarm clock rings at 6 am, sleep is amazingly awesome. Having to drag oneself out of bed at that time is pretty much really terrible...oh wait, perhaps this belongs in another thread.

by **Amarantha** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:03 am UTC

Magilla wrote:My new motorbike is scary awesome. Srs.

Ooo, what is it?

by **Magilla** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:14 pm UTC

Amarantha wrote:
Magilla wrote:My new motorbike is scary awesome. Srs.
Ooo, what is it?

2009 CABS CBR600RR

by **singlefin** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:55 pm UTC

Magilla wrote:2009 CABS CBR600RR

She's pretty. Can I lick her?

Awesomeness: I should get my car back next week after *two* *months* at the garage

by **Amarantha** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:48 am UTC

*bes jealous*

by **Meowgan** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:41 am UTC

Whee! I lost a kilo and a half in the last 2 weeks. This is not as quick as I'd like to lose it. But it's a start. (:

by **Magilla** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:45 am UTC

I went for a ride last night. Looks like it will be good for >125km/h. In first gear. Then I can use another 5 gears after that.

Meowgan wrote:Whee! I lost a kilo and a half in the last 2 weeks. This is not as quick as I'd like to lose it. But it's a start. (:

Congrats. You have moar willpower than I.

by **SlyReaper** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:01 am UTC

Awesome: my car.

Technically, it's crap. It's a 17 year old Vauxhall Astra with no power steering, ABS, air conditioning, anything you might expect to find in a modern car. It doesn't even have an alarm system. It can go about 80mph before it starts shaking itself to bits, the brakes are alarmingly soft, it can do 0 to 60 in 3.6 days, the speedometer over-reads by at least 20% and the fabric on the ceiling keeps falling down no matter what I do to keep it up.

But it's my car. It's freedom. I can go pretty much anywhere I want (at least in this country) and still be home in time for tea and crumpets. I can drive around aimlessly for miles and miles and miles without stopping, and I never get tired of it. It's a place I can be alone with my thoughts, and it can take me places I'd never even thought of visiting. When I sit behind the wheel, that car is as much a part of me as my hands are when I type this.

It's sublime.

by **TheNegotiator** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:40 pm UTC

While naps got an earlier mention, I feel the need to expand upon them in the following way:

Naps...

IN THE SUN.

Well, not the actual Sun. That'd be uncomfortable. But in the sunshine, you know. It feels great. I picked that little trick up from my cat (also awesome, also a repeat.)

by **Jos** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:08 pm UTC

Concerts are hereby awesome! Great music, it's warm and cosy and you get to squeeze yourself against nice people (AND IT'S STILL OK!)

by **Chuff** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:02 pm UTC

I'm probably not sick anymore! Awesome!

by **cephalopod9** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:23 am UTC

Tea is so great. I should go by the local coffee place because they have awesome tea.

Also, I have wafer cookies. (and I am probably eventually going to eat the whole box because I opened them, and I am sort of diseased). There was also one cookie that was actually two cookies stuck together.

Jos wrote:Concerts are hereby awesome! Great music, it's warm and cosy and you get to squeeze yourself against nice people (AND IT'S STILL OK!)

It's a pretty sweet set up alright. There's not really that many gatherings where you get to move around and interact with people as much. Dancing is pretty cool, I might eventually get to a point where my body doesn't rebel so strongly against efforts to move rhythmically or gracefully. Even when you move in halting, awkward motions in an effort to warm up like I do, it's still pretty fun.

by **Meowgan** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:27 pm UTC

Magilla wrote:
Meowgan wrote:Whee! I lost a kilo and a half in the last 2 weeks. This is not as quick as I'd like to lose it. But it's a start. (:

Congrats. You have moar willpower than I.

I wish. I went on some drugs which make me excrete a percentage of the fat I ingest rather than absorb it. BUT they make me feel so awful when it goes through my system, that the thought of fatty food is making my stomach turn. So, they're actually turning my lack of willpower into some actual willpower.

So woo. I just have to convince myself to exercise and not snack so much and I'll be a skinny minny in no time.

My awesome for the day: I earned 41c in interest on my savings account. This is awesome y/y?

by **canoemoose** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:42 pm UTC

I got bored last night and so cut a velociraptor out of a pizza box and stuck it on my mate's door. The awesome bit? It's still there now, despite the fact that drunk people would have been walking past it on their way back to bed.

Spoiler:

by **Decker** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:09 pm UTC

I knew something about programming that my boss didn't. To be honest, my boss really isn't a programmer, but it was nice to be able to teach him something for once.

by **modularblues** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:51 pm UTC

Biking downhill and not pedaling.

by **Hazel** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:10 pm UTC

Orange shoelaces are awesome.

by **Chase_kun** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:18 pm UTC

clockworkmonk wrote:You know whats awesome? the fact that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann even exists. that is the awesomest.

I love that Anime! It's one of my favorites

by **Chase_kun** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:34 pm UTC

gamers2000 wrote:XKCD.

More awesome than anything else really.

by **micco** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:34 pm UTC

Green tea is awesome and so are waterproof shoes.

by **Chase_kun** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:25 pm UTC

Flash is awesome. Being able to Ctrl-Z your way out of anything is great. Paydays are awesome too. All that hard work gets you money you can do whatever you want with!

by **blue_eyedspacemonkey** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:32 pm UTC

Tea is the best thing ever. And, good for you!
Lasagne is also wonderful. *on nom nom* It all filling and warm a cheesey! I can see why Garfield loves it so much.
(When I finish it) just-mark's bag is going to be awesome. I shall post pictures.

by **Antimony-120** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:27 pm UTC

Zohar wrote:2. New Gunnerkrigg Court (read it! It's awesome! Plus I've made it a habit of mine to hook people onto that webcomic)

Oddly enough I never read Gunnerkrigg until I arrived at this forum, when somebody asked me if I'd named myself after it (I had not). In conclusion Good...laser cow thing.

by **'; DROP DATABASE;--** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:34 am UTC

I was highly amused in computer repair class today. We have 8 computers, which we've learned to assemble, install Vista on, and some other things. Today our assignment included the task of setting a disk quota. The assignment specified 1MB as the limit, so that it'd be easy to exceed it to see what happens.

Four of the computers ended up unbootable or unusable.

Apparently Vista decided to apply that quota to all users, including administrators. And if you're way over your quota limit, it's impossible to log in. And that limit includes the user profiles and other junk that's already there that well exceeds 1MB. Oops.

Mine and another had a bonus fail. The video randomly cut out, and refused to come back. Tapping the keyboard and moving the mouse, occasionally the display would come back for half a second before disappearing again. So we hit the power button, which by default triggers a normal shutdown without prompting.

Turns out Vista had decided to start installing some updates. So during shutdown, the video comes back on, and we see "Windows is installing updates" followed immediately by "Windows is shutting down". Vista happily interrupts the update process to shut down.

...Without letting it clean up. Which means the registry is left in a mess, leading to a BSOD on boot, even in safe mode. Yay!

It gets better still: Even the recovery tools on the install CD impose the 1MB quota limit. So while a backup copy of the registry exists, the disk is considered full even after removing files, so I can't copy those backups to where they need to be. I could move them, but they're the only backup, so the system might end up completely hosed, if it's not already. So next week I'm going to have to use a Linux CD to bypass the quota and copy them.
(And then I'll explain why they really should be teaching how to use Linux, even if it is to fix Windows. >.>)
Even System Restore claims the disk is full now. I suspected the disk may have just died, but chkdsk reported no problems.

Oh, Vista... :lol:

by **Chuff** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:45 am UTC

Coffee remains as awesome now as it was before.

by **Zohar** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:41 am UTC

Chase_kun wrote:
clockworkmonk wrote:You know whats awesome? the fact that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann even exists. that is the awesomest.

I love that Anime! It's one of my favorites

Excellent... We keep to the original plan of posting Gurren Lagann every page...

by **Meowgan** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:41 am UTC

I lost another half a kilo this week. Which brings me to 2 kilos lighter than I was before. Which is still not optimal.

by **Zohar** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:46 am UTC

Meowgan wrote:I lost another half a kilo this week. Which brings me to 2 kilos lighter than I was before. Which is still not optimal.

But still awesome, good luck Megan!

by **GraphiteGirl** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:52 am UTC

I went for an hour long walk with my iPod, which means I'm doing fun exercise again after a long study-related hiatus, and when I got home Neil Gaiman had updated his blog! Yay for regaining basic fitness and Neil Gaiman!

by **Plasma Man** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:25 pm UTC

Vaccinations are awesome. Your body gets to build some kick ass-defences before you get the disease, and that's awesome.

by **Quadropus** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:51 pm UTC

Magilla wrote:
Amarantha wrote:
Magilla wrote:My new motorbike is scary awesome. Srs.
Ooo, what is it?

2009 CABS CBR600RR

That is a very nice bike. I can imagine it is rather worrying to ride the first few times....

What is also awesome: the fact that I am going to visit my girlfriend tomorrow and I get to see my sister - hurrar!
I am excited

by **TaintedDeity** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:19 pm UTC

I'm using Spotify to listen to all sorts of bands I'd heard of but wasn't bothered to listen to too much.
It turns out The Dresden Dolls, Regina Spektor, Scroobius Pip, Humanwine, Skinny Puppy, Nick Cave and Bjork are AWESOME!

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