Bechuga
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If you are gonna do it, look for a hybrid SSD - you get a big performance boost from a regular drive at a little extra cost. No idea how they work but I've one on my laptop and it made a huge difference (N.B. this is different from a normal SSD which are still pretty darn expensive - this is a regular spinning disk but with a magic chunk of SSD that does some kind of witchcraft to cache frequently used files)
Duly noted! My old ps3 needs all the help it can get.
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FYI - the hd is easily swappable on all PS3 builds. You just buy a standard 2.5'' laptop HD and it'll format the drive good to go !Just downloaded Puppeteer (PS PLUS YO) and looking forward to that tonight. However it does remind me that I need a PS3 with a bigger HD: downloading a 11 gig game requires 22 gig of space and my 80gb one barely has the room, what with other games / GTA V's massive install on there. Oh how I envy the 500gb PS3!
Yeah, a friend at work asked me how easy it was and I was surprised to find out even a luddite with no hand control like me could do it quite easily. Y'know, now might be as good as time as any to take the plunge.
If I wasn't so lazy...
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Just downloaded Puppeteer (PS PLUS YO) and looking forward to that tonight. However it does remind me that I need a PS3 with a bigger HD: downloading a 11 gig game requires 22 gig of space and my 80gb one barely has the room, what with other games / GTA V's massive install on there. Oh how I envy the 500gb PS3!
Also, replaying Surgeon Simulator on PC. Not a PC gamer at all but man it's fun.
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Perhaps lol. But if they keep making flop consoles (at least, compared to their competitors), I still might be getting a cheap Wii U. Not that there's many games I want for that either.
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Eh, the next gen of consoles is doing nothing for the nerd in me. Getting a Vita next and will wait for the PS4 to get a game or two I want and a hundred or more cheaper before I jump onto that ship. Or get a Wii U when Nintendo is liquidated I guess.
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The Core - 2/10
I didn't watch it but heard the sound through the wall due to obnoxious neighbors and it sounded just as stupid as the people watching it.
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My vinyl copy of µ-ziq's Rediffusion arrived. Huzzah!!
The download card won't work until the 18th. Boo!
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Man I really need to get another Kindle, I want to read more Dick
(lol)
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Ah lol, how did they get that out that quick and why was the English dude so slow? either way, enjoying it so far!
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Just received Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (so long a title!) by Murakami, in a nifty hardcover.
This one seems like it's a massive departure for Murakami--the main character doesn't listen to jazz! Or eat fancy meals!
Hm I still have to check out that one. Last Murakami I read were the 1q84 books, which were really nice.
It only came out in the last two days so it's no surprise you've not read it yet. Unless you're Japanese or Philip Gabriel.
Just noticed that it comes with a book of stickers! How fancy.
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Just received Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (so long a title!) by Murakami, in a nifty hardcover.
This one seems like it's a massive departure for Murakami--the main character doesn't listen to jazz! Or eat fancy meals!
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delet: I was that child! It was my plan all along!
Mesh: man that sucks. I have the occasional night of not being able to sleep but not being able to do it perpetually must be maddening.
I dare not suggest anything you may already have tried but there's an artist who made music to combat his own insomnia, called Sleep Research Facility. Likely futile and another suggestion that may not work but here's the link: http://www.resonance-net.com/ I highly recommend Stealth or Nostromo if interested. If not feel free to tell me to fuck off.
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madame: How did you get a picture of me?!?
Delet: Thickshakes sound amazing. I'm imagining a milkshake but it's as thick as clotted cream ♥
Stephen: actually I've lost a bunch of weight so I'm in celebratory mood, plus they're on sale. When they go back off sale, I won't buy any more due to being a massive cheapskate.
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Delet asleep on his calculator
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Just to let you know I bought more milkshake today ♥
But I drank that up too so fml
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For the past few weeks I have been pursued by a member of our office occupational health and safety committee for many small matters that I would consider to be non-issues. She is an (entry level) employee who may not have had many opportunities to directly engage management.
Yesterday she approached me while I was talking on my mobile phone and eating my lunch in my car, she saw me sitting there and wandered over and knocked on my window. She was concerned about a very small rust spot on a metal handrail outside our office (the actual rust spot is the size of a quarter). Later when she confronted me about it I told her I didn’t see any danger to our employees, her response was “tetanus”, when I looked back at her (I was walking away at this point) she said something about if I had a paper cut and touched the rust spot on the handrail I would likely get tetanus.
At our quarterly OHSC meeting she raised the issue of sinkholes, she had heard about sinkholes on the news and had come to the conclusion that our directors had a responsibility to investigate for the presence of sinkholes in the vicinity of our offices. I’m not an expert but I gather sinkholes are extremely rare and investigating for the existence of sinkholes involves very expensive geophysical testing, like earth penetrating radar, seismic surveys, and soil borings etc. I didn’t know how to respond to this request immediately, other than to point out in a nice way that without evidence or some indication of the existence of sinkholes it would be unreasonable to conduct an investigation.
The biggest and most painful unresolved discussion point for our committee is how to address the matter of employees working afterhours. From a OHSC standpoint the fear is that an employee might get injured or killed and not be able to get help if they are working alone afterhours. Many organizations can mitigate this risk simply by having an onsite security guard, unfortunately our office is small and there is no need to hire a full time security guard. Recently at a meeting one of the management members suggested that perhaps we could just hire a security guard to come in a do a walk through the building at midnight, I guess the logic is that if someone had injured or killed themselves at work the security guard would find them and be able to help. (I jokingly suggested that we should hire a second security guard to come in after midnight to make sure the first security guard wasn’t killed during his walk through the building). My comments were not appreciated.
I’m looking for advice on how to deal with this person. Ideally I would like to convey to her (respectfully) that I’m not interested in speaking to her about matters that don’t pose an imminent threat to the health and safety of our employees.
I realize this is a music forum but I wasn’t able to get many suggestions from an HR forum I posted this message on, and also I’ve heard some very good feedback about other first world problems on here before. By the way I work in an office environment, the biggest health risk to our staff is carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomic matters.
This person can't be for real. If it was a guy you could just tell him to fuck off and his ideas are stupid and they'd just have to man up and deal with it, but in no way ever do something like this to a female in the workplace, even the suggestion of negativity can end badly with serious career ending repercussions for you. -sie- Management will realise after a bit (hopefully) that she's a wacko and tell her to tone it down, if not have a word with them privately (not with her).
I don't really recommend telling anyone to fuck off, how could that ever end well? lol
I agree with what StephenG said, just telling her to tone it down a bit. Don't want to turn her so apathetic towards her job she decides not to replace the fire alarms or tell anyone there's serious faults in the building design.
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I drank all the milkshake and now it is gone ;;__;;
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Oops, missed this thread! Will post interviews in here from now on.
Here's a track-by-track run down of Not for Threes, providing detail for the tracks. I'm often curious as to how they name their stuff as there seems to be a story but we never get to hear it. I like that the image provided for the article looks like they only have a CDR copy of the album.
http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/classic-album-plaid-on-not-for-threes-605065
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If you're feeling uninspired, then don't force yourself to do stuff. Nothing good will come of it. I spent the last two years writing books and now I'm suddenly not so interested in writing any more...for the moment, anyway. Now I'm making music (despite saying three or so pages ago I wasn't going to bother making music LOL)
As for time, I don't know how busy you are or what you're studying, but there's no time during breaks or lunch to do something? I used to draw comics / make music at work during my lunch hour and sometimes my break times too. I walked around with a microphone gathering samples too. That was fun, even if the music was pants.
As Delet mentioned, any in particular you'd truly like to do first? You say they're in no particular order but there has to be one of those you're more eager to start on than the rest. For example, I have an idea for an animation too but it's not very high on my list right now. Some other time, perhaps. And you say learn: does that mean they're all things you've never done before (aside from music I'm guessing)?
Going to nature...sneak out for a few days and go somewhere tranquil? If not an option, camp out somewhere nearby?
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PS Plus games are out, downloading Metrico, Crysis 3 + the other one with the weird graphics. Polarisiiss? Can't remember.
Crysis 3 any good? I've fairly enjoyed most of the action games the service has thrown my way. If it's even vaguely as good as Dead Space 3, I'm stoked (why so many games with 3 in the title?)
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Yeah, what Peace said x 10
I lied about my earlier moan: I'm still making music lol. And, for the most part, I'm liking it better now that I'm not trying to make tracks from conceptual ideas (how pompous) and instead just going with something simple that sounds good to me. Best not to think about it too much. Let Aphex Twin or Plaid do what they do and just make tunes, man!
And yeah, mixing on headphones is craziness. Listen on headphones to check the mix you've done, sure but never do it all on them. My headphones are fairly neutral tho (Sony DJ700 or whatever the code it) so I know it's not being affected too much, but still....DON'T DO IT.
On a similar note: those Dr Dre headphones are garbage.
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The 2nd song is cool but the vocals on the 3rd are atrocious. And yeah, I'm tired of it after two tracks lol, no mileage in this genre at all.
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Lol @ everyone losing their minds
Also in before everyone is disappointed because the album failed to live up to their imagined expectations