PIT_FACE
whoa, applause to 1337 for reading other people's posts and replying!

He only replied to all those to make a point of deliberately not mentioning mine: I'm on to you 1337 - your numbers up.>:)

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Talking of absolute bounders, I Emailed a guy and he didn't bother to reply. Nothing unusual in that of course, people or busy, but this guy took the trouble to come and check out my comic before deciding not to reply. He checked my pages and thought “ok, he's a nobody, no need to waste my time here”. I call that not replying to make a point of deliberately not replying. I call that not replying as an offensive weapon - he's an even bigger jerk than 1337!

1337- anything you post on DD is yours, Platinum isn't going to go claiming anything. It's in the site policy somewhere. Not sure where you'd post a novella though. :] On the forums I guess?


Why do I always forget to eat until it's too late to eat?

Does anyone know how to save a pdf file from a link instead of having it try to open in a new tab? For some reason, Firefox keeps telling me that my version of Acrobat doesn't support the functionality to open it in a new tab. I've got the newest version of both Firefox and Acrobat, but it still keeps giving me this error.

PIT_FACE
power plant about 20 miles south-east of here blew up

Wow! I heard about that on the news this morning. Small world isn't it?

lba
Does anyone know how to save a pdf file from a link instead of having it try to open in a new tab? For some reason, Firefox keeps telling me that my version of Acrobat doesn't support the functionality to open it in a new tab. I've got the newest version of both Firefox and Acrobat, but it still keeps giving me this error.

For a start I'd uninstall Acrobat reader and then reinstall it.
Saving from a link is always easy in Firefox–> Right click and then click “save link as”

ozoneocean

PIT_FACE
power plant about 20 miles south-east of here blew up

Wow! I heard about that on the news this morning. Small world isn't it?

wouldnt be so small if shit stopped blowing up.

ozoneocean
For a start I'd uninstall Acrobat reader and then reinstall it.
Saving from a link is always easy in Firefox–> Right click and then click “save link as”

Yeah. I tried that. reinstalling didn't do anything, and that's not even an option on my right click menu for that link. It's probably the school courses site itself that's causing the problem. I'll just have to see if someone else around here has what I need sitting on their desk.

PIT_FACE
wouldnt be so small if shit stopped blowing up.

Damn it. I must have left Drannik wander outside again.

PIT_FACE
wouldnt be so small if shit stopped blowing up.

lol!

lba
and that's not even an option on my right click menu for that link.

I wonder what sort of link it is…? Could be some moronic javascript thing. -_-
That'd mean it wasn't really a direct link. Try a different browser?

Wow… just came back from the Doctor's office feeling really shaken… fell asleep in the waiting room and had a bad dream.

In the dream, I'm watching MC Hammer's video. Except it's not an MC Hammer video. A row of muscular me wearing nothing but pink sneakers, speedos, and raybans were dancing in the background and the guy singing the lyrics wore the same… except he also wore a tie and cuffs on his wrists. The name of the video? “Can't Jack This!” while he points at a certain part of his anatomy that only men have…

Next time I visit the doctor's office I'm gonna make sure I don't fall asleep there… O_O;

finally finished my taxes. took me forever. the company kept auto updating that my wife was a resident of Indiana, because i am, even tho she denounced her residency years ago. so it would freak out, and then claim her money as untaxed, causing us to owe several hundred….but fixing it also meant i have hand mail that one.
and then a program that said it was “free for military members” then said that in order for it to actually file the tax returns it'd be $80…the free service was just doing the taxes…
but then i remembered the site that i was actually supposed to use. (via military means) and then i went thru the entire butt pain of the state thing again, but it was slightly quicker because i knew how to circumvent it.

and i should have been in bed 2 hours ago…

Kids, never slice a new partition on your hardrive without reformatting the whole thing first. It just screws everything up.
Looks like i have to wipe my entire hardrive now, install my os (both of em), transfer everything back (which will take light years) and I really really really don't want to.

ozoneocean

PIT_FACE
wouldnt be so small if shit stopped blowing up.

lol!

lba
and that's not even an option on my right click menu for that link.

I wonder what sort of link it is…? Could be some moronic javascript thing. -_-
That'd mean it wasn't really a direct link. Try a different browser?

Yeah. The entire site is pretty much one big java app and it's all set up for macs because the school is primarily run on them. I borrowed someone else' macbook and it opened no problem. We have a lot of issues like this for the PC users here. For almost all of first semester last year, the PC's had no access to the school internet, and even now we've got to manually connect every time.

The big kicker that makes it amusing to me, is that the person who set up the school network and websites, is also the person who teaches the web design course on cross-compatibility.

Lonnehart
dream stuff

That reminds me of a dream I used to have a lot about the Max Headroom hacker. In my dream, instead of unintelligible gibberish, you could actually understand what he said and it actually affected people.

lba
The big kicker that makes it amusing to me, is that the person who set up the school network and websites, is also the person who teaches the web design course on cross-compatibility.

Ahh, but that's how it works. Doesn't work on a mac = no cross-compatibility.
Works on a mac = cross-compatibility (even if it doesn't work anywhere else). :D

Kind of like people making a site with effects supported only by internet explorer and thinking everyone can access it properly.

Booo! Stupid asthma acting up…And mother refused to let me sleep. I mean, I did, but she refused to allow me to rest in peace! Grrr….
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So I purchased one (1) copy of Nintendo's official magazine today, and learned they screwed me over!
Yeah! Give me awesome posters, but print them on either side of each other so I have to decide…Gah!
Donkey Kong Country 3 on one side, Pokemans on the other….(Actually that's an easy decision, but both would've been nice I guess!)
And then there's Zelda and Mario on either side….CURSE YOU DECISIONS.
Then they put two games I don't care about on the same poster - TvC and Professor Leyton. Although that TvC is a pretty cool poster regardless…Then again, Leyton has a top hat… Grrrr…Darn you, ONM.

And also Sega All-stars racing looks weird. SONIC IN A CAR? THAT'S LIKE….Mario….Using stilts or something else ridiculous that he doesn't need.
Although then again, I do like the idea of playing as Ryo Hazuki and letting out some wicked cold-blooded one liners when I knock people off the course with him.
“HOW ABOUT LUCKY HIT?”
“KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND SOME SAILORS? IN THE SEA? OKAY. *BARGES YOU IN TO SEA*”
“DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN READ THIS? *FLIPS THE BIRD*”
(Edit: Also I'd have started a games thread about it, as that's the correct place, but, A) I couldn't give any less of a shit about Sonic or his compadres anymore, and
2) Neither could anyone else)

Still don't want to quote.


Ironscarf and Pit_Face: If I can't say something witty, funny, or it doesn't relate to me then F it! :D. No but thanks for paying attention.

To Ironscarf alone: If it was me not replying to you well I was busy and still am busy. Hence vacation needs to come tomorrow rather than next week.

To Pit_Face alone: WOW…that's like more intersting than my life will ever be. Terrible, but interesting…OoO…

To skoolmunkee: Thank you. It's stuff I'm making in my creative writing class and my own personal f*cked up stuff to prove I do more than just comedy. The novella still needs to be edited a bit. And also, thanks for the idea about my Book Reviews. Maybe I'll run it like VegaX does the Comic Reviews…I don't know, can't think. Didn't sleep till 1:30Am this morning and then woke at 6am for school.

Speaking of school…I should be writing my essay right now…

1337- sometimes the most intersting things in life are the things you dont KNOW are happening around you. these days, you know the odds of living in the same neighborhood as a killer or large carnivorous sewer mutant?

PIT_FACE
1337- sometimes the most intersting things in life are the things you dont KNOW are happening around you. these days, you know the odds of living in the same neighborhood as a killer or large carnivorous sewer mutant?

Well my neighbor is a psychotic 80 year old man with a gun…and planes keep flying over my house creeping the f*ck out of me cause I live nowhere near an airport. I would use it for some type of story (I like to do that with my dreams and events in my life) but guess what? No one would care and it's very typical…I just need to write…and how does that relate? I do not know.

(I do not plan my responses, this is how I think. Thanks you and goodnight!-I hope…)

-the 1337 Master

Do all guys assume on some level that if a girl is friendly, she's interested in him?

Skullbie
Do all guys assume on some level that if a girl is friendly, she's interested in him?

Number tends to be about half the gender. 50% of guys are stupid enough to assume that if theyre friendly theyre interested. The other half either dont want to do anything about it, have a girlfriend and know that its only being friendly because they know that friendliness isnt secretly saying im interested or arent stupid and can figure that out for themselves. To be fair i know a guy thats overly like that. He follows the girls around college and says he doesnt like being around guys. Thats just a clever farce so theyre all like “Garth doesnt like guys being around him.” And because theyre kind to him in his head he thinks he has a chance with every one of them. This guy has pictures of a sheep on his phone. He shows it to everyone and he doesnt even say anything when he shows you it. Its just more or less him shoving the phone in your face. He also prints off pictures from the girls myspace and what not infront of them to bring home. I dont wanna know what he does with them ~_~. Anyway. Yeah it tends to be the thick guys that are like that. Most of the time its lucky to even see them taking their eyes away from the boobies.

Being over protective of my girlfriend (And failed fucking misserably in the first place) I seem to have a sense of when someone thinks shes interested in them. Then i show up and theyre like. Oh.. who are you? And im like she just said hello. Stop being a faggot.

That concludes my rant also.

Skullbie
Do all guys assume on some level that if a girl is friendly, she's interested in him?

I'd agree with same, but some girls do tend to act semi-flirty on a normal basis. It's usually stuff like a girl's stance that cues a guy in. Legs apart and straight up usually means nothing, but if you're leaning in and laughing at a lot of their jokes, most guys take that as being somewhere between friendly and flirty. That sort of stuff can be hard to tell the difference sometimes, especially for guys who aren't experienced with making moves, ie; nerds, geeks, etc. Of course, boobs are another thing IMO. Even guys who know you're not interested and know they're seriously deep in the friend pool will still have a hard time not glancing down once in a while.


In a sort of the same vein, I seem to attract border-line psychopaths and people with checkered pasts like flypaper in a garbage dump. And they all want to tell me their story. Kind of seems like it might make for a decent story if I approached it right. Not like fish-out-of-water, but more like “person coping with awkward knowledge/trying not to be dragged down into themselves”. It's kind of a mundane subject, but I think it's doable if handled right. Either that or a twisted human interest column in the local paper.

Can't wait until Wednesday, hopefully we will have a snow day and it won't be a big lie. Some people think we might even get off on Thursday too, which is really rare here in PA. Not sure where all this snow's going to go once it stops…

Skullbie
Do all guys assume on some level that if a girl is friendly, she's interested in him?

Ugh, I hate that. Especially after they try to make a move and you're like nnooooo thank you. Than the relationship is never quite the same. :/

yeah. i can tell you i had a problem with that…. there was one situation i was in, where there were literally 4 girls all doing the same gestures, and flirts and etc…only 1 of them was interested….my head about esploded…and i felt really dumb when the first three turned me down…
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huzzah for long working days! not allowing for the gym before hand (rules). but hey, i've come this far for my goal, whats an extra 2 hours at the end of the day anyways? it will only make me stronger…

Skullbie
Do all guys assume on some level that if a girl is friendly, she's interested in him?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I think it's pretty much the same for both sexes, depending if the one thinking the other person is interested in them also feels attracted to that person.

There's always confusion on all sides of the equation.
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Ugh, busy week. And I want to play my game, do my art, work on my websites, and work on my clothing projects, but there's mooooore to do T_T

Always new stuff in the help forum here recently and now I have more DD work to do.
I'm so tired.

It's best not to think about if a girl is interested in you when she talks to you. I tend to make conversation at work with anyone, girl or otherwise (though I find it more enjoyable to talk to women). I figure if she's interested enough in me she'd find a way to knock me unconcious then drag me to the Justice of the Peace… :)

ozoneocean
I think it's pretty much the same for both sexes,

I really doubt it, girls can just kind of tell. And i never hear complaints from guys about girls coming onto them when they were just trying to be friends-it's always the other way around.

I wasn't trying to be flirty with this guy from school, i can't think of anything i did that was flirty either. Man i should just stick to making friends with girls, then curse myself if i fall for them lol. At least Lonne has a good head on his shoulders.

Skullbie
And i never hear complaints from guys about girls coming onto them when they were just trying to be friends-it's always the other way around.

Maybe guys just don't mention it much to you? It's happened to me quite a bit. It's happened to friends. etc. Men are more flattered than annoyed or alarmed at the attention though (most of the time). That's probably the difference. :)

It even happens to those who prefer the same sex- male or female.

Skullbie
Do all guys assume on some level that if a girl is friendly, she's interested in him?

only about 90%
the other 10% tell the girl “ CAN'T JACK THIS !!!”

Skullbie
And i never hear complaints from guys about girls coming onto them when they were just trying to be friends-it's always the other way around.

Guys aren't concerned by this because a) we're flattered not threatened as Ozone said and b) we're emotionally dead. The eyes may be moving and we may appear to be listening, but there's nobody home!

actually there was one time, that there was a beast of a woman, that liked me, and she kept coming on to me….i was afeared because she was twice my size and was like “me like you, hold hand nao” and she kept trying to hold my hand. if she was a dude, i woulda punched her in the face, but i'm all polite and proper. and told her that i wasn't into her more than friends…

that stopped her for about 4 minutes.

crocty
Then they put two games I don't care about on the same poster - TvC

How dare you, actually how dare you. I hate you and I wish you would die. >:(

By the way, what counts as smart casual? Can a collared shirt, jumper and jeans suffice?