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So, just so no one else goes through the 24 hours of hell that I just went through:

If you have an nVidia video card on your computer and you are using the DVI connector rather than the VGA connector, hang on to the VGA connector cable. Whenever you update the drivers, the card will revert to using the VGA connector as the primary monitor, meaning that rebooting will cause your DVI-connected monitor to go completely blank once it gets past the Windows startup screen. The easiest ways to get around this are:

- Use the VGA connector instead.
- Hang onto a VGA monitor and hook that up after rebooting. Reset your video settings so that the DVI monitor is the sole primary instead of the VGA monitor, then disconnect the VGA monitor.

This has been another ginchy installment of ITR Tech Support! Where's my Maker's Mark?

tom make him draw a lissajous pattern using apple logo

There's nothing hotter than tech bulletins.

they get me going for sure

Oh, this modern world.

Say, I should probably try to sleep or study or something, huh.

Good night, all.

hi guys i'm drunk and i just got home and had like 45 min of drunk talk w/ my roommate which we NEVEr do. it was weird! talkin bout networking and social interactions and marketing bands etc. woah!

p.s.in celebratory manner i had the following infused vodkas tonight: cranberry, ginger, pear

would have had more but i am not really a fan of vodka.

Hello, TZA, in order not to hate vodka, you need some Polish Bison Grass vodka and some apple juice, plus sprig of mint or slice of lime. This is kind of the national drink of Poland.

see now that sounds good

see to me that just sounds like too much work.

why you gotta disguise shit? if it's not fit to be drunk purely, why drink it at all?

the ginger vodka was actually awesome. i have been trying to figure out the perfect ginger-mint-lemonade-bourbon combo and now am thinking that i shoud infusions are key. simple syrup w/ ginger infusion plus lemonade plus bourbon plus fresh mint sprinkled in just might work.

muddling mint in lemonade: bad idea

because of the color?

it gets brown and bitter. so color + flavor. acidity = bad news bears for mint.

National Drink of Poland involves no muddling or crushing of any kind. Bisongrass blade in the bottle imparts a FRESH! taste to the vodka and this is mixed with supermarket-standard apple juice.

I have been known to throw the two ingredients into a blender with ice and make-a da slushie.

However it is made the mint or lime just gets plopped in as-is at the end. Try one.

i am intrigued as to quite what makes the grass bisony. but that's probably not important now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_grass

I now want some Bison Grass Vodka.

I <3 Google: http://www.anybooze.com/zubrowka-bison-grass-vodka-376-p.asp

Hooray! Application finished, off to Kinkos type place with sheets of nice paper....

An hour and a half and then I are DONE for 9 days. Brighton and Barthelona await. (i have a return flight now so all is well).

I think I'm going camping this weekend. I predict it will suck.

Wait, why are you going then?

And do you not like camping in general, or is it just this particular trip that will suck (and why)?

Because I predict that I will never, ever go camping because I think it would suck.

(ha ha, btw, A. thinks he wants to walk the Appalachian Trail someday. Guess who's going to be going alone on that trip!)

In evil library fine guy news -- I am at the desk and wearing a Swervedriver shirt. All is right with the world.

I am gong because it's with J's coworkers and she wants to go. I predict it will suck because we are all in our 30s and not teenagers/college students anymore and therefore have gotten used to things like paying for hotels with showers and television and buying dinner rather than cooking it on a campfire as integral parts of our entertainment. (The invite, which is for a weekend-long trip, specifically said "bring food if you want it", to which I was like wtf.)

All is right with the world.

All might be right with your world Mr. Ned. I think the rest of it could do with some work. :p

RRRRRRRSSSSSPCT 4 DA SWERVEDRIVER

time to fly. wooop.

Dan, I nominate you for husband of the year for being willing to go. "Bring food if you want it...?" Wow. I hope this isn't going to wind up with some kind of Donner Party ending.

Ned, you're intimidating me from here!

I like how cheerily Sara says this! "Dan, I *really* hope you don't end up killing and eating each other."

Ten years from now: "Mom, we're going out camping for the weekend!"

"All right, dear. Bring seasoning."

Actually Sara's medical expertise would be just what the amateur cannibal needs.

"No, you cut HERE."

*squelch*

"See how much more cleanly that comes off?"

Hey, those skills really *can* be helpful in a pinch!

i am awake now. blahhh don't wanna be.

I like how cheerily Sara says this! "Dan, I *really* hope you don't end up killing and eating each other."

Ned, you've heard the HSTNGS stories.

Well EXACTLY. It's not that I don't care if Dan winds up eating/being eaten by his wife's friends in a starvation in the wilderness scenario. It's just that I'm psychologically prepared for that possibility. The advantages of history!

Besides, I'd totally bank on Dan being one of the survivors, so at least that's comforting.

lol now I'm sitting here literally trying to figure out which high school classmate verbalized a desire to taste cooked human flesh someday. I think it may have been St4ff0rd.

Ned, you've heard the HSTNGS stories.

Hmm, quite right. I guess I should have asked who gets made into sausages.

itr presents: sweeney todd

Attend the tale of S R-C.
Her skin was pale and her heart had glee.
She nursed the ills of gentlemen
who never thereafter were heard of again.
She saw a path that few do see
did S R-C
the demon RN of Haaaaaaaaaaaaaastings.

lolol

i didn't make it past the first few min of johnny depp but i would pay money to see this version. john justen: sweeney sara: lovett dan: JUDGE

Well, if you travel back in time, you may find that we produced a metaphorical version.

I don't recommend making that trip, though. Safety should be your watchword. ;)

john justen: sweeney sara: lovett dan: JUDGE

All wisely thought out. Can I be the goof whose hair turns white?

Do I get to help you with the dye job?