Archive through June 17, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archive: Grouching Place: Archive through June 17, 2001

Lancecrossfire

Monday, June 11, 2001 - 07:07 pm Click here to edit this post
Grooch, actions such as that on my part would cause the entire board to fall off the face of the earth (even with gravity in place)!

Lancecrossfire

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 12:13 am Click here to edit this post
Ok, I'm back up on the Amber soap box! One of the Amber fan sites (S2 have been over for awhile now) has over taken the Aussie BB site (which is currently running) for second place in the reality TV top 100 list.

Someone alert Ted Koppel. Holy jumping up and down Martha, Bat Man--this smells of bribes and kick-backs. Judge Smails should slap an injunction on them so fast it would make their head spin.

That site is a sham, IMHO.

<leaves soap box in place and aims it at that damn site. places charge of explosives under it so it goes flying their direction.>

Grooch

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 05:46 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch sneaks into Rogue's office, finds his Prozac's pills in his desk drawer and borrows a few.

She then sneaks over to Lance's place and dissolves them in his milk, juice and coffee containers. So when Lance wakes up in the morning, he will definitely down some when he wakes up.

:)

Twiggyish

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 05:51 am Click here to edit this post
I wonder if we are the oldest site on that 100 list?

Rogue

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 10:12 am Click here to edit this post
LOL, Grooch! Coooollll!

Gail

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - 07:41 pm Click here to edit this post
Does the board seem to be running better since this past weekend? Neil archived The Mole, Boot Camp, Temptation Island and some of the General Discussion area.

To me, it seems much better then it did last week. We probably have about half the number of posts that we did last week.

Tess

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 01:11 am Click here to edit this post
It's running very smoothly for me again, Gail. It had been excruciatingly slow for several days. Now it is just lovely. Thank you for asking and thank you to Neil!

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 10:55 pm Click here to edit this post
Gail, things are running faster and at a more consistent speed.

Jetticat

Thursday, June 14, 2001 - 03:11 pm Click here to edit this post
I am sooo happy for that Neil! Thanks for all of your hard work!

Misslibra

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 07:38 pm Click here to edit this post
I am so upset right now!! I had this eWalla program, it was a cute little messenger program, with cute little characters and the works.
Well I got a email the other day, from eWalla, telling me at the end of the month eWalla will be no longer, and to uninstall the program.
So I go to my add and remove programs, which I see now was a mistake I should of use the program uninstaller instead but wasn't thinking about it at the time, anyway when I uninstalled the program it took out my Limewire and all it's music, Napster and all it's music, Winamp,and my aladdin expander. I lost all my music files, and boy am I pissed right now... I'm beyond pissed!!!
If the damn program was sharing files with all those other programs why in the hell didn't it tell me this program has shared files are you sure you want to delete it??!
I'm soooooooooooooooo PISSED!!!!!!!! Now I have to go and download those program again, and try to get some of my music back which is going to be hard if not impossible to do.
I started not to get that eWalla my friend begged me to get it so she would have someone to send messages to. She's a downloading freak, where as I try to download programs that I know I'll be using alot.
I'm going to try and look at the bright side of this, because it did free up alot space on both hard drives. And it's not the end of the world. And something even worst could of happen like a virus wiping out all my programs and... Ok this pep talk I'm giving myself isn't working. I think I'll go outside and yell until I have work this out of my system. THIS SUCKS TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE!!!

Gail

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 07:56 pm Click here to edit this post
MissLibra!! Hang on!! Are the directories gone for your Napster and Limewire? Usually uninstalls don't touch other programs. Go to your c Drive in Windows Explorer and look to see if Napster is there.

Is it just the icons missing or did the entire directories get wiped out. Also, check your recycle bin to make sure they aren't hiding in there too.

Faerygdds

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 08:13 pm Click here to edit this post
Also... napster usually creates a directory to D/L to!

Do this:

Click on Start -> search -> files or folders
where it says "Search for files or folders named" type in *.mp3 (that's a star like shift+8 )
Where in says Look in: it should say "Local Hard drive(s)"

Then hit search now... if you have ANY mp3s on your system it will tell you where to find them!

Good luck and let me know if you need any other help.

<sigh> An out of work techs job is never done :)

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 08:23 pm Click here to edit this post
Forget my idea with all these other good ones. I was going to suggest calibrating your computer with a 2 pound sledge.

It always worked on the nuclear warheads---wait, that's classified!

Faerygdds

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 08:26 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL at Lance!!!!!!

You are such a cutie!!!

Tess

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 08:34 pm Click here to edit this post
<Tess hides her beloved ibook from Lance's calibrater.>

Misslibra

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 08:49 pm Click here to edit this post
Nope Gail there gone, the directories are gone. I have never had a program do this before. And what makes it so bad eWalla had nothing to do with those programs, as far as I knew. I don't understand how it happen, I really don't. Well yes I do I didn't use it's uninstaller, but even at that it should of told me I was deleting shared files and ask if I still want to uninstall I never got that message.

Faerygdds, I did use the find for mp3's on my D drive which is where my Napster and Limewire was and all my mp3's and the find found no mp3's.

Lance, LOL I can't do that then I wouldn't be able to come here. And that my friend would truly be a very sad day for me, even sadder then I am right now.
Oh well it's starting to thunder and lightening here so I'm going to get offline until this storm gets through doing it's thing, then I'll be back. I did download Napster and Limewire and install them again, and like I said it's not the end of the world so I'm going to take a shower and cool off, and be thankful for the things I do have. Thank you all for your support.

Misslibra

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 08:50 pm Click here to edit this post
BTW I looked in my recycle bin and nothing is there.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 10:56 pm Click here to edit this post
((((((((((MissLibra)))))))))))))

Max

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 11:02 pm Click here to edit this post
ARGH! I swear, just when you think you're part of a good thing, it gets weird!

As some of you know, I have a PT Cruiser and belong to http://www.ptcruiserclub.org. It's been a great organization and I've made lots of new friends and learned way more about my car and the options available for it than any sane person has a right to know!

I spent Memorial Day weekend with other club members driving to Las Vegas for the 2nd annual PT Cruiser Convention and had a blast. The only fly in the ointment was that the PTCC had a very limited presence at the convention--hardly a mention at all. We made sure to voice our disappoinment over that on the evaluation forms and by placing a PTCC sticker on our name badges.

So, tonight I check the forums (public and members-only) and find out that one valuable contributor has been banished with no explanation and two of the state directors who are great contributors have resigned. No explanation from the club president. Only resignation notices and some disgruntled posts in the public forum pointing to a new club being formed by the banished member and some others. On the new board, no one is talking about it either, saying something about possible legal actions.

Now, this is a club that was formed to talk about cars and create a community of people who are all nuts about that kind of discussion. It's fun and that's what it's supposed to be. The dues are minimal ($39 a year) to support the website.

Why does this have to go and be about lawsuits and posturing and banishing people who have done good things?!!?

I don't know all the reasoning yet, I'm trying to find out. So far, the club president has been quiet. I hope he doesn't keep that stance. If there's one thing I've learned thanks to TVCH, it's that competition can be a useful thing and isn't always negative. You can't please everyone all the time, but when you can't, it's best to just admit it and move on. Take a stance for the kind of club you ARE and then keep that stance. If folks don't like it, they can create a new club and go there. Plenty of people are out there to make all the competition that's fit to succeed do just that.

ANyway, I needed to vent and couldn't do it on the PTCC without knowing more facts (don't want to stir up anything more than it's already stirred). I did post a message to the president in the member's forum asking him to tell us something about what is happening and why. We'll see.

Okay, venting is over for now. I feel a little better! :)

Tess

Saturday, June 16, 2001 - 11:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh my, Max. I certainly hope you get the answers you are looking for. Who knew there would be controversy over a cool car (there are quite a few here in Bloomington)! I hope things get cleared up and you can go back to enjoying the club and the comradery you had there.

Misslibra

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 01:33 am Click here to edit this post
Thanks {{{JuJu}}} I needed that.

Max, do you think the money, the $39 has anything to do with the situation? Sometimes When ever money is involved greed rears it's ugly head.

Tess

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 12:00 pm Click here to edit this post
Can anyone tell me how a man who earned his advanced degrees in Physics by the time he was 22 could possibly believe that the laws of Physics don't apply to HIM!! When did it get to be a good idea to climb 25 up on a metal extension ladder a mere couple of feet from our power line just to saw off a branch damaged in one of our many storms last week? How can it possibly be intelligent to risk falling or electrocution or both right in front of your 4 year old daughter who is sitting 10 feet away saying "Dad, that isn't safe". And on Father's Day!! They should be at the park!! Thank you for letting me yell here. Reasonable suggestions are getting me nowhere at home and I refuse to yell in front of my child on Father's Day. (They'd probably both drop dead from shock if I did!)

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 12:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Tess, that is one naughty physicist. Would a private spanking work? It might get him down from that ladder in a hurry...

Also, (to Max) $39 sounds like A LOT of money to me, especially if there are many members. MissL makes an excellent point.

Karuuna

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 12:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Tess-- This isn't a physics things, it's a testosterone thing. Some time ago I had to put my male neutered cat on birth control pills. Sounds odd, doesn't it? But the vet prescribed them because he was on the stubborn/aggressive side. And you know what? It worked! I often thought it might not hurt to put a little of that in the water. But every time I tell that to one of my male friends, they refuse to ever drink water at my house. I just can't figure it out...

This is a time when it's perfectly appropriate to use a little guilt. Something clever like "I am so glad you are not the kind of father who is so consumed with working that you would ignore your devoted daughter on Father's day." Don't say it angrily, say it with a loving smile and kind tone. Remind how much you love him and how much your daughter loves him. And it's not a question, it's a statement that you *know* to be true. He'll get the point. good luck!

Lancecrossfire

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 01:11 pm Click here to edit this post
It could be testosterone. Or it could be that he's decided to over ride the interest in taking it easy on father's day to get something done that he feels would be of benefit to the entire family once completed.

Tess, a lot of the physics he learned was Newtonian physics. If he name isn't Newton, he might figure he will be ok. (it was the best I could do on short notice--a physicist would find that humorous though)

Karuuna, you have interesting ways of doing things. I'm surprised the guys that come over don't wear fully encapsulated suits! It seems like you can have affects from may different fronts! LOL