Heather's Heavenly Vapes - THE BIG THREAD (Part 6)

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Your love of those two games exceeds your hate for MS. Based on how much I know you hate MS I'm guessing those games are pretty awesome. Some day there will be games that will make yours obsolete and you will be set free. I mean, who plays pong and asteroids anymore?

Ummmm...... I do :)
 

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    Your love of those two games exceeds your hate for MS. Based on how much I know you hate MS I'm guessing those games are pretty awesome. Some day there will be games that will make yours obsolete and you will be set free. I mean, who plays pong and asteroids anymore?
    It's my tendency to procrastinate made worse by brain numbing medication that has me using Windoze for those two games instead of setting them up in Linux .
     

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    found some moldy cheese in the drawer of the fridge.... so, I ate it... it was awesome, but then again it was blu Roqufort ;) ...... and why is it that "moldy" cheese ( blu cheese varieties) dont grow even more mold on them??? Ive seen unattended Gouda go "bad" and get moldy in several days... but yet the chunk of Roqufort I just had had been in there for about 2 months and looked the same as day 1.... things that make you go Hmmmmm or is it Yummmm ;)


    and why is sour cream okay but sour milk isnt o_O

    I’m jealous of the cheese you got to eat! I can only get away with Parmesan and a few others. In my youth, I ate lots of Brie - until the day it caused a severe stomach ache. Docs told me it was a “stomach migraine” indicating an allergy. No more good, moldy cheeses after that. I only managed to get back to Parmesan recently.

    I had an aunt who loved Limburger cheese. Stinkiest cheese on the planet! We’d stop at the farmer’s market deli to pick it up for her and the whole car filled with the stench. Ick! It’s known as “the cheese you don’t eat with your nose” so I guess you hold your breath, take a bite, close your mouth and chew. But the aroma lingered around auntie for a long time after. ;)
     
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    I run an old copy of MS Office. It's Office 2000. Been using it for 17 years. Never had problems with it. Now Word opens but then closes itself within seconds. Actually, I can open the program but as soon as I go to open a file with it is when it closes itself. Excel still opens though it closed itself once (only once). No warnings. No red flags. No flashing lights. No explanations. It works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it don't work! Just like that. So maybe it will fix itself. If not, I'll use Apache.

    Sometimes technology can really suck. :)
    Have you checked the Windows updates? Perhaps you can uninstall any MS updates?
     

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    And another thing. There are websites that FireFox will not open (or they open but do not function). Chrome will open them, but not FireFox. Two examples. 1) My MLB team websites like the White Sox. Says the owner of the website has not configured it correctly and is not secure, blah, blah, blah... 2) Sears Parts Direct opens the website but when I go to click on an assembly diagram the cursor just spins endlessly. I find it hard to believe either one of these websites are honkytonk. MLB and Sears? Not buying it. If it were Stosh and Stosh Elixir and Magic Potion, Inc. I could understand. But not well known, heavily accessed websites. Just wondering if FireFox is oversensitive.
    Check the Firefox options in those 4 squiggly lines at the top right. Could be a security setting.
     

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    I could probably uninstall Office 2000 and reinstall it. But I have no idea where the last update left off and how critical they are. It would be risky but I may not have a choice. I know the version has not been supported for quite some time. This is what happens when you drive a clunker. The thing could just quit at any moment.
    Unless you're sharing to the web, NONE of the MS updates are critical.
     

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    I’m jealous of the cheese you got to eat! I can only get away with Parmesan and a few others. In my youth, I ate lots of Brie - until the day it caused a severe stomach ache. Docs told me it was a “stomach migraine” indicating an allergy. No more good, moldy cheeses after that. I 9mly managed to get back to Parmesan recently.

    I had an aunt who loved Limburger cheese. Stinkiest cheese on the planet! We’d stop at the farmer store market deli to pick it up for her and the whole car filled with the stench. Ick! It’s known as “the cheese you don’t eat with your nose” so I guess you hold your breath, take a bite, close your mouth and chew. But the aroma lingered around auntie for a long time after. ;)
    And there's also Italian Wedding Cheese which I believe is illegal. Eeeewwww! Never been fond of mold, unless its a Danish blue on pesto oil saturated french bread, with tomatoes on top toasted. Hubba hubba!
     

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    I forgot to mention the most awful phone scam ever! Yesterday I had two calls and voice messages from these terrible people. A recording of a woman’s voice - very grave - saying I faced arrest and the freezing of my assets (that’d be a small popsicle LOL) unless I called the number. Very official sounding. Others online reported the same scammer calls. It’s awful because even if people don’t call back, it would be distressing to them! Everyone’s stressed out enough as it is.
    Pakistanis? I've got to the point of not answering the phone at all if I don't recognize the number. In fact i think the "this is your last chance to reduce your credit card rates", that goes dead when you answer it or dead after pressing options 1 or 2, is a phishing scam to see what numbers are "live" which are then sold to scum for scams. I love the ones that tell you the IRS is about to arrest you unless you go straight to the Apple store and purchase a $1,000 gift card LOLOL. Regardless, my answer, if I do pick up the phone and get a call like that is ALWAYS "Oh yeah? Up yours. Come back with a warrant".
     

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    Me too, oh great Olde One. In fact Wordperfect beat Word hands down.

    And my first computer had Ami Pro. It was purchased by Lotus, and was a truly great word processor. Maybe not as powerful as WordPerfect but more user friendly at that time. Word was the worst, but emerged the winner. Go figger.
     

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    Pakistanis? I've got to the point of not answering the phone at all if I don't recognize the number. In fact i think the "this is your last chance to reduce your credit card rates", that goes dead when you answer it or dead after pressing options 1 or 2, is a phishing scam to see what numbers are "live" which are then sold to scum for scams. I love the ones that tell you the IRS is about to arrest you unless you go straight to the Apple store and purchase a $1,000 gift card LOLOL. Regardless, my answer, if I do pick up the phone and get a call like that is ALWAYS "Oh yeah? Up yours. Come back with a warrant".

    Not this time. The recording was plain old, flat American. I didn’t answer either time they called. I think you’re exactly right that they do some of these just to find live numbers and then sell them to other scammer scum.

    See, even when you say such harsh lines, your British accent makes it sound like utter class and dignified poise. Might affect how seriously they take you. ;)
     

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    . . . I had an aunt who loved Limburger cheese. Stinkiest cheese on the planet! We’d stop at the farmer’s market deli to pick it up for her and the whole car filled with the stench. Ick! It’s known as “the cheese you don’t eat with your nose” so I guess you hold your breath, take a bite, close your mouth and chew. But the aroma lingered around auntie for a long time after. ;)

    Yes, Limburger smells like a buffalo fart. It's horrible.
     

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    Me too, oh great Olde One. In fact Wordperfect beat Word hands down.

    Same here. I started using it in 1984 on a brand new state-of-the-art PC with two floppy drives (no hard drive) and a green monochrome screen. It was so simple and easy to use and did everything perfectly.

    That was back when a mouse was rodent rather than a device.
     

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