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Lets Paint The Kettle Black (2) Do You Have A Bitch ? Put On Your Rubbers And Wade In.
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ddp
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8. August 2007 @ 15:23 |
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pop, it cost my mother $500 to repaint the 1 side of my neighbor's car because my stepfather did the exact same thing as what your mother did.
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8. August 2007 @ 16:41 |
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@ddp,
Ouch, yeah I know its gonna be expensive but I might do it. I will think about it and get an estimate from a guy that did an excellent job repainting my dad's car (a 2003 beetle :P).
Oh well, time to go wash my car. :-)
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8. August 2007 @ 17:05 |
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Much better Pop. Enjoy your ride.
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8. August 2007 @ 23:30 |
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wow heat index was 110 degrees working 10 hours today, think I've lost at least 5 lbs this week from the heat. the worst thing is the pace we work at(fast) and sometimes it gets to the point its hard to even breath in that kinda heat. no bitch though glad to have a good job and it could aways be worse like the guys/girls working the road crews or our men and women in Iraq fighting terrorism in 125 degree heat in full gear so we can live in a free country
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9. August 2007 @ 04:56 |
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@aabbccdd ... when in school, I worked (briefly) in a textile factory and then pumping gas in New England both in the heat, rain and freezing cold ... I was much younger then though and its much easier; weather doesn't seem to phase you at all at that age.
Well, just one and a half days left for this miserable training I have to attend. We received a 600 page book on "revisions" of the "Workforce Investment Act" with all its wherefores and hithertoos. Today we had another several hundred page binder on the use of our new state website; I'll need a wheelbarrow to bring it all home. Why does government make this far more complicated than it has to be? Well, have a good day all! Back to the nonsense!
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9. August 2007 @ 07:18 |
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ugh, sounds like hell. Hope you get through it gerry!
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9. August 2007 @ 07:49 |
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gerry, you should have told them to put it on cd or dvd as we are supposedly a paperless society.
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9. August 2007 @ 07:53 |
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@sammoris...oh, I'll make it through alright. A the moment, we're in training for the new state website which is massive; it contains just about everything: people collecting unemployment compensation, employers and tax numbers, welfare, training schools approved for funds along with their approved curriculums, criminal histories and it goes on and on. In occasions such as this, my neck and back problems and a blessing in disguise; I can't sit in one place for long periods of time so it gives me the opportunity to get out, walk around etc. while everyone else has to stay put.
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9. August 2007 @ 07:57 |
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Lol nice one! Well not nice one, but... you know.
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9. August 2007 @ 08:04 |
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Ah the comment on our "paperless workplace" I heard that during the 80's and several old timers had to laugh, turns out they were right, as we become more modernized we seem to require much more paper, including the infamous memo advising people to check their E-mail at least once a day (only inter agency, no civilian acces at that time) because the server could only handle so many messages at once...Yet everything at that time was also circulated via hard copy and also via weekly recap booklets. Ah the beavers we starved 20 years ago.
@Gerry, what no bitchin' about the food? They always fed us well when we went offsite for additional training, made it bearable to sit and listen to the mindless droning all day. Do they still hire montones for the most boring parts?
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9. August 2007 @ 09:36 |
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@BlivetNC...you're certainly right about the paperless workplace. At the office, we got our first computers; we only did something once on hardcopy and then one need only photocopy. We were told, as you mentioned, that this would would dramatically decrease the paperwork; it made it much worse. We must have had ten new databases since I started at the office and they say the same thing every time. Now, we have to do everything in hardcopy and put the same information into three different databases.
As for the foor, it is surprisingly good! Certainly, we're not talking about gourmet cuisine but as cafeteria food goes, it's surprisingly good.
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9. August 2007 @ 10:17 |
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Gerry, look at it this way, at least you're not in the office dealing with the circus sideshow you see daily.
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9. August 2007 @ 11:19 |
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@garmoon ... well, you're certainly right there! This may well be boring as hell, but it's a nice change from the daily routine. You know, I joke a lot about the stranger parts of my job but there are some really decent and rewarding elements to it also. My job is to approve/disapprove requests for government funds to return people to the taxbase as quickly as possible. For example, it's not unusual to have a secretary come in for an augmentation of skills; he/she has been working at the same company for twenty years, types 120 wpm on an old IBM Selectmatic clunker, does payrole and a host of other office management responsibilities but who has never touched a computer; such a person is at the bottom of the employability list but with the right training, this person can go from the bottom of the list to the top with just some basic augmentation of skills. Unfortunately, they only make up about one third of the people I see; the other two thirds are (some) of the people I joke about. They think that education/training is the answer to their problems when, in fact, you could train them 'till the cows come home and they'll still never be able to get a job. Well, back to class!
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9. August 2007 @ 13:31 |
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Originally posted by Pop_Smith:
@garmoon,
Yeah, I noticed a couple of door height marks the 2nd day after I drove it, they didn't bug me too bad because things like that happen. The only reason that the scratch bugs me is because it wasn't from another car or someone being a jerk, it was my own mother trying to squeeze the lawnmower out of the backyard!
Oh well, I am pretty obcessive with the interior because even if the outside isn't in the best shape, once people get inside when its in good condition they will probably totally forget about the outside. :-)
Peace
You should have mowed the grass for your mother. :wink: You would have been more careful about getting the lawnmower out of the back yard.
Life is good!
GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2
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9. August 2007 @ 13:40 |
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@Pop_Smith
GrandpaBW is excellent in his advise about mowing the grass. How is it that you don't have that job?
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9. August 2007 @ 13:48 |
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9. August 2007 @ 15:56 |
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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:
You should have mowed the grass for your mother. :wink: You would have been more careful about getting the lawnmower out of the back yard.
Originally posted by Garmoon:
@Pop_Smith
GrandpaBW is excellent in his advise about mowing the grass. How is it that you don't have that job?
Indeed, I wish I would have mowed it this time. :-(
I usually am the one that mows the lawn, except from what I can tell she mowed it after I went to work as it didn't have the scratch the night before my dad took the car to the dealership and I was at work so I couldn't even be forced to mow it. It looked fine to me and I thought about maybe mowing it the next day and its usually my job so I didn't think my mom would try and do it.
@sammorris, I think I will order myself that shirt soon. :P
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10. August 2007 @ 01:50 |
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hehe, there are loads of funny shirts like that one about.
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10. August 2007 @ 07:31 |
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/me is back.
Howdy all.
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10. August 2007 @ 09:20 |
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Howdy, how was your break?
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10. August 2007 @ 10:15 |
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hey ripper.!
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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10. August 2007 @ 10:24 |
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Argh! A new bitch.
I have some cool mp4 video files from my friends mobile phone, a nokia n95, and they dont want to convert!! To anything!
They just dont! i cant add them to windows movie maker, i cant convert them to .avi, i cant convert them to 3gp!
Whatever program i use, it just doesnt seem to support the files, even when one specifically states that it supports mp4's. I drop it into the space on the program, and it says that the format is not recognised! But its mp4 for god sake!
Help me :(
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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10. August 2007 @ 10:37 |
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I NEVER TRIED THIS BILLYBOB GIVE IT A SHOT...
P/S SEE WHEN I AM NOT AROUND YE MEMBERS DO NOT GET THE GOOD STUFF...
MediaCoder 0.6.0.3840
Author: Yi-Chun Huang
Date: 2007-08-08
Size: 17.6 Mb
License: Freeware (GPL)
Requires: 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003
MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.
Typical applications:
- Improving compression / reducing file size
- Converting from lossless/high-bitrate audio to low-bitrate audio to play with portable DAP
- Converting to device (mobile phone, PDA, MP4 player, PSP, VCD/DVD player)
- Extracting audio tracks from video clips
- Ripping CD/VCD/DVD
Supported source formats:
- Audio: MP3, OGG/Vorbis, AAC, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio, FLAC, WavPack, APE/APL, WAV
- Video: AVI (Xvid/DivX/H.264), MPEG1/2/4, QuickTime (mov), WMV/ASF, RealMedia (rmvb), MP4, Matroska (mkv)
CUE Sheets, CD, VCD, DVD
Supported target audio formats:
- Lossy: MP3, OGG/Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, MusePack, WMA
- Lossless: FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio (APE), WMA Lossless, WAV
Supported target video formats:
- H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG1/2/4, H.263 etc.
Supported target container formats:
- AVI, MPEG, Matroska, MP4, PMP (PSP Media Player Format)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/MediaCoder_d4987.html
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CodecInstaller 2.6.0
Author: JockerSoft
Date: 2007-08-09
Size: 687 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
CodecInstaller is an application that detects which Audio&Video codecs are installed on your computer and suggests you to install the ones necessary to correctly view the movie it is distributed with:
in fact it's designed to be burned on a CD together with a compressed video, to be always able to play them.
The users who receive the CD, with a single tool with a simple and intuitive interface, can check if the necessary codecs are already installed and up-to-date and with just a click can install the ones required.
Limitations: Requires .Net framework installed.
LINK TO DOWNLOAD
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4925.html
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10. August 2007 @ 14:08 |
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@billybob i have that same cell phone. i have some video on it right now later tonight i will try and convert it and see what happens and let ya know..
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10. August 2007 @ 14:30 |
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Its my friends cell phone, i wish i had that, but all the same, yes please that would be great lol.
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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