[swervedriver]

Recognizable, but I must admit I feel a greater sense of accomplishment when having done said dishes than when I finish a bag of Cheetos.

Come to think of it, I've never actually finished a bag of Cheetos. Probably due to the inevitable nausea at the halfway point. If I had to gauge experiencing nausea vs doing something menial like the dishes, I may end up choosing the latter every time. I find nausea to not be a pleasurable sensation.

This developing flu of mine I also find not to be a pleasurable sensation. What an odd expression by the way, "pleasurable sensation". Should be used in an advertisement: "Have you pleasured your sensations yet today?"

...I'll stop now.

Speaking of pleasurable sensations, I'm looking for new headphones to buy. Can you guys recommend anything? I'll be making music with them so no white apple earbuds thank you

[swervedriver]

I've heard good things about the Beyerdynamic DT 880 headphones, but they might be a bit costly. I don't have them myself, I own a pair of Sennheiser HD 550 cans which suit me fine for listening to music. I don't use them for music production though, I leave that to people with proper monitors.

My friend just told he heard Kingdom on pop rock station...

I knew I should have renewed my resident-return visa last year (neglected it out of stupidity), because I did it today and was stung with an additional non-internet payment fee of $80 - what the fuck?!
I knew the government was greedy, but was this really necessary? Everyone at the counter advised me to renew online; credit card only, of course, and since I don't have one of those (for better or worse), I swallowed my pride and paid.

On the bright side, I still have enough in my account to live on; add my upcoming paycheck and subtract rent and I'm still relatively set for the next few weeks; not much, but enough for things I need. Not everyone can say that, I suppose.

non-internet payment fee of $80.

There was a fee for not paying over the internet? What the heck? I've never heard of anything like that.

[EphelDuath666]

happy birthday, Pimster! Only a year away from the big 30, eh?

He's now officially a million miles away.

Mitch Hedburg, I think, was one of the most brilliant comics to ever walk this earth. I wish I could have known about him before he died.

While I must sadly miss Devin this year, I can be consoled by two things:
I've seen him twice live before (and even met him once) and,
Due to the upcoming releases in 2014, there's a good chance I'll get an opportunity to see him again.

Finnish is a horrible language for communicating any emotion at all. Imho.

Just wondering if Anyone else here is experiencing massive login slowness on Windows 7 after the recent "patch Tuesday" load of updates?

Before the patches, hitting enter after typing your password would bring up the deskto almost instantly, then just a little while of loading. Now, I get a totally black screen, then the desktop background, followed by all the icons and shit sloooowly trickling in. Seriously, Microsoft, what gives?

Guess I'll have to try rolling back to a restore point prior to the updates...

No login problems but everything got really slow for a few hours after starting. Seems fine now.

Hmmm, I didn't get any slowdowns after the desktop had finished loading. And now when I tried shutting down and starting up again, login was back to normal speed. Possibly some random quirk then?

The Roman Empire lasted for 1480 years. That's insane. That's almost a tolkienesque timescale. Holy hell.