What are you...

[enterprikayak]

Wow, it must be pretty amazing to outrank the BUMS!

Aureilia always walks by when I'm on Tris and goes, "Hey look Mommy! It's that funny man you talk to with all the bums! He's silly." And I'm like, "Yes, he *is* silly, isn't he, dear?" She likes all the bums. We all do.

[WarpGirl]

Well it sounds like she's got good sense. But I guess we wouldn't like KTR so much if he wasn't silly.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Hey! I'm not sure if I should feel insulted or flattered...!?

But yes, A Game of Thrones is a fantastic book, the first in the equally fantastic A Song of Ice and Fire series. And from the previews and special features released thus far, the HBO series is also going to be fantastic.

I strongly recommend these books, but they're not for the squeamish. They're brutal, violent and adult. It's about as "realistic" as fantasy goes. But man , they're awesome!

[WarpGirl]

It was a compliment. Far too few people in this world appreciate being silly. If more people did maybe humanity wouldn't be slaughtering each other so much.

[enterprikayak]

....tryna get my wireless pci card to run on the ubuntu i installed in the kitchen. yay ndiswrapper!

You earn points for running linux, and even more points for installing device drivers with ndiswrapper.

I formally return your geek-gauntlet to you. Wear it with pride.

I think maybe I have to give the gauntlet back again, as after much swearing and hair tearing, I chucked the stupid wireless card as useless and got a much better faster d-link one for $10 (free ship) from hong kong on ebay. just tried to plug it in to the computer, but its stupid chassis thingy was in my way so after some more swearing and digging around for a screwdriver, I got that thing unchassis'ed and crammed into my motherboard. Turn the frankenstein comp on (i have crafted it from dead parts) and it's like "Hey wanna connect to the internet? here ya go!" with zero effort from me. *sigh*

I kinda liked the pre-plug'n'play days when you really had to get your hands dirty (or at least fiddle with some jumper settings) to make something work. But maybe that longing alone is enough to requalify me for my geek PPE. Hmmm. I *am* good at geek longing. And I *am* Trissing from the kitchen, so I *did* prevail in the end. And it only cost me $10 due to my geek hong kong outsourcing. Yeah, okay, gimme my gauntlet. Ahhhh. Feels good.

(Note newly coined phrase "Trissing" lol )

[enterprikayak]

My bastard husband just walked in and saw my post and said "Well you sure qualify for your *LAME* P.P.E." Oh boy.

[WarpGirl]

I don't get it.

[enterprikayak]

PPE is the OSHA/WHMIS term that stands for personal protective equipment which lee and i both have to wear at our works, so we use the acronym sometimes and make fun of it. The geek gauntlet (gauntlet = hand protector) transwarp and I refer to would indeed be a form of PPE. And Lee likes to walk by and make snide comments about my tris posts.


Make more sense now? (it sounds a lot geekier now in any case)

[WarpGirl]

Even if I don't always get the joke you make me smile.

[enterprikayak]

glad to be of service ma'am

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...watching?

This 25 minute long Making Game Of Thrones feature.

[Cogito]

Reading? The story of an English chap taking an ordinary 1970s family saloon and turning it into the fastest road legal car in the world, for the third time.

Listening to? "It's Only"

[enterprikayak]

sweeeeeet

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...watching?

The first episode of HBO's Game of Thrones. It was frakkin' awesome!

[WarpGirl]

Doing... Research for my original novel. I swear sometimes I wonder if I should just stick to fanfic...