The New Hobbit Hole

[Sam Cree]

Hi, Rosie, nice to hear from you, everyone has been missing you.
I don't think your stuff was crap, I identified right away with your characters and was hoping you'd finish the story, since it's better than so much of what actually gets published. I like reading it better than most stuff that's around.

Hope you have good luck with your job...the Hole is a drabber place without you, so stay around if you can.

[JenB]

So, Hair, what did you think of that thread?

[HairOfTheDog]

Hullo Rosie! - Glad you checked in!

Good luck on the job front.

[HairOfTheDog]

I just now finished it. I had a long phone call that interrupted me.

I am about to post a question to it.

[Overtaxed]

Kinda feeling like OT did awhile back

Hi Rosie! Well I finished a bit of character background stuff and gave them enough motives to doublecross each other a few times so I thought I'd try to bring the crap to a plot point. Well I got the 2000 words that I wanted today, but the plot point didn't end up like I originally planned. Oh well.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Well, I finally got my special collector's set last night. I am going to have to take my bookends to work. The kids have already knocked them over once.

Had an adventure getting the dvd. Was at walmart, and they dug me one out of the back, but they had it priced for $65. So I went to Best Buy, they had theirs priced for $50, but out of stock. So I took their ad back to walmart and had them match the price (these 2 places are 20 miles apart, what an adventure).

So now I have it, but by the time I got home last night, I was so tired all I was able to do was open it and look at how beautiful it is.

Almost 6am here, think I will pop it in......here we go.

[HairOfTheDog]

How fun! - How are you liking it?

Hullo! - Good morning!!

[Sam Cree]

Good morning, All.

I hope the traffic wasn't too bad during the 40 mile drive, icbi. But you got the thing, which is great.

Hair, how was the HP thread? I'm interested, but didn't go there last night, except as it started. I didn't have the heart to read all that idiocy from the tinfoil crowd, all over again.

Though, as it began, there were some very favorable remarks from the "hardshell" people, which was refreshing, I thought.

[HairOfTheDog]

I had a really good time on the Harry Potter thread! It was going along the normal Potter thread lines until I asked one of the posters if real spell-casting witches really exist at 223. I think it got interesting after that!

[Sam Cree]

That was a good comment, Hair.

The couple pages of the thread I just read were unusually polite for this particular subject, that is, a subject with Christian theological implications.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes, It was polite! - I was ROTFL at the "There are real witches on this website! - Go ask them if they are real!"

[HairOfTheDog]

Gotta respect people who carry the risk of screwing up in front of a lot of people!

Oops! Look Ma, We Ran the Wrong Ad!
11/15/02, 8:25 pm EST - Calisuri

A lot of US Ringers were watching the warm-up for tonight's Boston Celtics vs. Mavericks basketball game on ESPN when they saw a rather BIG blooper. It seems an ad, meant for December, was let loose on the general TV viewing public with the claim that The Two Towers will be in theaters this Wednesday! While that would be great and all, and we are all dying to see the film, don't get too excited...It is definitely a mistake! I just feel sorry for the guy who ran the ad!

[Sam Cree]

Too bad that ad's wrong (that is, if it's going to be a good movie)...well, I'm going out for a jog, before the rain starts. The radar image is ominous.

[Sam Cree]

Can you guys give me some help with my monitor? I thought the monitor was going bad, but the same symptoms appeared again when I hooked up a different monitor to my computer.

I'm getting gray horizontal lines and bands accross the screen, aligned with text and images. Is there a way to clear this up?

Thanks.

[ecurbh]

It sounds like a problem with the video card. I would start by downloading the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website. If you need more detailed information on how to do this, check out this website.

[HairOfTheDog]

If it happens with two different monitors, I would suspect you have a bad video card. But isolate that it is not a bad cord that you used for both, or a bad connection.

[Sam Cree]

Thanks guys, I will try those things. The monitor is actually 5 or 6 years old, but works fine except for the lines and bands, which are apparently not its problem anyway.

The video card, I'd say is only 2 or maybe 2 years old.

[2Jedismom]

Good morning everyone! Steve is at a training event for work and I am hanging out with the boys looking at all those photos on the other thread. Woohoo! I sure can not wait!

[HairOfTheDog]

You surely must wait!

[HairOfTheDog]

Going up to meet my friend and buy cloak fabric.... and then I am going to beach house to watch the Extended Edition with brother on home theater system!