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Also I'm glad we had a good whiskey derail. Another go-to of mine is George Dickel #12.
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deimos posted:Let's talk Japanese whiskey, Nikka Taketsuru and Suntory Hibiki are my go-tos, they are just so tasty. I have some Hibiki 12 at home, it's wonderful stuff. Got that nice peppery bit to it. I brought back some maple whisky from Montreal and it is so good. Highland Park 12 is a must-have before you die, though.
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Jun 24, 2016 17:01
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Whisky is the drink of suffering and depression Rum is the drink of fun and forgetting things
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Super Slash posted:Whisky is the drink of suffering and depression Problem is as far as I can tell from my local liquor stores, you have like five choices in rum: Don Q, Bacardi, Captain Morgan, Black Seal, and Mount Gay. I have a bottle of Barillitos that I brought back from Puerto Rico but you can't get it in the lower 48, apparently. I'm all for recommendations - something that stands alone well or makes a good dark mojito, because I've got a small mint bush in my garden that just won't die. Might as well make the most of it.
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Deuce posted:Re: A ticket came in: PYF whiskey My favorite whiskey/whisky is Rum. Specifically, stuff like this:    lodewijk posted:A ticket didn't come in ... At this point in life, I'm not afraid to tell people to 
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Super Slash posted:Whisky is the drink of suffering and depression What about tequila? I hear all these horror stories about people doing crazy stuff but I've had a couple "lazy man's margaritas" (8-12oz. lemonade with a couple tequila shots over ice) and never had a problem. Good stuff for the summer sitting out on the balcony with a cigar and my laptop 
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I generally don't drink rum but I have some in my house. I have a bottle of bacardi from making piña coladas at a barbecue last summer, and a bottle of kraken from bringing a thermos of eggnog into work when I was holding down the fort on Christmas Day. Not as good as using cognac in eggnog though 
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Jun 24, 2016 17:24
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Craptacular posted:Pff I remember downloading an Apogee side-scroller on a 2400 baud modem. Wait, why is everyone looking at me? And it was an 80 column word processor for the C64. (BTW, it was SpeedScript.) Samizdata fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jun 24, 2016 17:39
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This is still my goto rum:
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Jun 24, 2016 18:17
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captain morgan private stock is pretty good, if you like regular captain. Yes, I am a pretty cheap liquor date, but going to bars/clubs in chicago has pushed me in that direction $10+ per drink for the past 9 years 
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Jun 24, 2016 18:19
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MF_James posted:captain morgan private stock is pretty good, if you like regular captain. Yes, I am a pretty cheap liquor date, but going to bars/clubs in chicago has pushed me in that direction $10+ per drink for the past 9 years That's why you drink at home, buy a 750ml bottle and drink for a lot less.
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Jun 24, 2016 18:22
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pixaal posted:That's why you drink at home, buy a 750ml bottle and drink for a lot less. I only drink a couple times a month at most, and generally not at home unless it's before going to $function$ or after hours. Addiction issues are prevalent in our family, so I've got to be wary and not fall into old habits like drinking at home constantly. Sorry, I made it sound like that was the One True Reason before, but there's in fact complex history behind drinking/drugs and the downward spiral that is drinking leading to drugs leading to more drinking and holy poo poo why am I in a bush at 2pm on Sunday.
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Samizdata posted:Wait, why is everyone looking at me? Hi5 Speedscript buddy!  Did your version have a major feature that was broken right out of the assembler? (Global search and replace, I think. Oddly enough, I later got a copy of the original/not-fumblefingered-at-home release, and... it was broken the exact same way!  )As for alcochat, I can't do rum (just tastes burnt to me) or tequila (petrochemical). What I really need to do is find a way to get salmiakki from Finland at a somewhat reasonable price, or just start ordering the liquorice itself and infuse vodka. (Tried it at Worldcon last year, and drat, I *like* it.)
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Grizlor posted:I generally don't drink rum but I have some in my house. I have a bottle of bacardi from making piña coladas at a barbecue last summer, and a bottle of kraken from bringing a thermos of eggnog into work when I was holding down the fort on Christmas Day. Not as good as using cognac in eggnog though You know, Kraken is really good for a remarkably cheep booze.
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Jun 24, 2016 18:40
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Rhymenoserous posted:You know, Kraken is really good for a remarkably cheep booze. Why make a Dark and Stormy when you can make a Dark and Squiddy? I love me some Kraken
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Craptacular posted:Pff I remember downloading an Apogee side-scroller on a 2400 baud modem. old fart chiming in.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Hi5 Speedscript buddy! Yup. Even Commies had bad code.
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Old chime farting in Seriously I just used the phrase "listen here you little poo poo" with my ISP and threw an old man tantrum. Got my service appointment moved from Tuesday to this afternoon though so
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Jun 24, 2016 19:27
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skooma512 posted:I remember 15 years when 20mb was a task and commitmetn and a 100mb game mod (Black Hawk Down for Rogue Spear) required going over to my grandpa's house to use his connection to get it on a Zip disk. 15 years ago was 2001 - 512kB/s broadband and USB sticks were plentiful. Is this an anacdote you came up with 10 years ago and have forgotten to update?
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ookiimarukochan posted:15 years ago was 2001 - 512kB/s broadband and USB sticks were plentiful. Is this an anacdote you came up with 10 years ago and have forgotten to update? He probably means more like 16-17 years at this point. We got broadband in early/mid 2000 in my neighborhood and our house was one of the first to get hooked up. God drat was I a rainbow 6 god after that
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pr0digal posted:Why make a Dark and Stormy when you can make a Dark and Squiddy? Quoted for truthiness. Great rum for the money. We've switched from keeping some Captain Morgan around to it - better in all our rum-containing drinks. gently caress, maybe its a rum night tonight...no, its whiskey. No, scotch. Yep. Steaks, bonfire and scotch night.
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ookiimarukochan posted:15 years ago was 2001 - 512kB/s broadband and USB sticks were plentiful. Is this an anacdote you came up with 10 years ago and have forgotten to update? I had 56k until 2005 and hadn't heard of usb sticks until like 2004.
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skooma512 posted:I had 56k until 2005 and hadn't heard of usb sticks until like 2004. I remember early flash drives being pretty small, like 256MB and I don't think they were cheap.
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FireSight posted:I am the only IT person I know who has never had alcohol in his life. Even the mormon IT guy I worked with drank. For on-topic content, yesterday I got handed a mouse where the cord had drifted into the user's electric stapler. The manager told me they "didn't want to bother me" and the user tried to keep using it, but "it kept getting really hot" 
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pixaal posted:I remember early flash drives being pretty small, like 256MB and I don't think they were cheap. I worked at Staples when they first went "big". 32 MB stick for $200 Cdn, etc. And they were huge. But, still beat floppies. And in the 2.5 years I was there it went from 32mb was big, to I think the 1gb/2gb sticks were hitting the market at $200 then. They came a LONG way reallllly quickly.
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gently caress, I remember getting an 8gb stick in 2005 or 6 for 80 bucks. Nowadays 16 gig sticks are sold in 2 packs for like 15 dollars.
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Garrand posted:gently caress, I remember getting an 8gb stick in 2005 or 6 for 80 bucks. Nowadays 16 gig sticks are sold in 2 packs for like 15 dollars. I treat them like stocking stuffers now. That and memory cards for cameras. Crazy poo poo, yeah? When Gateway went out of business in town, I bought a Creative 128MB mp3 player that slid out as a stick. For quite a bit of money (no idea how much. Too long ago) for what it was. 128MB. Edit: HOLY poo poo! https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Labs-NOMAD-MuVo-Player/dp/B00006JHWQ topenga fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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topenga posted:I treat them like stocking stuffers now. That and memory cards for cameras. Crazy poo poo, yeah? I like how the 64MB one is almost twice as expensive as the 128.
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What do you call the feeling where despite all odds something actually works? Somehow a I had guy on a non-SCCM managed dev domain running insider preview W10 was able to do something I didn't at all expect to work. It's like being a fun runner somehow finishing an olympic hurdles race without tripping over your shoelaces.
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First flash drive I ever bought was a 512MB, pretty sure it was in the $30-40 range at the time. A few months back, I picked up two 3-packs of 8GB flash drives off Newegg for $20 each, so 48GB of storage for $40. Perfect for keychains too since they're the metal style with the ring on the end that won't break like cheap plastic ones do.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Perfect for keychains too since they're the metal style with the ring on the end that won't break like cheap plastic ones do. Just don't hang your keychain off of your front USB port, because pretty soon you won't have a USB port.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:First flash drive I ever bought was a 512MB, pretty sure it was in the $30-40 range at the time. A few months back, I picked up two 3-packs of 8GB flash drives off Newegg for $20 each, so 48GB of storage for $40. Perfect for keychains too since they're the metal style with the ring on the end that won't break like cheap plastic ones do. Ask me about building a TB ram-disk recently, for less than the cost of a USB flash drive in 2000-ish.
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OWLS! posted:Just don't hang your keychain off of your front USB port, because pretty soon you won't have a USB port. I had mine attached to a lanyard. That stopped when my dog got the lanyard stuck around him when he dashed from the room. I only have 2 usb ports on the front of my desktop now. Also destroyed the stick in the process (luckily nothing important was on it.)
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pr0digal posted:Why make a Dark and Stormy when you can make a Dark and Squiddy? A dark and stormy with Kraken is still...a dark and stormy. (Kraken owns though, I'll drink that poo poo straight.)
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Back when I worked at a liquor store I grabbed a bunch of Kokanee branded 64MB sticks that were being given away with 24s. It was around the time 256MB sticks were the smallest you could find in stores, so some promo company must have grabbed all the old 64MB supply or something. I think I still might even have some kicking around, I wonder if they'd even still work.
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The dark part comes from the dark rum. A dark and stormy with spiced rum would be a... heat wave? I don't know. I'm just not a big rum fan. I've had Coruba and Flor De Caña, I just don't like the overwhelming sweetness. Maybe the more expensive stuff is better. I remember liking mojitos, but that's it.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:The dark part comes from the dark rum. A dark and stormy with spiced rum would be a... heat wave? I don't know. More expensive rums are sweet too, it kinda comes with the style. Try a rhum agricole, they're drier and way less sweet. Like a Neisson Extra Vieux or Rhum J.M. vsop or xo
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totalnewbie posted:Blended whiskeys are so meh. Just got back from Japan, still $500. Very disappointed.
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I'll give it a shot. The more expensive ones might be more complex, at least, right? I don't mind sweet, I drink bourbon. It's just that I don't get anything else from it. We were talking about screen locking pranks earlier. Is there a way to make my computer's lock screen look like it's unlocked? I know I can change the background, but can I hide the ctrl-alt-del prompt? I would also have to make it look like my second monitor is unlocked, too. I wouldn't be surprised if it can't work.
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I came in to a ticket: A little background: the program I support relies on flat file databases held on a file server that workstations map drives to. All processing is done on the client and installation is basically copying the program files to the client computer. There was a PRIORITY 1 - SYSTEM DOWN - CRITICAL call in the queue. Someone did a support chat trying to restore from a backup after a hard drive crash and the tech couldn't get it to work. No big deal, probably just need to make sure the drives are mapped and the config files are edited correctly and everything will be all set. Just as I finish dialing the company's number, I see that it was logged by our most senior tech, a guy who resolves almost everything on the first try, whether it's fixed or not. poo poo. Well, the customer called in a half hour before close, he was probably just trying to get rid of the guy, and that's not really an appropriate call for chat anyway. Whatever, I plunge right in. Over the course of 2 hours, I tease out a few details: -The guy who chatted in the night before was the agency's IT consultant, using the company owner's account -The backup isn't actually a backup, it's a copy of the data from the failed hard drive that a recovery company pulled off of it -They have no file server; all the files were stored on that computer (which is doable, but super weird) -They have no actual backups - the backup drive failed too -When they replaced the failed hard drive, they upgraded to Windows 10, despite running a version of our program that isn't compatible (and I mean, "refuses to run" incompatible) -The IT consultant, rather than calling us for instructions, had downloaded the installer/updater for our program and run it. Now if the installer is run on an existing install, it will either upgrade the program to the new version or error out if the upgrade is already done... but if it's run on a computer that doesn't have the program files copied to it, it will ask you if you want to do a new install. Their tech had happily clicked yes, put in the drive letter of the "backup" as the location of the database files, and overwrote all the data with fresh new ones. I told the guy to go back to the recovery company and have them re-restore the data, find a Windows 7 computer, then call me before he did anything else with it. He did that, I connect to his station and start going through the data... and not a single file has a date modified after 2011. There were like 3 copies of his data, all scattered in different folders, all with different dates in 2011. So now he's making a third trip to the data recovery company to see if they can find any more recent files. I am at home on my balcony drinking a cold glass of Michigan Cherry Wine.
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