Where did your user name come from?
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I don't know why, and they didn't really seem to have an answer when I asked them.
It will just have to remain one of life's great mysteries, along with where jelly crystals come from, and who shot Hitler.
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@Spencer said:
Back in high school some friends (that I'd known for years at that point) started calling me Spencer
You've raised another question here.
Reminds me of Dr. Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds... possibly you are tall and thin, wear glasses, read extremely fast, and have an eidetic memory?
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Reminds me of Dr. Spencer Reed from Criminal Minds... possibly you are tall and thin, wear glasses, read extremely fast, and have an eidetic memory?
Back then, I was tall and relatively thin, didn't wear glasses, slightly slower reader (sure, I can read quickly but I won't be able to tell you half of what I just read, whereas slowing down lets me understand and remember much better), and a very good memory (not quite near eidetic though).
But that's not it, Dr Spencer Reed didn't exist until 2005 which was after I finished school. (Also, be careful when googling "Spencer Reed". Apparently there's a gay porn star by the same name)
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(Also, be careful when googling "Spencer Reed". Apparently there's a gay porn star by the same name)
Same problem googling SiriAlthough you're quite safe unless you tack on a naughty word, like Siri Nude which is decidedly NSFW if you have safesearch off.
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I thought I had heard of a porn star naming herself Siri. May have to research later (for science, of course). There's also blessed Rule 34 as well
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Depends on what kind of chicks you're into.
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Not the sort one might find in Thailand, for one
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Rad Spencer?
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Siri Nude
I should be surprised by the concept of anyone actually googling that, but knowing the Internet, there's probably already a multitude of fanfictions and fanarts.
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This might have to become my new avatar. Cheers!
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I wanted to reply to some thread on the old CS forums for this.
I didn't want to use my regular gaming handle (a name I made up a long time ago that I just made up, its almost never taken -usually if it is its been taken by me and i've just forgotten about it - because its actually original) because I don't want that associated too closely to my professional life. The Eurythmics are a band that made some good songs back when people still made good songs (sweet dreams are made of this is probably their most famous, annie lennox obv),so I "computerified" it so I could post on whatever it was I wanted to post on.
I now have 3 different names on the internet. My afforementioned gaming handle, this one, and my MTG name (because if I am ever going to be an internet famous MTG player, I don't want it to be associated with my gaming handle, because I want to have a clean and virtuous persona, not the scummy troll douchebag I am when I play competitive video games)
Yeah, I planned my shit carefully. Now I just need to be not fucking terrible at playing magic cards.
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Now I just need to [s]be not fucking terrible at playing[/s] [u]pay a fortune to get the best[/u] magic cards.
FTFY.
What are your other two names? I won't tell anyone.
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I already paid that fortune, it isnt enough.
But for srs, I have about $8000 worth of cardboard.
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I have about $8000 worth of cardboard
Umm… maybe I'm doing it more right than I used to think.
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I needed a hostname for my website after my first choice mysteriously turned into a NetSol holding page very shortly after I used their availability checker.
I was fishing for suggestions from people and someone suggested I just focus on one thing randomly in the room and use that...I looked down and job doneIt's not very interesting but I quite like it now. Easy to give email addresses on that domain over the phone too.
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But for srs, I have about $8000 worth of cardboard.
At least you get the cardboard. If you start playing Magic Online, you won't even be that lucky.
Filed under: my full box of Magic cards is probably not worth the printing paint nowadays
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At least you get the cardboard. If you start playing Magic Online, you won't even be that lucky.
Filed under: my full box of Magic cards is probably not worth the printing paint nowadays
yeah, I have avoided magic online for that exact reason, I play hearthstone when I want to buy imaginary cards.
as for your box full of magic cards, I strongly suggest you look into it - a good rule of thumb is that the older the card is the more likely it is to be valuable, there are uncommons (i.e. you get 3 of them in a booster pack) that are worth over $100 each from older sets. Newer cards rarely break $40 a card, and even that is a short lived hype immediately after release.
My most valuable cards are all from the first 3 years of Magic's life.
Filed Underground Sea: $350 cheapest printing.
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Filed Underground Sea: $350 cheapest printing.
Hmm...I don't think I have one of those, but I know I have some betas of other combo lands. Condition may be questionable.
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I don't remember that character ever having glasses.<hr><small>Filed under: I may be wrong</small>
Granted, he doesn't wear them all the time, but yeah.
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If you have them in beta (black bordered) they will be worth LOTS. regardless of condition. unless they are literally torn in half people will pay $600+ for even the cheapest one I can find. even if they are torn in half they will still be worth $100+ I would expect.
All I ask is a small finders fee.
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Just someone with bad imagination looking for a only TDWTF Nickname that is easy to remember..
I think i done quiet good.
Filed under: HorseStapleBattery
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So if I do look through my old cards where do I hock them for large sums? This sounds like something I should look into.
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It depends on who you want to get stinking rich (in addition to yourself) from your previous inactivity. I would suggest whatever local gaming store is in your area as your first port of call. If they host regular events (wizard's event locator will tell you) they probably wont rip you off.
If you want to invest the time, you can trawl through the cards yourself for the big ticket items, and put them on ebay. This gets you the most money personally, but puts money in ebay's pocket, which you might not be comfortable with. There are other means avenues to sell cards, most online retailers will accept posted collections and give you money for them (you have to go through a whole rigmarole of ordering and itemising your cards though).
to sum up:
For ease of sale - local game store.
For maximum profit - Ebay.
There are also facebook groups for trading/selling cards.
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My name is Sam. @sam stole it.
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how come you didn't follow Dicsourse's helpful advice and register <a @sam1?
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http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5028620/Code_Complete_2nd_edition_PDF_ebook Really? A link to TPB gets flagged?
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It is mostly acceptable here though. Roll with it. Own it.
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I started this name because I felt the community really got screwed by the switch to Discourse. But that much was pretty easy to guess.
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I assumed you had found our topic on the old forum about a possible fork of Discourse.
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I assumed you had found our topic on the old forum about a possible fork of Discourse.
Why would you start from a POS? It's like LibReSSL, they had to start with major overhaul work just to get to a sane starting place, and that would entail finding and fixing many DC bugs just to get to a sane starting place for us.
But we would get pagination as a core feature.
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Fork CS!
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Fork CS!
Fork SMF! (you even get one of the world's greatest authorities on SMF free with this option, even if I do say so myself)
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Fork SMF! (you even get one of the world's greatest authorities on SMF free with this option, even if I do say so myself)
But... that sounds to easy. And too sane!
Filed under: Yes, buttuming that even after all your rants
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But... that sounds to easy. And too sane!
Filed under: Yes, buttuming that even after all your rants
You have no idea what level of hell you would descend to in so doing.
SMF's code isn't terrible, and it's better than most PHP projects, but that's not exactly a high bar to set.
Its main problems are that it has a mash of coding styles, based on when things were implemented and how sucky the ecosystem was; there's almost no third party components in 2.0, a few more in 2.1, because during 2.0's time there simply wasn't anything good and reusable out there.
For example, it does its own mail sending. I'm fairly certain it's a touch buggy but I can't prove it, and rewriting it to use something like the ZF mail component is a headache.
It has its own query layer with its own parameterisation (which, I have to say, I'm a fan of because I find it very readable) because PDO wasn't a thing when it was started, or if it was a thing in 2005 (1.1 did not have parameterisation, it did escaping in-query which was a fail)... it wasn't popular enough to make a requirement. These days, going PDO wouldn't be terrible. Going UTF-8 only would be an amazing thing to do, too, as they're still struggling with a bastardisation that supports ISO-various and UTF-8 and so many issues result because of it.
Not to mention an almost religious level of conservatism. We have always done that therefore it is good therefore we cannot change that therefore we must always do that so we will have always done that.
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i uhm; survived a series of incidents intended to get rid of me, be it by an unaliving, unlawful incarceration, or suicide, so someone else could collect an insurance policy they opened on my head?
i got into the data security profession after i had been unlawfully investigated by someone hired into my residence by a family member. instead of cheating death, someone tried to get death to cheat me & evidently, they're still apologizing for it.i don't drink, but cheers. <3
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@_deathcollege yikes. But hey, it seems you haven't fully lost just yet, so congrats!
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@Tsaukpaetra i'm taking the sign that i haven't lost as my best 4 out of 5, ya dig? :p
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Where did your user name come from?:
@_deathcollege yikes. But hey, it seems you haven't fully lost just yet, so congrats!
and thanks. <3
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Years ago, when Steve Martin was primarily known as a standup comedian, he told a joke that went something like:
I guess I can tell you this now, my real name is Gern Blanston. You might be familiar with some of the books I've written. There's my financial series, Earn With Gern, and my educational series, Learn With Gern.
Or something like that. It was a very long time ago and the only thing I remember clearly is the name.