What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[the King]

You can also make hot pockets or calzones yourself that aren't full of sodium, fat and presevatives. Frozen pizza dough, sauce(also easy to make yourself, just a little time consuming) and cheese aren't expensive items. Spinach is a good filler too.

[CRTGAMER]

You can also make hot pockets or calzones yourself that aren't full of sodium, fat and presevatives. Frozen pizza dough, sauce(also easy to make yourself, just a little time consuming) and cheese aren't expensive items. Spinach is a good filler too.

That sounds like a good alternative. I can't stand the smell of Hot Pockets when nuked, all that nasty oil soaked in the dough. To quote the wife when I brought home a dried up Apple Pie once; "Bad enough eating something bad for me, but at least it shouldn't taste bad!"

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Ticked
I take a Mouse with me when I use the laptop at Starbucks, I hate the touch pad. As I was putting it away, the cord got caught at the edge of the table causing a fly fishing cast of the mouse against the wall. Lucky it did not hit anyone. No apparent damage, the red sensor light still worked. However, the pointer on the screen would not work. The buttons and scroll wheel still worked, just no movement.

Smile
The weird part is the Touch pad is normally disabled whenever a mouse is plugged in. Somehow the touch pad worked even with the partially functioning mouse detected. I could move the pointer with the touch pad and click with the Mouse buttons. A temporary workaround with scroll wheel capability until I dig thru the boxes for another USB Mouse.

Double Smile
Found a smaller replacement, but I did not want to toss the MS light up mouse. Figuring on the cable might have pulled a wire inside, took it apart for a cut a little off and solder. Luckily the cable had a connector inside so popped it off and checked with an OHM meter. All five wires which included the ground all worked. It was then I noticed the clear plastic "light aiming" tube under the laser eye was popped out to the side slightly. Turned out the smack against the wall jarred it loose, a simple pop back in and the mouse is working flawlessly again. I wish all my electrical fixes were this easy.

[BoneSnapDeez]

TICKED: I am constantly asked to give/pledge/donate money to folks at work. I barely make enough money as it is!

SMILE: Less than a month until I'm done with this job altogether.

[Luke]

See! I f--cking knew it!

You can also make hot pockets or calzones yourself that aren't full of sodium, fat and presevatives. Frozen pizza dough, sauce(also easy to make yourself, just a little time consuming) and cheese aren't expensive items. Spinach is a good filler too.

Bowl, fork.
1 and 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 small packet rapid rise yeast
stir
1 cup hot water
3 TBSP olive oil
stir
1 extra cup bread flour
stir
kneed

BOOM! Pizza/Calzone/Stromboli dough. Cook at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.



SHOCKED: My Father and I had a short discussion of how smell brings back nostalgia/memories back more than taste. I mentioned Beechnut chewing gum, and how just the smell of Goose Island's 312 brew takes me back to my first time performing stand up.

...And then my Father mentioned how the smell of creosote always takes him back to Viet Nam. I asked "As an antiseptic?" He answered, "No...as anti-personal". And his words that followed were almost unbelievable. Death or torture with creosote almost makes death by napalm seem humane.

[Luke]

TICKED: I am constantly asked to give/pledge/donate money to folks at work. I barely make enough money as it is!

Ask them to match you dollar for dollar for your donation.

If it is tax deductible, doesn't hurt to share the wealth.

[indecks]

The cold but somehow burnt square pizza? I swear every school had that one weird-o who would eat that pizza EVERY DAY and would usually put some kind of salad dressing on it, roll it up and devour it.

HEY HEY NOW... it was good with ranch dressing, ALRIGHT?

Seriously though, ours was never cold/burned. It was piping hot, gooey, cheesy, pepperoni-y, and greasy. It was awesome! My school's cafeterias were apparently one of the few that (back then) had decent food, I guess. Nowadays, school cafeterias have a salad bar, a burger bar, etc. You can choose what to have for lunch. Back when I was in highschool (91-95) you got the menu either for the month, or the week and you'd either bring your lunch when it was that weird spaghetti/goulash stuff, or you'd salivate for the day that was Frito Pie day. (my god the Frito Pie was phenomenal)

In my junior and senior year though, they started offering a salad, but not a salad bar. It was a prepared salad that had cubed ham, an entire tomato (quartered) and iceberg lettuce with carrots, cheese, an egg and radishes. It included a packet of dressing of your choice for the price of standard lunch, which if I remember correctly was $0.60! SIXTY CENTS! We also had a pizza option, much like the salad. But it was that square pizza as well, and it was $1.

I miss my school lunches, they were awesome!

[dsheinem]

Frown: PC PSU, lawn tractor, and recently laid bathroom tile grout all broke this weekend. I'm trying to get all repaired before next weekend, starting with the PC tonight.

Smile: It is the final week of school - no teaching or regular visits to campus until late August!

Another smile: I teach this in the fall -

The Art, History, and Culture of Video Games (FYS 107)

Have you ever argued with someone about whether video games should be considered art? Do you think that video games provide a unique perspective on life that isn't offered by other mediums? Are you interested in the history of the video game industry and what its future might hold? Do you want to learn how to play video games with a critical mindset?

In this course, students will analyze the ways that video games have shaped a wide variety of cultural and social practices both in the United States and globally. Students will learn how games and their various effects have been studied in a wide variety of traditional academic disciplines as well as in the emerging field of Game Studies. Students will have opportunities to experience and play a variety of games across many platforms, to create compelling writing about games, and to recognize connections between research on video games and ongoing changes in the video game industry.

[Ack]

The cold but somehow burnt square pizza? I swear every school had that one weird-o who would eat that pizza EVERY DAY and would usually put some kind of salad dressing on it, roll it up and devour it.

HEY HEY NOW... it was good with ranch dressing, ALRIGHT?

I guess we now know who the weirdo is, eh?

[indecks]

The cold but somehow burnt square pizza? I swear every school had that one weird-o who would eat that pizza EVERY DAY and would usually put some kind of salad dressing on it, roll it up and devour it.

HEY HEY NOW... it was good with ranch dressing, ALRIGHT?

I guess we now know who the weirdo is, eh?

I have to return some videotapes.

[CRTGAMER]

Frown: PC PSU, lawn tractor, and recently laid bathroom tile grout all broke this weekend. I'm trying to get all repaired before next weekend, starting with the PC tonight.

Smile: It is the final week of school - no teaching or regular visits to campus until late August!

Another smile: I teach this in the fall -

The Art, History, and Culture of Video Games (FYS 107)

Have you ever argued with someone about whether video games should be considered art? Do you think that video games provide a unique perspective on life that isn't offered by other mediums? Are you interested in the history of the video game industry and what its future might hold? Do you want to learn how to play video games with a critical mindset?

In this course, students will analyze the ways that video games have shaped a wide variety of cultural and social practices both in the United States and globally. Students will learn how games and their various effects have been studied in a wide variety of traditional academic disciplines as well as in the emerging field of Game Studies. Students will have opportunities to experience and play a variety of games across many platforms, to create compelling writing about games, and to recognize connections between research on video games and ongoing changes in the video game industry.

Good luck on all the repairs, was it good or bad that happens in threes?

Nice subject! Maybe JT can be brought in as a guest speaker?