What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

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dsheinem wrote::D : tenured!
Very nice. Don't have too many celebratory drinks tonight, we still have a podcast to record!
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Jmustang1968 wrote:
dsheinem wrote::D : tenured!
Very nice. Don't have too many celebratory drinks tonight, we still have a podcast to record!
I'd actually love to hear a podcast that's just John trying to keep a smashed dsh on topic.
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noiseredux wrote:
Jmustang1968 wrote:
Very nice. Don't have too many celebratory drinks tonight, we still have a podcast to record!
I'd actually love to hear a podcast that's just John trying to keep a smashed dsh on topic.

There was one where he started kicking back a few towards the end lol. You could hear it sometimes, unless he edited out. But I would ask him a question mid drink or he would be talking and having issues with liquid down wrong pipe or whatever lol.
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dsheinem wrote:
gtmtnbiker wrote: Any thoughts on how the thief got your card number? Do you primarily use the debit card instead of the credit card?
I do, but I am guessing they just randomly generated it.
Do you know where the card was used? I would think that it would be hard to randomly generate it. For a debit card, one would need to use a PIN. If it was used as a credit card, many places require the CCV code or expiration date. Yes, there are places that won't ask for those details but they're not that common in my experience.
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Hardly any where I ever go asks for the proper things. I know Radio Shack and GameStop always have to check the card, but pretty much every where else I go checks nothing. Mind you, I use my debit card as a credit card. I can swipe it, hit credit, and that's about it. Most of the time you don't even have to sign anything. When you do have to sign, I've signed weird things before like "Walter" and " :D " and never heard anything back about it. Also, I don't sign the back of my cards so you're REQUIRED to check a photo ID. Maybe once out of every 250 times I use a card some one will actually ask to see ID. Probably less often then that, actually.

Wal Mart is one of those places that I can just swipe the card, hit the credit button, sign whatever I want to the pad and walk away.
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Ziggy587 wrote:Hardly any where I ever go asks for the proper things.
I went to Walgreens last night to pick up albuterol (the price has gone wayyyy up) and while paying with my d-card they also scanned the back of my driver's license.

I'm not crazy about stores scanning my ID and watching what I purchase.
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noiseredux wrote:
Jmustang1968 wrote:
dsheinem wrote::D : tenured!
Very nice. Don't have too many celebratory drinks tonight, we still have a podcast to record!
I'd actually love to hear a podcast that's just John trying to keep a smashed dsh on topic.
You might like this then: http://www.robotpanic.com/drunken-gamers-radio/.
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Smiled and Ticked - Ogre Kickstarter is almost over and we have hit all but the highest goal (which should be hit today), which gives me a Car Wars kickstarter for next year! Ogre is one of the simplest wargames that you can seriously play for the rest of your life. Case in point my $10 copy I bought in 07 has over 1000 plays. Car Wars is simply Madmax in boardgame form - love the universe, rules need a big overhaul.

Why both smiled and ticked, well it means I wont have something I check every few hours at work now getting more and more excited.

Even bigger smile - I found my old file of Advance Wars sprites on Ogre chits. Time to finish off the page. Thatll make teaching the game to gamers even easier.
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dsheinem wrote::D : tenured!
Aww man, we gotta call you Prof now? :roll:
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Hobie-wan wrote:
dsheinem wrote::D : tenured!
Aww man, we gotta call you Prof now? :roll:
Prof. Dudebro, PHD.
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