jennana, posting in thequestionclub:
Why do you think Eve and Jen got kicked out of camp?

somethingbeside, posting in photographers:

pastorlenny, posting in thequestionclub:

What kinds of people do you like or love?

ditchplains, posting in thequestionclub:
When I see "New Year's Eve" abbreviated to NYE, I can only think of Bill Nye the Science Guy. I never think of New Year's Eve and it always throws me off.

Do you do this too or am I strange?

ETA The second thing that comes to mind sometimes is the NYSE, minus the S.
I'm strange.

lava_sharks, posting in thequestionclub:
What kinds of people do you dislike or hate?

anthill626, posting in thequestionclub:
A friend of mine from high school, whom I haven't spoken with since graduation, contacted me on facebook and said "we should hang out, blah, blah , blah,", then she sent me a bunch of text messages telling me bored she was and how much she was looking forward to us getting together this Wednesday(today).
So yesterday afternoon, I texted her asking her when and where we should meet up. But she hasn't responded.
I have no social skills as well as the infamous ~social anxiety disorder~, so I have no idea how to interpret this situation. Should I call her? Did she remember what I creep I was in high school and decided to ignore me? This is some game? I really have no idea what's going on and its kinda stressing me out.

If you don't care:
What's your favorite pizza topping?

stah_chica, posting in thequestionclub:

So I have a friend who lives in another state. Me and my other friend decided to send the out-of-state friend a present for Christmas without him knowing. So I sent it last week and it got there yesterday but was delivered to his apartment complex's office.

Should I assume the office will let him know the package is there or is it possible they will expect him to come get it? He doesn't know we got him anything so I'm worried if he doesn't claim it it will be sent back. Should I try to find the office number and call them and find out what they're gonna do or just give it a little more time?

I think I'm being overly paranoid about this lol

animeg3282, posting in thequestionclub:
I have two choices on NYE. I could go to the Peabody or go to a board gaming party.

Pros for Peabody: traditional NYE. meet new people.

Cons: downtown parking will be insane. need to find someone to go with. Cost $40.

Pros for board gaming: SWEET! NOW I CAN PLAY THAT AGRICOLA EXPANSION! Know everyone; no payment involved.

Cons: Really? board gaming?

Will you decide for me?

shajik, posting in thequestionclub:
Have you ever called anyone useless and believed it? (on a personal level, though feel free to call out jerks in a professional setting)

polly_purebred, posting in thequestionclub:
Has anyone ever lost weight or gotten in better physical shape by playing games on the Wii?

Also, does anyone have Scribblenauts for the DS? What are your favorite/most useful words?

schrullenhaft, posting in photographers:

smokeswirls, posting in thequestionclub:
Have you ever lost a significant amount of money? By significant, I mean like $100 or more. By lost, I mean everything from it having been stolen, losing your wallet, or making a stupid COSTLY mistake like I did last night that could totally have been avoided.

Last night, I locked myself out of my apartment. All of my roommates are gone for the holidays, and I live in a walk up in NYC so there was no lobby security or anything. I had no choice but to call a locksmith, and it cost me a whopping $369. FUCK.
(sorry, I had to vent)

graildragon, posting in photographers:

burdenofclarity, posting in thequestionclub:
How do you feel about full-body scanners at airports? Would their appearance impact your decision to fly? Anyone else miss airline peanuts?

shechoselove, posting in thequestionclub:
What's the most expensive and/or seemingly outlandish item you've seen on a bridal or baby shower registry?

shaedigga, posting in thequestionclub:
What is your favorite sit-down chain restaurant?

barryw322, posting in photographers:

Back Street

darth_spacey, posting in computergeeks:

I may have posted about this before, I'm not sure, so please accept my advance apologies...

At home, I currently run two DSL lines. Right now, we just have two separate LANs, one connected to each line, with my wife's devices attached to one, and my devices attached to the other. For a while now, I've been thinking about setting up a load-balancing routing solution to give both of us access to both lines.

I have the opportunity to acquire a refurbed Cisco Catalyst 2960 at a ridiculously low price. I also have access to a (nominally) spare quad-core 64-bit PC with 8GB of RAM. I say "nominally" because I'm thinking about setting it up as a media center / gaming rig connected to the TV in the den. That's largely beside the point, but it bears pointing out that keeping the PC available for my other needs would be a good thing.

So.

Is it going to be a more-effective solution to drop a few bucks on the 2960 and go through the hassle of learning how to set it up (and then setting it up), or would I be better off putting a secured Linux distro (e.g. gentoo-hardened, or something) on the semi-spare PC and running the load-balancing via iproute2 and friends?

Either way, I'm looking at a learning curve, and a good amount of time fannying around getting the damn thing working -- there's a good chance I'd spend almost as much cash on the PC-based solution getting good-quality network cards, and maybe fast HDD tech (though it seems like RAM and cores would be more important than disk IO).

What are your opinions?

deepenmybreath, posting in thequestionclub:
i am in love with this dress and i would like to make it myself because i can't afford it. do you make your own dresses? how did you learn and what helped along the way? any tips for me for this dress? :)

i would like to wear it during chinese new year. in a different colour of course. or print.

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hefnersbunny, posting in thequestionclub:
No, really. One of my LJ friends wants help making a decision, TQC! You could change someone's life.

The facts:

-She was in a decently paying job, her husband is in dental school til 2010.
-She just got laid off. She got a one-month severance and wll now collect unemployment.
-They have $50k+ in the bank.
-They're also getting student loans for her dental-school-husband and could take out more.
-They were going to start trying to conceive a baby in March.