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1) What Operating System do you use?

Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows 98 SE, Ubuntu Linux (I have a lot of computers)

2) Why do you use it? (Did you choose, just happen to get it, or what?)

Vista - came with the laptop
XP - solid, stable, and I have the CDs to install it
Win98 SE - Used for legacy apps and games
Ubuntu - More of an experiment than anything

3) Have you ever used any other Operating Systems? (Which ones?)

Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Debian Linux, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 3.11, OS/2 2.1, VMS, Commodore GEOS
 
4) Do you like any other Operating Systems? (What are your opinions of them?)

I've heard good things about Windows 7? Other than that, not much opinion. An OS is an OS. They have different strengths and weaknesses.

5) What do you do most often on the computer with the Operating System you use most often?

The usual gamut - gaming, Web browsing, email, etc.

6) Do you like the Operating System you have for its features, what it says about you, or something else?

I like it (Win XP) for the fact that it's mostly stable, widely supported by games and apps, and that it didn't cost me anything (less-than-legal copy).

When I was a kid, I realized that the Soviet national anthem sounded so much cooler than the American one. And had to hide this information, lest I be labeled a Commie sympathizer. (Having family origins in Russia already had me on the "suspicious" list.)

I'm sad that I can't remember the lyrics in Russian anymore.

Well, sometimes you want one character to be stylistically different as a way of emphasizing their difference from the other characters. Coyote is essentially a god. Everyone else in the comic is, as far as I know, *not* a god. Having his artwork be so much more florid helps reinforce that.


I tried to use something similar (although in a different direction) with a series of stories set in medieval Japan and centered around a character who was a fox spirit. To distinguish her character from the mundane characters and suggest a sort of immateriality, I wanted her drawn in sumi-e style, as just a series of brushstrokes suggesting the outlines of a fox.

(Now if I had any artistic ability, it would have been great....)

This thread is kind of in poor taste...
 

Nothing a proper barbecue sauce won't fix. 

Tried my hands at making avgolemono, and the results are kickass. Gonna make like 5 gallons next time.

My irises change color with the seasons--brown in the winter, green in the summer.

I can dislocate my thumbs at will.

I have a pectis excavatum (in layman's terms, my rib cage curves in rather than out), which means my heart is about two inches out of place. If I ever come back as a vampire, I'm going to rock because no one will be staking me in the right place.

Also, the bottom of the rib cage flares out rather than curving in. This means I can actually grab my rib cage and reach inside it an inch or two.

All this freakshow shit (except the eyes) is due to having some degree of Marfan syndrome.


Oh, and my 3-year old daughter has 10.5 toes. Specifically, the second toe on one foot has two toenails, the second of which hides under the big toe, so we didn't notice it until she was about two weeks old. We left it as is -- good icebreaker for when she's older.

A terrier mix mutt going on 12 years old named Comedy. Looks sort of like a cross between a Schnauzer and a Dachshund. We've had him close to seven years now.

Since we're doing another nostalgia-animated-shows-thread, I realized one that got left out before:

ExoSquad. On the surface, just another Hasbro/Mattel toy-selling gimmick like all those shows from the 80s (M.A.S.K., I'm looking at you).

Below the surface, a surprisingly mature storyline (multiple main characters die in the course of the series, there are morally ambiguous villains, etc.) and a story arc that was planned from the outset a la Babylon 5.