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Nerve gas (think that's what it is, anyway) sufficiently cleared from house! I can come inside!

Just in time, too. Night starting to fall, which means the mosquitos get even more active.

Now I just have to clean up some dishes and have breakfast. Well, lunch, I guess. Breakfast was some leftover rice about... thirteen hours ago. Starting to get a lil'hungry. Food would be nice, but first have to make sure cooking it isn't going to poison me. More than the air already is, anyway (just a little!).

Bright side, fleas are probably dead now. If not, future post in the rage thread predicted.

Squirrels bark. I had never really noticed. Huh. Always though that particular set of noises came from some bird or another, but nope. Neat.

Dilemma. Three-four hours lounging outside in Florida heat, or >24 (Though <48) hours more or less stuck in a somewhat poorly ventilated building that contains within it a TV bigger than I am.

Currently leaning heavily toward sweat and mosquitos

E: Mosquitos won out. Time to start the three hour free sauna~

At least it comes with Internet! If the wireless reaches the porch, anyway.

E2: It does! Now to "enjoy" Florida weather. So far, this looks to be fairly bearable. So long as you don't move, breath steadily, and are sitting besides a fridge full of cold water. And ignore the bugs.

... there's usually a specific volume control program. Most of the windows computers I've dealt with, it's sndvol32... guess it might be 64 for a 64 bit system, I'unno. Anyway, you should be able to just run (windowskey+r, run on the start menu, taskmanager file -> run, sndvol32.exe, hunt it down in the system folders, etc.) that if the task bar thing is giving nuisance.

*vague shrug* From what I understand, if they don't fight for it (the copyright junk), they've got a chance of losing it. Which means they have to at least go through the motion of legally prosecuting those who ostensibly infringe.

I've never quite figured out why they (not just WB, but major rights holders in general, since there's been several majorly impressive projects that got C&D'd to varying levels of effectiveness.) don't just greenlight projects like this (free publicity, good PR move, potential monetization later on), but I guess (/hope, because otherwise...) they've got some kind of reason for it.

As for the mod itself... I don't really expect anything but a shutdown. It's happened pretty much every other time something like this has happened, so I don't see it going differently in this case

But maybe not! Maybe they'll be able to fight it, and manage some precedent setting that opens up some older projects to release. That'd be awesome.

"Chance in the future"... history of American political scuffles (especially the conservative bits of 'em ) not exactly being my strong point, was there a point in the last few decades where there was a chance? Seems like this may be a shift toward the more blatant, but still be kind of standard operating procedure.

... it takes considerably more than mere submersion to put one off of delicious maple syrup. Much, much more. Even a little drowning is insufficient, though that may require medical assistance to get the stuff out of your lungs.

Still not enough. Syrup is a thing of the gods, and its addictive nature is representative of that.

I'm not sure quite what it would require, really, and the only thing my mind seems to be attaching to as possibilities involve crystalized syrup and a violation of the forum's guidelines.

Carmen Sandiego definitely stole the syrup   That sounds exactly like something she would steal.

And let's be frank. Carmen has already rendezvoused with Waldo and we're never going to see that syrup again.