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  • ((You could perhaps send him a PM?))
  • But... it's friggin' enormous! On a side note: if only one or two people replace "awesome" with "Ryan", I don't expect it'll catch on. Please don't make posts if your only contribution is to correct someone saying "awesome" when you feel they should be saying "Ryan". You can't force these sorts of things.
  • Bacon is worth at least four different kinds of poultry, so it still outnumbers Turducken.
    in SUCCESS! Comment by mario November 2008
  • Problem: bacon cooks a heck of a lot faster than turkey. Looks pretty burned in the final photo. I'd suggest putting it on toward the very end of the turkey-baking process.
    in SUCCESS! Comment by mario November 2008
  • But in the Latin alphabet, 'Jehovah' begins with an 'I'!
  • On the bright side, the pricing isn't always that far off from a regular ol' SD card.
  • ...What the hell does any of this have to do with the ability to play content from SD cards on the Wii?
  • You may need to enter the cumbersome and lengthy hex equivalent password for the DS to connect, as opposed to a passphrase. I know I had to do that with my Wii when connecting over WEP (it's now set up over WPA so that isn't an issue, thankfully). Generally the USB WiFi dongle is a good workaround to such issues. If yours…
  • I miss Spelling. And Elliott. And micro machine-esque Motel 6 soap.
    in SUCCESS! Comment by mario November 2008
  • Purified urine to be astronauts' drinking water Strange how the preciousness of a resource like water in space had never occurred to me. Turns out Waterworld was good for something after all! That something was watching Kevin Costner drink piss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMROpXu9WLw
  • Who's mad? I was being matter-of-factly.
  • RSS feed: bookmarked! Also, I highly doubt any of these characters would ever evolve. That's not Steven's Pokémon-training style.
  • I appreciate your zeal in forum participation, but try not to randomly revive threads over a year old.
  • Please don't double-post.
  • Not a large enough part Canadian to spell it right! OOH BURN Also OOH WELCOME TO THE FORUMS
  • In what sense, then, are you very high? On life and America?
  • Well I guess I was speaking more generally about posting on the forums, but if you need alcohol to accomplish this task, more power to ya!
  • More of this.
  • We love you too Javier! Post here more why don'tcha!
  • Aww, thanks!
  • THAT'S A MYTH! TALK LIKE THAT WILL COST YOU THE ELECTION.
  • I MEAN, UH... THE FIRST ALL-CAPS DAY WAS STARTED BY PURITAN TREE-LOVERS AT THE END OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR TO MARK THE SOLSTICE, BUT THEN THEY REALIZED THEY WERE READING THEIR CALENDAR WRONG AND SWORE LOUDLY. THE COURT STENOGRAPHER WAS TOO INEXPERIENCED TO DENOTE EMOTIONAL STATE AND TYPED THEIR SPEECH ENTIRELY IN CAPITAL…
  • SECRET ORIGINS? ONE DAY STEF AND I WERE CHATTING AND STARTED TYPING IN ALL CAPS, AND WANTED OTHERS TO JOIN IN ON THE LUDICROUS FUN. WE PICKED A DAY THAT WAS COMING UP IN A FEW WEEKS WHERE WE WERE BOTH GOING TO HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO CHAT ON THE FORUMS. IT FELL ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF NOVEMBER, SO I DECIDED THAT WOULD BE…
  • YEAH, PRETTY GOOD COMPENSATION. BUT COME ON, I DON'T BUY APPLE PRODUCTS JUST FOR THE NAME. I BELIEVE IN GETTING WHAT YOU PAY FOR, AND SPENDING A LITTLE EXTRA ON QUALITY GOODS, AND BUYING PRODUCTS FROM A COMPANY THAT MAKES BOTH THE HARDWARE AND THE SOFTWARE AND THUS IS ABLE TO PUT THE EXTRA EFFORT INTO MAKING SURE…
  • YEAH, THAT'S A PRETTY HANDY RULE. BUT IT MIGHT STILL BE A BIT UNDER 15%, SINCE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TIP BASED ON THE GROSS, NOT THE NET.
    in Tipping Comment by mario November 2008
  • THE GREAT THING ABOUT A FREE MARKET IS THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO BUY A PRODUCT IF YOU FEEL IT IS UNREASONABLY PRICED. AND WHAT DOES THE PRICING OF AN IPOD ACCESSORY HAVE TO DO WITH THE PRETENTIOUSNESS AND/OR HIPSTERLINESS OF APPLE EMPLOYEES?
  • I TAKE OFFENSE TO YOUR INSINUATION. I HAD NO SAY IN MY JOB TITLE, I JUST DO MY BEST TO HELP PEOPLE WITH THEIR MAC/IPOD/IPHONE-RELATED PROBLEMS. NO ONE I'VE SERVED AT THE BAR HAS YET THOUGHT ME PRETENTIOUS, AND I CONSIDER MY COWORKERS EQUALLY HONEST IN THEIR ABILITIES.
  • HEY, IF TIPS WERE FACTORED INTO THE PRICE (LIKE SALES TAX IS IN SPAIN), I'D BE PERFECTLY HAPPY. THERE'D BE NO PRESSURE TO TIP, AND NO PESKY ON-THE-SPOT CALCULATIONS. I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT PEOPLE WERE ARGUING TIPS VERSUS NO TIPS, NOT TIPS VERSUS INCLUDED GRATUITY.
    in Tipping Comment by mario November 2008
  • IN MOST RESTAURANT-TYPE ESTABLISHMENTS, THE TIPS ARE GATHERED TOGETHER AT THE END OF THE NIGHT AND DISTRIBUTED EVENLY, OR WEIGHTED AT SET LEVELS BETWEEN WAITERS, CHEFS, BUSBOYS AND THE LIKE. YET ANOTHER REASON TO TIP 15% MINIMUM; IF YOUR WAITER TREATS YOU LIKE SHIT, THE COOK DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE SHAFTED. SAME GOES IF YOUR…
    in Tipping Comment by mario November 2008
  • WHO'S YELLING? THIS YEAR I MADE POSTS TO FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ANNOUNCING THE DAY AS ALL-CAPS DAY. SOMEHOW I GOT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE INTO IT WITHOUT EXPLAINING ITS SIGNIFICANCE OR WHETHER IT WAS ANYTHING BEYOND AN INTERNET HOLIDAY STEF AND I MADE UP. THAT WAS BASICALLY AWESOME. I TYPED ALL MY REPAIR NOTES AND GENIUS BAR NOTES…