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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

The Beer Hall Pooch said:

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Basically at this point in my life I need a computer that has an up-to-date browser for the Internet, can download photos from my phone, and run MS Money 2002 (and, ideally the 1998 version of Quickbooks*) I'm contemplating VMWare to run Windows 2000 as a virtual machine. I suppose I could run that on Linux. I just hesitate to slam a brand new, relatively expensive laptop that (kind of) works. I'm not 30 anymore. Hm. The old XP machine got retired after some hard drive issues. Ah, but I'd likely need a working OS on it in order to get the software installed. I miss the days when software came on CDs in boxes. I guess I've got a copy of Windows 2K that I could try to install on the old laptop and if I can't find a browser for it, maybe just air-gap an OS on a flash drive. Bah. I miss being young and tech-savvy. Back in the day we'd laugh at the old fart that would come in and tell about his days of coding FORTRAN and now I'm like "We used to write HTML code for Web pages in Notepad. Somewhere I've got my old Geocities site on a few 3.5" floppy disks."
 
Volpone said:
Why does the US federal government apparently want photos on IDs to look like Bigfoot on a security camera? States used to have driver's licenses with nice, clear, high resolution color photos. With the push for RealID the driver's license photo is now blurry and black & white. Shit, passports. I got my passport renewed. And let me tell you, there's a world of aging that takes place between 46 and 56. It also didn't help that getting the picture taken was an impulse thing--"oh, there's Walgreen's and I don't have The Dog. I'll pop in and get my passport photo. On top of that I made the mistake of smiling for the photo. Usually any pictures of me are selfies and between getting in frame and holding the camera still and getting the shutter to trigger, I'm concentrating on too many things to have a candid smile and I have no idea how to do a fake smile without looking like a serial killer. But since someone else was taking the picture, I was able to smile. And that's the picture she sent me. The one were ever line on my face is wrinkled up. It was so bad that I considered going back to do another picture, but I bit the bullet and just sent if off.

Well I got my passport today. And it turns out I shouldn't have worried. Somehow, they managed to turn a clear, sharp, high resolution photo into something that looks like it was painted but Seurat. On the plus side, getting my driver's license out while I made this post made me realize my license expired a month ago. So now I have a new fun adventure to go on.
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I just did all those things too. Got real ID, got passport. I hadn't used it since I was 25 so I had to go in and do it.
 
Volpone said:
Basically at this point in my life I need a computer that has an up-to-date browser for the Internet, can download photos from my phone, and run MS Money 2002 (and, ideally the 1998 version of Quickbooks*) I'm contemplating VMWare to run Windows 2000 as a virtual machine. I suppose I could run that on Linux. I just hesitate to slam a brand new, relatively expensive laptop that (kind of) works. I'm not 30 anymore. Hm. The old XP machine got retired after some hard drive issues. Ah, but I'd likely need a working OS on it in order to get the software installed. I miss the days when software came on CDs in boxes. I guess I've got a copy of Windows 2K that I could try to install on the old laptop and if I can't find a browser for it, maybe just air-gap an OS on a flash drive. Bah. I miss being young and tech-savvy. Back in the day we'd laugh at the old fart that would come in and tell about his days of coding FORTRAN and now I'm like "We used to write HTML code for Web pages in Notepad. Somewhere I've got my old Geocities site on a few 3.5" floppy disks."
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Okay.

Well... okay. You can do your own research on how that would work on any linux distro.

Actually, my advice would be to get the fuck up off that antique financial software.
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
Okay.

Well... okay. You can do your own research on how that would work on any linux distro.

Actually, my advice would be to get the fuck up off that antique financial software.
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I'd love to, but the greedy evil fucks at Intuit won't sell you a desktop version of QuickBooks anymore. No you have to pay $40 a month for QuickBooks online--like $480 a year instead of a one-time fee of $300 or so. Quicken (comparable to the defunct MS Money) is also subscription only. They don't rape you as much on the price but it's still highway robbery. And BBB and...Consumer Reports(?) site reviews for Intuit are like "I wish I could give these greedy evil incompetent fucks negative stars." Alternately I could look for some open source financial software and that is an option I'm considering. But Money 2000 has worked flawlessly for 25 years. Why would I want to change? And hopefully I don't need Quickbooks after April or so.
 
As I sit in my cozy 20th century house, with central heat, electricity, refrigerator, hot & cold running water, gas cooking range, television, stereo, telephone, internet, and a selection of books and movies, and contemplate going out into the sub-freezing snow and grey to walk The Dog, I further think this season of holidays--Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and maybe a few of the others--are the result of humans of Northern Europe's efforts to stay sane and alive and make it through the winter, psychologically and physically.
 
As I sit here in a t-shirt and shorts, I feel for the people in the frozen north.
 
I had things to do today. I was supposed to do them yesterday but had to work, so I was going to do them today. Apparently I forgot to set the alarm clock and overslept by an hour and a half. Then my dog took close to 2 hours for her morning walk. So now the one place that I absolutely had to make it to closes in 5 minutes--and is 20 minutes away, so I guess I'll take my afternoon nap 2 hours late and hope tomorrow isn't as much of a mess.
 


I was just wondering wtf happened to the Black Crowes, so I looked them up. OMG they are old now. lol They still sound good, though!
 
"Hey little thing, lemon-lime Chicano...I'm sure I'll be handy now."
 
Volpone said:
As I sit in my cozy 20th century house, with central heat, electricity, refrigerator, hot & cold running water, gas cooking range, television, stereo, telephone, internet, and a selection of books and movies, and contemplate going out into the sub-freezing snow and grey to walk The Dog, I further think this season of holidays--Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and maybe a few of the others--are the result of humans of Northern Europe's efforts to stay sane and alive and make it through the winter, psychologically and physically.
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Have you heard of Christmas in July? From people who got snowed in in a National Park?
 
Is this the thread where I was bitching about the inability to find cool T-Shirts? SHAZAM!
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I wonder how many times a day I say to myself "well, I guess we'll be playing this fucking game now."
 
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