The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

04-12-2006 11:56pm

Bring back the bull-whip I say!

Crash · 05-12-2006 3:03am

I just spent ages trying to sort through college documents for an undergrad teaching and learning committee meeting I have tomorrow (note: yet another committee I sit on, I think i'm collecting them) - not bad, and i'm somewhat happier with kearney than I was previously,but still, too late to be working on stuff :P

Ron DMC · 05-12-2006 10:40am

Bh, it's early and I want some smoothie, but zumo is sooooo far away.

Nietzschean · 05-12-2006 11:03am

bah bb at home cut off, replacement not installed yet

, could be weeks without internet...

Stargal · 05-12-2006 3:57pm

Didn't get to sleep til 4 this morning and now I'm tired and contrary.

Stargal · 05-12-2006 6:01pm

Why is this forum so quiet today? I need something to distract me from the hell of my own making that is correcting assignments. Come on, someone say something. Anything.

John · 05-12-2006 7:10pm

stargal wrote:

Hmm, maybe. Do you have strong views on whether kids should be given ASBOs? Are you currently the Children's Ombudsman by any chance?

Yes to both questions.

coffee_cake · 05-12-2006 7:24pm

stargal wrote:

Why is this forum so quiet today? I need something to distract me from the hell of my own making that is correcting assignments. Come on, someone say something. Anything.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/CrovaxXI/picard.png

Edwardius · 05-12-2006 7:38pm

stargal wrote:

Why is this forum so quiet today? I need something to distract me from the hell of my own making that is correcting assignments. Come on, someone say something. Anything.

Errrrrr. Find a hobby? For correcting assignments, stand atop a staircase and chuck them all down to t'bottom. The ones that land first fail. Then go spend the time you've saved somewhere outside the walls of Trinity state penitentiary. A public house of some description for example, or some sort of retail outlet. I hear there are some of the latter in the locality but cannot confirm this.

Ronan, tell the lady where she can shop for shoes.

Pet · 06-12-2006 2:54am

Ohmygod shoes.

(No really, that's where I get mine.)

Stargal · 06-12-2006 3:30am

bluewolf wrote:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f52/CrovaxXI/picard.png

That's deadly! I'll add that to my Patrick Stewart album on my Bebo page.

Wow.

I need to get off the internet.

Pet wrote:

Ohmygod shoes. (No really, that's where I get mine.)

Thanks

Newb · 06-12-2006 3:54am

Do you think that's bad? I know what episode it is from.

Nietzschean · 06-12-2006 9:20am

so do i

*smells the nerd*

coffee_cake · 06-12-2006 10:24am

It's been too long since I saw tng, what episode is it from?

Newb · 06-12-2006 2:34pm

This episode:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/M%C3%A9nage_%C3%A0_Troi

Stargal · 07-12-2006 12:43am

GROARGH!

This is a long shot but: I'm trying to record my voice onto mini-disc, using a microphone. However when I play it back, it's very low and I can barely hear it. The mic is fine, so it must be a problem with the mini-disc. Does anyone know how to turn this volume up?

And please don't just tell me to actually push the button that increases the volume. Because I've tried that. Plus I'm so cranky at that stage that I might come out of your computer screen and hit you for suggesting it. So you have been warned.

And I've posted this in the Portable Media Player thread too. But just thought you lot might be vaguely useful

07-12-2006 1:07am

I tried that a long time ago.. and then gave up. The original levels from the mic are way too low

It will work if you can run the mike through a board of some sort.. I don't know what you have to hand but any A/V techie should be able to help..

Failing that.. record it on to your PC using some software that will boost the levels, and then transfer it to MD

Pet · 07-12-2006 1:11am

What kind of MD player is it? Usually there's an option to increase the recording volume too, well there was on my old Sony one.

Stargal · 07-12-2006 1:19am

/tenatively
I think I've fixed it

I did what you suggested Pet, and upped the volume that it was recording at, by reading the manual. It didn't seem to make that much difference in my headphones.

However - when I did what original_psycho mentioned and played it through my software (Audacity. It's brilliant) then it sounded fine.

I'll check that I can burn it onto a CD ok, and then I'll know it's working perfectly. Wow. Can't believe I was able to fix this. That's pretty cool.

/slaps self on back, since there's no-one else around who appreciates the awesomeness of the achievement

Crash · 07-12-2006 1:39am

audacity rocks. so very much.

Stargal · 07-12-2006 1:45am

Yeah it's really excellent. It's so straightforward to use.

We'd been using Pro-Tools in college, and it was ok, but just a bit messy.

Stargal · 07-12-2006 2:06am

Argh, seems I didn't fix it after all.

When I played the recording back again (in Audacity) there was loads of white noise and it sounded all fuzzy.

I'm so blue

Pet · 07-12-2006 3:59am

365online tells me that I'm in the red again. €100 overdrawn on the bank account, and €400 on the credit card.

Feck.

07-12-2006 9:42am

Stargal - reduce the recording level on the MD to between half and three quarters.

Then boost it with Audacity.

Time Magazine · 07-12-2006 11:48am

stargal wrote:

I'm so blue

But are you daba dee daba dah?

Awayindahils · 07-12-2006 12:43pm

It's raining, and I'm in house 6 and I need to go to the library and its RAINING!!! And I havn't got a coat or an umbrella!! AND ITS RAINING!!

ApeXaviour · 07-12-2006 2:22pm

I get a call yesterday from my supervisor:

"Declan, there has been a complaint made about you"
"Oh?"
"Yes the cleaning service in the guesthouse say your room is too untidy to clean."
Of course he being danish (meaning he's fond of being detailed) then goes on to suggest how I can acquire a bag and use it to put my dirty laundry in so that it's not kept on the floor.

Okay the latter I can forgive, it's their way. But the former? That whore of a cleaning lady complains to my fuhcking supervisor that my room, my room is too messy! I thought I kept it quite clean tbh. What they mean by "it's too untidy to clean" is that there's a couple of socks on the floor she doesn't want to move out of the way so she can vacuum. I didn't even know they vacuumed the bloody rooms! But ffs, just leave a note, hello? adult here? I'm in my mid fucking 20's! My supervisor has nothing to do with my room. Completely out of order, ridiculous.

Agent Smith · 07-12-2006 2:22pm

SU Shop sells them for a fiver, well they did 2 weeks ago

Edwardius · 07-12-2006 2:42pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

I get a call yesterday from my supervisor:

"Declan, there has been a complaint made about you"
"Oh?"
"Yes the cleaning service in the guesthouse say your room is too untidy to clean."
Of course he being danish (meaning he's fond of being detailed) then goes on to suggest how I can acquire a bag and use it to put my dirty laundry in so that it's not kept on the floor.

Okay the latter I can forgive, it's their way. But the former? That whore of a cleaning lady complains to my fuhcking supervisor that my room, my room is too messy! I thought I kept it quite clean tbh. What they mean by "it's too untidy to clean" is that there's a couple of socks on the floor she doesn't want to move out of the way so she can vacuum. I didn't even know they vacuumed the bloody rooms! But ffs, just leave a note, hello? adult here? I'm in my mid fucking 20's! My supervisor has nothing to do with my room. Completely out of order, ridiculous.

Cut her.

Crash · 07-12-2006 2:45pm

Sell her to slavery.

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