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revjack

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Dec 7, 2003, 11:50:40 PM12/7/03
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There's this thing I want to do in Photoshop, can I do it?

Let's say I have an image. It's a simple image, like from a
comic, probably only 8 colors in it. The shapes in it are
clearly defined. But, it's just a GIF, or a bitmap. What I
want to do it turn the shapes therein into, like, "objects"
or something. So that, when I enlarge it greatly or besmall
it minutely, Photoshop will render it really well, instead
of just making huge blocky squares (enlarging) or a fuzzy
little bugsplat (besmalling).

I have no IDEA if you can do this with Photoshop, so maybe
the answer is, "GET A ILLUSTRATOR". But I think I read
somewhere where you can use the pen tool and make paths, or
something, and then you can fill these closed paths with
primary colors and such, and always have the green triangle
in front of the blue square &c.

If it's a Pen Tool thing and I need to hunker down and do
lots of painfully detailed clicking to define the shapes,
and move those shapes to separate layers, that's not a
problem. That's sort of the imaginary process I have in
mind.

Is this a Photoshop question?

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Shiro Akaishi

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Dec 8, 2003, 1:52:34 AM12/8/03
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revjack <rev...@revjack.net> wrote in news:br0vv0$1jv$2...@news1.radix.net:

> If it's a Pen Tool thing and I need to hunker down and do
> lots of painfully detailed clicking to define the shapes,
> and move those shapes to separate layers, that's not a
> problem. That's sort of the imaginary process I have in
> mind.
>
> Is this a Photoshop question?

well, if you want "close enough", you can select -> color range and then
convert the selection outline into a path (one of the buttons at the
bottom of the path panel) and then do your resizing shinnanigans, and
fill the path with your color. you'd be doing this using a different
layer for each color. Huzzah! Aside from that I'd say you'll need to do
hours of painfully detailed clicking to define the shapes.

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TimC

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Dec 8, 2003, 3:05:37 AM12/8/03
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revjack (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

> I have no IDEA if you can do this with Photoshop, so maybe
> the answer is, "GET A ILLUSTRATOR". But I think I read
> somewhere where you can use the pen tool and make paths, or
> something, and then you can fill these closed paths with
> primary colors and such, and always have the green triangle
> in front of the blue square &c.

GET A GIMP.


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just ask Microsoft to write the OS. -- POTU in RHOD

Talysman the Ur-Beatle

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Dec 8, 2003, 8:52:21 PM12/8/03
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TimC <tcon...@no.astro.spam.swin.accepted.edu.here.au> wrote in news:slrn-
0.9.7.4-27552-146...@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au:

> revjack (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> I have no IDEA if you can do this with Photoshop, so maybe
>> the answer is, "GET A ILLUSTRATOR". But I think I read
>> somewhere where you can use the pen tool and make paths, or
>> something, and then you can fill these closed paths with
>> primary colors and such, and always have the green triangle
>> in front of the blue square &c.
>
> GET A GIMP.

um, as far as I know, the GIMP does not handle scalable vector graphics in
any way, shape, or form.

I don't know much about scalable vector graphics and really don't mess with
them at all, but I eventually learned that ( Photoshop | GIMP ) = raster,
Illustrator = vector. Revjack wants something scalable.

supposedly, there's an Illustrator-like tool in the latest OpenOffice.org,
but I haven't tried it out yet.

--
Talysman the Ur-Beatle, STRAWGRASPER

Bryce Utting

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Dec 11, 2003, 3:37:55 AM12/11/03
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ras2 <remov...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> THIS is a real question:
>
> You have one (1) ext2 (exttwo) partition on /dev/hdb and the system
> starts to dislike this particular partition while the others on hdb
> (both ext2 and FAT32) seem to be okay. First the error makes e2fsck
> segfault, but you can read and write from the partition well enough
> anyway, and then the system starts claiming that fsck is too old
> for the version of ext2 on the partition (which is completely
> impossible) and won't even let you mount it anymore.
>
> YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS TO SAVE YOUR PR0^WFILES. WHAT DO YOU DO?

fffttttt.

okay, so, IBM starts panicking once tape drive is added to SCSI chain.
tape drive is removed from SCSI chain. IBM keeps panicking. reseat
memory, IBM happy for ten minutes, then goes back to panicking. FS
reads POST error, replaces motherboard. replacement FS rereads POST
error (which he charmingly keeps referring to as "hard-on" error) and
replaces PCI extender with SCSI adapter. with a PCI extender without
SCSI adapter. whooops he'll be back again, okay, much better.

IBM seems happy, tape drive is reintroduced to SCSI chain. no panics.
dumping to tape panics IBM. um. FS skeptical. call in replacement
HD, perform a partial install on replacement HD. dumping to tape
panics IBM. um. running overnight also panics IBM, even when not
using tape. locate SuSE to try out approved OS install on replacement
HD with no other devices on chain. installation fails, such that
failures can be reproduced. call in replacement SCSI cable and
terminator from third party. IBM writes to tape okay. add extra
drives to chain. IBM panics. add extra SCSI adapter so tape drive
can be on entirely separate SCSI chain, IBM refuses to boot. remove
extra adapter, remove tape drive, remove spare drives, wait to see if
IBM will panic again. and wait.

annual performance review is tomorrow.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

*ker-chhhk*

WHAT DO YOU DO?


butting

Matt McIrvin

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Dec 11, 2003, 8:53:06 PM12/11/03
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In article <Xns944BB5CE5949Fta...@64.164.98.51>,

"Talysman the Ur-Beatle" <taly...@globalsurrealism.com> wrote:

> TimC <tcon...@no.astro.spam.swin.accepted.edu.here.au> wrote in news:slrn-
> 0.9.7.4-27552-146...@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au:
>
> > revjack (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> >> I have no IDEA if you can do this with Photoshop, so maybe
> >> the answer is, "GET A ILLUSTRATOR". But I think I read
> >> somewhere where you can use the pen tool and make paths, or
> >> something, and then you can fill these closed paths with
> >> primary colors and such, and always have the green triangle
> >> in front of the blue square &c.
> >
> > GET A GIMP.
>
> um, as far as I know, the GIMP does not handle scalable vector graphics in
> any way, shape, or form.

What he wants is some sort of autotracer.

There is an open-source thing called Autotrace:

http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

I haven't tried it and don't know how well it works or much of anything
about it.

--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/

revjack

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Dec 12, 2003, 10:05:57 AM12/12/03
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Matt McIrvin <mmci...@world.std.com> wrote:

: What he wants is some sort of autotracer.

Hey, look! I'm in Matt McIrvine's killfile!


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Bryce Utting

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Jan 5, 2004, 6:15:40 AM1/5/04
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so, like, last year, I was all like "IBM blah blah SCSI blah blah",
and ras2 <remov...@gmx.net> was all like:

>> WHAT DO YOU DO?
>>
>> *ker-chhhk*
>>
>> WHAT DO YOU DO?
>
> Head for the nearest clocktower?

oh Kibology, which encompasses all that in this world that is wise in
the way of dealing with bozos, yea, e'en unto that of Blue Suited
Vendors and e'en furthermore unto the Abomination That Shall Be Nam'd
Not But That Comes From Redmond, And Let That Be Warning Enough To You
It's More Than We Got, I have a question.

we have a new server, an HP (ackSPTTTT my sons and daughters, though
my Ancient and Antique 9000/3x0's and 4x0's still run happily enough),
and on this HP the Sony DDS4 and the OS Of Choosing (OpenBSD) look on
each other with favour, though that is not my question.

the old server is still on the network, and has recorded an uptime of
12 days now, apparently since it only fails when doing work and not,
eg., sitting on its arse blinking at PC Doctor and wondering What The
Hell The Pointe May Be, let alone being left to its own fiendish
devices with most of its mountpoints missing and its crontabs severely
depleted, though here neither have we found my question.

search parties have been dispatched to locate the Field Circus droid
who was supposed to brave last year the hazardous journey from the
busyness-plagued streets of Auckland to the gently lunatic streets of
Outer Pukekohe, but neither is that the question, though the manner of
his dispatch is one I may be tempted to inquire into.

I summoned and bent to my will plastics, and metals, and wires, and
electrons, and telecommunications networks held together with string,
and also a Greate Walle of Bogon Protection, and through their
ministrations call'd forth a voice of great cluelessness from a
Regional, or possibly Accounts, Manager, who'd call'd forth voices
from Austria, who'd in turn call'd forth voices from Merkistan, who'd
in turn call'd forth voices from a Portaloo.

and these voices, through the mouth of said Manager, who was forc'd to
quickly admit that his knowledge of aforementioned Abomination of
Redmond is scant and that the Mysteries, and even the very Name, of
the IBM-approv'd distribution of Linux are not e'en known to him, said
and spoke forth that It's A Software Problem and that I Should Be
Using The Effluence Of The Aforementioned Abomination and that The
Operating System Is All My Fault (But I Won't Tell Theo). and also
that a Return Authorisation is Out Of The Question and that the +3
Scroll of Warranty we purchased at dear cost of coin and blood is good
for Repairs and for Support and also for Wiping Of Bottoms but is Not
good for Returning Goods Not Fit For Catching The Vomit Of Drunken
Support Pixies From Pluto.

and yea, said Manager, with or without the Support and Encouragement
of his Voices, will brave the hazards of the earlier-referenced
Journey and will pay a Personal Visit tomorrow to explain this, by
which time I will like as not have Attended at the local Courthouse
and Procured Forms for the Tribunal of Disputes and Gladiatorial
Challenges, and maybe even have filled them out, and here, after a
struggle that is but scant compared to the Trials of the past few
months, do we approach my Question, seeing as I will be dealing with a
Bozo whose Bozocity has collapsed in on itself and will likely be
accompanied with a faint blue glow around its event horizon.

dear Kibologists:

do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?


butting

Fantod

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Jan 5, 2004, 9:13:29 AM1/5/04
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[Bryce Utting]:

> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?

I refer you to a scene from "Highlander 2: The Sickening": pick him up by the
nuts, then throw him out the window. It's win-win!

If he is wearing a suit costing at least $1000 and can not identify the
simplest bit of technology, you may wish to throw him into the parking lot so
you can run over him a few times afterward.

--
Patrick Phelan
w____\\W//___w Te Hupenui
U.S. Army: 1 Lion-Bodied Syrup Producers: 0

Kevin S. Wilson

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Jan 5, 2004, 3:24:37 PM1/5/04
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
<but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?

Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?"

Jeremy D. Impson

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Jan 5, 2004, 3:42:16 PM1/5/04
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Yes.

--Jeremy

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jdimpson can be contacted at acm dot org
http://impson.tzo.com/~jdimpson

clan...@nf.sympatico.ca

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Jan 5, 2004, 3:55:13 PM1/5/04
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"Kevin S. Wilson" <res...@spro.net> wrote in message
news:huhjvv4f5jtin8v67...@4ax.com...


> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
> <but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>
> Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
> there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.
>

Whaddya mean detesticulation isn't in Webster's?

--
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WalMARK - Always low standards. Always.
Then -- hey, wait, Mark, you're not Paula - Kibo

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B. Chas Parisher

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Jan 5, 2004, 4:09:38 PM1/5/04
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On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:24:37 -0700, Kevin S Wilson was all like:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
><but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
> Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
> there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.

Yeah, well, there ought to be. Like "violent genital displacement" or
"sodomizing you with my knee" or "depenistration" or some such.

"Rape prevention tactic #37"
"Goosetrated"
"Made him show me his Ow face"
"Disengendered"
"rang his bell"
"temporary dismemberment"

The possibilities are endless.

--B. Chas "crossing my legs at the moment" Parisher

Bryce Utting

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Jan 5, 2004, 4:32:01 PM1/5/04
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Kevin S Wilson <res...@spro.net> wrote:
> Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
> there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.

for a LONG long time I used "Defenestrative Solutions" as an
Organization line. 'cos, y'know, defenestration IS a solution.

I wish I'd been exaggerating, but no: he's so unfamiliar with Linux I
doubt he's ever touched a machine running it. he hadn't even -heard-
of SuSE, never mind that it's the IBM-approved distribution for these
models. the SuSE installation failures could be reproduced
repeatedly, and gave different (but repeatable) failures for each
hardware configuration, OpenBSD crashed whenever SCSI activity peaked,
and Listens To Voices -insists- it's a software problem, and that
three? four? months of FIX THIS BLOODY BUSINESS-CRITICAL MACHINE
***NOW*** should go on indefinitely.

this sez to me, "time to scrub the HD and crate the machine up in the
original packaging, and mysteriously run out of monitors, ready for
the next time field service pay a visit."

sigh. kicking him in the nuts, throwing him out the window and then
running over him will all involve doing distasteful things to my
boots, my hands, and my car tyres. or alternately my butt and my
easy-listening-averse ears if I use his car for Stage Three (profit!).
(unless I lift it up with the forklift and drop it on him?)

'k, I'm off to court...


butting (has a bazooka parked outside the back door. has a bazooka
parked outside the back door. has a bazooka parked outside
the back door. has a bazooka parked outside the back door.
argh, shut UP brane, I'm trying to THINK.)

David DeLaney

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Jan 5, 2004, 8:42:05 PM1/5/04
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Bryce Utting <but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>oh Kibology, which encompasses all that in this world that is wise in
>the way of dealing with bozos, yea, e'en unto that of Blue Suited
>Vendors and e'en furthermore unto the Abomination That Shall Be Nam'd
>Not But That Comes From Redmond, And Let That Be Warning Enough To You
>It's More Than We Got, I have a question.

{snip many experiences with OSen and managerial-icks that are not the question}

>dear Kibologists:
> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?

Both. Make sure you kick him in the nuts _before_ defenestrating him, as
once he hits it's sort of pointless to kick him in the nuts afterwards.

Dave
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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David DeLaney

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Jan 5, 2004, 8:43:07 PM1/5/04
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B. Chas Parisher <ba...@peaksleazy.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:24:37 -0700, Kevin S Wilson was all like:
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
>><but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>> Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
>> there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.
>
>Yeah, well, there ought to be. Like "violent genital displacement" or
>"sodomizing you with my knee" or "depenistration" or some such.

But B., there already is - what do you think our dear Lisa was -referring-
to when she was kissing us with her foot, anyway?

>The possibilities are endless.
>
>--B. Chas "crossing my legs at the moment" Parisher

Dave "but the elegant solution is HERE" DeLaney

B. Chas Parisher

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On 5 Jan 2004 20:43:07 -0500, David DeLaney was all like:

> B. Chas Parisher <ba...@peaksleazy.org> wrote:
>>Yeah, well, there ought to be. Like "violent genital displacement" or
>>"sodomizing you with my knee" or "depenistration" or some such.
> But B., there already is - what do you think our dear Lisa was -referring-
> to when she was kissing us with her foot, anyway?

Oh. And here I was just assuming it Lisa Pea was all foot to ass, as it
were. Or some sort of stomping foot fetish porn involving mice. But,
now that I know the truth, it makes me miss Lisa Pea all the more.

Please come back LIS AREA! ALL IS FORGIVEN!

--B. Chas Parisher

James Vandenberg

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Jan 5, 2004, 9:45:57 PM1/5/04
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Bryce Utting <but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?

Kick him in the nuts, THEN throw him out the window, THEN set him on fire.
Getting the order wrong on this one can cause problems.

Ja-optional:-insulting-his-momma-mes
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S.J. Klein

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Jan 5, 2004, 10:42:49 PM1/5/04
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>The possibilities are endless.

The Wife[tm] also suggests "testecompressed"

You welcome.

>--B. Chas "crossing my legs at the moment" Parisher

Sam Klein (I'm DERE with you bruddah!)at ea...@aiyiyi.rdrop.com

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James Vandenberg

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Jan 5, 2004, 11:15:54 PM1/5/04
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clan...@nf.sympatico.ca wrote:


> "Kevin S. Wilson" <res...@spro.net> wrote in message
> news:huhjvv4f5jtin8v67...@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
>> <but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> > do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>>
>> Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
>> there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.
>>
> Whaddya mean detesticulation isn't in Webster's?

Castration is.

Ja-bloodless-emasculation-mes

David DeLaney

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Jan 6, 2004, 2:56:49 AM1/6/04
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James Vandenberg <ja...@vandenberg.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>Bryce Utting <but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>
>Kick him in the nuts, THEN throw him out the window, THEN set him on fire.

But... what about the -clown-?

>Getting the order wrong on this one can cause problems.

I can quite understand that, plus it might turn one into a Hun.

>Ja-optional:-insulting-his-momma-mes

Dave "please be sure to use strict in your dozens" DeLaney

Bryce Utting

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Jan 6, 2004, 7:49:08 AM1/6/04
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David DeLaney <d...@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote:
>>dear Kibologists:
>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>
> Both. Make sure you kick him in the nuts _before_ defenestrating him, as
> once he hits it's sort of pointless to kick him in the nuts afterwards.

SUMMARAH:

(I hope I've counted right)

nuts: 2.
window: 1.
both: 3.
both + supraelastistration: 1.
both + ON FIRE (woot!): 1.

sad to say, I wimped out. sort of. he explained that their policy is
never to issue refunds. I explained that I don't give a damn about
their internal beauracracies and the trouble they cause him. he
explained that he's already opened a complaint for the complaints
people to look at. I explained that I have no desire to open further
dialogues with yet another I-forget-what-I-called-them. he agreed
that he'll make a recommendation to them and that no-one will disturb
me further. I agreed that this would be a good thing, as long as it
resulted in the only outcome I've described as acceptable. he
explained that his recommendation will probably be considered in the
light of the policy he'd been wittering on about. I explained that I
really didn't give a damn. he explained that he's entirely
sympathetic. I explained that I'd stopped off at the District Court
and picked up papers that are even more sympathetic. he explained
that he'll really, really, really get a hard time from Austria if he
can't get absolutely every effort made to test the crap out of their
piece of crap. I explained that they've already done that. he
explained that please, please, please, *please* could he send FS out
again?

I figured that reducing him to begging was at the very least a draw,
and offers some intriguing possibilities for future negotiations, and
besides, how could I kick him in the nuts if I wasn't sure he had any?

the IBM's now in pieces, with the HD going through an erase routine in
our new server as I type. this presents a slight problem for
tomorrow, granted, but as the FS due in the morning is supposed to be
bringing an entire system with him I think he'll get by without. he's
the one who was supposed to be in with the same replacement machine
back before Christmas, so I left a note (and some SuSE CDs).

: I should be in around noon.
:
: I'm also curious as to what happened on the 17th.
:
: I'd like to gently suggest that those last two sentences mean
: exactly the same thing.

I also left my number, but I'm sure I can't imagine him calling it.

(also, it's 25 deg C plus outside. I asked the office admins to crank
up the aircon in the room he'll be working in to 35 or 40, but I think
they'll wimp out.)

further on the bazooka: the first thing you see entering my office is
a couple of square metres of 4pt Samba logs, the leavings of trying to
track down a problem that turned out to have been caused by our late
electrician. no, tell a lie, it was the "our software doesn't do ANY
heavy network access while inactive... oh, you mean THAT busy wait on
a network file?" episode. whee. it only dawned on me tonight
(wondering just why dd was taking so damn long) that figuring out some
sort of wall mount above this for Baldrick (my bazooka) would add some
*definite* character to the room. I'll have to take him in tomorrow
and see what I can rig up.


and on that note I am going to BED.


butting

clan...@nf.sympatico.ca

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"B. Chas Parisher" <ba...@peaksleazy.org> wrote in message
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There are pills for that sort of thing.

Joseph B. W. Shane

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Jeremy D. Impson warned my cuckolds by tyoping:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Bryce Utting wrote:

<snip>


>>dear Kibologists:
>>
>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> --Jeremy
>

But only if they are 1/4-inch #6 hex and an X- respectively.

--
JBW Shane
Superman merely shortened a war
that would have been lost
without Bugs Bunny.

Joseph B. W. Shane

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Jan 7, 2004, 1:49:32 AM1/7/04
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clan...@nf.sympatico.ca wrote:

> "Kevin S. Wilson" <res...@spro.net> wrote in message
> news:huhjvv4f5jtin8v67...@4ax.com...
>
>>On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
>><but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>>
>>Throw him out the window, because "defenestration" is a cool word and
>>there isn't a corresponding counterpart for kicking in the nuts.
>>
>
> Whaddya mean detesticulation isn't in Webster's?

Are you suggesting that
Merriam took it on the chin?

Joseph B. W. Shane

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Jan 7, 2004, 1:59:33 AM1/7/04
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B. Chas Parisher wrote:

Or one might simply bob it.

Paula

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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:37:55 +0000 (UTC), Bryce Utting
<but...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

>
>okay, so, IBM starts panicking once tape drive is added to SCSI chain.
>tape drive is removed from SCSI chain. IBM keeps panicking. reseat
>memory, IBM happy for ten minutes, then goes back to panicking. FS
>reads POST error, replaces motherboard. replacement FS rereads POST
>error (which he charmingly keeps referring to as "hard-on" error) and
>replaces PCI extender with SCSI adapter. with a PCI extender without
>SCSI adapter. whooops he'll be back again, okay, much better.
>
>IBM seems happy, tape drive is reintroduced to SCSI chain. no panics.
>dumping to tape panics IBM. um. FS skeptical. call in replacement
>HD, perform a partial install on replacement HD. dumping to tape
>panics IBM. um. running overnight also panics IBM, even when not
>using tape. locate SuSE to try out approved OS install on replacement
>HD with no other devices on chain. installation fails, such that
>failures can be reproduced. call in replacement SCSI cable and
>terminator from third party. IBM writes to tape okay. add extra
>drives to chain. IBM panics. add extra SCSI adapter so tape drive
>can be on entirely separate SCSI chain, IBM refuses to boot. remove
>extra adapter, remove tape drive, remove spare drives, wait to see if
>IBM will panic again. and wait.
>
>annual performance review is tomorrow.
>
>WHAT DO YOU DO?

You grab the man who wrote this stuff and plant a wet one right on his
lips. At least that's what you do if you are turned on by techie
talk.


--
Paula
"The last thing you want to do when you have put your spleen back in your body is to scrabble around for the sewing kit" --- Zixia

JBW SHANE

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Jan 7, 2004, 10:13:50 AM1/7/04
to
butting savagely (by usually polite kiwi standards) menaced me by tyoping:

>you write:
>
>
>>>> do I kick him in the nuts, or throw him out the window?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>

>>But only if they are 1/4-inch #6 hex and an X- respectively.
>>
>>
>

>X? on a SERVER?
>
>don't make me practice on YOU, now.
>
>
>yeesh.
>
>
>cheersua,
>butting
>
>
ouch!
I've been gnome to fake that, miss kate,
and according to my careful prosthesis,
I have managed to
stretch the truth,
strain for a joke,
confabulate an obfuscation
and repeat.

JBW SHANE

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Jan 7, 2004, 10:23:39 AM1/7/04
to
my rhymes sound ridiklus
but i ain't that metiklus

Oh, and btw, *I* ate somebody's last Hot Pockets (tm),
and now I'm going to sue them for burning off my last taste bud.

Joseph B. W. Shane

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Jan 7, 2004, 1:02:46 PM1/7/04
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JBW SHANE wrote:

> butting savagely (by usually polite kiwi standards) menaced me by tyoping:
>
>> you write:
>>
>>

<snip>

>> don't make me practice on YOU, now.
>>

<snip>
No, not *now*.
I have a headache.
And, besides, I'm not one of your inflatable friends.
But I *could* be,
if you have the appropriate expansion packs.

--
JBW Shane (or someone curiously similar) and his Shadow

Bryce Utting

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Jan 9, 2004, 4:45:59 AM1/9/04
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Paula <mmmtob...@earthlink.ent> wrote:
>>remove
>>extra adapter, remove tape drive, remove spare drives, wait to see if
>>IBM will panic again. and wait.
>>
>>annual performance review is tomorrow.
>>
>>WHAT DO YOU DO?
>
> You grab the man who wrote this stuff and plant a wet one right on his
> lips. At least that's what you do if you are turned on by techie
> talk.

[note to self: subject seems curiously unaffected by mention of
"hard-on error." should consider deviously convincing Austrians
that this phrase is a guaranteed pick-up line, and monitor
population statistics for a sudden drop-off.]

eeeeeeek!

[zoyd] butting$ fl1rt
sysadmin fl1rting questionnaire. select from following options:

a. fl1rt back with suave mention of machine room's mood lighting and
regular Barry White/Van Morrison/Chris Rea soundtrack;

b. fl1rt back with boasts of being able to burp the entire Purity
Test;

c. post memo written t'other day to scare staff out of doing dumb
things like giving email addresses to spammers;

d. fall over in a dead faint;

e. sit outside in the evening sun reading massive tome of geek
literature;

f. manually sort spam.

enter selection:
> a
fl1rt: hardware unsupported.
> a
fl1rt: hardware unsupported.
> a
fl1rt: hardware unsupported, you BOZO!
> b
fl1rt: HAW HAW YOU LOSE!!!1!
fl1rt: "Hallie J. Decker =?iso-8859-1?b?aGk=?=<<<P><FONT SIZE=2>Sometimes
fl1rt: spam (yes/no)?
> yes
fl1rt: iz9e1c6f sublime GET FREE MONEY FROM THE USA ... .. lckdfsglir6159
fl1rt: spam (yes/no)?
> yes
fl1rt: Trilogy Capital P A Message From Leigh Lombardi<<------=_Part_86217
fl1rt: spam (yes/no)?
> *sigh*
fl1rt: spam (yes/no)?
> yes


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