Nathaniel(O'Niell) Bland:

I just made 25 cents off a vending machine!

I'm staying at this hotel tonight and I go down the hall to the vending machine to get a butterfinger. I wanted to use up my change and so I put in a dollar of dimes and nickels(The stupid thing would NOT take my pennies). I get my bar and head out, and as I walk by the soda machine I press the Dr. Pepper out of habit. As I start to walk away I hear it spit it out then go back to price display mode. SCORE! $1 spent $1.25 back!
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This is my 2nd full day with my brand new GeForce 250! It went from a 8500 to the GTS 250 last saturday! Man-o-man is life much better! I was getting 10FPS in BC2; really jerky too. Now I'm getting 30 or so with no drop when in the heat of battle or in smoke/explosions! I'm just imagining what I would get with better than a 2.2Ghz CPU and 2Gb of RAM. I have to get a completely new mobo though. Anyone remember a 939 socket?

Oh well, that'll come later. I'm trying to find a job so I ...

Ya, I know this is a highly controversial topic, but I'm gonna go here anyway.

Recently, there has been a explosion of discussion on using the C4/RDX/BOOM packages to destroy the M-COM boxes in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta. Some people think it's ok, others don't. Here's my PERSONAL opinion.

This is in NO WAY an official admin decision. This is ONLY my personal opinion.


First off, this is a destructible environment game! Using C4 to blow ...

I finished my final written exam for my OW SCUBA certification. Now on to the in-water(Confined water training) and OW check dives! I still need to buy a hood and maybe a new mask I found out. My current one has broke. ARGH!

I know it's Feb for some of the TG members, but here on the West Coast, it's still 9:11pm or so. It's the last day of Jan. The first month of 2010. What awaits us next month? For me it's a new video card. a GTS 250! I find that playing Bad Company 2 on an 8500 GT(The 1Gb version) just does not cut it! I play in windowed mode at 1024x768 and today I tried it(Just for kicks) at 800x600(Don't do it, it's tiny). I only have a 2.0Ghz Duel Core(OCed to 2.2Ghz. Every bit helps ) and 2Gb of RAM, but ...