Happy Birthday, Mr. 9000, Password Restorer Extraordinaire

*throws 9000 cakes*

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Posted by Nicole

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I recommend 12/001, just in case we end up having a month with over 99 days.

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In that case, why not 012/001 if we get a year with more than 99 months?

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

There actually is something called a "Julian day", which is a simple count of the number of days since sometime in the 4000s BC. Maybe we should switch to those (not really)

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

I've occasionally seen wall switches that control the outlets in a given room rather than just the lights (my parents' house has a few). They aren't very common, though. Maybe Gywall's place has them.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Of course, the problem with those is, if something other than a lamp is plugged into it, you may spend a while wondering why it won't work. Happened to me at my parents'. Eventually I just taped the offending switch to the ON position. Hee hee.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Oh, you have them right at the switch? The ones I've seen have it at the entrance to the room. Making it even more baffling when something doesn't work because its switch is off.

Here (USA) there are 2 and 3 prong outlets. Some older places, like my old apartment building, only have 2-prong outlets, which is annoying when you need to plug in something with a 3-prong plug (like a computer).

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

All the power strips I've seen just have one switch for the entire strip.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

US power outlets look like this:



They're almost always in pairs like that, too. To me, European outlets look huge in comparison.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

I've done that, too. Nobody but me and my cats ever touches my computer (ok, Anya did once as a joke, posting at Kafuka as me) so I figure they're safe.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Seattle needs more trains. Instead, it's taking 8 years to dig like 3 miles of tunnel and build 2 stations. What, are they digging it one molecule at a time or something?

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Here's one with a ruler for comparison:



The first and third ones are the most common. The second and fourth apparently accept some weird kind of plug I have never seen.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

My connection's probably worse. There's about a 25-50% chance of a given page load timing out. Started a couple of weeks ago.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

There was an SMW-esque map of the real world...in the abomination known as "Mario is Missing".

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Yes.

And, as the AVGN said...it fooled people into thinking it was another awesome platformer, when it was really a lame edutainment game with completely invincible Luigi.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

I thought you meant masturbating.

Unlike some, I'm not afraid of using the word "masturbating"



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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Oh, I'm full of surprises. I just pretend to be boring and predictable so people don't die of shock

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

OK. *jumps out from behind a couch as Treeki walks by*

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

When the Taryn's away, the posters will spree...

I'm surprised I managed to rank, since I missed most of the activity when I went to work.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

The highest I got was "Wooster Syndrome ++++" in September 2009.

I do remember in the I1 era, Reinfors syndromes actually happened semi-frequently.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.

Near-record cold temperatures. They've been forecasting snow but we haven't got any yet.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.