Memphis_Bill

Dear Human resources
CC: Facilities
Re: Keeping facilities beautiful

It seems in the prior memo, there's some implication that we are being negligent or don't care about the look of the buildings we worked so hard to steal.

If I may point your attention to the scorch marks on the third floor East hallway. Those were Bob, Janet, and Ash. (Yes, we've heard the joke.) Janet, in fact, was attempting to pick up a water cooler that arrived at high velocity during break at the time - you may notice the dent in the wall at about six feet, three inches. At least she's short.

Speaking of dents, we need to order more plaster, or drywall, or... something by meeting room C. While we encourage our sales staff to make a great impression on our customers, the resulting impressions OF our customers (and sales staff) in the wall as of last Friday's incident is less beneficial to the bottom line.

Plus it jammed the door to the bathroom shut. I think I've heard knocking since the weekend.

Thank you for your attention to these matters.

Looks more like the angle. After all, it's a shot straight up, and she seems to have no belief in support... And honestly, we have parts *far* worse than that, from the duct-tape straps to Eden and other "How is that stayong on again?" tops.

Modify the "Belly tee" piece to take (or have) a pattern and give another sleeve option, and I think you'd have that top.

13b is the "Mildly explosive childproofing supply and paperclip storage" adjunct just inside Neutropolis. You may be thinking of 16d, opened in Hokkaido two months ago for research into the effects of radiation on native lizard and amphibian life. (The executives were really talking it up. It seems like a fairly safe research subject with great potential. Besides, what can go wrong in Japan? It's pure profit. Even if the medical research doesn't pan out, they'll buy *anything* in a vending machine.)

Recently, we've seen a few people encased in ice. Should these be added to the list, or are they part of the fire prevention team undergoing training?
Also, one individual was seen with what appeared to be a rainbow circling them. We'd assumed at the time they were part of one of the manager's retirement parties. Should this assumption not be made?
What about pets? Is one OK? We have seen people coming in with five or more - and given the size of one of the dogs seen at the time, it seemed better to let them through.
Followup to that last one - who do we contact for bee removal?

/this.

The list needs an overhaul, yes.
- Redo the "Top 100 SGs" so it's specifically saying "Highest prestige," as opposed to suggesting it's some actual measure of quality.
- Have a button to contact whoever has the "red star."
- Have more descriptors and filters that the SG can set (RP/Heavy RP/PVP/private/themed/etc.)
- "Last active" - if you see one that looks good but has had no activity since 2006, you know you can skip it.

That listing is generally pretty useless as it sits.

Nice. Yeah, it's pretty much "if you have Aion or Lineage," missed if you mentioned running Aion earlier. COH, Guild Wars... no issue. Just don't want people thinking it's installed by default no matter what.

(And I keep considering going back to aion every once in a while... doesn't last. Most recently, it was doing the "I refuse to start" bit, and for a game I haven't been in since the first year, other than to take a quick peek, I didn't feel like messing with it. I kind of like the "Fragment of memory" storyline, at least what I've seen of it, though.)

I'm not particularly fond of an 'asymmetrical' corner desk... there was one I used to have (one of the knock-together... don't think it was Sauder, but same sort of thing) that I loved. With hutch. I still see them occasionally, but they wouldn't fit a widescreen monitor (well, not without shoving it WAY back,) much less two.

Kinda sorta this, but not exactly:


And I use top/side storage space too much to go hutchless (Either that or I'm going to need to throw shelves on and cobble something together.)

I'm thinking once I move/settle in, I'm going to just have to come up with and build my own desk, unless someone knows of a dual-widescreen-friendly desk like that. Don't mind having a fair bit of space to the sides. Prefer it actually.

(Oh, and /thumbsup on the G15. Still have mine... though I'm using a G110 ATM. No LCD, one row fewer keys, but it works for me. Tis skinnier.)

Oh, with a grav dom it'll be very easy to say. Go to, say, Perez Park - somewhere with a nice, big mass of enemies. Summon singularity. Hit phase shift. Run to the other side of a pack of skulls or hellions.

Singularity *should* knock them around with repel. Instead, you'll see a lot of "Unaffected" pop over their heads until PS wears off.

Again, though, this is *phase* shift we're talking about, not *dimension* shift.

You can also take a mastermind (if you have one high enough) and just do a patrol in Warburg. It'll award you Hyper Phase - which is just a temp Phase Shift. It does the same thing - run into a group the pets should attack. They'll attack. And nothing will be affected until it wears off.

If you have it (which, if you're just running COH, you probably don't,) Control panel - add/remove programs (or programs and features.)

However, this should have nothing to do with that.

Heh..... yeah...

And I remember how well THAT went over for Alpha. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. But I'm sure they know that by now.

I see two things that make me happy:
1. "End of Praetorian arc."
2. Free costumes.

... so make something you'd enjoy and run it?

WAY back (as in pre-beta) origin had an effect. (There was also a larger set of origins.) It would affect how many powers you could select, and how far they could be developed.

That system was scrapped.

Origin, now, is really more for flavor. The only things it affects right now:
- Origin temp power. Low damage, unenhanceable, really meant to give you something extra to use before level 10 (when it used to disappear) when you didn't have many powers. Slight differences between them, but really not worth mentioning.

- Some dialog choices/dialog results. (Not many, and none that affect how an arc plays out or what you do next.)

- Some other temporary powers - there are 1-2 that change depending on your origin. The Nemesis Staff and Blackwand (unenhanceable "vet reward" powers) will do extra damage depending on your origin.

- They USED to determine your starting contact before the Freedom launch on heroside (excluding Kheldians.) They no longer do. Unfortunately.

- And yes, they affect title choices.


So, pick whatever fits your character best, if you have a theme or backstory in mind for them. Otherwise, pick Magic. Solely for having your SOs show up at the top of the list in the "all origin" stores like the Vanguard quartermaster.

Do you have "Show processes from all users" checked? Not all csrss.exe will spawn this. It needs to be a process or program that requires some sort of console (which may not be visible to the person at the desktop.)

Easy way to have it show up - open a command prompt.

Edit: Link to a brief explanation.

If they have iTunes or some other apple product and iCloud got iNstalled, it's probably part of that. Not needed unless they're actually USING icloud. Right click - file location will probably show it in an Apple\Internet Services folder.

WinMsgBalloonClient seems to be tied to Comodo (not the antivirus product) and most commenly mentioned along with motherboard drivers and RaidXpert.

Conhost.exe is part of Windows. Usually tied to csrss.exe.

Dstnoted is part of Apple's services again. (Mobile Device or Application.)

Ah, ok. I see what you're saying - kind of the same suspicion I mentioned a few posts back. Anyway, fired off a note - we'll see what the word is.

Today's word: Tintinnabulation.

It's not Dimension Shift that's being looked at, though - which is still fairly rare. It's the self-phase powers, which *used* to let your pets keep doing what they were doing (without Supremacy, of course, in the case of a mastermind) and which are paired with travel powers in the case of Khelds (QFly and Nebulous form - which I do use fairly regularly.)

OK. It's probably GW I was thinking of from SSA#7. I don't think the cages affect your pets, then, simply from trying Personal Force Field on that Earth controller - that didn't affect anything. (I had the "only affecting self" idea as well while doing this.)