Comments for HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic http://hijinksensue.com geek comic, geek webcomic, geek pop culture comic Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on We Are The 5% by fluffy776 http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45510 fluffy776 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:56:58 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45510 I spent high school without a mobile music player of any kind, so I improvised to get through a summer job working as the Key Grip on a movie set. I had one of those tape voice recorders and I would record songs off of my Pandora stream. And then use the voice recorder and a head phone jack to listen to music at work the next day. The quality sucked, and my music was filled with random IM sounds, but it was free dammit! It felt stupid not having an MP3 player for all of high school. Mostly because I had one when I was in elementary school. Having a brother who did dumpster diving over at the Diamond Multimedia plant was freakin' awesome. If replacing the battery didn't fix the problem from an MP3 player someone sent in they simply threw it out and sent them a brand new one. Most of the problems could be fixed by swapping the boards between units. Which meant I had an MP3 player back in 98. Even if it held 20 songs and ran off of a single AA. I spent high school without a mobile music player of any kind, so I improvised to get through a summer job working as the Key Grip on a movie set. I had one of those tape voice recorders and I would record songs off of my Pandora stream. And then use the voice recorder and a head phone jack to listen to music at work the next day. The quality sucked, and my music was filled with random IM sounds, but it was free dammit!

It felt stupid not having an MP3 player for all of high school. Mostly because I had one when I was in elementary school. Having a brother who did dumpster diving over at the Diamond Multimedia plant was freakin' awesome. If replacing the battery didn't fix the problem from an MP3 player someone sent in they simply threw it out and sent them a brand new one. Most of the problems could be fixed by swapping the boards between units. Which meant I had an MP3 player back in 98. Even if it held 20 songs and ran off of a single AA.

]]> Comment on The Welcome Wagon by fluffy776 http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/02/the-welcome-wagon/comment-page-1/#comment-45509 fluffy776 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:54 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2515#comment-45509 Wait, warm? Damn. My college just placed them in half the bathrooms and they do a crappy job of getting your hands dry, have no heat to the air, and keep me from having a way of opening the doors to the bathroom without having to actually touch the handle. Too many men don't wash their hands after the bathroom for my taste. So I can't bloody stand the things, even if their ecological impact is quite low. Wait, warm? Damn. My college just placed them in half the bathrooms and they do a crappy job of getting your hands dry, have no heat to the air, and keep me from having a way of opening the doors to the bathroom without having to actually touch the handle. Too many men don't wash their hands after the bathroom for my taste.
So I can't bloody stand the things, even if their ecological impact is quite low.

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by Hickkid1 http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45508 Hickkid1 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:17:25 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45508 Me and a friend in high school were tired of passing head phones back and forth when we had a song we wanted to share, so we took an old pair of headphones, stripped the actual headphones off and found a speaker we could insert the wires into. sucked the AA batteries in the cd player dry within minutes but it was cool to show off our makeshift radio at school. Me and a friend in high school were tired of passing head phones back and forth when we had a song we wanted to share, so we took an old pair of headphones, stripped the actual headphones off and found a speaker we could insert the wires into. sucked the AA batteries in the cd player dry within minutes but it was cool to show off our makeshift radio at school.

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by Akadias http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45507 Akadias Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:46 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45507 When I was in either late elementary school or maybe junior high--something like 20-25 years ago, I had two clock radios that didn't work. One the tuner didn't work. The other the power didn't work. I wrapped the antenna wire from one around the body of the other and used the radio that wasn't even plugged in to tune the one that was. I'm still not sure how the hell that worked and I have 2 engineering degrees now. I'm pretty sure it has to do with electricity and magnitism being basically the same thing and magnets working when they are near each other even if they don't touch. If anybody can duplicate that one I'd love to know I didn't just dream the whole thing up (pretty sure I didn't). When I was in either late elementary school or maybe junior high–something like 20-25 years ago, I had two clock radios that didn't work. One the tuner didn't work. The other the power didn't work. I wrapped the antenna wire from one around the body of the other and used the radio that wasn't even plugged in to tune the one that was. I'm still not sure how the hell that worked and I have 2 engineering degrees now. I'm pretty sure it has to do with electricity and magnitism being basically the same thing and magnets working when they are near each other even if they don't touch. If anybody can duplicate that one I'd love to know I didn't just dream the whole thing up (pretty sure I didn't).

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by Hickkid1 http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45506 Hickkid1 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:17 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45506 apple works there. apple will find any way possible to exploit a persons hipster addiction to their products. apple works there. apple will find any way possible to exploit a persons hipster addiction to their products.

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by @leoofborg http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45505 @leoofborg Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:46:29 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45505 Honest to golly-golly, no PORR. Or tethering. But- 1/ I do have TWO downloader Apps, iFiler and Downloads. They get USED to download stuff like OSX Combo Updates, XCode, iPhone/iPad firmwares, etc. Then just hook to iTunes and drag the files to the desktop. 2/ A number of apps that use iCloud. Those 10-25 meg PDFs don't sync themselves, yo. 3/ The iPhone4 has a 5MP camera. And I'm a fiend for Instagram / Camera+ Not that you asked. -Leo Honest to golly-golly, no PORR. Or tethering. But-

1/ I do have TWO downloader Apps, iFiler and Downloads. They get USED to download stuff like OSX Combo Updates, XCode, iPhone/iPad firmwares, etc. Then just hook to iTunes and drag the files to the desktop.

2/ A number of apps that use iCloud. Those 10-25 meg PDFs don't sync themselves, yo.

3/ The iPhone4 has a 5MP camera. And I'm a fiend for Instagram / Camera+

Not that you asked. -Leo

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by xero http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45504 xero Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:45:42 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45504 in order to grab footage from HACKERS in college i had to hook my laptop with my dvd running through a Vcr wich was then attached to a device hooked to a mac desk top via a special adapter to recap DVD>Macbook>VCR>adaptor>Mac desktop in order to grab footage from HACKERS in college i had to hook my laptop with my dvd running through a Vcr wich was then attached to a device hooked to a mac desk top via a special adapter

to recap DVD>Macbook>VCR>adaptor>Mac desktop

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by Sashy http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45503 Sashy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:35:19 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45503 And I thought I was awesome when I connected a cheap DVD player and a set of basic computer speakers (with a subwoofer) to a cheap projector to make my own home theatre setup. It actually worked pretty well; even though the sound was coming out near where I was sitting and the picture was across the room, my brain seemed to trick me into thinking the sound was out in front. And I thought I was awesome when I connected a cheap DVD player and a set of basic computer speakers (with a subwoofer) to a cheap projector to make my own home theatre setup. It actually worked pretty well; even though the sound was coming out near where I was sitting and the picture was across the room, my brain seemed to trick me into thinking the sound was out in front.

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by Sashy http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45502 Sashy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:38 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45502 You can't hack an AT&T iPhone to work on Verizon. AT&T phones only have the hardware to "talk" to GSM networks, and Verizon phones only have the hardware to talk to Verizon's CDMA network (GSM and CDMA are the two most common types of cellular data formats, and they are incompatible). Future iPhones may have fancy hardware that can be reprogrammed to work on multiple networks, but current models don't. You can't hack an AT&T iPhone to work on Verizon. AT&T phones only have the hardware to "talk" to GSM networks, and Verizon phones only have the hardware to talk to Verizon's CDMA network (GSM and CDMA are the two most common types of cellular data formats, and they are incompatible). Future iPhones may have fancy hardware that can be reprogrammed to work on multiple networks, but current models don't.

]]> Comment on We Are The 5% by gangler http://hijinksensue.com/2012/02/03/we-are-the-5/comment-page-1/#comment-45501 gangler Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:34:30 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/?p=2517#comment-45501 Ooh, I haven't heard that one before. That's just downright devious douchebaggery. Comcast doesn't offer internet in my province I don't think. My favorite part was when the ISP told us they had friends in Hollywood that they could call up and have me investigated for Piracy. What a weird way to even execute that bluff. "The only way you could be using that much bandwidth is through criminal pursuits. I'm gonna report you to my buddy the bigshot director". Ooh, I haven't heard that one before. That's just downright devious douchebaggery. Comcast doesn't offer internet in my province I don't think.

My favorite part was when the ISP told us they had friends in Hollywood that they could call up and have me investigated for Piracy. What a weird way to even execute that bluff. "The only way you could be using that much bandwidth is through criminal pursuits. I'm gonna report you to my buddy the bigshot director".

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