nyekobug

Ow man, that's awesome!! :c13: Wish I could buy a monitor like that.... Is it good to have your desktop wider like that? I mean is it convenient or not... But as far as I can see in your monitor got a lot of shortcuts.... You can fill your whole desktop with a lot of shortcut if you use that size of desktop...... :: ::

I am a lazy person who just collects documents and stuff on the desktop. Once in a while I actually go through and clean it up, but in general I just let it sit there. I actually like having two monitors because I usually have Visual Studio.NET on the left monitor, and either cygwin or VisualDSP++ on the right monitor (those are usually my debug targets). Whenever I'm just working on code though, usually the right monitor has a J-video running, or my chat windows...

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[EDIT] Cleaned desktop a little, the two video windows are 640x480 (DVD resolution) [/EDIT]

nOOb question here.

I'm pretty much destroying my print screen button and nothings happening, is there any other way to capture my desktop or am I pretty much screwed here?

Hm, prtscrn usually puts it into the clipboard. However if you're using one of those weird microsoft keyboards with a Function Lock key, then try toggling that thing.

OMG! nyekobug how big is your screen resolution? More than 3000++ I guess... You use 2 monitor? :huh

3360x1050 to be exact (matching samsung 225BW monitors)

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I'm utterly addicted to Shoko Kayama's smile T__T



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P.S. Yes, dual widescreen monitors for the win!

Heh, wow, I really should check the board more often... and now for my "contribution"...

I've been really good friends with this one person that I've known for a little over six years now. Actually, she and I are both part of a very tight knit group of friends that I see every time I go home to visit my family. Before we had even met, several people in the group thought that we would make a good couple, knowing both of us and our personalities, and sure enough when I had first met her, I really felt a strong connection. Unfortunately, there's this huge physical distance between us - she's in Hawaii, I'm in Northern Cali. From what I gather, I don't think she's going to leave Hawaii (all of her friends and family are there), and I don't think I'd be able to find a permanent job in Hawaii that'd be as interesting, and as well paying as the one I have in Cali. So we spent about a year communicating a lot (via letters, email, phone), and after that, I approached her and asked if she thought if a relationship would work, but she wasn't sure.

So we've been continuing to talk (granted, not about relationships, that talk just kinda disappeared) over the past five years, and we became really good friends. Plus over the past two years, I've been trying to spend more time with just her (as opposed to with the entire group) and that always felt like it went well. Heck, I even went back home for Valentines day to take her out to dinner and bring roses. I thought things were all fine and dandy, and I was hopefully going to get a position that would allow me to telecommute from Hawaii to Cali (in the end, that didn't really work out, but the company is still awesome), but then a something changed this past year that made me doubt how things were going. Primarily, for some reason that I still don't get (but I have my theories), many of the conversations we've had lately would have something about how she and this other guy were going to these places with beautiful views of the sunset after work, or how she joined him and his family on an outing and blablabla. Did I mention the distance really sucks? I wasn't there for her when her mother was hospitalized (the other guy, was there all the time), and I'm just not physically there for like 90% of the year. I had told a couple of the friends in the group, and one told me that I really should find out where she stands on being with me (especially because of the long distance). So I did. And that ended pretty miserably (I still joke that the earthquake that happend off the coast of Hawaii back in October last year was just my frustration at things manifesting itself) in my opinion, because she was still unsure how she felt.

So of course, I've been thinking and sulking about things for the past few months. I haven't really seen her since, and dumbly, I didn't really address the issue until like last weekend when I kinda just dropped the whole thing in one big bomb. It kind of surprised her, but I guess it was bound to happen sometime. We had a little bit of dialogue about it, and things have kind of quieted down. I feel a little better now that things have kind of (unfortuantely, unceremoniously) aired themselves, but at the same time I feel really horrible because I kind of think I've confused her and made her feel bad about things.

I guess one of the fundamental differences between us is that according to her, it takes her quite a while before she feels comfortable enough around a person before she thinks she can really explore her feelings. Usually, when I'd go home to visit my friends and family, I'd only be around for a couple weeks, a month tops. So by the time she'd feel comfortable around me, I'd return to Cali. I'm not that way, or maybe the feelings I have for her kind of just overrides that weird awkwardness. Of course, one of the similarities between us (which I found out recently) is that I believe we both have these huge emotional shields up because we've both been hurt before by someone close to us, and I think our instinct is just to put up those barriers. We also have very little experience with dating and the likes (yes, I'm 32, and I've only been in one really short lived relationship like nine years ago).

I'm going to try and call her this weekend just to say hi, but I'm afraid the awkwardness that'll be there is just going to downright suck. One of my other friends brought up a good question though, which I really don't have an answer for - why do I percieve such a big difference between friendships and relationships.

Sorry for the braindump here, but I figure maybe I'll get more insight with the more people I tell this sad tale of how two introverted people, that have no experience with dating, shouldn't even attempt to start a long distance relationship T__T

-nyekobug

[EDIT] P.S. wow, looking through some of these topics make me feel ancient now. So many young romance stories [/EDIT]

damn sakura_y

I've adopted the quote she uses in her msn tag-

"Never allow someone to be your priority, while allowing yourself to remain their option"

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