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Good tips all around Carrot. One of my male role models gave me the recommendation, which I trust. Mostly I just need a lot of stuff taken in as I've got that broad shoulder slim waist thing goin' on.

Do tailors get tipped like barbers or is it actually included in the price?

Squee9 wrote:

Good tips all around Carrot. One of my male role models gave me the recommendation, which I trust. Mostly I just need a lot of stuff taken in as I've got that broad shoulder slim waist thing goin' on.

Do tailors get tipped like barbers or is it actually included in the price?

You don't tip them as far as I know. What you'll want to be asking about is "darting" which slims the waist. It's pretty cheap and easy.

People are still using the term 'fortnight' in general conversation?

I guess I'm out of it

Forsooth, fisticuffs will now commence for your disparaging remarks on "fortnight"!

Dakuna wrote:

People are still using the term 'fortnight' in general conversation?

I guess I'm out of it :)

At least a dozen GWJ folks will agree that what I say outloud and general conversation are two wildly different things.

cartoonin99 wrote:

Forsooth, fisticuffs forthwith for thy disparaging remarks on "fortnight"!

FTFY

A coworker has an issue with her phone... the text messages are all grouped together. Her messsages are grouped together, and the incoming messages are in a different group. I'm not sure how to modify that setting, can anyone help? She has a Galaxy S4.

Dakuna wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Durr. Cellphone. Of course.

I guess my question was really driving at how they get my cellphone number. I don't think that the DMV has it, and it's not like in the landline days when there was a phonebook they could look up the address.

I would suggest that the police have a lot more ability to find out how to contact a person than the average joe. If they have your name, they will be able to find your number, if it is registered in your name, regardless of whether your wife's cellphone survives the crash or not.

I asked my brother-in-law (a cop) about this a while ago (ICE in your cellphone, etc) and he says that he has *never* checked someone's cellphone in order to figure out who to call, nor has anyone (cops, paramedics, hospital staff) he has ever spoke to.

Squee9 wrote:

I'm upgrading my life and heading to a tailor sometime in the next fortnight. I am a male, and have never had anything tailored as a real adult. Here's my plan:

1) Bring all my dress shirts and suit stuff to have it fitted to me, or have the tailor tell me it doesn't fit me and never wear it again.
2) Get completely measured so when I go buy more things I can start at the correct size...then bring them back to this tailor for more intense fitting.

Any tailor etiquette I should know about before I call and ask for this appointment? Anything else I should consider doing at this appointment?

A little behind, and Carrot already made some good points, but note also:

Things can only be tailored so much. Fit well before, and you lost 10 pounds? Awesome, go do it. Always fit almost right, or right except for one area? Awesome, go do it. Just lost 100 pounds, or recently decided your mother was crazy for trying to put you in size 18 shirts when you have a size 15 neck? Yeah...time for a new wardrobe.

Here's a rough order of things that might need adjusting, roughly from easiest to most difficult:

Sleeve length
Waist
upper back / "collar roll"
Sleeve pitch
[generally avoid doing things below this line if possible]
Chest
Jacket length
Shoulders

And for pants:
Pant length / cuff type
Waist
Seat
Any sort of inseam / thigh / calf width adjustment

carrotpanic wrote:

What you'll want to be asking about is "darting" which slims the waist. It's pretty cheap and easy.

Darting is actually a rather specific adjustment that is often done when there has to be a large size difference in a single piece of fabric. Most often seen on men's clothing on decent dress shirts (two darts in the lower back) and in suit jackets (two darts in the front that run from the lower pockets to about the breast pocket — exception: "sack" suits in the style of J. Press and other New England fabricators). Darts are more commonly seen in women's clothing, generally dresses, and generally around/below the bust. Think of them like inverted pleats, if you will.

Darting is a relatively easy thing to do for an experienced tailor, at least for a man's dress shirt. If your dress shirt mostly fits you correctly but is baggy in the waist, which is unfortunately an extremely common problem with American dress shirts, darting can help...although if you're a relatively fit individual, getting a good fit with them would probably also require opening up the side seams to cut out fabric in the waist and lower chest. Still, I've never seen a properly-formed dress shirt that doesn't have back darts — you just can't make that curve into the lower back properly without them. To reiterate, though, if it's a pretty drastic difference, you may be better off sourcing clothes that fit better in the first place, and then having a tailor make the minor adjustments necessary to make them perfect.

Also, be careful about having a tailor you haven't properly vetted doing waist adjustments in a suit jacket/sportcoat. Sometimes they can get lazy and not cut the seam around the pocket to fully let the item in, which gives a much curvier, more feminine appearance than the generally straight X of a man's coat. Some Savile Row tailors (British banker stuff) trend toward this look, but generally it's discouraged.

Question: I have a new Asus z97 board that is running my 4670-k intel chip with no problem on bios revision 603 Just checked their website and Asus has a bios revision 1206 (or something close to that) Should i update or not?

Cayne wrote:

Question: I have a new Asus z97 board that is running my 4670-k intel chip with no problem on bios revision 603 Just checked their website and Asus has a bios revision 1206 (or something close to that) Should i update or not?

Rule of thumb - only update BIOS if it fixes a problem you have.

Tanglebones wrote:

Doggcatcher (I know, I know.. I'll switch to a better app one of these days)

Switching is a pain. I'm still on Doggcatcher, too.

Kehama wrote:

According to this site it appears Slender Man is still king of the memes. Odd. Never really thought of him as a meme... but whatevs.

"Meme" has a much broader definition than a lot of people realize. It really just means something that spreads culturally.

wordsmythe wrote:
Kehama wrote:

According to this site it appears Slender Man is still king of the memes. Odd. Never really thought of him as a meme... but whatevs.

"Meme" has a much broader definition than a lot of people realize. It really just means something that spreads culturally.

And been around as an idea longer than a lot of people realize. Dawkins coined the term in 1976, in The Selfish Gene:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/xIJVgbQ.png)

(Screenshot from Google Books because faster than typing.)

Check the release notes. Early BIOS revisions often contain useful bug fixes. Most BIOS updates are just to support new hardware (processors and RAM).

I only updated my ASUS P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1 BIOS twice - once because I noticed some bug fixes in the release notes (even though I had never experienced the bugs) and once because I upgraded the CPU and needed the BIOS version that supported my new CPU.

ASUS makes BIOS updates pretty painless, with several different ways to do it. I'm always afraid I'll brick my machine no matter how easy the update process is, though.

What's the best way to sell my old smartphone (Droid Razr MAXX in mint condition)?

I've already looked into selling it back to Verizon ($21) and Gazelle ($25).

BadKen wrote:

What's the best way to sell my old smartphone (Droid Razr MAXX in mint condition)?

I've already looked into selling it back to Verizon ($21) and Gazelle ($25).

Wife has bought used phones off Ebay before.

Gravey wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Kehama wrote:

According to this site it appears Slender Man is still king of the memes. Odd. Never really thought of him as a meme... but whatevs.

"Meme" has a much broader definition than a lot of people realize. It really just means something that spreads culturally.

And been around as an idea longer than a lot of people realize. Dawkins coined the term in 1976, in The Selfish Gene:

Alot of people conflate "meme" with "image macro", a more specific term for the images-with-text that often become viral memes.

So I've been working a temp job and one of the people I've been working with has been making fairly frequent jokes about what amounts to sexual harassment/assault were he to actually engage in the behaviors he "jokes" about. This is furthered by frequent unprofessional commentary about women in general, trans* people, other races, homosexuals, and so on.

I get the impression that the temp agency may not care due to the limited group of people available to them to do the menial labour type jobs they specialize in. The person contracting us via the agency also engages in a bit of this so I doubt he cares either, as such I'm at a bit of a loss as to the appropriate steps to take.

I don't want to burn bridges because the reality is, in this economy, I may well need to make use of the agency again in the future. Am I still within the realm of professionalism if I explain my observations and that I would be uncomfortable working with them again until they resolve these issues?

krev82 wrote:

So I've been working a temp job and one of the people I've been working with has been making fairly frequent jokes about what amounts to sexual harassment/assault were he to actually engage in the behaviors he "jokes" about. This is furthered by frequent unprofessional commentary about women in general, trans* people, other races, homosexuals, and so on.

I get the impression that the temp agency may not care due to the limited group of people available to them to do the menial labour type jobs they specialize in. The person contracting us via the agency also engages in a bit of this so I doubt he cares either, as such I'm at a bit of a loss as to the appropriate steps to take.

I don't want to burn bridges because the reality is, in this economy, I may well need to make use of the agency again in the future. Am I still within the realm of professionalism if I explain my observations and that I would be uncomfortable working with them again until they resolve these issues?

I worked for temp agencies a couple times in my life, so I very much feel your pain. There are a lot of bigoted and prejudiced people out there. I would like to give you constructive advice to address the problem, but the only thing I ever did was to keep my head down and wait until I was able to get a decent job. I've complained about racist/sexist remarks from people at full-time jobs (to good effect), but I never thought it would be worth it while working as a temp.

Maybe I'm weak?

duckilama wrote:
Cayne wrote:

Question: I have a new Asus z97 board that is running my 4670-k intel chip with no problem on bios revision 603 Just checked their website and Asus has a bios revision 1206 (or something close to that) Should i update or not?

Rule of thumb - only update BIOS if it fixes a problem you have.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it?

Did WW2 tanks with mine-clearing capabilities have strong under-armor? In case of a missed mine exploding under the tank?

Strangeblades wrote:

Did WW2 tanks with mine-clearing capabilities have strong under-armor? In case of a missed mine exploding under the tank?

Because of this question I've now read more about mine flails in WW2 than I ever expected to in my lifetime. At least for that design, they started out as attachments for any old tank that even had their own external motors to power the flails. Later on they modified tanks to permanently attach the flails and use the tank's engine to power them. At that point they began adding blast shields in between the flail and the tank to protect the tank itself in case it hit an anti-tank mine instead of an anti-personnel mine. I didn't see anything about any extra under-armor as it seems they focused primarily on making sure the flail didn't miss any mines in its path, eventually upgrading them to cut through barbwire and hit further down into the ground to make sure nothing got past them.

Wow. Thanks for the research. I guess that means we should award you tenure?

Do we have a "Help Me Troubleshoot my PC" thread, or should I just ask here? Or in the "Help Me Build my PC" thread?

Start here if it gets complicated we can create a new thread. What's up?

Yeah i think your on the right track, when the culprit appears to be hardware, start swapping out parts one at a time until something changes.

Any chance your motherboard has a display on it that pops off error codes? If you can watch it display them it will eventually settle on one when it hangs and that may give you a clue as to what component is failing.

Long story short, I built a rig (my third or fourth, I think) last year and it's been working fine up til now. Powered down the PC last night as usual, turned it on this morning and it won't boot. The fans will spin, the lights will come on, but I only get a black screen with an A2 error code in the bottom right corner.

I did a bit of googling and every page points to a hardware problem, which makes no sense, since everything was fine up to this point. I thought my monitor might be the culprit since it's been on its way out for a while now (flickers a couple of minutes when turned on).

Gonna try and make the most of baby #2's nap and switch with hubby's monitor, see if that helps, but looks like I'm gonna have to open her up.

No display on the motherboard, unfortunately.
I just watched the codes "99", "9C", "92" and then stay on "A2" on my husband's monitor, so I guess that's not it. Just as well, I didn't want to go back to a 1280x1024 monitor...
I'm Googling a bit and finding threads in the asus forums. Doesn't look good. Maybe I'm gonna need to move this to the "loathe" thread.

Interesting. I just tried unplugging ALL my USB devices, and while the boot still hangs, the A2 error code disappeared (so it just hangs on a black screen).

Will I be loveless and childless until I die?
Despite the wording, I don't think dying will actually improve those two.