For the record, for tonight's game, the Oilers essentially rolled three lines in the third period (Stoll injured, Thoreson and Stortini for all intents and purposes benched) for the second game of a back-to-back set. In addition, with the Oilers only a goal behind, Ryan Smyth did not play in the last three minutes of the game, whereas Joffrey Lupul was on the ice for nearly every second he didn't spend in the penalty box in the last three minutes of the game.

Is there a reason why Lupul was on the ice for so much of the end of the game??

Actually Tay maybe you should get a better wacom board. This is your livelyhood after all, it makes no sense for a hobbyist like me to get an intuos, but as for you I don't see a reason why not. All the graphic designers at my company have them and they all say it is far superior to the Graphire. Shortcut keys to move the screen around, much larger work area, well you pretty much know what to get with that tablet.

You should have bought an extra stylus in the expectation that something will go wrong with the current stylus. Tsk.

Well I guess that's what you get for trying to shove things up your stylus hole.

Isn't it more like breaking a button on your shirt and then tearing your suit apart before you find the spare button on the inside of the shirt?

I meant to say: Why can't you just buy another wacom?

Why can't you buy another wacom? They're really cheap now, maybe less then $200 bucks. From what you claim you sound like you are making decent wage to afford this. I'm sure if you ask nicely your company can write it off as an expense. Plus the new graphire has more functionality then the one you and me use.

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I'm thinking maybe you guys can't appreciate the awesome-ness of my last post, so let me put it into relative terms of awesome-mess that maybe closer to your scope of understanding:

Imagine you have one last class to pass to get your degree at the UofA, and the only thing that's stopping you from passing that class is not getting your essay handed in tomorrow, but you're up late working on it and all of a sudden your keyboard stops functioning. Now you have a half-finished essay that needs to get done but you can't find anything to do it with. You tear apart your house looking for another keyboard but can't find one and know that all the stores are closed so you can't buy one. It's fucking useless. You open your computer hoping maybe there's just some loose connections that went wrong, but while you're jiggling stuff around (like an idiot) you break your soundcard right in half!!!! You are PISSED, but this essay still needs to get done or the last 4 years of work have been for naught!!! In a last fit of desperation you take apart your keyboard hoping to fix it... only to find that there's a perfectly-good keyboard jammed under the circuit-board of your broken one (bizarre, I know)!!! You plug it in, it works, you finish your essay, and the day is saved!

Sure, maybe you gotta buy a whole new soundcard, but big deal right? YOU FOUND A FUCKING KEYBOARD INSIDE A KEYBOARD!!!!

That is essentially what happened to me and what I tried to explain in that last post. See how fucking mind-boggling of a scenario that is??? SO WEIRD.

man, I lost my fucking nib out of my tablet's stylus, and I was sooo pissed because I couldn't use my pen!!! So I tried using the end of paperclips and shit because I don't have time to order a new nib and wait around for it to show up... I have fucking work to do NOW.

Unfortunately, all the things I jammed up the hole of the stylus to use as a nib only ended up making the side-button broken and I heard something rattling inside. And then somehow I accidentally busted the pen open, and the little metal rattling thing-a-ma-jig fell out. But then I couldn't get the pen back together without breaking the circuit board inside of it and the eraser was getting stuck. And then I cracked the plastic casing of the pen. So now I'm like REALLY REALLY REALLY pissed. I basically broke every last piece of my tablet's pen and I'm livid with rage. But then I take apart some of the circuitry that attaches to the eraser end of the pen and I see a familiar looking piece of white plastic in the middle of all the wires. I figure my pen's busted enough as it is, so I chance it and pull the little end of the plastic part with my teeth (not enough of it was sticking out to grip with my fingers). AND SURE ENOUGH, it's a fucking extra nib!!!! JAMMED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCUIT BOARD AND WIRES OF MY PEN (which your warranty is voided if you open). I look at it and it's a brand NEW fucking nib! It's not the old one because it's in perfect shape and the old one I lost is all worn down. Somehow I stuff everything back in the pen and the plastic casing back together (even though it's cracked) and somehow it stays together. I insert the nib into the end AND IT FITS.

THE ERASER IS BROKEN, THE BUTTONS WON'T CLICK, BUT I FOUND A HIDDEN NIB IN MY FUCKING PEN AND AT LEAST I CAN DRAW SHIT AGAIN!!!!!!!


In the meantime I better look at ordering a new stylus because I fucked mine up completely... but at least it has the one remaining functionality that allows me to do work with it. Even though destroying my pen is going to cost me a lot more than the few cents I would have spent to buy a new nib, I can't help but feel validated in knowing that I discovered a hidden nib within the hardware and saved myself the downtime I would've otherwise spent in waiting for the replacement nib to arrive in the mail.

I FUCKING TRIUMPH AGAIN!!!! AGAINST ALL ODDS BITCHES, I FIND THE THING I NEED IN A PLACE IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE!!!!