Mar 24 2012
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I logged in and it gave me this page: “You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks.”
Holy wow I feel like I missed a lot.
Tell ‘m I said congratulations! 🙂
Wish I could at the moment
FVE-Man, I’ve updated the code. Is it working?
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“Tell ‘m I said congratulations!” I appreciate your congratulations, but I’m not in an actual program quite yet. (Harvard offers open-enrollment summer school courses which don’t award degrees. My main goal with the course is to show to prospective MS programs that I can handle the material).
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No worries, Carl. It’s a hard economy. Thanks for your consideration.
Man, I do hope I can help you. But I’m just a poor student. 😛
Yep, the new code works fine. Good luck with school!
“Man, I do hope I can help you. But I’m just a poor student.” Understood. If you could swing it, even small contributions are greatly appreciated. (If 1%* of readers gave $1, that’d come out to something like $2500 a year). If not, I understand–it was deathly difficult for me to procure employment while in school.
*Converting 1% of free readers into voluntary donors would be quite a feat, though.
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“Yep, the new code works fine. Good luck with school!” Thanks!
B.Mac, I swear there was something else there too when I made my post. … XD And yes, good luck.
“B.Mac, I swear there was something else there too when I made my post.” There was! In the original version of this post, I included a sentence describing why I was asking for money, but I removed that because it struck me as too mawkish. Suffice it to say that I have two main needs for money, neither one of which is procuring enough grenades and killer bees to seize control of Madagascar. (At this point, another attempt to seize a Third World country would just be throwing good money after bad).
Do I even want to know what happened the first time?
Grenades and killer bees are for chumps. If you want to take over the world, death rays and Arctic strongholds are where it’s at. Think big, man!
“Do I even want to know what happened the first time?” They made a meme about it. Madagascar destroyed me pretty thoroughly.
Maybe I should have started with Mozambique?
@the Gif: Woah, that looks… obtusely offensive. Seriously, blackface?
I would recommend against reading anything into a 3 color drawing probably put together with MS Paint. It looks a lot more like a matter of the artist’s (lack of) talent than anything malicious.
Hah, I know. I just think it’s really poorly thought-out 😛
By the way, B.Mac. Could you please give me some critiques on my female characters: http://www.superheronation.com/2011/08/27/red-flags-for-female-characters-written-by-men/
You must be thinking think I’m a blatant attention whore.
“You must be thinking I’m a blatant attention whore.” No, I appreciate tactful reminders.