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computers, i'm a grownup now, recipes, rl stuff

I'm a grown-up and I pay for my own groceries, and that means that if I want to mix up a bowl of powdered sugar and peanut butter 'till it's the consistency of mud brick, and then eat it with a spoon, I can, right?

(..hey, there's *no* candy in this house, and my roommates won't let me bake. Except what I just mixed up. Granted I could have walked down the street and bought some candy, but a) broke and b) I went from Cake Wrecks to mazapan the other day, and it that time of month, so I'm allowed to cave to random cravings.)

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Anyway, if someone was, completely hypothetically, thinking about finally installing an IM program, what program would you hypothetically suggest? Bearing in mind that this hypothetical person last tried to install Trillian, and gave up due to FAIL, and that the last time she bothered with IM, she hypothetically had AIM, ICQ, and Y!M accounts, because this was way back when you needed different accounts and programs and they wouldn't talk to each other.

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	kadath 2008-10-01 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	Pidgin, hypothetically. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2008-10-01 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	I also hypothetically use Pidgin when I remember to sign in. --siegeofangels (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	melannen 2008-10-01 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	Hypothetically, Pidgin installed remarkably well and some of the hypothetical passwords were even remembered, and hypothetically, my friend may even sign onto it sometimes now, yay. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2008-10-01 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Excellent, thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kadath 2008-10-02 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	Welcome. ^_^ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aristaea 2008-10-02 09:22 am UTC (link)
	I feel mazapan is misleading. I think it should have almonds and some different letters in it and then I am disappointed when it does not. O.O But hey, if peanuts are your thing, go for it! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	melannen 2008-10-02 02:56 pm UTC (link)
	I also enjoy the kind with almonds and extra letters, but around here, almond paste is vastly more expensive than peanut butter. And I'm half-Ohioan, so I was raised on Buckeyes, which according to the family recipe, are basically chocolate-covered balls of the stuff, yay. (I would have just made buckeyes, but there was no chocolate. ): (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aristaea 2008-10-02 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	In Texas, we just call those "chocolate-covered peanut butter balls", and they're a fancy foreign thing you can get in certain Italian restaurants. But ooooh, yummy! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stellar_dust 2008-10-02 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	Om nom nom. I haven't used anything since Trillian. Except for gmail chat, which I disabled because zomg people try to talk to me on it. d-: (Trillain worked pretty well for me back then, though.) Oh, and MS Communicator, but that's just work. If someone hypothetically made a Special Request To IM Me, I'd probably make them use gmail chat, though. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kadath 2008-10-02 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	Pidgin handles Jabber, which is the protocol gchat uses. buffs nails (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	melannen 2008-10-02 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, you us MS communicator for work? ...but, but, your system runs on UNIX! What. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stellar_dust 2008-10-02 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	~~Um, we use it to send each other links to LOLcats whenever we're not using the UNIX system.~~I mean, YES, we use it for work CONSTANTLY! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2008-10-02 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Er, and that was maeant to go to stellar_dust. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kadath 2008-10-02 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	I figured. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	treewishes 2008-10-02 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	www.meebo.com No installation required! (Reply to this)