Random randomness

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:52 am

501s or get out!

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:57 am

550s all the way.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:06 pm

Y'all are just wrong wrong wrong.

JCPenny Super Denims. "Built to take the kind of punishment your 'Super Dennis' dishes out."

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:06 pm

It's whatever my wife buys me or nothing!

OK, I probably wouldn't go for nothing. I'd just keep wearing whatever I have as they continue to fall apart.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:23 pm

I'm not sure I have a fetish but if I did it might very well be women in suspenders.

Once upon a time I would have said it was women who dyed their hair unnatural colors but as I get older and bold hair dying gets younger now cotton candy or rainbow sherbert or tiedye hair reminds me that I've lapped my 20s and am going into the turn for a third time.

(I get whatever jeans are super cheap at Meijer when it feels like I need a new pair of jeans. Like $15 or less cheap. I think that's usually Wrangler something something)

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:29 pm

I don't eat too much. I just need to stay in shape like The Rock

http://www.businessinsider.com/dwayne-j ... iet-2017-5

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:39 pm

I'm not sure I have a fetish but if I did it might very well be women in suspenders.

Hmmm I can see that...but wouldn't they just dangle with nothing else on?

I think them with shorts only is nice.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:47 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:52 pm

Is that the guy from Venture Bros? Pete White.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:57 pm

Rip wrote:

Can you look at that and not think that is one cool old lady?

MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:45 am

ImLawBoy wrote:501s or get out!

+1

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:05 pm

Defense News

Bad news for troops hoping to feast on a pizza MRE in 2018.

A problem with mass production has delayed the new meal offering, and it’s unclear when or if the issue can be resolved.

All Meals Ready-to-Eat must have a shelf-life of at least three years when stored at 80 degrees or below, explained Jeremy Whitsitt, deputy director of the combat feeding directorate at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.

To test this, MREs are placed in a 100-degree box for six months, simulating the 3-year span. When the pizza MRE underwent this test it became too brown, Whitsitt said.
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It was not a safety issue, but “more a quality issue,” he added. In other words, you could eat the brown pizza, but it’s not something we really want to ship to our warfighters.

Initial forecasts called for a 2018 launch of the pizza MREs, which were to come in both pepperoni and cheese varieties.
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For those bummed readers out there, here are three words to cheer you up: caffeinated beef sticks. Yes, they’re truly on the agenda and coming soon to an MRE near you, Whitsitt said.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:36 pm

Why can't they just temporarily provide them with Cup O Pizza?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 10:16 am

Soooooo Thursday I woke up at midnight. I stay up all that night and all day Friday hoping to fix my sleeping schedule so i can be awake during the day and sleep at night. Then Friday night I dont get sleepy until 6am! I go to bed tired and sleepy and sleep......2 hours. I woke up before 9am wide awake. Totally. I lay there until noon and get up go to town get food and come home. After eating around 3pm I hit the couch to let the food move some...and nod off. CRAP! I wasn't even tired or sleepy other than dry eyes from lack of sleep. Woke up at mid night last night.

I am NEVER going to be awake in the daytime for two days in a row. Seems I am awake at night and sleep in the day....when I do sleep again. I hate insomnia and I hate not being able to change my time.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:52 am

From what you've said about your sleep problems before, you really need to be seen by a doctor. You're putting yourself at a lot of risk.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:03 pm

My mother-in-law's 75th birthday is Tuesday. We are having a surprise party in about an hour with ~35 of her friends, mostly church-folk of an age with her. I am trying to decide if it better or worse that this even is taking place at my house. If it were elsewhere, I'd still have to go and probably have limited options of places to hide... at least at my house there are a few places that are off limits to guests but open to me. Oh did I mention they are all strangers to me and I have significant social anxiety and I'm also bothered more than most people would probably find reasonable by the disruption to my home and routine. One guest arrived early and I am already afraid to go out to the living room.

So an afternoon surrounded by old, church-going, Texan strangers... I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about. Maybe we can talk politics! My wife knows how I feel about this. I'm wondering if she will give me grief about hiding.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:07 pm

Sometimes there are work-related "emergencies" that involve you needing to excuse yourself, aren't there?

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:23 pm

coopasonic wrote:My mother-in-law's 75th birthday is Tuesday. We are having a surprise party in about an hour with ~35 of her friends, mostly church-folk of an age with her. I am trying to decide if it better or worse that this even is taking place at my house. If it were elsewhere, I'd still have to go and probably have limited options of places to hide... at least at my house there are a few places that are off limits to guests but open to me. Oh did I mention they are all strangers to me and I have significant social anxiety and I'm also bothered more than most people would probably find reasonable by the disruption to my home and routine. One guest arrived early and I am already afraid to go out to the living room.

So an afternoon surrounded by old, church-going, Texan strangers... I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about. Maybe we can talk politics! My wife knows how I feel about this. I'm wondering if she will give me grief about hiding.

Have all your friends dress as zombies and hide. Then when everyone is gather all your friends jump out and yell SURPRISE!

Mass funeral follows a few days later.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:49 am

As a kid I thought surprise parties were cool. but once I hit adulthood I started wondering if those were good for the elderly.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:59 am

I survived. There turned out to be a few people I knew. Enough to keep me away from the strangers until they started leaving. I am ok talking to someone that is leaving particularly when I know it is fairly unlikely I will ever see them again. I kept hearing my wife and mother-in-law say "thanks for coming" and I was able to hold back until it was just family before I blurted out "thanks for leaving!"

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:06 am

coopasonic wrote:I survived.

You're a better man than I am. My ex used to hold showers at our townhouse and I had to leave every time.

My aunt had a retirement party this weekend. I showed for about two hours and spent the entire time in the heat outside, rather than be around so many people doing what it is so many people do at social occasions.

I think I stopped going to parties when there stopped being a euchre table for me to park at for the entire night. Parties aren't so bad when your world is only 3 other people and you have a game in common.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:23 am

The Nimblewill Nomad.

His fellow long-distance hikers speak of him in mythical terms. They told me that, in order to avoid foot infections, he had chosen to have all 10 of his toenails surgically removed. He was said to never carry more than 10lbs on his back, and to have invented a tiny stove that ran on twigs and grass, so he wouldn’t have to carry fuel.

Over 15 years, he had hiked 34,000 miles. First he completed the so-called Triple Crown of long-distance trails: the Appalachian trail (2,200 miles), the Pacific Crest trail (2,650 miles), and the Continental Divide trail (3,100 miles). Then he went on to complete all 11 national scenic trails in 2013. Triumphant, fulfilled, and nearing his 75th birthday, he vowed to hang up his hiking boots.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:37 am

Had my laptop with me Friday night, which is what I wrote my school paper on.

Bring it in this morning, and it won't boot past the Windows splash screen. Tech has had it for over an hour. I'm so glad that I came in to work today.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:41 am

I actually wrote some code this morning, fixed a defect and now I am waiting for the go home early email... that would likely come in about 5 hours.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:49 am

I am somehow busting hump this morning while every one else is making today social day at work. I am also hoping for the go home early email but I have shitton to do before between now and then.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:10 am

Up with a replacement laptop, win 10 from 7, and my old hdd attached by USB to the new rig.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:37 pm

My fun size bag of M&Ms contained exactly 3 M&Ms. I suppose that would fun if you were a curious M&M looking for a menage a trois.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:38 pm

Worked Friday, Saturday (Canada day) and Sunday from 05:30 to 17:30. Working tonight and tomorrow night from 17:30 to 05:30. I'm doing long weekends wrong in two countries. Ah!

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:46 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:Worked Friday, Saturday (Canada day) and Sunday from 05:30 to 17:30. Working tonight and tomorrow night from 17:30 to 05:30. I'm doing long weekends wrong in two countries. Ah!

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

My office is full of Canadians. Or should I say empty of Canadians this week.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:42 pm

Just heard Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" at the post office.

When I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You're telling me things but your girlfriend lied
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died

How long has it been since new listeners had a clue what the rabbit means?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:19 pm

Snopes

Thus the “rabbit test” was born, and with it the misconception that the rabbit’s death was an indicator of a positive result. In those early tests, the rabbit always died, because the animal had to be killed so its ovaries could be removed and examined. Later refinements to the test enabled clinicians to inspect the ovaries without having to kill the rabbits first, but as the example cited above demonstrates, the misconception that the test rabbit died only if the woman was pregnant is still with us today, even though the “rabbit test” itself is not.
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In an episode of TV’s M*A*S*H (“What’s Up, Doc?”, original air date 30 January 1978), Hot Lips thinks she’s pregnant, and the only available means of testing her requires the use of Radar’s rabbit.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:56 pm

So you're saying Steven Tyler didn't *have* to go??

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:44 pm

He'll have to stand a jury to tell, and you'll have to catch him first.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:09 am

OMG.....now I know why that 1978 movie with a pregnant man was called Rabbit Test!!! I remember my 9 year old self hearing about that and thinking thats the dumbest thing ever. Glad I never saw it. But I kept a memory of it my entire life......well until recently lol.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:27 am

I have 1241 videos on YouTube as favorites. Thats not even the ones that were they got removed from YT. Im guessing the further down the list the older they are. but I wish it showed the dates I added them. that would be nice.

EDIT: Looking at the stuff there at the end of the list i surely have had tons more listed and lots older stuff on it. That stuff doesn't seem near old enough to be the first stuff I favorited.

KDH · Post by **KDH** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:14 pm

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... JRR Tolkien family settle $80m merchandise row

JRR Tolkien's family have settled an $80m case against Warner Bros over the merchandise rights of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

The famous author's daughter, Priscilla Tolkien, and his estate, joined up with publisher HarperCollins to sue Warner. The estate sold the rights to the films in 1969 along with some merchandising. But they said the studio had overstepped the mark with video games, apps and gambling games. Warner said the matter was "amicably resolved".

It ends a legal wrangling which first began in 2012, when the family sued the studio for $80m in damages plus legal costs for copyright infringement. Warner then counter-sued, claiming the estate had made an "about face" and had previously consented to merchandise rights. However, the estate had argued the rights only allowed Warner Bros to create "tangible" goods such as figurines, clothing and stationery. They claimed the studio had gone beyond the deal by using Tolkien's characters in digital form - including in online gambling games and casino slot machines - which the family said caused irreparable harm to the author's legacy and reputation.

After settling the case, Warner Bros says: "The parties are pleased that they have amicably resolved this matter and look forward to working together in the future." Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films were released between 2001 and 2003. The trilogy won 17 Academy awards, a record for a movie trilogy. His Hobbit series was released between 2012 and 2014.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:27 pm

Back when Twitter was coming up with D&D #RejectedSpells, I proposed "Tolkien's Grave of Rolling."

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:01 pm

Back when Impressions Games was working on the Tolkien-derived Lords of Magic, we ran it through Sierra's legal department to find out what the boundaries were when incorporating elves, halflings, wizards, etc. The legal minds opined that, to be safe, anyone who had read Tolkien should not be permitted to work on the game. Which ruled out the whole company, of course. We all had a good laugh and went right on making our game.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:24 pm

Kraken wrote:Back when Impressions Games was working on the Tolkien-derived Lords of Magic, we ran it through Sierra's legal department to find out what the boundaries were when incorporating elves, halflings, wizards, etc. The legal minds opined that, to be safe, anyone who had read Tolkien should not be permitted to work on the game. Which ruled out the whole company, of course. We all had a good laugh and went right on making our game.

I didn't think you'd get in trouble until you used words, like hobbit and orc, which were Tolkien creations. To this day, I wonder how D&D got away with orcs but changed things like hobbit to halfling and ent to treant and the like.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:32 pm

"Hobbit" is Tolkien's coinage, but "orc" goes back to Old English for "monster."

It's the reason the Killer Whale is called an "Orca."