Random randomness

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sun Aug 06, 2017 9:40 pm

It was a banner day in the skinypupy household. Little B 8.5 finally took her training wheels off. About 2 years late, but better late than never.

Both the Wonder Twins 4.2 used the potty on their own for the first time, including a poop. And we made it through an entire day with no accidents. That's MAJOR progress...they wouldn't use the toilet at all until today. As recently as Friday, we were talking about looking into child psychologists because literally nothing we were doing for potty training was having any effect. Again, two years behind, but better late then never.

Good to know my kids aren't entirely remedial.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:14 am

Skinypupy wrote: Little B 8.5 finally took her training wheels off.

Weren't you describing here as Little B 3.0, like yesterday?

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:42 am

LordMortis wrote:
Skinypupy wrote: Little B 8.5 finally took her training wheels off.
Weren't you describing here as Little B 3.0, like yesterday?

Feels like it.

Cat's in the Cradle and a silver spoon, etc, etc...

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:10 am

I hate that song.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:50 am

Anna Faris and Chris Pratt are separating:

"Anna and I are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward," Pratt posted on his Facebook page. Pratt's publicist confirmed the separation to CNN.

"We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another."
...
The couple has been married for eight years. They have one child together.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:10 am

TRY LALA SOUR CREAM!!

Thats my recommendation hahaha. I love sour cream. Ive had ok sour cream and good sour cream. Ive never had amazing sour cream...until Lala. Came across it in the store and the wife picked some up. This is the best tasting sour cream Ive had in my life. Never heard of it before. Im simply eating spoon fulls of it..must stop.

Also says Mexican style. All I can find on that is its thinner.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:35 am

No thanks.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:09 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:I hate that song.

I do too, actually.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:25 pm

Daehawk wrote:TRY LALA SOUR CREAM!!

Thats my recommendation hahaha. I love sour cream. Ive had ok sour cream and good sour cream. Ive never had amazing sour cream...until Lala. Came across it in the store and the wife picked some up. This is the best tasting sour cream Ive had in my life. Never heard of it before. Im simply eating spoon fulls of it..must stop.

Also says Mexican style. All I can find on that is its thinner.

Paingod wrote:No thanks.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:21 pm

Skinypupy wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:I hate that song.
I do too, actually.

Me three!

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:28 pm

KKBlue wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:I hate that song.
I do too, actually.
Me three!

Stop it, don't be h8ters. That song is AWESOME!

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:38 pm

Rip wrote:
KKBlue wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:I hate that song.
I do too, actually.
Me three!
Stop it, don't be h8ters. That song is AWESOME!

As a father who has no use for his own father, I find the song... interesting.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:39 pm

Rip wrote:
KKBlue wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:I hate that song.
I do too, actually.
Me three!
Stop it, don't be h8ters. That song is AWESOME!

It doesn't bother me and doesn't pull my heart strings, either. I don't think I've ever flipped stations because it's on but nor have I stopped to lose myself in it.

It scores a perfect meh as much as anything meh can be considered perfect.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:56 pm

I like the song but Ive heard it since i was a weee child and Im tired of it.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 10:20 pm

My streak of 27 years accident free finally came to an end tonight.

Some dumb-ass kid sideswiped me in the rec center parking lot. No injuries (doubt either of us was going 10mph), but it did a hell of a number of my driver's side door. I felt kinda bad for him...and what this is going to do to his insurance premiums.

Default · Post by **Default** » Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:55 am

For someone who wants the house on the market asap, she spends less time here than l do.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:15 am

It's easy to forget how far and we've come so fast technologically until you have to deal with someone who requires you to send a fax... by fax machine... and you have to wait for the dial tone, and the ring, and the handshake, and the time it takes to send 7 pages of .tif across a modem, and get an acknowledgement by across a modem....

I'm baffled by the fact that we still have a physical fax in my office but it gets used and I'm thankful for it about once every other year when a medical, insurance, or financial institution insist on me using it, which is to say nothing of the twice a year I seem to need to use it for work purposes.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Aug 10, 2017 2:34 pm

That's what MFDs are for. I enter the number (or select from a list of recently used and pre-programmed numbers), hit go, it scans the pages and gives them back and then I go back to work. Whenever I get around to it I go back and get the "receipt."

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:07 pm

Skinypupy wrote:My streak of 27 years accident free finally came to an end tonight.

Some dumb-ass kid sideswiped me in the rec center parking lot. No injuries (doubt either of us was going 10mph), but it did a hell of a number of my driver's side door. I felt kinda bad for him...and what this is going to do to his insurance premiums.

I just saw a bus take the rear end off a taxi.

xwraith · Post by **xwraith** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:27 pm

A haiku for every element

I like fluorine:

Tantrums? Explosions?
First step: admit the problem.
Electron envy.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:36 pm

Testing 123

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:43 pm

Jaymann wrote:Testing 123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vop4nbQrB4

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:52 pm

Jaymann wrote:Testing 123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lJz8xdZQu4

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:59 pm

Jaymann wrote:Testing 123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YKXCwVIQ4

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:31 pm

North Texas

A Denton County police department wants Whataburger customers to stop stealing the restaurants' orange plastic order numbers.

The Northeast Police Department, which serves Cross Roads and Krugerville, said in a Facebook post Saturday that it's a "game" for area teens to take the numbers.

"The issue has become very apparent when we ... at times possess more of these numbers than the restaurant does," the department said.

In one photo, the department showed a side-by-side comparison of the large stack of numbers they recovered in one case, compared with the few remaining at a Whataburger.

Those 70 numbers were recovered during an unrelated traffic stop about two weeks ago, Northeast Police Chief James Edland told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

"Whataburger is ordering a new bundle [of the numbers] every week because they disappear so fast," he said. "It might be a cool thing to do, but it's still stealing."

Houston

In what is arguably the most bizarre use of stolen restaurant equipment, the Houston Police Department has announced that it will no longer use table tents acquired from Whataburger as evidence markers at crime scenes across the city.

The practice was never official department policy, but the Department has now instructed its officers to stay away from using items with logos as evidence markers, according to the Houston Chronicle. "We got a lot of concerns as to whether Whataburger was endorsing us or whether we were endorsing Whataburger and whether they were a sponsor of the police department,” spokeswoman Jodi Silva told the paper.

The Department says its use of table tents as crime scene markers was born out of necessity, with officers using random items found in the area to protect evidence, including discarded coffee cups and takeout containers. Because Whataburger is on virtually every corner in Houston, the restaurant’s iconic table tents make for a quality placeholder until the Houston Forensic Center’s crime scene unit can place official evidence markers.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:07 pm

tldr

the Houston Police Department has announced that it will no longer use table tents acquired from Whataburger as evidence markers at crime scenes across the city.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:29 am

Just made an impulse buy because it just looked so elegant:

Azio Retro Classic keyboard

I backed the retro classic artisan.

Next thing you know they're going to have them old-fangled steam powered computation machines!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:15 pm

Looking at THIS Star Trek galaxy map how can anyone compete with the Federation?? Look at the number of planets in each Empire then compare to the Feds. Impossible.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:24 pm

Technically we don't have a map of the Romulan or Klingon domain... Those are just the systems we know about.

KDH · Post by **KDH** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:56 pm

...

... 100 year old fruit cake found in Antartica

<snip>

Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators found a 100 year old fruit cake among the artefacts from Cape Adare.

Made by Huntley & Palmers, the fruit cake is still wrapped in paper and encased in the remains of a tin-plated iron alloy tin. The cake probably dates to the Cape Adare-based Northern Party of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition (1910 – 1913) as it has been documented that Scott took this particular brand of cake with him at that time. Although the tin was in poor condition, the cake itself looked and smelt (almost) edible.

Spoiler:

I wonder if I could buy that and divide it up for Christmas gifts?

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:29 pm

Daehawk wrote:Looking at THIS Star Trek galaxy map how can anyone compete with the Federation?? Look at the number of planets in each Empire then compare to the Feds. Impossible.

1939 Germany would like to talk to you about assumptions based on size.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:41 pm

Daehawk wrote:Looking at THIS Star Trek galaxy map how can anyone compete with the Federation?? Look at the number of planets in each Empire then compare to the Feds. Impossible.

That is a map of canon locations (mostly stars.) Most of Star Trek canon is about the Federation. It is a reasonable assumption that the other areas have just as many important locations.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:02 pm

The wife and I are in the process of furnishing her new apartment in Phoenix.

Consequently, we just spent nearly two hours in an Ikea for the first time ever.
It's not really that bad except for the mad press of humanity you have to make your way through.

We managed to get out of there with a new futon, coffee table, kitchen table with four chairs, a queen sized bedframe, two night stands, and two reading lamps for under $850 and that's with them picking out all of the furniture and delivering it.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:47 pm

Blackhawk wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Looking at THIS Star Trek galaxy map how can anyone compete with the Federation?? Look at the number of planets in each Empire then compare to the Feds. Impossible.
That is a map of canon locations (mostly stars.) Most of Star Trek canon is about the Federation. It is a reasonable assumption that the other areas have just as many important locations.

They've revised the ST maps a few times. Where are the Tholians or the Gorn on this one?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:06 am

Holman wrote: They've revised the ST maps a few times. Where are the Tholians or the Gorn on this one?

Off of the map. Look in the upper right - Tholia is to the 'southwest' of the map. The Gorn are due 'south' of the Klingon Empire, the little tan blob right next to Cestus.

I mean... you asked.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:26 am

Was troubleshooting the cable/internet connections coming into the wife's new apartment and wondering why it worked in the bedroom but I could not get it working in the living room.

That is, until I pulled the cover plate off of the wall.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:28 am

Oooh. Wireless cable.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:32 am

I hear it's the latest thing. Still some bugs to work out though since I couldn't get it to work.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:50 pm

Brian wrote:Was troubleshooting the cable/internet connections coming into the wife's new apartment and wondering why it worked in the bedroom but I could not get it working in the living room.

That is, until I pulled the cover plate off of the wall.

Looks like the wire is a little too short....

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:48 pm

Woke up and cant hear as well out of my right ear. Sounds like half my hearing in that ear is gone. Ive cleaned it and cleaned it and ran warm water and alcohol into it multiple times. Still the same. Nothing comes out and nothing is crawling around. Just seem to have part of my ear capped off to sound. Maybe its swollen. Will have to have the doc look next visit. But damn losing part of your hearing instantly overnight is damn strange and hard to get used to.