Octopus Overlords

I really need some me time.

Not going to happen for at least another month.

Belly dancing wookie at GenCon.

Holman wrote:

hepcat wrote:Hey, guy in the office who continually tells everyone how good he's being about his diet. Repeatedly cutting the banana nut muffins I brought in this morning into halves and then eating them over the course of an hour, hoping that someone thinks three people are thereby eating said muffins, is fooling no one.

Especially after you upload the footage from your MuffinCam!

I did NOT get what I expected when I subbed to that.

Daehawk wrote: The times, the places, and the people are gone now. So I have my memories.

As long as you realize that, you're golden. I spent some time years ago chasing the past, always trying to relive the feeling I had in a time and place. Luckily I learned that the time and place were part of the memories, and can never be recreated. I can enjoy the memories, but I can never have those experiences again.

So much better to have some new experiences in this time and place to remember later on!

coopasonic wrote:

Holman wrote:

hepcat wrote:Hey, guy in the office who continually tells everyone how good he's being about his diet. Repeatedly cutting the banana nut muffins I brought in this morning into halves and then eating them over the course of an hour, hoping that someone thinks three people are thereby eating said muffins, is fooling no one.

Especially after you upload the footage from your MuffinCam!

I did NOT get what I expected when I subbed to that.

Drop the merger tasks so that I can make sure your back-to-school marketing campaign kicks off, that you gave us one day to complete? Sure thing.

Thanks for protecting us from petty BS from Marketing, Chief. I appreciate it.

One of my engineers decided to trust our vendor and do some testing in our prod environment today. Made a change that sent out new enrollment emails to about a thousand of our users before I spotted the problem and shut down our SMTP link. The environment continues to generate THOUSANDS of enrollment emails and our vendor has no clue how it's happening. And I'm the direct target of the wrath of my team lead because I'm the only engineer that's local.

I guess my Chrome just updated, I can't use backspace to go back anymore, either I use the mouse or Alt and the left arrow.


WTF!!!!

Vorret wrote:I guess my Chrome just updated, I can't use backspace to go back anymore, either I use the mouse or Alt and the left arrow.


WTF!!!!

This is probably hentzau's fault.

After living on this world 47 years I think 25% of humans are stupid assholes. Of those, 100% are not animal lovers.

I really LOVE not reading RR for a few days then catching up.
Drag sometimes bc I would have chimed in here an there if I was up to date.
Awesome bc the binge effect is similar to flipping through TV stations with a remote being controlled by someone else.

I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

Are you the walking embodiment of "If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all"?

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

The last one sound like a personal problem.

dbt1949 wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

The last one sound like a personal problem.

Or a personal triumph, depending.

wonderpug wrote:

Vorret wrote:I guess my Chrome just updated, I can't use backspace to go back anymore, either I use the mouse or Alt and the left arrow.


WTF!!!!

This is probably hentzau's fault.

Truer words, my friend. Truer words.

hentzau wrote:

wonderpug wrote:

Vorret wrote:I guess my Chrome just updated, I can't use backspace to go back anymore, either I use the mouse or Alt and the left arrow.


WTF!!!!

This is probably hentzau's fault.

Truer words, my friend. Truer words.

I don't think I already posted this, but there is a Chrome extension that put it back to the way it was - Back to Backspace.

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

Cracked windshield means jackpot in MA -- literally. Glass insurance with no deductible is mandatory as a safety regulation, so glass companies used to pay a bonus if you would call them to come to your home or place of employment and let them replace your windscreen. The payout was typically $50 but could go to $100 when the companies had a bidding war.

The legislature figured out the scam and banned bounty payments. So now the glass companies enter you in a daily drawing to win $50. The number of prizes exceeds the number of entries on most days. If you have a cracked windshield, you're gonna win $50.

Our deductible on glass is $250. After I settle that, I'll be talking to my agent about better glass coverage.

Kraken wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

Cracked windshield means jackpot in MA -- literally. Glass insurance with no deductible is mandatory as a safety regulation, so glass companies used to pay a bonus if you would call them to come to your home or place of employment and let them replace your windscreen. The payout was typically $50 but could go to $100 when the companies had a bidding war.

The legislature figured out the scam and banned bounty payments. So now the glass companies enter you in a daily drawing to win $50. The number of prizes exceeds the number of entries on most days. If you have a cracked windshield, you're gonna win $50.

Typical liberal wealth redistribution with a little vig for the house. So what is keeping them from making them give out free tires as well? You know for safety and all.

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

What in hell does the last one have to do with insurance !


edit: Ohhhh!! In her car!!

Unagi wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

What in hell does the last one have to do with insurance !


edit: Ohhhh!! In her car!!

That isn't the meaning of "I'd tap that", ya goober!

I just posted a pic on my FB page, pointing out that more people were killed by toddlers than terrorists (statistically true) and in the space of minutes, I had a Canadian ok the killings as long as they were Dems, and an American condone it as long a the slain were GOP.

Jeeze Louise, what the fuck? I just thought it was funny.

Thank God for $17 Freon can refills. My car ac died weeks ago and I finally couldn't take melting any longer. At first I thought it wasn't going to help then gave up and just kept filling. Presto it was low after all and is in the middle of the perfect setting now and cold as ice. Thank God. No more death car.

Rip wrote:

Kraken wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:I hit the insurance trifecta. I have a cracked windshield that I need to schedule for replacement. The roof on the house is totaled and will be replaced. And my wife just got rear-ended.

Cracked windshield means jackpot in MA -- literally. Glass insurance with no deductible is mandatory as a safety regulation, so glass companies used to pay a bonus if you would call them to come to your home or place of employment and let them replace your windscreen. The payout was typically $50 but could go to $100 when the companies had a bidding war.

The legislature figured out the scam and banned bounty payments. So now the glass companies enter you in a daily drawing to win $50. The number of prizes exceeds the number of entries on most days. If you have a cracked windshield, you're gonna win $50.

Typical liberal wealth redistribution with a little vig for the house. So what is keeping them from making them give out free tires as well? You know for safety and all.

Lobbying clout, I imagine. The glass provision is decades old and safely enshrined. IDK how it got there in the first place.

I should have mentioned, though, that you forfeit your "entry into the drawing" if you have the glass company come to you. You have to take your car into their facility to claim your "prize." So it just ends up being free glass replacement for most of us.

Me and my wife have sat here nearly 2 hours watching old music videos and stuff on the Xbox...I mean old as in Frankie Valli, The Monkeys, Temptations....the great music when music was music and a love song was still king. Its been great.

Much as I love the music of the 60s there was still a lot of crap in there too.
It's the same way with all the different decades of music. We tend to just remember the stuff we liked.

Yup.

I still have the original 45 of that.

I remember it only as the background song to a film strip (yes, I'm that old) presentation in a social studies class in junior high.

hepcat wrote:I remember it only as the background song to a film strip (yes, I'm that old) presentation in a social studies class in junior high.

Ahhh film strips. Good times. Along with sniffing ditto paper.

$iljanus wrote:Along with sniffing ditto paper.

Ya know, I unpacked one of those large RubberMaid bins filled with stuff my mom saved from childhood... those ditto copies STILL smell the same!

KKBlue wrote:

$iljanus wrote:Along with sniffing ditto paper.

Ya know, I unpacked one of those large RubberMaid bins filled with stuff my mom saved from childhood... those ditto copies STILL smell the same!

Lol. On the other hand I wonder if the persistent smell is due to some nice carcinogen that just refuses to break down (gulp)

$iljanus wrote:

KKBlue wrote:

$iljanus wrote:Along with sniffing ditto paper.

Ya know, I unpacked one of those large RubberMaid bins filled with stuff my mom saved from childhood... those ditto copies STILL smell the same!

Lol. On the other hand I wonder if the persistent smell is due to some nice carcinogen that just refuses to break down (gulp)

Well...how do you feel about the Ozone layer? Regardless, keep those ditto pages out of the sun!

Smoove_B wrote:

$iljanus wrote:

KKBlue wrote:

$iljanus wrote:Along with sniffing ditto paper.

Ya know, I unpacked one of those large RubberMaid bins filled with stuff my mom saved from childhood... those ditto copies STILL smell the same!

Lol. On the other hand I wonder if the persistent smell is due to some nice carcinogen that just refuses to break down (gulp)

Well...how do you feel about the Ozone layer? Regardless, keep those ditto pages out of the sun!

Obviously the "ozone layer" is a myth perpetuated by the liberal elites.

Your childhood destroyed the planet!

I'm pretty happy I wasn't travelling on Delta yesterday.

Ars wrote:According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the primary. Firefighters took a while to extinguish the fire. Power is now back up and 400 out of the 500 servers rebooted, still waiting for the last 100 to have the whole system fully functional

I was telling my kids the other day about how the first step of taking a test was usually the teacher going through and telling you all the corrections to write on the test itself where the ditto machine had botched it.

I think I've just about reached my limit on superhero movies.
I still like my sci-fi and fantasy movies but not populated by Marvel and DC heroes.

I used to type ditto masters. It was an unforgiving process. I liked the smell, though, and the process of literally cranking out copies.