Random randomness

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:36 pm

Brian wrote:So sometime since the last time I renewed my drivers license the state of Nebraska changed the abbreviation for hazel from HZL to HAZ so now my drivers license indicates - Eyes : HAZ

Which is a good thing to haz eyes when you are driving a vehicle.

Youz haz wut?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:38 pm

Too good to fact check

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/american-airli ... al-1630613

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:57 pm

Brian wrote:So sometime since the last time I renewed my drivers license the state of Nebraska changed the abbreviation for hazel from HZL to HAZ so now my drivers license indicates - Eyes : HAZ

Which is a good thing to haz eyes when you are driving a vehicle.

Texas appears to abbreviate hazel as "GRN"

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:54 pm

Reading a defiant review of a game that sounded more like a story than a game in the "under the radar" thread...

I wonder if kids still like pop up books or if computers somehow took the joy out of them.

Pop up books were my favorite. It wasn't just the interactive story illustrations. It was the engineering. The something different. The attacking a narrative from different directions (though I wouldn't learn what a narrative is until many years later). It was the same thing grabbed for the 70's Disney telling of Winnie the Pooh, which was by far my favorite set of stories. My parents bought the Disney album for The Blustery Day and I'd play it over and over and read along with story book. That passive love never died. Two decades later I'd discover Griffin and Sabine and the magic was there. What a precious series of books.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:55 pm

Why is Chewbacca's bandolier on the Google page with a bug?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:59 pm

It's a cricket ball being hit by a cricket.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:05 pm

1) That's a cricket?
and 1) That's a cricket ball?

Jiminy, I don't see cricket in any of that, except maybe in long spatula.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:06 pm

LordMortis wrote:Reading a defiant review of a game that sounded more like a story than a game in the "under the radar" thread...

I wonder if kids still like pop up books or if computers somehow took the joy out of them.

Pop up books were my favorite. It wasn't just the interactive story illustrations. It was the engineering. The something different. The attacking a narrative from different directions (though I wouldn't learn what a narrative is until many years later). It was the same thing grabbed for the 70's Disney telling of Winnie the Pooh, which was by far my favorite set of stories. My parents bought the Disney album for The Blustery Day and I'd play it over and over and read along with story book. That passive love never died. Two decades later I'd discover Griffin and Sabine and the magic was there. What a precious series of books.

I can confirm at least some young kids still think they are pretty awesome.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:11 pm

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:25 pm

While imaging a machine, I just remembered flashes from a dream last night. I had a pocket watch on a chain that fit into that tiny pocket that you often see on the right front side of slacks and I was riding a rollercoaster to get from one spot outside of this huge building to another spot outside of that building.

What puzzles me as I sit here imaging this machine, is that I remember the pocket watch being full sized and yet those tiny slacks pockets are tiny and the pocket did, in fact, fit in that tiny pocket. I also for the life of me can't remember what the chain attached to.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:46 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Cut the cord AND get HBO. HBO Now is available as a standalone streaming service, which you can get through pretty much any of the streaming devices.

PIrate the shit out of that show. It's the most pirated show in the history of arrrrgggh.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:03 pm

Brian wrote:So sometime since the last time I renewed my drivers license the state of Nebraska changed the abbreviation for hazel from HZL to HAZ so now my drivers license indicates - Eyes : HAZ

Which is a good thing to haz eyes when you are driving a vehicle.

I often buy Land O Lakes cheese at the deli. The label says LOL Cheese, but it's never done anything funny. Which is probably a good quality for cheese.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:36 pm

Kraken wrote:
Brian wrote:So sometime since the last time I renewed my drivers license the state of Nebraska changed the abbreviation for hazel from HZL to HAZ so now my drivers license indicates - Eyes : HAZ

Which is a good thing to haz eyes when you are driving a vehicle.
I often buy Land O Lakes cheese at the deli. The label says LOL Cheese, but it's never done anything funny. Which is probably a good quality for cheese.

So mine would be eyes: BLU? I haz blu out me eyes!!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:56 pm

Im surprised these days when I look for something on the web and cant find it. Back in the 90s it was new and very common to find nothing at all you wanted. But now days its a surprise to me. Like I was looking for a webpage that had the largest of each Star Trek groups ships listed...Federation, Klingon, Romulan and so on....and compared them. I could look up each ship by their own I guess but you'd think someone would have made a single page by now...nope.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:02 pm

Daehawk wrote:Im surprised these days when I look for something on the web and cant find it. Back in the 90s it was new and very common to find nothing at all you wanted. But now days its a surprise to me. Like I was looking for a webpage that had the largest of each Star Trek groups ships listed...Federation, Klingon, Romulan and so on....and compared them. I could look up each ship by their own I guess but you'd think someone would have made a single page by now...nope.

I'm the other way around. I used to find what I was looking for on Google in the top three answers every time the first time I tried. Nowadays, half the first page are advertisement answers and then I have to wade through incorrect link after incorrect link to find what I'm looking for and all too often a simple answer links to a youtube 30 second session that isn't what I'm looking for.

Now if I want to buy something and I'm not just looking for information, I can generally find someone willing to sell it to me at some price in seconds or minutes depending on how obscure the thing I need is or if I discover that I have to pull a serial number off some other thing to better define the thing I'm looking for.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:50 pm

Starting to get that feeling of dread that always creeps up on me about 5 days before I leave for a week at boy scout camp...

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:57 pm

I just watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes again. There were what, hundreds of apes or more?
I looked it up on line and there are about 23 that live in the area in zoos and only one or two privately.
And how are 25 or hundreds of apes going to get food in the giant redwoods?
Just sayin' that's all.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:06 pm

Daehawk wrote:Im surprised these days when I look for something on the web and cant find it. Back in the 90s it was new and very common to find nothing at all you wanted. But now days its a surprise to me. Like I was looking for a webpage that had the largest of each Star Trek groups ships listed...Federation, Klingon, Romulan and so on....and compared them. I could look up each ship by their own I guess but you'd think someone would have made a single page by now...nope.

What's wrong with this one?

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:07 pm

dbt1949 wrote:I just watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes again. There were what, hundreds of apes or more?
I looked it up on line and there are about 23 that live in the area in zoos and only one or two privately.
And how are 25 or hundreds of apes going to get food in the giant redwoods?
Just sayin' that's all.

Movies like this require suspension of critical thinking, typically.

Default · Post by **Default** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:09 pm

hentzau wrote:Starting to get that feeling of dread that always creeps up on me about 5 days before I leave for a week at boy scout camp...

Nothing can possibly go wrong!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:16 pm

gilraen wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Im surprised these days when I look for something on the web and cant find it. Back in the 90s it was new and very common to find nothing at all you wanted. But now days its a surprise to me. Like I was looking for a webpage that had the largest of each Star Trek groups ships listed...Federation, Klingon, Romulan and so on....and compared them. I could look up each ship by their own I guess but you'd think someone would have made a single page by now...nope.
What's wrong with this one?

Unless Im mistaken that ships from the MMO and its just Feds really. I just want the biggest ship from each fleet with a comparison.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:28 pm

Daehawk wrote:
gilraen wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Im surprised these days when I look for something on the web and cant find it. Back in the 90s it was new and very common to find nothing at all you wanted. But now days its a surprise to me. Like I was looking for a webpage that had the largest of each Star Trek groups ships listed...Federation, Klingon, Romulan and so on....and compared them. I could look up each ship by their own I guess but you'd think someone would have made a single page by now...nope.
What's wrong with this one?
Unless Im mistaken that ships from the MMO and its just Feds really. I just want the biggest ship from each fleet with a comparison.

Put "infographic star trek ship comparison" in Google then search through the images.

One of the links.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:03 pm

stessier wrote:
Daehawk wrote:
gilraen wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Im surprised these days when I look for something on the web and cant find it. Back in the 90s it was new and very common to find nothing at all you wanted. But now days its a surprise to me. Like I was looking for a webpage that had the largest of each Star Trek groups ships listed...Federation, Klingon, Romulan and so on....and compared them. I could look up each ship by their own I guess but you'd think someone would have made a single page by now...nope.
What's wrong with this one?
Unless Im mistaken that ships from the MMO and its just Feds really. I just want the biggest ship from each fleet with a comparison.
Put "infographic star trek ship comparison" in Google then search through the images.

One of the links.

Ok thats a cool site. TY.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:23 am

Playing catch-up in Randomness (yet again).

LordMortis wrote:While imaging a machine, I just remembered flashes from a dream last night.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:54 am

KKBlue wrote:Playing catch-up in Randomness (yet again).
LordMortis wrote:While imaging a machine, I just remembered flashes from a dream last night.

That statement makes perfect sense to the Tech folks here. Which is odd for a Mortis post.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:04 am

coopasonic wrote:
KKBlue wrote:Playing catch-up in Randomness (yet again).
LordMortis wrote:While imaging a machine, I just remembered flashes from a dream last night.

That statement makes perfect sense to the Tech folks here. Which is odd for a Mortis post.

In that moment of tedium, the mind wanders.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:14 pm

coopasonic wrote:
KKBlue wrote:Playing catch-up in Randomness (yet again).
LordMortis wrote:While imaging a machine, I just remembered flashes from a dream last night.

That statement makes perfect sense to the Tech folks here. Which is odd for a Mortis post.

It took me a sec, because I don't typically do that work, but I got it after a moment.

For KKB, imaging a machine is the process of wiping a computer's OS drive and putting a brand spanking new "image" on it. It's an "image" rather than an "install" because all the configuration is already done and the process of "imaging the machine" is a simple data copy to the hard drive. It's faster and less work than doing a new install. It requires more work ahead of time prepping things, but it's ideal when you need to add lots of new (identical) machines to a network or someone has corrupted an already existing machine and you just need to get back to the base configuration.

As implied by both LM and Paingod, once the up front work is done, the process of imaging has a lot of waiting around for it to finish.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:05 pm

GreenGoo wrote:As implied by both LM and Paingod, once the up front work is done, the process of imaging has a lot of waiting around for it to finish.

I've always found the amount of time I spend in IT waiting and watching little progress bars is staggering. I've probably a day or two of time off my life to those in my 11 year career so far.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:21 pm

I try to work on three plus projects at once.

The three problems are when everything starts happening at once and I can't keep up, my brain doesn't always shift gears fast enough and sloppy mistakes get made, sometimes you get stalled in "watching and waiting" mode on all three projects... which is where OO comes in...

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:27 pm

Paingod wrote:
GreenGoo wrote:As implied by both LM and Paingod, once the up front work is done, the process of imaging has a lot of waiting around for it to finish.
I've always found the amount of time I spend in IT waiting and watching little progress bars is staggering. I've probably a day or two of time off my life to those in my 11 year career so far.

I hear its only after your 12th year that you realize its not the bars you should be watching but the little spinning numbers.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:20 pm

The VA wants me to pee into a container for 24 hours. Updating as needed. Then keep in in the fridge. It needs to be cold.
No way am I leaving a large container of pee that I'm constantly updating in fridge. So no test for VA.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:25 pm

The VA wants me to pee into a container for 24 hours.

That's a lot of water to be consumed. Your urethra will hurt after that, I'm sure.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:13 pm

Get an ice cooler.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:27 pm

dbt1949 wrote:The VA wants me to pee into a container for 24 hours. Updating as needed. Then keep in in the fridge. It needs to be cold.
No way am I leaving a large container of pee that I'm constantly updating in fridge. So no test for VA.

Any chance your wife might think it's cider?

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:09 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Get an ice cooler.

That'll definitely help soothe the overworked urethra.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:13 pm

UK Woman found with 27 missing contact lenses in her eye

A “blueish mass” of 17 contact lenses has been discovered in the eye of a patient who was scheduled for cataract surgery.

Specialist trainee ophthalmologist, Rupal Morjaria, told OT that another 10 individual contact lenses were discovered in the woman’s eye following further examination at Solihull Hospital.

Seriously. HOW do you know know that you have left a contact in your eye???

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:20 pm

3rd posting?

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:22 pm

Daehawk wrote:3rd posting?

Sorry, must have missed the previous two.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:35 pm

hentzau wrote:
Daehawk wrote:3rd posting?
Sorry, must have missed the previous two.

Try taking out a few sets of contacts... or maybe add some.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:56 pm

I told my dog I was going to lick his nose and I dont think he believed me. Then I licked his nose.