Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:37 am**

Just the eyes. That's it.

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:12 pm**

Discovered this Twitter feed this morning at work: https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1
My productivity has been exactly zero in the past half hour

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:31 pm**

gilraen wrote:Discovered this Twitter feed this morning at work: https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1
My productivity has been exactly zero in the past half hour

That's a great time-waster.

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:02 pm**

Krispy Kreme Reese's Peanut Butter Donut

Boeing Dreamliner draws itself over the US.

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:11 pm**

Daehawk wrote:Krispy Kreme Reese's Peanut Butter Donut

I'm going into a sugar coma just reading the description.

Damn, now I want one

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:47 pm**

I want one also but no peanuts on top.

1995 computer buying guide.

Posted: **Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:07 pm**

gilraen wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Krispy Kreme Reese's Peanut Butter Donut
I'm going into a sugar coma just reading the description.

Damn, now I want one

The sweet treat will cost $1.69, and will only be available for a limited time in the US.

Is that to hint at some other hidden (cloaked) world where we could get them forever!? WTF

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:24 pm**

Strange bit of misogyny.

So I'm composing an email about cleaning old workstations and releasing them to charity. When in the course of my email I am trying to compare the value of these workstations to the unreasonable amounts people on the Internet are asking for their similar used workstation and it occurs to me that describing "like new" workstations to be "cherry" probably isn't business appropriate. And it took me quite a while to find an alternate description because I don't improvise well and because literally for my entire life "unused and undamaged" has been described as "cherry."

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:41 pm**

LordMortis wrote:Strange bit of misogyny.

So I'm composing an email about cleaning old workstations and releasing them to charity. When in the course of my email I am trying to compare the value of these workstations to the unreasonable amounts people on the Internet are asking for their similar used workstation and it occurs to me that describing "like new" workstations to be "cherry" probably isn't business appropriate. And it took me quite a while to find an alternate description because I don't improvise well and because literally for my entire life "unused and undamaged" has been described as "cherry."

Mint

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:43 pm**

Im too pedestrian to know that using 'cherry' is inappropriate.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:17 pm**

Well, I've got a car.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:34 pm**

LordMortis wrote:Strange bit of misogyny.

So I'm composing an email about cleaning old workstations and releasing them to charity. When in the course of my email I am trying to compare the value of these workstations to the unreasonable amounts people on the Internet are asking for their similar used workstation and it occurs to me that describing "like new" workstations to be "cherry" probably isn't business appropriate. And it took me quite a while to find an alternate description because I don't improvise well and because literally for my entire life "unused and undamaged" has been described as "cherry."

"Pristine" or "mint condition" would likely be more apropos.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:46 pm**

LordMortis wrote:Strange bit of misogyny.

So I'm composing an email about cleaning old workstations and releasing them to charity. When in the course of my email I am trying to compare the value of these workstations to the unreasonable amounts people on the Internet are asking for their similar used workstation and it occurs to me that describing "like new" workstations to be "cherry" probably isn't business appropriate. And it took me quite a while to find an alternate description because I don't improvise well and because literally for my entire life "unused and undamaged" has been described as "cherry."

I've never heard that before. I'd assume that they were made of cherry wood...which is probably a quadruple entendre in LM World.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:50 pm**

Kraken wrote:I've never heard that before. I'd assume that they were made of cherry wood...which is probably a quadruple entendre in LM World.

Is this bit of misogyny only in my tiny world? A cherry engine while working on a car or in board gaming a cherry mech or a cherry squad in computer gaming. We used it everywhere. I actually assumed it was a military thing when I was old enough to learn why something was being called cherry.

And dammit, I need to learn to stop saying "It is what it is" Soon I'm going to need the punch in the nose at this rate.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:52 pm**

I absolutely know the term, but have never used it. So, it's not just in your brain.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:53 pm**

I am familiar with the term. I would understand it if you were to use it. I would never make a connection with misogyny if you hadn't pointed it out, though I can see it now that you have.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:53 pm**

stimpy wrote: Mint

Where were you two hours ago?

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:56 pm**

I would totally use the word "cherry" to describe something . . .

. . . if I were a 1950s greaser.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:59 pm**

ImLawBoy wrote:I would totally use the word "cherry" to describe something . . .

. . . if I were a 1950s greaser.

Thanks! I feel much cooler now than I did a minute ago. Take that HepC!

My boss rolled her eyes and shook her head at me when I told her what I almost did.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:59 pm**

Daehawk wrote: And next the one I like for the material and color. Its problem is steel bearings and the videos Ive seen show them to be the worst with the best being ceramic hybrid.

UFO SPINNER New Version Fidget Spinner

$4.45 - Fidget spinner: 3-5 minutes average spins. We will send you a free screwdriver and a extra bearing if you purchase this ATESSON spinner.
No big noise: Easy to carry, small, simple, discrete and fun, also effective for focus and deep thought with using this hand spinner
Great bearing: The fidget spinner use Stainless steel bearing, SLA and laser industrial molding technology. Good gravity, fast rotation.
Hold hand spinner in one hand and use the other hand to spin it rapidly using small continuous strikes to keep it spinning indefinitely with practice

i got this today:

- no replacement bearing (or anything at all, other than the spinner)
- spin time is all of about 30 seconds

i contacted the seller.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:05 pm**

I like chocolate chip ice cream. Not chocolate shrapnel ice cream.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:08 pm**

ImLawBoy wrote:I would totally use the word "cherry" to describe something . . .

. . . if I were a 1950s greaser.

Aren't you a 1950s greaser, though?

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:09 pm**

El Guapo wrote:
ImLawBoy wrote:I would totally use the word "cherry" to describe something . . .

. . . if I were a 1950s greaser.
Aren't you a 1950s greaser, though?

Cheese off, buster!

/dismissively flips leather jacket collar up and walks away combing hair

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:12 pm**

i got this today:

- no replacement bearing (or anything at all, other than the spinner)
- spin time is all of about 30 seconds

i contacted the seller.

Well I can mark that one off.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:17 pm**

Trent Steel wrote:I like chocolate chip ice cream. Not chocolate shrapnel ice cream.

Took one to do the knee, did ya?

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:11 pm**

For the last few days Ive been watching a couple Star Wars battle videos trying to figure out which I think is best. One is of course the Endor battle from Return of the Jedi and the other is the Scarif one from Rogue One.

Both are really good and seeing a modern day Star Wars space battle is sweet but I still think the Endor one is a bit better. Maybe Im jaded being my age. Or perhaps its the music or the original actors. I just like the Endor one a little bit more.

And that Hammerhead Corvette should have survived that battle over Scarif dammit

Battle of Endor
Battle of Scarif

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:13 pm**

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:22 pm**

Front right is Patrick Stewart.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:23 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Battle of Endor
Battle of Scarif

Wish they would show us the Battle of Taanab. Word is that there was some sort of maneuver performed there.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:32 pm**

Dadgummit Jim! I started checking out Star Trek Continues videos on YouTube and now I have them on my watch list to get to also.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2017 2:39 pm**

Daehawk wrote:Dadgummit Jim! I started checking out Star Trek Continues videos on YouTube and now I have them on my watch list to get to also.

Just finished episode 9, "What Ships Are For", a few minutes ago. Good stuff with a surprise guest star.

I read on the facebook that there are only two more episodes to come. Don't know why they're ending it, but I suspect it has something to do with Paramount and rights. I will miss it.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2017 3:45 pm**

RV got itself wedged on Golden Gate Bridge

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2017 3:49 pm**

Kraken wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Dadgummit Jim! I started checking out Star Trek Continues videos on YouTube and now I have them on my watch list to get to also.
Just finished episode 9, "What Ships Are For", a few minutes ago. Good stuff with a surprise guest star.

I read on the facebook that there are only two more episodes to come. Don't know why they're ending it, but I suspect it has something to do with Paramount and rights. I will miss it.

I cant believe or count how many other Trek and sci fi show actors and actresses are in this show. Just now checking out ep one that still Michael Forest playing Apollo as he did in Who Mourns for Adonis? and the computer voice is clearly Marina Sirtis of Deana Troi fame. All eps seem to have them in it.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2017 6:42 pm**

here are all the 's?

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2017 9:39 am**

I had no idea John Bon Jovi played guitar. I just found out he played for Patty Smyth's Scandal. I think I found a video too. Strange.

Also woke up this morning thinking of the movie Enemy Mine. One of my all time favorites with two great actors. I hope they are both ok..got a weird vibe.

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:40 am**

Daehawk wrote:I had no idea John Bon Jovi played guitar. I just found out he played for Patty Smyth's Scandal. I think I found a video too. Strange.

Also woke up this morning thinking of the movie Enemy Mine. One of my all time favorites with two great actors. I hope they are both ok..got a weird vibe.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hb1FnH2cps

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2017 11:14 am**

Ya thats the video. The one I saw was better quality and they never film him but a sweep here or there. If I didn't know it was him Id never guess.

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2017 5:59 pm**

Sure, but did you know Patty Smyth is married to tennis great John McEnroe?

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2017 6:25 pm**

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2017 7:14 pm**

Our weather forecast is smoke. Nice one.

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