Random randomness

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:12 pm

Just fixed that Cracker Barrel Mac & Cheese. It did not come out looking like the picture on the packaging. Didn't taste like they promised either. I love Cracker Barrel restaurants but not sure why they added their name to this product. Runny, pale, and even with the cheese packet didn't taste like cheese.

I fixed it though. I heated it an additional 35 sec to make it thicker then added salt, black pepper,butter, and a bit of both onion powder and garlic powder. Finally I tossed in some Velveeta cheese slice. This made it quite nice actually. Half way through the bowl I added....you guessed it..Franks Red Hot. Toasty.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:33 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:25 am From some of the stuff you folks eat Id think you were pregnant.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:51 pm

We have a history major among us

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:01 pm

We warned you about that post.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:45 pm

Actually I think Smoove has ya beat. He seems to remember every post Ive ever made....that or he has plenty of time to hack the search engine as I can never find posts with it..not even my own that I know are there.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:48 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:49 pm Sometimes I like to weird up my food.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:35 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:49 pm Sometimes I like to weird up my food. Here in the south we have Krystals and up north they have White Castle. They both have basically the same little square hamburgers called sliders. I get the WC frozen ones for my freezer.

Anyways I usually only add salt and mustard....or extra mustard. But just now I had them with salt, mustard, mayo, a ton of Franks Red Hot and topped with sauerkraut. So good.

I wonder at these times if Im pregnant.

Be careful if you are pregnant - adding salt on top of White Castle will have you retaining water like crazy!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:08 am

I take a water pill with my blood pressure pill

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:10 am

Saw a strange sight in the sky just now when I walked my dog. It looked like a green X-Wing with the s foils opened. I stared at and squinted and walked around. It stayed greenish in color and really looked like an X in the sky. Bright. It was like a bright dot in the center then the four lines leading out to not as bright spots at the ends of the X. The moon looked fine except brighter. I was actually starting to think it was my blood pressure as I have been out of medicine for days now. Got worried haha. Then I noticed if I looked hard at the other stars they were like an X too but white and barely visible.

In the end I concluded that it must be ice crystals aloft and that star being the brightest made it easy to see and look the way it did. The other stars were obscured a good bit though theres no clouds. But in my 52 years Ive never seen stars look like an X or one to be so emerald green. Looked like a Christmas light.

The aliens are probably like "I think we fooled him. Ya, ya we definitely fooled him he is going in"

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:56 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:10 amThe aliens are probably like "I think we fooled him. Ya, ya we definitely fooled him he is going in"

More like the CIA saying "Why is that dude staring at our satellite? It's like he's looking right at us."

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:37 pm

Dad passed back in September of 2017. Over the weekend, Mom was cleaning out his old office and found a 100GB external hard drive shoved in the back of a desk drawer. She asked me to just "give it a quick look and see if there's anything on it".

Turns out, it had backups of all the pictures from dad's phones and digital cameras that we thought had been lost. Nearly 3,000 pictures in the 2000-2012 time frame from vacations, family gatherings, kids birthdays, etc.

I've had a seriously dusty room and have got nothing done at all for work today.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:43 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:37 pm Dad passed back in September of 2017. Over the weekend, Mom was cleaning out his old office and found a 100GB external hard drive shoved in the back of a desk drawer. She asked me to just "give it a quick look and see if there's anything on it".

Turns out, it had backups of all the pictures from dad's phones and digital cameras that we thought had been lost. Nearly 3,000 pictures in the 2000-2012 time frame from vacations, family gatherings, kids birthdays, etc.

I've had a seriously dusty room and have got nothing done at all for work today.

{hugs} So glad they weren't lost.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:23 pm

Oof.

A low-end phone store ("Boost Mobile") on the commercial strip two blocks from my house was robbed at gunpoint three days ago. Armed/violent crimes are pretty rare in this neighborhood, so it got a lot of local and police attention.

I was just now walking the dog and learned that the same place was hit again this afternoon, and someone was shot in the leg. There were at least seven police SUVs there, and a helicopter has been overhead for an hour.

My assumption is that this isn't about phones. The place never appeared to have any business anyway, and it certainly wouldn't have been flush with cash after being robbed on the weekend.

Presumably someone was selling something under the counter and that's what this is about.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:25 pm

S'all good man.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:27 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:23 pm Presumably someone was selling something under the counter and that's what this is about.

Spoiler:

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:29 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:25 pm S'all good man.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:30 pm

wonderpug wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:27 pm
Holman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:23 pm Presumably someone was selling something under the counter and that's what this is about.

Spoiler:
(phones?)

Given some of the people I've seen go in and out of there, I'm gonna go with

Spoiler:

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:34 am

IT Tip of the Day
Telling me to make it work and getting angry that it isn't working doesn't actually make it work or give me magical powers to fix the unfixable.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:41 am

Just paid over $3 for gas for the first time in years.
Thanks Biden.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:56 am

I was alive to pay over $3 for gas today.
Thanks Biden.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:57 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:56 am I was alive to pay over $3 for gas today.
Thanks Biden.

Exactly how many times did you die in the past 4 years?
Well, not metaphorically.
That was a little every day, I'm sure.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:02 am

Aw, you're adorable.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:04 am

Thanks, zombie hepcat!!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:05 am

You're welcome, newly angry guy #231.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:06 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:05 am You're welcome, newly angry guy #231.

Newly???
It's like you dont even know me at all......

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:08 am

Thanks!

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:11 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:08 amThanks!

Exactly.

Hey, wanna start our own thread?
Zombie hepcat vs oldly angry guy #231
WHO CAN GET THE LAST WORD IN????
The Thrilla in Vanilla

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:41 am

Gas - $2.30.

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:44 am

I haven't been to a gas station since last October.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:49 am

Exodor wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:44 am I haven't been to a gas station since last October.

I bought a brand new car in December 2019 and just hit 4,000 miles on it......

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 11:42 am

Blame the vaccines and the reduction in COVID. Production was cut when nobody was driving. Now people are feeling safe (

) and they're starting to drive again. So supply is down, and demand is up. (I've read that the storm also took down a number of refineries in Texas and across the south, which is also a factor.)

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:04 pm

Exodor wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:44 am I haven't been to a gas station since last October.

August 2018... (not precisely true, twice since then in my wife's car)

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:06 pm

So, an ad for "Floribama Shore" popped up in my FB feed yesterday. It brought up SO many questions.

1. Who actually watches this stuff? I mean, someone must be tuning in, otherwise they wouldn't be making it, right?
2. Facebook probably has the most precise ad targeting ever. How on earth did this get to me?
3. MTV is still a thing?
4. Wait...they're on Season 4 of this? How?
5. "Floribama"? Really?

The human race continues to baffle me.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:14 pm

Obviously this is something you should be watching or Facebook wouldn't have given you the ad. Listen to Mark Zuckerberg - he knows what's best for you. Time to set the DVR!

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:53 pm

Zukerberg uber alles!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:21 pm

Going to be 77 today. geez.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:31 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:21 pm Going to be 77 today. geez.

You don't look a DAY over 40!

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:33 pm

It's not the age it's the mileage.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:34 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:14 pm Obviously this is something you should be watching or Facebook wouldn't have given you the ad. Listen to Mark Zuckerberg - he knows what's best for you. Time to set the DVR!

Spotify does the same thing. I use it to listen almost exclusively to extreme metal, yet I invariably get ads for "the latest release by rapper XYZ". I'm sure those ads probably hit everyone equally, but it always makes me laugh when one comes up.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Wed Feb 24, 2021 2:52 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:06 pm So, an ad for "Floribama Shore" popped up in my FB feed yesterday. It brought up SO many questions.

1. Who actually watches this stuff? I mean, someone must be tuning in, otherwise they wouldn't be making it, right?
2. Facebook probably has the most precise ad targeting ever. How on earth did this get to me?
3. MTV is still a thing?
4. Wait...they're on Season 4 of this? How?
5. "Floribama"? Really?

The human race continues to baffle me.

when i saw the SNL version, i didn't even know there was a show - don't need to, it is its own parody: