Octopus Overlords

I miss playing Magic: The Gathering with friends. If I move to a new town I have my eye on, the giant comic shop there has a basement where they have tournaments but I just don't think I can bring myself to randomly join an event. Besides, I'd only want to play with my old cards and not buy new ones. I would someday like to finish off all of my sets, though.

Default wrote:

Resurgence!

Where is that?

GreenGoo wrote:

stessier wrote:

Remus West wrote:given your edit? Definitely not.

Come on - everyone knows what those stray "e"s mean.

Are you coming on to me?

[Austin Powers]
Yeah, Baby.
[/Austin Powers]

stessier wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:

stessier wrote:

Remus West wrote:given your edit? Definitely not.

Come on - everyone knows what those stray "e"s mean.

Are you coming on to me?

[Austin Powers]
Yeah, Baby.
[/Austin Powers]

This makes me angry.

Smoove_B wrote:I had a robocall from a politician last night at 9:55pm, asking me to vote for him today. Coincidentally I also found out that the USPS will not ship a box filled with dog feces to a state government office.

Canada Post, on the other hand, will deliver human body parts to our government.

Or anywhere, apparently.

GreenGoo wrote:...
This makes me angry.

I actually smiled at that. Good one Green!

Smiles are good.

Kelric wrote:I miss playing Magic: The Gathering with friends. If I move to a new town I have my eye on, the giant comic shop there has a basement where they have tournaments but I just don't think I can bring myself to randomly join an event. Besides, I'd only want to play with my old cards and not buy new ones. I would someday like to finish off all of my sets, though.

Stay away from tournaments, look for people playing Commander/edh.

$6000 a year maintain software licensing for what is essentially a 16 bit application developed over 20 years ago. Company was sold first to (then) SBC and then to IBM. Haven't called for support in years. I just found out they disconnected their toll free support number. I had to call a general IBM dispatch number. Waiting for a technician to call back for over two hours and suspect I won't get a phone call today. I'm going to ask what it is I'm paying support for when I do get a call.

I've going to make a game for iPhones and such called "Angry Nerds".
It'll be just like Angry Birds except you'll be shooting Best Buy employees across the screen.

dbt you might want to put a claim on that idea you might have a million dollar maker there!

So my friend's wife is doing the Warrior Dash on Saturday. Good for her.

I couldn’t even be arsed to do the Warrior’s Leisurely Stroll Down to the Local Pub For A Pint of Bitters And a Nosh.

As a 38 year old man, there's no reason for me to have Call Me Maybe stuck in my head, and yet, here we are. In case you're curious, this is what happens when you research a new meme.



EDIT: Yeah, this pretty much sums it up:

Kelric wrote:

Default wrote:

Resurgence!

Where is that?

Loue River, in France.

Default wrote:

Kelric wrote:

Default wrote:

Resurgence!

Where is that?

Loue River, in France.

It's gorgeous.

MHS wrote:

Default wrote:

Kelric wrote:

Default wrote:

Resurgence!

Where is that?

Loue River, in France.

It's gorgeous.

It's France.

tjg_marantz wrote:

MHS wrote:

Default wrote:

Kelric wrote:

Default wrote:

Resurgence!

Where is that?

Loue River, in France.

It's gorgeous.

It's France.

Tru dat! I was going through the photos with my oldest last night when he dropped the car off. There are some real desktop wallpapers, even with the cheap camera. That is part of a river that drops into a faultline, travels for miles underground and then resurges out of the side of a mountain. It was discovered to be a continuous river when there was a accident at a brewery and a huge amount of absinthe was dumped into the river. Downstream, the water turned white and smelled of anise. A guy dipped his cup into the river and realised that it was diluted absinthe.

Unfortunately, I seem to be doing nothing but sleeping since I got home.

How effing ridiculous is it that you need a former roommate to sign a removal form for you to renew my effing lease?!? The term of the paperwork he signed is expired. I've asked for a renewal, he's no longer a resident, and I'm asking to sign a new 1-yr lease. I fail to see how he has any impact on this paperwork.

And because the month to month rent is higher than the lease I've requested, you put a late notice on my door?!? What sort of cluster are you people running here?

I swear, I am glad that this is the last lease I'll be signing with you. As much as I like the complex, dealing with the office staff is like pulling teeth.

I hate you so bad Mr. D-bag.

Step-son.

Sunburn.

ow ow ow ow

Had a fun party on the patio last night. Amazed at how trashed the kitchen got (figured of I posted, it would give me five more minutes of not cleaning up).
"We" decided with the sale of the house, we would put a clause in the closing contract stating we could stop by now and then to party on the patio! Our friends are so ingenious!

There's an electric indoor go kart place with karts that do 45mph less than 5 miles from my house. Why the hell didn't I know this twk weeks ago when my wife was asking what I wanted for my birthday!?

coopasonic wrote:There's an electric indoor go kart place with karts that do 45mph less than 5 miles from my house. Why the hell didn't I know this twk weeks ago when my wife was asking what I wanted for my birthday!?

Pole Position Raceway? With once a month driving clinics?

The 15-20 minute clinic covers everything from line choice, throttle and brake technique, and turn-in points to passing tips and how to look for the fastest way around the track. The clinic usually helps drivers shave 2-3 seconds off their lap times.

Malibu Speedzone is closer to me, but I don't think their speeds get that high on the karts.

Isgrimnur wrote:

coopasonic wrote:There's an electric indoor go kart place with karts that do 45mph less than 5 miles from my house. Why the hell didn't I know this twk weeks ago when my wife was asking what I wanted for my birthday!?

Pole Position Raceway? With once a month driving clinics?

The 15-20 minute clinic covers everything from line choice, throttle and brake technique, and turn-in points to passing tips and how to look for the fastest way around the track. The clinic usually helps drivers shave 2-3 seconds off their lap times.

Malibu Speedzone is closer to me, but I don't think their speeds get that high on the karts.

I haven't been to speedzone is about 10 years but at the time their "fast" karts were on a no passing track. The best fun to be had there was the slick track which was more or less the go kart version of a very small drifting course. Also speedzone is outside. Nature (and exhaust fumes) is bad for me.

I will be checking out Pole Position. We did Go Karts in Vegas last year (thanks Groupon) and had a freakin blast.

I look forward to your report.

---

Is there anything more than tracking down XML build issues to figure out why a PDF form field isn't mapping correctly? I ask you, what could be more fun?

Went to my wife's doctor with her today.
Why does she bother going to him when she won't follow his advice and lies to him more than me I think.

Q: Why haven't I updated the standards on the schoolwide tests?
A: Because when I told you three months ago that I needed you to change my permissions so that I could do it you never did. Nor did you respond to my subsequent email requests that you do so. Dickhead.

Alright, maybe I didn't say that last word. I only wish I had.

dbt1949 wrote:Went to my wife's doctor with her today.
Why does she bother going to him when she won't follow his advice and lies to him more than me I think.

Some doctors can tell when their "orders" are not being followed but don't make it obvious (as in eye rolls or the like). It's good of you to go because a second set of ears is always helpful. Wish things were easier for you dbt, I know it can wear a person down.

Here is something light a cute to help make you happy.

My Dad does the same thing. He goes ~6 months or so to the heart doctor for blood work and a basic checkup. Three days (a week?) before the blood test he changes his diet drastically, cutting out all the bad foods he's not supposed to be eating and loading up on vegetables and salad instead. And the tests always come back great and the doctor congratulates him, at which point he comes home and brags about how he "fooled" them. I swear, the older he gets the more he's turning into a child.

My old man spent three days in the hospital with heart problems recently. He vowed he was going to eat better and quit drinking four to six cans of coke a day. That lasted for a week or two and then he decided he was miserable and he's back to where he was. It's tough. I want him to be healthy. I'm terrified for him. But happiness. If you lifestyle makes you happy and taking it away makes you miserable, what do you do?

My understanding from having people in the hospital then released is it depends on the care and the responsibility the released person has. An example of a hospital release person is my father in law, who is well behaved for a few weeks then tends to go back to his unhealthy ways. An example of responsibility is my mother, who has never been in the hospital BUT controls many health issues with monitoring her food and exercise regiment because many depend on her care. I've said to my father many times, "Be good to her cause if she goes down..." He joked and said, "So you're telling me, I should go first?"

I also believe that attitudes are reflective of the generation too. My parents and in laws have more defined roles according to the sexes than my husband and I do. I strongly believe that every one should be accountable for their own actions with acute awareness of the how their actions effect and affect others. Example, I need to drop at least 20lbs. It's not up to my husband to make this happen. Sure it would be nice to have him make more of an effort to get me moving more BUT it is up to me to exercise more and regulate my eating.

Edit to fix ALL of the spelling blunders

Man writing book on kindness shot in Montana

A West Virginia man who told authorities he was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness was injured in a seemingly random drive-by shooting near Montana’s booming Bakken oil patch.

Ray Dolin, 39, was shot in the arm as he approached a pickup Saturday evening, thinking the driver was offering him a ride, said Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier.

I hope the gunman at least had a smile on his face.

The new Schoolhouse Rock -- How bills become laws.

Some guy has been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years.

I had this dream where I ended up in the zombie apocalypse with MHS, TheMeal, ChrisGrenard, Kayla, and Remus West.

We were in a huge hotel (one of those with glass elevators, a pool in the lobby, and a restaurant on the penthouse level).

I was very sad to discover RW and myself were scripted as the comic relief.

I listned to some Dead Kennedys at work which led me to read the wiki entry for Jello Biafra which led me to this 2005 Episode of "This American Life" featuring a story about Jello's 1986 obscenity trial. It includes a recorded conversation between Michael Guarino, the prosecutor in that case, and Jello.

Chaosraven wrote:I had this dream where I ended up in the zombie apocalypse with MHS, TheMeal, ChrisGrenard, Kayla, and Remus West.

We were in a huge hotel (one of those with glass elevators, a pool in the lobby, and a restaurant on the penthouse level).

I was very sad to discover RW and myself were scripted as the comic relief.

That's so weird, Kayla and I JUST had a conversation at lunch about how we feel pretty confident we'd survive the zombie apocalypse and we were talking about me, her, ChrisGrenard, and TheMeal meeting up with my brother after it happened. You and RW weren't in our conversation, but I did say how we'd try to meet up in the plains of Nebraska and send out a signal to others...I guess you were the others.

We're so screwed in the big cities. The area I live in is nestled up to the hills, so that might provide us with some relief with the topography possibly providing us with some shelter. I'll make anyone approach us use interpretive dance to prove they are not zombies.

MHS wrote:

Chaosraven wrote:I had this dream where I ended up in the zombie apocalypse with MHS, TheMeal, ChrisGrenard, Kayla, and Remus West.

We were in a huge hotel (one of those with glass elevators, a pool in the lobby, and a restaurant on the penthouse level).

I was very sad to discover RW and myself were scripted as the comic relief.

That's so weird, Kayla and I JUST had a conversation at lunch about how we feel pretty confident we'd survive the zombie apocalypse and we were talking about me, her, ChrisGrenard, and TheMeal meeting up with my brother after it happened. You and RW weren't in our conversation, but I did say how we'd try to meet up in the plains of Nebraska and send out a signal to others...I guess you were the others.

"others" read as: The Two Goofy Guys Who Get Eaten So The Couples Can Get Away.

Hates you. Hates you forever.