Random randomness

Default · Post by **Default** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:43 pm

how are you fixed for single malt scotch?

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:14 am

The real-life Patricia Clarkson looks just like the movie-star Patricia Clarkson. I know this because she had dinner one table away from us tonight. My eyes were on her smokin' hot daughter/niece/companion/whatever, but my wife spotted the actual celeb.

Biyobi · Post by **Biyobi** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:26 am

Kelric wrote:I'm trying to buy a house. I'm going to get married next year. I have plans to have children. I joined GoneGold's forums on 10/7/2000 when I was barely 16.

Good God, have you learned nothing from us in almost a dozen years?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:00 pm

How much Force power can Yoda output?, courtesy of XKCD's "What If..."

Looks like an excellent extra credit question for an exam.

bb2112 · Post by **bb2112** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:52 am

Smoove_B wrote:How much Force power can Yoda output?, courtesy of XKCD's "What If..."

Looks like an excellent extra credit question for an exam.

That was fascinating and well worth the read. Thanks for sharing!

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:03 am

Experiencing extreme fatigue for no apparent reason. It would be stressing me out if I wasn't too tired to stress about it.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:18 am

Green, could it be your diet?

GreenGoo wrote:Experiencing extreme fatigue for no apparent reason.

Guessing no

Just keep on monitoring. Know it might be worth a trip to the Dr tomorrow cause waiting till Monday is NEVER a good idea. Too many "If I only called the office Friday instead of waiting for the end of the weekend..." around here lately.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:21 am

Railroad ties weigh a lot more than I thought!
Last time I try to get up the mountain with eight of them in the back of my pickup.
Had to use the lawn tractor to tow them around back.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:34 am

Arent' (true) railroad ties soaked in creosote or some other chemical, and I vaguely recall they have a band of metal bent into an "S" shape and hammered into the ends of them too. But holy god yes, they weigh a freaking ton. I worked in a lumberyard in my teens, and despite being proud of my strength and ability to load various things onto trucks solo, I always got someone to help me with those things.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:44 am

GreenGoo wrote:Arent' (true) railroad ties soaked in creosote or some other chemical, and I vaguely recall they have a band of metal bent into an "S" shape and hammered into the ends of them too. But holy god yes, they weigh a freaking ton. I worked in a lumberyard in my teens, and despite being proud of my strength and ability to load various things onto trucks solo, I always got someone to help me with those things.

We had railroad ties as a sort of trim around bricks and flower beds along our back porch and garage growing up. I can remember they were holy hell to move when I was young and I always though mom was going to kill herself throwing those things around. I don't know what chemicals were in them but they did seem almost boil out a sort of tar that smelled of petroleum on really hot days.

Chaosraven · Post by **Chaosraven** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:55 am

Mr Bubbles wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:Seeing all the pictures on Facebook from my 20 year HS reunion last night almost makes me wish I had decided to go. Almost.
Just went to mine last night. I enjoyed it. 20 was just right. 10 while I didn't go to it was too close to graduation and was still very cliquish.

Our 25th was this year.

As our class size was so small, these things turn into (+increments of five) at the school sponsored function (10th, 15th, 20th, 30th) so there's a whole bunch of people you don't know.

I debated taking my youngest to the school, but he (wisely) decided we had better things to do.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:22 pm

LordMortis wrote:
GreenGoo wrote:Arent' (true) railroad ties soaked in creosote or some other chemical, and I vaguely recall they have a band of metal bent into an "S" shape and hammered into the ends of them too. But holy god yes, they weigh a freaking ton. I worked in a lumberyard in my teens, and despite being proud of my strength and ability to load various things onto trucks solo, I always got someone to help me with those things.
We had railroad ties as a sort of trim around bricks and flower beds along our back porch and garage growing up. I can remember they were holy hell to move when I was young and I always though mom was going to kill herself throwing those things around. I don't know what chemicals were in them but they did seem almost boil out a sort of tar that smelled of petroleum on really hot days.

I honestly can't see a mother moving one. She may have had them cut in half. It's possible, but I have a hard time imagining a non-professional woman weight lifter moving them around, even just by lifting one end and then the other. They had to be in the 200+ lb range.

I looked it up, and yeah, the early ones were creosote. They've apparently switched to some other chemical, as well as using other materials.

Some people mistakenly call 6x6's railroad ties, but those don't weigh 1/2 what a railroad tie weighs. I could move and load a 6x6 by myself that was twice as long as the railroad tie, which I needed help with. Doesn't sound like you guys made that mistake though. If it was leaking, it was a railroad tie. And they were commonly used for exactly what you said. Garden trim.

Funny how our past seems important to us. I mean, why do I give a crap about railroad ties? Yet I looked them up.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:29 pm

GreenGoo, talking like Morgan Freeman wrote:

Some people mistakenly call 6x6's railroad ties, but those don't weigh 1/2 what a railroad tie weighs. I could move and load a 6x6 by myself that was twice as long as the railroad tie, which I needed help with.

Funny how our past seems important to us.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:33 pm

Morgan Freeman is puppies.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:40 pm

GreenGoo wrote:I honestly can't see a mother moving one. She may have had them cut in half. It's possible, but I have a hard time imagining a non-professional woman weight lifter moving them around, even just by lifting one end and then the other. They had to be in the 200+ lb range.

I have no idea if they were real ties or not. They were maybe 8 feet long and maybe 8 inches by 8 inches, so calling them a 6x6 could just as easily be the right answer. I don't know how to tell a real from a fake and right now I am thinking of them from about 30 years of memory.

Looking at 6x6 lumber, that's not the same as what we had though. These things didn't look like lumber. They were aged and much more raw tree wood looking, like a softer, fallen tree version of what old telephone poles look like and they were almost oily. (And as I mentioned before, on hot sunny days, it was if they seeped tar and had petroleum (kerosene?) smell. Very strange child hood memories.)

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:29 pm

4 days into the new job and I haven't touched a piece of code. It took 2 days to get source control on my machine, and they haven't figured out why I can't access the application. 4 days of reading tech docs and doing system troubleshooting, with the odd conference call thrown in for good measure.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:32 pm

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:35 pm

Some days I worry that someone will notice. Other days I tally the number of hours it would take a vendor to do my job at $125 an hour and I'm not worried at all.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:38 pm

I like to refer to it as a "working vacation". No stress to me, as there's nothing I can do to resolve it, no deadlines I have in front of me, the delivery I'm to work on hasn't started yet, and I go on vacation in 8 days.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:56 pm

Local NBC affiliate just sent an alert about the second West Nile death in the county. It gave the zip code. Which just happens to contain SMU and be catty-corner to my zip code. Reading the details, the first fatality was in the same zip code.

Luckily for my overall survival changes, I am neither in my 60s nor suffering from severe health conditions.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:00 pm

You really aren't in the high risk group for West Nile (unless the demographic information I've gleaned from you is incorrect). In a majority of the cases I've seen, it's the homeowner's own property that is the cause of exposure. Knowing how to prevent stagnant water around your house is one of the best things you can do.

Also - those WNV reports (at least the public ones) are usually 7+ days behind the current data (in my experience). There's probably more going on around you than you know...

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:04 pm

WNV?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN5-ovvFL0" target="_blank

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:10 pm

LordMortis wrote:WNV?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN5-ovvFL0" target="_blank

I knew it was all Obama's fault!

Smoove_B wrote:You really aren't in the high risk group for West Nile (unless the demographic information I've gleaned from you is incorrect). In a majority of the cases I've seen, it's the homeowner's own property that is the cause of exposure. Knowing how to prevent stagnant water around your house is one of the best things you can do.

Also - those WNV reports (at least the public ones) are usually 7+ days behind the current data (in my experience). There's probably more going on around you than you know...

There are about two dozen reports so far in the county, if I remember the article correctly. But it's close enough that it began to intrude in my thought process.

I live in a massive apartment complex , but there's some waterworks running through it. The ponds have fowl that move through. I don't know about any fish presence.

The maintenance people are pretty good, but there's literally thousands of people that could have some bucket of water on their balcony and maintenance would never know.

miltonite · Post by **miltonite** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:21 pm

If there is a W. Nile outbreak all of us disc golfers are in trouble. there are many small "streams" that run through our course and a lot of them hold water if it is not raining. Last week I played I walked away with 10 bites and that is after putting on deep woods off.

It is too much fun not to play though.

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:36 pm

It all started when I woke up and had no hot water.

We replaced the both elements in the water heater to no effect.

Finally we realized it's not the water heater it's a leak in the hot water lines. A leak in the pipes that are in/under our concrete slab foundation.

So I can pay someone to sound the pipes, find the leak, dig a hole in my floor and fix 50 year old pipes or I can have the house re-plumbed through the attic.

I just told the plumber to replumb the house. That was one of the most expensive phone calls ever.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:46 pm

LordMortis wrote:
GreenGoo wrote:I honestly can't see a mother moving one. She may have had them cut in half. It's possible, but I have a hard time imagining a non-professional woman weight lifter moving them around, even just by lifting one end and then the other. They had to be in the 200+ lb range.
I have no idea if they were real ties or not. They were maybe 8 feet long and maybe 8 inches by 8 inches, so calling them a 6x6 could just as easily be the right answer. I don't know how to tell a real from a fake and right now I am thinking of them from about 30 years of memory.

Looking at 6x6 lumber, that's not the same as what we had though. These things didn't look like lumber. They were aged and much more raw tree wood looking, like a softer, fallen tree version of what old telephone poles look like and they were almost oily. (And as I mentioned before, on hot sunny days, it was if they seeped tar and had petroleum (kerosene?) smell. Very strange child hood memories.)

You had real, full length railroad ties.

And your mother was Jaime Sommers apparently.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:47 pm

You know what the worst thing that can happen at home is?
Your wife gets bored.

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:17 pm

dbt1949 wrote:You know what the worst thing that can happen at home is?
Your wife gets bored.

The fiancee is baking a cherry pie from scratch, making mac and cheese with green sauce (broccoli, spinach, arugula) from scratch, and then is going to make a bean salad as well. She does that sort of stuff when she gets bored.

She made four pies one day. Two quiches and two pies. That was over the top, but I won't turn down home made cookin'.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:19 pm

This is the third time in my career that I've had to help pick up the pieces after some jackwagon dumped power to an entire datacenter. Not how I wanted to spend my weekend.

Chaosraven · Post by **Chaosraven** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:47 pm

FINAL DAY!!!!!!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:33 pm

I thought that was December 21st this year.

bb2112 · Post by **bb2112** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:00 pm

Chaosraven wrote:FINAL DAY!!!!!!

Of what? Just don't say of a furniture sale.

redrun · Post by **redrun** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:16 am

gbasden wrote:This is the third time in my career that I've had to help pick up the pieces after some jackwagon dumped power to an entire datacenter. Not how I wanted to spend my weekend.

Is jackwagon a person, or was this a error/failure on the part of backup systems?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:25 pm

Chaosraven wrote:FINAL DAY!!!!!!

Congrats. Are you doing as little of a dance as your frame can possibly do?

Chaosraven · Post by **Chaosraven** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:27 pm

Kenetickid is moving his family into an apartment as we speak.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:17 pm

Chaosraven wrote:Kenetickid is moving his family into an apartment as we speak.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:40 pm

redrun wrote:
gbasden wrote:This is the third time in my career that I've had to help pick up the pieces after some jackwagon dumped power to an entire datacenter. Not how I wanted to spend my weekend.
Is jackwagon a person, or was this a error/failure on the part of backup systems?

Apparently some unnamed small group of people was doing maintenance to some PDUs and somehow screwed up when bringing the PDUs back on line. I'd love to know more details, but right now I'm too busy dealing with corrupted databases to dig.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:42 pm

Day 6: 4 loads of sheets washed, one conference call attended.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:46 pm

I'm afraid to ask how you've soiled 4 loads of sheets in 6 days.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:47 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Day 6: 4 loads of sheets washed, one conference call attended.

That's getting paid for quite a bit of sex. Does the company know they're paying for your whoring?