@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
Paging @Karla
I mean, I already loved Machamp...this just solidifies it.
I still occasionally notice email notifications.
@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
Paging @Karla
I mean, I already loved Machamp...this just solidifies it.
I still occasionally notice email notifications.
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I have a running joke with my youngest and her older sister who still lives with us. The third has her own place.
<<to my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter <<pause for dramatic effect>> but don't tell your sisters.
<<to the my older daughter in front of my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter...<<pause then loud fake whispering>> but don't tell your sisters.
Both me and my brother like telling our only niece that she's our favourite niece.
I also use:
You are my favorite youngest daughter.
And same when she asks about her siblings:
J is my favorite oldest son.
C is my favorite youngest son.
M is my favorite oldest daughter.
L is my favorite middle daughter. << By 8 minutes, M and L are twins >>
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I have a running joke with my youngest and her older sister who still lives with us. The third has her own place.
<<to my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter <<pause for dramatic effect>> but don't tell your sisters.
<<to the my older daughter in front of my youngest>> You are my favorite daughter...<<pause then loud fake whispering>> but don't tell your sisters.
@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Zerosquare With those times, I'm guessing there are kids.
Yeah, one 4th grader but I have help. So restricting hours is just so I can get a good paying job while working part time.
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Total red flag. Put them in jail. Do not pass Go and do not collect $200.
**Reference to the board game Monopoly.
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Now do DST
EU already agreed on abolishing DST. By the end of 2021! Well, guess what, it's 2022 and we still have DST. The whole agreement collapsed when they couldn't agree whether the Central European Time should get stuck at UTC+1 or UTC+2.
Filed under:
Similarly, the US has a bill to abolish the DST here. But it's stuck because they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
I'd like it too stay in DST.
Can't we officially say that a one hour be midnight so that DST is standard? What is the process to change the standard of time in the entire world?
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
The other crazy thing is how many people hate chunky peanut butter. Soooo much better than the smooth stuff. Gimme some peanuts!
I'm the only person in my house that likes chunky peanut butter. I prefer extra chunky when I can find it, but it takes some pretty sturdy bread to make a sandwich with it and not get smashed completely flat.
I could go either way.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
Had a bun thing that got toasted and you shoved the sausage down from one end, which I thought was a neat idea.
Ever have a "bagel dog"? Hot dog wrapped in a bagel and then baked.
That sounds yummy.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@Dragoon said in The Cooking Thread:
coconut
This one might be a half a point for me. I love the flavor of it (Thai coconut soup, anything with coconut milk in it, etc.) but I hate the texture. The texture is what I imagine eating sawdust would be like.
Same. Took me a while to realize I did like the flavor. My SIL makes some pretty good coquito.
as a kid: Why would anyone cover a delicious donut* or any dessert by putting coconut on it?
my age: Why would anyone cover a delicious donut or any dessert by putting coconut on it?
When we were leaving and I was not be allowed to get a donut that is coconut free. In terms of eating, I always wanted to save the best for last. So I was unable to get a better taste in my mouth.
Just a note, I was somewhere between 7 and 10.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
What do so many of you have against peanut butter? I love the stuff. I can and have eaten it with a spoon.
Wait, this isn't normal?
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I’m okay with them going extinct.
Bradley and the rats say: go fuck yourself.
I like that song.
My husband and I plan to sing it at karaoke.
@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@kazitor ...stop using “indexes”.
Unfortunately in my workplace "indexes" is understood by everyone and "indices" is only understood by a portion of the team.
@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
You're not going to like what they put in the jar after the mayonnaise ran out....
Who could not like homemade raspberry jam?
Homemade raspberry jam sounds quite pleasant.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@LaoC said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@ixvedeusi said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@JBert Now do ports!
As in "memory penetration port"?
.... For 11 seconds I was trying to determine what this was. I very nearly settled on "large woman in thin dress fell off stage".
Is your screen height not high enough to see the full picture?
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Parent troll as a service.
Would that be parents trolling their children, or children trolling their parents?
Filed under: Yes
Isn't that built in? And it is impossible to turn off.
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Because cats would ignore it ; playing with the real thing is more fun
Like both babies and cats end up playing with boxes rather than toys.
@dcon said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Highlighted comment:
That's what I do but not to get out of her asking, "why?"
I attempt to simplify concepts and then ask if she understands some words and if not define them.
She is really lacking in the physics and calculus. Science and math are best subjects.
She's 9.
Slacker
@Bulb said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@Karla English is rather special in having different terms for this. Most other languages have just one word for both cases.
I understand, my daughter is a
A 9 y.o. is exhausting.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Cooking Thread:
I think next time I'll cut out about half the water and maybe one 10.5 oz can worth of soup and see how it does.
If I were you I would just start by cutting out the water. If you take a can of soup away from the recipe you are removing flavor.
Cooking is chemistry. You are typically using the addition of heat to the equation in order to remove water via boiling. As you boil off water you remove a flavorless component of the food (water) and typically the cooking temperatures rise causing changes to the flavor compounds (like the Maillard reaction, among others).
So if you are trying to adjust a recipe for pressure cooking (which an Instant-Pot is just an electric pressure cooker) I would strongly suggest to only remove the water from the recipe. When you add it all to the pot and mix it up before cooking you can judge the thickness and go from there. Don't forget that heat will make the chili thinner. Think of chili leftovers out of the fridge, versus after reheating.
This is also why some recipes are not well suited for pressure cooking. Not that they will not work, it is just that you lose a lot of the speed and ease when you have to sweat down a bunch of veggies beforehand. My favorite chili recipe for example has a fuckload of veggies in it and I would have to sweat them down beforehand, cooking off flavor and slightly browning them. If not it would end up as a thin soup instead of a thick chili as cooking released the water from the veggies during pressure cooking. Basically, don't forget that a lot of your ingredients can have a lot of water in them.
I would like to try that recipe.
@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
I can't believe he would waste so much potential storage space!
In NYC that could be a half-bath. Placing it in the kitchen means little extra plumbing.
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 Just the earworm I needed before bed.
I have a cure for earworms that involves replacing them with another more virulent earworm. I can post the nuclear option, guaranteed to take precedence over every other tune, but I need someone to show me how to do spoiler text so I don't end up infecting everyone else.
Since I know that earworm, I am already infected by you just mentioning it.
@hungrier said in The Official 2022 Death Pool:
She has a 13 yo and 20 yo which makes it even more sad.
My mom died when I was ten, so I'm particularly sympathetic to the kids.
@boomzilla said in SQLServer Encoding WTF:
@boomzilla said in SQLServer Encoding WTF:
@aitap said in SQLServer Encoding WTF:
@boomzilla Okay, sorry for the noise.
One more Hail Mary shot. The question title makes it sound as if it's nothing like your problem, but the answers are all about decoding UTF-8 bytes stored in a TEXT column. In plain SQL, on MS SQL Server.
At least it's consistently botched. right? It's not a mixture of encodings?
Yeah, that looks like what I would probably need to convert anything that gets in there. Will have to play with that.
Thanks!
Had a few minutes before end of day happened and soooo many errors. Didn't like some semi-colons. Very unhappy with the CTEs. Apparently the statement before needs a semi-colon. But then get weird errors about needing to declare the function parameter.
Probably because I'm not using an official MS tool to connect to the DB. Who knows?
We've (I've) had the problem that our databases on the same SQL Server as CRM have different encodings.
The workaround was to use COLLATE
when selecting data.
@boomzilla said in SQLServer Encoding WTF:
I integrate with a COTS product that uses SQL Server. Their database uses the collation that uses CP-1252.
They store XML documents (complete with the beginning xml tag, etc) in a TEXT column, which I've come to learn is made to store non-unicode text (and seems to be deprecated to boot). Users sometimes type an apostrophe and it gets stored as that special right single quote garbage, which works fine in the table where it's stored as nvarchar, but when that gets put into one of these XML documents, it ends up as
’
.Trying to find a way to convert that back into something sane, no luck so far. Is there any way to re-encode or whatever?
This was always a problem for us. Solution...do not use rich text editors.
I'm pretty sure I have not seen a RTE in CRM, so that might be their one redeeming quality.
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
orangutan word, but apparently it's Dutch
:same_picture:
I tink it was Millionaire Matchmaker who said:
The penis does the picking.
The Orang, likes what it likes.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Lil'Dude once again asked for my homemade rainbow birthday cake. Now to hope that we are able to find our cake pans so that the price of this cake doesn't go up another $20-30 if I have to buy more.
My daughter has her teachers calling her Rainbow*. She would like Lil'Dude. She's good with younger children. Regularly tells parents their baby is cute.
*It was bad enough when I had to remember to spell her full name out when contacting teachers...now I have to try to remember an unrelated name.
@jinpa said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Karla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Oh, and I am so confused with the
Jeffingleaving windows open for days and not seeing context.I guess I missed the context on that one.
I think I answered things out of order thinking they were different topics.
@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Wake me up when we reach Covid XP
(I definitely don't want to catch Vista)Given that long Covid and ME seem closely related...
Dammit ed.
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Zerosquare said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Wuhan shuts down district of 1 million people over 4 Covid cases
I just glossed over the headline and read it as "Covid 4" cases.
Wake me up when we reach Covid XP
(I definitely don't want to catch Vista)
Was ME before or after XP?
@jinpa said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Karla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
So I'm a big deal here?
AFAIK, you're the only bona-fide female who can endure the place.
So can I legit say, "I'm not like other girls, I prefer to hang out with the guys"?
Oh, and I am so confused with the Jeffingleaving windows open for days and not seeing context.
@izzion said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Karla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
So I'm a big deal here?
Only when you take your top off.
They definitely are not small.
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Karla Kind of.
Thank you for feeding my ego!
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
though masking helps a lot if it covers both nose and mouth
Funny floof:
Hmmm, could I be a jet fighter? I don't find roller coasters scary, some are more exciting than others but not scary. Regardless, I only scream if I choose to so my friends don't think I am bored.
Years ago I was in a serious peek-a-boo accident.
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Strong disagree, and I don't even live in Florida.
Fuck, goldfish are boring. I actually won a few on a game at the state fair only because someone else paid for it and insisted. Those goldfish were overfed the first couple days...then died of starvation at some point.
You have to get it as a little baby alligator. I did hold someone's baby alligator, the scariest part was putting back. Must be careful how you pull your hand out.
That's why NYC has alligators in subway tunnels. Alligator get's too big to handle, they often let it go.
Isn't that a problem in Florida and pythons? Snakes get too big to handle, owner releases them and they can survive as an invasive species.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I am in this picture. Had the week off. Did... Very little.
I did.... well, half of my laundry is done! Not folded yet though...
Is folding laundry ever done. I think it multiplies while we sleep.
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've always wanted a swearing parrot but they are too much commitment. They live like 70 years by the time I die my kids will be tired of it and stop letting my grandchildren to come to visit.
Oh, and husband DOES. NOT. WANT.
To whom shall I bequeath it to?
@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I'm not ready to post that, as we are realizing our doggy is a bit old (9.5 ish years-she's three months older than my daughter).
I am happy we found out incontinence is common in older female spayed dogs.
My head just right to kidney problems...which I did deal for a cat. Subcutaneous fluids 2x a day and some other medicine.
Some medicine should clear it up. We are not ready to lose her (not that we ever will).
@Zenith said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
If you work for a company that contracts with the government, and especially if you work on any of those projects, congratulations, you have a government job. Careful what you say about "government workers," y'hear?
I have a government job (directly). I still think most government jobs are a waste. I'd like to think our unit does produce and work hard, but that doesn't mean the boss a couple layers up doesn't spend an ass load of money on contractors who don't know how our business works.
And we have to fix it and write reports around it.
I swear the original contractors were paid by the entity/property.
Our old legacy ColdFusion app, may be a decade outdated but it was far easier to get information out of, and make adjustments.
I had hoped the new app would be so much better, without magic numbers and strings (at the very fucking least). Nope same bullshit.
CRM at least looks modern.
NOTE: It is requiring all my strength to resist complaining about how much I hate CRM.
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
We are now moved into the new house. One of the boys decided to leave us a housewarming gift before we left last night.
Overflowed toilet in the boys area of the house destroyed the ceiling downstairs. Tonight is our first official night in the new house and I already need to patch some drywall.
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@homoBalkanus Part of he reason may be that we speak 3 different languages in the family. Turns out that kids stop asking what something is the moment they have a name for it. But that name may be in Finnish, English or Chinese. For all I know, he might have got the point if I'd said "testicles" in Chinese.
Just one problem with that: I don't speak all that much Chinese.
I've made exclamations that had both Spanish and English.
I know one was:
Con who?
My husband and I are Titi/Tio to my niece and and same for her parents.
But for most of my family it is Auntie and Uncle.
She has a Grandma and Pop-pop and a Nana and Grandpa. So nothing specifically Spanish.
But the bigger kids know their Great-Grandmother as Abuela, I think we went to her 90th birthday. I don't remember what they called their mother or father. Father had died a few decades ago (BK - Before Karla) and Mother died around ~15 years ago.
@Dragoon said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
For ouroboros I would think both would be rather bad.
True, but she enough to correct everyone on her way to the hospital and all of her medical team afterward.
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If I wasn't a tight-fisted curmudgeon this might be me.
Fuck, I dress scruffy (my husband describes my style as "homeless chic") and swear.
Fuck, I hate that kind of comedy. So maybe I'm ok?
@Zecc said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
"
PoisonousVenomous snake" is a valid concern for Ouroboros .
FTFMD*
*my daughter