The Official Status Thread
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Why
are
you
stocking
your shelves
with Christmas stuff ALREADY?My neighbors across the street just turned on their Christmas lights. They have an intense light rope running along all the edges of their large home. I could read a book in my driveway.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't get to achieve @Tsaukpaetra-class uptime without using @Tsaukpaetra-class hardware.
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Status: Just put a bunch of white T-shirts into the wash and they came out with a reddish tint.
How is that even possible?! There was literally nothing but whites in there.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just put a bunch of white T-shirts into the wash and they came out with a reddish tint.
How is that even possible?! There was literally nothing but whites in there.Your T-shirts must have been manufactured in a communist country.
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@Zerosquare I guess I could have steered the follow-up jokes differently if I'd written (equivalently) "pink-ish tint".
Filed under: Texas
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@topspin rusty pipes?
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@Benjamin-Hall hmm, maybe. Hasn't happened before, though, and the water everywhere else is fine. But at least that sounds logical.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall hmm, maybe. Hasn't happened before, though, and the water everywhere else is fine. But at least that sounds logical.
That can happen when the city decides it's time to do some pipe flushing. That disturbs "stuff" that's hanging around in the pipes. Usually, our city warns us first.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just put a bunch of white T-shirts into the wash and they came out with a reddish tint.
How is that even possible?! There was literally nothing but whites in there.Are you sure you used laundry detergent and not a can of tomato paste?
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@hungrier
I was, in fact, at a wedding party yesterday. However, I did not drink.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier
I was, in fact, at a wedding party yesterday. However, I did not drink.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier
I was, in fact, at a wedding party yesterday. However, I did not drink.I take offense!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just put a bunch of white T-shirts into the wash and they came out with a reddish tint.
How is that even possible?! There was literally nothing but whites in there.Do you have a large thread-count disparity between your items? Your load may have spontaneously undergone a class struggle.
It'ws either that, or all the blood.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just put a bunch of white T-shirts into the wash and they came out with a reddish tint.
How is that even possible?! There was literally nothing but whites in there.Are you sure you used laundry detergent and not a can of tomato paste?
He's not Italian afaik...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier
I was, in fact, at a wedding party yesterday. However, I did not drink.I take offense!
Well spotted, you sober monster.
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@Tsaukpaetra coffee helps.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Why
are
you
stocking
your shelves
with Christmas stuff ALREADY?My neighbors across the street just turned on their Christmas lights. They have an intense light rope running along all the edges of their large home. I could read a book in my driveway.
The house across the street from me has their "Halloween" decorations up.
There is this huge ... thing .. in their front yard that lights up. Not sure what it is ... some sort of giant insect (?) with glowing red eyes. The light isn't very bright, but it is just very weird looking.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it's the 16th of October.
The 16th.
Of October.
Barely out of the first half of October.Why
are
you
stocking
your shelves
with Christmas stuff ALREADY?How long till "Black Friday" sales get moved from the day after Thanksgiving to sometime in October?
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@Gern_Blaanston
About -3 days.
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@Benjamin-Hall @topspin The water in my area is higher in iron. But I don't wear white shirts (AKA tomato sauce magnets) so I can't say if that would affect clothes.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
rusty pipes
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@Zecc The retarded supply chain being, well, retarded, I guess you get stock when you can.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Why
are
you
stocking
your shelves
with Christmas stuff ALREADY?My neighbors across the street just turned on their Christmas lights. They have an intense light rope running along all the edges of their large home. I could read a book in my driveway.
The house across the street from me has their "Halloween" decorations up.
There is this huge ... thing .. in their front yard that lights up. Not sure what it is ... some sort of giant insect (?) with glowing red eyes. The light isn't very bright, but it is just very weird looking.
You spend so many words when a simple picture would do...
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Status: Apparently Slack calls are now Huddles.
And if you don't get an answer, it will just start playing Muzak...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And if you don't get an answer, it will just start playing Muzak...
So better than an actual meeting?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And if you don't get an answer, it will just start playing Muzak...
So better than an actual meeting?
Methinks so, except you can't customize the playlist so I just put on my own...
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Status:
Man, it's cold in here.
It's 76F. You have the space heater on. And are wearing a long-sleeve shirt and sweatpants.
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Maybe I don't feel so good....
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@Benjamin-Hall I have been tracking a standard cold for the last week. Not sure what's taking so long...
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it's the 16th of October.
The 16th.
Of October.
Barely out of the first half of October.
One week yet left in Autumn.
One whole month before December.
We're not out of DST yet.
Why
are
you
stocking
your shelves
with Christmas stuff ALREADY?Christmas stuff?
Are you joking?
Or far behind the times?
It ought to be Easter stuff now!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just put a bunch of white T-shirts into the wash and they came out with a reddish tint.
How is that even possible?! There was literally nothing but whites in there.They were RGB t-shirts. And you washed out some of the G and B components.
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@Zecc I remember when the shops had the decency to wait until after Halloween to pimp their Christmas stuff, but in recent years I’ve seen Christmas stuff in stores in August/September so this late is weird.
Then again I haven’t been into many physical stores in the last 2-3 years so who even knows any more?
What I will say, though, is that I’m convinced “retail time” exists as a form and progression of conventional time that behaves differently. Both are an illusion, of course, but conventional time at least appears to behave somewhat logically (linear except for when you have either too much to do, or too little, whereupon the time will contract or expand accordingly)
But retail time operates out of phase with conventional time - store opening and closing times may sync but may not despite appearing to align. Other passages of time - between, say, May and August - will mostly align too, but all of the “festivals” produce unwieldy distortions in the local space-retail-time field: there is a mass dilation effect ahead of the event followed by a mass compression event immediately thereafter. Very strange indeed.
(Status: some days I feel like I could write my own edition of H2G2. It’d be a pale imitation but it would be mine.)
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status something has gone very wrong. I’m going to bed and waking up with more aches and pains. I flipped the mattress and I’m still waking up sore. I’ll try a mattress topper. If that doesn’t work I’ll try pain killers.
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@DogsB Don't you sleep in your tv arm chair?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status something has gone very wrong. I’m going to bed
As opposed to passing out in a bar.
Hope you get better soon.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status something has gone very wrong. I’m going to bed
As opposed to passing out in a bar.
Plot twist: @Dogsb lives in a bar
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status something has gone very wrong. I’m going to bed
As opposed to passing out in a bar.
Plot twist: @Dogsb lives in a bar
The bar where everyone knows your name.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status something has gone very wrong. I’m going to bed
As opposed to passing out in a bar.
Plot twist: @Dogsb lives in a bar
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin rusty pipes?
Wasn't he a porn actor?
Or a singer.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Or far behind the times?
Or way ahead - they're for Christmas 2023.
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Status: Something strange is happening....
These weird red bars are all over my screen. They appear and disappear with certain windows, but are not apparently attached to the window (i.e. don't move around) they seem associated to.
Am I hacked?
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Status: Today was a sunny and warm autumn day (20°C / 70°F). But a working day.
Tomorrow, I won't work. Weather forecast:
About 12 mm or half an inch.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Man, it's cold in here.
It's 76F. You have the space heater on. And are wearing a long-sleeve shirt and sweatpants.
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Maybe I don't feel so good....Did you ever notice, 50F outside in January feels warm.
In July its cold.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I hacked?
Solution : Reboot.
Windows and yourself
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Man, it's cold in here.
It's 76F. You have the space heater on. And are wearing a long-sleeve shirt and sweatpants.
...
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Maybe I don't feel so good....Did you ever notice, 50F outside in January feels warm.
In July its cold.
You seem not to live in
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I hacked?
Solution : Reboot.
Windows and yourself
:same-picture-jenna-fischer.png:
I assume @Tsaukpaetra runs Windows CE
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I hacked?
Solution : Reboot.
Windows and yourself
:same-picture-jenna-fischer.png:
I assume @Tsaukpaetra runs Windows CE
Oooh, he runs on Celebrity Edition? I always wanted to meet someone famous!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I hacked?
Solution : Reboot.
Windows and yourself
:same-picture-jenna-fischer.png:
I assume @Tsaukpaetra runs Windows CE
Oooh, he runs on Celebrity Edition? I always wanted to meet someone famous!
Infamous is basically famous, right?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows CE
That could be entertaining! Wonder if it would be compatible with such a distributed dynamic nodal architecture...