The Official Status Thread
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Status: Still have blueberry bagels, still somehow lack cream cheese for them.
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Status: Still have blueberry bagels, still somehow lack cream cheese for them.
I smell either the most epic of epic french toast bagels or a trip to the store for creme cheese
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>blakeyrat:
Status: Still have blueberry bagels, still somehow lack cream cheese for them.I smell either the most epic of epic french toast bagels or a trip to the store for creme cheese
Status: Hungry
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Oh man I don't have any eggs, otherwise that's an excellent idea.
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Status: Thinking that @blakeyrat needs chickens to go with his garden.
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I'm thought about it, they're legal in the city I live in. So are goats, BTW. Goats are pretty awesome.
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Yeah, but you need several goats for them to be happy and goats would do a number on your garden without some serious fencing. Goats are pretty cool though.
I am getting chickens this spring. I am not entirely certain why, but I think they are cool and they are becoming pretty popular in the cities. My wife gave the OK this year and even bought me a gift certificate for the local urban farming store.
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My brother has a bunch of chickens. They're pretty cool, but only to visit. Though they always have a ton of fresh eggs and occasionally a fresh chicken dinner. I'm happy to let specialization and division of labor make my life easy on this front.
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Yeah my uncle keeps chickens, but he owns about 2 acres, so it's kind of a different story. His are pretty nasty. Not like cute and fun to be around at all.
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It is not for everyone, and I may tire of it quickly. Also, I have to see how my dogs are going to do. Our female dog is a born hunter so it may be very short-lived.
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They have a small dog. The chickens bully the dog. Probably totally different than your situation, of course.
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We have right at two acres, and a little over 1/4 acre fenced in for the dogs. If you give them space, and keep their coop pretty clean, they stay clean. Farm chickens can get pretty rough looking though.
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She is 45lbs and somehow manages to catch a squirrel in our backyard once a year. I have no clue how, all they have to do is run up the fence, but she manages to do it.
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@Intercourse said:
It is not for everyone, and I may tire of it quickly. Also, I have to see how my dogs are going to do. Our female dog is a born hunter so it may be very short-lived.
It took a lot of work to get one of our dogs to quit killing chickens. We finally broke him of it by sticking a live chicken in his face and zapping him with a cattle prod, over and over again. Eventually he learned to leave them alone.
After that the chickens were above the dogs in the pecking order. They would chase the dogs away from the front lawn and then eat all the dog food in their outdoor food bowls.
Doesn't take many if you want some eggs. Layer breeds lay nearly once a day, meat breeds maybe once every 2 - 3 days. They're also good for insect and rodent control.
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They're also good for insect and rodent control.
Exactly my thoughts for a fringe benefit. They will keep all the fleas and ticks out of the backyard and off the dogs. Also, they will hopefully keep the bugs off of the veggies in the garden.
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Status: Just sent out a batch of invoices and within 10 minutes one of the clients replies to the email with: "Check is cut, do you want me to mail it or do you want to pick it up?"
Good call sir, you just moved way up the priority list for service.
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Status: making fun of Blakeycat for begging to come in at the front door while the back door is wide open.
She doesn't get it.
I used to have a cat who was a natural troll. His favourite game was to sit at the front door, right in the way of anyone wanting to get to the kitchen, until you let him out. He'd then come straight back in the cat flap and sit by the door again
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One of our dogs pulls a somewhat similar stunt, not that bad though. Only in the wintertime, he will sit by the door to our garage and paw at it to be let out to the garage. He makes a loop around the garage and then wants to come right back in. He does this over and over again. Several times an hour. I guess he just wants to patrol the cars?
It gets to the point of being really annoying after a while and I stop playing his games.
-paws the door-
"Hey!"
-he looks up-
"Fuck off to the living room."
-he goes away for an hour or so before starting it again-And yes, my dogs respond best to the words "Fuck off". Which has led to amusing circumstances when my religious in-laws are over...
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That depends on where you put your foot down. If you put it down on the other pedal, it should stop. Right pedal, go. Left (automatic transmission) or middle (manual transmission) pedal, stop. The two together constitute the minimum requirement.
Edit: I'm not sure how the pedals are arranged in cars that are made for countries where they drive on the wrong side of the road; adjust as necessary.
Pedals and even the shift pattern are the same in RHD and LHD cars.
Current status: pretty much everything blew up yesterday. Came home to look for the package containing my wife's birthday gift, it appears that was stolen.
Found the root cause of the explosion yesterday, it was a previously-unnoticed bug that pretty much had a combo multiplier with my code. Fixing the original bug fixed what caused the explosion.
Original bug was in code that was copied and pasted, so when an update was made to the original code block, and not the second one, this happened.
So yeah, horrible week so far.
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Status: so upset I posted to the Song of the Day thread before discovering this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNgZymZX_M
I can only assume Sega intended this sequence to be the MOST TERRIFYING THING EVER IN A VIDEO GAME, because goddamned.
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Sonic CD still has something worse, imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuKeoj0GlXs
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I don't see any zombies in that video, it's just a static screen. Therefore, not worse.
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Think of it as evolution in action: she's probably catching the retard, or a young one that hasn't learned fear of predators yet.
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Layer breeds ... meat breeds
Interesting. This suggests layers don't make good eating. Why is that?
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@Intercourse said:
my dogs respond best to the words "Fuck off".
A ferret once adopted my family. We called her Fuck Off, because that was what you'd say when she turned up. Then she had to go to the vets...
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goddamned
Is that some west coast thing? Because normally you only use the suffix when you're using the word as an adjective; in the context you use it, normally it's just be "because goddamn."
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Interesting. This suggests layers don't make good eating. Why is that?
Just size, nothing more. Layer breeds don't get nearly as big, in fact they're often downright lean and don't always look like your stereotypical chicken. Our layers could even fly for short distances.
EDIT: Typical layer breed
And typical meat breed
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Just size, nothing more.
Ah, got it. Eaters have more meat, like the difference between farm-raised and wild turkeys.
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"Users reports that app X works in Chrome, but not IE. What versions of IE do we support?"
"Dear user,
Thank you for
providing me with the version number that is not workingyour inquiry.With app X, we support the latest version of IE that was available when app X was developed. I do not know when app X was developed or what the latest version of IE was, but that should be more than enough information, evidently."
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Nice, although it reads a lot less snarky without the last sentence, which means you might actually be able to say that to a user. :)
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I'm good at leaving a bad taste in peoples' mouths. Interpret that as you may.
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Isn't that crack more in @algorythmics' idiom?
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For the first time in a while, I'm not mad at the new help desk system.
The reason is that it has crashed, and I am not currently using it.
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Current status: pretty much everything blew up yesterday. Came home to look for the package containing my wife's birthday gift, it appears that was stolen.
Got a knock on the door from a neighbor, turns out the package was delivered to them instead.
The neighbor also asked about their own package, which they did not have.
This is in addition to a couple of other people that I saw over the past 28 hours knocking on doors, returning packages to their rightful owners.
We figured that the UPS driver was drunk last night.
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Status: Giving up on PowerShell. I don't have neither inclination or time to learn this shit from scratch, and generic errors it's spewing at me when I try to use a piece of code I found online aren't helping any.
Will pay in virtual cookies if any of you MS folk could give me a pointer on how to change password expiry policy in any sane way other than clicking on each user individually on Windows Server 2008 R2.
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You could write a GUI in Visual Basic ...
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Or, I could get back to my damned work!
This "temporary" babysitting of this Windows server is dragging on for too long, still looking for a replacement SA... sigh.
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i regularly throw shit at people's faces, and invariably some gets in their mouths. so yes.
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status: i have no regrets about getting that song stuck in your head again. :-P
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Status: 14° F this morning, and my truck sounds like it needs new batteries. Yes, plural batteries.
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Status: just realized that this is probably the second most on-topic thread on the history of TDWTF (The first one would be that thread. No, not /t/1000, the one on the old forums)
And given that this thread is our own version of Facebook, I'm not sure how to feel about that.
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I'm not sure how to feel about that.
When you figure it out, make sure you come back and post it here.
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Status: just realized that this is probably the second most on-topic thread
wait.... if this thread is on topic then why did @pjh post that GUID in here....
Status: confused at above statement.
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wait.... if this thread is on topic then why did @pjh post that GUID in here....
The excluded topics are the ones that are deemed to be participating in gamifaction of some sort. Arbitration on this matter is left up to the staff. ;)
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The fact that it encourages posting for the sake of posting.
Status: Finally figured out why DNS was occasionally failing for all the computers on a project at the same time
- Some twat had configured named on all of them to do recursive queries from the root servers
- We presume there's been an increase of traffic recently
- Now since all internet traffic from those computers go through the same homeagent, all the queries were effectively coming from the same external IP address.
- We also presume that the root servers are doing rate limiting of some sort and telling the computers on that project to bugger off after so long.
Said computers are about to be changed to ask their upstream homeagents directly for DNS as they should have been doing.
For the past 5 years.
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The fact that it encourages posting for the sake of posting.
oh.... that makes more sense...
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http://i.imgur.com/hf2grGO.png
How the hell did you do that, and where can I get one? :P
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What I don't get any like for this?
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Status: I knew there must be something I left off my shopping list. There was — toilet paper. :(
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How the hell did you do that,
Site specific CSS:
/* Replace badge */ // http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/cheatsheet/ article[data-user-id="20"] .username i:before{ // content: "\f193"; // fa-wheelchair // content: "\f186"; // fa-moon-o // content: "\f1db"; // fa-circle-thin content: "\f1d3"; // fa-git }
and where can I get one?
Having tried already, I can only replace a badge that's there, I can't seem to add one...
So not for <= TL4's