The Official Status Thread
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Status: can't do anything interesting with my PC while it's rendering hours of videos. So. Uh. Just surfing the web I guess.
You could fix that by buying another pc.
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I have one, but it's a ultrabook which doesn't do anything interesting even at the best of times.
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If he's wearing a bathrobe, you aren't going to see what you would have seen if he weren't wearing the bathrobe.
My robe is around knee-length, so you wouldn't see much. OTOH, if the weather's warm enough, I might not be wearing it. If it doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother me; if it does bother you, I'm courteous enough not to inflict that on you.
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@Intercourse said:
I could think of a few other ways to get the files out of there, without even trying.
Couple of screwdrivers, remove the hard drive. Easy peasy.
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20+ years ago I had a cat that would be perfect for your house. She depopulated the entire field across the street from us of mice.
Funny story: When I was young, we lived in an area that got very hot and humid in the summers. My father also had a home that was right on a river, beautiful view. It was also apparently a thoroughfare for stray animals on migration. One day a cat comes by, pretty cool guy...for a cat. We feed it, etc. I build it a box to sleep in. It starts to pay us back by...depositing dead bird carcasses on our doormat. No big deal really, it was a cool cat. It even sat next to me while I would target shoot, and our dogs would not even stick around when I got out the muzzleloader.
Then my father and I went on vacation. 10 days we were gone. We come home and there are piles of bird carcasses on the doormats that had been there for up to 10 days...in 100F heat...and 90+% humidity. -shudder-
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I have one, but it's a ultrabook which doesn't do anything interesting even at the best of times.
Obviously it's not good enough, then.
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@Intercourse said:
Then my father and I went on vacation. 10 days we were gone. We come home and there are piles of bird carcasses on the doormats that had been there for up to 10 days...in 100F heat...and 90+% humidity. -shudder-
Hah. He was probably hoping you'd come back if he brought enough offerings. It's almost literally cargo-cult behavior.
This was the cat--I've told this story before--that used to drift on the linoleum floor and shoot under the dresser until I saw her miss and head-butt the thing. If I had a video camera I probably could've won money on America's Funniest Videos.
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Hah. He was probably hoping you'd come back if he brought enough offerings. It's almost literally cargo-cult behavior.
Pretty much. The other cool cat I had was in my 20's. I named him Shithead, and he was a man's cat. He took no shit. People would come over and start to play with him...you know that thing where you hold your hand like a claw and approach a cat really slowly? He would lay his ears back and growl like a dog if you did it. More than one person found out that if you did not back off, he would eat you alive.
"HOLY FUCK! HE HAS CLAWS!"
"Yeah, he did not get the name 'Shithead' by being a nice guy."
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Apropos of not
hingmuch, my wife's dog has a variety of nicknames. When we're out walking I sometimes call him Trotsky. It helps that he's red(dish).
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Status: Feeling like death warmed up.
My partner had a flu thing last week and apparently my amazing immune system has let me down. Feels like I'm going to hack up a kidney or the top of head will roll off.Viruses are incredible little machines but I appreciate them must more when they aren't trashing my cells.
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Status: Without corporate email since yesterday. Our ExQuilla license expired on November 29th; the problem was known since mid-November but wasn’t acted upon until it was too late...
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The game's menu screens were first rendered in software, then recorded on to VHS video tapes, played on a CRT display, filmed, and imported back into the game.
SwampShack game devs!
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Status: came across this little bit of trivia:
(Interestingly, the makers of 2014's Alien: Isolation video game actually reverted to 1970's video technology to make the game feel more like the original movie. The game's menu screens were first rendered in software, then recorded on to VHS video tapes, played on a CRT display, filmed, and imported back into the game.)
Pretty cool.
In other words, Swampy is now in the video game industry.
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Posting before reading is a barrier to not getting Hanzo'd.
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Going on vacation this weekend, have a phone "call" in about an hour, and working on a bunch of different things for seemingly everything. Feeling very uneasy right now.
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Status: The Mouseocaust is coming to an end, only one mouse caught in the last 24 hours. No need to get a cat, and @boomzilla was dead on that a snake would not work well in a Midwest winter. Last winter we hit -15F. A snake would not last very long...
Also, I looked online for a new gas cooktop and found one I liked on sears.com, for 20% off. This morning it was back up to normal price, so now it is back to looking. Cheeky fucking bastards.
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@Intercourse said:
Also, I looked online for a new gas cooktop and found one I liked on sears.com, for 20% off. This morning it was back up to normal price, so now it is back to looking. Cheeky fucking bastards.
Yeah, Cyber Monday deals were ending last night.
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Yeah, Cyber Monday deals were ending last night.
Cheeky fucking bastards. Just went to the closest Sears and it was not a pleasant experience. The salespeople there just reminded me of Gill from The Simpsons. Starving for a sale. I felt bad for them, but I also get annoyed quickly at shitty, outdated, condescending, sales tactics. I have had sales responsibilities for the majority of my life and crappy sales tactics are a short-fuse issue for me...
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Addendum to above:
A few weeks ago a young female at my gym asked me for career advice because she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life (I will tell my preliminary advice at the end of the post), one of my suggestions was to go in to sales. Her reaction looked roughly like I had just given her a glass of straight lemon juice with anchovies floating in it and she said, "Ewwwww, no. Salespeople are slimy, just out to make a buck, no WAY am I going in to sales!!"
I then reminded her that I am a salesperson (one of many hats) and told her about my philosophy of "ethical selling". Salespeople like I ran in to at Sears today and the type that are swimming around used car lots like hungry sharks are why people have reactions like that.
My advice to her: You are 22, you will have several different careers in your life and most people end up in careers unrelated to what they go to college for, no need to decide now. Now is the time in your life that you take jobs you end up not liking, in order to find out what your true passion is. Always keep in mind what your true passion is and try to align your job with that. If you can make your avocation your vocation, you will never work a day in your life.
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@Intercourse said:
Addendum to above:
A few weeks ago a young female at my gym asked me for career advice because she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life (I will tell my preliminary advice at the end of the post), one of my suggestions was to go in to sales. Her reaction looked roughly like I had just given her a glass of straight lemon juice with anchovies floating in it and she said, "Ewwwww, no. Salespeople are slimy, just out to make a buck, no WAY am I going in to sales!!"
I then reminded her that I am a salesperson (one of many hats) and told her about my philosophy of "ethical selling". Salespeople like I ran in to at Sears today and the type that are swimming around used car lots like hungry sharks are why people have reactions like that.
My advice to her: You are 22, you will have several different careers in your life and most people end up in careers unrelated to what they go to college for, no need to decide now. Now is the time in your life that you take jobs you end up not liking, in order to find out what your true passion is. Always keep in mind what your true passion is and try to align your job with that. If you can make your avocation your vocation, you will never work a day in your life.
First question: are you married?
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Yes.
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@chubertdev - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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You think I am tempting fate? Haha
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I was just hoping that you didn't miss an opening. So to speak.
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I am not that slow on the uptake. ;)
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@Intercourse said:
Salespeople like I ran in to at Sears today and the type that are swimming around used car lots like hungry sharks are why people have reactions like that.
This is why reason I love my car dealer. They don't pay their salespeople on commission, so the salespeople are only their to help the customer. Another reason is that their policy is "One price, one person". That means that the price on the vehicle is the price. And 99 times out of 100, it's the best price around. That other time, the ease of dealing with them makes up for the price difference. The "one person" part means you don't get passed from person to person while signing papers. The salesperson you first talk to walks you through the contract, helps you set up financing (if you need), arranges an appraisal on any trade-in, everything. They are the easiest car dealership to deal with. My FIL even drives an hour just to buy from them.
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Like CarMax?
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I might use them for my next car and joyride back.
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@Intercourse said:
Like CarMax?
I suppose, except this place sells new cars and doesn't try to screw you on your trade-ins.
Last time I tried to deal with CarMax, they appraised the car as a lower valued trim package, and said they couldn't redo the appraisal until the one they gave me expired. In three months. I just walked out the door.
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Guess which link I clicked on.
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The one that sends an email entitled, "Go sodomize yourself" to their marketing department?
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@Intercourse said:
Sears
TRWTF right there. My mother used to love them, bought all her appliances from them, etc. 7 year old washer starts leaking on the floor (she's of the generation that thinks appliances should last a little longer than that). Probably the drain hose since that's where the water is but the Internet is all alarmist about how it could be the pump and that's a huge job, blah, blah.
She calls Sears, sets up an appointment for service guy to come in that Thursday. Day rolls around, at about 1:00 pm the scheduler calls her and says the guy isn't coming, they had to send him to someone with warranty coverage instead. Next available appointment is in 3 weeks...
She was a little miffed, spoke to a supervisor who basically said that that wasn't policy and the person would be disciplined but now that the change was made, it's 3 weeks or nothing.
Ordered a drain hose on the Internet, it was there in 2 days, I installed it and the thing has been fine ever since.
tl;dr - Belgium Sears.
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it could be the pump
I recently went through a leaking washer and that is what it was.
that's a huge job
Yeah, not so much. I had it done in...less than an hour? No biggie. I would imagine that anyone on this forum could get it done, no problem.
It will usually be a hole rubbed in the hose though. In my case it wasn't. I never touch the extended warranty and I work on all of my own stuff. I hate dealing with service people and their time windows.
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@Intercourse said:
@smallshellscript said:
that's a huge job,
Yeah, not so much
I kind of figured that once I had the thing turned over and looked at it. And even if I couldn't figure it out, there's videos on the Internet that would show me how.
Edit: the alarmists were probably on Sears own site recommending you get a "qualified" service person in.
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I kind of figured that once I had the thing turned over and looked at it. And even if I couldn't figure it out, there's videos on the Internet that would show me how.
Yeah, if I remember correctly it was two clips and two screws. Most of the time was getting it out of the laundry space and getting the back taken off and then everything put back together. Prerequisite work was easily 90% of it.
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I believe it. They sure don't make that stuff easy to access. It reminds me of Japanese manufacturing equipment.
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Honestly, it wasn't that bad. I should probably post a picture of our laundry area to illustrate, but I am too lazy and like my privacy. ;)
Most of the time was getting the washer out. When we moved in, there was an area that was way too big to fit a washer and dryer that had been converted from a closet as the laundry used to be in the basement. I took that excess space and made a closet out of it, so our washer and dryer just fit. It was a real bastard to get them out.
I did it that way because if I run everything very closely, I had just enough space for a closet big enough to hold our vacuum, etc, plus the stereo for the whole-house audio. The only alternative was to move a bathroom wall (along with a toilet and flange/plumbing) and I really did not feel like doing that.
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You'd get along with those machine designers then.
"Do we make the machine controls cabinet large enough to accommodate all of the components?"
"No it looks more miniaturized if we halve the size and hang stuff on the walls, when that space runs out, use the doors..."
"Just shove the wiring into trays (that'll last all of 15 minutes once the maintenance guys get in there). Who cares if it'll cover half the terminal blocks once they start pulling stuff out."
"It's sleeker if we put the bolts for that fixture that contacts the workpiece and will have to be replaced every six months out of sight at a point where you need to have hands the size of a 12 year old child's and contort yourself like a russian gymnast to reach."
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My SUV is a Toyota (Lexus, but it is a fucking overpriced 4Runner). I know all about how the Japanese package stuff. ;)
"Oh, you want to replace a front turn signal? You will have to take off the skidplate (!) to do that..."
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@Intercourse said:
My SUV is a Toyota (Lexus, but it is a fucking overpriced 4Runner). I know all about how the Japanese package stuff. ;)
"Oh, you want to replace a front turn signal? You will have to take off the skidplate (!) to do that..."
To be fair, you had to take the front bumper off the Pontiac G5 to replace the turn signal bulb.
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I had a buddy that had a Nissan 300zx. Apparently you had to remove the engine to change the spark plugs.
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I had a buddy that had a Nissan 300zx. Apparently you had to remove the engine to change the spark plugs.
Meh, the Japanese are hardly the only ones to suffer from that particular BS. The 3rd (I think?) gen F-body GM cars had the same problem. I mean...you could do it without it. But dropping the cradle was a lot easier.
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To be fair, you had to take the front bumper off the Pontiac G5 to replace the turn signal bulb.
True shit?
Hmmmm, if this were a car forum, we could start a Bad Ideas thread just on stuff like this...
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Status: No cooktop still, but tomorrow I have on my list to get black pipe run (have to upgrade the size) to the cooktop area. Tonight I had to come up with a meal that could be cooked with only an oven and stuff that could be done on plugin appliances (electric skillet, griddle, cordless kettle, hot place (that I use in my beer/wine making just to boil bottle caps to sterilize them). I did pretty well:
Instant mashed potatoes (much better than I remember them being)
Green beans from a can
Cold spinach-artichoke dip as an appetizer.
Not too shabby for limited resources...
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@Intercourse said:
True shit?
Hmmmm, if this were a car forum, we could start a Bad Ideas thread just on stuff like this...
Based on a quick Google, I may be thinking of a different car...
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IIRC on my PT Cruiser, you had to remove a front wheel to replace the battery. Due to its "unique" hood shape.
EDIT: no I looked it up, I do not recall correctly and you should all ignore and ridicule me.
