The Official Status Thread
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Why the hell weren't you taking vacations?
I don't get anything done during vacations, because for some reason people think that because I'm on vacation they can fill up my schedule with random tasks.
This time I won't tell them I'm off work, we'll see how that goes...
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Final disposition after an hour of play: Up 3 cents on the slots.
Found 4 dollars in change in the vending machine buying pop tarts for breakfast tomorrow.
Vending machine dispensed 2 pop tarts packs instead of 1.So she did way better at the vending machine then the slots.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Final disposition after an hour of play: Up 3 cents on the slots.
Found 4 dollars in change in the vending machine buying pop tarts for breakfast tomorrow.
Vending machine dispensed 2 pop tarts packs instead of 1.So she did way better at the vending machine then the slots.
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng I hear the machine in the back left is much easier to win.
Told you so
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Started the Win10 things right after waking up (because yesterday went soooooo well). I hope it'll be done before I have to leave.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Groaner Isn't the bigger problem here your computer bluescreening?
Maybe. But then I'd have to worry about power outages.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Started the Win10 things right after waking up (because yesterday went soooooo well). I hope it'll be done before I have to leave.
"You have until next year on the 29th of July to do the Win10 things."
"Ok, I'll set an appointment for the morning of the 29th of July next year."
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@ben_lubar oddly, the vending machine is in the back left
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Yes, I found that page too, but it doesn't say what Bob's Burgers is, but I assume that's some TV show.
If only there were some engine that took in words and phrases and returned search results...
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
On the same vein, I'm attempting to update my (practically unused) Acer Iconia W510 tablet PC to Windows 10 tonight.
Idiot.
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I must hate myself a good amount to be trying that upgrade.
Or you're an idiot.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Started the Win10 things right after waking up
Even after sleeping on it, you're still an idiot.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Next stop: The cruel economics of slot machines
You took a photograph inside a casino? TERRORIST! ARREST HIM!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Only up to 80 hours. I currently have 120 and expect to accrue ~ 15 more hours or something like that by the end.
I would take mine 15 minutes at a time-- starting anytime someone came up to me and said "I need you to do something".
OOOOO sorry I just started a PTO for the next 15 minutes, come back when I'm either out of PTO time or, y'know, not suddenly laid off. Whichever works best for the company. Bye.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Started the Win10 things right after waking up
Even after sleeping on it, you're still an idiot.
Even if I'm upgrading from fucking WINDOWS 8?
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status: quite pissed after a night out with the lads. McDonald's were visited after 1am. Woohoo
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if I'm upgrading from fucking WINDOWS 8?
Lorne will still think you're an idiot even if you install FireFox 22 on it.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
Green Fairy by Kyell Gold
If Sol can just survive his last year of high school, he can escape his homophobic small town and go live with his Internet boyfriend for the summer. But when he loses his starting spot on the baseball team and converts to vegetarianism — a wolf, giving up meat! — his father threatens him with a hot, muggy summer working in the peach cannery unless he gets his act together. His teammates, who suspect his sexuality already, won't make it easy for him. But even with nobody on his side but his best friend Meg (who is even less popular than he is), the teenager finds answers and solace in an unlikely place: a 1901 book about a tragic gay romance in the bohemian district of Lutèce, around the famed Moulin Rouge. Inspired by the spirit of the era, Meg and Sol share a glass of absinthe, with startling effect: Sol begins to dream that he is a cabaret dancer named Niki, offered a chance to escape his difficult life through romance — at the price of his beloved art of dance.
This sounds like angsty teen fanfiction.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Second blonde from the left?
Is she even Blonde right now?Can you take a photo through your rifle's scope?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Lorne will still think you're an idiot even if you install FireFox 22 on it.
Well, he'd have strong evidence for it at that point…
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck yeah! They're 10 pounds of awesome in a 5 pound bag!
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STATUS should be packing but sitting on ents24 instead!
Black stone cherry here I come!
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Is she even Blonde right now?
Methinks the lady doth protest too much
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@Lorne-Kates It wouldn't appear this locale has irrational fears about such things outside table game zone. After all, how the fuck you Gon cheat penny slots with a picture?
Alternatively, it was assumed I was catching a Pokémon. This place is positively awash in them.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Vending machine dispensed 2 pop tarts packs instead of 1.
So she did way better at the vending machine then the slotsAlso probably than at the truck stop where you had fish.
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Status: This freaking install refuses to be over! Every time I think I'm done something new pops up.
Latest: the guy who can handle the firewall properly is on vacation. I have other direct contacts with the replacement. Sent an email and hoping. I only got about an hour to finish...
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@boomzilla The fish were actually quite good. And I won a free side by having them forget all about me.
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While searching for that image, I found this one. I'm looking forward to using it…
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do we both have pink charging cords?
My money's on Dollar Tree.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: In unrelated news, I'm now taking audio book suggestions
Green Fairy by Kyell Gold
I don't think that is a very good suggestion. Not everyone wants to read (or listen to) books for gay furries.
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@Polygeekery it's a very good series which i think everyone should read.
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@Fox Because of course you do. I think everyone should read "The Millionaire Mind", but I also realize that most people could not care less about reading such things and that it does not interest them.
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@Polygeekery I think everybody should read The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 because it's so amazingly awful.
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@blakeyrat You're a sadist.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
The Texas-Israeli War: 1999
That's like the French-Indian War, where both named parties were on the same side, yes?
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@Polygeekery HOLY SHIT it has a Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas-Israeli_War:_1999
A comprehensive one!
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@blakeyrat I googled that and found the WP page first--I thought you'd made the name up.
BTW, @Polygeekery that doesn't sound like such a horrible book. You wanna talk sadism, threaten people with Gael Baudino's "work", particularly the Dragonsword trilogy. Well, I say "particularly" but I never read anything else by her.
It reads like some kind of weird Thomas Covenant Mary Sue written by an irritated radfem (but I repeat myself), probably because it is.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
I googled that and found the WP page first--I thought you'd made the name up.
Pfft. It's on my bookshelf right now.
I got it in the same fire sale I got Whitley Strieber's Warday in. Except Warday is actually excellent and terrifying, while Israeli-Texas War is merely stupid and weird.
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@FrostCat Would he win in a fight with Roboute Guilliman?
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@Magus Thomas Covenant, Gael Baudino (who is a woman), or someone else?
Never mind, doesn't matter, because I don't know enough Warhammer to be able to answer.
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Status:
Woo I get $30 because NVidia lied about how fast the RAM is in my GPU
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Woo I get $30 because NVidia lied about how fast the RAM is in my GPU
huh.... i'll have to see if i'm eligible for those, i could be due for $60 refund, which i wouldn't sneeze at.
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@accalia 30 is already enough for 3 large delicious pizzas
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@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia 30 is already enough for 3 large delicious pizzas
what? i'm hungry! 3 pizzas isn';t enough. i need 6 pizzas for my hunger
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Status: tl; dr: the Social Security Administration is implementing 2fa for its customer portal thing. Except it only supports cell phone SMS messaging.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
. Except it only supports cell phone SMS messaging.
ah so, thanks to SIM card reactivation social engineering shenanigans that's...... Possibly Two Factor AuthenticationTM