The Official Status Thread
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Good argument against bathrobes.
TRWTF, for me, was realizing that people still wore them... I assumed they were going to fade away when the Baby Boomers did?
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@Intercourse said:
TRWTF, for me, was realizing that people still wore them... I assumed they were going to fade away when the Baby Boomers did?
New mental image: @HardwareGeek is now a baby boomer in my head.
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I wear a bathrobe. Then again I don't have a job.
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New mental image: @HardwareGeek is now a baby boomer in my head, bending over to pick up something he dropped, while wearing a bathrobe.
There ya go, that should make it worse.
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I wear one because I'm too tight to turn the heating up a few degrees and I need time in front of a daylight lamp before I can face the shower in the mornings
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@Intercourse said:
@abarker said:
New mental image: @HardwareGeek is now a baby boomer in my head, bending over to pick up something he dropped, while wearing a bathrobe.
There ya go, that should make it worse.
GAAAAAAAHH! WHERE'S THE BRAIN BLEACH?!?!?!
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New mental image: @HardwareGeek is now a baby boomer in my head.
Given his approximate age, he's always been one (somewhere in the middle to late period) in mine.
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You're only as old as you feel!
In other news, I am dead.
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Given his approximate age, he's always been one (somewhere in the middle to late period) in mine.
I guess this just makes my mental image more accurate then.
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@Intercourse said:
New mental image: @HardwareGeek is now a baby boomer in my head, bending over to pick up something he dropped, while wearing a soiled bathrobe.
FTFTFY.
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You're only as old as you feel!
In other news, I am dead.
There, there. Things'll turn around, and then you can eat some brains!
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Who needs clothes?
The hideous person that is in your avatar, that is who. It should be law.
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@Intercourse said:
The hideous person that is in your avatar, that is who. It should be law.
Probably was at the time. And she has a perfectly respectable dress.
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New mental image: @HardwareGeek is now a baby boomer in my head.
Previous discussions have established my DOB as prior to the end of the boom era.
I wear a bathrobe.
It's too B*****ming cold this time of year to walk around the house in nothing. (My house is old and poorly insulated. Even with the heat on, it doesn't get over about 55°F/15°C without doubling the national debt to pay my electricity bill.) Besides, my bathrobe was given to me last Christmas by my daughter, and is ST:TOS command gold with insignia and rank braid on the sleeves.
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Besides, my bathrobe was given to me last Christmas by my daughter, and is ST:TOS command gold with insignia and rank braid on the sleeves
Now I feel like a dick.
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Why? You're not the one who got the shit on the gift.
That made me laugh, but it would have been so much better if I had said:
@Intercourse said:
Now I feel like an asshole.
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You're not the one who got the shit on the gift.
Meh. Already laundered and dried and ready to wear tomorrow. It was due to be washed, anyway.
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You should join that "get paid to not wash your clothes" thing being discussed somewhere else around here.
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Just after 7am and I'm already caught up. WTF TDWTF.
Current status: on my last unread thread.
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I wear a bathrobe. Then again I don't have a job.
Bath robe: let's make a coat out of a towel.
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I also wear an old coat as a shawl sometimes. #unashamed.
Oh hey look, hash tags magically work as expected for some reason now.
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It wasn't at the start of the line, assuming you expected nothing special to happen.
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Status: I feel relatively human today, I guess my partial caffeine-detox (down to a single cup of coffee in the morning) is nearly over. Yesterday was miserable.
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It's raining in socal. This isn't the weather that I
payoverpay for.
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You should join that "get paid to not wash your clothes" thing being discussed somewhere else around here.
I haven't seen that discussion; it must be in either a topic I'm ignoring or one in the big backlog of unread. Unless the payment is sufficient to buy replacements for the clothes I'm not washing, I'm not interested. Actually, although highly inefficient in the long term, that would be an excellent short-term deal; a lot of my clothes are old enough that they need to be replaced anyway.
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It's raining in socal. This isn't the weather that I <s>pay</s> overpay for.
And gloriously sunny (but cold) in the Seattle area. :P
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And gloriously sunny (but cold) in the Seattle area. :P
I washed my car on Saturday, it's my own fault.
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Status: I know I own Pink Floyd's The Wall, but it's not on my computer. Do I own it on physical CD? Hm. Must dig in CD case.
EDIT: I give up, I'll listen to Dark Side of the Moon.
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Status: Lunch time.
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Dark Side of the Moon is better. The Wall has a few great songs but it's way too long and could easily have been cut in half.
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The Wall has a few great songs but it's way too long and could easily have been cut in half.
Album-wise perhaps. But The Wall had that excellent movie to accompany it, which is actually how I was exposed to Floyd. I love that movie SO MUCH and having watched it enhances the experience of listening to the album.
EDIT: Actually the movie has a track or two not on the album, also. Like this one. Considering how my dad died, it speaks a lot to me.
Kind old King George sent mother a note when he heard that father was gone.
It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll, gold-leaf and all.
And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
My eyes still grow damp to remember His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp
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Current status:
Listening to this podcast.
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I never knew there was a movie. I just know I usually get bored listening to the album, but Dark Side of the Moon sends shivers down my spine from beginning to end, well except for Money. Especially this section from Time:
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gunAnd you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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I never knew there was a movie.
Criminal.
If you even slightly like Pink Floyd, you gotta watch it ASAP.
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I know barely anything about Pink Floyd, and even I know about the movie. I think that I've even seen 10 mins of it. Doesn't someone shave their entire body in it?
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Doesn't someone shave their entire body in it?
Yes, Pink does when the his wall begins to break down.
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I know barely anything about Pink Floyd
all i know about floyd id XKCD did a strip about having a band named Pink FTFY with that prisom cover reversed so it becomes white again....
oh and there's that photo floating around of the ladies that had their backs body painted as some of his album covers and did a (surprisingly entirely SFW (ish), all you see is the painted backs) photoshoot
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@Intercourse said:
Status: Since it has gothen cold outside, we are being invaded by rodents. I just caught my 4th mouse in less than 24 hours. Thankfully, only one of those was in the house. The rest were in the garage.
Update to Mouseocalypse 2014: I have already ran through my first purchase of 12 traps and just bought 20 more. 10 were caught in the garage and 2 in the house. I blame it on the cold weather coming on so early this year. In the past few days I have trapped more of those little bastards than I have in the 5 years prior that we have lived here. I also picked up a galvanized trash can to keep the dog food in to help eliminate their access to food.
Also, my father came down this weekend and when I told him how many traps I had run through, he said, "You know you can clean them out of the traps and reuse them, right?" I replied, "I buy them 4 for $2. At no point in my life have I been so broke that I would accept 50 cents to handle a dead mouse carcass. I'm good, they are single-use as far as I am concerned."
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I use the electrified trap. You just dump them in the garbage without having to touch them at all. I haven't had any mice in a couple of years, and it was only a few, and I'm not sure if it would work killing multiple mice before being emptied.
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I just use Claymores.
Front Toward Mouse
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..... so air then?
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I use the electrified trap.
If I run through this batch of 20 traps, I might consider getting one. I also might consider just burning the house to ground and moving somewhere else.
I think getting all the food out of the garage will take care of it though, after I get rid of however many have moved in with the cold snap. We had some cereal bars and such on the shelves in the garage and we were just storing the dog food in the opened bag. Moving the food to metal cabinets in the basement and putting the dog food in a galvanized trash can will hopefully remove part of their motivation for invading my space.
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I just use Claymores.
Front Toward Mouse
The remnants of my wife's Detroit sports stuff.
I'm confused ... What were the claymores targeting again? ;)
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@Intercourse said:
I also might consider just burning the house to ground and moving somewhere else.
Borrow someone's cat to live in the garage for a few days?