The Official Status Thread
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Sound like an excellent plan to me.
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... why the fuck are you working on a weekend?
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Because it goes against his region to not?
status: dealing with composite video from a Satelite transmission displayed by a projector captured by a ptz camera converted to Windows Media Video to be broadcast over the internet at 400 KBS.
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I found an old sock and tried to get her to play with it, waggling it around. She ignored it and went back to her ball of dust. So. Cats.
You can get huge bags of catnip for nothing on eBay. An old sock filled with that and tied off makes mine go nuts. If you leave it on the stairs they'll wander past and then you'll have a high cat sliding down the stairs on its back beating the tar out of a sock. Better than TV.
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I don't have stairs, and my cat is old enough that I wouldn't want her falling that far anyway. She's a senior citizen cat.
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I don't have stairs, and my cat is old enough that I wouldn't want her falling that far anyway. She's a senior citizen cat.
Ah, mine kind of ooze down them on their backs rather than fall but yeah, probably not a good idea.
Mine are very picky about toys in general. All the expensive ones I've bought get totally ignored. They really just prefer cardboard boxes.
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Because if I don't my work doesn't get done. And I'm also procrastinating on some home improvement projects. I don't want to install gutters and then immediately have to clean leaves out of them.
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You usually keep a haunted house built year round?
The part inside the garage, yes. Or mostly. One half of the set is mostly free-standing, so that is easy enough to collapse and stuff into a corner. The rest is pseudo "rooms" and "hallways", so they're used for passage and storage.
The last time I did a full set strike was when everything was free-standing, and there was just one L-shaped hallway with walls made of curtain. The father-in-law wanted to be able to park his car in the garage. He never did, and instead just threw junk into the garage (rather than, y'know, throwing it away or organizing what is to be kept).
So each year thusfar has been make enough room for the lawnmower and access to to the built-in vacuum receptical. Come Halloween, clear out whatever junk has been thrown into the garage during the year, repair props that got broken because of that (grr), put back up whatever set pieces we took down. Make some minor modifications to change it up.
This year he wants to park his car in the garage again, because of snow. Though some problems he doesn't realize:
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That means he'll have to shovel the part of the driveway where the car was
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He's stored so much broken "antique" furniture along the walls of the garage, I don't know if his car will fit anymore
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He has low-hanging canoes and kayaks in the rafters. They haven't been moved in 20+ years. I keep smashing my head against them. I finally yesterday got fed up enough that I re-reoped them and hoisted them as high as they can go. What was 5' of clearance is now 8', so I guess now his crossover will fit under them. Fucking canoes.
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I put as much as I could into the rafters, but his monster-ass lawnmower (which never gets used), and the snowblower he bought (and never assembled), plus the rubbermaids with Halloween materials, will take up some space on the other half of the garage. If he just throws junk into the garage again, he won't be able to park in there.
My prediction: he'll never park in there, and it'll be a waste-storage site again. I'm taking pictures of the final, cleared out garage to show "Hey, I spent, like, three extra days dismantling and nicely putting away EVERYTHING. It's all done to your specifications. If you fuck it up, it's on you."
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Because if I don't my work doesn't get done.
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How many hours a week does your salary cover?
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How many hours a week do you actually work?
If those numbers are out-of-wack, you have problems.
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I do indeed have problems.
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Then stop fucking working.
You know I grew up in a house with a workoholic dad. It sucked. IT REALLY SUCKED. It would have been better if I'd had no dad at all, frankly.
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Good thing I'm the singlest person to ever single and have no desire to procreate.
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... it still sucks.
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Which one do you choose? a dad playing games all the time or a dad working all the time or not being born?
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Well I'm obviously going to pick not being born, duh. Think about who you're asking.
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Status: trying to see if the Jiffy Lube location I like is still open (also whether it has Sunday hours), since it stopped showing up on Google Maps:
... very useful, thanks. I guess I'll just drive over there and use Human Eyeball Mark I to find out.
EDIT: entering "Jiffy Lube Hours City, State" in Google brought it right up on the right-hand sidebar like magic. 8-6.
Jiffy Lube should just give up on running a website, since Google seems to know more about Jiffy Lube than Jiffy Lube does.
Also it brings up reviews, which reveal I'm not the only one who thinks this particular location is like 20 times better than all the others in the area.
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I don't have stairs, and my cat is old enough that I wouldn't want her falling that far anyway. She's a senior citizen cat.
What about milk bottle rings? Most cats go bonkers if you throw 'em.
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Status: Tried to do a guild trek with 4 of my guildmates. I got my location first, after explaining what everyone needed to do. The second person waited 9 of the 10 minutes before asking what a trek was. By that time, everyone else had found their objective. So which objective did they get? Fawcett's Porch.
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Lol.
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So which objective did they get? Fawcett's Porch.
Is that annoying because of the jumping puzzle, annoying for some other reason, has the worst loot, or what?
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Annoying because a loading screen, the walk, and the jumping puzzle almost definitely took longer than the 1 minute remaining.
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It's a jumping puzzle that takes about five minutes to do if you don't fail a single jump. And the person in question didn't have any of the map the jumping puzzle was in unlocked for fast travel.
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And the person in question didn't have any of the map the jumping puzzle was in unlocked for fast travel.
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Their words were something along the lines of "I thought it was something I had to do in the guild hall". I found them standing on the entrance waypoint when I finished my objective and they didn't move from that spot.
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Was this in Sausagefest?
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What about milk bottle rings? Most cats go bonkers if you throw 'em.
Why would I ever need to buy a full gallon of milk at once?
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Nah, nobody in Sausagefest is stupid. Just lazy.
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Alright, just as long as I don't have to worry about running into this Brilliantâ„¢ individual.
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Brilliantâ„¢
What? Why would you trademark that? Were you trying to make a reference to The Brillant Paula Bean?
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Yeah. Someone who does nothing and doesn't ask for help in doing his/her job seemed like a sufficiently similar person to Paula to merit a reference.
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If you meant brillant, why did you not write brillant?
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I... didn't mean brilliant?
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Why would I ever need to buy a full gallon of milk at once?
If only there were smaller containers of milk you could buy that came in plastic containers.
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? They come in cardboard cartons. You only get the rings if you buy a full gallon.
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Look, maybe in weird mutantville or whatever that's what milk comes in. Around here, it comes in cardboard cartons.
Why the fuck are we talking about this?
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I'm in Oregon, which I thought was about as stupid and weird as Washington. I guess not. Your retarded city must have banned plastic containers.
And we're talking about because we're talking about cat toys, and they really love those plastic ruins, and I was nice enough to inform you that you can your cat a plastic ring without wasting milk. Because i like cats.
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I've encountered individual portions of milk in plastic bottles with those rings sealing them since I was a child, and as recently as last week.
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I... didn't mean brilliant?
No, no you did not. The whole point is that Paula is brillant, not brilliant. If you're going to hang around here, please at least get our memes correct.
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Status: I find it super sad when I made one of my dumb indie game review videos and I either:
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Run out of stuff to talk about the game in far less than 10 minutes, because it's so simple and/or generic, or
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Somehow accidentally complete the entire game during my 10 minute review because it's so fucking short.
Both happened to me today.
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No artificial, all natural, growth hormones.
Aren't almost all hormones natural?
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No artificial, all natural, growth hormones.
I think it's supposed to be read
ALL NATURAL
NO ARTIFICIAL GROWTH HORMONESAren't almost all hormones natural?
And I think they mean that there are no hormones in the milk which are not naturally present in milk.
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Well, I mean, I saw what you did there. I just didn't think it was funny. *shrug* I guess I just saw that too much with DON'T DEAD, OPEN INSIDE for it to amuse me anymore.
Also, it gave me the opportunity to write something in small caps, which amuses me.
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Status: Just bought Fallout 4 and Halo 5 for $48 after tax with the preorder deal + GCU + $20 off $20 or more visa checkout + Discover CB + $10 reward certificate for preordering.
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No, no you did not. The whole point is that Paula is brillant, not brilliant. If you're going to hang around here, please at least get our memes correct.
Thank you. That one has been bugging me for weeks, but I had bigger fish to fry.
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@Arantor said:
No, no you did not. The whole point is that Paula is brillant, not brilliant. If you're going to hang around here, please at least get our memes correct.
Thank you. That one has been bugging me for weeks, but I had bigger fish to fry.
Okay, perhaps I am inviting a whoosh, but the way I read The Brilliant Paula Bean is that Paula is in fact a moron who spent several months writing her own Hello World. Is this an incorrect interpretation of the story?
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Okay, perhaps I am inviting a whoosh, but the way I read The Brilliant Paula Bean is that Paula is in fact a moron who spent several months writing her own Hello World. Is this an incorrect interpretation of the story?
Yeah, but in the original there was a typo that said "Brillant". I assume they fixed it. But that is where the forum meme comes from.
Hey, on the bright side, from now on when we say "As long as it feels like X, it is X", you will know the genesis of that one. ;)