Useless Conversation

[Oban]

Well if you had attached the new cover sheet to your TPS report we would have left you alone.

[Signe]

Yay!  The weather has finally turned cool and not humid which means NO MORE AIR CONDITIONING!!!  I hate AC and forced air heat!  I'd rather open windows for cool air and use the fireplace and/or bundle up for warmth.  No more icky feeling headaches until it gets dangerously cold!   

[MrHat]

Yay!  The weather has finally turned cool and not humid which means NO MORE AIR CONDITIONING!!!  I hate AC and forced air heat!  I'd rather open windows for cool air and use the fireplace and/or bundle up for warmth.  No more icky feeling headaches until it gets dangerously cold!   

Hells ya.  I love the fall.  Stupid rain though made half my apt. wet.

On a different note:

http://www.iwanexstudio.com/ click Portfolio.  I know we all probably know how excessive airbrushing is, but it's always neat to see the before/after of celebs. 

[schild]

That portfolio link just confirms what I already knew, 9 times out of 10 I prefer the imperfect version.

Also, that company is absolutely ruining perfectly good photography.

[WayAbvPar]

I love everything about the fall except all the goddamned spiders coming indoors to haunt me. I came out of the bathroom after brushing my teeth earlier this week. Stopped in the bedroom and happened to look back toward the bathroom. Perched just over the door on the ceiling was a large nasty spider. I tried to whack him with a Pottery Barn catalog, but either I missed or he had some sort of force field. Next thing I know he is walking across the ceiling, and I can HEAR HIS FOOTSTEPS. I didn't miss the second time with the catalog. Glad I finally found a use for it 

My normal policy for spiders is live and let live, especially the webspinning garder spider types. The fast, hairy, scuttle-y spiders give me the wigguns though, so they are fair game if they come inside the house and are bigger than a dime.

[Merusk]

Just use the hose attachment on your vaccuum.  Works for those damned flies that get in the house and like to dive-bomb you then stay out of arm's reach, too.

[Sky]

Then they nest in your vacuum 

My spider policy is one of tolerance. Until they reach a certain size, then, well, you've just been too successful, son, time to put you down and give the youngin's a chance. Also, quick death if you're sighted by the female bloc.

New place has some house centipedes, those things are freaky even if they are beneficial.

On the whole, it's been a lot better since I've been trying to clean up and plug holes and whatnot. I've destroyed three ant colonies, forcing a mass migration. I'm considering a nighttime raid on the carpenter ant nest in the neighbors yard as soon as I find the main mass.

[Signe]

Spiders are awesome.  Flies and ants, not so much.  Of course, with two kitties, I don't see them very often any more.  Lister ate a big fat one the other day, though.  Barring brown recluse and other poison-y ones, I don't mind them much at all.  But if you don't care for them, yeah, vacuums aren't the best tool.  Get a glass and a thin piece of cardboard, capture it, put it in a jar, take the jar far into the woods and let it go then run away really fast so it doesn't see you and follow you home.  Also, make sure you shake your laundry after you take it out of the dryer.  Spiders LOVE dryers.   

[HaemishM]

Anything that walks on more than 4 legs is not welcome in my house. I have standing kill orders out on all of them.

[Merusk]

I don't actually kill spiders, (bad luck, y'know) it was just a suggestion I've been told by others.  I trap 'em in a glass and toss 'em out the front door so they can nest in the porch garden. 

The best spider so far was the little black 'house spider' that was smaller than the central portion of Montecello on the back of a nickel. I saw him scuttle across my desk and reached for a glass to trap him which he must have seen.  Forelegs went up and he reared back in an attempt to be all fierce.  I started wiggling my forefinger back and forth and he followed it kept waving his little forelegs like he was dangerous.  I sure as hell didn't kill him, because that's a ballsy spider. 

Of course he probably got eaten by something once he got tossed outside.

[Nebu]

I try not to kill spiders... they eat the insects that come out at night.  I think of them as nature's exterminator. 

[Signe]

When I lived in New Mexico a bazillion years ago, I was given a tarantula as a gift.  I named it Brazen and loved it until I accidentally killed it with a pencil.    Also what Nebu said.

[Yegolev]

The interesting thing about finding spiders in your house is that there are "house spiders" and regular spiders.  Regular spiders are not equipped to live in the usually food-poor human house, so the ones that most people find are specially adapted to living in homes.  Just like the house centipede.  A regular outdoor spider that tries to make a living inside most homes is going to fail miserably, unless you have lots of tasty vermin at which point you really should be letting the spiders live anyway.

My wife makes me kill all of them, even if they just hang out and catch the flies I can't get with the swatter.

[Sky]

Yeah, that's the love/hate I have with the few remaining house centipedes in my place. There was apparently a LOT of food around for them previously. When I first moved in, they were everywhere, in fact, a new litter had been born and there were a gajillion small ones. Now I rarely see them, and unless they show up in the bedroom or near a sofa (they do bite, like spiders), they live. But they (unlike spiders) still freak me out. Faaaast lil buggers.

[Yegolev]

Their bite isn't as bad as the regular, non-house centipedes.  Oddly enough, the night my wife was bitten on the neck by a regular centipede, I found a house centipede in the hallway outside the bedroom.  After I read up on them, I imagined the house centipede was on a hunt for the other one.  In my mind he was wearing a wide-brim hat and smoking a small cigar, like Eastwood in a spaghetti western.

[Samwise]

I had a live-and-let-live policy with spiders until I got a couple of nasty bites from them.  They've now been demoted to "plant food" status for their insolence.  The plants do a better job on the fruit flies than the spiders ever did anyway.

[voodoolily]

I just leave them to their quarters. THey just stay in the basement or in the corners of the celling, not a problem for me.

[FatuousTwat]

Fucking awesome.

Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway!

[FatuousTwat]

Bunch of pictures of Afghan compounds from a private plane.

[FatuousTwat]

I just realized that Data is Picard's Spock.

Fake Edit: Triple Post!

[Yegolev]

I just realized that Data is Picard's Spock.

 

Also, the W3C is full of dumbasses.

[voodoolily]

I just realized that Data is Picard's Spock.

Fake Edit: Triple Post!

Wait, I though Sylar was Spock.

[stray]

I just realized that Data is Picard's Spock.

Fake Edit: Triple Post!

Yeah, but Data's funnier. I think the only reason I even watched that show was because I'm a big Buster Keaton fan.. the sci-fi parts kind of stank. 

[edit] or stunk. either/or

[WayAbvPar]

I just leave them to their quarters. THey just stay in the basement or in the corners of the celling, not a problem for me.

That would be fine, but they always push their luck. When I lived in my parents' house, my room was in the basement, and I woke up more than once with a 3" diameter spider walking directly over my head on the ceiling, or once, hanging off the very end of a Sonics pennant I had over my bed. The SOUND of it moving is what woke me up. That is too big and too close for me to allow it to live.

[Der Helm]

I think I have a mild form of arachnophobia, after they reach a certain size they just freak me out.

I am working on it, nowadays I can even touch rather small ones. 

[Sky]

I would be fine with spiders on wall or ceiling...if that didn't mean my cat would try to climb my guitar to get to them...

[Signe]

My left hand is all stitched and wrapped up in gauze.  It's very hard to type with one hand.  I wish I knew how you boys have been doing it for such a long time.  I guess people with dicks are persistent when it comes to their dicks.

[Oban]

You're doing it wrong.

[Evildrider]

Close the window you are letting all the stank out.

[WayAbvPar]

 

Well played, sir.

[FatuousTwat]

My left hand is all stitched and wrapped up in gauze.  It's very hard to type with one hand.  I wish I knew how you boys have been doing it for such a long time.  I guess people with dicks are persistent when it comes to their dicks.

It's more mouse oriented, actually.

[Yegolev]

If you just set the video to repeat then you're all set.

[Ironwood]

Thank God someone said it before me.

Tho I find 'Shuffle' more ironic.

[Yegolev]

I'd have to actually organize things by, uh, genre before I could use Shuffle.

[NowhereMan]

Apparently after a couple of years of no exercise more intense than running 2 or 3 times a week and at least a month of no real exercise, kicking things off with an hour of circuit training is not a great idea. My thighs were very stiff yesterday, got worse and   I actually woke up quite a few times last night just because I was straightening or bending my right leg and the pain woke me. Fortunately I've spent most of today stretching and not too much movement and things are feeling better, glad I learned this now rather than four or five years down the line.

I have also been informed that since it started raining at the beginning of the week here in Manchester I can look forward to seeing the sun again roughly this time next year. Noone who has said this looked like they were joking