Useless Conversation

[Sky]

The inflatable stuff is odd. And much of it is barely xmas. I'll give a pass to the santa on a harley, but the giant Giants football player is just weird. My cool neighbors had an inflatable pipe organ for halloween that played spooky organ music like toccata and fugue. That is most definitely a cool inflatable (the only I've seen).

Now they're getting into xmas with some pulsing color changing lights and some interesting white pulsers. I have to ask them where they get the lights from. I also need a cherry-picker to get to the top of my front pine to hang some lights and a star imo. I like lights, they should be year-round for different holidays. Which is why I like my neighbors, I guess (plus they're cool, they like my guitar playing and they're retired sheriffs).

[bhodi]

I really really wish I had an awesome cousin whose parents I dislike.

[Cyrrex]

I don't care for the Christmas inflatables either, but it's the Halloween ones are the ones that really piss me off.  At least with Christmas there is an off chance that it can still be somewhat...cute.  But inflatable Halloween thingies are never, ever scary, weird or gross in any sense of the word.  Completely missing the mark, in other words.

[Signe]

I don't like any inflatables at all.  They're not quaint and charming, which is how I like things to look during the holidays, especially in an area like we live in.  They're big and ugly and in the poorest taste possible.  All of them.  And I agree about Halloween.  They look naff and silly, not scary.  I don't mind lights if they look nice.  On the top of the hill I live on it's not bad.  People decorate tastefully.  In the car and down the road, however, it looks like something from Walmart hell.  Everyone does the inflatables and OTT lights.  It's garish.  Luckily our view overlooks mostly woods or golf course and you can't see any of from here.  I know, however, they you only have to walk a minute or so down the road and there it is.  I am so tempted to buy an anti-inflatable BB gun.  Christmas used to be nicer to look at, I think, now I just want it to go away quickly.

[Cyrrex]

I am so tempted to buy an anti-inflatable BB gun.

As opposed to BB guns that...ah never mind.

[rattran]

It feels like winter now, after I spent a good part of the day driving through white-out blizzard conditions somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia. And saw lots of "Yes, COAL! The carbon neutral fuel" billboards.

Now I'm in a Red Roof Inn somewhere near Indianapolis. I need a drink and some sleep.

[Sky]

"Yes, COAL! The carbon neutral fuel" billboards.

Sometimes I think this country deserves what it gets and we should all move to Canada.

[HaemishM]

I love the Christmas inflatables, the more garish and tasteless, the better. I want my house to look corny as fuck for Christmas. I even hope it offends most of my neighbors, as at least half of them seem like dried up old biddies who hate everyone who even looks at their house.

[Yegolev]

Safari Books has eliminated the 20-slot plan, leaving only the 5, 10 and unlimited ones.  They are giving me the unlimited plan for the price of the 20-slot plan for a while, but I'm thoroughly irritated that I'm going to have to pay double for my sub at some point.  I can't drop back down to the 10-slot plan, that's inhuman.  I might as well go back to paper books.

[rattran]

Just put santa hats on all the skulls and rats you still have out from Halloween decoration. From 2002. I mean, that's what I do.

[Miasma]

Safari Books has eliminated the 20-slot plan, leaving only the 5, 10 and unlimited ones.  They are giving me the unlimited plan for the price of the 20-slot plan for a while, but I'm thoroughly irritated that I'm going to have to pay double for my sub at some point.  I can't drop back down to the 10-slot plan, that's inhuman.  I might as well go back to paper books.

I squeek by with the ten but only because I just buy the pure reference ones, I like physical paper for that.

[Yegolev]

I squeek by with the ten but only because I just buy the pure reference ones, I like physical paper for that.

I have considered this, and it would work great for things set in stone like Perl, but all of the C# books take fucking two slots and the god-damned W3C can't leave shit alone.  I have time to cut back on it, I might be able to get down to ten, but signs point to "no way".  Just when I drop Advanced Perl is when I will need something obtuse, I just know it.  At least I can write this off my taxes as a work expense.

[FatuousTwat]

All those inflatables look like shit.

And that is all I have to say about that.

[Oban]

Driving on fresh snow at three in the morning when there is no one else around is extremely fun.

Driving on grey slush at eight in the morning in heavy traffic is quite possibly the most time consuming and annoying thing a human being can do today.

[Signe]

Yegolev, IainC and Samwise all in a row on top was very festive.  Maybe all the mods and devs can hang together here on Christmas day.  It would be coolio.  (coolio is my word for the day, keeping to my "io" theme)

[Yegolev]

Might as well since I have to work that day.

[Hindenburg]

Driving on grey slush at eight in the morning in heavy traffic is quite possibly the most time consuming and annoying thing a human being can do today.

I take it you were never a juror?

[Yegolev]

It's probably AWESOME to be on a jury in Canada.

[Signe]

[Oban]

I take it you were never a juror?

I had a Jury notice sent to me while I was at University.  They listed me as being employed by the University, which was cute.  Nothing ever happened, so you are correct I have never been on a jury.

[Sky]

Broke down and bought a few xmas lights with the money from selling my old pickup. Gemmy rules! I got a couple strings and one icicle string. Video of the icicles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmUQOojG6QU They've got RGB LEDs on a 5-minute program loop, very cool. Makes the other lights look so dated.

My neighbor with all the crazy holiday displays turned me onto the Gemmy stuff. Our end of the block is friggin splendid!

[schild]

ATL has 3G access and smoking lounges.

Awesome.

[Endie]

I take it you were never a juror?

I had a Jury notice sent to me while I was at University.  They listed me as being employed by the University, which was cute.  Nothing ever happened, so you are correct I have never been on a jury.

A law degree is almost worth the effort just to have a get-out-of-jury-service-free card.  I dunno about elsewhere, but you'll never have to do jury service as an LLB in Scotland.

[JWIV]

Funny enough, I just got a jury summons for Dec 18th. 

[climbjtree]

So a while back I became infatuated with Regina Spektor. Not only is she talented, but I think she's hot. I wish I could find some like her. Maybe I should go to college.

[voodoolily]

She is hella cute. I love her shirt and jacket. I have some knickerbockers that would go perfect.

[schild]

I swear to god I just saw Ando.

[voodoolily]

James Kyson Lee is smokin'.  Fangirl attack him for me, k?

[Lantyssa]

Even I'd be willing to snog Ando.  G'luck Schild!

[schild]

I'm sitting next to and old fat lady that smells like farts and balsamic vinegar. in front of me is some redheaded jailbait across the row, 4 chairs away is a blonde i wouldve paid to sit next to. I consider this repayment for all my crimes, sins, and whatever else you can come up with.

[MrHat]

I'm sitting next to and old fat lady that smells like farts and balsamic vinegar. in front of me is some redheaded jailbait across the row, 4 chairs away is a blonde i wouldve paid to sit next to. I consider this repayment for all my crimes, sins, and whatever else you can come up with.

Airplane?

[schild]

No, a pumpkin patch ride.

[Sky]

Is that some kind of sex term you kids use these days?

[Hindenburg]

Yup.
Means this:

 

Also, that woman is unattractive.

On the jury thing, if you're a lawyer, no parquet/d.a. will want you sitting there, ever.

[Oban]

I would imagine saying that you think the defendant is guilty because he looks just like the guy that cut in front of you in the line at Starbucks awhile ago might work too.