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[Nebu]

I drove by some free-range chickens on my commute this morning, on a hillside right by the freeway.

Totally boring to those of you in the heartland, I'm sure, but I've literally never seen chickens running around SF before.  It was a bit surreal.

[Lantyssa]

I drove by some free-range chickens on my commute this morning, on a hillside right by the freeway.

Totally boring to those of you in the heartland, I'm sure, but I've literally never seen chickens running around SF before.  It was a bit surreal.

I drove by two turkeys on the way to work Tuesday.  While I've seen plenty of turkeys out in the country, never in Houston proper.  They weren't domestic turkeys either.

Much like you, I found it very surreal.

[Merusk]

I drove by 3 deer carcasses, 2 dead racoons and part of a dog.

I called it "thursday."

[Nebu]

I drove by 3 deer carcasses, 2 dead racoons and part of a dog.

I called it "thursday."

In the south, where I now live, they call it "buffet".

[IainC]

As I was walking to work this morning I nearly tripped over a pigeon that took to the air after shooting me a dirty look. Less than five seconds later it had been killed by a hawk that stooped out of nowhere to take it about a metre off the pavement. The hawk flew off with most of the pigeon and the rest fell back down at my feet.

[Merusk]

I drove by 3 deer carcasses, 2 dead racoons and part of a dog.

I called it "thursday."

In the south, where I now live, they call it "buffet".

Not enough squirrel. 

I bet you were thinking, "Karma's a bitch," eh Iain?

[Ingmar]

Fixed my IMAP issue. 

Since Google can't nest labels under the protected "Inbox" label, the fact that all my accounts imported over with 'inbox' at the beginning of the new label names was greatly confusing IMAP clients. Easy fix: rename the top level labels to no longer start with "Inbox\".

[Cyrrex]

Yesterday I was flying out of the airport in Oslo, and I was going through security screening.  I didn't have a hint of anything metal on me, but the stupid thing went off anyway.  The security girl on the other side told me that it was just a random check, so she had me take off my shoes, raise my arms, etc.  She then proceeded to give me the most thorough pat down I have ever received, and it was borderline indecent.  Had she been any more diligent in her work, I would have probably had to rent a hotel room.  I mean, at least a full minute over very nearly every inch of surface area on my person.  I almost expected her to ask me to turn my head and cough.  Right in front of all the other passengers, of course.  The thing about it was, though, was that she was extremely hot.  I mean, super good looking 20-ish Norwegian chick.  Pure and simple gorgeous.  I left the place thinking that the rest of the world could learn a lot from the Norwegians about how to do security screening.

[Sir T]

*watches the price of plane tickets to norway skyrocket"

[Ironwood]

It's all fun and games until you get arrested for the long hard weapon in your pocket.

[Murgos]

"Oh, wow.  After that super thorough 20 minute search it turns out I had a paperclip stuck in the crotch of my underwear?  Whew, I'm glad you found that.." 

[Nebu]

I'm having a 'Spinal Tap' flashback.

[Bunk]

Yesterday I was flying out of the airport in Oslo, and I was going through security screening.  I didn't have a hint of anything metal on me, but the stupid thing went off anyway.  The security girl on the other side told me that it was just a random check, so she had me take off my shoes, raise my arms, etc.  She then proceeded to give me the most thorough pat down I have ever received, and it was borderline indecent.  Had she been any more diligent in her work, I would have probably had to rent a hotel room.  I mean, at least a full minute over very nearly every inch of surface area on my person.  I almost expected her to ask me to turn my head and cough.  Right in front of all the other passengers, of course.  The thing about it was, though, was that she was extremely hot.  I mean, super good looking 20-ish Norwegian chick.  Pure and simple gorgeous.  I left the place thinking that the rest of the world could learn a lot from the Norwegians about how to do security screening.

I've had that pat down, only here regulations require that it not be a super good looking 20-ish Norwegian chick. Same gender pat downs only.

[Sky]

Totally boring to those of you in the heartland, I'm sure, but I've literally never seen chickens running around SF before.  It was a bit surreal.

Guess you've never been to LA. Mexicans love them some free-range chickens.

Since the woodpile has grown to block most of the back of my property, I don't have near as much wildlife as I used to. As I want to get some veg growing and I'm a bit looney about my apple trees, that's a good thing. Speaking of hawks, I had six in a tree behind my house a couple weeks ago. At first I thought they were ravens, it was pretty cool, but I lost the light in the time it took me to dig out my tripod, so I didn't get a picture.

Ingmar: that's awesome and might actually fix something I've been trying to do with people who have exported their stuff to gmail here.

[Bunk]

I grew up in a suburban area that certainly wasn't rural, but everyone had big yards - so having chickens come "flying" out in to the middle of the road when going down side streets was not at all uncommon. Our neighbour had a little hobby farm - chickens, sheep, etc.

One day, one of the chickens popped through the fence in to our back yard. Clearly it was an evil chicken with malicious intent, which is why my German Shepherd felt duty bound to run out and annihilate the fowlfoul beast.

So I pick up this dead chicken by the neck, walk over to the neighbours, and ring the door bell. Door gets answered by a five year old kid. Oh shit!
So now I'm standing at their front door, holding a dead chicken behind my back, politely asking this little kid to go get his dad...

[Xanthippe]

My spouse saw a bunch of loose cows yesterday on his commute (it was Highway 1 at Stage Road, San Gregorio for Bay Area folks). He called it in, as that could have been a very nasty accident.

He has a very pretty commute, even if it's long (1.5hr each direction). Better to go up the coast than up the peninsula. He has taken some stunning photos.

[Samwise]

I've had that pat down, only here regulations require that it not be a super good looking 20-ish Norwegian chick. Same gender pat downs only.

I had a thought about this -- can you claim to be gay and say that you're uncomfortable with same-gender patdowns because of their potential sexual overtones?  Does that work?

[Sky]

My spouse saw a bunch of loose cows yesterday

Red Light Farms?

[MuffinMan]

My spouse saw a bunch of loose cows yesterday on his commute (it was Highway 1 at Stage Road, San Gregorio for Bay Area folks). He called it in, as that could have been a very nasty accident.

Not something I would want to see either, sexually promiscuous cows shouldn't be roaming the streets.

EDIT:Curse you Sky! *shakes fist*

[Xanthippe]

My spouse saw a bunch of loose cows yesterday

Red Light Farms?

Hooker Ranch.

[Xanthippe]

My spouse saw a bunch of loose cows yesterday

Red Light Farms?

Hooker Ranch.

He should have called the Secret Service instead of 911.

 

[Bunk]

I've had that pat down, only here regulations require that it not be a super good looking 20-ish Norwegian chick. Same gender pat downs only.

I had a thought about this -- can you claim to be gay and say that you're uncomfortable with same-gender patdowns because of their potential sexual overtones?  Does that work?

No idea, though I think the rule is more about making sure the patter doesn't enjoy it too much, as opposed to the pattie.

[Bzalthek]

Make people want to be patted down!  Hire a bunch of hot and/or chiseled TSA agents and allow them to choose their violators!

[Soln]

For the WoW folks:

Is Saronite ore worth anything?  Because I have tons of it and jewels.

I logged in last night to my account that had been cancelled several years ago, and in the intervening time it got hacked and reactivated (?).   And I now got all the hacker's ores, jewels and gold.

But this was weird:  I only had BC, but my old main was remade into a miner and was in Wintergrasp.  Wasn't BG in WotLK?  If so, I never had that expansion.  Should I lol over this?

[Chimpy]

Sounds like someone sold the account and the nob who bought it put the WotLK xpac on it. Yay you?

[Morat20]

Sounds like someone sold the account and the nob who bought it put the WotLK xpac on it. Yay you?

Same thing happened to my wife. Lost a lot of gear and got turned into a herb farmer, but got WoTLK out of it.

Also, I love my job sometimes. Staff meeting today mentioned the Morpheus test fire (a rocket-y thingy) apparently went well, except for the bit where the JSC herd of deer were close by (and laying down in the grass), got spooked, ran off -- and one pushed it's way through the fence, ran out onto a busy street, and caused a car wreck.

Morpheus is fucking cursed. I don't think it's had a test fire yet that hasn't gone pear shaped. They had one on YouTube even. :)

[Miasma]

Saronite can sometimes be worth more than cataclysm ore because so few mine it now but new blacksmiths still need a lot of it to level up.  Check both the ore and the bar prices to see which to sell (bearing in mind that I think it takes two ore to make one bar).

If you were a risk taking keener you might sit on it until MoP comes out and people level new toons and professions causing a spike in demand.  You would also be hoarding cata leather because new monk leathercrafters will need a metric fuckton of it.

[Ironwood]

To continue the MAPI theme we've got going on (because let's face it, it's either that or teeth or honeycrisps), I have a MAPI Sync Perl script that's awesome.

It opens both databases, checks both mailboxes, copies from the primary to the secondary and then deletes everything INCLUDING WHAT IT JUST CREATED from the secondary.

So it works perfectly if I wanted it to empty a mailbox on the secondary, but is fuck all use otherwise.  Especially for, you know, synching mailboxes.

I'm not sure where it's going wrong, or indeed if it's me going wrong.  Anyone know Perl ?

 

[Lantyssa]

It's not wrong, it just realizes that all the mail is useless junk and cleans it up for you.

[Ironwood]

Heh.  Probably.

[Engels]

I am having bacon cheddar ranch dip for breakfast.

[Chimpy]

So, I have been on a diet all year and have lost about 45 pounds in that time. I went to go buy some jeans for my vacation as the majority of the ones I have from the last couple years are all too big.

Saw a display at JC Penney with clearance jeans, $8 a pair. I went in assuming that 36 waist would be what I wanted as my "old" jeans that I started to be able to fit into a month or so ago are 36. There were only 34 waist jeans on the rack so I decided to try a pair on. To my surprise they fit O.o. I am pretty sure I have not been able to wear 34 waist jeans in this century.

[Hammond]

Yea...  34 is the new 36 , 36 is the new 38.  Clothing companies do that to try to make people feel better about being fat (not saying 34 is fat :) ).  I think the term is vanity sizing.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing

[Merusk]

Vanity sizing has made it into men's clothes.  We thought we'd be immune because our sizes aren't some cryptic thing like "14" which could be any combination of measurements but based on actual dimensions.   Well, not so apparently.  The labels lie now and what SHOULD be a 36" pair of pants is labeled as a 34.   They won't be able to get away with it as much as women (Where what used to be a size 16 is now a size 12 in some cases) but expect all pants are actually 2"-4" bigger than advertised.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/top-brands-using-vanity-sizing-to-dupe-men/841965/

Expect more of it as we get fatter as a nation and accept it rather than changing it.  Heard plenty of 13-16 year old girls who ARE obese say "I'm curvy, not fat" or "I'm normal. <My daughter> is too skinny is she anorexic?" (She's 13, 5'2 and weighs ~94#)

[Chimpy]

Well, jeans always were sort of that way for me. I would wear one size smaller in jeans than I would wear in dress pants/khakis.

But I do know that the 38 jeans I bought probably a year ago are all WAY too big to fit anymore.