Useless Conversation

[schild]

Old people in tech?

[Yegolev]

Is that pic from Austin?  That town isn't normal.

[schild]

That person is in town for SXSW. He is wearing google glass and poking at his phone like its the product of wizards.

There's very little I hate more than people over 50 in the tech industry trying to be hip. IT'S NOT FOR YOU.

[Ironwood]

Scottish Startup thingy is in San Fran this year.  If I didn't have a kid it would be the perfect outlet for a mid life crisis.

[Signe]

Can't you just buy a sports car and flirt with pretty girls?  JUST FLIRT, though.  Don't be that other sort of man.

[Yegolev]

Please explain the entire point of flirting, then.

[Ironwood]

I could, but it wouldn't really differentiate from my previous many decades.  I think the idea of a mid life crisis is to do something different.

[Ironwood]

Please explain the entire point of flirting, then.

That's easy.  It's to get her to say yes then enjoy the look of satisfaction when you turn her down.

LAMENTATION OF THE WOMEN.

[Nebu]

I think the idea of a mid life crisis is to do something different.

That's how I see it as well.  You look at your current situation and wonder what you could be doing that would be more interesting.  There are days that I'd love to abandon my current job and start over in a completely new field.  That's what I consider my own midlife crisis.

[Lantyssa]

Can't you just buy a sports car and flirt with pretty girls?  JUST FLIRT, though.  Don't be that other sort of man.

Where's he going to find a pretty girl in Scotland?

[Nebu]

Where's he going to find a pretty girl in Scotland?

They get tourists! 

[schild]

Fred Phelps' death qualifies as the polar opposite of a tragedy.

[Ironwood]

Can't you just buy a sports car and flirt with pretty girls?  JUST FLIRT, though.  Don't be that other sort of man.

Where's he going to find a pretty girl in Scotland?

Whoa, that's hugely unfair.  If you'd said bloke, I'd be forced to agree, but you're not right on this.

(Or did you mean 'what chance would he have' ?)

[Lantyssa]

You're the one who told us there were no pretty women there, with picture examples.

Also I'm not so picky about the sharp knees as most of these guys... (though square nails are still a deal-breaker).

[Ironwood]

Uhm....


I did ?

[Merusk]

Yes.

Old fart.

[Hawkbit]

Part of an email from one of my professors:

(I must congratulate you for writing a cogent email at 3 am. I rarely get an email from a student at that hour of the morning, but when I do I can generally tell that alcohol is involved!)

[Cyrrex]

Clearly, the only way for Ironwood to clear up this misunderstanding is to post a picture series of hot Scottish women.  Preferably in the T&A thread, since we can obviously not fairly judge them while clothed (us and them).

[Ironwood]

That almost sounds reasonable.

[Nebu]

Clearly, the only way for Ironwood to clear up this misunderstanding is to post a picture series of hot Scottish women.  Preferably in the T&A thread, since we can obviously not fairly judge them while clothed (us and them).

I support this as a purely scientific endeavor.

[Ironwood]

I'm still fairly sure I never said that.  Our men are all boot fucking ugly, but we DO have some nice looking women.  I have met and helped two Miss Scotland entries and despite being stuck up cunts, they were both pretty.

[Nebu]

I'm still fairly sure I never said that.  Our men are all boot fucking ugly, but we DO have some nice looking women.  I have met and helped two Miss Scotland entries and despite being stuck up cunts, they were both pretty.

Nobody cares if you said it anymore.  We just want pictures data.

[Ironwood]

[Paelos]

It's furry convention weekend in Atlanta. 

[Nebu]

It's furry convention weekend in Atlanta. 

Pictures or it isn't true!

[HaemishM]

It's furry convention weekend in Atlanta. 

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Paelos]

It's furry convention weekend in Atlanta. 

Pictures or it isn't true!

http://www.furryweekend.com/

It's unfortunately all too real. They are joking about it on sports radio since they are doing tournament coverage in the same area.

[Phildo]

Pff, that name isn't nearly as cool as Anthrocon.

[Nebu]

http://www.furryweekend.com/

It's unfortunately all too real. They are joking about it on sports radio since they are doing tournament coverage in the same area.

I agree with Haemish.  Kill it with fire.

[schild]

Wow, that is like. Atlanta was already one of my least favorite cities in America. Pretty sure it just made the top of the list, with a bullet.

[schild]

I have an intense desire to create a Where's Waldo that places him somewhere, randomly, in the world in Google Street View and then unleash it on the internet and see how long it takes for him to be found. Features include:

- Places where people have looked turn red.
- Once he appears on screen, he relocates somewhere else and the Time to Find it logged.
- The Wizard, missing shoe, Mrs. Waldo, and Dog are in there also.
- Something something stupid web apps.

[Signe]

I have a lot of safe places but I've forgotten where they are and I can't find my lightweight grey tam hat.  I don't know what to put on my head now.  :(  I also can't find my list of passwords and codes for games so I couldn't log into battlenet.  I KNOW I put that in a safe place.  I seem to have developed an acute case of threshold syndrome, too.  Every time I walk into another room I forget why.  I've lost a bag of laundry, I think.  I have four socks and none of them match.  I'm drinking a ton of coffee lately.  There's no chance I'll die peacefully in my sleep.   That's my today.   

[calapine]

Not sure where to put this, so it's here:

Can anyone explain the Katy Perry - Dark Horse controversy to me?

The youtube comments are full of "Illuminati" and "Islam sucks". Up/Down votes are 860k up, 201k down. So 1/4 of Youtubers are downvoting. I don't think this ever happened for any official music video (the video is actually crap, but normally that doesn't matter).
To offer a comparison:   "Katy Perry - The One That Got Away" has 870k up, 24k down.

What's going on here? A conspiracy?  

[Paelos]

Not enough boob.

[Abagadro]

Not sure where to put this, so it's here:

Can anyone explain the Katy Perry - Dark Horse controversy to me?

The youtube comments are full of "Illuminati" and "Islam sucks". Up/Down votes are 860k up, 201k down. So 1/4 of Youtubers are downvoting. I don't think this ever happened for any official music video (the video is actually crap, but normally that doesn't matter).
To offer a comparison:   "Katy Perry - The One That Got Away" has 870k up, 24k down.

What's going on here? A conspiracy?  

One of the guys who melts or something in the video had a piece of jewelry that was an Arabic symbol for "Allah" and since it was destroyed in the video the fee-fees of certain people got hurt.  They then digitally removed that from the video so a bunch of other fee-fees got hurt.