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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Suddenly I don't feel so ass-backwards, technology wise! Woohoo! Sorry, Sal.
Although the meat problem is omnipresent. I have a newly configured server to replace our old XServe. It's sitting right here, all configured with new schema and everything. It's awesome!
It's also waiting on management to greenlight for data transfer so I can make it live.
It's been waiting for months. Like six of them.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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No, Amazon. I am not interested in this, but thanks for the email notification. http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1440334412/Because I buy art books, but man. It's like if I buy belts and they send me a recommendation for BDSM. Which would still be better than that. |
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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It's like I found that post on Reddit. Good show.
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tazelbain
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No, Amazon. I am not interested in this, but thanks for the email notification. http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1440334412/Because I buy art books, but man. It's like if I buy belts and they send me a recommendation for BDSM. Which would still be better than that. Or Amazons knows more about you than you can admit to yourself....  |
"Me am play gods"
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Paelos
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Error 404: Title not found.
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Hard Rock Furry Sky
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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If clicking that link pollutes my Amazon feed... !
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Phildo
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Private browsing, activate!
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Draegan
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So I go preliminary feedback on my interview. Apparently the VP and Pres didn't have time to talk to each other as they were playing phone tag (VP is traveling in and out of airports), but exchanged texts. Feedback from my recruiter is classified as "positive". Should know more later.
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WayAbvPar
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If clicking that link pollutes my Amazon feed... !
Oh shit I didn't even think of that. Time to go completely off the grid. I wonder if Kaczynski's cabin is rentable? |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Did I just invent the furryroll?
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schild
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Did I just invent the furryroll?
No. |
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Phildo
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Tell us more about your furryroll.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Tell us more about your furryroll.
I put up a post about it on my blog. |
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Die.  |
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Signe
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Muse.
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Geez, Sky. You are relentless! I need to be more careful around your posts.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Phildo
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I fully intend to click on that when I get home tonight.  |
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IainC
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Wargaming.net
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I fully intend to click on that when I get home tonight. I have an urgent message for you from Admiral Ackbar. |
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Phildo
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I'm already concentrating my fire on the Super Star Destroyer.
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Numtini
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14k sales rank? Please kill me.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Morat20
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I just dug into a bug at work only to realize that it was broken because it had been coded so half-assed as to be utterly useless.
Whoever wrote it only covered one case (the easy case) and just ignored the rest. He even got the EASY case wrong.
Worse yet, it's basically a geometry problem (arcs, x,y 2D plane, etc) that's really easy to solve by hand -- or in Mathmatica -- but a bitch to cover in C++ and the guy I need to talk to get the parameters fully defined is on vacation, and my project lead's an engineer who doesn't grasp that as simple as the problem is, doing it in C++ is going to take a fucking LOT longer than he thinks.
Mostly because the problem boils down to playing "guess where the user REALLY meant to click" and I have three points and have to figure out which ones to keep and which ones to modify.
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Ironwood
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I'm already concentrating my fire on the Super Star Destroyer.
Well played. I would also have accepted 'We'll last longer than we will against that Death Star.' |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Merusk
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Yegolev
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Yea that one is pretty good.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Nebu
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That's awesome. Thanks for the laugh.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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WayAbvPar
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Heh. Unfortunately the reality is more like 'your 2 year old daughter jumps into your lap during a tense action and spills Kool-Aid on your keyboard' rather than 'off to have sex kthxbai'. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Have you ever experienced the sheer animal terror of discovering that there's a bat in your house?
I have now. I'm getting ready for bed last night, my wife is out of town on a trip so it's just me and the dogs. I get the dogs shuttled into the bedroom with the door closed and finish brushing my teeth when I see something flap by outside the bathroom door from downstairs and into the other bedroom. "What the fuck was that?" I say to myself, inching towards the door. "Was that a bird?" Flap flap flap out of the room and "Holy shit, I think that's a bat." Run into the office and close the door, google "getting a bat out of my house." Short story on the google link is fuckers could have rabies, don't touch them, get a broom and whack that sucker.
Fuck all that. Call 911 instead, let a professional deal with that shit. The oh-so-bored sounding 911 operator informs me that animal control is closed, which I already knew. She asks if I want an officer to come around the house. "Will they get this bat out of my house?"
"Well no, they can't do that."
"Then why would you send them?"
She puts me on hold and apparently finds the number of a pest place that will do the job, Critter Catchers. I call and since it's 11:30 at fucking night, I get a voicemail. Leave my number while cowering in the bedroom with the dogs and get a phone call back in a few minutes. Sure, they could come and get it but not until the morning - they are out of town. Luckily the dude is very helpful, giving me a step by step on how to knock this thing for a loop, put a box or towel over it and get it outside the house. Apparently, my neighborhood has a huge ass bat colony around as he's taken multiple calls on my street, though he did offer up that there have been very few rabies outbreaks amongst said bat population.
I'm starting to feel like Keanu Reeves strolling up to eat dinner with Gary fucking Oldman at this point.
Put on heavy jogging pants and the only coat I have handy, a sweater-y type long coat thing that is my wife's, and inch out of the bedroom, hunched over with broom in one hand and box in the other. Eyes on a swivel, waiting for this goddamn flying rodent to land on my mohawk and start giving me rabies kisses. Yes, I know that bats are not hostile by nature and the bat does not want to be in my house. He's likely scared and confused and may even be a baby.
There is, however, something quite unsettling about the silence with which these fuckers flit around. Their echolocation squeal is barely audible even when you've got them pinned to the floor in pain. Maybe I watched too many vampire movies as a kid. I'm not ashamed to admit seeing that little fucker flapping around my house scared the shit out of me. Not "run out of the house shrieking as if I'd just seen an Elder God" scared but "oh fuck that spider's coming right for me!" kind of scared.
There it is in the bathroom, hanging upside down from the shower curtain. He couldn't have been four inches long all folded up and if his fully stretched wingspan was six inches, I'd be surprised. Still, see the above paragraph. I do not want that thing taking flight. Lead with the broom... THWACK THWACK... THWACK!!!! That last one was when he was on the ground, just for good measure. I didn't want to kill it, but I sure as fuck didn't want it taking flight. Toss the box over it, go downstairs and get an empty dog food bag to put it in, figuring the thick paper on that bag will be sufficient to blunt his needle-like fangs. He did not want to go when I removed the box, flapping around at no higher than ankle level as I slam around the little toilet area trying to secure him again. Shuffle him into the bag, close it, run downstairs and out the front door. Shake the bag out as far away from my body as I can and he is out of my life.
Moral of the story? I am a great big girl's blouse, but at least I know how to get a bat out of my house now.
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WayAbvPar
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Yegolev
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Have you ever experienced the sheer animal terror of discovering that there's a bat in your house?
My wife has.  I used a crab net to catch ours. It was 2am and I didn't bother with any fucking clothes since I just wanted to go back to sleep ASAP. I was careful to not smash its tiny hollow bones with the net, though, because I'm a massive softie and I don't like mosquitoes. You're a brave dude to post that. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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As soon as he described the outfit, this is exactly where my mind jumped. Goddamn that was a great movie. |
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MisterNoisy
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There it is in the bathroom, hanging upside down from the shower curtain.
Man, I'd have put the broom down to get a picture of that before resuming bat-extrication. |
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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I had totally forgotten about that scene, but some of that info must have leaked into my subconscious because that's pretty close to exactly what it was like.  |
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RhyssaFireheart
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Yeah, pics or it didn't happen.
*snerk*
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HaemishM
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If my wife had been there, I probably would have had her video it. INSTANT YOUTUBE STARDOM! |
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WayAbvPar
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As soon as he described the outfit, this is exactly where my mind jumped. Goddamn that was a great movie. My high school girlfriend dumped me the night we saw it, so I have slightly less fond memories of it. It does have some great scenes though  |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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rattran
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Meh, throw a bath towel over the bat and take it outside. We get them in the house occasionally, drives the cats crazy but they're not a big deal.
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