Useless Conversation

[rattran]

You want a replacement kitten?  I've got three new litters at home.  14-ish kittens; it's hard to get an exact count since the mothers insist on keeping them all in one big pile and surrounding it.

Well, we do need one more little one... 

[Signe]

Sometimes I bounce around the house with a mirror in my hand and I chant, "Mirror Mirror in my hand, who's the fairest in my hand?"  It's always me. :)  I hear men do it a different way. 

[calapine]

From my visit today in the Ars Electronica Center, a sort of science-art "museum". I already forgot how the effect this relies on is called, but it's pretty neat.

Youtube, 16 seconds

[Sky]

We now have a 6 week old kitten with some special needs. So every 4 hours I get to put antibacterial lubricant on cat butt.

It's been a long week already.

You haven't lived until you've had to express the anal glands of a 25# polydactyl monster.

[Rasix]

Discussing gun control at work is fun.   I need to really stick to my rule that whenever someone discusses guns, God, or politics: politely excuse yourself and say you have some work to do.  It's amazing that people tend to have absolutely no concept of a middle ground or can concede that any aspect of their reasoning is flawed.

edit: I suppose I come off just as bad to them.  But I'm guessing my stance is a bit more nuanced than "no gun control, ever".   

[Hawkbit]

Major house fires across the street from me. This shit is scary as hell, at least three homes on fire. http://westseattleblog.com/2015/04/seattle-fire-responding-to-house-fire-in-6700-46th-sw/#comments

Just about nothing scarier than my kid calling me from home "dad, there's fire trucks out front". And then we can see the plume as we're heading from downtown. Looks like nobody's hurt, but just scary.

[MisterNoisy]

Discussing gun control at work is fun.   I need to really stick to my rule that whenever someone discusses guns, God, or politics: politely excuse yourself and say you have some work to do.  It's amazing that people tend to have absolutely no concept of a middle ground or can concede that any aspect of their reasoning is flawed.

edit: I suppose I come off just as bad to them.  But I'm guessing my stance is a bit more nuanced than "no gun control, ever".   

Politics at work is just asking to be restrained by security in my experience.  At the very least, HR will get involved, so I keep it light.

[Rendakor]

Depends where you work. We don't really have HR at my job (small business) and I'm one of the few liberals; I do my best to just keep my head down and let them rant.

[Merusk]

Marriage counseling. Wheee.

[Polysorbate80]

All the marriage counseling anyone needs:  Don't get married 

[Signe]

Just leave the smiley face. 

[Samwise]

 

[Trippy]

I was trying to get him to clean up after himself rather than having us do it.

[Samwise]

I know.  It was agonizing.

[Samwise]

It's depressing how good I've gotten at anticipating contractor bullshit and how directly that is a function of cynicism.

Talk to the dude this morning, he claims he passed the final inspection and has the certificate to prove it.  (My bullshit meter is going off because why would he not have left it at the house for me?)  He's gonna send his guy over to meet me this afternoon and give me the certificate and pick up the check.  I hang up and think "guy's gonna show up, he's not gonna have the certificate for some mysterious reason, he's going to say he didn't know he was supposed to bring it, he's going to want the check anyway, and he's going to try to guilt me into it because he already drove all the way out to see me."

Guy calls me in the afternoon to say he's coming over to pick up the check, I say "great, you have the certificate, right?"  He says "what certificate?"  I tell him to come back tomorrow when he has the certificate.

He shows up on my doorstep half an hour later with no certificate.  My face:

Sorry your rent is due and you're behind on your work.  Bring the fucking thing I'm paying you for so I can be rid of you forever, kthx.

[Strazos]

 

[schild]

Mother of shit, Vegas takes it out of you.

Going to go into a coma for 3 days.

[Cyrrex]

I was in Rome and the Vatican all weekend with the wife.  Cool city, way too much to try to fit into an extended weekend.  Honestly, regardless of your religious affiliation, some of the churches they have there are just amazing to behold.  Some of it just boggles the mind in terms of what they were capable of, and makes you think alot about how far away from a lot of that humanity has strayed.  Contrast that with the absolute hordes of manflesh wandering around that city with their iphones and selfie-sticks (OMG the selfie-sticks), and it is a constant battle between being amazed and being utterly disgusted at the same time.

[Chimpy]

Doesn't that sentiment pretty much sum up ANY visit to Italy since the beginning of time? 

[Engels]

I think that describes the tourists. Italians are by and large very nice to other people (not so much to themselves).

[Paelos]

So my triglycerides are down 50 points and back in accepted range. That was a nice surprise from the physical.

Now to lose that extra 20 pounds...

[pxib]

I read excerpts from this years ago, but I just found the whole thing and it impressed me all over again. The political and social polarization inherent to interaction online.

[ezrast]

That's a good read. I totally did the faucet thing not too long ago, but with light bulbs. Literally spent two days trying to narrow down the field of a zillion light bulbs (which have the most bizarrely thorough and detailed Amazon reviews I've ever seen) for use in my desk lamp. We live in strange times.

(yes, literally a zillion)

[Merusk]

Heh.. lights are fun to educate yourself on. Since they're electronics you have a much bigger choice until some 'standard' will evolve. That standard will, of course, drive lighting engineers up a fucking wall because, and I quote, "people want to pay for a lesser-quality light. It's infuriating."

Meanwhile it's incredibly unsettling to do something like install an 1000 Lumen LED Daylight bulb where you used to have a pair of 60w Soft Whites.  I did this in the front hall and it still feels weird at night.  Yes, it feels exactly like daylight, but combined with the darkness outside the windows it weirds my animal brain out.

[Rasix]

The day before my vacation is not a good day to tell me that you fucked up (and shipped!) our client architects <redacted> demo for <redacted>world.

 
 
Of course, in a day my laptop will be an ocean away, and I won't care. 

[Viin]

*drums his fingers* I hate being bored at work

[WayAbvPar]

*drums his fingers* I hate being bored at work

I have been in a semi-panic all day- wanna trade? Thank FSM I finally sorted through everything, and am in the process of FTPing my deliverable now. It will make 'working from home' tomorrow that much more enjoyable.

[Ironwood]

I envy the pair of you.

I have 10 minutes of panic followed by hours of boredom.

I think it's time for a new job.  Or a lottery win.

[Fabricated]

We've been getting put through the fucking wringer since this particular end of spring semester has been ridiculously fucking busy even for the end of the semester.

I dunno what the fuck the deal is but I've been getting like 3 hours of sleep a night for a week and a half because I got some sort of weird eye irritation going on with my one good eye. Feels fine all day, but when I sleep or close my eye it's kinda itchy/irritated in spots, and when I wake up my vision is blurry as fuck to the point I can't see for 30-45 minutes. Eyedrops seem to help a little, and after it clears up it's literally good all day- weirdly so, like it seems like after it clears up my vision is better on average than it ever has been.

[Chimpy]

I am not going to be getting much sleep over the next week as we finally go into performance testing on Monday which means I need to do about 20 minor yet important VMware/hardware configuration changes over the weekend so that they are in place before any baseline tests are run. And of course I need to watch monitoring during the tests.

[rattran]

The kitten is down to meds every 8 hours, so I'm finally getting some sleep. Still getting awoken at 6:45 to high-pitched mewling for food, which wakes the 23pound monster who expects food and pets if the girl is getting fed.

[Signe]

My monster expects food and pets ALL THE TIME!  My little girl can be satiated by tenderising my sister's tummy.  I don't know why.  She has a tummy crush on my sister.  So glad your kitty doing well, rattran.  When one of my animals (and nephews) is sick, I can't sleep anyway.  Luckily, everyone has been healthy lately.   Knock on wood.

[Yegolev]

The wife is currently in Senoia, possibly plotting to abduct Norman Reedus.  She sent some pictures from outside and inside Alexandria's wall.

[Signe]

If she's successful kidnapping Norman, please post the pics!  Do you know he named his kid "Mingus"?  Wha?  In Scandiland that would be "Mønikus".  Why do people do that to kids?  I suppose he could have named him after the Jazz guy which would make it a bit cooler if little kids knew anything about jazz.  The jazz guy also wrote a book:



That won't help much, will it?

[IainC]

I'm flying to Kiev next Friday. I got my contract and start date all finalised and I'll be a senior designer on a new project at Wargaming.