Useless Conversation

[Samwise]

Use the bait stuff.  Just killing the zerglings does nothing; gotta hit em in their supply line.

[HaemishM]

I set out a bunch of bait traps in the house. They've since started ignoring those areas and coming up in different places. It's an old house, I'm guessing they have a mound somewhere I can't reach, like under the fucking dishwasher. I sure as hell can't find ANY mounds outside the house.

[Samwise]

I'm pretty sure ants don't learn to ignore bait.  If they're "ignoring" the bait, either the bait doesn't work at all, or what's actually happened is you've killed all the ant spawn points within range of the bait and now you're seeing scouts from the nests that are too far away from the bait to find it.  In which case put more bait at those sites until there isn't anything left within ant range of your house.

When I go on an ant genocide mission, I put bait at the back of the house, at the front of the house, and in the kitchen (which is in the middle).  After about a week there are no survivors, and then I don't see any ants until they recolonize the dead zone (rinse, repeat).  Dunno what kind of ants you've got but around here we have the Argentine ants, which are obnoxious because they have one massive decentralized "supercolony" that basically spans the continent.  All you can really do is temporarily blast a hole out of the middle of it and enjoy the break while it heals back up.

[Sky]

Baiting is somewhat limited. I have citronella ants, so bait doesn't work, as they forage for aphids they keep alive in their nest. Which is under the partial slab under my house. Stupid Orkin did a perimeter spray and lacking a way out from under the house, they found every crack in the slab to come into the house in force. I ended up ripping a couple walls out to seal as much as I could get to from the inside. Short of excavating the front of my house that nest is probably there for good (it's only bad when the nest splits every few years).

Anyway, learn your baits, too. Some ants like sweet and some like fats: http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/antbait267.shtml

[Signe]

Baiting is somewhat limited. I have citronella ants, so bait doesn't work, as they forage for aphids they keep alive in their nest. Which is under the partial slab under my house. Stupid Orkin did a perimeter spray and lacking a way out from under the house, they found every crack in the slab to come into the house in force. I ended up ripping a couple walls out to seal as much as I could get to from the inside. Short of excavating the front of my house that nest is probably there for good (it's only bad when the nest splits every few years).

Anyway, learn your baits, too. Some ants like sweet and some like fats: http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/antbait267.shtml

This is so true.  My sister is having an ant problem, too.  There's two different sorts and she had to buy the right stuff for each kind.  The sweet is easy because they come in traps.  The ones that like protein comes some sort of gel or liquid or whatever (I didn't pay enough attention).  Carpenter ants, which she's also fussing with, have cycles where they go from sweet to protein.  You can find all sorts of ant remedies and traps but most of them don't seem to really fix the problem.  And then there's the whole blocking areas off so the pets don't find the poison.  I hate poison.  Anyway my sister found a place to buy the stuff that the professional bug and small cute animals murderers use.  She would never kill an animal but she really really hates these ant.

[Yegolev]

Wondering if there is anything smaller than an anteater which eats ants.

[Ingmar]

Wondering if there is anything smaller than an anteater which eats ants.

Lots of things!

[Samwise]

Wondering if there is anything smaller than an anteater which eats ants.

Slightly larger ants?

[Ingmar]

Wondering if there is anything smaller than an anteater which eats ants.

Slightly larger ants?

Yeah army ants do eat other ants (at least some kinds of army ants.) That's basically your nuclear option though.

[Signe]

When I was little I was obsessed with bugs, even ants.  I used to see them carry around their dead ant friends and thought it was sweet.  I never considered for a minute they were going to eat them!   

[WayAbvPar]

Lines finally died down enough for me to sneak into the new Chick-Fil-A franchise in Bellevue. I wanted to see what the fuss was about. Not overly impressed. It was a decent chicken sandwich for fast food, but not the religious experience I had been led to believe was forthcoming. Their shitty politics are enough to steer me away in the future- just had to try it.

[Lantyssa]

It might have helped if you were already part of the religion if you wanted a religious experience.

[HaemishM]

Chik-fil-A's nuggets are decent, though the peanut oil they fry them in can change the taste by the time you get to the last one in the box. Their waffle fries are decent, but there's not really anything spectacular about any of their food. And their newest grilled sandwiches are made from the scrapings of the devil's taint. Just fucking vile.

[Ironwood]

Thor reveal annoys me.  Not sure why.

[Paelos]

It's a chicken sandwich. They do it fairly well, but it's not like grandma made it.

The best thing they do is the lemonade. It's awesome.

[pxib]

Thor reveal annoys me.  Not sure why.

Because everybody said "Oh, so that means this obvious thing," and then Marvel put a lot of effort into swearing up and down that it wasn't the obvious thing. Then it was the obvious thing. They should have either owned the obvious thing from the beginning, or had something worth being coy about.

[Trippy]

Shouldn't this be in the Thor Comics thread?

[Ironwood]

Possibly.  But I'm very drunk and, frankly, the comics subforum scares the hell out of me.

I hope that's ok.


(No, seriously, very, very drunk.  It's been an interesting and 'good' week.)

[Paelos]

Ironwood's drunk? NOW'S THE TIME EVERYONE TRY TO HUG HIM!

[Druzil]

The only thing I really like at Chick-fil-a is the Tortilla Soup.   It's pretty tasty for fast food soup. 

[Rendakor]

I like their spicy chicken sandwich well enough, for a quick lunch break at work.

[schild]

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/07/the-food-lab-how-to-make-a-chick-fil-a-sandwich-at-home.html

[Engels]

Uhm, the dude should have just asked them what the brine was. I have known for years its mostly pickle brine with some extra sugar.

[RhyssaFireheart]

I'm just baffled by how the financial analyst for my group actually functions.  She's having issues because someone ordered MS Visual Basic Studio Pro for an employee to use and can't understand why there is no project to charge this off to.  I'm like... because it's software for 1 guy and he'll use it for multiple projects and it's not a project specific purchase.  Her response?  "I'll ask his manager if there's a project we can charge it to."   

[Yegolev]

The money must come from a bucket or it gets the hose.

[Paelos]

I'm just baffled by how the financial analyst for my group actually functions.  She's having issues because someone ordered MS Visual Basic Studio Pro for an employee to use and can't understand why there is no project to charge this off to.  I'm like... because it's software for 1 guy and he'll use it for multiple projects and it's not a project specific purchase.  Her response?  "I'll ask his manager if there's a project we can charge it to."   

Accountants roll their eyes at FA's. We have overhead accounts for a reason. Because not everything is in job cost.

[HaemishM]

The money must come from a bucket or it gets the hose.

This. We get the same thing here when we purchase Wordpress plugins or any sort of software. "What job number do I put it to?" is a question I hate asking, but if I don't, someone somewhere gets pissy eventually.

[Engels]

Is this stapler attached to a specific grant? Otherwise you're all going to jail.

[Paelos]

Is this stapler attached to a specific grant? Otherwise you're all going to jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHHZBmF8mk4

[Morat20]

So, spent the morning getting to work (stupid 500 year rain. Stupid flooded roads). Leave early because the ground is saturated, the bayous flooded, and it's supposed to rain more. Come home, see my son's car -- totally flat tire, lip of the rim is bent. And my kid was pretty likely to have just driven to work on that.

Thing is...nobody's owning up to hitting even a pothole. And the plastic cover on the tire is intact, if popped out where the edge of the rim is bent.

No damage to the tire, either. If it wasn't for the lip being bent like that, I'd have chalked it up to a nail. In fact, I'm not 100% certain some lazy ass guy at the tire shop didn't bend the fucker taking the old tire off two weeks ago....

That's when I find out this car came with a 'tire sealant kit' and not a 'spare fucking tire and jack' kit. So it's being towed.

Happy Wednesday to me. Hopefully I won't find my ass stuck in a tire shop due to flooding.

[pxib]

Yeah. We are apparently expecting a thunderstorm tomorrow. Clear sky today and clear sky Friday. We haven't had a thunderstorm since the 1990's.

[MisterNoisy]

So, spent the morning getting to work (stupid 500 year rain. Stupid flooded roads). Leave early because the ground is saturated, the bayous flooded, and it's supposed to rain more. Come home, see my son's car -- totally flat tire, lip of the rim is bent. And my kid was pretty likely to have just driven to work on that.

Thing is...nobody's owning up to hitting even a pothole. And the plastic cover on the tire is intact, if popped out where the edge of the rim is bent.

No damage to the tire, either. If it wasn't for the lip being bent like that, I'd have chalked it up to a nail. In fact, I'm not 100% certain some lazy ass guy at the tire shop didn't bend the fucker taking the old tire off two weeks ago....

That's when I find out this car came with a 'tire sealant kit' and not a 'spare fucking tire and jack' kit. So it's being towed.

Happy Wednesday to me. Hopefully I won't find my ass stuck in a tire shop due to flooding.

Yeah - they just throw in a can of fix a flat on a lot of new cars - it saves money on the product, lets them shave 30# off the weight for the MPG tests and fucking sucks for the poor bastard that hits road debris.  As recompense, they offer free roadside assistance, but waiting three hours for RSA sucks when you could have been moving again in 15 minutes.  At least you don't have run flats, which suck pretty much the entire time you don't have a flat in exchange for being able to limp to the tire place on your own without having to 'get dirty'.

[Abagadro]

Costco USDA Prime steaks are God's gift to BBQs.

[Lantyssa]

Costco meats are awesome for feeding an army.

[pxib]

I am disappointed. No thunderstorm and only a tenth of an inch of rain.