Useless Conversation

[Lantyssa]

Quick survey:

When eating leftover barbeque chicken do you A) heat it up in the microwave or B) eat it cold out of the fridge the way nature intended?

Also, who the hell puts peas in potato salad?  And what the fuck is the crunchy stuff in it?   

I prefer to eat it fresh from the grill.  I'll take it cold over microwaved though, as that does something weird to the texture.

I don't do potato salad.  Texture again. 

[Merusk]

Just say no to Miracle Whip. High fructose corn syrup AND sugar. Hellman's is the way to go.

Sometimes you need that 'zip.'  You don't use JUST miracle whip.  That'd be fucking awful.

[Nevermore]

I prefer to eat it fresh from the grill.

Well yeah, and I'd prefer if instead of chicken it was swordfish.    That's not really an option when we're talking about leftovers brought in to the office by a coworker.  I was just curious how many people heat up leftover chicken since I'm the only one here who ate it cold.  I think they're all heathens here.

[Prospero]

Cold is definitely the way to go.

[Sky]

Sometimes you need that 'zip.'  You don't use JUST miracle whip.  That'd be fucking awful.

Then use mayo and some maple sugar or something.

I don't really eat straight leftovers. I'd reuse it in chicken salad or shred it into a burrito mix. So I guess my answer it 'no'.

[voodoolily]

I prefer German potato salad, which has cukes, onions and bacon, with oil/vinegar and a tiny drib of mustard (no mayo). I also like to add sliced radishes to my GPS. For American-style, I like celery and chopped pickles (dill, duh) with mayo, but add a bit of vinegar for the zip. Fuck a hard boiled egg, it makes the whole thing taste like Easter farts. If you're pro you'd make your own mayo anyway and that gives you as much egginess as you ever need.

[Oban]

2 large egg yolks
3 tablespoons of lemon juice
a pinch of salt
a pinch of white pepper
1 cup oil

Combine everything except the oil, whisk.

Slowly add the oil, whisk.

Whisk.

Whisk.

Put in the fridge, ta da.

[Yegolev]

Cold barbecue, but I don't eat barbecue chicken anymore.

The crunchy stuff in potato salad had better be pickle relish.

In other news, the end approaches.  In about an hour I will upgrade from Office XP to Office 2007.

[Oban]

You should go all the way and upgrade to Office 2008.

[Yegolev]

I'm afraid it would only have five buttons and none of them would be SAVE AS.  I don't use any Office functions other than SAVE AS, unless you count typing letters into Word.  Also, I only use Word because if you send someone a text file they think you are a troglodyte.

[schild]

Also, I only use Word because if you send someone a text file they think you are a troglodyte.

I send everything in PDF now.

It:

1. Forces people to let their computer be bogged down to the point that they have to give it their full attention.
2. It looks really nice.
3. It looks really nice.
4. See #1.

[Nevermore]

I actually like Office 2007 now that I'm used to the layout.  It's a pain in the ass learning all the new places they stuck everything, but once you get comfortable with it there's a lot less menu clicking.

[bhodi]

I send my stuff in RTF. I want people to know I interoperate :)

[Lantyssa]

I don't send anyone anything.  It lets them know I don't care.

[Chimpy]

Also, I only use Word because if you send someone a text file they think you are a troglodyte.

I send everything in PDF now.

It:

1. Forces people to let their computer be bogged down to the point that they have to give it their full attention.
2. It looks really nice.
3. It looks really nice.
4. See #1.

You could also add that it means if you use a font someone doesn't have, it still looks the same. And the biggest plus: They can't change shit.

[Merusk]

Also, I only use Word because if you send someone a text file they think you are a troglodyte.

I send everything in PDF now.

It:

1. Forces people to let their computer be bogged down to the point that they have to give it their full attention.
2. It looks really nice.
3. It looks really nice.
4. See #1.

Fuck a .pdf we send everything as .dwfs for its vector-y goodness.  You want to see a resource hog, download Autocad's DWF reader/ redline program.

[Oban]

Anyone ever try yak butter (tibetan) tea?

[Salamok]

Also, I only use Word because if you send someone a text file they think you are a troglodyte.

stuff...

You could also add that it means if you use a font someone doesn't have, it still looks the same. And the biggest plus: They can't change shit.

if 30 years of personal computing has taught us anything it is that you can always change shit.

[Yegolev]

I actually like Office 2007 now that I'm used to the layout.  It's a pain in the ass learning all the new places they stuck everything, but once you get comfortable with it there's a lot less menu clicking.

Tools exist that show you where to find commands, in fact those are loaded onto my laptop along with Office 07.  I'd assume you can get those from MicroSoft's web page.  I know where SAVE AS is, so I'm all good.

Being an extremist, I considered changing to .pdf but haven't quite decided.  Also, if I cared about appearance I would not consider text files.  Using the new .docx format will cause much more mayhem since we're probably not going to have 07 completely rolled out until EOY.  Depends on a SAP GUI upgrade as well as some other odd Excel things that keeps our entire finance dept from upgrading from Office XP, so ell-oh-ell.  I don't feel like rocking any more boats than I already am.

[Yegolev]

By the way, Warren Buffet is coming to a Town Hall thing here tomorrow.  Anyone have any questions for him?  Ha!

[Sky]

At the risk of being useful in this thread, if you work for a non-profit, you need to hit up techsoup.

[murdoc]

Happy Canada Day!

[Chimpy]

You could also add that it means if you use a font someone doesn't have, it still looks the same. And the biggest plus: They can't change shit.

if 30 years of personal computing has taught us anything it is that you can always change shit.

Yes, but 99.9% of the people I send stuff to can't do anything but read a pdf. And they are the types who would have their MS Word spell checker fix the spellings on my resume that it doesn't recognize with whatever MS thinks I meant.

[Lantyssa]

By the way, Warren Buffet is coming to a Town Hall thing here tomorrow.  Anyone have any questions for him?  Ha!

Will he adopt me as his heir?

[Yegolev]

Results of Operation Groundwater are here.  Work in progress, but the pool itself works great.

[MrHat]

Holy shit dude.

Awesome.

[Oban]

Is that a water spray cooling system on the left hand side of the pool?

[voodoolily]

I can't stop listening to this song, even though it's a year old. There's a video on teh youtubes, but I can't go there at work.

[schild]

e-peen

It's a hard knock life, rite.

[Samwise]

I think Yeg's pool is bigger than my apartment.

[Selby]

Shit it's probably on more land than my fucking house and he probably paid a hell of a lot less.

[Yegolev]

Is that a water spray cooling system on the left hand side of the pool?

No, it's a steel structure with a retractable fabric roof, which I put together the day after I got shitfaced and disappointed two important people by almost killing myself and/or others.  It's not quite done, and furthermore I discovered that they shipped me two of the damn things so I get to build another one shortly.  I'll be building a pool house as well, by which I mean that I will personally build it, unlike that other stuff... since I have no money anymore.  I'd tell you how much it cost but I sense some grumbling in the neighborhood.  Let's just say the savings are gone.

Hey, schild, you can still move in with me.  Other applicants, please send your resume in a PM.

[Signe]

Did you design it?  It's beautiful and it looks as if it's coming along really well.  I predict no one bothers going inside every again once it's finished.

[Sky]

I'd tell you how much it cost but I sense some grumbling in the neighborhood.  Let's just say the savings are gone.

Yay home ownership. But you can be broke in a fucking awesome pool.

I'm trying to figure out how I can have the basement drying people show up. I just go swimming in moldy basement water, it's splendid.

[Yegolev]

Yeah, Sky, I like ramen and a happy wife so it's all good.  I don't know about basement drying, won't the water just seep in again?  What sort of basement is it, concrete or brick or... ?  I can ask around.

@Signe, I didn't design anything.  I don't swim.  It's from a catalog, which is cheaper than designing a custom pool.  My wife had a guy draw up an estimate for a design that she drew, and just the pool with vinyl was $50k.  That was too much even before my wife's add-an-option fever kicked in, so she kept looking.  The unplanned add-ons here include a sprinkler system (zomg), extra concrete and stone-ish columns.  Hell, those columns were $250 each, which is why there are not any around the back side.  Imagine my surprise when I get home from work one day and there is an automated sprinkler system in my yard, oy vey.

I also found out recently that it's probably going to cause my property value to go up, which sucks.  I had always been told that a pool will reduce the value, but I have a saltwater pool and apparently those have the opposite effect.