Useless Conversation

[Salamok]

ie8

I believe I have narrowed your problem down to this. Can't you sneak a copy of Firefox onto your work box? 

lol my work box has ie6 on it!  I have firefox but i am trying ie8 out for a bit.

[HaemishM]

Why?

No, seriously, why? It's as bad as Ie6 from a user's perspective, only worse because it runs like shit and is much less customizable than FF or well, fuck, ANY OTHER BROWSER OUT THERE. Fuck, I hate IE8.

[Salamok]

I still need to make sure my shit works in it and a few websites refuse to even try working in a non-ie browser.  It isn't as bad as you make out but I do agree that it doesn't hold a candle to FF + addons.

[Cheddar]

Thats funny, I was going to ask if anyone has been having problems with ie8.

Slower performance 4tl.  It pisses me off.  Plus the compatible mode blows chunks. 

[Viin]

I don't remember where I saw the exact recipe for slow cooker oatmeal, but I think it was my sister.  There are recipes out there, though, I just looked it up.  If you throw blueberries in your oatmeal, you will live forever!  Do you have a rice steamer?  Try making the oatmeal in that?  I guess it would be the same premise as the Starbucks oatmeal steamer.

I made oatmeal in our rice cooker tonight - wow it came out real nice. Took about 20 mins, but the nice thing is you just throw it in and turn it on. Didn't have to baby sit it.

Now I just need to get a rice cooker for the office, a fridge for the milk, some brown sugar and cinnamon and I'd be set! (And probably gain 20lbs).

[gryeyes]

Saw a pack of Orcas today on the water. There was a couple awesome leaps out of the water,sadly my camera was packed away.

[Sky]

Waterskiing orcs! 

[voodoolily]

I don't remember where I saw the exact recipe for slow cooker oatmeal, but I think it was my sister.  There are recipes out there, though, I just looked it up.  If you throw blueberries in your oatmeal, you will live forever!  Do you have a rice steamer?  Try making the oatmeal in that?  I guess it would be the same premise as the Starbucks oatmeal steamer.

I made oatmeal in our rice cooker tonight - wow it came out real nice. Took about 20 mins, but the nice thing is you just throw it in and turn it on. Didn't have to baby sit it.

Now I just need to get a rice cooker for the office, a fridge for the milk, some brown sugar and cinnamon and I'd be set! (And probably gain 20lbs).

Actually, you might lose weight. Oatmeal is so good for you! High in fiber, low glycemic load and great for reducing cholesterol. You could try using the rice cooker for Irish steel-cut oats (groats) too - those take forever to cook on the stove top.

[IainC]

This talk of oatmeal reminds me of a story from my university days.

A guy in my class came in to lab sick one day, he was clearly not very well, shivering, couldn't focus and very pale. About an hour into the class he slid off his stool and crashed onto the floor. Naturally he was taken to hospital in pretty short order where he was diagnosed as essentially being severely malnourished with a few additional complications. At the time I was going out with a girl from the student welfare office so I found out what happened afterwards. The SW went to his house to find out how he was living, to make sure he was able to take care of himself and they found that there was no food in his cupboards at all. His kitchen was completely bare with not even the usual student staples like bags of pasta and tinned beans. He also had piles of clothes all over the floor despite having plenty of drawers in his room. One of the guys from SW opened a draw to find out what he was keeping in there if not his clothes and found it full to the brim with stale and mouldy oatmeal.

Basically this rocket surgeon had come up with a foolproof way to make sure that his grant kept him fed throughout the term. He'd gone to the local mill and bought about a hundredweight of oatmeal which he'd boiled up in batches and then poured into his chest of drawers. Whenever he was hungry he'd cut off a piece of this flapjack sort of thing. Of course, having assured his future sustenance, he'd gone and blown the rest of his money on a shiny new PC and some high-tech toys.

[Cyrrex]

This talk of oatmeal reminds me of a story from my university days.

A guy in my class came in to lab sick one day, he was clearly not very well, shivering, couldn't focus and very pale. About an hour into the class he slid off his stool and crashed onto the floor. Naturally he was taken to hospital in pretty short order where he was diagnosed as essentially being severely malnourished with a few additional complications. At the time I was going out with a girl from the student welfare office so I found out what happened afterwards. The SW went to his house to find out how he was living, to make sure he was able to take care of himself and they found that there was no food in his cupboards at all. His kitchen was completely bare with not even the usual student staples like bags of pasta and tinned beans. He also had piles of clothes all over the floor despite having plenty of drawers in his room. One of the guys from SW opened a draw to find out what he was keeping in there if not his clothes and found it full to the brim with stale and mouldy oatmeal.

Basically this rocket surgeon had come up with a foolproof way to make sure that his grant kept him fed throughout the term. He'd gone to the local mill and bought about a hundredweight of oatmeal which he'd boiled up in batches and then poured into his chest of drawers. Whenever he was hungry he'd cut off a piece of this flapjack sort of thing. Of course, having assured his future sustenance, he'd gone and blown the rest of his money on a shiny new PC and some high-tech toys.

It's a brilliant strategy up until the point where he...boils it up and pours it in his dresser drawers?  That's just strange.

[Murgos]

Yeah, if he'd just kept it as bags of oats and cooked it as needed it should have been good for a very long time.  Boring, but nothing peasants all over the world hadn't lived on for centuries.

[Nebu]

I could fill up these forums with stories about stupid things that brilliant scientists have done. 

Boiling it all first?  Madness. 

[Cyrrex]

I could fill up these forums with stories about stupid things that brilliant scientists have done. 

I, for one, would love to read such stories.

[Sky]

I only have one, about a brilliant scientist dropping out of his biochem major and playing with his band 

[lac]

When you are in a warzone you get used to the everyday shit. It doesn't take long to not register anymore. It's when your history there catches up to you that you get blown out.

I got to know a kid, Josef, who had his right arm cut off at a weird angle. He had retained his elbow joint to some degree and had about a 15 cm spike of bone left of his underarm covered in skin. He was smarter than most and took an interest to pretty much everything we did or talked about. I liked him, he was a smart kid.

About three years later I was covering for a French communication officer when they blew up a couple of presumably rebel pickups. The next day I joined the guys clearing the road and I saw Josefs body. I had seen a lot of dead children by then but seeing his mangled ribcage with that silly arm

[Endie]

wait what?

[Signe]

I can't imagine where that came from, either, and then he just stopped.  Not really what you expect to see in USELESS conversation.   

[lac]

Well the thread is named useless conversation so I figured I'd record a useless event from a place nobody will ever care to remember as a tribute to a boy who couldn't even remember the name his mother gave him. Sometimes there are these things you want to put down, just so they'd be there for some time. It doesn't matter.

[K9]

This talk of oatmeal reminds me of a story from my university days.

A guy in my class came in to lab sick one day, he was clearly not very well, shivering, couldn't focus and very pale. About an hour into the class he slid off his stool and crashed onto the floor. Naturally he was taken to hospital in pretty short order where he was diagnosed as essentially being severely malnourished with a few additional complications. At the time I was going out with a girl from the student welfare office so I found out what happened afterwards. The SW went to his house to find out how he was living, to make sure he was able to take care of himself and they found that there was no food in his cupboards at all. His kitchen was completely bare with not even the usual student staples like bags of pasta and tinned beans. He also had piles of clothes all over the floor despite having plenty of drawers in his room. One of the guys from SW opened a draw to find out what he was keeping in there if not his clothes and found it full to the brim with stale and mouldy oatmeal.

Basically this rocket surgeon had come up with a foolproof way to make sure that his grant kept him fed throughout the term. He'd gone to the local mill and bought about a hundredweight of oatmeal which he'd boiled up in batches and then poured into his chest of drawers. Whenever he was hungry he'd cut off a piece of this flapjack sort of thing. Of course, having assured his future sustenance, he'd gone and blown the rest of his money on a shiny new PC and some high-tech toys.

I swear that's an urban legend

[gryeyes]

You are correct.

http://www.snopes.com/college/horrors/scurvy.asp

[Signe]

Well the thread is named useless conversation so I figured I'd record a useless event from a place nobody will ever care to remember as a tribute to a boy who couldn't even remember the name his mother gave him. Sometimes there are these things you want to put down, just so they'd be there for some time. It doesn't matter.

What I meant is that it doesn't seem trivial enough for this thread.  It's more serious and sad than you'd expect.  And you didn't finish.  You just stopped mid-sentence. 

[lac]

Yes, I understand.

Today I'm making soup. I'm thinking tiny spicy meatballs and croutons soup. It will be glorious.

[Yegolev]

I only have one, about a brilliant scientist dropping out of his biochem major and playing with his band 

That would be a story about a potential scientist.

[Lantyssa]

Does that make me a kinetic scientist whose inertia was dampened?

[Yegolev]

Are you a particle or a wave?

[Lantyssa]

I have properties of both.

[Engels]

It doesn't matters.

fify

[NowhereMan]

This thread rapidly dropped from interesting to pun.

[Sir T]

I think its driving us all from mad to verse.

[rattran]

This should get the tread back on track.

I found a can of quail eggs in the cupboard. It said 'Best Before April 2006' so I opened it, and poured them out on the designated 'feed the critters' stump in the back yard. All the eggs are now gone.
Also, this extra large cup of coffee tastes great.

[Selby]

I found a can of quail eggs in the cupboard.

People eat quail eggs?

[Signe]

I've never made anything with quail eggs but I've had them.  I had the most delicious deviled quail eggs and truffled quail eggs at some benefit I had to go to about a bajillion years ago.  They were yummy!

[NowhereMan]

Hard boiled Quail eggs with celery salt is an awesome little snack. Also, Quail's eggs come in cans? Next you know you'll be pickling your eggs and trying to sell them to tourists as bar food. That's when you know you've arrived in the culinary big leagues.

[Trippy]

I found a can of quail eggs in the cupboard.

People eat quail eggs?

Raw quail egg yolk is a sushi topping (flying fish roe with quail egg, salmon roe with quail egg, etc.).

[Oban]

Quail's eggs are also great when cooked as part of a Chinese hot pot (or Court Bouillon) meal.