Useless Conversation

[Yegolev]

I think Pandora can't understand when I give a thumbs-down to Bob Dylan and a thumbs-up to Leonard Cohen.  It decided to play something by Cake to fuck with me.

This is especially creepy because I did the exact same thing a few weeks ago.

And it did the exact same thing.

High five, listening buddy! (Note; I've switched to last.fm)

/hi5

I have gotten odd results from last.fm but I think I will try it again, this time perhaps being more reasonable in what I ask.

[Cyrrex]

Hell, giving out blowjobs to strangers for pennies would be better than what I'm doing at the minute. 

They actually have openings in that field, I hear.

[Lantyssa]

I wonder if he takes foreign pennies.

[Signe]

You just get tired feet when you try to kick life into jobs that are dead to you.  Anyway, here's to your feet!  Cheers!  

Also, you're too old to be a rent boy.  I should think it's not pretty after 16 or so.  You'd probably be fine with gigolo, except I wonder if you have the patience for that.  Seriously, just do pr0n on the internet or something.  Actual touching seems to be going out of vogue, anyway.

[Yegolev]

I have gotten odd results from last.fm ...

Tom Waits on last.fm somehow led me to Lou Reed's Bowieish Satellite of Love.  Which is cool, but I don't see the connection.  I want to click the "GTFO" button but I am not sure if that will mean I don't like Lou Reed at all or just that I don't want it in the Tom Waits bucket.

[Sky]

You just get dead feet when you try to kick life into jobs that are tired to you.

[Lantyssa]

Signe, your avatar is highly distracting this go round.  I was trying to read a message the other day and it was sitting there above it in my inbox.  It took me forever to get through it.

[Signe]

You just get dead feet when you try to kick life into jobs that are tired to you.

CORN!  HAM!

Signe, your avatar is highly distracting this go round.  I was trying to read a message the other day and it was sitting there above it in my inbox.  It took me forever to get through it.

Should I change it?  They never last all that long and everyone needs a little distraction now and then.  If I knew most of these people in my avatars, I'd send them your way for mutual distraction! 

[Cyrrex]

I rather like it.  Don't change it.

(funny how you only ever offer to change the good ones)

[Lantyssa]

You don't need to change it until you're ready.  I appreciate most of them.  I'm just making useless conversation.

[Cheddar]

If any of you job seekers want to live in CO, my company is hiring a boat load of people:

http://jobs-ghx.icims.com/jobs/search?pr=1

Hiring outsiders as VP?  Sorry bro, as nice as CO sounds, doesn't sound long term.

[FatuousTwat]

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part one of two)

Edit: Apparently, there are 5 parts, but 3-5 aren't out yet.

[Ironwood]

Looks like Aria with dodgy tats.

 

[Ironwood]

Ok, I'm currently sitting down with two of my staff and putting together a list of security stuff that needs changed due to my circumstances.

Since I BUILT this whole thing from scratch, we're finding a lot of fun.  Who knew there were so many fun ways I could fuck this place if I was a total fucking scumbag with a grudge.

It's actually fun planning how EVIL IRONWOOD would bring down the place....

[Sir T]

The phrase "KNEEL BEFORE ZOOOOD!!!!" comes to mind 

[Sky]

Watched a portion of the movie Gasland last night. I recommend everyone take a peek, but prepared to be depressed. I had to stop watching it, the fiancee recorded it to watch the rest. I like being informed, but holy fuck the corporate overlords are total rapists and Dick Cheney is the biggest traitor to the american people in our lifetimes.

Anyway, skirting politics, but ultimately I felt it was Useless, since we're fucked and there's nothing we can do about it (unless you want to be legally shot in the face). Well, what little we can do, you can find at the movie/action site.

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/

[Minvaren]

Ok, I'm currently sitting down with two of my staff and putting together a list of security stuff that needs changed due to my circumstances.

Since I BUILT this whole thing from scratch, we're finding a lot of fun.  Who knew there were so many fun ways I could fuck this place if I was a total fucking scumbag with a grudge.

It's actually fun planning how EVIL IRONWOOD would bring down the place....

I actually debated that at a previous job.  How many ways were there to totally fuck the place?  In the end, I decided not to, because they were going to have a hard enough time replacing me (as I got the job as noone would stick it out with the crazy people they had working there), and I'm a relatively nice guy.

I rang a friend at the company about 4 weeks later, to see how things were going.  Their network server had been down for close to 3 weeks.  Apparently the person who had taken over had taken a 2-day HP-UX admin course, and when he came back, the first thing he did was remove all of my access.  And all of my files.  Little did he know that when you restructure the database files, it recreates them under that user's credentials.  And unfortunately, restoring from backups was not covered in that 2-day class...  

[HaemishM]

Watched a portion of the movie Gasland last night. I recommend everyone take a peek, but prepared to be depressed. I had to stop watching it, the fiancee recorded it to watch the rest. I like being informed, but holy fuck the corporate overlords are total rapists and Dick Cheney is the biggest traitor to the american people in our lifetimes.

Yeah, I saw a bit of that last night and Tivoed it for later perusal. We are so fucked.

[voodoolily]

Since I'm an on-call employee now (decided not to totally go back to work), I have been having fun using my office resources to turn a few tricks on the side. I have a cool opportunity to work on a noxious weed management plan and will be getting paid my normal, corporate billing rate, but will be keeping it all for myself instead of the company getting it. 

[Signe]

Congrats!  I'll take an ounce.

[Merusk]

Watched a portion of the movie Gasland last night. I recommend everyone take a peek, but prepared to be depressed. I had to stop watching it, the fiancee recorded it to watch the rest. I like being informed, but holy fuck the corporate overlords are total rapists and Dick Cheney is the biggest traitor to the american people in our lifetimes.

Anyway, skirting politics, but ultimately I felt it was Useless, since we're fucked and there's nothing we can do about it (unless you want to be legally shot in the face). Well, what little we can do, you can find at the movie/action site.

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/

Yeah I don't have to watch.  I got depressed enough listening to the director being interviewed on NPR during one of my lunchtime walks.   "Oh hey, we own the rights to your land now, because 70% of your neighbors are uninformed or poor morons.  Enjoy your toxic haze." 

[Yegolev]

Ok, I'm currently sitting down with two of my staff and putting together a list of security stuff that needs changed due to my circumstances.

Since I BUILT this whole thing from scratch, we're finding a lot of fun.  Who knew there were so many fun ways I could fuck this place if I was a total fucking scumbag with a grudge.

It's actually fun planning how EVIL IRONWOOD would bring down the place....

I actually debated that at a previous job.  How many ways were there to totally fuck the place?  In the end, I decided not to, because they were going to have a hard enough time replacing me (as I got the job as noone would stick it out with the crazy people they had working there), and I'm a relatively nice guy.

I could literally halt manufacture and shipment of select carbonated beverages.  Like right now.  For a while.  Or, at a minimum, cost a global corporation many millions or perhaps billions of dollars.  But I don't think I would enjoy prison.

[Yegolev]

Oh, hey... so, if you eat some honey and your lips get numb and tingly, are you allergic?

[Trippy]

To honey or pollen?

[Sky]

I got depressed enough listening to the director being interviewed on NPR during one of my lunchtime walks.   "Oh hey, we own the rights to your land now, because 70% of your neighbors are uninformed or poor morons.  Enjoy your toxic haze." 

Turns out he lives in my region. Yay.

Cheers to VL!

[Yegolev]

To honey or pollen?

This is a question I have.

[Nebu]

Oh, hey... so, if you eat some honey and your lips get numb and tingly, are you allergic?

Honey itself is primarily just carbohydrate which you can't possibly be allergic to.  I'd suggest that you're allergic to some byproduct in the honey likely due to its pollen source.  You may want to try honey from different sources to see if they evoke the same reaction. 

[Yegolev]

Oh, hey... so, if you eat some honey and your lips get numb and tingly, are you allergic?

Honey itself is primarily just carbohydrate which you can't possibly be allergic to.  I'd suggest that you're allergic to some byproduct in the honey likely due to its pollen source.  You may want to try honey from different sources to see if they evoke the same reaction. 

This is what I had assumed: it is the pollen residue.  Specifically this is Tupelo honey from Savannah which is only generated for about ten days of the year.  If I am, this is the first thing I have found that I am actually allergic to.

[Minvaren]

This is what I had assumed: it is the pollen residue.  Specifically this is Tupelo honey from Savannah which is only generated for about ten days of the year.  If I am, this is the first thing I have found that I am actually allergic to.

Tupelo honey =  .  Outside of brewing I dislike honey in general, but I licked the spatula clean of that stuff. Made some mead out of it early this year, but it needs another year of aging before it's really ready to drink.

[Lantyssa]

Is this like the honeycrisp OMG-I-can't-believe-this-is-an-apple goodness?

Waaiiiit a minute.  You're in Houston, right?  Party at Minvaren's when the mead is ready!

[Nebu]

This is what I had assumed: it is the pollen residue.  Specifically this is Tupelo honey from Savannah which is only generated for about ten days of the year.  If I am, this is the first thing I have found that I am actually allergic to.

If you're in your 30's, you'll start to discover that you're allergic to more and more things as you grow older.  I never had seasonal allergies until I hit 38 and my tolerance to lactose has gotten lower with time as well. 

[Sky]

Is this like the honeycrisp OMG-I-can't-believe-this-is-an-apple goodness?

Huh? Btw did I mention I planted a honeycrisp apple tree this spring? Going to cross-pollinate with an Empire. If the Honeycrisp tree survives the motherfucking deer varmint motherfuckers venison steaks what?

[Minvaren]

Is this like the honeycrisp OMG-I-can't-believe-this-is-an-apple goodness?

I haven't had a honeycrisp apple that I know of (I prefer granny smiths myself), but Tupelo honey is the lightest, smoothest, clearest, tastiest, and most esthetically-pleasing honey I've ever had.  I almost felt guilty for making mead out of it!  Cactus honey is sweeter, but due to it being nearly-solid, not quite as usable.

I'll pimp this site if anyone would like to try it for themselves.

Waaiiiit a minute.  You're in Houston, right?  Party at Minvaren's when the mead is ready!

Never has a hobby made so many new friends.   

[Samwise]

If you're in your 30's, you'll start to discover that you're allergic to more and more things as you grow older.  I never had seasonal allergies until I hit 38 and my tolerance to lactose has gotten lower with time as well. 

I thought lactose intolerance was different from an allergy -- something to do with decreasing production of a particular digestive enzyme that happens in everyone to varying degrees?  High school biology was a while ago...

[Yegolev]

I am very glad that I have gotten to know Nebu.  A true font of knowledge.  I'll continue to eat the honey in defiance of my biology.

Back to last.fm and why I don't listen to it.  I just type in "led zeppelin" into the box and I get:
http://www.last.fm/music/Led+Zeppelin/_/zeplin-ac%EF%BF%BD+%EF%BF%BDekmeme+izin+verme-