Useless Conversation

[Polysorbate80]

Just put some plywood over the barricade, and make a wicked jump out of it. I bet you could launch over it.

Snow ramp and snowmobile.  The more psycho of the local snowmobile crowd around here like to try to jump across the county road by launching themselves off the piles of plowed snow on either side.

Semi-related, we've got another storm warning for 6-10 inches of snow by tomorrow or Wednesday.  I head out last night to clean off my truck and get the plow blade out, and the windshield wiper motor burns out.  And when I say "burns out", I mean with actual fire.  I hit the switch, the wipers moved up into the upright position, stopped, and then clouds of ozone-scented smoke poured out of my dashboard vents. 

Fortunately nothing else went up in flames except my temper.

[Lantyssa]

Heck of a way to defrost your windshield.

[Yegolev]

If, on Pandora, I give a THUMB-DOWN to "Beat It (2008 Remix)" would this also affect the good version of that song?

[Ard]

Pretty sure Pandora is extremely literal, and would only link you to thinks that are linked to that version of the song.  The rub there is the two versions are probably linked.  Only really safe way to deal with it would be to not mark it at all until you have the normal version safely thumbed up, especially since two thumbs down on the same artist will cause that artist to never show up again, unless you've thumbed up something else by him/her.

[Minvaren]

Actual discussion just had at work:

Me: "My assistant is out sick, possibly for the rest of the week."
Boss: "You need to get X process working that he was working on ASAP."
Me: "Sure, once I can figure out how it works.  Might take a few hours."
Boss: "You need to call him right now and get directions, we need it ASAP."
Me: "He's out because of a severe respiratory infection, he could barely talk when he called me earlier."
Boss: "...we have the utmost confidence in your ability to figure it out."

Patience - yeah yeah, how long will that take?   

[HaemishM]

I learned over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that in addition to having the motherfucker of all converging deadlines at work, I have jury duty again next week! GO ME!

[RhyssaFireheart]

This way, you cut out a 15-30 percent cut for the agency and shaft them fucking royally. 

That is the cut?  Holy shit.  I'm surprised that most companies will go for this.  That is a lot of money.

Company I'm working through on this contract is making ~23% on me.  I know this for true because I can actually see what rate I'm entered at in the project plan I'm charging my hours against for financials.  So yes, I know what the agency is paying me and what they are charging the client for me, because part of my job is financial reconciliations for contracters in this dept, including me.

[Polysorbate80]

Heck of a way to defrost your windshield.

Oddly enough, I've toyed with the idea of using a flamethrower to clear my driveway.

[Sir T]

I dont care if it would actually work, just doing it right when your neighbors are manually shoveling their driveway would earn you enough cool points to last you the rest of your life.


... about as long as it would take your neighbors to reach you 

[Yegolev]

I learned over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that in addition to having the motherfucker of all converging deadlines at work, I have jury duty again next week! GO ME!

Now, if you have the same defendant and judge, cry "Bingo!" and skip out.

[schild]

I learned over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that in addition to having the motherfucker of all converging deadlines at work, I have jury duty again next week! GO ME!

This is what happens when 90% of your state is ex-cons and sexual predators.

[Paelos]

I learned over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that in addition to having the motherfucker of all converging deadlines at work, I have jury duty again next week! GO ME!

This is what happens when 90% of your state is ex-cons and sexual predators.

Given that it's the fattest state in the union, they are also easy to catch. More trials.

[Yegolev]

Is it the one state where the criminals are fatter than the police?

[HaemishM]

Is it the one state where the criminals are fatter than the police?

It's hard to see around the one to judge the other, but probably. It's also strangely appropo that you bring up sexual predators, since both the cases I've been a juror for in the past have involved some form of sexual predation against a child.

[Sky]

Only way to find a woman in Mississippi that's under 200 lbs.

[Der Helm]

I am a bit bored at work atm, so I read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (in Middle English, of course  ) and for some reason I can't stop reading aloud to the beat of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. 

[Yegolev]

As a native speaker, I can't stop feeling like someone is wasting their time on studying the English language.

[Der Helm]

You'd be suprised how much there is to learn.

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[ghost]

Given that it's the fattest state in the union, they are also easy to catch. More trials.

I thought Texas was the fattest state. 

[Paelos]

Given that it's the fattest state in the union, they are also easy to catch. More trials.

I thought Texas was the fattest state. 

Not even close. Texas is way too big. 

But seriously, Mississippi has been the fattest state 5 years running. MS, AL, TN, WV, and LA are the top 5.

[ghost]

Hmm.  I found a pretty cool fat map.  I guess Texas was #14.  There seem to be a lot of fat folks here though. 

[Minvaren]

We added more bike trails in Houston.  Therefore, Houston Texas is out of the running for "fattest state."

 

edit : Houston is a planet, not a state.   

[Nerf]

Given that it's the fattest state in the union, they are also easy to catch. More trials.

I thought Texas was the fattest state. 

Not even close. Texas is way too big. 

But seriously, Mississippi has been the fattest state 5 years running. MS, AL, TN, WV, and LA are the top 5.

I lived in Hattiesburg for awhile after Katrina selling roofs, they truly deserve the title.

[Yegolev]

You'd be suprised how much there is to learn.

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Well, yes and no.  I do appreciate evolution of language (like historical use of -ind and -ing suffixes) but I find my own language to be rather boring.  The bits you find interesting are possibly the parts that annoy me.  Also, grass is always greener on the other side.

[Sky]

I am a bit bored at work atm, so I read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (in Middle English, of course  ) and for some reason I can't stop reading aloud to the beat of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. 

Best audiobook ever.

Do it.

[Fraeg]

Wheeee just lost 2 hours of my friday due to a bomb threat

We share a building with the IRS, and ever since the Texas airplane incident, they have a hairtrigger on evacuating the building.

What was it this time?   Someone forgot their briefcase as they were leaving and it was left behind in the parking lot.   Had police, bomb squad, fire trucks and Homeland security show up.

[ghost]

Wheeee just lost 2 hours of my friday due to a bomb threat

We share a building with the IRS, and ever since the Texas airplane incident, they have a hairtrigger on evacuating the building.

What was it this time?   Someone forgot their briefcase as they were leaving and it was left behind in the parking lot.   Had police, bomb squad, fire trucks and Homeland security show up.

Did you get frisked?

[NowhereMan]

More importantly, was it tax deductible?

[Chimpy]

The gods hate me. I bought leaf bags like 3 weeks ago when it had not rained in weeks (coinciding with when the big tree in my yard finally lost its leaves) and every other day since it had rained. It was just starting to dry out after the torrential rains on Thanksgiving and then the other day we got a dusting of snow which melted off on Thursday and the leaves looked like they were dry enough to be able to rake right about the time it got dark on Friday. So I planned on getting up early on Saturday to rake leaves.

Between when it got dark around 5 and midnight we got about 3 inches of snow.

 

[Fraeg]

missing the forest for the leaves here i know    but what are leaf bags?  Is that like some huge ultra mega hefty bag?

[Chimpy]

missing the forest for the leaves here i know    but what are leaf bags?  Is that like some huge ultra mega hefty bag?

They are pretty much giant double walled paper bags about 4 feet tall that they want you to use for the recycling pickup as it goes nicely in the compost piles I guess. They are pretty cheap and actually work pretty nicely.

[pxib]

We had a mad Saturday at the library after Thanksgiving. We're getting furloughs as cost-cutting measures, and they've tended to try to group them next to holidays, so the library was closed from Wednesday to Friday. Because we're literally not allowed to work on a furlough day and because it would gets jammed after only two days, we locked the drop box for returns. For three days.

We're one of the few libraries in the system that's open on the weekends, so our entire patronage showed up on Saturday and 6500 books went over the counters (either checking in or checking out) in six hours. By the time we closed, the circulation staff looked like they'd survived a 1930's dance marathon. It's a week later now and we still haven't caught up with the shelving.

[Sir T]

Good God I hate moving. I finally have most of my shit packed but I still have to give the place a good clean... and I have a sinus infection as well. Arrgh.

[Paelos]

Moving always reminds me exactly how much useless shit I have and exactly how filthy I keep my place.

[Sky]

we locked the drop box for returns. For three days.