SteveZilla Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I almost didn't realize... Today is 10-10-10 Happy 'The Ultimate Answer' Day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I almost didn't realize... Today is 10-10-10 At the tone the time will be 10:10:10 pm 10/10/10 BEEP. Yay arbitrary milestones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Best wishes for Elizabeth. I hope whatever it was doesn't recur. She's also very pretty. I hope you have appropriately thanked your catsitter. We have thanked her and the vet staff a lot. Today, she spent the day bouncing around the house in her old style, stole a toy mouse from our big bully cat, and then played with it. He came over to her, she bopped him one and he backed off. She's not quite seven pounds, he's fourteen, but she has the tortitude back up and running. She's also back to stealing the butter, but we're letting her get away with it. Still have to keep an eye on her, but so far, so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I have strapped a Boeing 777 to my rear end' date=' and it will stay there for nine hours. Ugh.[/quote'] Have you considered at least flying coach? The straps are itchy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I repeat: "Death Tribble, I know. I don't always remember; I do try. I think your post went a little overboard, though." That's all I meant. I even clarified it as such, for anyone who was mistaken. And here I put it in similar words, just in case you're still mistaken as to what I meant. It doesn't need this endless string of people who aren't Death Tribble telling me what I already know and never objected to. I post a response like that and suddenly I got five people on my case? I've had it. I didn't deserve this; I didn't post anything that you're actually responding to and I don't need five people to tell me what I've already been told. I made a mistake. I got a post that seemed possibly hostile. I questioned it. I get a mob telling me I was wrong? Wrong for what? Questioning a potentially hostile reply? Finally, Sorry, Old Man, for making the thread serious again. But this has gone too far. It's a string of people telling me off for just asking a polite question of someone who is none of them. I wasn't being hostile. And if you think Trib and I were being hostile I apologize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings of course, there's another reason for geeks to celebrate 10/10/10 day. In binary, 101010 converts to 42omg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Of course I went overboard. I'm Death Tribble it's what I do. I'm so glad I am reading this today and not yesterday. Better unstressed state of mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Well, I did have to explain myself five times. I think that would tick anyone off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Of course I went overboard. I'm Death Tribble it's what I do. I'm so glad I am reading this today and not yesterday. Better unstressed state of mind. Nah, I reckon you didn't go overboard enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Peace, folks. It helps me restrain myself as I wrestle with a combination of sleep deprivation and insomnia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Oooo, good combo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I suppose I should explain the situation from my point of view: I make a mistake. Someone says something hostile about the mistake. He may have been joking, but I don't know. I question why he's hostile, but *Not* the point he made. Six people start crowding around me, all asking me why I objected to the point - When I didn't - and only two of them bothering to listen to the answers I give to the others. At this point, ignoring people and walking away is a rational, reasonable response. Appreciated. If I may it might help to explain the situation from at least my point of view, and I believe the point of view of others as well: The "Random Musing" thread is one that a number of us enjoy reading for its intended purpose, and find it jarring to have someone post a reply in the thread. Generally the response is a gentle reminder that replies should be handled in a different thread. A gentle reminder that you have received on a number of occasions. A reminder that doesn't seem to be making any impression. So it isn't particularly surprising that people would make the reminders less gentle. Was Death Tribble over the top? Of course, that is his online persona. He regularly talks about destroying entire metropolitan areas just to get at someone who annoyed him. If you aren't familiar enough with Death Tribble I can see how you might think he was being hostile. And I can certainly understand making mistakes. Everyone does. I've certainly screwed up and posted a reply to the "Random Musings" thread. But can you understand our frustration? You do it fairly regularly. Heck, you have done it at least once while we've been having this discussion. At this point I'm having a hard time seeing it as anything but one of two options. You are doing it on purpose, or it is so unimportant to you that you can't be bothered to notice when you are posting to that thread. Yes, I know that you were responding (and objecting) to the perceived hostility in DT's post rather than the point he was making. My point is that even though I agree that his post was over the top (something he certainly admits to), the reason that it got there is that gentle polite reminders don't seem to be making any difference to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings A'ight, now. Let's not keep harshing on the guy. He made a mistake. Happens to all of us. Ain't no thang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Come join the LRTE. We'll take anything without complaint. whisper> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings LRTE? Legion of Rogue Technical Engineers? Legend of the Really Tiny Elephants? Leadership Requires Total Emersion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Longest Running Thread Ever. But we have room for those others, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Laser-Rifle Toting Eggheads works too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Liquor Reformats your Thoughts to Evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Looting, Rampaging, Torching Evildoers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Loathesome Robotic Tongue Enticements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Lemonade Receives Tasty Enigmas. I got nothin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings @Archermoo: I can certainly respect that. To explain further, I literally am that absent-minded, at least in the mornings. I can traverse a floor and forget why I went up or down the steps, to be a bit proverbial and completely literal. I can tell myself to put more soap in the washroom, wash my hands and wander out, having completely forgotten about it in the course of a minute. I tell people my memory leaks like a sieve and they say things like "Oh, everyone's like that". I don't think they quite get that I mean it rather literally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Come join the LRTE. We'll take anything without complaint. whisper> Good thread that one. Fortunately it and "Random Musings" aren't mutually exclusive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings A'ight' date=' now. Let's not keep harshing on the guy. He made a mistake. Happens to all of us. Ain't no thang.[/quote'] Oh, I wasn't. My attempt was to just explain myself to him. And fortunately it seems to have been received in the manner it was intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Oh' date=' I wasn't. My attempt was to just explain myself to him. And fortunately it seems to have been received in the manner it was intended.[/quote'] Yep. I've no problem with correction. I've recently started exercises to improve memory, so hopefully I won't be quite so...Oh, right, I just remembered something I forgot. BRB. (Er...Yeah) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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