Old Man Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 "I don't think this a good link, unless there's a new Pokemon called 'running exploit'." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 My wife and I were watching Flash tonight. Dr. Light performed some brilliance blast and burned Barry's retinas. I turned to my wife and said, "She blinded him with science!" Stunned look. Said nothing. Ignored the pun. BoloOfEarth, Cancer and Pariah 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 I was talking to a coworker today about a project that will simply things in our department once implemented. He said, "The biggest issue right now, but we aren't at the point where we can address it, is to find out who uses the data in these old tables. We know some people are using them, but not who." I said, "Turn off the update routines and see who screams." He glanced at me sideways. "That's always an option I consider." L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Ha, we have that exact issue, and see-who-screams is the policy we've adopted. Problem is some of these tables are accessed very infrequently, so it can literally be years before someone screams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 A friend's Facebook status today: "At this point in our culture I'm very surprised there aren't people with nut allergies boycotting The Peanuts Movie." FrankL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 I know right? It probably causes autism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 My wife is doing a series at church on the founding of America, of course that means Pilgrims. As she's researching, she keeps finding new things related to what she's looking at and trying to figure out the why for that event. "I can't believe this. I've just got to pick a time and stop. Did you know the Pilgrims spent time in Holland before coming to America?" "Yes, I did." "Do you know why they left?" "No." "This happened, and this happened. And Holland and Spain were coming to the end of their peace treaty. War might have broken out. Now, that war happened because of this and this. And that all happened because of the Spanish Inquisition!" "What? Nobody could have expected that!" BoloOfEarth, Rails, Burrito Boy and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted November 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Me: My stupid bodyguard keeps tackling my girlfriend and I can't make him stop! edit: to give context, I have been trying to load Open Office (my "girlfriend") the office software I've been using for several years for everything from poetry to character sheets on my new computer and something calling itself "Windows Smart Filter" (my bodyguard, or at least it thinks it is) is blocking it. Mike: Your new computer has Windows 8.1? No wonder you're having problems. Everyone with Windows 8.1 on a laptop has issues. It was designed for tablets. Me: I need to take two tablets now for my headache. You're saying that's by design? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary suggests I should take Windows 10 up on its offer to move in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 "And don't play any of that 'Steely Dan' crap!"--overheard between the merchandise guy and the sound engineer during a sound check for Diamond Rio the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted November 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 My wife is doing a series at church on the founding of America, of course that means Pilgrims. As she's researching, she keeps finding new things related to what she's looking at and trying to figure out the why for that event. "I can't believe this. I've just got to pick a time and stop. Did you know the Pilgrims spent time in Holland before coming to America?" "Yes, I did." "Do you know why they left?" "No." "This happened, and this happened. And Holland and Spain were coming to the end of their peace treaty. War might have broken out. Now, that war happened because of this and this. And that all happened because of the Spanish Inquisition!" "What? Nobody could have expected that!" Something I wrote long ago and haul out each Thanksgiving: Do You Know This Man? He was born in a town of about two thousand people, a farming and fishing settlement on the shore of a bay of a great ocean, among people who often supplemented their crops by hunting or gathering the bounty of the forest. We do not even know how old he was when he was carried away from the place of his birth, but he must have been not yet grown and yet not too young - perhaps fourteen. Strange men, unlike any he had ever seen and speaking an unknown tongue, had gained his trust by sharing their strange food, and brought him and his companions aboard their ship. Perhaps they wanted to go, perhaps even their parents trusted the strangers and consented, but it seems likely they were simply tricked. We have the word of the ship's captain that this boy in particular was treated well. We also have his word that two grown men were taken by brute force. It would be nine years before the boy, now a young man, would return home. Little is known of what he did in that time, but he seems to have spent part of it in the home of a wealthy and powerful man, a knight, who had sponsored the captain's voyage. In the ninth year after his first voyage, he was working as a guide and interpreter for another sea captain who had agreed to bring him to where he began. The homecoming was brief. Within days he had been again tricked and abducted by yet another captain of yet another ship, a partner of the captain who had employed and released him, who proved as willing to betray his senior partner's intentions, as the trust of a young man he viewed as a commodity. This treacherous captain took twenty men he captured to a land foreign to himself and surely even more alien to his captives. - Yet another new land with a new tongue, and again the wanderer becomes a helpless stranger, this time openly to be sold as a slave. There is disagreement as to whether he was ever actually sold, but we have the word of the knight - who he would meet again before his wandering was done - that men of a monastic order thwarted the traitor's plan by rescuing the captives - on what authority they acted, and why in this case when the port was known for the slave trade, is not stated. It would be two years before he could return even to the land of his first exile, and another year before he again crossed the ocean, this time to an island that was not far, as measured on a globe, from where he was born. But there he seems to have been stranded, until the knight, learning where he was, sent for him and they were reunited. The wanderer had to wait another two years before making his final voyage across the ocean, finally reaching his home town again, fourteen years after first leaving it. Perhaps half his life now, and his entire adult life, he had been a wanderer far from home. And so he remained; there was no home now to come to. A plague had destroyed his people, and he was the only survivor. Homes were now ruins, and fields lay untended. We do not know what he thought or felt - perhaps deep grief, or maybe nothing, for was he not now accustomed to being a man without home or family? But in another year, a new settlement was founded on the fields of his ancestors. Strangers had come from across the sea, this time to stay. Again we don't know what he thought or felt, but these strangers wrote of their surprise in finding one who spoke their tongue so well, and their gratitude for his patient teaching and wise advice. They were now strangers in a strange land - he had never been anything else. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary is sure you know who that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 I did not know all of that about him, but I was correct by the end. Lucius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 The 305-m diameter Arecibo dish -- larger than some of the asteroids it images -- is the world’s most powerful radio transmitter, capable of sending ∼0.5 MW pulses. It is also the world’s most sensitive radio receiver, acquiring reflected energy <10−27 watt at high signal-to-noise. The textbook I'm using has a rather weak discussion of asteroids, so I am mustering up my own notes; the quote above is from a standard reference and triggers some pause for thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 "We're probably wrong, Mr. ______, but at least we're thinking." "Well, that's the point." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 22, 2015 Report Share Posted November 22, 2015 Heard over the monitor a moment ago: "One, two, ah ah ah." Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 "... I mean, we're talking about infinity. If you're not lost, you're doing it wrong." -- overheard as students file out of class; today is the last day of classes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 "... I mean, we're talking about infinity. If you're not lost, you're doing it wrong." -- overheard as students file out of class; today is the last day of classes Me: I mean, here I am supposed to be close to graduating with an Interdepartmental Major in English and Religious Studies, and I find I don't have a definition of "Literature" that I'm satisfied with and I don't have a definition of "Religion" that I'm satisfied with either." Barry Childs-Helton: You're doing good. Most people are graduate students before they realize that they can't define the basic terms of their own disciplines. On a separate occasion, many years earlier in my life: Me: You haven't really understood a subject, until it has blown your mind at least once. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary now blows my mind by asking if that applies to people as well as to subjects. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 ... The palindromedary wants to blow people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 It is an ill wind that blows no minds Lucius Alexander The palindromedary notes that many people seem to mind being blown Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 "You idiots! Stop dying!" -- my son, lambasting inept teammates in his World of Tanks game I had to point out to him after the fact that this was a prime Evil Overlord tag0line. L. Marcus, Rails, tkdguy and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 That line reads as if straight out of Girl Genius. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 "Murder him to death!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 "I have not yet begun to procrastinate!" Burrito Boy and FrankL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 "Did you really take all the pteranodons?" "Yes, I did. Did you want one?" "No thanks, I already ate one." Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 "That's why I hate the East Bay -- they're all crystal-hugging, dolphin-loving, granola-eating weirdos!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 16, 2015 Report Share Posted December 16, 2015 Watched a DVD of the old Lois and Clark: Adventures of Superman TV show last night. The episode involved cryo-frozen Nazis, supported by sleeper agents in the US, trying to revive the Reich and take over the US. At the end, Perry White is upset because a long-time friend / US senator was revealed to be a Nazi. Clark, Lois, and Jimmy are expressing concerns that there may be even more out there that weren't found out. Clark: If Senator Black was a Nazi... who else might be? Me (mumbling): Well, there's Donald Trump... My daughter and her boyfriend about fell off the couch laughing. tkdguy and aylwin13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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