Cancer Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings It is annoyingly difficult to find out when a particular telescope was taken out of service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darbor Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Words of wisdom from Kojak: "What can I say, nobody is gonna tell ya the law is perfect, but it beats whatever the h*ll is in second place." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I did not expect the Boards to be still in one piece today. See I commissioned and posted pictures of Kei and Yuri, the Dirty Pair in Superhero Pics. Andyou know that it ain't their fault but destruction follows them around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Why are the boards running so slowly for me tonight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings After all these decades of living here, this world continues to astonish me on a regular basis. That's not always a bad thing. Lucius Alexander And an astonished, and astonishing, palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings There's been a lot of talk in the news lately about Berlusconi's "bunga-bunga" parties. According to John Stewart, bunga-bunga is an adjective, but I keep wondering if it's actually a verb.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Earlier tonight, I was cut off from the boards. Every time I tried to come back, the server said the site wasn't available. Did anyone else have that problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yeah. At first I thought it was a 'local problem' or maybe 'operator error.' (as usual) Then I went to http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and verified that it was 'down for everyone.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I love "Roseanne Rosannadanna" humor - when I pretend to completely and utterly miss the point of something for the sake of a joke. Like, oh, the time someone started a thread about "Nationalizing GM" meaning the US Government would take over General Motors, and I posted an angry rant about the government taking over our Game Masters. Anyone who's been around a while can probably name a dozen such examples on my part. I am not sure if my affinity for that kind of humor has anything to do with the fact that, sometimes, I really DO completely fail to understand something. Sometimes I'm playing dumb, and sometimes, well....I'm not playing. Sometimes I wonder how well other people can tell the difference. It's on my mind right now because I've realized that someone else around here seems to "miss the point" even more regularly than I do, and it's usually NOT funny. Oddly, it's someone who's also obviously not stupid nor uneducated - like me. (at least I hope it's obvious I'm not stupid or uneducated.) It's also possible they're faking it, but not to entertain - not to entertain anyone else, anyway. While I'm randomly musing, I wonder how often I think I've understood something and never really did. Lucius Alexander I don't expect anyone to get the point of the palindromedary, and that's okay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darbor Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I hate it when I get to what I think is the end of the thread and reply only to find that I wasn't on the last page and my reply is out of step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Eight AM is really way too early for the folks with the excavator to be starting work - especially on a day when some folks are off from work and may be trying to sleep in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Just got back from Genghis Con yesterday and I'm still on Denver time. I woke up at about 7:50 this morning when my usual time is 10:30. They are two hours behind us. I was asleep by 9:00 last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I really wish I could swear in these ****** ******* forums. It would feel so much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings ... Hell-looo, nurse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Then there was the time I was mugged by a parrot. This was about 15 years back. It was wintertime, so I was wearing a heavy jacket. We were in a pet store in a mall in Moscow, Idaho. There was a parrot on a perch on an island in the middle of the store. Smallish parrot, like a lory, not a macaw. The parrot was not real happy to be there. When a person came up to the island, it moved to the far side of the perch, and if you walked around the island, it moved to keep you as far away as possible. I got the impression more of weary annoyance than fear. I was carrying my son (about 2 at the time) in one arm; in that hand I had an apple, from which I was using my free hand occasionally to bring the apple up to my mouth, so I could bite off pieces and give them to my son, as well as taking my own bites when I felt like it. The boy was content to eat apple and watch the parrot. He wasn't making any moves toward the bird. The boy was happy and quiet, I figured out the bird didn't want anything to do with people, so we didn't chase the parrot around, which meant I could stand still, so it was an uncommon moment of quiet. I relaxed. I looked away for minute, at something across the store. When I looked back, the parrot was climbing the jacket sleeve of my free arm. My son, of course, was transfixed as the bird was approaching him. After the initial surprise, I guessed what was going on, and called my wife over. She took a bite out of the apple, waved the bite at the parrot. That, of course, was what the parrot wanted. She lured it back off me and onto its perch, and gave it the piece of apple, which it started eating. I still wonder if it would have clambered across my shoulder and down my other arm and taken my son's piece of apple if nothing had intervened. If the boy had sat still for it, probably. Not that that was in any way possible, of course. But yeah, I was mugged by a parrot for a piece of apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Is it possible for cats to be in heat after they're fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings To the USers here ... Is there a tool anywhere to figure out what'll happen to your take-home withholding if alter the number of allowances on the Form W-4? Last time I messed with this long ago, the difference that you incurred when changing that number by 1 was much too large, but I want to see what'll happen before the take-home pay takes a hit. EDIT: Duh, looks like the irs.gov has something like what I want. Duh duh. "This is your brain. This is your brain while you're thinking about Form 1040." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Hellos in my dreams Laughter ringing in my heart Ohio Girls ROCK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Time for another episode of Mystery Security Theater 3000: http://www.kitv.com/news/27048822/detail.html?source=htv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings The HERO Chat is dead. Long live HERO Chat! I just realized that I really did it. I killed the Hero Chat!!! I am the champion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Waiting for the meeting to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/windows-phone-marketplace-bans-the-gpl-and-the-app-store-should-too.ars GPL is, simply put, a legal plague. Once it is in place in a piece of software, it must be in place in all derived software. I will not use it and I applaud Microsoft for putting at least one block in its spread. My source code is my own; I'll make it open or not as I like, not as the GPL foundation demands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings LOL So you want to be able to take someone else's source code, alter it and then call it proprietary? No; I'd rather pay or use a truly free library than one which demands I use their license for my product. Edit: And yes, it wouldn't be entirely my product. That's what's normally called "value-added" and what's normally allowed to be charged for, under *Reasonable* open-source. GPL is not reasonable. It's viral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Sometimes it's hard to be nice. Lucius Alexander Sometimes the palindromedary helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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