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« Reply #720 on: January 06, 2012, 04:45:14 PM » |
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A: What is it you Americans say? A: Sick as a...? Me: Dog? A: Right. A: Can you say "Sick as a cucumber?" Me: Wha? No! A: But it makes just as much sense. Me: You, on the other hand, make no sense whatsoever. Me: As usual |
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« Reply #721 on: January 06, 2012, 04:51:54 PM » |
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the correct answer would have been whatever A's nationality is.
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« Reply #722 on: January 06, 2012, 05:33:53 PM » |
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He's Indian (not Indian Indian, from America). Also, A in the above quote is B in the linked quote. He says some goofy things. |
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« Reply #723 on: January 06, 2012, 05:43:01 PM » |
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"sick as an Indian but not an Indian Indian." please to be saying this now!
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« Reply #724 on: January 09, 2012, 09:37:44 AM » |
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Me: ...she was awesome. 75 years old, but more active than I am and smart as a whip
A: Yeah, my grandma was 96 when she died and she was super active.
A: I want to live to 96
Me: Yeah, but only if I have all my faculties
B: You don't have all your faculties now
Me: Well, at least it sets a low bar for when I'm 96
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« Reply #725 on: January 09, 2012, 01:32:58 PM » |
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From this eBay motors ad: "When viewed in outdoor/natural sunlight, the paint literally explodes with color." That sounds dangerous. |
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« Reply #726 on: January 09, 2012, 01:41:06 PM » |
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"When viewed in outdoor/natural sunlight, the paint literally explodes with color."
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« Reply #727 on: January 10, 2012, 06:57:14 PM » |
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I managed to squeeze in a smart remark in open court last week, while I was on jury duty. If you've ever done jury duty, you probably know that jury selection is really boring and the judge and attorneys will often try to "liven" it up with humorous remarks and casual shooting the breeze in between the serious interrogatory questions that they have to ask of everyone. One attorney, upon noting how many times I'd served jury duty before, remarked, "This is your fourth tour of duty as a juror. So, are you in it for the money?" To which I quipped, "No, I'm in it for the comedy."
Today I was explaining this to a co-worker who was telling me that whenever he's on a criminal case, he has a plan for how to get either the defense or prosecution to dismiss him. Basically he intends to say "I hate cops; they're all dicks" to the prosecution, and "My sister's a cop" to the defense. I asked him what he would do if he forgot and ended up giving both responses during the same jury service, to which he helpfully clarified: "I hate my sister."
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« Reply #728 on: January 11, 2012, 12:27:36 PM » |
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A: For some reason my German car has a French-built alternator.
Me: That can't be good
A: It worked well for forty years
Me: Worked?
A: Yeah, it died and needs to be replaced
Me: Did it surrender? Or just go on strike?
A: Heh, no, it just burnt out.
Me: Oh, so ennui then.
A: I hate you
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« Reply #729 on: January 12, 2012, 03:41:46 PM » |
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<You are not expected to understand the first line of this conversation.>
noob: question: if i long* thing=malloc(stuff); thing++; free(thing); does all of thing get freed?
Nathan: It will crash if you do that
noob: oh c
noob: why you not as smart as i want you to be?
Nathan: Oh no! When I allocate memory I have to keep a pointer to that memory around!
Nathan: Oh the huge manatee!
noob: no no, what i mean is i'm allocating a block of memory that i'm going to iterate through exactly once
Nathan: I know what you're saying.
Nathan: I also know that you need to stop whining and do it properly.
noob: oh i will
noob: i just have to come up with another name
noob: which is, in my opinion, the hardest part of programming
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« Reply #730 on: January 12, 2012, 03:43:21 PM » |
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« Reply #731 on: January 12, 2012, 04:14:37 PM » |
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<Apparently all I do these days is talk to my minion over IM>
noob: the handcuff knot and bottle cap knot are also useful
Nathan: I have no idea what the bottle cap knot is.
noob: its a knot which you can effectively put around a bottle
noob: so you can attach it to your belt or something
Nathan: Sounds pointless.
noob: i mean you could to that with a variety of knots
noob: but this one works especially well
Nathan: Yeah, I just carry my bottle in my pocket.
noob: well when you're you sized
Nathan: Heh.
Nathan: Why does a google search for bottle cap knot return no useful results?
Nathan: I think you're just making it up.
noob: jug knot
Nathan: Holy mother of balls that is unnecessarily complicated.
Nathan: I think it would be less work to unravel the rope and crochet yourself a coozy with a loop in it.
noob: ha
noob: the pictures make it look more complicated
Nathan: I got to about step 3 and was like "OK, this is reasonable", and then step 4 was like "snake orgy".
noob: step 7-8 is the one i can't do
noob: and i don't have a roep
noob: i could do it with my bberry charger
Nathan: And then wonder why your phone doesn't charge anymore when you plug it in.
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« Reply #733 on: January 13, 2012, 09:45:21 AM » |
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The thing about knots is that they're not especially useful if you can only tie them with a guide and under ideal circumstances. Earlier in that conversation I had mentioned that the only knots I have ever used in real life are the two half hitches and the bowline (and the sheet bend, which is a special case of the bowline). The last time I tied a two half hitches, it was with a bit of parachute cord I had, and I was tying it to keep the bumper on a car (which had just hit a deer) from dragging on the ground. Hence, I'm still part of the "bottle goes in the pocket; done" camp  |
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« Reply #734 on: January 13, 2012, 02:30:21 PM » |
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after I got it to work the second time I could remember how it's done. I'm going to wait a few days and try it again with a different sort of stringy thing. it's one that I remember wanting to learn a long time ago but couldn't based on the book I was looking at, so I'm just pleased that I was finally able to learn it. I'm convinced it will come in handy someday! (I think I know and use about 5-7 knots including the square knot and overhand knot, but I'm not sure what they're called. awhile back I wanted to learn how to tie a necktie; maybe I remember that, too. now I'm curious how hobos tied a handkerchief to a stick without the bundle sliding down the stick when they carried it. also if there is a way to tie my hair in a ponytail securely if I only have a bit of string and no rubber band.)
amusing quotes, amusing quotes...let's see.
A: I need to pack for tomorrow. what should I wear?
me: I think you should wear...clothes.
A: yes, but what clothes should I wear?
me: I think they should be...cloths.
A: hahaha! cloths! not fig leaves.
me: yes, not fig leaves, but also they need to be cloths. like a sari. or a sarong. or a toga. or those bandages that mummies wear.
(calling clothes cloths is something we both find funny, sometimes so funny that it is difficult to breath.)
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« Reply #736 on: January 18, 2012, 09:51:10 AM » |
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A: I'm having trouble building a simulator...
Me: Didn't you hear? They're blacking out simulators to protest SOPA.
* A looks shocked and concerned *
Me: Geez, don't actually believe me. How long have you sat across from me?
Me: Besides, they're blacking out Perforce, not simulators.
A: Really?
* I start laughing so hard I can barely breathe *
Me: A, you are my favorite person in the world.
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« Reply #737 on: January 18, 2012, 01:15:59 PM » |
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« Reply #738 on: January 18, 2012, 01:37:23 PM » |
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« Reply #739 on: January 19, 2012, 04:52:00 PM » |
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A: So this developer in California completely owned me
A: I spent a week working on a fix for her, and then when I finished it she told me she didn't actually need it
A: And I was so mad, but I didn't do anything about it.
A: That's the difference between you and me. You would have given her a mouthful
Me: Ew.
Me: Wait, did you mean "earful"?
A: Oh, yeah. Oops.
Me: You're going to get me in trouble if you don't think about what you're saying...
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« Reply #740 on: January 19, 2012, 04:55:34 PM » |
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I don't know, I think "earful" is kinkier.
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« Reply #741 on: January 20, 2012, 07:37:26 AM » |
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A quote I found amusing from Earl Pomerantz today: ==== A recent addition to [St. Paul's] is what they call, a "Tent City", London's incarnation of the "Occupy" movement. Dozens of tents have been set up just praying distance from the venerated cathedral. As far as I could glean, "Tent City" is there, because St. Paul's is adjacent to London's financial district. And also, because there was space available to put up some tents. There was understandably quite to-do about dozens of protesters camping out right next to one of the most hallowed cathedrals in the world. The outraged faithful wanted them out of there. And then, the archbishop of I don't know what but he's big, stepped up and said something like, "I'm no expert on religion, or anything…no, wait, I am. And I think we're supposed to be on their side." |
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« Reply #743 on: January 25, 2012, 05:50:22 PM » |
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Good old Alan Turing. I did my senior thesis on his machines.
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« Reply #744 on: January 25, 2012, 09:45:11 PM » |
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Yeah, I saw that on Hacker News. Absolutely brilliant.
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« Reply #745 on: January 30, 2012, 04:15:57 PM » |
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noob: but its after 5
Nathan: Yeah, you're the only person who cares about that.
noob: cares about what?
Nathan: The arbitrary 5pm boundary.
noob: not really
noob: seeing as i'm still here
Nathan: (05:10:07 PM) noob: but its after 5
noob: lol
noob: when did i say that?
Nathan: Are you seriously asking that question?
noob: yes
Nathan: You said that one minute ago.
noob: oh
noob: lol
Nathan: You dundering idiot.
noob: i mean
noob: my point is
noob: that he was here all day
noob: so its irrelevent that he's leaving
Nathan: I don't think I'm ready to move on from mocking you about "when did I say that?" yet.
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« Reply #746 on: January 30, 2012, 04:46:32 PM » |
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Leaving the office at 5. How quaint.
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« Reply #747 on: February 01, 2012, 12:11:04 PM » |
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Leaving the office at 5. How quaint.
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« Reply #748 on: February 01, 2012, 12:33:14 PM » |
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A: B, I was hurt that you weren't here when I arrived this morning
B: What?
Me: Ignore him. He's just trying to draw attention to the fact that he arrived before 9 for once in his worthless life.
A: Exactly.
A: What is that saying you have? "Make love in the hay while the sun shines?"
Me: Um, I think it's just "make hay while the sun shines". You just added the part about making love.
A: I like my version better.
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« Reply #749 on: February 01, 2012, 01:16:28 PM » |
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Talk about trying to find a needle in a haystack. Oh!!!
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<At work, we have a game called the 'name game' that new engineers have to play. It involves printing a list of engineering employees and getting them to sign, then you have to remember their names. As the site has grown, so has the list>
noob: the official name game list is 130 pages long
Nathan: Geez
Nathan: They should present a bound copy to every new hire.
Nathan: "This paper copy is wasteful and obsolete the moment it was created, much like you"
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A: Nathan and I are like love brothers, so you might want to watch it
B: You killed a man with him?
A: That's not how you become love brothers!
Me: I am not OK with any of this.
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A: Is it pamphlet or pamplet?
Me: Pamphlet.
A: Weird, I've always said pamplet.
A: Did you watch Glee yesterday?
Me: No?
A: It was hilarious. There was this girl, who had a boyfriend, and she likes this other guy...
A: So she goes to the guidance councilor, and she gives her a pamplet
Me: Pamphlet
A: Whatever. Anyway, it's titled "So you're a two-timing whore"
A: It was hilarious.
Me: The most hilarious part of that story is that you assumed I watch Glee
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A: Nathan and I are like love brothers, so you might want to watch it
B: You killed a man with him?
A: That's not how you become love brothers!
Me: I am not OK with any of this.
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