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That's "Weekly World News", right? That one is always sensational crap that isn't true. "National Enquirer" is sometimes true.
I know at least a few people chomping at the bit for this to be so, but they'll give lip service to not wanting that. Of course, sex scandals were so successful in making the last President involved in them a one-termer...
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« Reply #2764 on: May 06, 2010, 04:37:32 PM » |
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That's "Weekly World News", right? That one is always sensational crap that isn't true.
That's why I love the Weekly World News. They had the, "Pictures from heaven/hell", story and a story about giant monsters off the coast of Japan. It was over the top and obviously fake, it seemed like they just said, "Screw it, nobody takes us seriously anyway". |
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« Reply #2766 on: June 23, 2010, 09:38:31 PM » |
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« Reply #2768 on: June 23, 2010, 11:39:13 PM » |
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« Reply #2772 on: July 17, 2010, 12:29:45 PM » |
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Behold my manly photo editing slash image resizing skills as I create a tribute to the Old Spice commercials, which in the past week won the Internet.
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« Reply #2774 on: July 22, 2010, 05:01:40 PM » |
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At work we have this "thank you" card system where if you do something nice for someone, that person can give you a thank you card. It's a nice gesture, and once a month five cards are drawn and the winner gets a gift certificate or something like that.
Anyway, I've actually amassed a decent number of cards--15 to be exact--and it's interesting to look at the distribution of dates. For instance, there was a nearly one-year period (March 26, 2009 through March 3, 2010) where I only got a single card...but then I got three cards in March of 2010 alone.
I keep these cards on my wall because I'm fairly certain I have more cards than anyone else on my team except one guy who's been here 8 years (and doesn't care about cards, so his are all in a stack on his desk, so I don't know how many he has, but it's a pretty beefy stack). I figure if I'm going to get competitive about something, it might as well be helping other people.
(I've actually never had anyone ask me for a thank you card after doing a favor for me, and I've never asked someone else for a card either...for a system that could easily become exploited/abused, it actually works remarkably well.)
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« Reply #2775 on: July 23, 2010, 01:26:52 PM » |
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After I heard this I tried to pay attention to what I and others say, and when someone says "thanks" to me, I always respond with "sure" or "no problem" or something similar. The same seems to be true for others about my age.
Is anyone else's experience any different?
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« Reply #2776 on: July 23, 2010, 10:41:41 PM » |
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I've noticed it also. Generally I'll either say, "no problem" or I'll just smile and nod my head and then change the subject. I always thought it was kind of unnecessary to hear "you're welcome" or any other response from the person who did/said something to receive the "thank you" from the other person. They said/did what they said/did and the recipient thanks the person for what they did . . . there's other ways to acknowledge that you heard that person say "thank you." Even at that you could still carry on that exchange past the "you're welcome" stage (ad infinitum if you like), so why not just stop now if you don't want to continue and respond back when they say something like "you're welcome"? How will they know that you know that you received their acknowledgement of your thanks for what they said/did? Why not just cut it one step short at "thank you" and forget the "you're welcome / no problem" response? Or just say something like, "your appreciation is acknowledged." And to convey that message sometimes words aren't even necessary.
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That reminds me of the time someone thanked me for a thank you note, which I felt was just silly.
There is a Mr. Ed door in the laundry where I work, and so when people bring a big load I usually hold the top half of the door open for them, and so am thanked about ninety times a night. Sometimes I say "No problem" but often I've noticed I go for the serious overkill of "You're very welcome." And after I say it, I sometimes think "Really?"
(I've never been mocked or chided for that, though, as has been the case with my frequent usage of "Okie dokie". At the dry cleaner's I used to work at my manager heard me say it to a customer and yelled at me. Now I just get made fun of.)
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did you have this dialog when you were a little kid?
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« Reply #2781 on: July 25, 2010, 10:22:08 AM » |
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Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from "Emma" (the movie...not sure if it's in the novel):
"Thank you for being so thoughtful."
"No. Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful."
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« Reply #2782 on: August 19, 2010, 10:00:56 AM » |
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I just realized that I have no idea how much a first class postage stamp costs anymore.
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« Reply #2783 on: August 24, 2010, 02:46:05 PM » |
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Apparently (at least according to Zappos.com) the useful lifespan of a pair of shoes is supposed to be six months.
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« Reply #2784 on: August 27, 2010, 12:23:00 PM » |
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I read a very interesting story today about early MacOS development. Although it was only incidental to the story, I was very amused by the little vignette at the end. Apparently Andy had set a four-key sequence for killing off a task, but even that sequence was used for something else inside Microsoft Word, so they asked him to change it. When he asked them for suggestions, they said "no, just keep it the way you have it now". When he asked why, they replied "We'll change Word in the next release not to use it. The problem was that we couldn't find a safe sequence - I guess we're already using every key combination!" Yes, back in 1985 Microsoft Word had already exhausted every two- three- and four-key chord combination! |
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Around the office where I work, there are at least three young feral cats, probably about a year old or slightly less. As I was walking out today I saw one, a marmalade-colored one I'd seen poking around before. He looked at me, and I at him, and though he hunkered down in the grass a bit he didn't run away. I was just standing there admiring him when suddenly with a hiss and a squirt the sprinkler system turned on, catching him from the side with a gentle spray of water. He must have jumped about a foot and then took off for the bushes.
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Have you noticed how people commonly say that their email or Facebook profile was "hacked"? I have no idea if this is a correct use of the term, but to me it implies a mastermind hacker at the other end on another computer, trying feverishly to crack your password and infiltrate your email. When what people really mean is "I was dumb. I opened an attachment/clicked on a Facebook app I didn't recognize. Sorry you're getting spammed because of my wanton clicking." But I guess it makes them feel better to think they were just randomly targeted and "hacked."
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Most "hacking" nowadays involves sending dumb people attachments and then tricking said people to click on them. As I type this, my inbox at work contains about 80 mails with the subject "Here you have" and a link to a PDF specially designed to exploit a bug in Adobe's Acrobat Reader, all sent by gullible users who clicked on said PDF. By modern definition, the person who crafted that PDF would be considered a hacker, despite the fact that even a decade ago the word had a very different connotation.
(During the fateful week in which I worked at a computer repair shop, I noticed that nearly every person who brought a computer in for repair blamed a virus. This was back when most people had dialup, so it wasn't actually common for computers to be loaded to the gills with malware. User accidentally uninstalled MS Word? Virus. CD tray motor burned out and CD-ROM doesn't open? Virus. User has 51 cats and the case is completely full of cat hair, causing the CPU to overheat? Virus.)
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« Reply #2788 on: September 09, 2010, 03:40:10 PM » |
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« Reply #2789 on: September 09, 2010, 03:41:36 PM » |
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For which the only prescription...is more cowbell.
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« Reply #2790 on: September 09, 2010, 08:07:16 PM » |
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Most "hacking" nowadays involves sending dumb people attachments and then tricking said people to click on them. As I type this, my inbox at work contains about 80 mails with the subject "Here you have" and a link to a PDF specially designed to exploit a bug in Adobe's Acrobat Reader, all sent by gullible users who clicked on said PDF. By modern definition, the person who crafted that PDF would be considered a hacker, despite the fact that even a decade ago the word had a very different connotation.
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Yeah, I suppose *technically* you could say there was a hacker somewhere up the chain, but it doesn't negate the fact that your email is sending out junk mail because you were dumb.
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Someone bonked into my car recently. Nothing major, but it's in the shop getting a new bumper put on. The other guy's insurance is paying for that, of course, and is also paying for a rental car, a Kia Spectra. This has led to many observations:
* After driving a tiny car, it's amazing how much even a sedan feels like riding a yak.
* I've almost backed into things twice already. You'd think I'd be better at this after driving a minivan for so long, but even after just a month of driving a tiny car, a sedan feels about a million miles long.
* I didn't really care about leather seats, and only got them because they were already in the car I wanted and they gave me a good deal. Now, cloth seats just feel cheap.
* Theoretically, Enterprise has no-smoking and no-pet policies. This does not explain at all why this Spectra smells like someone's wet dog was smoking a cigar in it.
* I notice that this particular Enterprise seems to favor Kia and Hyundai, both Korean (and both actually the same company since the late 90s, which is when Hyundai bought Kia). I wonder if that means that Hyundais and Kias have high reliability and good value or if Hyundai struck a deal with this company so people would think that. I asked the rental guy about this and he was very noncommittal.
* This is the first time I have rented a car not through my business, and they're pretty intense. I had to provide references! I asked why, and the guy said that some people like to rent their cars and not return them. I told him that I was unlikely to be enthusiastic about stealing his Spectra once my nice little Fiesta is fixed, but he didn't seem amused.
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New word: westerday. Noun. Short for "work yesterday", which refers to the previous workday. For jobs which work traditional schedules, Monday's westerday is Friday. Takes holidays into account.
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« Reply #2795 on: November 18, 2010, 12:46:15 PM » |
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1:43pm up 371 days 3:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
As you can tell from the load average, this is primarily because it doesn't actually do anything (except for at 2am in the morning, when it runs some scripts for me).
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« Reply #2796 on: December 04, 2010, 01:19:50 PM » |
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Me, this summer, when buying a car: "I don't care about frufru features like heated seats. Who needs that?"
Me, tonight: "Holy cow these seats are sucking all the warmth out of my body" *turns on seat heater*
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« Reply #2799 on: December 05, 2010, 09:11:17 PM » |
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