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I mean the accent is pretty much the same as Midwestern.
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Hey, ya hoser, the trute hurts, ya.
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Why, you jist never been to a fish fry, I tell ya. Why Ethel Blundell there, she cooks a mean flounder! You betcha!
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At least we're all American.
Except the people that aren't, to whom I convey that I'm so, so sorry. Not for the assumption, but for the scenario.
Oh, we cope. Somehow. :P
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I'm sorry, is this lock already spoken for.
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NobodysHome's Tirade of the Morning
So I've been in tech a long, LOOOOONG time, to the point that I still insist on avoiding special characters in file names (especially the accursed space, infamous for its destruction of code and URLs) and keeping the names as short as possible. (OK, I've outgrown the 8-character limit, but I'm still careful.)
On the other hand, government agencies not being able to handle hyphenated names incenses me. Passwords that can't handle nonalphanumeric characters cause my blood to boil.
So this morning, I was trying to log on to my corporate Single Sign-On (SSO), and I was informed that my password has an invalid character.
Yes, I use nonalphanumeric characters in my password.
Yes, my company seems to have changed its password policy to disallow nonalphanumeric characters in passwords.
Yes, this incenses me.
Yes, this also means that I cannot access the system to change my password, because they just disallowed it.
Looks like I'll be having a fun conversation with IT later this morning...
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So does that mean we'll get an afternoon tirade as well.
Which are understandable and incredibly frustrating. :-)
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NWS says 70 and sunny today. That means getting tomato and pepper plants, seeds (and sand for the sandbox) and manure. :-)
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What is Fate, in less then 100 words.
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Update: Ah, well, looks like it was just a hiccup in IT. They resolved it, and I can log in again and actually do useful work.
Woo hoo?
(And for the record, my passwords are basically me mashing the keyboard with both hands. Makes for pretty darned secure passwords, though they're impossible to remember. But I figure anyone who goes to the effort to break into my house deserves to find my password book and run amok for however long it takes for me to notice the break-in and lock down all my accounts...)
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What is Fate, in less then 100 words.
Destiny.
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Okaay, what is Destiny (in 2-100 words, role playing game is not allowed) :-)
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I count nine and a half things happening in the background.
#0: She is really good with a hoola hoop. Wow.
From the left.
#1: Tie-die fool-hat tambourine guy is funny.
#2: Immediately after he leaves, only sometimes-visible pink-shirt stick girl drops her stick (again). This actually happens several times before this, too.
#3: Sometimes-visible orange swimsuit guy playing sticks with the girl is nice.
#4: Fully clothed lady with sunglasses (yellow shirt, brown pants) is amusing. I'd totally be her.
#5(+): "Secret" dancing character, "unlock" achieved! Behind #4, in the backgound, is someone just standing there, dancing. (There's also someone clapping to our right of that character. Someone walks in front of them right before the end. There's also someone in red shorts and gray shirt noticeably bending over something near there... but I've got nothing for why.)
#6-7: All-black clothes+hat guy... wat. I... I thought that was part of his outfit, before he... pulls it out of his pants. O.o Also, he backs up into toddler momma! Yay, safe toddler!
#8: Photographer guy walks and... squats.
#9: Dancing lady with diaphanous dress-over-other-dress to the right of the guy above. I don't know what that technical term is. Black shirt sandy other dresses.
#10: Belly dancer in red dress (with... green... belly?) who's core body... doesn't move. Her limbs do, and rhythmically, but her torso doesn't seem to at all.
#11: At some point after tie-die/tambourine/fool hat walks off, a guy just kind of... appears from behind the belly dancer. I have no idea. Doesn't look like anything too amuzing, but it's just impressive that I didn't see him at all prior to that moment, considering, he's much taller than those around him.
#12: Lady with tan beach hat and light blue shirt! Rock on!
#13: Tall blonde lady with turquoise belly dancer (with flare pants?) outfit! Often obscured by #12, she's dancing, too!
#14: Sand-white headdress woman with ornate head dress, and and orange flags!
#15: In the background, someone puts their red jacket on and sits down just before the video loop ends (and is still adjusting when it's cut off).
#16: Background guy in blue shirt, yellow-green-tan(?) hat, throws something at the last minute to someone else to our left. Really, he's almost unnoticeable (and nearly indistinguishable) from anyone else until he does so. He is directly above the head of...
#17: ... the pink-dress neck-hoola-hooping girl keeps it going the whole daggum time! She almost looks like a gif randomly stuck in the video! She is good!
#18: Start of the video: woman standing in white, facing the other way. Video pans off her, returns, and now man in white sitting and facing this way! COINCIDENCE?! I. Think. Probably.
#19: Blue dress woman starting to enter the scene just as the video clip turns off!
It looks like there might be somewhere around ~70 people in the background? I could be miscounting by quite a large margin, however, so it could range from ~50~100 - I lost count/track of exact people somewhere around each of the ten-person marks (10/20/30/40/50/60/70), so I had to guesstimate.
I'm mildly disappointed that I couldn't come up with an even 20 explicit "things" to notice. Seems like I should be able to!
Incidentally, there are a lot of people with percussion instruments in the background. I count at least thirteen, and they do not all look like they're in rhythm with each other...
Okaay, what is Destiny (in 2-100 words, role playing game is not allowed) :-)
"A game."
See? 2 words and not what you asked me not to say! >:D
Back to one-word, though:
"Wyrd."
No?
Okay: "That predestined series of events that, when looked at in chronological order, make up a life lived. Sometimes it masquerades as free will; sometimes it is "free will" constrained by the nature of the person itself, and sometimes it's an unstoppable and obvious current that forces people along a path whether they chose it or not. Sometimes it actually is free will, and is reinterpreted as that which you are able to do, if you follow the course. It's also a game. Suck on that, free will."
There: 87-88 words (not sure, kids kept interrupting all of my counts).
Hope that helps!
Okaay, what is Destiny (in 2-100 words, role playing game is not allowed) :-)
Something that doesn't exist.
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Okaay, what is Destiny (in 2-100 words, role playing game is not allowed) :-)
's Child's dad.
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I think I'm more confused now then when I started.
... oh, are those mushrooms...
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Why, you jist never been to a fish fry, I tell ya. Why Ethel Blundell there, she cooks a mean flounder! You betcha!
Well, I hope she'd try not to cook the nice flounder(s).
Unless she has a Hannibal thing going, in which I really hope she's not cooking Flounder. He's nice!
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I think I'm more confused now then when I started.
... oh, are those mushrooms...
La la la, we're fun guys!
Sharin' spores and gettin' high!Join us, Captain!
ignore the skull
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There's a thread about how to build an impregnable fortress. My dyslexic mind originally thought it said "how to impregnate a fortress"
Alas, the disappointment when I clicked on it was palpable.
So many siege engine jokes unused...
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I think Tacticslion is bored... especially since he watched the video over and over to see all those other people.
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I think Tacticslion is bored... especially since he watched the video over and over to see all those other people.
I'm stuck at home, sick and bored.
Blech.
But not "bored" as in "nothing better to do" but "bored" as in "life kind of sucks right now in a sick and frustrating way"... so, blech.
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Come join us! It's warm!
Scooby-Doo 2 still isn't a good movie*, but it's actually a lot better than the first one**, if only because it treats its characters with respect, instead of open hostility.
EDIT:
I mean, it still mocks them relatively unrelentingly - that's part of its attempt at being a "live action cartoon" - but it does so with more grace than the first.
* This is not a surprise.
** This isn't hard. In fact, it would be hard-pressed not to be.
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Casserole is made! Before the General gets home from work even!
Nothing says I love you in the Midwest like putting a crust around some meat and vegetables in a pan topped with a pound of cheese.
In case anyone's curious, it's a "Mexican" casserole. A bisquick crust with layers of taco seasoned chuck, black olives, peppers and mushrooms with a top crust of sour cream and a pound of cheese.
You can substitute beans (refried and black beans work best) for the meat but you'll need to add a bit more of the heat. :-)
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My cousin gave my mom a similar recipe for a "taco ring". It's pretty darn good.
FWIW, tonight I made baked breaded (breadcrumbs, citrus-ginger-soy spices/seasoning, and grated parm) chicken breasts, and a caesar salad (although parents can't eat salad without tomatoes, so I have maters on the side).
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H'mmm... I was going to make curried chicken this weekend, but that (EDIT: "Mexican" casserole) might be a better option. Thankyou, Captain.
In other news, 'The Final Countdown' by 'Europe' is playing.
Goodie goodie
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Casserole is made! Before the General gets home from work even!
Nothing says I love you in the Midwest like putting a crust around some meat and vegetables in a pan topped with a pound of cheese.
In case anyone's curious, it's a "Mexican" casserole. A bisquick crust with layers of taco seasoned chuck, black olives, peppers and mushrooms with a top crust of sour cream and a pound of cheese.
You can substitute beans (refried and black beans work best) for the meat but you'll need to add a bit more of the heat. :-)
LOL.
Living in California, reading what the Midwest thinks is "Mexican" food is... interesting...
"Put olives in it! Now it's Mexican!"
Ah, the great olive groves of Cordoba, how I miss them...
...don't forget the corn meal! It's not Mexican without corn meal!
(OK, now I'm just being rude, but I remember my parents' "Mexican" dinners. They were better than most of my parents' cooking, but their relationship to anything south of the border was tenuous at best...)
Your dinner sounds extremely tasty, but I don't think I'd be able to order it anywhere around here...
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It's true! The Midwest has crazy ideas on what constitutes "Mexican" food. Though in fairness, the seasoning in the meat is just as integral to it's "mexicanity" as the black olives.
And yes, that was one of the biggest culture shocks of moving west. That and having to order extra cheese in order to get an acceptable amount of cheese on your food (pizza even!).
I count nine and a half things happening in the background.#0: She is really good with a hoola hoop. Wow.
From the left.
#1: Tie-die fool-hat tambourine guy is funny.
#2: Immediately after he leaves, only sometimes-visible pink-shirt stick girl drops her stick (again). This actually happens several times before this, too.
#3: Sometimes-visible orange swimsuit guy playing sticks with the girl is nice.
#4: Fully clothed lady with sunglasses (yellow shirt, brown pants) is amusing. I'd totally be her.
#5(+): "Secret" dancing character, "unlock" achieved! Behind #4, in the backgound, is someone just standing there, dancing. (There's also someone clapping to our right of that character. Someone walks in front of them right before the end. There's also someone in red shorts and gray shirt noticeably bending over something near there... but I've got nothing for why.)
#6-7: All-black clothes+hat guy... wat. I... I thought that was part of his outfit, before he... pulls it out of his pants. O.o Also, he backs up into toddler momma! Yay, safe toddler!
#8: Photographer guy walks and... squats.
#9: Dancing lady with diaphanous dress-over-other-dress to the right of the guy above. I don't know what that technical term is. Black shirt sandy other dresses.
#10: Belly dancer in red dress (with... green... belly?) who's core body... doesn't move. Her limbs do, and rhythmically, but her torso doesn't seem to at all.
#11: At some point after tie-die/tambourine/fool hat walks off, a guy just kind of... appears from behind the belly dancer. I have no idea. Doesn't look like anything too amuzing, but it's just impressive that I didn't see him at all prior to that moment, considering, he's much taller than those around him.
#12: Lady with tan beach hat and light blue shirt! Rock on!
#13: Tall blonde lady with turquoise belly dancer (with flare pants?) outfit!...
My wife pointed out that I didn't mention the obvious weird plant circle thing right behind her. Also, we both want to know what the event actually was.
EDIT:
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It's true! The Midwest has crazy ideas on what constitutes "Mexican" food. Though in fairness, the seasoning in the meat is just as integral to it's "mexicanity" as the black olives.
And yes, that was one of the biggest culture shocks of moving west. That and having to order extra cheese in order to get an acceptable amount of cheese on your food (pizza even!).
LOL. Oh, yeah. For the whole west coast, cheese = fat = obesity, so it has to be totally avoided. The west coast is all about avoiding moderation and doing everything to its inevitably-idiotic extreme. You have to fight tooth-and-nail just to get a decent amount of cheese on ANYTHING, and you can actually order cheese-free pizzas.
I've never heard a decent answer to the question of, "Why?"
Kind of like vegetarians trying to create artificial meat. I could cook up at least a dozen different delightful vegetarian dishes right now, with just the stuff at my corner store and in my pantry. And not a single one tries to fool the palate into thinking there's some kind of meat in there. They're just darned tasty and stand on their own merits.
Ah, well, I think I'm in Freehold Bike Range, so I've gotta go.
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Yeah, I love Seattle, but I never understood why they insisted on all food tasting like fish. :-D
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Yeah, I love Seattle, but I never understood why they insisted on all food tasting like fish. :-D
Something is fishy about that attitude.
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Indeed...
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Tiny T-Rex (running into the living room): Mom, I need some of your hair. It has nothing, and I mean NOTHING, to do with voodoo.
Addendum: Pea Bear put him up to it. "I wanted to do voodoo" she said. "Well, that's understandable, I wanted to do voodoo too at your age" the General replied.
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Tiny T-Rex (running into the living room): Mom, I need some of your hair. It has nothing, and I mean NOTHING, to do with voodoo.
Seems legit.
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Tiny T-Rex (running into the living room): Mom, I need some of your hair. It has nothing, and I mean NOTHING, to do with voodoo.
Addendum: Pea Bear put him up to it. "I wanted to do voodoo" she said. "Well, that's understandable, I wanted to do voodoo too at your age" the General replied.
Did you point out to them that it's a full-blown religion, and not just a set of hokey Hollywood magic?
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Oh! Eat them all and make a documentary about it. You'll make millions!!
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Did you point out to them that it's a full-blown religion, and not just a set of hokey Hollywood magic?Tiny T-Rex (running into the living room): Mom, I need some of your hair. It has nothing, and I mean NOTHING, to do with voodoo.
Addendum: Pea Bear put him up to it. "I wanted to do voodoo" she said. "Well, that's understandable, I wanted to do voodoo too at your age" the General replied.
I pick my battles. I see no reason to fight a battle that Bing can fight for me.
Besides it was right before bedtime. You give him the goddamn hair and get him to bed, I'm not f@@@ing around with whether or not they're accurately portraying voodoo customs. :-)
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Throw them at clowns maybe.
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What if you planted some. A McNugget farm practically pays for itself.
Maybe feed a couple to chickens and set them loose in large urban areas. See if the latent T-Rex genes start firing up again. Or is that too dark.
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I'm overwhelmed with 40, what would I do with millions of nuggets?
Dollars! I mean dollars! greenbacks! But I suppose if you want to flip them back into nuggets, who am I to judge. :-)
Huh.
Blarg. YouTube wants me to join my Google and YouTube accounts and will not allow me to thumbs-up a comment without doing so. >:I
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Hot peppers and tomatoes are planted, still need to sow seeds of corn and peas and plant the extra tomatoes and ambrosia (cantaloupe) melons.
All told I got 6 hot pepper plants, 10 tomato plants, 6 ambrosia melons, 2 seed packets and two bags of garden manure for less than twenty bucks. :-)