Ours comes in at 5 to start cooking everything normally. (you must just have the continental breakfast then eh?)They like to call it an "expanded continental" because we have scrambled eggs, omelettes, sausage, and such. But none of it is cooked to order. In fact, none of it is really cooked here. It's all pre-cooked and frozen, then heated in the microwave.
This reminds me, what is 'continental' supposed to mean in the context of breakfast?
...The one thing that bugs me about it is people that don't know how to use a waffle iron but that try anyways.
*whistles innocently*
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Wow, it's one thing to use a cooking appliance without knowing how to, but to do it while naked? That stuff spatters, I'm ashamed of myself.
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Ours comes in at 5 to start cooking everything normally. (you must just have the continental breakfast then eh?)They like to call it an "expanded continental" because we have scrambled eggs, omelettes, sausage, and such. But none of it is cooked to order. In fact, none of it is really cooked here. It's all pre-cooked and frozen, then heated in the microwave.This reminds me, what is 'continental' supposed to mean in the context of breakfast?
...The one thing that bugs me about it is people that don't know how to use a waffle iron but that try anyways.*whistles innocently*
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Wow, it's one thing to use a cooking appliance without knowing how to, but to do it while naked? That stuff spatters, I'm ashamed of myself.
I thought a continental breakfast was croissants or brioche or something, with coffee and (maybe) fruit juice.
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Pittsburg shooting
This is my first time reading about this.
I hope the criminal gets thrown in the deepest coldest darkest cell they have, and that the other hateful scum remember him as example of what will happen to them if they ever act on their insanity. >:( The right wingnut bomber too.
[spoiler]Make no mistake, the attacks we've been seeing more and more of in the U.S. are awful and expected. Modern conservatism declared war on the American people decades ago, using its conservative outrage machine, and it's only going to get worse. We must defend ourselves, but its going to take years of unity and patriotism to turn the tide of this war.
Hey! It's the weekend!
Waffle irons are easy to use.
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you just pour the batter on to it and flip it over then later you take the waffle off.
I hope one day to have the confidence Weird Al has imitating Rivers Cuomo does while dancing in the Weezer video for Africa. He looks like Jim Carey doing a character in the late 90s, dorky as hell, like he's trying to shake bugs out of his outfit, and no f$@*s are given whatsoever.
Eating hotel waffles is one of my favorite con experiences.
I thought a continental breakfast was croissants or brioche or something, with coffee and (maybe) fruit juice.Ours comes in at 5 to start cooking everything normally. (you must just have the continental breakfast then eh?)They like to call it an "expanded continental" because we have scrambled eggs, omelettes, sausage, and such. But none of it is cooked to order. In fact, none of it is really cooked here. It's all pre-cooked and frozen, then heated in the microwave.This reminds me, what is 'continental' supposed to mean in the context of breakfast?
...The one thing that bugs me about it is people that don't know how to use a waffle iron but that try anyways.*whistles innocently*
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Wow, it's one thing to use a cooking appliance without knowing how to, but to do it while naked? That stuff spatters, I'm ashamed of myself.
Pretty much exactly my understanding, except sometimes they add bagels, yogurt, or fruit.
My father-in-law suggested experimenting with a low dose of caffeine on Teensy Valeros to see how it affects his ability to focus (since Ritalin and some other ADHD meds are basically stimulants, and we can't afford health insurance at the moment).
I checked a few of the ADHD parenting sites and found a formula of 2.5 mg caffeine per kg of body weight, so a dose<=50mg should be well within the parameters. In other words, one cup of strong black tea. (Or, if I want to start with a lower dose, one cup of green tea.)
Thoughts? It's not like I'm talking about homeopathics or crap like that.
Couldn't hurt to try LM...
Though as a avid coffee drinker and someone who's been on the Ritalin-train, the two (Caffeine and Methylphenidate) don't really compare that much in their effects.On me at least not, though the kid could react differently.
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I wouldn't do that!…
*Notes down 'Miauschwitz' as a possible cat name*
Crap.
(dresses)
*Plugs up gushing nose-bleed*
Anyway met up with Tequilia Sunrise, got to see him and Ms Sunrise as well as his sister, had a nice lunch and yak together and he got to see my family. They're cool guys. And yes Freehold, I know you'll be disappointed, but we all had pizza and went home sober.
We also suggested some new vacation locations to him and if he comes over, we'll be glad to show him around =)
Dawww!!!
It nice to hear FaWtLer's having a good time together.
*Taps finger together*
Hope I can come vist too one day…
*Send hug to both TS and Mort*
Man I'm going to be sad that my vacation is coming to an end =(
*Sniffles, and give Mort kitty a head scratch and a nuzzle*
Yea, the daily grind sucks…at least up here currently.
Would invite you up here for you're next vacation, but if isn't in summer time you'll probably feel like a cat-sicle most of the time :P
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Yeah I'm very vulnerable to cold but only towards the end of my stay in Phoenix did I think that the heat wasn't that bad, so as long as I wasn't facing the light. Sunlight sensitivity =(
I suspect I will feel like a cat popsicle most of the time in Denmark, I'm very vulnerable to cold.
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I'm 100% certain programmers (or possibly computers themselves?) don't understand how time or percentages work.
I'm downloading something. In half a second it jumps to 99% and then remains there for like nine minutes. WTF?
Later I'm downloading something else. It counts down to one second and just kinda hovers at 1 second for about two minutes.
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I'm 100% certain programmers (or possibly computers themselves?) don't understand how time or percentages work.
I'm downloading something. In half a second it jumps to 99% and then remains there for like nine minutes. WTF?
Later I'm downloading something else. It counts down to one second and just kinda hovers at 1 second for about two minutes.
Ooooh... don't get me or Vanykrye started...
The whole concept of "startup items" led to, "Hey, if we add our program as a startup item, it'll start really quickly and won't appear to be the bloated piece of crap it is. And they'll blame Windows for it."
And not only did Microsoft allow this, they encouraged it, until Windows NT boot times hit 7-10 minutes because of all the unused programs that were getting loaded at boot time.
Progress bars have become exactly the same way. "Let's show them it hitting 100% really quickly, and then it's Windows' fault when it doesn't start right up."
Grrr...
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I did notice that shit doesn't happen on my chromebook.
Now if only the os had more game support...
Hmm. computer stuff. yes quite.
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We finally finished the House of the Beast module tonight.
(Yes, NH, I'm sending it back now.)
WW and the kids figured out a way to get the big quest item without actually fighting and killing the final monster, which will make things interesting when they eventually have to go back there in a later book.
But first we're going to take a break from dungeon crawls and chaotic evil for a little while so I can experiment with running a homebrew Ankh Morpork City Watch adventure. Hermione really wants to play Sergeant Angua, the werewolf cop.
Are you or gran allowed to go to Netflix or Hulu at work.I can, but I usually don't. Sometimes I'll watch some stuff on youtube, but generally not. That way I can seem like I give more of a s$$@ than I really do if a guest comes by.
Yeah I think I could see more complaints if I was chilling and watching tv vrs someone catching me reading a book. Usually they just make awkward conversation about the book in that case. Although one person did give me a decent recommendation.
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We finally finished the House of the Beast module tonight.
(Yes, NH, I'm sending it back now.)
WW and the kids figured out a way to get the big quest item without actually fighting and killing the final monster, which will make things interesting when they eventually have to go back there in a later book.
But first we're going to take a break from dungeon crawls and chaotic evil for a little while so I can experiment with running a homebrew Ankh Morpork City Watch adventure. Hermione really wants to play Sergeant Angua, the werewolf cop.
I personally have always wanted to play rincewind. he would be a rogue with the minor magic talent. I would go around dressed as a wizard.
I was set loose in Best Buy yesterday, and nearly walked out of the store with Ark: Survival Evolved just because the cover reminded me of Dino Riders.
Mind you I know nothing about Ark, so it could be fantastic or it could be a total letdown for all I know.
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My fiance loves that game she has been playing it since it came out and still spends a lot of her free time playing it.
and yes you get to ride dinos eventually. running around on a rex or a bronto is awesome. you can even build mobile bases on brontos.
Then I guess that I will have to buy it for the Nintendo Switch when It comes out. Skyrim is running wonderfully on it.
I suggest starting it on an easy setting (there is a lot of tuneing options to get it where you want it) The default is pretty vicious. You chain die several times in a row from random circumstances. It has a steep initial learning curve.
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How can you tell your customer is over 80 years old, other than the obvious way, like looking at them.
When you wrestle loudly getting a table top saw down from up high and he just sits there ten feet away reading the newspaper without looking up.
Only old people still read the newspaper
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In fact he still hasn't looked up.
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I don't get the tickle jokes.At game the other day I got one of the other players to break down laughing twice using two similar jokes. The best part is that each time, I told him the joke and he gave the little "Huh" pity laugh. Then I could see him start to think about it and after about 30 seconds break down laughing. The two jokes:
How do you make a squid laugh? Easy. Just give it ten tickles.
and
I got fired from a factory that made Tickle-Me-Elmos. They found out that before any of the toys left, I gave them each two test tickles.
Ten tickles = tentacles.
Test tickles = testicles.
See, I'm innocent =)
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Hello, peoples.
Hope all is well with all of you!
Hugs!
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So, many of you read my (mis)adventures with Blue Apron a while ago; our conclusion was that the meals just weren't good enough to justify having to deal with mail-order food. But the prices weren't all that bad.
Well, GothBard signed up to be a member of NPR, and we got a $95 certificate to Good Egg, another food delivery service.
Long story short: The contents of the box were top-of-the-line: Cowgirl Creamery cheese, Rustic Bakery crackers, good-quality fresh passion fruits, a Three Babes bourbon pecan pie, etc.
But...
(1) It was no better than going to Fourth Street and buying everything from the Fourth Street Market, a ludicrously-expensive upscale market for hipsters, yuppies, or whatever it is we're being called these days. (I guess we'd be ospies, not yuppies.)
(2) The $95 bought: 6 ounces of cheese, 4 ounces of crackers, 6 passion fruits, a pie, and 4 pastries.
A serious WTF!?!?!?! is in order.
We're used to ridiculous prices. We live in the Bay Area. We buy snacks at yuppie meccas. But that same order would have been $52 at the Fourth Street Market, and we would have winced. $95 is just plain, "Sorry, Good Egg, there's no way we're paying those kinds of prices for your stuff."
I guess their target audience is people even richer than us. And the scariest part of that is that here in the Bay Area, they probably have plenty to choose from.
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I made a massive Discworld conversion to Pathfinder a long time ago. I started with a base E7 ruleset, and then added a few homebrew options, mostly for flavor reasons. It included rules such as:
1) As witches gain levels they move up position in their coven, from Maiden to Mother to Crone. It's required you eventually join a coven.
2) Wizards must kill higher ranking wizards to go up in prestige. Such kills must be made entirely without magic.
3) Clerics can be of any kind of god they can make up. You pick the domains, you pick the rules, etc - there's enough small gods out there to fit whatever your need. However, you need to get other people to worship them to gain in power.
4) Barbarian women can benefit from chainmail bikinis despite their absolute lack of protection. (I take the videogames as canon, too.) They must also fight potential male suitors to the death. This makes happy marriages damnnear impossible among barbarians.
5) You use the elf stats for half-elves. Half-elf stats are people with "some elfish blood". True elves are more like the D&D eberron changelings, and they're always evil, and kill on sight for dwarves and trolls.
6) Trolls use mineral warrior stats from 3.5, but they have a weakness for fire/heat and a resistance to cold - they also get temporary boosts to intelligence if they are attacked with/experience severe cold, and intelligence damage if they take heat damage.
7) Dwarves remain exactly the same, but there are of course cultural revolutions regarding gender.
...and I had to update it as books came out, with rules for goblins, orcs, and more as Pratchett introduced them. Unfortunately, the laptop with all the details on it had the plug chewed to shreds by my dog when he was just a puppy. I've replaced that cord about 5 times over the years. I really don't want to again.
The first adventure I put together was the party joining the Watch during the first "gonne" crisis of "Men at Arms" - an alternate telling, as it were. Nobby Nobbs is your commanding officer (a human rogue with the stats of a halfling).
I could never get anyone to play, sadly. :-/
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RIP Sir Terry. You were a glorious writer.
Rowling stole your rightful place at the top of Britain with better publicists and advertising, but her quality of work was so far below yours - it was the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing one.
Not to say she was bad, but she was no Terry Pratchett.
...and all I'm left with to comfort me even close to you in your American equivalent, Christopher Moore, who barely reaches your shadow.
That's a rip off plain and simple.
I got four new rats. All male. Named them Billy, Finn, Jake and Simon.
John, Paul, George...
RIP Sir Terry. You were a glorious writer.
Rowling [b]stole your rightful place[/b] at the top of Britain with better publicists and advertising, but her quality of work was so far below yours - it was the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing one.
Not to say she was bad, but she was no Terry Pratchett.
...and all I'm left with to comfort me even close to you in your American equivalent, Christopher Moore, who barely reaches your shadow.
I more think Neil gaiman, but he said directly he didn't want to make an issue of it.
I really should've gotten a sub today.
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I made a massive Discworld conversion to Pathfinder a long time ago. I started with a base E7 ruleset, and then added a few homebrew options, mostly for flavor reasons. It included rules such as:
1) As witches gain levels they move up position in their coven, from Maiden to Mother to Crone. It's required you eventually join a coven.
2) Wizards must kill higher ranking wizards to go up in prestige. Such kills must be made entirely without magic.
3) Clerics can be of any kind of god they can make up. You pick the domains, you pick the rules, etc - there's enough small gods out there to fit whatever your need. However, you need to get other people to worship them to gain in power.
4) Barbarian women can benefit from chainmail bikinis despite their absolute lack of protection. (I take the videogames as canon, too.) They must also fight potential male suitors to the death. This makes happy marriages damnnear impossible among barbarians.
5) You use the elf stats for half-elves. Half-elf stats are people with "some elfish blood". True elves are more like the D&D eberron changelings, and they're always evil, and kill on sight for dwarves and trolls.
6) Trolls use mineral warrior stats from 3.5, but they have a weakness for fire/heat and a resistance to cold - they also get temporary boosts to intelligence if they are attacked with/experience severe cold, and intelligence damage if they take heat damage.
7) Dwarves remain exactly the same, but there are of course cultural revolutions regarding gender.
...and I had to update it as books came out, with rules for goblins, orcs, and more as Pratchett introduced them. Unfortunately, the laptop with all the details on it had the plug chewed to shreds by my dog when he was just a puppy. I've replaced that cord about 5 times over the years. I really don't want to again.
The first adventure I put together was the party joining the Watch during the first "gonne" crisis of "Men at Arms" - an alternate telling, as it were. Nobby Nobbs is your commanding...
That's really helpful. Thanks, VE!
Also, have I ever told my Christopher Moore story on this thread?
I was meeting Carl Hiaasen and Moore at a joint event in SF five years ago, so I brought my first ed. hardbound copy of Fluke for Moore to sign.
And while he's signing it, I tell him the story of how my dad died at sea, and his body was never found, and how his area of research was endangered marine species, and so reading Fluke had helped me get through his death.
And Moore slams the book closed with this horror-stricken look on his face and says, "Please forgive me and don't be offended, but I just wrote the same dumb joke I always write in your book, and under the circumstances..."
I've never laughed so hard.
He's a good guy.