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Didn't sleep well. Trying not to want to murder things.
join me, and we will rule the universe as...as...well, not father and son, but...uh...guys? Yeah. Two guys. Ruling the universe. Yeah.
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...why?
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Ah, the heartbreak of being artistic.
As many of you know, once Impus Major was born GothBard lasted all of 3 months at her former job before we realized that she just wasn't making enough money for us to afford a nanny or daycare, so she quit work to take care of the kids for 8 years. And she did an amazing amount of stuff: Volunteering at the school and on field trips, taking them out to parks and museums...
...and hand-making their Halloween costumes for the first few years of their lives.
So imagine the heartbreak of being unable to donate old Halloween costumes (especially handmade ones, since they don't satisfy safety requirements for visibility or fireproofness) and not wanting to store them forever for no reason.
The little furry 30" tall minotaur is just adorable, but will never be used again by anyone.
Getting older and trying to declutter your life feels great, but does have some emotional twangs attached...
EDIT: And these aren't Etsy-quality costumes, either. They're just cute little outfits sewn together and paper mached by GothBard. I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"
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Ugh! I think it is time to put my head back into the sand again. I just finished listening to the podcast "It could happen here" by Robert Evans. A very scary podcast because it is very possible unless we stop it.
Suggested remedy: everyone commit to getting at least 100 people out to vote.
Ah, the heartbreak of being artistic.
As many of you know, once Impus Major was born GothBard lasted all of 3 months at her former job before we realized that she just wasn't making enough money for us to afford a nanny or daycare, so she quit work to take care of the kids for 8 years. And she did an amazing amount of stuff: Volunteering at the school and on field trips, taking them out to parks and museums...
...and hand-making their Halloween costumes for the first few years of their lives.So imagine the heartbreak of being unable to donate old Halloween costumes (especially handmade ones, since they don't satisfy safety requirements for visibility or fireproofness) and not wanting to store them forever for no reason.
The little furry 30" tall minotaur is just adorable, but will never be used again by anyone.
Getting older and trying to declutter your life feels great, but does have some emotional twangs attached...
EDIT: And these aren't Etsy-quality costumes, either. They're just cute little outfits sewn together and paper mached by GothBard. I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"
Perhaps it's time to turn them into something else?
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I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"
Taxidermy!
If people can stuff dead pets, you can stuff little costumes and place them around your home as artistic touches.
I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"Taxidermy!
If people can stuff dead pets, you can stuff little costumes and place them around your home as artistic touches.
i didn't even think about that when I said to turn it into something else.
That's amazing. I'd like to see pictures, if she does do that.
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I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"Taxidermy!
If people can stuff dead pets, you can stuff little costumes and place them around your home as artistic touches.
That is, quite simply, as brilliant as it is terrifying...
EDIT: "Look, Impii! We've created little mummified versions of you so we can remember you when you're gone!"
"You mean when we've moved out?"
"Who said anything about moving out?"
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This happened yesterday...
CenturyLink, a major backbone provider of the internet in the US, had an issue where some addresses weren't routing properly for roughly half the US. Two of those addresses were my company VPN addresses, so a lot of our remote employees couldn't get in for a while yesterday.
The CIO, the head of network, my boss, and myself had to spend over two hours on a Sunday explaining to the rest of the company that no, this is not our fault and no, there isn't anything we can realistically do about it before CenturyLink finally publicly said "Yeah, we have an issue here, but we fixed it!"
I'm 100% certain that scene played out at countless companies across the US.
The part that pisses me off the most though?
"Well, how do you know it's not an issue on our end?" For the fifth time. And again 15 minutes later.
Because, and I'm not saying we're perfect and we never make mistakes, but I am saying, ya know, this is our job. This is what we do every day. And we've told you that we have people on the West Coast that are having no issues, therefore it's up on our end. No, really, it's up. We're telling you it's up...no, it's still up. Yeah, I know your people in the eastern half of the US can't connect to it, but that's due to an issue that's out of our control. What we can control is working...and it's still up...no, not relevant...
It's a good thing our IT department is full of non-Christians, because otherwise we'd have all been at church and completely unavailable to submit to your repetitive questions.
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I'm sorry. That sounds truly awful.
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This happened yesterday...
CenturyLink, a major backbone provider of the internet in the US, had an issue where some addresses weren't routing properly for roughly half the US. Two of those addresses were my company VPN addresses, so a lot of our remote employees couldn't get in for a while yesterday.
The CIO, the head of network, my boss, and myself had to spend over two hours on a Sunday explaining to the rest of the company that no, this is not our fault and no, there isn't anything we can realistically do about it before CenturyLink finally publicly said "Yeah, we have an issue here, but we fixed it!"
I'm 100% certain that scene played out at countless companies across the US.
The part that pisses me off the most though?
"Well, how do you know it's not an issue on our end?" For the fifth time. And again 15 minutes later.
Because, and I'm not saying we're perfect and we never make mistakes, but I am saying, ya know, this is our job. This is what we do every day. And we've told you that we have people on the West Coast that are having no issues, therefore it's up on our end. No, really, it's up. We're telling you it's up...no, it's still up. Yeah, I know your people in the eastern half of the US can't connect to it, but that's due to an issue that's out of our control. What we can control is working...and it's still up...no, not relevant...
It's a good thing our IT department is full of non-Christians, because otherwise we'd have all been at church and completely unavailable to submit to your repetitive questions.
Oh man, that was your fault?!
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Shiro shared this with us today. Too accurate to be funny...
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Shiro shared this with us today. Too accurate to be funny...
Everyone knows the Titanic was staged to cover up for the Kennedy assassination.
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I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"Taxidermy!
If people can stuff dead pets, you can stuff little costumes and place them around your home as artistic touches.
That is, quite simply, as brilliant as it is terrifying...
EDIT: "Look, Impii! We've created little mummified versions of you so we can remember you when you're gone!"
"You mean when we've moved out?"
"Who said anything about moving out?"
You can start your very own sister city to Nagoro, Japan.
"Hey, Bim, guess what?"
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Shiro shared this with us today. Too accurate to be funny...
Awwww. people who are not on facebook finally discovered that one?
:P
This year it was used again in context of the pandemics and general state of affairs.
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Shiro shared this with us today. Too accurate to be funny...
Awwww. people who are not on facebook finally discovered that one?
:P
** spoiler omitted **
me.
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Shiro shared this with us today. Too accurate to be funny...
Awwww. people who are not on facebook finally discovered that one?
:P
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So, Shiro just texted me the picture and I had to Google it and found the vast assortment of variations on the theme. But really, Shiro's encapsulated the general U.S. attitude so succinctly that I felt it was best.
Some had more words. Some were angrier. Some more political. This one was just brief enough and perfect enough to strike a chord with me.
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Back in the 90s as a kid/teen, I was under the mistaken assumption that all D&D supplements were part of some cohesive whole, that there was an overarching vision of the D&D multiverse, and so of course I had to have them all.Its old DC RPGs for me. Terrible system, but perfectly researched each character and their powers and flaws.Palladium Books RPGs for me, I can't help myself.Sort of true, if you buy into the idea that every multiverse, somewhere, connects to the city of Sigil in Planescape somehow.
I once had a team go from Forgotten Realms to Dragonlance by traveling through there.
Looove Planescape, even the faux-London slang. They did as well as could be done in tying other settings into one multiverse, but there were details that inevitably conflicted. And then there was that one creature from a completely different multiverse that made my left eye twitch. (The Keepers?)
But overall great setting! DiTerlizzi was the high point of D&D artwork, IMO.
This happened yesterday...
CenturyLink, a major backbone provider of the internet in the US, had an issue where some addresses weren't routing properly for roughly half the US. Two of those addresses were my company VPN addresses, so a lot of our remote employees couldn't get in for a while yesterday.
The CIO, the head of network, my boss, and myself had to spend over two hours on a Sunday explaining to the rest of the company that no, this is not our fault and no, there isn't anything we can realistically do about it before CenturyLink finally publicly said "Yeah, we have an issue here, but we fixed it!"
I'm 100% certain that scene played out at countless companies across the US.
The part that pisses me off the most though?
"Well, how do you know it's not an issue on our end?" For the fifth time. And again 15 minutes later.
Because, and I'm not saying we're perfect and we never make mistakes, but I am saying, ya know, this is our job. This is what we do every day. And we've told you that we have people on the West Coast that are having no issues, therefore it's up on our end. No, really, it's up. We're telling you it's up...no, it's still up. Yeah, I know your people in the eastern half of the US can't connect to it, but that's due to an issue that's out of our control. What we can control is working...and it's still up...no, not relevant...
It's a good thing our IT department is full of non-Christians, because otherwise we'd have all been at church and completely unavailable to submit to your repetitive questions.
Oh, so that's why the internet was down for like...half a day...for everyone in my neighborhood.
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Back in the 90s as a kid/teen, I was under the mistaken assumption that all D&D supplements were part of some cohesive whole, that there was an overarching vision of the D&D multiverse, and so of course I had to have them all.Its old DC RPGs for me. Terrible system, but perfectly researched each character and their powers and flaws.Palladium Books RPGs for me, I can't help myself.Sort of true, if you buy into the idea that every multiverse, somewhere, connects to the city of Sigil in Planescape somehow.
I once had a team go from Forgotten Realms to Dragonlance by traveling through there.
Looove Planescape, even the faux-London slang. They did as well as could be done in tying other settings into one multiverse, but there were details that inevitably conflicted. And then there was that one creature from a completely different multiverse that made my left eye twitch. (The Keepers?)
But overall great setting! DiTerlizzi was the high point of D&D artwork, IMO.
DITERLIZZI ART WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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More CenturyLink f!ckeryOh, so that's why the internet was down for like...half a day...for everyone in my neighborhood.
Um, yeeeeaaaah? Let's go with that, sure. {goes back to backhoe-ing deeper toward VE's neighborhood's water main}
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Oh man, that was your fault?!This happened yesterday...
CenturyLink, a major backbone provider of the internet in the US, had an issue where some addresses weren't routing properly for roughly half the US. Two of those addresses were my company VPN addresses, so a lot of our remote employees couldn't get in for a while yesterday.
The CIO, the head of network, my boss, and myself had to spend over two hours on a Sunday explaining to the rest of the company that no, this is not our fault and no, there isn't anything we can realistically do about it before CenturyLink finally publicly said "Yeah, we have an issue here, but we fixed it!"
I'm 100% certain that scene played out at countless companies across the US.
The part that pisses me off the most though?
"Well, how do you know it's not an issue on our end?" For the fifth time. And again 15 minutes later.
Because, and I'm not saying we're perfect and we never make mistakes, but I am saying, ya know, this is our job. This is what we do every day. And we've told you that we have people on the West Coast that are having no issues, therefore it's up on our end. No, really, it's up. We're telling you it's up...no, it's still up. Yeah, I know your people in the eastern half of the US can't connect to it, but that's due to an issue that's out of our control. What we can control is working...and it's still up...no, not relevant...
It's a good thing our IT department is full of non-Christians, because otherwise we'd have all been at church and completely unavailable to submit to your repetitive questions.
Oh, it was totally my fault, but that's not something you cop to on a conference call on a weekend with the CIO on the line...
Wait.
No...that wasn't me.
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~bangs my head against the wall a few times~ Don't ask for my advice if you are not going to take it. It makes me feel like I am wasting my time and effort.
Ugh! I think it is time to put my head back into the sand again. I just finished listening to the podcast "It could happen here" by Robert Evans. A very scary podcast because it is very possible unless we stop it.** spoiler omitted **
I don't even know 100 people.
Oh, so that's why the internet was down for like...half a day...for everyone in my neighborhood.This happened yesterday...
CenturyLink, a major backbone provider of the internet in the US, had an issue where some addresses weren't routing properly for roughly half the US. Two of those addresses were my company VPN addresses, so a lot of our remote employees couldn't get in for a while yesterday.
The CIO, the head of network, my boss, and myself had to spend over two hours on a Sunday explaining to the rest of the company that no, this is not our fault and no, there isn't anything we can realistically do about it before CenturyLink finally publicly said "Yeah, we have an issue here, but we fixed it!"
I'm 100% certain that scene played out at countless companies across the US.
The part that pisses me off the most though?
"Well, how do you know it's not an issue on our end?" For the fifth time. And again 15 minutes later.
Because, and I'm not saying we're perfect and we never make mistakes, but I am saying, ya know, this is our job. This is what we do every day. And we've told you that we have people on the West Coast that are having no issues, therefore it's up on our end. No, really, it's up. We're telling you it's up...no, it's still up. Yeah, I know your people in the eastern half of the US can't connect to it, but that's due to an issue that's out of our control. What we can control is working...and it's still up...no, not relevant...
It's a good thing our IT department is full of non-Christians, because otherwise we'd have all been at church and completely unavailable to submit to your repetitive questions.
At least I wasn't the only one having internet problems.
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~bangs my head against the wall a few times~ Don't ask for my advice if you are not going to take it. It makes me feel like I am wasting my time and effort.
Your describing my whole life right now.
I don't even know 100 people.Ugh! I think it is time to put my head back into the sand again. I just finished listening to the podcast "It could happen here" by Robert Evans. A very scary podcast because it is very possible unless we stop it.** spoiler omitted **
If you count captain aliases as people you could probably hit into the thousands.
My daughter and I had a heated argument today. Eventually she screamed "Yeah? Well, Jim Morrison is OVERRATED!!!" I said "What did I tell you about slamming The Doors!?!"
Need to teach her to appreciate Densmoore
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How much invading reader's privacy and stealing their data is ingrained in US business?
They'd rather block EU visitors than, gods forbid, not steal the data:
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I think even it we put them on eBay for $5 each the buyers would be dissatisfied. So it's far more the emotional attachment than, "These are still perfectly good costumes!"Taxidermy!
If people can stuff dead pets, you can stuff little costumes and place them around your home as artistic touches.
That is, quite simply, as brilliant as it is terrifying...
EDIT: "Look, Impii! We've created little mummified versions of you so we can remember you when you're gone!"
"You mean when we've moved out?"
"Who said anything about moving out?"
I bet the Impii will play along with that splendidly.
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How much is invading reader's privacy and stealing their data is ingrained in US business?
They'd rather block EU visitors than, gods forbid, not steal the data:
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YAAR! Why would ye not be wantin' us ta steal yer data?
AAARRRRR wait their be data stealin to be had?
YAAR! Um, nay!! Tha Polished Red Dargon be sayin' tha he nay be wantin' his data ta be stolen without his persimmons. Wha' kind o' madness be that?
AAAARRR, aye! Madness indeed, But what pirate be wait'n around for permission! YAaarrr!
YAAR! So ye be sayin' tha' we're tha "opt-out" kind o' pirates, than? Where we be allowed ta board their ships on account o' them not fillin' oot tha form tha' says tha' we cain't be takin' their things?
Yaaarr! see ye got to be look'n at those sorts of papers and what have ye as more like "guide lines." A honest pirate has got to make a liv'n one way or another... yaaarrr.
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Why steal the data when you can BURN THE WORLD DOWN?!?
Why burn the world down when you can rule it with a iron fist?
