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Man, it's good to be the grognard.
Got a question from one of our more helpful product managers. I don't know the answer.
So I just harassed a senior director who owes me so many favors it's terrifying.
"Here you go. I don't care how busy you are. Answer this, please."
And I can get away with it.
EDIT: Plus, pants are optional!
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I can go fencing again!
I have gone fencing again!
I am sweaty and achey!
I broke a knife!
Whoopee!
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Man, it's good to be the grognard.
Got a question from one of our more helpful product managers. I don't know the answer.
So I just harassed a senior director who owes me so many favors it's terrifying.
"Here you go. I don't care how busy you are. Answer this, please."
And I can get away with it.
EDIT: Plus, pants are optional!
I *was* the grognard. Now I'm going to be the FNG again. *sigh*
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Oh, and how do I know the Calico isn't nearly as close to death's door as I thought?
We drugged her and took away her food at 9:00 pm last night. This morning she'd gone up onto the counter, dragged an empty can of cat food onto the kitchen floor, and was banging it around like an extra in a Grade B prison escape movie.
We drugged her again at 7:30 am this morning and took her in to the vet as ordered.
They called within an hour requesting permission to put her on something "significantly stronger".
The Hate runs deep in that one, it does.
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I *was* the grognard. Now I'm going to be the FNG again. *sigh*Man, it's good to be the grognard.
Got a question from one of our more helpful product managers. I don't know the answer.
So I just harassed a senior director who owes me so many favors it's terrifying.
"Here you go. I don't care how busy you are. Answer this, please."
And I can get away with it.
EDIT: Plus, pants are optional!
Get back to work, Ron!
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The Boss (to the new guy): This is Yesterday!
New Guy: Huh, I thought you'd be taller!
Me: So did I.
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Sigh. So our [lengthy string of expletived redacted] governor just made life a whole lot harder. I'm running out of curse words sufficiently vitriolic to adequately express my feelings.
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Sigh. So our [lengthy string of expletived redacted] governor just made life a whole lot harder. I'm running out of curse words sufficiently vitriolic to adequately express my feelings.
I had to look it up, but holy carp.
At what point does it become cheaper to come back to California?
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Sigh. So our [lengthy string of expletived redacted] governor just made life a whole lot harder. I'm running out of curse words sufficiently vitriolic to adequately express my feelings.I had to look it up, but holy carp.
At what point does it become cheaper to come back to California?
Lol. Even with 1200/month less in household income, we're still going to be doing better than we were in California.
At least here I make enough teaching that we're not on food stamps. That was pretty humiliating.
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Sigh. So our [lengthy string of expletived redacted] governor just made life a whole lot harder. I'm running out of curse words sufficiently vitriolic to adequately express my feelings.I had to look it up, but holy carp.
At what point does it become cheaper to come back to California?
Lol. Even with 1200/month less in household income, we're still going to be doing better than we were in California.
At least here I make enough teaching that we're not on food stamps. That was pretty humiliating.
When I am elected God-King, there are a few changes I'll be making in the world(s). One of them is that no dedicated teacher (certain qualifications would have to be met, not all of them will be totally objective because GOD-KING THAT'S WHY) would be having to worry about money. Might not have money that you can just light on fire on a whim, but you also wouldn't have to worry about paying the usual bills and feeding the family, and there'd be a little left over so that life is simply "comfortable".
I've heard/read enough to know that you more than meet those qualifications.
Scint, that goes for you too.
NH, you would have been on the list but you sold your soul to the Corporate Devil, so you're just on your own. Oh...wait...um...yes. Carry on.
oh. It. Is. ON.You guys listen to weird music.Amatuer. :V
Ahem.
(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)
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New guy used to help install power lines but didn't run heavy equipment. Interesting.
Also, I've already forgotten his name, John?... Red?... Rollo?... Ron?...
If he makes it a week I suppose I'll have to ask him his name again. Or not.
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Started watching The Boys on Prime TV. Much better than I expected.
The anti-capitalist message is pretty blatant considering it's from the company founded by the on again off again richest man in the world. I enjoy that irony.
Seriously, though, good writing. Dynamic complex multidimensional characters on both sides of the struggle.
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It's always fun living with Impus Major.
This morning's entertainment? His musings on a survey of Americans and what animals they can defeat in unarmed one-on-one combat.
Rat: 72%. Impus Major was astonished that 28% of Americans do not believe that they could defeat a rat in unarmed combat.
Elephant: 8%. Yes. 8% of Americans say they can take out an elephant in unarmed combat.
Grizzly Bear: 6%. Leading to Impus Major's pertinent question: "What kind of chad says he can take out an elephant in unarmed combat, but then says, 'Grizzly bear? No way!'"
Utterly delightful waking up in the morning and being exposed to this nonsense. Especially considering that Impus Major was up until around 2:45 am last night (he woke us up singing in the shower at 2:30 in the morning) and then got up at 7:00 am.
Yep. He's a little loopy. It's hilarious.
Even worse, so far all of the tests on the Calico have come back negative, so $1000 down the tubes so far, and an $800 ultrasound today, and we had to drug the living daylights out of her last night and this morning to get her prepped. So loopy boy. Loopy Calico. What can possibly go wrong?
Well, tell poor Calico that he has a friend in Mephisto who had to go in today to have a tooth removed.
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It's always fun living with Impus Major.
This morning's entertainment? His musings on a survey of Americans and what animals they can defeat in unarmed one-on-one combat.
Rat: 72%. Impus Major was astonished that 28% of Americans do not believe that they could defeat a rat in unarmed combat.
Elephant: 8%. Yes. 8% of Americans say they can take out an elephant in unarmed combat.
Grizzly Bear: 6%. Leading to Impus Major's pertinent question: "What kind of chad says he can take out an elephant in unarmed combat, but then says, 'Grizzly bear? No way!'"
Utterly delightful waking up in the morning and being exposed to this nonsense. Especially considering that Impus Major was up until around 2:45 am last night (he woke us up singing in the shower at 2:30 in the morning) and then got up at 7:00 am.
Yep. He's a little loopy. It's hilarious.
Even worse, so far all of the tests on the Calico have come back negative, so $1000 down the tubes so far, and an $800 ultrasound today, and we had to drug the living daylights out of her last night and this morning to get her prepped. So loopy boy. Loopy Calico. What can possibly go wrong?
Well, tell poor Calico that he has a friend in Mephisto who had to go in today to have a tooth removed.
Poor Mephisto now has 7 teeth left.
Ouch.
Well, the ultrasound revealed that her small intestines are inflamed, explaining their inability to absorb nutrients. So she can eat all she wants and still lose weight. There are humans who would kill for such an ailment, but probably not many 70+-year-olds. (She's 15, so over 70 in human years.)
The two most likely possibilities are:
- Irritable bowel syndrome: Just give her steroids
- Small cell lymphoma: Steroids + chemotherapy
Since her lymph nodes aren't enlarged, IBS is the more likely culprit so we decided to go with the less-debilitating option of putting our angry, hate-filled Calico on steroids.
What can possibly go wrong?
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That's how the Thundercats were created.
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Mattel will take back your old toys that are in such bad shape that no one else wants them
Fortunately, Mattel will now take them off your hands through its new “PlayBack” program, which is designed to recover and reuse materials found in the toys for use in future Mattel products. That old Ken doll (who is missing a foot, thanks to the family dog) is made of materials that can be repurposed into new toys for kids to enjoy, so you can feel good that his essence will continue to bring joy to others in a fresh form. Likewise, if your kids have destroyed their own more modern versions of these classic toys with the same gusto that you once did, you can offload them without a shred of environmental guilt.
For now, the program is only available in the United States and Canada, and only the Barbie, Matchbox, and MEGA brands of toys are being accepted, [/url]
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This weekend marked Sophie's discovery that she could, in fact, just eat out of the bag and Orthos'/my discovery of her with her head fully in said bag, tail wagging, and living her best life.
We've since moved the food bag into a plastic bin. She is disappoint.
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This weekend marked Sophie's discovery that she could, in fact, just eat out of the bag and Orthos'/my discovery of her with her head fully in said bag, tail wagging, and living her best life.
We've since moved the food bag into a plastic bin. She is disappoint.
Our old housemate's collies discovered that, if they all got under my feet to roughhouse while I was emptying the food into the plastic bin, it was party time.
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oh. It. Is. ON.You guys listen to weird music.Amatuer. :VAhem.
(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)
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This weekend marked Sophie's discovery that she could, in fact, just eat out of the bag and Orthos'/my discovery of her with her head fully in said bag, tail wagging, and living her best life.
We've since moved the food bag into a plastic bin. She is disappoint.
Tell me she looked at you guys like "But, why?" when you tried to separate her from the food.
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Sigh. So our [lengthy string of expletived redacted] governor just made life a whole lot harder. I'm running out of curse words sufficiently vitriolic to adequately express my feelings.I had to look it up, but holy carp.
At what point does it become cheaper to come back to California?
Lol. Even with 1200/month less in household income, we're still going to be doing better than we were in California.
At least here I make enough teaching that we're not on food stamps. That was pretty humiliating.
When I am elected God-King, there are a few changes I'll be making in the world(s). One of them is that no dedicated teacher (certain qualifications would have to be met, not all of them will be totally objective because GOD-KING THAT'S WHY) would be having to worry about money. Might not have money that you can just light on fire on a whim, but you also wouldn't have to worry about paying the usual bills and feeding the family, and there'd be a little left over so that life is simply "comfortable".
I've heard/read enough to know that you more than meet those qualifications.
Scint, that goes for you too.
NH, you would have been on the list but you sold your soul to the Corporate Devil, so you're just on your own. Oh...wait...um...yes. Carry on.
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Tell me she looked at you guys like "But, why?" when you tried to separate her from the food.This weekend marked Sophie's discovery that she could, in fact, just eat out of the bag and Orthos'/my discovery of her with her head fully in said bag, tail wagging, and living her best life.
We've since moved the food bag into a plastic bin. She is disappoint.
Nope. She rabbited off as soon as she realized I was there. She knew better.
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I know I've mentioned it a couple of times previously, but this morning GothBard amused me when she said, "I don't think we should stop wearing masks just yet..."
As I told her:
- No sick days in 14 months, as opposed to 14-16 sick days per year for the last 10 years
- The lightest hay fever I've had in 20 years.
Unless there's a "no wearing masks in public" mandate (I'm looking at you, Florida and Texas), I'm happily keeping my face covering, thanks.
Last night being able to sit in the living room with the kids and two guests, all unmasked, was extraordinarily pleasant. But going out among the general public unmasked? No thanks.
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I worked long enough in retail to know I'm keeping my mask on.
If you're willing to lie to me about an expired coupon to save 10 cents on toothpaste, you're willing to lie to me about exposure to a disease.
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I worked long enough in retail to know I'm keeping my mask on.
If you're willing to lie to me about an expired coupon to save 10 cents on toothpaste, you're willing to lie to me about exposure to a disease.
I had plans for that dime, you see.
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I'm at a loss to understand the mentality of modern school boards.
Educational research points to 20 minutes as being about the limit of being able to pay attention to a speaker non-interactively; there's a reason Ted talks are uniformly about that length. With a lot of interactivity and working the crowd you can typically double that to 40 minutes. Hence the 50-minute school period: 10 minutes to let the kids settle in, take roll, and get started, and then hopefully 40 minutes of lecture, and you can count on the kids absorbing maybe half of it.
In college you get labs and workshops that last 90-120 minutes, but they're all hands-on; there's no lecture involved. I ran Tuesday calculus sessions as a grad student where students got to do group work and work with me on problems for 90 minutes, but no lecturing.
The school board just released next year's class schedule, where every class has one 50-minute period and two 95-minute periods per week. Most teachers lecture for the full 95 minutes for both periods, indicating that neither the school board nor the teachers have any concept of knowledge retention.
Sadness.
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And I'll tip my hat to Impus Minor's English teacher yet again. 15 minutes of, "Here's what I expect you to get done this period. Here are your resources. Let me know if you need me to set up a breakout room where you can work with your friends. I'm here if you need me." Then 60 minutes of letting the kids work. (And it's honestly half an hour's worth of work, but she knows kids.) Then 20 minutes of, "OK, let's go over what you've done and learned."
Really solid teacher who DOES understand how to run a 95-minute period.
(Impus Minor's math teacher gets a C. He does break up the class with breaks to do problems, but doesn't manage them well. Impus Minor's physics teacher gets an F. 95 minutes of solid lecture at least one of the two sessions every week.)
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I worked long enough in retail to know I'm keeping my mask on.
If you're willing to lie to me about an expired coupon to save 10 cents on toothpaste, you're willing to lie to me about exposure to a disease.
I assume you mean five minutes.
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My Legend Of Five Rings Criminal Scene Investigations: The Second City game might reactivate soon. With some new players. After three year long hiatus.
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Well, tonight the massive battle begins, and given the choices between:
(1) Hitting the players with a clue hammer,
(2) TPK'ing the players,
(3) or rescuing the players with a Mary Sue,
I've chosen option (1): A survivor of another attack (which I had to make up and justify, considering it's supposed to be a "secret" army) is going to come and describe the army's standard tactics.
Which are pretty much the standard tactics of every marauding army in the last couple thousand years, but apparently my players disagree.
So. Surround the building with archers. Light the building on fire. Shoot anyone who comes out. Wait for the fire to collapse everything, then poke around in the rubble to make sure no one survived. Done, at minimal risk to selves.
The kids somehow think that the army is going to come running headlong as a single bloc at the building (under arrow fire the entire way), fall into the trenches and pits they've dug one after another, hear the Ghost Sound of people inside and march the entire army inside the building, and then the kids will lock them in and burn it down.
I find it rather ironic that, "Lock everyone in the building and burn it down," is their solution to how they're going to win, yet they haven't yet even considered that the army might be planning the same thing.
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My Legend Of Five Rings Criminal Scene Investigations: The Second City game might reactivate soon. With some new players. After three year long hiatus.
FOR THE SPIDER
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How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?
I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.
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How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?
I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.
Introduce him to Pink Floyd.
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Introduce him to Pink Floyd.How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?
I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.
Sharoth gets cookies.
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Well, the clue hammer worked and the kids are doing something sensible, but not before first spending half an hour thinking about ways they could still stay in the building and let themselves get surrounded by the entire army.
GothBard recognized the clue hammer for what it was and wasn't happy with the outcome, but it got the kids out of the, "We're going to sit at ground zero and wait to be surrounded," mentality, which is what I needed.
Should be an easy fight for them from here on out.
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How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?
I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.
I'm proud of him. Conditionally. Which album?
;)
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One of NobodysHome's Major Pet Peeves: People who use tried-and-true phrases incorrectly to the point that they no longer serve the purpose they're supposed to.
Today's Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
This is a short sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet: A 35-letter sentence that uses all 26 letters. (And yes, I've even read up on attempts at other sentences that try to do it in fewer letters, but this one is still the most memorable.)
The sheer number of times this is put in the past tense ("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") drives me to distraction. Not only is it one letter longer, but WHERE'S THE S?!?!?!?!?!
There are others that annoy me ("I could care less." "Oh, really? So you do care?"), but this one is a simple check of all the letters in the alphabet (really important when buying an old-school typewriter) that people have started misusing so that it no longer serves its original purpose.
Grr...
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One of NobodysHome's Major Pet Peeves: People who use tried-and-true phrases incorrectly to the point that they no longer serve the purpose they're supposed to.
Today's Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
This is a short sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet: A 35-letter sentence that uses all 26 letters. (And yes, I've even read up on attempts at other sentences that try to do it in fewer letters, but this one is still the most memorable.)
The sheer number of times this is put in the past tense ("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") drives me to distraction. Not only is it one letter longer, but WHERE'S THE S?!?!?!?!?!
There are others that annoy me ("I could care less." "Oh, really? So you do care?"), but this one is a simple check of all the letters in the alphabet (really important when buying an old-school typewriter) that people have started misusing so that it no longer serves its original purpose.
Grr...
Squirrel?!!
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How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?
I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.
I'll try to introduce him to the works of Ichiro Mizuki, so he grows up fighting evil AND loving awesome music.