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On the other hand, being confidently and loudly wrong is a time-honored American tradition...Grumpy Old NobodysHome's Tirades Of The Day™:
** spoiler omitted **
** spoiler omitted **...'I could care less' is a US thing (I had it in mind that it was a translation of a Yiddish phrase, but maybe not) - we say 'I couldn't care less'.
"I could care less" is NOT a U.S. thing! It's people saying it WRONG! Or sarcastically, as the case may be.
Whoa now! Them's fightin' words! I did nothing wrong! I did everything correctly!!
Whoa now! Them's fightin' words! I did nothing wrong! I did everything correctly!!On the other hand, being confidently and loudly wrong is a time-honored American tradition...Grumpy Old NobodysHome's Tirades Of The Day™:
** spoiler omitted **
** spoiler omitted **...'I could care less' is a US thing (I had it in mind that it was a translation of a Yiddish phrase, but maybe not) - we say 'I couldn't care less'.
"I could care less" is NOT a U.S. thing! It's people saying it WRONG! Or sarcastically, as the case may be.
Hmm... yes... I see that...
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Hmm... yes... I see that...Whoa now! Them's fightin' words! I did nothing wrong! I did everything correctly!!On the other hand, being confidently and loudly wrong is a time-honored American tradition...Grumpy Old NobodysHome's Tirades Of The Day™:
** spoiler omitted **
** spoiler omitted **...'I could care less' is a US thing (I had it in mind that it was a translation of a Yiddish phrase, but maybe not) - we say 'I couldn't care less'.
"I could care less" is NOT a U.S. thing! It's people saying it WRONG! Or sarcastically, as the case may be.
It's very humid out.
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I swear, if I have to listen to another tech billionaire insisting that self-driving cars will be available within 12 months...
(For the record, Elon Musk first said in 2013 that self-driving cars would be available by 2016 and he's been making similar promises ever since. This was a different tech billionaire now insisting that AI would suddenly make self-driving cars practical within the year. I've seen AI at work on technical issues. No, no it won't.)
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They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.
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They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.
We had to get a Lyft home from the airport at 3:00 am on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
To my utter astonishment, the driver was as careful and conscientious a driver as I am. I could not have asked for a better, safer ride home.
So of course Lyft wouldn't let me rate him. Because giving drivers who deserve it 5/5 ratings isn't done.
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They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.
Trained ones or the untrained and bored ones?
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Or possibly just people from Newfoundland.
Blabladors?
They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.
I don't know, from what I've seen, drivers in the Midwest (excluding Chicago, of course) set a pretty high bar for quality.
Today at work, a bird s#*$ on my head, so I've got that going for me.
They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.I don't know, from what I've seen, drivers in the Midwest (excluding Chicago, of course) set a pretty high bar for quality.
There's nothing out there to hit and the road goes in a straight line so.. how hard is that? :)
Come to ny. follow the cow paths.
There’s more than one reason to wear a hat when one goes outdoors.
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They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.I don't know, from what I've seen, drivers in the Midwest (excluding Chicago, of course) set a pretty high bar for quality.There's nothing out there to hit and the road goes in a straight line so.. how hard is that? :)
Come to ny. follow the cow paths.
OK, I have feelings on this-- New York and Iowa are very different species of road systems.
Iowa basically a wavy hexagon overlaid with a grid, but once you go deeper than that, it begins to drive you insane. Take, for example, the Des Moines metro area. In principle, it's just a big grid, but actually navigating it is like trying to get from point A to point B in Sigil, City of Doors. A perfectly straight section of road will have three or four different street names depending on what part of the city you're in. Another road will have sections that are one-way in opposite directions, and still another will stop for a mile or two, then pick back up on the other side of town with the same street name and no indication that it's not a through street. Add to the fact that every part of town has the same three gas stations, the same beige and white buildings, no landmarks whatsoever, and your perfectly navigable grid becomes a maddening maze.
Upstate New York (where I lived for thirty years) is a big spiky blob overlaid with a rat's nest of roads that look like they were drawn onto the map by a three-year-old on crack. A road that would be a straightforward east-west route anywhere else, in New York becomes a meandering journey into darkness that's sometimes a four-lane highway, sometimes a two-lane road, and sometimes an unmarked strip of blacktop (if you're lucky) surrounded by impenetrable forest. I've tried to explain, with little success, to the local Midwesterners some of the Lovecraftian horrors of the New York road system, such as the dreaded Lake Ontario State Parkway (it starts on the outskirts of Rochester, goes along the lake for about 30 miles, then just... stops), the unspeakable Interstate 690 (which exists entirely within the boundaries of one state, and turns into NYS Route 690 after only fourteen miles, which only goes for six miles and is signed east-west, even though it runs north-south...), not to mention the devilish State Route 22, which is not to be confused with State Route 22A, and if you miss one small junction, you're going to end up on the wrong side of Lake Champlain and in a different state...
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"why didn't you stay on route XX
"Because it turned and I didn't.
Today at work, a bird s#*& on my head, so I've got that going for me.
That means good luck!
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Today at work, a bird s#&% on my head, so I've got that going for me.That means good luck!
Possibly.
On the other hand, it happened to me at a friend's funeral once. We released doves outside the church afterwards (her husband's idea; she'd lost a hard battle with cancer). The dove I had been holding circled overhead once and opened the bomb bay doors.I was absolutely certain that Barbara had done this deliberately.
They only have to be better than human drivers and I've seen Labradors that could meet that standard.I don't know, from what I've seen, drivers in the Midwest (excluding Chicago, of course) set a pretty high bar for quality.There's nothing out there to hit and the road goes in a straight line so.. how hard is that? :)
Come to ny. follow the cow paths.
OK, I have feelings on this-- New York and Iowa are very different species of road systems.
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I think it's the whole idea of "hills". Your description of New York perfectly matches any area of California that has hills over 500' tall or any forests to speak of. Lacking hills or forests, your description of Iowa roads sounds like Sacramento or Stockton in the Central Valley.
Choose your terrain and it will give you your own personal version of Road Navigation Hell.
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What I learned last night:
(1) There are no size rules for grappling.
(2) A CR13 froghemoth is no match for an 11th-level cad.
It was a silly, silly fight, with the froghemoth quickly pinned while grappling the barboracle and the cad in a giant pile of stupid.
The players loved it.
What is the cad?
It's a fighter archetype that specializes in dirty tricks, so you focus on a long chain of feats to increase your CMB through the moon.
It's... obscene what he can do 1-on-1 to pretty much any creature.
He doesn't do damage; he ensures they're helpless to damage anyone else.
And the challenge gauntlet has been thrown: My family is so amazing at losing cables of all types that in spite of a yearlong campaign of buying two new cables every time they say they can't find one, we still somehow ran out of USB-A to USB-C cables last week. (And for the record, none of them ever leave the house with a cable, so they're not leaving them somewhere else; they're losing them somewhere within these walls.)
So I just ordered another half dozen and put them in the cable drawer.
Will it finally solve the missing cable issue, or in 2 months will I be ordering more?
And, when we finally move out of this house, just how many cables are we going to find?
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And, when we finally move out of this house, just how many cables are we going to find?
Imagines a squirrel nest made out of cables with the little tree rodents sitting around watching their own Ipads...
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"One thing I love to do is shove a rabbit in someone's arms, it's magical!" - Crookshanks.
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Imagines a squirrel nest made out of cables with the little tree rodents sitting around watching their own Ipads...And, when we finally move out of this house, just how many cables are we going to find?
Baby raccoons were my first suspect.
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Crows nests, m$*!#@#&~$&$s steal everything.
What I learned last night:
(1) There are no size rules for grappling.
(2) A CR13 froghemoth is no match for an 11th-level cad.It was a silly, silly fight, with the froghemoth quickly pinned while grappling the barboracle and the cad in a giant pile of stupid.
The players loved it.
Now, I understand that our game is not a hyper-realistic combat sim (nor should it be), but that stretches credulity a bit. If you are going to put a half-Nelson on something the size of a large van, you should at least provide a colourful and more-or-less plausible description of how you went about it (maybe they did?)
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Now, I understand that our game is not a hyper-realistic combat sim (nor should it be), but that stretches credulity a bit. If you are going to put a half-Nelson on something the size of a large van, you should at least provide a colourful and more-or-less plausible description of how you went about it (maybe they did?)What I learned last night:
(1) There are no size rules for grappling.
(2) A CR13 froghemoth is no match for an 11th-level cad.It was a silly, silly fight, with the froghemoth quickly pinned while grappling the barboracle and the cad in a giant pile of stupid.
The players loved it.
They left it to ME. So yeah, there was a detailed description of him grabbing one tentacle, running around the froghemoth with it, using the grappled barboracle as an anchor point, and dropping the whole mass into the water. But yeah, considering I was trying to force Talky to describe how he was going to convey the froghemoth's location to his party while they couldn't see it and he'd gone invisible out of sheer cowardice (I might have killed him a couple of times already this campaign. Or maybe three or four...), I should have made Impus Minor describe exactly how he was accomplishing this feat.
EDIT: My absolute favorite death of his so far was when he hid under a taiga giant's desk and she rolled a natural 20 to hit him under there. As Impus Minor put it, she must have had a major rat problem to be that good at spearing things under her desk. A crit from a giant with a 3x weapon while power attacking and vital striking was enough to one-shot him.
What I learned last night:
(1) There are no size rules for grappling.
(2) A CR13 froghemoth is no match for an 11th-level cad.It was a silly, silly fight, with the froghemoth quickly pinned while grappling the barboracle and the cad in a giant pile of stupid.
The players loved it.
I hope it wasn't Impus Major engaging in marital violence.
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It's been over 90 degrees every day with 80%+ humidity every day, I scraped my leg today, and I'm pretty sure I saw Crookshanks cry a little bit at least once when she thought I wasn't looking. So there's the requisite blood, sweat, and tears all art requires.
However, it looks f+~*ing amazing so far!
Beats taking the bus I guess Rats can learn to drive....
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The request from the mechanic to get me a newer truck and for my current truck to be decommissioned.
I mean, it has 332,000 landscape company truck miles on it so it's probably time to Ole Yeller it.
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The Kinkster died today.
He was a good man, a hell of a fun person to talk to, and his better novels (Armadillos and Old Lace, for one) made me laugh so hard that I wept.
My response to "is there any bungie cords on your job site"
Might be I'm not sure, I had to run somewhere for a bit so i can't check just now but I'll be back there after awhile. Only bungie I know of is the one my truck picked up in the flood and I'm using that one to keep my hood from going all Christine on someone.
not only can Disney Lucasfilm fail at telling stories, but they can't even be consistent with their own sewage! they've got that $#!7 flying everywhere, and on every body.
it's an absolute riot.
I've just about had it with my boss. He took a minor gaffe on my part and turned it into something else. Considering looking for employment elsewhere.
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I've just about had it with my boss. He took a minor gaffe on my part and turned it into something else. Considering looking for employment elsewhere.
Sorry to hear that -- you were so happy to get that job just a year or two ago...
I apologize, but I need to make a brief political tirade about DEI, so bear with me. Sometimes you just gotta vent somewhere.
Impus Major had to go to a mandatory 6-hour orientation yesterday. They spent the requisite 90 minutes showing them around campus, talking about campus resources, and everything else you'd expect at an orientation. The other 4.5 hours were spent on resources for underrepresented groups. Impus Major had to attend an orientation session for undocumented immigrants and the resources offered by the college. An orientation session for Blacks. An orientation session for Hispanics. An orientation session for Pacific Islanders. An orientation session for LGBTQ+ students. A moment of silence for the Ohlone tribe whose land had been "stolen by the White man" and on which the campus sat.
So, several hours of sitting through orientation sessions for services he could not avail himself of, a very awkward moment of silence where all eyes were on him and the other White students in the group, and a very noticeable lack of any resources for women, who, in my opinion, are the single-most-oppressed group in human history.
So yeah, Impus Major came back frustrated and I am appalled at the poor organization: Couldn't they have broken the group up by race and sent each group to their respective resource session? Seems a bit wasteful to have sent every student to every session. An "a moment of silence for the Ohlone" would have been fine. Pointing out that it was White settlers who drove them out was cruel and unnecessary.
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Last night for reasons none of us understand the Fluffernutter started beating the living tar out of the Cranky Calico.
As I said to Impus Major, it's kind of like inviting two of your great-grandmothers to dinner and having them start beating the crap out of each other in the living room.
WTF, Grandma?
I've just about had it with my boss. He took a minor gaffe on my part and turned it into something else. Considering looking for employment elsewhere.Sorry to hear that -- you were so happy to get that job just a year or two ago...
I was. I really really was. But now just about everyone has had it with him.
Or maybe, I am in the wrong and should be severely punished.
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I've just about had it with my boss. He took a minor gaffe on my part and turned it into something else. Considering looking for employment elsewhere.Sorry to hear that -- you were so happy to get that job just a year or two ago...I was. I really really was. But now just about everyone has had it with him.
Or maybe, I am in the wrong and should be severely punished.
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You need a spanking.I've just about had it with my boss. He took a minor gaffe on my part and turned it into something else. Considering looking for employment elsewhere.Sorry to hear that -- you were so happy to get that job just a year or two ago...I was. I really really was. But now just about everyone has had it with him.
Or maybe, I am in the wrong and should be severely punished.
wow.
It's funny what triggers a memory.
In one of the first d&d(ad&d) games I ever played, there were twin sister npcs named Zoot and Dingo, family name Grail. I didn't get it then.
Speaking of a special kind of stupid:
Presenter: I'm hearing a lot of noise in the background, so I'm going to mute all your lines, and you'll have to unmute to ask a question.
Then someone must have anticipated that they might ask a question, because they manually unmuted themselves... and THEN jumped onto another call so we had to listen to them and the presenter had to re-mute them.
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This never happens:
We're leaving for our annual trip to visit Mom and Eve early tomorrow morning.
It's 8:42 and I'm already in bed. The car is mostly loaded, and I even left work half an hour *early* today instead of an hour and a half late. The fridge is cleaned out except for what's going into the drinks-and-snacks cooler in the morning.
How did I do this?
By telling myself repeatedly that we were leaving Friday morning and everything had to be done by Thursday night.
This is as close as this middle-aged white girl will get to the feeling of "Damn, it feels good to be a gangster."
Which, yes, is pathetic, I know, but I feel smug nonetheless.
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A little over 5 years since the accident and for some reason my sense of smell is returning I discovered this morning.
I haven't decided if it's a good thing yet.
A little over 5 years since the accident...
... did you manage to set rocks on fire?
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A little over 5 years since the accident...... did you manage to set rocks on fire?
No a hillside collapsed due to excessive rain and I was flipped over the mini bobcat and hit the top of the hydraulic cylinder with my nose.
I very nearly cut off my nose, it required 17 stitches. And I can't watch that episode of King of the Hill anymore.
Edit: my mini bobcat (called an MT 85) was 5 feet from the edge of the hill when it collapsed so it's not like I was on the edge or anything, I was being pretty cautious.
I missed a day of work because of that.
Is there such a thing as a Maxi Bobcat?
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Is there such a thing as a Maxi Bobcat?
We have one of those!