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Me: All right, {B}, what's your character's name?
B: I don't know...
A: Cheese bard! Cheese bard!
B: No, she's not the cheese bard.
All kids but B: CHEESE BARD. CHEESE BARD.
B: Noooooo...
Me: ...how about Brie?
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A:"I drew my D&D character!"
B:"Why did you make the eyes so big?"
A:"It's my styyyyyle. Not like you can draw better."
B:"I can draw like Vivziepop."
Me: "...aren't you two a little young to know who that is?"
A:"...I've never met a teacher who's heard of Hazbin Hotel before."
...
Helluva Boss...
We're having a storm tomorrow. Its official name is 'Bert'.
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We're having a storm tomorrow. Its official name is 'Bert'.
That's a bad since, since it guarantees you'll get at least two more storms before Ernie gets there.
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We're having a storm tomorrow. Its official name is 'Bert'.That's a bad since, since it guarantees you'll get at least two more storms before Ernie gets there.
Count
Dr. HoneydewErnie
Fozzie...
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Great Gonzo!
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A:"I drew my D&D character!"
B:"Why did you make the eyes so big?"
A:"It's my styyyyyle. Not like you can draw better."
B:"I can draw like Vivziepop."
Me: "...aren't you two a little young to know who that is?"
A:"...I've never met a teacher who's heard of Hazbin Hotel before."...
Helluva Boss...
Honestly no idea the difference, never watched either.
Honestly no idea the difference, never watched either.A:"I drew my D&D character!"
B:"Why did you make the eyes so big?"
A:"It's my styyyyyle. Not like you can draw better."
B:"I can draw like Vivziepop."
Me: "...aren't you two a little young to know who that is?"
A:"...I've never met a teacher who's heard of Hazbin Hotel before."...
Helluva Boss...
Oh, we loved Hazbin Hotel. A co-worker of GothBard's was a significant contributor. Helluva Boss wasn't as much our style.
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Just put the old Fluffernutter on the new electric blanket. I do not expect to see kitty again today.
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We'll be around when we feel like it.
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Honestly no idea the difference, never watched either.A:"I drew my D&D character!"
B:"Why did you make the eyes so big?"
A:"It's my styyyyyle. Not like you can draw better."
B:"I can draw like Vivziepop."
Me: "...aren't you two a little young to know who that is?"
A:"...I've never met a teacher who's heard of Hazbin Hotel before."...
Helluva Boss...
Helluva Boss has an adult-only warning about rampant murders, comedic sociopathy, horny demons being horny, and all kinds of things.
We've got our first "major" storm here today, with 20 mph winds and 1.5" of rain. Yes, we're pathetic.
But I had to notify my co-workers of the strong possibility of losing power because
We'll see whether my prediction holds true.
And so ends an era.
I've been refusing the iCloud User Agreement on my iPad for the last few years. Sure, every time I log on I get a reminder that I need to agree to it, but I never do, because I never want any of my data going to the cloud in the first place.
Well, they got me. They put a critical security flaw in their OS that has been seen being exploited in the wild, so I really have to apply the patch. And of course, you have to agree to the fricking iCloud license agreement to get the patch. Really? I even tried going through it section-by-section and disagreeing with only the iCloud part, and even that blocked me from performing the update.
Ah, well, they will now be able to track my nightly NYT crossword, which is pretty much the only thing I use the iPad for these days...
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I am on vacation until December 3rd.
At which point I work for 15 more days, whilst simultaneously enduring two straight weeks of The Nutcracker, and then I'm off for two more weeks and get to go visit Mom and Eve in Maine.
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We're having a storm tomorrow. Its official name is 'Bert'.That's a bad since, since it guarantees you'll get at least two more storms before Ernie gets there.Count
Dr. Honeydew
Ernie
Fozzie...
We might be super lucky and get Storm Elmo. You never know.
I think it says more about my responsibility with money and my sense of humor that I bought this for Impus Major for "second Thanksgivings". We'll probably serve it on a Tuesday game night in December, as it easily costs as much as a takeout meal.
But... but...
it was funny...
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I think it says more about my responsibility with money and my sense of humor that I bought this for Impus Major for "second Thanksgivings". We'll probably serve it on a Tuesday game night in December, as it easily costs as much as a takeout meal.
But... but...
it was funny...
Now I want turducken.
"Access denied"
Reference #18.46ed417.1732417251.1793eba9
https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.46ed417.1732417251.1793eba9
"Access denied"
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I had the same thing on Firefox with NoScript. Apparently NoScript hates Costco, or vice versa. Even when I set all the permissions on the page to OK it still didn't like it. So you can either turn off NoScript, use Chrome, or accept that a picture of a turducken isn't worth the hassle.
I had the same thing on Firefox with NoScript. Apparently NoScript hates Costco, or vice versa. Even when I set all the permissions on the page to OK it still didn't like it. So you can either turn off NoScript, use Chrome, or accept that a picture of a turducken isn't worth the hassle."Access denied"
** spoiler omitted **
Chrome, incognito mode: Nope.
Chrome, NoScript off: Nope.Firefox, NoScript on and off: Nope.
Tor: Nope.
Brave: Nope.
M$ Edge: ... Nope.
My initial thought was that Costco simply is too dedicated to stealing user data to risk allowing EU users even view their page (that is something that many US companies do). They seem to block anything that comes from EU, and anything they can't track to not be from EU.
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I had the same thing on Firefox with NoScript. Apparently NoScript hates Costco, or vice versa. Even when I set all the permissions on the page to OK it still didn't like it. So you can either turn off NoScript, use Chrome, or accept that a picture of a turducken isn't worth the hassle."Access denied"
** spoiler omitted **
Chrome, incognito mode: Nope.
Chrome, NoScript off: Nope.
Firefox, NoScript on and off: Nope.
Tor: Nope.
Brave: Nope.
M$ Edge: ... Nope.My initial thought was that Costco simply is too dedicated to stealing user data to risk allowing EU users even view their page (that is something that many US companies do). They seem to block anything that comes from EU, and anything they can't track to not be from EU.
Wow. That's either some paranoia or some, "We can't be bothered to adhere to EU privacy standards so we'll block access," right there.
I suspect the latter.
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I had the same thing on Firefox with NoScript. Apparently NoScript hates Costco, or vice versa. Even when I set all the permissions on the page to OK it still didn't like it. So you can either turn off NoScript, use Chrome, or accept that a picture of a turducken isn't worth the hassle."Access denied"
** spoiler omitted **
Chrome, incognito mode: Nope.
Chrome, NoScript off: Nope.
Firefox, NoScript on and off: Nope.
Tor: Nope.
Brave: Nope.
M$ Edge: ... Nope.My initial thought was that Costco simply is too dedicated to stealing user data to risk allowing EU users even view their page (that is something that many US companies do). They seem to block anything that comes from EU, and anything they can't track to not be from EU.
Wow. That's either some paranoia or some, "We can't be bothered to adhere to EU privacy standards so we'll block access," right there.
I suspect the latter.
I see the latter from time to time. Which is somewhat funny when it is expressed as something like "we care for our visitors from Europe... ".
Wow. That's either some paranoia or (...)
Chrome, incognito mode: Nope.
Chrome, NoScript off: Nope.
Firefox, NoScript on and off: Nope.
Tor: Nope.
Brave: Nope.
M$ Edge: ... Nope.(...)
Hey, each of those browser is for legitimate purposes!
Oh, you meant Costco?!
Never mind...
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Fantasy Monster: Fish-Out-Of-Water
This fish needs no fishbowl.
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I had the same thing on Firefox with NoScript. Apparently NoScript hates Costco, or vice versa. Even when I set all the permissions on the page to OK it still didn't like it. So you can either turn off NoScript, use Chrome, or accept that a picture of a turducken isn't worth the hassle."Access denied"
** spoiler omitted **
Chrome, incognito mode: Nope.
Chrome, NoScript off: Nope.
Firefox, NoScript on and off: Nope.
Tor: Nope.
Brave: Nope.
M$ Edge: ... Nope.My initial thought was that Costco simply is too dedicated to stealing user data to risk allowing EU users even view their page (that is something that many US companies do). They seem to block anything that comes from EU, and anything they can't track to not be from EU.
Wow. That's either some paranoia or some, "We can't be bothered to adhere to EU privacy standards so we'll block access," right there.
I suspect the latter.
It's absolutely the latter.
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Ah, a typical Monday morning at work.
Windows: Due to our new passwordless policy, please use your fingerprint to sign in.
NobodysHome:
Windows: Your finger cannot be read. Please enter your password.
Yep. My new, "passwordless" sign-in adds an annoying extra step (I have to have my laptop open to access the fingerprint reader, so it's a PITA) and then requires a password anyway.
As President Garfield once said, "I hate Mondays."
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The parent who asked me about running D&D for the kids messaged me that she got an insane deal on a set of a PHB, MM, and DMG that was initially listed as $40, but they knocked it down even more when she mentioned it was for the club. So that'll help.
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"All right. Since we don't have class Wednesday, your packets are due Monday. This effectively gives you an extra week to finish them, including the last 45 minutes of this class. Therefore, anyone who does not have it done for Monday will earn a 0 and a response of "That's so sad; Alexa, play 'Despacito.'"
A:"I drew my D&D character!"
B:"Why did you make the eyes so big?"
A:"It's my styyyyyle. Not like you can draw better."
B:"I can draw like Vivziepop."
Me: "...aren't you two a little young to know who that is?"
A:"...I've never met a teacher who's heard of Hazbin Hotel before."...
Helluva Boss...
...isnt it both?
Oh, we loved Hazbin Hotel. A co-worker of GothBard's was a significant contributor. Helluva Boss wasn't as much our style.Honestly no idea the difference, never watched either.A:"I drew my D&D character!"
B:"Why did you make the eyes so big?"
A:"It's my styyyyyle. Not like you can draw better."
B:"I can draw like Vivziepop."
Me: "...aren't you two a little young to know who that is?"
A:"...I've never met a teacher who's heard of Hazbin Hotel before."...
Helluva Boss...
Thats awesome.
Oh, just hit my absolute favorite: After all the fingerprint nonsense on Windows, we have two-factor authentication so I have to approve my corporate login on my phone...
...which also preferentially wants me to use my fingerprint to unlock, and which also almost never works so I have to put in my PIN anyway...
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I am surprised: Sometimes planned obsolescence is the correct call.
My parents had a very typical view of electric blankets: They happily had a waterbed with a 1200W heater under hundreds of gallons of water, but they wouldn't allow an electric blanket in the house due to the fire danger.
We've tried several electric blankets for the kids over the years, but they always go bad in 5-10 years, making us think they were poorly manufactured.
It turns out that due to the fire danger, modern electric blankets (almost) all have thermal fuses in their controls: If the thermal fuse gets too hot, the fuse burns out and destroys the controller. (Yes, a thermal breaker would be far less wasteful, but likely a few dollars more expensive per blanket.) As time goes on, the thermal fuse gets more and more sensitive, until it finally triggers under normal use and boom! No more heat for your blanket.
Given the number of fires caused by older electric blankets, especially those made before the fuses became standard, I have to say, I'll accept planned obsolescence in the name of saving lives.
An interesting exception. At least in my mind... but it would be nice if the manufacturers would then replace either the fuse or the controller for a reasonable fee...
Learning to look at the bright side:
The Situation: If you leave your trash can out in front of your house for a day, it will receive at least three poorly-wrapped packets of dog feces, making your trash can stink like crazy for the next week or two.
The Preference: If you're going to use such cheap plastic bags that the aroma pervades everything the bag touches, then use your down d***ed trash can.
The Bright Side: I vividly remember the 1970s before people cleaned up after their dogs at all. A stinky trash can is far preferable than the old days when you could find multiple land mines on every block, and especially in the park. (We used to have a pre-game ritual for pick-up baseball games where we had to scour and clean the fields so none of us would step/dive into the stuff. So this is definitely better.)
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It's really disappointing to see so many real-world reinforcements of Vimes' theory of socio-economic unfairness; that is, it's more expensive to be poor.
I already mentioned the Social Security fraud perpetrated by expats who are rich enough to maintain a house in the U.S. that they list as their permanent address to receive their checks. Regardless of whether or not the law is fair (which it out-and-out isn't), it's still fraud, and you can only get away with it if you're rich enough to maintain two houses in two different countries.
Today I learned that high-income parents in the area are avoiding having to pay for medical insurance for their college kids by putting them at a separate address (for example, we could list our studio as a separate address), declaring them independent (once they're over 20 we don't get a tax break for them anyway), and collecting Medi-Cal intended for low-income college students for them.
So you're rich enough to afford two addresses. And you're sleazy enough to take money away from programs designed for low-income households to save money.
NobodysHome does not approve. -20.
Well, there's a first: Someone driving up the street got blocked by the garbage truck, pulled into my driveway... and parked there.
Even more hilarious/annoying, they managed to park semi-diagonally, blocking the entire sidewalk and any easy walkarounds. So I just texted Impus Minor asking him when he'd get home, and was going to call the police for a tow about half an hour before he arrived.
To my disappointment, they'd moved on when it came time to call for the tow.
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I've been at Global Megacorporation for over 20 years now. I have a reputation. So it's utterly disappointing when some mid-level exec decides he's going to take me on and gaslight his way through the conversation.
Day 1: Full screenshots proving that he was lying emailed to myself through the corporate VPN for full timestamped records that he ws openly lying to me.
Bring it, suit boy. I've dealt with better than you.
I've been at Global Megacorporation for over 20 years now. I have a reputation. So it's utterly disappointing when some mid-level exec decides he's going to take me on and gaslight his way through the conversation.
Day 1: Full screenshots proving that he was lying emailed to myself through the corporate VPN for full timestamped records that he ws openly lying to me.
Bring it, suit boy. I've dealt with better than you.
WTF? Why?
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To assert dominance.
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WTF? Why?I've been at Global Megacorporation for over 20 years now. I have a reputation. So it's utterly disappointing when some mid-level exec decides he's going to take me on and gaslight his way through the conversation.
Day 1: Full screenshots proving that he was lying emailed to myself through the corporate VPN for full timestamped records that he ws openly lying to me.
Bring it, suit boy. I've dealt with better than you.
(1) He is an idiot. His division has headhunted me hard for years, and all I do is point at him and say, "I will not work under him under any circumstances." They do not argue with that sentiment.
(2) When EVP talked about Hot New Thing (a marketing gimmick), he mandated that all our training be fully rewritten to align with Hot New Thing. We, the product managers, and even the people in charge of Hot New Thing told him this was idiocy. He persisted.
(3) We negotiated him down to something reasonable, gave him a first draft, and he said, "Well, some of it is good and some of it isn't."
(4) We responded, "Great! Tell us what you like and don't like and we'll fix it."
Two weeks passed and he never got around to it and now he's behind his own d**ned schedule and he's trying to blame us for him being behind on a project that nobody other than him thinks is a good idea.
So yeah, while I doubt I'll be able to get him fired over this, if I could there are hundreds of people who would thank me.
So I'm working on it.
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Woooow... being a morning person pays off so often it's scary.
(1) Yesterday morning I registered Impus Minor for his classes at 7:00 am sharp. By noon they were full.
(2) Our cleaning person came by yesterday, and she'd gone to Costco on Monday after work. It took her 40 minutes to find parking. Once she'd parked, there were no carts available. Going in, there was no turkey in any "Thanksgiving" form available: No fresh birds, no frozen birds, no fresh nor frozen breasts, not even packages of parts. It was an absolute nightmare for her through and through.
This morning I needed to get all the fresh ingredients for Thanksgiving -- the bread, the salad greens, and other stuff that shouldn't sit around for days. Even though it's a day off for me, I was up by 4:16, as usual, and doing my normal news and budget stuff. I checked Andronico's hours and they open at 6 on weekdays, so I went ahead and showered, got dressed, and toodled over to the store, figuring it wouldn't be too crowded at 6:00 am on the day before Thanksgiving.
Yeah. I was the only one there when the store opened. One guy showed up 10 minutes later. And by the time I checked out with a full cart of groceries they had maybe 4 total customers and I was the first one to check out. Plus they were all super-nice, saying, "Yeah, it's going to really suck later today. Thanks for coming in so early! It's good to see you!"
It was an extraordinarily pleasant shopping experience. I normally hate shopping, but the staff was all super-nice and just wanted to talk to me a bit, so all in all I highly recommend it...
...if you like being up before 6:00 am to spend time idly chatting with grocery store employees...
I do not, personally. I do miss being able to shop at 3AM on late nights though. No one bothers you then.
Middle of pandemics was a beautiful time... (in some ways)
People keeping their distance. Shops open through the night to compensate for restrictions on number of customers that were let in at once...
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Nobody will ever convince me after having lived as an early bird and also a night owl due to differing work and/or school schedules that life has any redeeming value in being out and about before 9 am, period.
I choose a more balanced life waking up no earlier than 630 and staying awake as long as I can keep my eyelids open, typically around midnight or a bit later (I've NEVER felt restful on more than 7 hours of sleep, it only makes me feel like trash) since I have kids and can't live as the night owl I'd prefer to be.
Anyone who says being an early bird, to me, always sounds like they're not only trying to convince others but also themselves that it's actually better much like taking freezing cold showers, eating vegan by choice, or decaf coffee. Nah dude, thinking it's good is a trauma response from you choosing to suffer through that long enough to trick your own brain but you're not getting me with that.
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Nobody will ever convince me after having lived as an early bird and also a night owl due to differing work and/or school schedules that life has any redeeming value in being out and about before 9 am, period.
I choose a more balanced life waking up no earlier than 630 and staying awake as long as I can keep my eyelids open, typically around midnight or a bit later (I've NEVER felt restful on more than 7 hours of sleep, it only makes me feel like trash) since I have kids and can't live as the night owl I'd prefer to be.
Anyone who says being an early bird, to me, always sounds like they're not only trying to convince others but also themselves that it's actually better much like taking freezing cold showers, eating vegan by choice, or decaf coffee. Nah dude, thinking it's good is a trauma response from you choosing to suffer through that long enough to trick your own brain but you're not getting me with that.
It's not a choice. I haven't been able to sleep past 5:30 am since I was in my teens. My circadian rhythm is confused and there's nothing I can do about it. I got really upset when it suddenly switched me to waking up at 4:15 every morning after the last DST shift. I was thinking, "What the actual ****, body?", but no amount of trying to stay in bed allowed me to adjust my schedule. If I go to bed later, even at midnight or 1:00 am, I still wake up at the same time and just feel crappy.
So yeah, I look on the bright side of it.
EDIT: Even on our European trip where I spent 3 weeks traveling with a group where no one else got up before 9, I'd wake up with the sunrise and sit around figuring out stuff to do for the HOURS until my group got up. It was... less than fun.
And we have a clear loser: Nearly a month after Halloween, our candy bowl is a wasteland of virtually nothing but plain M&Ms.
GothBard put it well: "When your entire selling point is your chocolate, you really should try putting in some actual chocolate."
Plain M&Ms -- the Arby's of candy.
I gave Hellpoint a try today.
Meh. A thematically might be promising with a dark, somewhat Gigeresque scenery, but the Dark Soul-like combat and the game not even trying to teach you how to fight or develop your character. Nope. Uninstall.
A few days ago, I returned to this game, and after struggling and clenching my teeth for a few hours, I reached the point where the game started becoming fun, if terribly unbalanced and grindy...
After some more grind, I reached the point where regular enemies were either dying before my might, or swarming me, and trampling me to the death.
The bosses were even more uneven. Two out of three main bosses simply melted to my magic staff, because of their large hitboxes getting multiple hits from my wall of fire. The third one was tedious case of repeated deaths because of different hit boxes and moving a lot, I could not properly fry light-blaze its fire-resistant ass like the two others.
Now I am stuck on The Final Boss and it is atrocious fight against the geometry of the boss arena, a laser beam that kills you in half a second (I just died to this beam ignoring the obstacle behind I was hidden that made me quit for now), unbalanced homing missiles that come in pairs that are extremally impossible to dodge because either you dodge one or the other, and only rarely both, that are usually fired in bursts of two or three pairs, basically killing you if the first pair knocked you down.
This combat is made even worse by malicious decision of the devs, that dying resets your healing thing to two charges - if I want to go to fight fully ready with all nine charges that I can hold, I need to return to any other part of game and keep killing enemies until I fully charge the healing injection...
I am really considering saying passing to this pre-final fight (there is a True Final Boss after this one—yes, I was using guides—which consists of another, allegedly tedious and annoying boss, paired with an NPC that you interact with over the game...)
That's okay, you can send them to me. I even enjoy Arby's.
Believe it or not, you're the first person I've ever met, either online or in person, who willingly eats Arby's.
California is a terrible measure of a chain, though, because the combination of national prices and California expenses makes franchises have to cut every corner imaginable. No matter what they say, if you eat at a McDonald's in Berkeley and a McDonald's in Woodland, the food in Woodland will be staggeringly better because it's in a much lower-priced area.
So while I always have to consider the possibility that it's that Arby's in my area are terrible, I've heard it from too many people in other areas. There have to be some good ones or the chain would fold. It's just finding them...