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Looks like winter storm Enzo may prevent Shiro from flying home tomorrow morning...
...yet somehow, "My flight got canceled so I'm stuck in California in 65°F sunny weather for another day!" is not garnering him any sympathy...
EDIT: Yes. I could literally walk outside naked right now and the only people who would be bothered would be the neighbors. It's quite pleasant.
EDIT 2: And yep. He wasn't going to get any closer to home than North Carolina and the airline offered to push him back by a day for free, so he's "stuck" in the Bay Area for a day. Somehow he's not complaining.
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Speaking as a North Carolina resident I can say it's f~$&ing goddamn motherf*@$ing cold out there. So f@@~ing cold I've resorted to endless motherf~%+ing profanity in an effort to keep warm. It's that or burn Saxon villages, but Sherman got most of those back in '65. Motherf&$@er.
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Ah, this article brings back memories. (TL;DR version: A reviewer writing a negative review of a restaurant had her photos replaced with the restaurant's "made for photography" versions, making the dishes look much larger and better-prepared than they were.)
My near-sociopathic friend had a favorite game he'd play any time we went out to a chain restaurant. "I'd like this dish, and I want it to look just like the picture."
So of course it didn't, and he would send it back again and again, no matter how long it took, before either the harried waitperson, manager, or cook would come out and admit that they couldn't possibly make the dish look like it did in the picture. He always considered such encounters personal victories.
And at no point did someone bring him an exquisitely varnished papier maché roast chicken?
And at no point did someone bring him an exquisitely varnished papier maché roast chicken?Ah, this article brings back memories. (TL;DR version: A reviewer writing a negative review of a restaurant had her photos replaced with the restaurant's "made for photography" versions, making the dishes look much larger and better-prepared than they were.)
My near-sociopathic friend had a favorite game he'd play any time we went out to a chain restaurant. "I'd like this dish, and I want it to look just like the picture."
So of course it didn't, and he would send it back again and again, no matter how long it took, before either the harried waitperson, manager, or cook would come out and admit that they couldn't possibly make the dish look like it did in the picture. He always considered such encounters personal victories.
No, but I shudder to think what might have been in the food they tried to serve him after the 3rd or 4th sendback.
Should I be worried that everyone the scammer tried to message said there's no way thats BNW they're being polite, rather than the tip off being the guy with a degree in trees is allegedly making a video game?
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Should I be worried that everyone the scammer tried to message said there's no way thats BNW they're being polite, rather than the tip off being the guy with a degree in trees is allegedly making a video game?
Ooo! That's my new excuse!
"Guys, this abrasive personality is a goddamn security feature! Respect that!"
Speaking as a North Carolina resident I can say it's f%#+ing goddamn motherf++*ing cold out there. So f&&#ing cold I've resorted to endless motherf@!~ing profanity in an effort to keep warm. It's that or burn Saxon villages, but Sherman got most of those back in '65. Motherf$!#er.
Our 60+ year old oven went out again two weeks ago, but this time WW was able to locate an "antique appliance repair service" here in the Dallas area that has a ridiculously high outcall fee, but it's still a pittance compared to the five-figure pricetag of a total remodel. (And the odd tiny size and location means that replacing it with something newer would necessitate remodeling.)
TLDR - they're coming tomorrow, so maybe I will be able to cook indoors by the weekend!
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I know Vany will feel this across the void:
Far Too Many Admins
Erm...they want to make the default user an admin?
No.
I have spoken.
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Should I be worried that everyone the scammer tried to message said there's no way thats BNW they're being polite, rather than the tip off being the guy with a degree in trees is allegedly making a video game?Ooo! That's my new excuse!
"Guys, this abrasive personality is a goddamn security feature! Respect that!"
Yay. Discord help was actually helpful I got the account back.
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I know Vany will feel this across the void:
Far Too Many Admins
Erm...they want to make the default user an admin?
No.
I have spoken.
This is the way.
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Yay. Discord help was actually helpful I got the account back.Should I be worried that everyone the scammer tried to message said there's no way thats BNW they're being polite, rather than the tip off being the guy with a degree in trees is allegedly making a video game?Ooo! That's my new excuse!
"Guys, this abrasive personality is a g&@!++n security feature! Respect that!"
Thats great!
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I know Vany will feel this across the void:
Far Too Many Admins
Erm...they want to make the default user an admin?
No.
I have spoken.
NH: "No admin access for default user."
Whoever asked for it: "But, please."
NH: "No. The internet dragon said so."
Whoever asked for it: "What's an intern..."
NH: ""
NH's manager: "Buddy, we need to talk."
"I know we push a unique passcode for everything, but if you've reached the hoarding stage..."
I know Vany will feel this across the void:
Far Too Many Admins
Erm...they want to make the default user an admin?
The two sweetest words in the English language: de fault! De! De! Fault! De! Fault!
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Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.
Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.
*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.
"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."
Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...
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Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.
Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.
*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.
"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."
Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...
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Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.
Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.
*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.
"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."
Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...
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Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.
Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.
*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.
"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."
Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...
-.- o.o O.O
A reasonable upper management?!
In 21st century?!
What kind of witchcraft is that?!
Eh...
I am in a weird spot in Elden Ring now. I gained the access to Maliketh's fight (basically one of the last main storyline bosses), and while I am clearing some minor things here and there, I am sort out of big content (aside of things that I might have missed) of the main game, but I am not feeling like going for an ending...
On the other hand, farming runes to level the things more at this point would be a real grindfest...
I won't be getting the DLC until March, so no new major content for me until then.
I consider starting a new character, but going back to the basics will be painful, especially that I got spoiled (Scarlet-) rotten by sorcery ranged gameplay.
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Our 60+ year old oven went out again two weeks ago
Now, because I read that too quickly initially, I mentally inserted a letter 'C' before 'oven', and thought how nice it was that LM's local wise women were having a night on the town.
'Texas Witches' is my psychedelic doom metal band name, by the way.
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*debeverages*
Since WW is still sick, he bumped the appliance repair visit to Friday.
We will see what happens.
Do you know what happens to bad rainbows? They go to prism for a light sentence so they can refract on their decisions.
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Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.
Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.
*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.
"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."
Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...
I have a gif of the late great Geoffrey Holder laughing.
Just assume I inserted it here.
I got ya.
Ah, Bay Area weather.
To celebrate Shiro's departure, it's 9:00 am and I've already got all the windows open because it's broken 60°F outside.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any 60+ year old covens wandering about, but maybe they only come out at night...
*cackles*
Well, looks like AI has completely taken over the recruiting sector. I'm up to 2-3 job offers a day from LinkedIn for various software engineering positions at various small companies. I'm sure the companies hired recruiting agencies in good faith, expecting said companies would do something beyond re-posting their job opening.
But nope. They're wasting their money. "Hey, AI! Look for random people who might possibly be related to this job and send them an invite!"
Not a good plan.
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Kid DM didn't show, so improv session happened. I think they forgot that I'm a troll.
Troll them. Troll them good.
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I got ya.Well, that ended that shortly and sweetly.
Requestor CC'ed our acting VP on her initial request, most likely to try to pressure me to do something quickly.
*I* tried to be polite. VP didn't.
"NobodysHome is 100% correct. What you are doing is wrong. In fact, it is so wrong that we should meet to discuss what you're actually trying to do..."
Oops. Maybe, just maybe you should think before including upper management on your stupid requests...
I have a gif of the late great Geoffrey Holder laughing.
Just assume I inserted it here.
Urban and elegant, but the anecdote in question calls for something with a bit more oomph.
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'Texas Witches' is my psychedelic doom metal band name, by the way.Yet further proof I grew up in the wrong part of Texas.
Every part is the wrong part.
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The good news about having anxiety and depression my entire life is that I know how to operate at a base level of existential despair.
Interesting. Snopes did a far more in-depth analysis of the claim. It's a good read, and I stand (relatively) corrected.