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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
DREJK. WE NEED STATS. (Or I can do it if you don't want to :D )
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THE WASPS ATE MY CLOTHES WHAT THE FHTAGN
Speaking of swearing, there's a d**ned good reason Spotify is crushing Pandora.
NobodysHome: OK, I admit it. The sound track to K-Pop Demon Hunters is really catchy. I'll add Golden to my Pandora seed.
Pandora: What's that? You like techno dance mixes! Ok! We'll blend in a techno dance mix every other song forever!
NH: WTF? Golden isn't even a techno dance mix!
Pandora: Too bad! It's what our algorithm says it is!So, so far three days of hitting thumbs-down every time a techno mix comes on. I must have disliked 30-40 "songs" so far already.
And Pandora just. Can't. Get. The. Hint.
"OK. We just played How it's Done. You must now be in the mood for a dance mix!"
WTF, Pandora? No. Just no!
My kids LOVE that show.
When I asked Hermione about it, Reason #1 was the music.
Reason #2 was the plot/writing.
I almost felt her forehead to see if she was feverish. If she gushes about something, it's *always* about the writing.Have you NOT seen it? It is worth your time.
The writing is trope-y as f***, because K-Pop formulas. I mean, it's perfectly watchable, but not a single thing surprised me or came across as fresh. But as far as I can tell, a poor woman who spent 10 years as a K-Pop trainee because her voice was da bomb but she was lacking in some other required area (beauty? Coordination?) was like, "OK, f*** you. I'm going to write a music track that only *I* can sing!"
And f***. She wrote a top 10 WORLD hit. Not top 10 in any one country. But yes, it's top 10 in the U.S. It's top 10 in Korea. And it's top 10 in the world.
Girl can write songs. And sing 'em. And more power to her.
The one recurring bit of praise I keep hearing about this show is that lots of other shows about musicians say that their characters wrote chart-topping hits in-universe, but leave it at that. KPDH released their songs in the real world and they hit the tops of multiple charts.
Gives the characters some sincere cred, I'll give them that.
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OK. I feel like I've done very well avoiding politics or politics-adjacent discussions since I came back. But this is so phenomenally, fundamentally, hilariously stupid that I simply can't let it go.
** spoiler omitted **
If there is a cartoon about this, it probably looks like a Rube Goldberg.
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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDREJK. WE NEED STATS. (Or I can do it if you don't want to :D )
No promises.
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THE WASPS ATE MY CLOTHES WHAT THE FHTAGN
Removing compromised clothing is a basic part of decontamination process, duh.
We have actually, formally, completed Tomb of Annihilation successfully, with only 3 deaths and one departure. I blame 5e and paranoia.
Wow... it's supposed to actually break 70°F today. I'll believe it when I see it...
What really surprises me is that we're going to be in Vegas next week and my expectation of Las Vegas in August is that it'll be 110°F outside all day every day, but so far the forecast is saying high 80s or low 90s for the entire week, which is downright bearable. What the heck?
No promises.AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDREJK. WE NEED STATS. (Or I can do it if you don't want to :D )
OK. Sometimes the algorithms catch me and amuse me immensely.
Since PetCo is on my s*** list, we ordered some color-changing cat litter from Chewy.com to detect blood in the urine because the FlufferNutter's urine isn't looking good, and litter is cheaper and faster than a vet visit.
So Chewy's algorithm noticed that Lenore is going through 4 cases of gastrointestinal kitten food a month and now we're getting health-checking cat litter for her. So I got a polite little pop-up: "Does Lenore have any health problems we should know about?"
Loved how polite and inconspicuous it was. If nothing else. Chewy does their web site right.
Oh, interesting; they're a division of PetSmart. There's a PetSmart at a nice mall about 20 minutes' drive from here. Might have to check them out in person...
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Got told to use AI to append telephone numbers to a list of company names and addresses yesterday, which you'd have thought would be a good use for it.
Lucky I wasn't that busy, as it consistently refused to do as it was told, crashed, required reprompting, and eventually just started making things up wholesale, taking around six hours to do what I could have done manually in a quarter of that time.
Ugh. Access to my institutional email this evening is wonky because Microsoft (gah!), and, as far as I can figure out, the silly beggars they're playing with Office, or whatever they're calling it these days.
The succubus on my shoulder / in my head / heart wonders, if the Yanks have left a bunch of ... characters in charge (trying not to get too political here) anyway, if we could convince them that "M365" is clearly some sort of cartel shenanigans, and needs deeply obstreperous scrutiny. Hey, if conspiracy theories are in these days, why not let a bunch of them chase each other and maybe distract the tech weirdos away from making everything else worse? >:(
Wow, really, YouTube? No clips of Phil from the Disney Hercules movie saying, "There goes another one?"
We have lost Meatball.
This morning in an incredibly rare circumstance, the sun is out. I let the kittens out. Meatball found a patch of dirt. He felt the sun on his sleek, black fur. He lay down. It felt better. He enlongated himself. Even better.
So now in our garden is a nearly 3' long patch of warm black fur, unmoving unless you block the sun or pet it.
I don't expect to see him move again before sundown.
EDIT: LOL. I forgot he was born in Seattle. In the time it took me to write that up he got too hot and moved into the shade. So yeah, lying in the sun on a 63˚F day is too hot for poor Seattle kitty. Now he's in the shade on the lawn. More idyllic, less stereotypical.
Got told to use AI to append telephone numbers to a list of company names and addresses yesterday, which you'd have thought would be a good use for it.
Lucky I wasn't that busy, as it consistently refused to do as it was told, crashed, required reprompting, and eventually just started making things up wholesale, taking around six hours to do what I could have done manually in a quarter of that time.
I am curious what it made up. Fake phone numbers? Like, did you have company's numbers listed as 911, 999, 867-5309 (Jenny), 0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... 3? Or did it try and write haiku in the phone number spaces?
Telephone number.
What does it all mean, this life?
I am banana.
Pleased to meet you, Fyffe DelMonte.
To answer your first question, it put in telephone numbers, but when checked, those numbers had no connection with the companies indicated. At least I wasn't using Grok, otherwise goodness knows where I would have ended up.
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We have lost Meatball.
So now in our garden is a nearly 3' long patch of warm black fur, unmoving unless you block the sun or pet it.
I don't expect to see him move again before sundown.
DO NOT SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN!
For a moment I expected note that he run away and/or got hit by a car or something...
Earlier today I saw a post with a big photo of Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari from Babylon 5 and feared the worst (he's seventy five, and we have already lost more than half of primary cast, some of them far-far too young). Thankfully it was just an appreciation post for his acting skills.
We have lost Meatball.
So now in our garden is a nearly 3' long patch of warm black fur, unmoving unless you block the sun or pet it.
I don't expect to see him move again before sundown.
DO NOT SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN!
For a moment I expected note that he run away and/or got hit by a car or something...
Earlier today I saw a post with a big photo of Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari from Babylon 5 and feared the worst (he's seventy five, and we have already lost more than half of primary cast, some of them far-far too young). Thankfully it was just an appreciation post for his acting skills.
Meet the Meatblob, same as the Meatblob. And the beards have all grown longer overnight.
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We have lost Meatball.
So now in our garden is a nearly 3' long patch of warm black fur, unmoving unless you block the sun or pet it.
I don't expect to see him move again before sundown.
DO NOT SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN!
For a moment I expected note that he run away and/or got hit by a car or something...
Earlier today I saw a post with a big photo of Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari from Babylon 5 and feared the worst (he's seventy five, and we have already lost more than half of primary cast, some of them far-far too young). Thankfully it was just an appreciation post for his acting skills.
Same on both counts! Londo was my reason for watching B5.
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DO NOT SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN!
Apologies. Our two big risk factors right now are the Fluffernutter, who really is acting like she's going to go any day now (though the Cranky Calico did that for more than a year before finally passing) and Stripey/Morrigan, who is an escape risk extraordinaire and is the only cat we have who doesn't come when called, because busy bein' curious.
Our hope for the trip is that her affection for humans supersedes her curiosity about going outside; last night during the kids' game night people were in and out of the house from around 3:00 pm on, but Morrigan was in my lap semi-napping contentedly for nearly the entire session (I think she finally got up to explore around 9:00 pm).
Meatball's huge risk is "black cat in a Goth household" syndrome. He's black. The furniture's black. The carpet is Cookie Monster blue. He vanishes easily, so we constantly remind the kids to watch where they're walking and to check before sitting down. He is invisocat.
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We have lost Meatball.
Did somebody sneeze?
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We have lost Meatball.Did somebody sneeze?
Thank you for bringing back a horrific childhood memory.
DO NOT SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN!Apologies. Our two big risk factors right now are the Fluffernutter, who really is acting like she's going to go any day now (though the Cranky Calico did that for more than a year before finally passing) and Stripey/Morrigan, who is an escape risk extraordinaire and is the only cat we have who doesn't come when called, because busy bein' curious.
Our hope for the trip is that her affection for humans supersedes her curiosity about going outside; last night during the kids' game night people were in and out of the house from around 3:00 pm on, but Morrigan was in my lap semi-napping contentedly for nearly the entire session (I think she finally got up to explore around 9:00 pm).
Meatball's huge risk is "black cat in a Goth household" syndrome. He's black. The furniture's black. The carpet is Cookie Monster blue. He vanishes easily, so we constantly remind the kids to watch where they're walking and to check before sitting down. He is invisocat.
Can you get him a hi-vis collar, or will he not wear one? (Ours won't)
Can you get him a hi-vis collar, or will he not wear one? (Ours won't)DO NOT SCARE US LIKE THAT AGAIN!Apologies. Our two big risk factors right now are the Fluffernutter, who really is acting like she's going to go any day now (though the Cranky Calico did that for more than a year before finally passing) and Stripey/Morrigan, who is an escape risk extraordinaire and is the only cat we have who doesn't come when called, because busy bein' curious.
Our hope for the trip is that her affection for humans supersedes her curiosity about going outside; last night during the kids' game night people were in and out of the house from around 3:00 pm on, but Morrigan was in my lap semi-napping contentedly for nearly the entire session (I think she finally got up to explore around 9:00 pm).
Meatball's huge risk is "black cat in a Goth household" syndrome. He's black. The furniture's black. The carpet is Cookie Monster blue. He vanishes easily, so we constantly remind the kids to watch where they're walking and to check before sitting down. He is invisocat.
Our cats all run about nekkid forevermore, so while he's dim and amiable enough to wear one, I'm terrified of just how many places he might manage to snag it in the house. And considering the kids have utterly destroyed the goth cat tree by running into a full-sized cat tree because they're not paying attention, I don't know that a tiny neon collar would improve his visibility. He has a white belly patch, and it doesn't help.
Hmmm, it seems that while I got back access to my own account, the shaper of worlds blog profile on facebook was deleted without trace or notification...
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If anyone is interested in Warhammer 40K, or Owlcat crpgs, there is less than 20 hours left to get Rogue Trader on Humble Choice.
It is really good if you like computer rpgs with complex tactical combat.
Story isn't bad, either.
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Fantasy Monster: ExtinguishinatorDo you also have a Burninator so they can be mortal foes?
I think that Scorchinators with their competing approach should will be enough.
I eat cherries for me gout. The store has Canadian cherries. Means the season is just about done.
Where I live, it starts with California cherries, then works up to Washington, then Canada. Strangely, I’ve never seen any Oregon cherries. Or at least they weren’t labeled as such.
My Grandma had a cherry tree here in Arizona. They were sour cherries for pie making. I ate them anyway. At least until Grandma came and shooed me away. The strawberry patch was next to my Grandparents house. That was the challenging one to raid.
Guest: "I have a reservation for tonight, name is ***."
Me: *I know we're sold out, but check computer anyways* "I'm sorry, I don't have a reservation for you. Are you maybe supposed to be at (nearby hotel)?"
Guest: "NO! My reservation is here! I'm not so stupid as to go to the wrong hotel. Here, I'll show you." *opens phone, scrolls a bit, shows me confirmation email*
Me: "Ah. That reservation is for tomorrow night. At a different brand hotel. In a city 200 miles away."
Guest: "WHAT!!!" *looks at phone, scrolls a bit more* "You must have screwed up my reservation. Fix it."
Me: "I did nothing to your reservation. I have no rooms to offer you. Good luck and good bye."
hm. I wonder what happened. That's a major f### up.
Drugs.
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I think that Scorchinators with their competing approach should will be enough.Fantasy Monster: ExtinguishinatorDo you also have a Burninator so they can be mortal foes?
Now I want there to be a hybrid of an Extinguishinator and a Scorchinator (obviously it would have two arms).
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Drugs.No thanks, I'm good.
Oh, did you mean the guest? I doubt it. I assume he didn't change his previous search, and so it showed him hotels where he had last been, and since it was after midnight, he couldn't book for Monday night anymore. So, basically, he likely just wasn't paying any attention while trying to book a room.
Or he wanted to walk 4/10ths of 500 miles so he could walk 800 more.
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Or he wanted to walk 4/10ths of 500 miles so he could walk 800 more.Drugs.No thanks, I'm good.
Oh, did you mean the guest? I doubt it. I assume he didn't change his previous search, and so it showed him hotels where he had last been, and since it was after midnight, he couldn't book for Monday night anymore. So, basically, he likely just wasn't paying any attention while trying to book a room.
I have never liked that song, but I like it a little bit more now just because you caused Freehold pain.
I have never liked that song, but I like it a little bit more now just because you caused Freehold pain.Or he wanted to walk 4/10ths of 500 miles so he could walk 800 more.Drugs.No thanks, I'm good.
Oh, did you mean the guest? I doubt it. I assume he didn't change his previous search, and so it showed him hotels where he had last been, and since it was after midnight, he couldn't book for Monday night anymore. So, basically, he likely just wasn't paying any attention while trying to book a room.
OW
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Sir, can you explain why you want to return this item?
It was billed as a big mans chair. It is properly sized for a smaller teen.
Could you send a picture of the defect?
** Sends in a picture that is best described as Hagrid trying to sit with the first years**
...yeah we can see why you're unhappy with your purchase...
Why do my soles hurt?
Oh, apparently I walked a bit over 14 km today, after a period of immovable laziness...
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So you could be the man who walked just over 14 km to fall down at your door?