Random randomness

J.D. · Post by **J.D.** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:24 am

Hit up the Toronto Festival of Beer on Friday night. Adult, responsible, father-of-two me hasn't had a binge drinking night in years. My now 33 year old body was all like "you thought you were hungover in college? Ahahaha you simpleton, THIS is a hangover."

Still worth it.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:19 pm

coopasonic wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:Shit like this is why I started working 7-3 so I can be home by 4.
One time it took me 25 minutes to get home. It was rough. I think there was a concert at the soccer stadium. I am thinking about moving to avoid that in the future.

It would have to be snowing with extremely slippery roads for it to take me that long to get home....

Of course, when the weather is really bad, I just work from home instead.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:40 pm

TheMix wrote:
coopasonic wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:Shit like this is why I started working 7-3 so I can be home by 4.
One time it took me 25 minutes to get home. It was rough. I think there was a concert at the soccer stadium. I am thinking about moving to avoid that in the future.
It would have to be snowing with extremely slippery roads for it to take me that long to get home....

Of course, when the weather is really bad, I just work from home instead.

For the last 20 years of my career, my daily commute was a 25-minute walk, mostly through a park.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:59 pm

Getting a lot of spam calls the last few days at work. Went ahead and created a fake voice mail box and have started directing these calls to that number. Next week, I'll play back the messages to see just how many of them actually believed me when I said the person's name was "Hooptie Schmegel".

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:06 pm

It's days like today where I take some solace in the idea that someone out there somewhere is having a worse day than me, and that I can hope that it gets better for them.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:16 pm

Probably the sales guy calling hepcat. Not likely to get much better.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 8:44 pm

Returned from the Atlantic ocean yesterday with my two daughters who are now old enough to realize what it means to have sand EVERYWHERE. Much unhappiness and horror!

Thanks for making me laugh at them, KKBlue. Fortunately, mini-golf and ice cream still solves many grudges at their age....

Default · Post by **Default** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:22 pm

Lost my pet rabbit today.

Still, eight years is a pretty good run for a bunny.

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:25 am

Default wrote:Lost my pet rabbit today.

Still, eight years is a pretty good run for a bunny.

Sorry to hear this. That is a good long run...

We have to take our 5-year-old Big Bunny in for a nail clipping today and when we pick him up to put him in his carrying cage he will prove how alive and KICKING he still is.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:52 am

I'm so slow now that when I start a project now I always wonder if I'll be alive to finish it.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:53 am

I appear to have lost my wedding band. It's not in the place I always put it at night. This is not good.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:03 am

stessier wrote:I appear to have lost my wedding band. It's not in the place I always put it at night. This is not good.

Free pass!

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:19 pm

How did I live this long without a K.I.T.T. USB charger for my car? This might be one of the greatest things ever created.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:34 pm

stessier wrote:I appear to have lost my wedding band. It's not in the place I always put it at night. This is not good.

Ring found - under Mickey Mouse ears. Now to find out who hid it...

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:38 pm

I'm guessing Minnie.

rshetts2 · Post by **rshetts2** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:50 pm

Smoove_B wrote:How did I live this long without a K.I.T.T. USB charger for my car? This might be one of the greatest things ever created.

For about the first couple of minutes and then it would be as annoying as hell, especially if you had a kid in the front seat.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:47 pm

This really appeals to me.

The Bios Urn is a fully biodegradable urn designed to convert you into a tree after life. Mainly composed by two parts, the urn contains a seed which will grow to remember your loved one. Bios Urn turns death into a transformation and a return to life through nature.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:50 pm

In Gunland, we go a different way.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:21 pm

Mrs. Skinypupy texted me an adorable picture of Little B 6.4 starting 1st grade today...which I missed because I was on a plane coming back from DC this morning. This is after missing the Wonder Twins 2.1 birthday last month because I had to be in Denver and missing my anniversary because I was in Portland. Spent both my wife's and my own birthdays in hotel rooms last year, and it's looking like that will be the case again this year.

Sometimes (ok, most of the time) work travel sucks.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:07 pm

Is that a new type of traveling salesman problem?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:43 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:In Gunland, we go a different way.

My friend smiled and said “You know I’ve thought about this for some time and I want to be cremated. Then I want my ashes put into some turkey load shotgun shells and have someone that knows how to turkey hunt use the shotgun shells with my ashes to shoot a turkey. That way I will rest in peace knowing that the last thing that one turkey will see is me, screaming at him at about 900 feet per second.”

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:13 pm

Zarathud wrote:Returned from the Atlantic ocean yesterday with my two daughters who are now old enough to realize what it means to have sand EVERYWHERE. Much unhappiness and horror!

Thanks for making me laugh at them, KKBlue. Fortunately, mini-golf and ice cream still solves many grudges at their age....

I chuckled.

Default · Post by **Default** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:35 pm

Daehawk wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:In Gunland, we go a different way.

My friend smiled and said “You know I’ve thought about this for some time and I want to be cremated. Then I want my ashes put into some turkey load shotgun shells and have someone that knows how to turkey hunt use the shotgun shells with my ashes to shoot a turkey. That way I will rest in peace knowing that the last thing that one turkey will see is me, screaming at him at about 900 feet per second.”

I want to be cremated and have my ashes dumped on Halle Berry by my worst enemy.

That way, I'm all over Halle Berry and he gets charged with assault.

Yum!

rshetts2 · Post by **rshetts2** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:17 am

Isgrimnur wrote:In Gunland, we go a different way.

Awesome! Now Grandpa can defend the homestead long after he dies.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 10:47 am

This is a neat story about a tall ship that was built by the Nazis and is now in active service for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Driving home along the coast of Connecticut one winter's evening, Tido Holtkamp saw a ghost.

There she was - moored in the harbour, her three towering masts, draped with those familiar sails he had rigged back in the German Navy in World War Two. Her body had been repainted in the red, white and blue of the US, but her curves were unmistakable.

"That's my ship!" shouted Holtkamp, stopping the car. "That's my ship. The Horst Wessel. What in the world is she doing here in America?"

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:10 pm

AWS260 wrote:This is a neat story about a tall ship that was built by the Nazis and is now in active service for the U.S. Coast Guard.

cool story

xwraith · Post by **xwraith** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:30 pm

What do you do with a vendor that sends you their private key when you ask for their public?

Me wrote:Uh, you sure you wanted to send me that? This is a mistake right? Something misnamed?

RandomVendor wrote:Its the only key we have

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:40 pm

AWS260 wrote:This is a neat story about a tall ship that was built by the Nazis and is now in active service for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Driving home along the coast of Connecticut one winter's evening, Tido Holtkamp saw a ghost.

There she was - moored in the harbour, her three towering masts, draped with those familiar sails he had rigged back in the German Navy in World War Two. Her body had been repainted in the red, white and blue of the US, but her curves were unmistakable.

"That's my ship!" shouted Holtkamp, stopping the car. "That's my ship. The Horst Wessel. What in the world is she doing here in America?"

Holtkamp immediately tried to take Warsaw with a 2012 Chevy Spark on which he had painted "Wehrmacht!" on the passenger door.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:47 pm

hepcat wrote:Holtkamp immediately tried to take Warsaw with a 2011 Volkswagen Fox on which he had painted "Rommels Rückkehr!" on the passenger door.

FTFY.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 1:19 pm

What a wonderful story and ship.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 1:53 pm

So my daughter has showed me this guy, Lt Higgins. (a local "crimestoppers" cop) a few times. Talked about how a bunch of people want him to run for POTUS and stupid crap. I get the attraction but don't understand the fanboyism.

I assumed it was local thing and then I see this on foxnews.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/438077844900 ... show-clips

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:06 pm

Why do I push one on the phone to speak English and then get transferred to someone in India?

J.D. · Post by **J.D.** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:10 pm

Baby locked in car drama in our work parking lot today (we have a store and gym attached to our building, so not just for employees). It's over 90F outside today. Apparently she was putting her kids back in the car and the older kid (about 2 or 3 years old) hit the "lock" button on the car and locked herself and the baby in the car with the keys. Hysterical mother didn't want to run inside to ask for help because that would have meant leaving the car so she chased down and asked passing people for help. One called 911 and the cops and firefighters showed up and busted in her window to open the car. Sounds like everyone is ok.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:54 pm

dbt1949 wrote:Why do I push one on the phone to speak English and then get transferred to someone in India?

In America why should I have to push a button for English? It should just be that way and other languages pus ha button.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:02 pm

Maybe if you press 2 for Spanish you will get someone in the US.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:21 pm

Fun fact: if you roll the dice for a random English speaker, odds are they won't be in the U.S., U.K., Canada, or Australia.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:45 pm

The sun never sets on the British Commonwealth or its former members.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:13 pm

Daehawk wrote:
dbt1949 wrote:Why do I push one on the phone to speak English and then get transferred to someone in India?
In America why should I have to push a button for English? It should just be that way and other languages pus ha button.

Because if they did it that way, you'd have to sit through a menu of every other language they offer, then wait for the timeout, and then get connected. Pushing one is much faster.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:43 pm

I wonder if people in India call customer service and get someone in the US? Do they curse under their breath when thy do too?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 11:30 pm

dbt1949 wrote:I wonder if people in India call customer service and get someone in the US? Do they curse under their breath when thy do too?

Yep. They get some guy with a Brooklyn accent who calls himself 'Reyansh.'