The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Only 1. 
I'm lucky if I have 3 or so. I can't even imagine getting into the double digits!
I'm lucky if I have 3 or so. I can't even imagine getting into the double digits!
For the record, I liked, unliked, loved, unloved, brofisted, unbrofisted, and liked the post again. But apparently I can't like-bomb someone that way. Tssss.Only 1.
I'm lucky if I have 3 or so. I can't even imagine getting into the double digits!
HUFFLEPUFF HOUSE SISTER! *Huffle-fist, but in a likeable fashion*
Also, only two likes for gams? Jay's rolling over in his... something right now.
Also, only two likes for gams? Jay's rolling over in his... something right now.
Bunk, I'd guess
I would say yes, yes that is how you got such a high post count.
I generally prefer to just not say anything. I'm still quite shy and like to keep to myself, so I do often respond through likes and hugs. Don't know if I'll ever fully change that habit.
GasBandit
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Well, that and being King of the Image Macros.
I'm the opposite. I've always been very outspoken (and I have ever so slightly a bit of a malevolent streak carefully hidden within my playful, lighthearted exterior), and it's gotten me into trouble in the past for calling things as I saw them with a fair degree of sesquipedalian verbosity.
Y'ever make ramen an egg in it?'Sgood.
GasBandit
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I used to do that all the time. Scrambled an egg then drop it in the boiling ramen, SO good.
In other news, this picture was in my RSS feed and it reminded me of the above leggings post by Kags:
This is assuming you didn't just boil the noodles in chicken broth to begin with.
--Patrick
I found some old pornography on an external drive. I swear that my co-worker was taking part in the action...
I am so curious that this quiet woman has a past, but there is no way in hell to broach the subject.
I am so curious that this quiet woman has a past, but there is no way in hell to broach the subject.
That looks so creepy, like he's trying to drag the kid into the box with him.
GasBandit
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I've noticed ever since I got it, apparently my new UPS (Which admittedly is a pretty weak one) can't handle intense action in TF2. Whenever a bunch of pyros come around, or somebody gets ubercharged, or anything like that, the UPS's overload alarm starts going off. Once I even managed to stress it to the point of shutting off. This doesn't happen in ANY other game - only TF2. Whuh? I guess there's some magical coding in TF2 that makes my video card pull extra juice?
I should probably just buy a better UPS. This is what I get for only spending $30 on one.
I should probably just buy a better UPS. This is what I get for only spending $30 on one.
No, it's a problem with TF2. It 's a bloated beast and it pulls out a huge amount of power and resources.
Or a really crummy UPS. I'm assuming the overload alarm being tripped is the "More than the UPS can handle" alarm, and not the "More than the outlet can handle, so I'm kicking in to help" alarm.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Hrm.. It IS plugged into one of the non-battery (surge) jacks on the old UPS (new UPS doesn't have enough plugs for all the speakers/routers/modems/external HDs etc), but I wouldn't think that would be enough to cause this... I guess I could be wrong though. The only thing plugged into this new UPS is the system itself and the router.
I got a call from a survey company once. We had an entertaining time. They wanted to know if we were a Mac or PC household and how many computers we had. They weren't ready for me. Their software couldn't handle someone who was using Mac AND Windows AND some mysterious thing called Linux, and they didn't even have an option for people with more than 4 computers.
--Patrick
Pretty much all UPS devices specify that you are NOT to plug them in behind a surge protector, since this can confuse the UPS somehow. There are some surge protectors that claim they don't confuse UPS circuitry, but they're (much) more expensive.
--Patrick
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Hrm. It's never been an issue before, but then this IS a really cheap UPS. Usually I spend 60-80 bucks per and then even daisy chain 2 or 3 of them together, but I got stingy this time.
Okay I don't talk with this with anyone because I'm in full denial and pretend its not a big deal, but on late nights such as these cars park ON MY STREET for several minutes! Tonight one had its hazard lights on, so I thought "Hey, I'm a good Samaritan I'll see if their okay." Well the moment I opened my door THEY LEFT! As in, they were probably pretending to be in a hazard light situation so they could park outside my house. I don't mean to sound paranoid....THOUGH I AM! This is creepy! Are creepy car people spying on me? Am I a player in whichever apocalypse is happening at the moment? I'm so confused.
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Ugly, ugly car wreck outside my house just now. I was heading to my bedroom when I heard a loud series of crash noises. I rush outside, and directly across the street there's a Jeep Cherokee with its front end on top of some Toyota/Honda/whatever. I honestly can't tell what the car was anymore. The impact knocked the whole pile into two other cars, which also had serious damage. Apparently some dipshit was speeding down my street when a car pulled out of its driveway, and the dipshit swerved into all the parked cars. Everyone was okay, though the passenger had to go to the hospital in an ambulance (it didn't appear to be serious).
It's not unusual for me to park my car on the street in the same spot that got hit. So glad I parked on the opposite side of the street tonight.
It's not unusual for me to park my car on the street in the same spot that got hit. So glad I parked on the opposite side of the street tonight.
Not sure whether this should be a minor rant, or a minor win, or whatever, so here it goes!
As I said elsewhere, I've been trying to get a job in the culture department of my city. I passed the written test, onward to the itnerview, which is the last phase this time around.
My current employer knows I've been looking around...Up until now, I've often tried to change jobs in the company, but was pretty much tolmd it was never going to happen - I was too valuable where I was right now, and the job I wanted I didn't have the required experience for, and there would always be better candidates.
So, yeah, they just offered me that job. I'd have jumped at it two or maybe even one years ago, but now....The job at my current firm haas a car, and unlimited gas, and it pays slightly better...But it's still nights and (occasional) weekends, chaning hours, and it's in a pretty rough department - Brussels is the New York of Belgium (heh); the department has...17 or 18 nationalities, a huge turn-over amongst the lower ranks (I'd be one of their bosses, but still), and communication's in 4 languages because otherwise there's too much trouble getting points across. The job I was going for in my city is in walking distance from my house, pays about as well as what I do now, but no more nights or weekends (except if there's a big event or something that I'm organising or collaborating on, obviously); probably lower stress levels, and it's almost exclusively in my own language, which is handy, after all. No car, but then again I wouldn't really need it, and free public transport in the whole city.
One may be a stepping stone towards management and leading, the other's a step into the cultural world and probably offers more security.
Considering my degree in cultural management - I want both! Gah! Damnit employer, couldn't you have gotten off your ass and offered me that job a year ago? I'd have been there, doing that, happily by now. Nowi t's a pretty rough decision - further complicated by the fact that the interview isn't for another 3 weeks but my current employer wants an answer now. Gah!
As I said elsewhere, I've been trying to get a job in the culture department of my city. I passed the written test, onward to the itnerview, which is the last phase this time around.
My current employer knows I've been looking around...Up until now, I've often tried to change jobs in the company, but was pretty much tolmd it was never going to happen - I was too valuable where I was right now, and the job I wanted I didn't have the required experience for, and there would always be better candidates.
So, yeah, they just offered me that job. I'd have jumped at it two or maybe even one years ago, but now....The job at my current firm haas a car, and unlimited gas, and it pays slightly better...But it's still nights and (occasional) weekends, chaning hours, and it's in a pretty rough department - Brussels is the New York of Belgium (heh
); the department has...17 or 18 nationalities, a huge turn-over amongst the lower ranks (I'd be one of their bosses, but still), and communication's in 4 languages because otherwise there's too much trouble getting points across. The job I was going for in my city is in walking distance from my house, pays about as well as what I do now, but no more nights or weekends (except if there's a big event or something that I'm organising or collaborating on, obviously); probably lower stress levels, and it's almost exclusively in my own language, which is handy, after all. No car, but then again I wouldn't really need it, and free public transport in the whole city. One may be a stepping stone towards management and leading, the other's a step into the cultural world and probably offers more security.
Considering my degree in cultural management - I want both! Gah! Damnit employer, couldn't you have gotten off your ass and offered me that job a year ago? I'd have been there, doing that, happily by now. Nowi t's a pretty rough decision - further complicated by the fact that the interview isn't for another 3 weeks but my current employer wants an answer now. Gah!
Yeah, that's a weird/sad feeling. I went back to my "hometown" for the first time in nearly 15 years and I didn't see a single person that I knew. It was odd being the stranger in town. Most of the scenery was the same, but everything felt different. Also, someone in the area apparently convinced half the county that red aluminum roofs are the next big thing. The H.S., the convenience shop, a couple of house - all with bright red aluminum roofs.
GasBandit
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I also know these feels. Heck, they tore down and completely rebuilt my high school, and frankly I'm a bit jealous I didn't get to go to the rebuilt one - it's so much more awesome (and not at all shaped like a hexagonal maze of madness). But yeah... going home to visit the folks is always an odd experience, because despite only having been gone 14 years or so... it's not the same and I feel like an outsider. A tourist in an unfamiliar town where people I'm related to happen to live.
My parents try to push me to go out when I go visit them. Hell, I did not like the people I knew there 27 years ago. I damn sure won't like them now.
I'd rather pour myself a Scotch and, sit and talk to my Mother for most of the night.
I'd rather pour myself a Scotch and, sit and talk to my Mother for most of the night.