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The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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How do we make it sineplay?
GasBandit
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By getting a tan?
There is a company near my house. "Tangent Signs"
Almost! I get there Monday, our stuff gets unloaded Tuesday.
GasBandit
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We will need photographic evidence.
figmentPez
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Someone would need good reason to order from a company with that name. You don't just go around ordering signs without cos.
I miss Texas Country and regular Americana. You'd think that it would get played in Texas.
GasBandit
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Even our own country station has been shying away from Texas Country more the last couple years, and the ratings have been improving for it. Unfortunately it seems to be a little too niche for prime time. But it's probably a lot more common up around the panhandle, and I bet those stations stream.
I feel like a bad pet parent when I laughed when I noticed that my 10 lb cat busted the lip of my 100 lb dog.
He is a little slow, but we all love him.
He is a little slow, but we all love him.
It annoys me that Steam wants me to have two factor authentication and the mobile authenticator. In general I hate using my phone as an authenticator because I'm worried about breaking my phone and having to deal with support to log in.
GasBandit
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I hope you do at least have 2-factor authentication on (where it texts you a code whenever you log in on a new system), right?
As someone whose steam account was (almost) stolen because of the security flaws of a third party, two factor authentication is a godsend
GasBandit
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I just leave the client open 24/7 at home, both on my desktop and laptop.
At work, I often find it's less of a hassle to just teamviewer into my home machine than log in to steam's website because I can never remember my password because I never log in because I never log out
Random writing-related question. I'm trying to finish Dill's third adventure. Haven't written a lot yet, but some. Better than nothing.
Anyway, I just wrote a throwaway joke that I'm not sure is too offensive:
"He looked less like a superhero and more like a UNICEF commercial."
Would that be going too far? I once wrote a joke in the first book that everyone who read it suggested I take it out ("She was thinner than an Ethiopian.") which I did. I'm feeling this one is borderline the same kind of offensive and I don't want that.
Anyway, I just wrote a throwaway joke that I'm not sure is too offensive:
"He looked less like a superhero and more like a UNICEF commercial."
Would that be going too far? I once wrote a joke in the first book that everyone who read it suggested I take it out ("She was thinner than an Ethiopian.") which I did. I'm feeling this one is borderline the same kind of offensive and I don't want that.
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I personally find that joke funnier than the Ethiopian joke, but only because the Ethiopian joke is a little cliche. I don't find either offensive.
It made me chuckle
GasBandit
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I thought about that one before I put what I did, and it occurred to me Sally Struthers might not exist in the Dill universe.
The same occurred to me, but I figured out of all of us, if there's anyone who would know whether or not she does, it would be @ThatNickGuy.
...and he did consider using UNICEF, so the odds of overlap are much greater.
--Patrick
This. It's generic enough that we get the idea that they're emaciated without being too on the nose regarding any particular organization or charity.
We have a trial membership for DirectTV, so our son is watching a few minutes of "normal" television, and this commercial comes on:
(well not this exact commercial, but one of the more recent ones starring Mr. Jackson)
...and he turns to me and asks, "Why does that man sound like the guy from The Incredibles, the guy who freezes everything?"
Heh. Sharp kid.
--Patrick
(well not this exact commercial, but one of the more recent ones starring Mr. Jackson)
...and he turns to me and asks, "Why does that man sound like the guy from The Incredibles, the guy who freezes everything?"
Heh. Sharp kid.
--Patrick
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Suicide Squad is an Oscar winning film...
don't get much more random than that.
don't get much more random than that.