Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Is Jesus face-palming because of the hobo ensemble?
Dave
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my juice box exploded in my lunch box.
That sounds like a euphemism. And what a terrible thing to call your wife.
PLAY THE MACARENA!
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Anonymous
Anonymous
Yes. YES! My long con has come to fruition! Plug it into your car's USB port, and all that is GasBandit's shall be mine!!!
Jesus' is face-palming for a number of reasons, socks in crocs being merely the latest in a long string.
GasBandit
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The critical flaw in your nefarious plan to steal my Dodge Neon is that a Creative Zen Micro cannot play and charge at the same time.Yes. YES! My long con has come to fruition! Plug it into your car's USB port, and all that is GasBandit's shall be mine!!!
So, I guess you'll just have to settle for my work PC. It's a Core i3-4170!
If your car has a usb, chances are good the radio will read the mp3s off the zen and play them while it's charging.
Is he being preemptive and asking for "lignite, sub-bituminous, bituminous and anthracite"?
GasBandit
Staff member
It also won't switch to file transfer mode while its battery is dead. So it had to charge for a while, too. I just decided not to screw with it while I was driving
besides, I needed to get it in to work so I could copy all the new tracks I've got since I last checked the thing out last year.I guess you'll just have to listen to the radio like an animal.It also won't switch to file transfer mode while its battery is dead. So it had to charge for a while, too. I just decided not to screw with it while I was driving
GasBandit
Staff member
Pssht, like anybody listens to the radio anymore.
There isn't a shame rating lol.
After years of only having netflix and similar commercial free services we decided to try Directtv now since it was only $10/mo with our cell phones.
Commercials. So. Many. Terrible. Commercials.
I listen to it constantly.
My kids got so used to us streaming video from Netflix that they thought we could fast forward the commercials on regular TV.
They rhyme! They’re both verbs! It must have been awesome!
—Patrick
fade
Staff member
I use an antenna for OTA tv, and I have set it up so that it will rewind and DVR live tv. The TV supported it, but not in the US or Canada. So I had to get into the maintenance menu and tell the TV it was a "Carribean" model. Which required spoofing a maintenance remote using a WAV file and two IR LEDs connected to the headphone jack on my phone. This sounds way more complicated that it is.
fade
Staff member
I'm getting a little nervous about my wife's gifts. I used "no-rush" shipping on Amazon, because they enticed me with their new offer, which is $10 free restaurant delivery food. The estimated delivery was 12/19, but the news is saying the parcel services are glutted this year due to record online shopping. The packages haven't even shipped yet.
I love how FedEx, UPS, and USPS just don't seem to care that every year for the foreseeable future will be busier than the one before. If they are not careful, Amazon will launch their own package delivery system.
It’s the pizza delivery “30 minutes or it’s free” all over again.
GasBandit
Staff member
Somebody guessed our General Manager's e-mail password and has been sending viruses to all his contacts all morning.
HIS PASSWORD WAS HIS WIFE'S NAME, Y'ALL.
/headdesk.
I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
ProTip: Your spouse's first name is not a secure password. Even if you put a "1" after it.
HIS PASSWORD WAS HIS WIFE'S NAME, Y'ALL.
/headdesk.
I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
ProTip: Your spouse's first name is not a secure password. Even if you put a "1" after it.
If the gifts are late, she'll probably understand - just don't tell her why you chose the no-rush option
I'm right there with you. I have a package I'm expecting with an estimated delivery between 12/15 & 12/20. This is a Santa present for one of my kids that I had no choice but to order online. As if shipping to HI isn't already bad enough.
I think I may be nuts. I’m going to draw something for my mother in law after the turtles. The place I go to for printing has a two or three day wait for printing so while we wait for the portraits to be printed for us, I’m going to try and do a small picture for her.
I’m probably nuts.
I’m probably nuts.
I guess this is a whine.
One of my professors from undergrad passed away today. We weren't particularly close, I'd only taken one of his classes, and it was a class of about 50 people, so I wasn't particularly notable. I also didn't interact with him much outside of class. But this guy... man, he was amazing. He was known as Taiwan's poet laureate, and he was a master of literature in both Chinese and English. There's a proverb in Chinese, 出口成章, which means "your words become texts", and it's is used to describe someone so eloquent and articulate that everything they say can become literature. This professor was like that. I took one of his classes, and I was deeply impressed with how much a person can know about stuff, and how greatly their knowledge and wisdom can affect their everyday demeanor and philosophies, and how every little nuance can be important.
He also yelled at me once for being too loud during an exam, so that was an interesting experience, getting yelled at by the poet laureate.
His daughter was also a professor of literature at our school, and taught both me and my then-girlfriend-now-wife. My wife also worked for her as her academic assistant, and she spoke at our wedding. So I guess there's a tiny bit of connection between his family and ours.
He was 90 years old, so I guess we sort of knew this day would come eventually. I just wish it'd never come at all.
One of my professors from undergrad passed away today. We weren't particularly close, I'd only taken one of his classes, and it was a class of about 50 people, so I wasn't particularly notable. I also didn't interact with him much outside of class. But this guy... man, he was amazing. He was known as Taiwan's poet laureate, and he was a master of literature in both Chinese and English. There's a proverb in Chinese, 出口成章, which means "your words become texts", and it's is used to describe someone so eloquent and articulate that everything they say can become literature. This professor was like that. I took one of his classes, and I was deeply impressed with how much a person can know about stuff, and how greatly their knowledge and wisdom can affect their everyday demeanor and philosophies, and how every little nuance can be important.
He also yelled at me once for being too loud during an exam, so that was an interesting experience, getting yelled at by the poet laureate.
His daughter was also a professor of literature at our school, and taught both me and my then-girlfriend-now-wife. My wife also worked for her as her academic assistant, and she spoke at our wedding. So I guess there's a tiny bit of connection between his family and ours.
He was 90 years old, so I guess we sort of knew this day would come eventually. I just wish it'd never come at all.
