Are you sure it wasn't his cousin Gil from Mallrats?
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I've done that several times already.
"Ahhhhh, all right. Hunkered down on the couch. Rum & coke in hand. Popcorn popped. No need to get back up for awhile. Let's watch the latest episodes of...oh, goddammit! And I just got comfy."
And that's why I wrote a .net program to automatically throw files to the appropriate movie/tv folders on my server
GasBandit
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My mistake was I didn't add it to my SyncBackPro, to get it to ftp automatically from my seedbox. So it was sitting out there in holland waiting for me to download it.And that's why I wrote a .net program to automatically throw files to the appropriate movie/tv folders on my server
Quick English question: Can "corporate" be used as a noun to refer to a company? Because my impression has always been that "corporation" is the noun while "corporate" is the adjective, eg. "a large corporation" vs "corporate profits". But more and more these days I'm seeing phrases like "large corporates".
Corporation is the noun, corporate used as a noun usually refers to a body of people, like the higher ups of a company, such as "Corporate says we have to do it this way"
Corporate as a noun to refer to a large company, "Donald Trump runs many failing corporates" is technically correct but is old fashioned and at least not very common in American English. Might be more common in UK or Australia
As mentioned above, in present-day usage, when "corporate" is used as a noun to refer to the company, it is not referring to the company as a singular entity (like how you might use "BMW" or "Coca-Cola"), but is instead understood to refer to the collective entity composed of the owners/officers of that company, or is also sometimes used the same way you might use the term "headquarters," as in "This is a decision that comes straight from corporate (i.e., the corporation's headquarters)."
--Patrick
Posted on FB today, because I was eating a bag of pistachios and the memory struck me.
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So, when I was a kid, pistachios used to be red.
That's because they used to dye them red. If you're a younger person, you've probably never seen a red pistachio. And they dyed them red (according to most food historians) because they were harvested, dried and imported from overseas and could end up looking blemished or gross and the red color helped cover that up.
These days, we have domestic pistachios, and they no longer dye them red. I think of this every time I'm being super picky over the fruits and vegetables I buy at the grocery store. I'm like "When did I get so finicky? I used to eat food so gross they had to dye it so that I couldn't see how gross it was."
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So, when I was a kid, pistachios used to be red.
That's because they used to dye them red. If you're a younger person, you've probably never seen a red pistachio. And they dyed them red (according to most food historians) because they were harvested, dried and imported from overseas and could end up looking blemished or gross and the red color helped cover that up.
These days, we have domestic pistachios, and they no longer dye them red. I think of this every time I'm being super picky over the fruits and vegetables I buy at the grocery store. I'm like "When did I get so finicky? I used to eat food so gross they had to dye it so that I couldn't see how gross it was."
I'm doing a translation case for a client, a software services company. They've created a new software suite that will provide a unified interface for all of their applications. They've decided to name this software suite "(Company name) Engine". So far so good. Except the company's English name happens to coincide with the name of a famous game engine, for example let's say the company's called Source or Unity.
I kind of want to point out that no one who Googles the name of their software will see any mention of it, because all they'll get is hits related to the game engine. But I'm just the translator, it's not my place.
Also I'm kind of surprised that no one who works at a software company knew about this game engine and/or pointed it out to the people who named their software suite.
I kind of want to point out that no one who Googles the name of their software will see any mention of it, because all they'll get is hits related to the game engine. But I'm just the translator, it's not my place.
Also I'm kind of surprised that no one who works at a software company knew about this game engine and/or pointed it out to the people who named their software suite.
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How UNREAListic of them...
I was grocery shopping this past Wed (as I frequently do), and while I was walking by the frozen food section with my cart, a woman just turned to me out of nowhere and asked, "Hey, they never label these things right. Do you know what 'animal rennet' means?" to which I had to reply that yes, I did know what it means and where it comes from, and she thanked me and I continued my shopping.
What is it about me that makes people assume I work for whatever business I happen to be patronizing at the time? This will happen no matter what kind of (retail) business I go to, no matter what kind of clothes I'm wearing*, or even whether I happen to be carrying a basket/pushing a cart at the time.
--Patrick
*within reason.
What is it about me that makes people assume I work for whatever business I happen to be patronizing at the time? This will happen no matter what kind of (retail) business I go to, no matter what kind of clothes I'm wearing*, or even whether I happen to be carrying a basket/pushing a cart at the time.
--Patrick
*within reason.
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Hey! I remember making that! Don't remember why, though.
Well now I know what to do for the next time.
Dave
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It's a sad thread. I was thinking of N_R last night. The anniversary is coming up. Can you believe next year is 10 years since he passed?
GasBandit
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It's always been kind of overshadowed, for me. But yeah, crazy that it'll have been 10 years.
Dave
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This year is 9. NEXT year is 10.
GasBandit
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That's why I said "it'll have been" (it will have been) instead of "it's been" (it has been).
Not to put too fine a point on it, but yes, I am acutely aware of how many years it has been since somebody died in 2013.
I can't.