The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Same here. Not real sure about tomorrow, but it's going to be colder than today so I'm guessing schools will be canceled. I don't mind it as much as the blowing snow we had over the weekend.
Friday I had to drive through white out conditions to get to Superior. Probably the scariest driving I've ever experienced. There is nothing worse than seeing an oncoming vehicle and all of a sudden a burst of wind whites everything out so can't even tell where the oncoming vehicle or the vehicle in front of you is at. No headlights, no tail lights, just a giant wall of bright white snow.
When I finally got home on Sunday the snow was still drifting, and they were even closing highways around here. Since I live on a rural dirt road, it of course wasn't plowed. So I got to drive at 40 mph busting through snowdrifts higher than my bumper hoping to god I had enough momentum to push through them and not get hung up on too much snow. Still no plows this morning, but at least I had a little bit of a path made.
Savannah's projected to get 2" of snow tomorrow afternoon/overnight timeframe. People here are FLIPPING THEIR SHIT.
Really. It's adorable.
Really. It's adorable.
Are they all running out to get bread and milk and other staples? That crap used to drive me nuts when I was in NJ.
I have a 75mi round trip to work. But does it get canceled? Of course not. 7" snow last night, 6" snow the night before, 3" the one before that. Takes up to 2x longer, but no clemency due to inclemency.
--Patrick
It still bothers me that I can't get any more of that beautiful fur.
Inside my closet,
a green fuzzy robe my size.
It is quite comfy.
a green fuzzy robe my size.
It is quite comfy.
figmentPez
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Someone decided to crunch the numbers on if Wolverine's healing factor could be used to solve world hunger.
Soylent Green is mutants!
I just purchased the 60 song compilation The Ink Spots Greatest Hits over residual guilt that I wake up each day to a bootlegged Maybe (dammit, Fallout), and I have discovered that almost every song start out the exact same way, and then becomes a new song. It's...well it's bizarre honestly.
Examples:
Either way, it was twelve bucks well spent.
Examples:
Either way, it was twelve bucks well spent.
That is weird.
Just got a private message today that I probably shouldn't go in to too much detail about but basically, the short film I did 5 years ago with a group of my friends- Sun Day- has inspired some people in the UK. I don't want to ruin what they're doing with it, so thus the lack of detail, but I am too giddy with excitement to contain myself. Knowing our art has inspired someone else's is just a really awesome feeling.
My daughter is walking around our house singing:
Jingle Bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Oh what fun
The Joker got a-way.
Hey!
Jingle Bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Oh what fun
The Joker got a-way.
Hey!
When I was a kid...
Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost its wheels
The Commissioner broke his leg!
I flipped out when the Joker sang it on B:tAS
Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost its wheels
The Commissioner broke his leg!
I flipped out when the Joker sang it on B:tAS
The version I heard as a kid was
Jingle Bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg!
The Batmobile lost its wheel
And the Joker got away! Hey!
Couldn't find the actual vid.
I saw an otter in the neighborhood. For all the time that I've spent outside, I have never seen on in East Texas before.
Ah, my spy has established contact. Good, good.
He was scampering across the road to get a good look at the pig carcass. He was about 2 feet long, between the feet, HUGE spy.
figmentPez
Staff member
Yes, though I'm having trouble finding exact numbers or sources. One list has hundreds of insects that various groups have declared endangered, but not much specifics on who did that. Another list doesn't differentiate between threatened, endangered and several other terms, including just under consideration. Then there's the count that includes plants in the same number.
In any case, there are insects on the list, including other butterflies.
The Evil Overlord business isn't paying quite enough to pay off the debts I had to incure when I bought my house so I'm going to have to take a part-time job.
This looks like an interesting place to work.
http://theringlord.com/cart/
This looks like an interesting place to work.
http://theringlord.com/cart/
Are you making sure you follow this? http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Printed and framed on the wall next to my computer.
When I did chainmail stuff I bought most of my supplies through there.
What kind of stuff did you do?
I liked making things with the real small rings. I did bracelets, necklaces, and some rings. My shaking got to the point that I couldn't really work with the small stuff any more, and I just kinda gave up on it. Do you do any chainmail work?
So apparently, my home town and the town where I spent my first four years as a constable has been featured in this Canadian Communities of Distinction video.
What they don't tell you is it's winter 11 months of the year (it feels like it). That you're more likely to find drunken "street people" as the town calls them or people from the reserves who come into town to do nothing but fortified wine and pass out in a playground slide in those playgrounds than actual children using them. One of the guys in the video is also a member of the family that owns most of the hotels in the town. They have...questionable...ties to some middle eastern concerns and are directly responsible for the drug trade in the town that services migrant oil and gas workers.
High Level is a fucking shit hole.
What they don't tell you is it's winter 11 months of the year (it feels like it). That you're more likely to find drunken "street people" as the town calls them or people from the reserves who come into town to do nothing but fortified wine and pass out in a playground slide in those playgrounds than actual children using them. One of the guys in the video is also a member of the family that owns most of the hotels in the town. They have...questionable...ties to some middle eastern concerns and are directly responsible for the drug trade in the town that services migrant oil and gas workers.
High Level is a fucking shit hole.
Best Buy and Future Shop are laying off nearly 1000 employees, almost a year after straight up closing several Best Buys, every store on the island including the one I had worked at but left when I sensed a change in the air.
What I don't understand is a bunch of the folks that I worked with went back to them, either through futureshop or best buy mobile. Other than needing a job because you couldn't find anything else, which is almost never the case here, I would never have put any faith in them again, and now that the same is happening, watching these people be surprised it baffles me.
What I don't understand is a bunch of the folks that I worked with went back to them, either through futureshop or best buy mobile. Other than needing a job because you couldn't find anything else, which is almost never the case here, I would never have put any faith in them again, and now that the same is happening, watching these people be surprised it baffles me.