bicyclebuilder
Rogue Ætherlord
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A.K.A. Scanner Camera Builder
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« Reply #500 on: March 30, 2012, 07:03:15 am » |
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Turns out, none of the people inside the van where dead. But I'm pretty shure she saw someone or something.
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DrArclight
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« Reply #501 on: March 30, 2012, 10:46:40 pm » |
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Turns out, none of the people inside the van where dead. But I'm pretty sure she saw someone or something.
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« Reply #502 on: March 31, 2012, 06:43:58 am » |
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Again and again I'm surprised by the idiocy of Windows refusing to cooperate with third party software. In particular, making media shared by PS3 Media Server being visible to VLC on my second computer required me to change the sharing settings of Windows itself. WTF ?!
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I have defied Gods and Demons. I am your shield; I am your sword. I know you: your past, your future. This is the way the world ends.
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« Reply #503 on: March 31, 2012, 09:53:56 am » |
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when trying to go and have a shower in the morning and some complete numbnut gets to the bathroom before you!!!!!
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« Reply #504 on: March 31, 2012, 05:28:39 pm » |
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Is it Me? Or is queue etiquett going out the window? This morning queing for a bus, a guy just barges in in front of me and I say 'Excuse me there's a queue here'. He replies that he'd been there before me. Well maybe so, but he'd left the queue! I always you had to be in it to win it, if you leave the queue you lose your place...
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There is nothing that cannot be made a little worse and sold a little cheaper
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« Reply #505 on: March 31, 2012, 10:43:54 pm » |
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Is it Me? Or is queue etiquett going out the window? This morning queing for a bus, a guy just barges in in front of me and I say 'Excuse me there's a queue here'. He replies that he'd been there before me. Well maybe so, but he'd left the queue! I always you had to be in it to win it, if you leave the queue you lose your place...
OMG......... Queue etiquette has been gone for years. You could start a thread on this, it would have 90 pages in no time! |
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« Reply #506 on: April 01, 2012, 03:00:27 am » |
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Is it Me? Or is queue etiquett going out the window? This morning queing for a bus, a guy just barges in in front of me and I say 'Excuse me there's a queue here'. He replies that he'd been there before me. Well maybe so, but he'd left the queue! I always you had to be in it to win it, if you leave the queue you lose your place...
OMG......... Queue etiquette has been gone for years. You could start a thread on this, it would have 90 pages in no time! I have cut to the front of a queue exactly once, and even then only because it was that or miss an important flight. I agree with you though; etiquette is long gone. |
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"Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you."
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bicyclebuilder
Rogue Ætherlord
Netherlands
A.K.A. Scanner Camera Builder
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« Reply #507 on: April 02, 2012, 07:14:56 am » |
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Is it Me? Or is queue etiquett going out the window? This morning queing for a bus, a guy just barges in in front of me and I say 'Excuse me there's a queue here'. He replies that he'd been there before me. Well maybe so, but he'd left the queue! I always you had to be in it to win it, if you leave the queue you lose your place...
OMG......... Queue etiquette has been gone for years. You could start a thread on this, it would have 90 pages in no time! I have cut to the front of a queue exactly once, and even then only because it was that or miss an important flight. I agree with you though; etiquette is long gone. I don't think here in Holland we queue at the busstop. It's a sort of "after you, no after you" routine. It seems there is no reason to cut in line. Everyone is going to go on the bus. At least, that's how I remember it. The "standing up for the elderly" is kind of an issue. I remember as a teenager sitting in a full bus, when a older (I think she was just in her 50's) lady enters the bus. She sighed loudly and said snapped:"I guess no one is going to stand up for me?" This was a public bus full of teens going to school. One teen said:"with that attitude, I guess not!" The lady was not amused. Courtesy goes both ways and you can't claim it. It just has to come naturally. |
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« Reply #508 on: April 02, 2012, 03:30:04 pm » |
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going to bed at a reasonable time on Sunday night, sleeping like a corpse, then to wake up and find that half the day has passed by WTF?
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We are the BEC,
And this we must confess,
Whatever is worth doing,
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« Reply #509 on: April 02, 2012, 03:50:32 pm » |
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question is did you have to be at work this morning??
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« Reply #510 on: April 02, 2012, 03:53:25 pm » |
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Fortunately not, I'm underemployed again (another WTF), but I DO have stuff to be done GRR!
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Mrs. Whatsit
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« Reply #511 on: April 03, 2012, 01:50:20 am » |
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For those that don't realize, which doesn't include anyone on BG, I'm sure...when meeting someone in an office building with mirrored glass windows, you really get what's coming to you if you decide to dress for your appointment in the parking lot. Change your shirt, exchange your flip-flops for different shoes, adjust your tie, close the car door, pick your teeth in the 'mirrors'. Funny thing about windows. Even if you can't see through them, others can.  |
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“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
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« Reply #512 on: April 03, 2012, 01:55:30 am » |
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For those that don't realize, which doesn't include anyone on BG, I'm sure...when meeting someone in an office building with mirrored glass windows, you really get what's coming to you if you decide to dress for your appointment in the parking lot. Change your shirt, exchange your flip-flops for different shoes, adjust your tie, close the car door, pick your teeth in the 'mirrors'. Funny thing about windows. Even if you can't see through them, others can. Well at least they changed. These days I'd half expect to see them in flip-flops and a t-shirt. |
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Mrs. Whatsit
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« Reply #513 on: April 03, 2012, 01:58:07 am » |
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For those that don't realize, which doesn't include anyone on BG, I'm sure...when meeting someone in an office building with mirrored glass windows, you really get what's coming to you if you decide to dress for your appointment in the parking lot. Change your shirt, exchange your flip-flops for different shoes, adjust your tie, close the car door, pick your teeth in the 'mirrors'. Funny thing about windows. Even if you can't see through them, others can. Well at least they changed. These days I'd half expect to see them in flip-flops and a t-shirt. It gets embarrassing when they open the doors and realize 80 people saw them, though. |
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« Reply #514 on: April 03, 2012, 01:58:59 am » |
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For those that don't realize, which doesn't include anyone on BG, I'm sure...when meeting someone in an office building with mirrored glass windows, you really get what's coming to you if you decide to dress for your appointment in the parking lot. Change your shirt, exchange your flip-flops for different shoes, adjust your tie, close the car door, pick your teeth in the 'mirrors'. Funny thing about windows. Even if you can't see through them, others can. Well at least they changed. These days I'd half expect to see them in flip-flops and a t-shirt. It gets embarrassing when they open the doors and realize 80 people saw them, though. Sounds priceless. And major props if they had the balls to just keep walking like nothing was wrong. |
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« Reply #515 on: April 03, 2012, 02:05:51 am » |
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For those that don't realize, which doesn't include anyone on BG, I'm sure...when meeting someone in an office building with mirrored glass windows, you really get what's coming to you if you decide to dress for your appointment in the parking lot. Change your shirt, exchange your flip-flops for different shoes, adjust your tie, close the car door, pick your teeth in the 'mirrors'. Funny thing about windows. Even if you can't see through them, others can. Well at least they changed. These days I'd half expect to see them in flip-flops and a t-shirt. It gets embarrassing when they open the doors and realize 80 people saw them, though. Sounds priceless. And major props if they had the balls to just keep walking like nothing was wrong. He probably changed those in the parking lot as well.  |
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Siliconous Skumins
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Rogue Ætherlord
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« Reply #516 on: April 03, 2012, 08:05:01 pm » |
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Well today I really could only express myself with WTF!??!.... So I recently found some PV solar panels at a really good price (China cheapies, but decent enough), and I only had 12 Hours to get them at that price (on sale which was about to end). Much brain grinding later, and I worked out what I needed for my project. So, I deprived my bank account of a little over £1.5K at just before midnight on sunday, Monday morning confirmed with the company that it was genuine and that I was who I said I was (standard security check), panels dispatched that same day and arrived this morning. So the second the panels were delivered to my door, the lovely warm sunshine and nice weather has suddenly changed back into winter. It has been snowing and sleeting all day. Seriously, WTF happened?  I can only apologise to everyone in the UK for breaking the start of the nice weather......I should have known this would happen. *sigh*  SS |
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« Reply #517 on: April 03, 2012, 08:39:44 pm » |
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Well today I really could only express myself with WTF!??!.... So I recently found some PV solar panels at a really good price (China cheapies, but decent enough), and I only had 12 Hours to get them at that price (on sale which was about to end). Much brain grinding later, and I worked out what I needed for my project. So, I deprived my bank account of a little over £1.5K at just before midnight on sunday, Monday morning confirmed with the company that it was genuine and that I was who I said I was (standard security check), panels dispatched that same day and arrived this morning. So the second the panels were delivered to my door, the lovely warm sunshine and nice weather has suddenly changed back into winter. It has been snowing and sleeting all day. Seriously, WTF happened? I can only apologise to everyone in the UK for breaking the start of the nice weather......I should have known this would happen. *sigh* SS Sounds like my luck. I ripped all the plumbing out from under my house, and can only work on it on the weekends due to work. Unfortunately, it's been raining almost every weekend since I started the project. It's been over a month now and I'm less than half-way done putting everything back. |
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« Reply #518 on: April 11, 2012, 09:19:34 pm » |
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I'm sure we've all seen the vastly overpriced "spray paint on cheap welding goggles" being offered for sale. I've found the ultimate one.They've evidently gone the minimalist route, skipped the spray paint entirely, and went straight to the huge price tag. I've been keeping an eye on this. Why? I don't know. Anyway, the price has gone up another ten dollars, and the goggles are "On Loan To Media". I guess the media couldn't stop by the hardware store today. |
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« Reply #519 on: April 12, 2012, 07:07:36 am » |
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I've been keeping an eye on this. Why? I don't know. I don't know why you would either Mr. Crow; judging by your avatar only a truly customized and unique pair (if that is the right word) of goggles would work for you. |
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Athanor
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« Reply #520 on: April 12, 2012, 08:19:44 am » |
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Got a new laptop last week. Packed in a cardboard carton, foam inserts, taped up in bubble-wrap, finally in shrink wrap, with the Users Manual tucked inside.
After the usual six pages of safety precautions, the actual instructions begin.
1) First, unpack your laptop from its packaging.......
WTF?
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- Elias Ashmole Crackbone O'Finnerty, "The Aphorisms of Fud". from "The Lesser Precepts", Collected Works, Vol.23, page 666; Miskatonic University Press, Arkham, Mass., 1999 (reprint)
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« Reply #521 on: April 13, 2012, 04:09:07 am » |
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Got a new laptop last week. Packed in a cardboard carton, foam inserts, taped up in bubble-wrap, finally in shrink wrap, with the Users Manual tucked inside.
After the usual six pages of safety precautions, the actual instructions begin.
1) First, unpack your laptop from its packaging.......
WTF?
Athanor
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« Reply #522 on: April 13, 2012, 08:45:01 am » |
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when trying to go and have a shower in the morning and some complete numbnut gets to the bathroom before you!!!!!
I do not refer to my wife like that. |
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Experienced enough to know my limitations,
Old enough to know better,
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« Reply #523 on: April 13, 2012, 03:25:45 pm » |
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Chocolate cream filled Twinkies. Not totally disgusting.  |
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« Reply #524 on: April 13, 2012, 05:33:47 pm » |
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Well a week and a half ago the cold water knob in the shower started leaking, drip, drip, dripdripdripdripdrip....
FINALLY the plumber comes - a week and a half later. Well he was supposed to be there in 3 days, cause it wasn't serious. That was last Friday. Friday comes and goes without being able to get a hold of him. All the way through the week til Tuesday. It's now been 7 days of this. Which I could probably do the work myself, however I don't have much experience working with plumbing and I'm a renter. Leave it to the landlady. So now Tuesday, that's when the next plumber comes, gives it a go over, says he'll be back the next day by five, remove the part, buy a new one of the same size at the store in town and we'll be up and running in now time. Yeah, that next day comes and goes no plumber. Plumber number three (of the same company) comes Thursday morning, right at 8 am. Within 2 and a half hours we're back in business. 20 minutes after he leaves the bathroom sink becomes clogged. I was gonna post this in the Gah thread, but really this just left me saying WTF.
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