On the other hand, bears mostly just want to be left alone, and are really neat to see as long as there's mutual respect.
Early this summer we had trouble with a sow and two yearling cubs who kept coming through the neighborhood. One day Amazon delivered some dog food, and within 10 minutes the cubs had discovered and started eating it. I was at work, but my wife was at home with her parents, our two kids, and two other kids over for a play date.
My wife rushed out and tried to chase off the cubs (mama bear wasn't in site, but that was a big worry) and drag the dog food inside. The cubs refused to budge. My wife got a spoon and pot and banged on it so hard it broke the spoon, but they still wouldn't leave the dog food. Next she grabbed a wicker chair on the patio and started pushing it at them. They finally backed off a bit. She was shouting at her dad to drag the food inside, but I think he was experiencing one of those bucket list moments, and decided to run for the bear spray instead.
So he ran out on the patio and sprayed at the cubs. Upwind. With the door to the house open. The spray did get to the cubs, so that one ran off and the other ran up one of the trees in our yard, but it also settled all over everything on our porch and slowly drifted into the house. My wife got the biggest dose, but her mom and all the kids started coughing and sniffling. Play date over. Had to take the kids home and explain they'd been dosed with chemical weapons.
It didn't end there. The next day our kids ate an apple and burst into tears because it was "spicy" from leftover bear spray on the skin.
The next week I sat outside on the patio, and got enough residue onto my fingers and then lips that they started burning. That stuff is fierce.
I average about one a day, the past 6 months or so. Most of them are illegal warranty or health insurance scams, which by definition I have not solicited myself.
Mostly I just don't pick up, but occasionally I'm expecting a call and take the chance.
Please tell me you're joking. I've been working on a book called "Watching Paint Dry, and Other Adventures" for about 8 years now. It's a small market, and I'd hate to get beaten to it. Now if only I could stop falling asleep during edits, I'd finish it one of these days.
I know. If I had a dollar for every time someone said Opinion X or Movement Y weren't real, they were paid actors bought by Soros to pretend to believe what they were saying, why, I'd be as rich as Soros.
Curiously, none of those people ever accept the counter-suggestion that conservative billionaires could be paying actors to pretend to believe conservative talking points. Only Soros's money is magically powerful in ways that other people's money is not.
Interesting. I have a new contender for favorite name of event, the Bølling oscillation. Not quite as good as the Defenestration of Prague, but it's up there.
So the problem with Idaho stops is things that aren't actually Idaho stops?
Let's encourage/enforce actual Idaho stops. Sort of like if the problem with speed limits is the people who don't obey them, the fix is to enforce speed limits, not to get rid of them.
for no reason that anyone can coherently articulate.
Has nobody every said to you, "more evening daylight in the summer, when it's more likely to be used than very early mornings"? Because that's a pretty coherent argument to me. You might not agree, but it's perfectly coherent.
I remember running across one in college called "Sexplosion" that would pop up a dialogue box with an OK button, but when you tried to click the button it would move the dialogue box around the screen, out of the reach of your mouse.
A buddy of mine also emailed me one, to my *work* address, that turned the volume up to maximum and played a clip saying, "Hey, everybody! Look at me! I'm looking at porn!" The worst part there was it was a PC EXE, and I worked on a Mac, so I had moved the file over to our one office PC in a central area to test it. Totally dumb move on my part, but it was around the time someone else had just sent me Elf Bowling or the Fish in a Blender or something, so it was standard behavior at the time.
I remember a buddy once took a school administrator's documents and moved it into a stack of folders, maybe 30 layers deep. Every single folder said "click me" or "keep going" or "look below" so it wasn't even really hidden, just "not normal". The administrator panicked, and he got a week of detention.
The only real prank I played was editing the startup screen on an old Mac SE so that it showed a picture of a bomb and said "Error: this system will self destruct in 10 seconds." I just wanted to share it with some classmates, but as luck would have it a fellow teacher borrowed it the day I put the file on and also went into a complete panic when she saw it. At that point I decided it wasn't safe joking around with people and gave it up.
In a language where sleigh and sleight sound nothing alike, but slate and eight rhyme, I think pronunciation rules can safely be disregarded as highly illogical.
It doesn't clutter up genuine comments that are written as replies. Scrolling through 3 yesses for every real comment sounds like a terrible replacement.
Not everybody's a jerk out to take advantage? Maybe the abusive ones lose people and go out of business? I don't know, really. The employers I have had have been reasonable-ish to good about it.
That's it. I'm making a movie with the guy from The Scream as the main character.
Also, instead of just scanning actors, why not also scan attractive and/or distinctive people who can't act worth a damn? There's no reason the image has to be tied to a specific voice or acting ability.
Well, I think the first person to come up with a consistent and viable use for telepathy will make millions, regardless. They don't need Randi to justify going public.
I'm currently working on a novel about a self-driving car and a personal voice assistant that go on a road trip without people, to see America. When I saw this headline I thought someone had beaten me to it, but this is a different kind of thing apparently.
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On the other hand, bears mostly just want to be left alone, and are really neat to see as long as there's mutual respect.
Early this summer we had trouble with a sow and two yearling cubs who kept coming through the neighborhood. One day Amazon delivered some dog food, and within 10 minutes the cubs had discovered and started eating it. I was at work, but my wife was at home with her parents, our two kids, and two other kids over for a play date.
My wife rushed out and tried to chase off the cubs (mama bear wasn't in site, but that was a big worry) and drag the dog food inside. The cubs refused to budge. My wife got a spoon and pot and banged on it so hard it broke the spoon, but they still wouldn't leave the dog food. Next she grabbed a wicker chair on the patio and started pushing it at them. They finally backed off a bit. She was shouting at her dad to drag the food inside, but I think he was experiencing one of those bucket list moments, and decided to run for the bear spray instead.
So he ran out on the patio and sprayed at the cubs. Upwind. With the door to the house open. The spray did get to the cubs, so that one ran off and the other ran up one of the trees in our yard, but it also settled all over everything on our porch and slowly drifted into the house. My wife got the biggest dose, but her mom and all the kids started coughing and sniffling. Play date over. Had to take the kids home and explain they'd been dosed with chemical weapons.
It didn't end there. The next day our kids ate an apple and burst into tears because it was "spicy" from leftover bear spray on the skin.
The next week I sat outside on the patio, and got enough residue onto my fingers and then lips that they started burning. That stuff is fierce.
I've never left the country, but I have also moved 30+ times. I'm tired.
Also, it just gets harder the older you get. Not just age, but more stuff, and after kids ... jeez, it's a lot.
Shit, forget porn. I'd settle for a pro-nipple party. Baby steps.
Where is the pro-porn party when you need them?
My brother just gave my kids fidgets spinners last week and they were thrilled.
Not sure what that says, but it happened.
I just learned about the spousal switch this past month, while talking to family members who are navigating that maze. It's complicated, for sure.
I average about one a day, the past 6 months or so. Most of them are illegal warranty or health insurance scams, which by definition I have not solicited myself.
Mostly I just don't pick up, but occasionally I'm expecting a call and take the chance.
I wish you'd used some words and not just shared a link. I don't know what part of my comment that article is trying to address, refute, or whatever.
Please tell me you're joking. I've been working on a book called "Watching Paint Dry, and Other Adventures" for about 8 years now. It's a small market, and I'd hate to get beaten to it. Now if only I could stop falling asleep during edits, I'd finish it one of these days.
I know. If I had a dollar for every time someone said Opinion X or Movement Y weren't real, they were paid actors bought by Soros to pretend to believe what they were saying, why, I'd be as rich as Soros.
Curiously, none of those people ever accept the counter-suggestion that conservative billionaires could be paying actors to pretend to believe conservative talking points. Only Soros's money is magically powerful in ways that other people's money is not.
Rhode Island: more road than island. Discuss.
Interesting. I have a new contender for favorite name of event, the Bølling oscillation. Not quite as good as the Defenestration of Prague, but it's up there.
So the problem with Idaho stops is things that aren't actually Idaho stops?
Let's encourage/enforce actual Idaho stops. Sort of like if the problem with speed limits is the people who don't obey them, the fix is to enforce speed limits, not to get rid of them.
No, 4:20 is the high point, and 12:00 is the zenith. Maybe 3:14 can be the apple of your eye of your pie o'clock?
for no reason that anyone can coherently articulate.
Has nobody every said to you, "more evening daylight in the summer, when it's more likely to be used than very early mornings"? Because that's a pretty coherent argument to me. You might not agree, but it's perfectly coherent.
I remember running across one in college called "Sexplosion" that would pop up a dialogue box with an OK button, but when you tried to click the button it would move the dialogue box around the screen, out of the reach of your mouse.
A buddy of mine also emailed me one, to my *work* address, that turned the volume up to maximum and played a clip saying, "Hey, everybody! Look at me! I'm looking at porn!" The worst part there was it was a PC EXE, and I worked on a Mac, so I had moved the file over to our one office PC in a central area to test it. Totally dumb move on my part, but it was around the time someone else had just sent me Elf Bowling or the Fish in a Blender or something, so it was standard behavior at the time.
I remember a buddy once took a school administrator's documents and moved it into a stack of folders, maybe 30 layers deep. Every single folder said "click me" or "keep going" or "look below" so it wasn't even really hidden, just "not normal". The administrator panicked, and he got a week of detention.
The only real prank I played was editing the startup screen on an old Mac SE so that it showed a picture of a bomb and said "Error: this system will self destruct in 10 seconds." I just wanted to share it with some classmates, but as luck would have it a fellow teacher borrowed it the day I put the file on and also went into a complete panic when she saw it. At that point I decided it wasn't safe joking around with people and gave it up.
In a language where sleigh and sleight sound nothing alike, but slate and eight rhyme, I think pronunciation rules can safely be disregarded as highly illogical.
It doesn't clutter up genuine comments that are written as replies. Scrolling through 3 yesses for every real comment sounds like a terrible replacement.
Not everybody's a jerk out to take advantage? Maybe the abusive ones lose people and go out of business? I don't know, really. The employers I have had have been reasonable-ish to good about it.
I think California is an exception. Neither Colorado nor Illinois have rules about overtime for salary.
That's it. I'm making a movie with the guy from The Scream as the main character.
Also, instead of just scanning actors, why not also scan attractive and/or distinctive people who can't act worth a damn? There's no reason the image has to be tied to a specific voice or acting ability.
Someone clearly hasn't heard of the Defenestration of Prague.
Well, I think the first person to come up with a consistent and viable use for telepathy will make millions, regardless. They don't need Randi to justify going public.
I'm currently working on a novel about a self-driving car and a personal voice assistant that go on a road trip without people, to see America. When I saw this headline I thought someone had beaten me to it, but this is a different kind of thing apparently.
They "trials" it? That can't be a verb. "Trialing" would be worse, but it's typoed as "trailing" instead.