I agree. I tried to like Outland, but it just was not a good strip. Sticking Opus in it did not help. It was only a reminder that this was not Bloom County. And, the Opus strip, well, when the writer resorts to "and now, a character's lovechild shows up", it means there is a problem. TV, comics, serial novels, it means the same thing. The well is running dry.
I was not given my own car, but the family had
something of a motorpool. I tended to get stuck with a 1963 VW minibus. It would not go 80mph if you drove it off a cliff. Top speed solo was 45,
so I would draft trucks. Not smart, but it does build fast reflexes!
So, which is the most dangerous thing for kids to do; burnouts and drifts, or 50-55mph 15 feet off the back of a truck in a car where your knees are six inches behind the bumper?
If I had a nickel for every dumb stunt I pulled as a kid....
At one facility where I worked, a manager came in on a Saturday and found all the A/C in the building was on. Of course it was. It was almost 100 degrees outside. To save money, he hunted down every thermostat in the building and turned them off. There was no temperature monitoring. The servers in the top of the racks took it in the shorts. Almost every server in the machine room developed reliability issues and had to be replaced over the next year. But, because the manager was trying to do the right thing, and his heart was pure, he was only told he didn't need to worry about the A/C on weekends anymore.
I got a laugh from "Much of the research has focused on how cattlemen can identify which cattle in their herds are the ones that the others follow." I have also worked around cows in the family beef operation, and all one has to do to identify the "leaders" is watch the cows.
The US House would rather relax the rules than spend the money for a server and feed that can take getting blasted by the angry constituents of, what, 437 Congresspersons?
They don't call it the radar range for nothing. I believe that it was a guy working on radar systems that found you could cook with them. I think this was long before microwave communication was in use.
At this point, who cares? There's no rewind button to back us up 4 or 8 years.
Really. Big Fucking Deal. Going back over all the crap from the past is a waste of time. Instead, we should see what we can do to make sure the mistakes of the past are not repeated. At least that way we get to make fresh, new, mistakes.
And if it doesn't go well? Plummeting with style does not help when you go head first into the drink, or the cliffs, at high velocity. I'd like to see him make it, just because everyone's first reaction seems to be, "He's out of his fucking mind", but I would not trade places with him for love, nor money.
We had a guy do that at my office. The boss comes in, sees the BSOD, decides to help out, flips the big red switch on the PC. Hosed the boot sector on the disk.
Yeah, trying to get a converter box was like being trapped in a Ron White routine. I had the same problem, nobody had converters. Funny how the people that were always out of stock on converters always had plenty of digital televisions. My coupons expired, and I have still not seen any converters on the shelves. If the store staff are asked about them, the result is a vague stare, and some song-and-dance about how they sell out immediately. Really? Then how about shelf space for more than 10 at a time (this means YOU, Wal Mart)? I now have cable, so I will probably not buy a new TV until they quit doing the conversion for me. That's what, 2012?
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Makes me think of "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers."
Well, I'll be... I'll change it at the end of the month. Right now, I have to meet with the lawyer about this paternity suit.....
I agree. I tried to like Outland, but it just was not a good strip. Sticking Opus in it did not help. It was only a reminder that this was not Bloom County. And, the Opus strip, well, when the writer resorts to "and now, a character's lovechild shows up", it means there is a problem. TV, comics, serial novels, it means the same thing. The well is running dry.
"What happened to the 'kaboom'? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering 'kaboom'!"
I was not given my own car, but the family had something of a motorpool. I tended to get stuck with a 1963 VW minibus. It would not go 80mph if you drove it off a cliff. Top speed solo was 45, so I would draft trucks. Not smart, but it does build fast reflexes!
So, which is the most dangerous thing for kids to do; burnouts and drifts, or 50-55mph 15 feet off the back of a truck in a car where your knees are six inches behind the bumper?
If I had a nickel for every dumb stunt I pulled as a kid....
At one facility where I worked, a manager came in on a Saturday and found all the A/C in the building was on. Of course it was. It was almost 100 degrees outside. To save money, he hunted down every thermostat in the building and turned them off. There was no temperature monitoring. The servers in the top of the racks took it in the shorts. Almost every server in the machine room developed reliability issues and had to be replaced over the next year. But, because the manager was trying to do the right thing, and his heart was pure, he was only told he didn't need to worry about the A/C on weekends anymore.
I thought Virgin Galactic said "No" to space porn.
I got a laugh from "Much of the research has focused on how cattlemen can identify which cattle in their herds are the ones that the others follow." I have also worked around cows in the family beef operation, and all one has to do to identify the "leaders" is watch the cows.
The US House would rather relax the rules than spend the money for a server and feed that can take getting blasted by the angry constituents of, what, 437 Congresspersons?
They don't call it the radar range for nothing. I believe that it was a guy working on radar systems that found you could cook with them. I think this was long before microwave communication was in use.
Now, that is inductive logic!
It smells like chlorine in here!
I plugged a Brownian ratchet into my laptop USB port, and all it did was hump it.
The only thing that whiskey needs is a little water.
Do you have the option of "kitten" or "cougar"?
Sorry. Long day, and the poster was cranky and not paying attention. He will be punished.
General rule of thumb: If you can kill it with antibiotics, it is bacterial. If you have to get the host to develop antibodies, it is viral.
Syph and AIDS are two different kinds of beastie.
Reminds me of a B. Kliban cartoon in a '70s Playboy: "If you loved me, you'd let me get on top."
Seeing that he made it across, I will reply to my own post.... I am impressed. That must have been a helluva head rush.
At this point, who cares? There's no rewind button to back us up 4 or 8 years.
Really. Big Fucking Deal. Going back over all the crap from the past is a waste of time. Instead, we should see what we can do to make sure the mistakes of the past are not repeated. At least that way we get to make fresh, new, mistakes.
And if it doesn't go well? Plummeting with style does not help when you go head first into the drink, or the cliffs, at high velocity. I'd like to see him make it, just because everyone's first reaction seems to be, "He's out of his fucking mind", but I would not trade places with him for love, nor money.
According to my cable company, and the FCC, they will continue to serve analog signals over the cable until at least 2012.
We had a guy do that at my office. The boss comes in, sees the BSOD, decides to help out, flips the big red switch on the PC. Hosed the boot sector on the disk.
Yeah, trying to get a converter box was like being trapped in a Ron White routine. I had the same problem, nobody had converters. Funny how the people that were always out of stock on converters always had plenty of digital televisions. My coupons expired, and I have still not seen any converters on the shelves. If the store staff are asked about them, the result is a vague stare, and some song-and-dance about how they sell out immediately. Really? Then how about shelf space for more than 10 at a time (this means YOU, Wal Mart)? I now have cable, so I will probably not buy a new TV until they quit doing the conversion for me. That's what, 2012?
...the warnings from Ross Perot of a giant sucking sound?