The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

Pyrite: I know right. I was fairly happy if in pain to discover it was just a patch of maligned muscle instead of a bulging or slipped disk.

>.>

Who me?! Plot against you all in that waY?

Indiana is coming in august 2015 :)

Do you have a dog named Henry?

edited 25th Mar '15 9:59:49 PM by TParadox

Ori: YES. You'd better buy him a small brown fedora.

So, yesterday I got to see Stonehenge from only about 25 feet away. My buddy was quite disappointed to find that the gift store did not sell rocks. Then we toured the Roman baths.

Today I am going to see Windsor and the hedge maze.

Tuesday I went on a tour of Harry Potter studios. The model of Hogwarts they use for most of the external shots is larger than my house.

Sadly, whoever organized all this needs to be fired - they had us muster this morning at 0530 ... the first boat doesn't take us to shore until 0700 ... the first busses don't even arrive to load us until 0900.

Mark, we will allow him to choose his own headgear (especially given the current stereotype of fedora-wearers).

No we do not have a dog named henry, yes i am fine with people asking me that but i really hope people don't tease him too badly when he's little.

indiana because i looooove the nickname Indy for our boy, and because for us it's a blessing of adventure and a full life.

Duhn duhna duuhn, duhnanana...duhn duhna naaa, duhn duhn na na na!

Ori: Just admit it. You guys couldn't resist your inner geeks :P

It is an interesting name. Hopefully the lad grows into it.

Why resist this particular one? Any teasing happens, put Raiders on and smile smugly as a new generation get to see a melting face in their dreams.

My son adores his unusual name. He gets to be the unique one and as he told me, "If someone put my name on it, they had to care because it didn't come that way."

Tell you folks what. It sure beats having a common as mud name like John/Jon. I used to joke that I am Legion for John/Jon is many.

Hodor vs Groot Rap Battle Turn on Closed Captions for the translation to go with it.

edited 26th Mar '15 4:36:51 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Well, we are leaving England behind. Part of me is sad, because there was so much cool stuff there! Part of me is happy, because I'm already tapped out financially^note I have $3.97 left on my account, and owe $65 to my friends. Thank goodness I didn't have any credit cards with me! thanks to the exchange rate and seemingly higher cost of living there. But there was so much more I wanted to see that I just didn't have time/money to do.

Man, I've been sleeping very poorly for like the last week. Either I can't fall asleep, or I can't stay asleep. Bought some Unisom and that is only marginally helping. Blah. Also feels like my depression is returning for another episode.

Still, I've found something that usually cheers me up - reading this article on one of Modern Drunkard's sites where the author lambastes Jon Taffer, making numerous hilarious allusions to him being a shaved ape or other simian insult. It's hilarious.

edited 27th Mar '15 11:01:26 AM by MarkVonLewis

Welp, Katie did me in again. I had all the stuff out on the counter to make a meatloaf (except the ground beef, thank goodness), using stuffing instead of plain bread crumbs for the binder (y'all ought to try that — it's really yummy), and she counter-surfed the bag of stuffing mix while I was out if the room momentarily. Trailed about a quarter of it across the floor to her hidey spot by the front window, ate the rest of it.I only had the one box. Dammit, I was looking forward to that.

There are days I wonder... It's like having a toddler.

Maddie: damn, lol. But it's like they say in the military: "hey, it was left unsecured..."

Yes, it was. That's true. At least it wasn't the egg. She countersurfed a raw egg a while back. Found the shell in her hidey-spot. Just the shell. She'd neatly broken it in half, and licked up the egg.

My demented dog.

Anyone else find themselves wishing 5 years would pass in a blink?

Also anyone here doesn't already listen to Sister Sin, seriously needs to. DO IT.

Anyways, I've had the last straw. I'm tired of all my friends abandoning me for women. Maybe I never had friends to begin with. Makes sense, cause I'm weird, I'm strange, I'm the guy no one wants around.

edited 27th Mar '15 10:53:43 PM by MarkVonLewis

If you're having repeated thoughts like that, mate (which, quite frankly, you are)... it's not just medication you need for your downers. You could do with some talking therapy.

Statistically, you've also got a fair chance of eye candy: if not with the therapist, then in the reception room.

Can't say five years, though five weeks is looking like a brilliant thing about now. Speaking as someone in his mid-twenties with about 150 credit-hours invested in a college degree, I have until now never actually regretted taking a class, no matter how much I hated it. This particular class I have in mind has been an exception.

Euo: maybe you're right. I need to look into it.

Only 20 years ago Windows 95 was released....

~* takes old lady pills *~

Ha! You're as old as me!

Wait...

I remember putting together my Pentium 166, Princess Di hit that Paris Overpass, beige was still en vogue and mp3's were that "new computer music thing".

I went off to grad school (didn't finish) with a Pentium ][ 400mhz, 518mb (yes MB) memory and an AGP graphics card.

I laughed when 3dFx came out with a video card that needed an external power supply thinking "who's gonna need that much power".

Now most video cards plug into the PSU directly.

Much like how Daddy said "A 7 gigabyte harddrive? How will you fill that?"

I now have a 1tb external and I'm thinking of getting another one....

~* takes old lady pills and shoos the kids off the lawn *~

3.5" floppies suited all my basic "carrying files around" needs until I had a slideshow for a public speaking assignment that I wanted to use scanned images for. I put the uncompressed hi-res scan in the slideshow, and the slideshow was too big for the floppy... so I thought I'd just put the individual images on multiple floppies, and it turned out the individual scans were each too big for a whole floppy. So my father gave me an old flash drive he didn't need anymore, which had a 64 MB capacity. The only time I ever maxed it out was one day I went overboard downloading MP 3 samples.

I think I lost it, or I started getting close to max, but I bought a 1 GB stick, and then my mom got a 2 GB and decided she liked the design of my 1 GB better and didn't need the space like I did.

Last year I had several TV episodes I needed to move with a flash drive, and I decided it was time to buy an 8 GB.

Now, for portable storage, we briefly flirted with ZipDisks, but then CD-RW and DVD-RW fell in price.

I remember zip disks. Handy things.

I didn't get into them too much because nobody had readers and by the time traditional floppies were simply no longer viable, I could write to optical discs and everybody else's machine could at least read those.

I did throw a lot of creative files I wanted to save on a zip disk though. I think I copied them out when I got my own computer with a hard drive that was just mine.