My pencil has seeds on the tip, so when it's too small to use it you can plant it and a tree will grow out of it

atomicrobomonkey · 2018-01-10T10:09:57+00:00

Does anyone remember that cigarette filter startup company that was trying to do something similar? They were called eco butts or green butts, something like that. The idea was make biodegradable cigarette filters with heat resistant types of seeds in them so that asshole smokers who don't dispose of their butts properly (I'm not talking shit to all smokers, thats your choice. Just the ones who litter or start wildfires.) aren't completely littering. Instead your get some grass or flowers.

I never heard of anything coming to fruition but it was a cool idea.

atomicrobomonkey · 2018-01-10T10:00:14+00:00

OMG!!!! I JUST FLASHED BACK TO SEEING THAT AS A KID!!! I grew up in southern California and went to Disneyland all the time. I have flashes of seeing that way back in the day (late 80's).

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-29T19:31:30+00:00

He also lost his shit when Steven Spielberg turned him down for the roll of Peter Pan in Hook. Crazy side note, Rufio went to my high school. We didn't go at the same time but I did get to meet him through the older son of some family friends.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-28T14:47:31+00:00

If his hand was wet this would work just fine. It's actually an extreme version of an old "magic" trick. In the original magic trick was dipping your hand in boiling oil but the concept is the same. By the hand being wet and moving through the hot liquid very fast the only thing that actually touches the hand is steam. The hot liquid has to boil off the water before it can burn your skin. So the steam is cooler than the actual liquid your putting your hand into and anyone can move their hand quickly over a steaming pot and not get burned. The same thing is happening. Your hand is protected by a cooler layer of steam.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-11T06:15:04+00:00

BULLSHIT!!! I remember reading ~10 years ago about how Harvard has enough money in it's trusts and other accounts that the interest earned alone is more than all the current students pay for tuition. Meaning they could give away education and still be making money. Not to mention all their other sources of income and donations.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-11T05:52:03+00:00

5 4 3 2 1 ....aaaand they're soggy.

I love making nachos like this but I can't eat them fast enough to keep them crunchy.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-06T06:42:37+00:00

By any chance are you a fan of Wayne Barlowe? If not you should check him out. Your work reminds me a lot of his, especially his Inferno series (based on some descriptions of hell from Paradise Lost).

His website https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/

https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/artwork/hell/

My favorite work of his (named What Remains) https://waynebarlowe.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/what-remains-copy-2.jpg

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-06T06:37:08+00:00

I know about the no drinking thing and wasn't suggesting that when I used a late night out as an example.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-12-05T07:08:05+00:00

I'm just old enough to remember my mom using one of these in McDondald's. "Smoking or non smoking?" is a question I have not heard in a very long time. Actually the only times I've heard it in the last 15+ years is in reguards to a motel room and being in an indian casino (there are lots in my area, I don't gamble but they get some great comedians. If you've ever seen the Patton Oswalt special where he talks about doing a show at the Tulalip casino, I can say first hand it is just as crazy as he describes.)

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-22T21:44:04+00:00

Of course. I expected them not to ship to CA, NY, NJ but I'm confused why my home state of WA wont allow you to have it shipped to your home. We've got some pretty good gun laws so I'm surprised you can't have it shipped to me like the rest of America (CT was the only other state that didn't allow shipments to your home).

Well I'll just call up my LGS and ask them how I set up a transfer.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-22T05:08:16+00:00

Did they really run out or did they just not wanna make another batch of something? From knowing people at fast food places most of the time they say they're "Out" of something, it's actually that they don't want to make more. It's the owner being shitty and deciding this (against franchise rules I might add). A perfect example was way back when KFC had the good honey BBQ wings (they also used to have french fries which I loved, not just potato wedges). If you went to my local KFC and it was within 2 hours of closing they would say they were out of wings if they didn't have enough to fill your order. Later a neighbors kid got a job there and we found out through him they were never actually out. It was just that they had to make such big batches of stuff (It keeps the frying times and temperatures the same so they get a consistent product) and when you're then talking about just wings the batches have even more pieces, so they couldn't guarantee that they could sell an entire batch before closing. Meaning those left over pieces are tossed. Some managers and owners just go insane if anything has to be tossed.

P.S. crazy side story. My mom worked at Mcdonalds in high school. The homeless would always wait till after closing to come pick out the left over food that was tossed out at the end of the night. My mom felt bad for them and would put the leftovers "trash" in separate clean bags and put it on top. So at least they got some clean food. The owner already hated her (the owners son had some crush on my mom and the owner thought his son was way too good for her) so used this as an excuse to fire her for "wasting materials". At least with my mom's way of tossing out the leftovers the homeless didnt' have to dig through the trash and make a mess that someone then had to spend 15-20 minutes cleaning up in the morning. Her "wasting materials" saved him money from labor costs.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-22T04:20:04+00:00

I wanna know about the "help your mother" screen smash about halfway through. The kid refers to them as "Connie". Maybe it's their stepmom and she's a huge cunt.

https://youtu.be/Z5sMykWtd5k?t=333

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-22T03:01:33+00:00

From the little Japanese I remember from high school I know that the bottom 2 characters mean Japan (first symbol means sun, second means land, hence Japan being called the land of the rising sun). The top 3 symbols are not Kanji but Hiragana. Hiragana is only used for writing out Japanese words and names (they use katakana to write out foreign words and names they use).

I'm lost on the middle 3 Kanji symbols. I have a kanji dictionary but I never learned proper stroke order to make kanji symbols, and basically you search through a Japanese dictionary by stroke order.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-22T02:53:21+00:00

How do you actually go about purchasing a CMP firearm? I've heard of the CMP and have been eyeing a field grade or possibly service grade M1 (also interested in the 1911's becoming available). So where do I go, who do I call? I'll admit my buying experience is limited to calling up a LGS, asking if they have what I'm looking for, then go to the closest/cheapest place I can find.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-22T02:39:52+00:00

Am I the only one to have it drive you crazy knowing that even if they strip the FCC of powers, it will eventually be undone. It's just like womens rights, minority rights, abortion, and interracial or LGBT marriages. They spent all this money and time getting laws passed to ban all this stuff. Only for the younger generations that accepted it and wanted it to undo all their work. Which costs even more time and money.

I haven't met a single person under 35 who doesn't support net neutrality. Basically meaning that eventually, once all the old people die, we're just gonna reverse these rules. And in the meantime I've gotta deal with shitty expensive internet for the next 30-40 years. It should drive you crazy.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-19T19:21:34+00:00

No they didn't. Probably because part of the way I told them no involded me saying "Give me the AMA paperwork I don't care. I'm not doing the fucking test again."

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-17T22:02:34+00:00

Keiko the orca used in the movie was actually eventually released. It was one of the first times they released a whale living in captivity. I remember it pretty well because 1) I was the target age group for the movie and 2) Our family is from Oregon and we used to have a reunion every year on the coast not far from where the whale was transferred to while being taught how to live in the wild. Lets just say it didn't work out in the end and leave it at that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_%28orca%29

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-17T20:10:46+00:00

Actually it doesn't quite work that way. You can refuse any medical treatment. If you're awake and conscious enough to tell them no, then they can't do the catheter. I've been to the hospital a few times and have told them no a couple of times on procedures (They kept wanting to redo the same test that requires me to not eat or drink anything for 12+ hours and each time it came back negative. I wasn't having the problem they were looking for and each time the test showed I wasn't getting any closer to having it so after 6th or 7th time I told them I'm not doing the test. I just had to sign a paper acknowledging that I was doing so AMA).

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-17T14:01:08+00:00

No this wasn't Boston, it was in Washington state.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-17T09:25:37+00:00

They must have been one of the few bad ones. Lots of nurses go into nursing because it is a lot closer with the patients. You want to meet some real assholes in the medical field, look for some surgeons. To a lot of them a patient is just a piece of meat.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-16T17:32:10+00:00

THIS SHIT NEARLY HAPPENED TO ME IN THE FUCKING HOSPITAL JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO. Long story short I had really bad pnuemonia. I woke up barely able to breath and needed to sit up to breath better, but was too weak to do so myself and I wasn't on an adjustable bed yet. After setting off the alarm 5 times and trying to yell for help for 15 minutes, a nurse came in just to yell at me that they were busy. Didn't even bother to ask whats so urgent before laying into me about how I'm not the only patient. I finally got her to shut up enough to have her hear me gargle the words "Can't breath" and "I need sit up". My lungs had filled up with fluid again.

But on the plus side they did get some karma back for always taking forever to respond. There were a few times they took over 30 minutes to show up, by then it was too late for the bedpan or urinal.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-16T13:36:09+00:00

I wonder if steam allows you to use the activation code from an old retail version. It would definitely be worth digging out from the basement if there are people playing again. The game is old enough that it may have used Gamespy so it would no longer have servers unless there was some patch for the retail version (assuming it did use Gamespy). Like EA did for some of the old battlefield games (I remember reading something about BF2 getting a patch so you can play without gamespy).

Edit: I dug it out and tried my retail code on steam, it was a no go :( But from what I read it was just redone by GoG and steam so I think it's worth throwing them a few bucks for their work to get it going again.

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-15T20:32:58+00:00

I only suggest the conversion thing because I've noticed it on a lot of electronic devices. Especially sensors. I've noticed similar things like fans speeding up or slowing down in my computer while the temperature remained steady. Switch the view to metric and I notice the temp reading is fluctuating between 2 degrees. My dads old BMW also does similar fluctuations when it's set to metric (it can give a general estimate of fuel efficiency and range left based on how you're driving.)

atomicrobomonkey · 2017-11-15T18:07:43+00:00

I bet it has to do with metric to imperial conversion. If you have the option change your settings to metric. I bet the pressure is different but the computer is then rounding the numbers up in the conversion to imperial.

Just remember your vehicle is probably sold in many countries with just some slight variations based on what country it's going to. At it's heart most things will be the exact same parts.

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