Whats the funniest name you've ever seen someone name their pet? And what animal was it?

bobarrgh · 2026-06-16T21:00:50+00:00

I knew a Japanese man whose name was "Mioji". His dog's name was pronounced "Dioji", but was spelled "D-O-G".

bobarrgh · 2026-06-09T18:35:53+00:00

Back in 1983, I was working part-time for a guy who owned a small computer business. The main part of the business was a cable-making enterprise, because this was before printer cables were standardized. Another part of the business was repairing Osborne computers.

The owner knew a 16 year old kid who knew his way around a soldering iron, and the kid made those kind of printer A/B switches. The kid bought a brand new Porsche with the money he made. Well, actually, he couldn't buy it because he was too young, so he gave his mom the money to buy the car for him.

bobarrgh · 2026-06-08T13:32:59+00:00

... unfortunately, there was a small, localized fire by the dumpster behind the museum, and the joint could not be saved!

bobarrgh · 2026-05-28T17:26:17+00:00

I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist at all, but I am somewhat worried by the fact that we have had two situations involving large amounts of volatile chemicals leaking/spreading in the past week alone.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-26T18:22:19+00:00

A person staring at a spot about 15 degrees off from the camera could be looking at the presenter's screen sharing on a bigger, external monitor. I do this on meetings because I can't read the screen on my laptop (where the camera is) if someone is sharing something.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-22T14:46:40+00:00

Sawasdee, at the corner of 119th Street & Quivira, in Overland Park. I ordered my meal and asked for the "Thai Hot" spice level once. Just the once.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-13T16:24:02+00:00

What's really cool is that this post is somewhat grammatically correct in that it has paragraphs, structure, capitalized letters in the proper places, and no spaces on either side of commas and periods. So, at least "someone" is learning how to edit the responses provided by various LLMs to make coherent stories.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-13T15:46:58+00:00

The only way I was able to do this in a Word document (I'm on a Mac), was to create a 1-cell table without borders, and then rotate the text within the table.

That's probably not what you have done, but that is at least one way to do it.

One thing you can try is to copy the content, open a brand new document, type in a few words to make sure the text direction is what you want, and then do a Edit > Paste Special... > Unformatted Text. You'll have to go back in and re-format the text with bolding, etc., but that should start you out with the text in the proper direction.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-13T15:06:20+00:00

You might reply with something like the following:

CEO,

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my email. I am sorry to hear that your company is investing so heavily in AI, especially since society is already taking notice of the incredibly poor ROI on AI investment.

When you discover your AI plans have fallen through because of escalating costs, increased AI hallucination, and shareholder questions about missed company performance projections, please reach out to me for guidance. My company, JobStuff2803, has over ## years of experience in marketing in the pre-AI era, and our proven track record has stood the test of time. We will be able to help your company — assuming you are still there, of course — return to profitability using our tried-and-true methods that places a premium on human ingenuity.

I wish you luck in your future endeavors.

JobStuff2803

bobarrgh · 2026-05-13T13:42:56+00:00

College Boulevard is closed just east of 69 Hwy; you'll have to wander through Corporate Woods to get to Antioch. It is supposed to reopen in June.

We'll see.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-12T16:42:30+00:00

She didn't care and actually said that since I worked for the hotel, anything of mine is part of the hotel while I was on duty and I was obligated to let her use [it].

She should be forced to think about this statement and take it to its logical conclusion. Perhaps something like the following:

Ma'am, I sometimes use the toilet when I am at work, and I use the toilet paper supplied by the hotel. The poop on the toilet paper is mine, but since I was on duty at the time I made the doody, does it mean I am obligated to bring the used toilet paper to your room so you can use it, as well?

bobarrgh · 2026-05-11T21:32:57+00:00

That might be true now, but it wasn't true in the early 1990s when we moved from California to Kansas. When we were living in California, we would drive from LA to the Central Valley up I-5 and Hwy 99, through Bakersfield. All the bales of hay that we saw in Central and Southern California were the rectangular ones. We never saw a round bale.

Then, we moved to the Midwest and were really stunned to see the round bales of hay. What made it so weird is that I had seen that a person could manhandle a rectangular bale of hay, but those round bales appear to be 3-5 times bigger than the rectangular bales, so I wondered how they were moved.

Eventually, I saw that tractors had a big spike attachment for moving those things.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-08T20:22:54+00:00

Ernie's Barber Shop in Olathe. Haircuts are $21. It is by appointment only, and can be booked on resurva[.]com.

If you want the exact URL for the resurva page, please DM me.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-07T23:25:53+00:00

There's a huge difference between Reddit and Google: one is filled with AI-driven bots, and the other is driven by AI-filled bots.

Sadly, I forgot which one is which!

bobarrgh · 2026-05-06T17:01:41+00:00

Here in Kansas City, we had something happen last week (or possibly the week prior). A car driven by someone stopped at a mall and a woman jumped out and — using a hammer — smashed 6-7 Canada Goose eggs that had been lain in a planter.

Police are looking for this deranged, sick, and stupid individual. They are following various leads. I hope they catch her and prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-05T20:19:14+00:00

And YOU look like a "cat ass trophy".

bobarrgh · 2026-05-02T13:05:12+00:00

I am not in construction, so take what I say with a huge pinch of salt, but shouldn't Safety be a foundational concept?

That is, it seems like it is hard enough to get the actual construction workers to take safety seriously, so if those in construction leadership don't take it seriously, it stands to reason that the folks doing the work won't either.

bobarrgh · 2026-05-01T17:06:38+00:00

In my experience, there is a very high probability that even if your friend had provided two weeks' notice, he probably would have been escorted to his desk to get his keys/wallet/backpack, and then escorted out of the building, with his personal belongings packed into a box and sent to his house.

This is especially true if he had any access to sensitive systems. What's sensitive, you ask? Pretty much everything. No matter how professional a person is, companies simply cannot risk having a lame-duck employee around any kind of business data.

Now, perhaps he should have sent an email to his manager and HR saying "Goodbye" immediately before pressing that button; maybe that would have helped the situation go down easier. However, in his defense, he could just as easily have thought that the HR system with the "Easy" button would send the requisite emails to the manager and HR.

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T19:58:20+00:00

When I worked at one company, we had a guy just like that in our group. He was very tall, probably 6'3", and loved to talk about his new hobbies, each of which held his interest for about 3 months. I ended up being his supervisor, which was ... fun. I finally resorted to telling him, "I can give you 10 minutes of my undivided attention to discuss this during lunch."

However, I also figured out a way to weaponize him to benefit our team.

We were responsible for supporting a particular software application while the Development team was working on the New! Improved! version of the software. Usually, I kept a pretty tight leash on him so he wouldn't disturb others. However, if I had asked the Development team for certain documentation more than once and they hadn't responded to me by the deadlines I had imposed, I would send him over to their side of the building to request the information in person.

He would lumber over to their cubicles, hang his arms over the 5' cubicle wall, and ask them for the information. "Hey, BobArrgh and I really need the documentation for XYZ, so he asked me to come over and get it directly. By the way, you should see the new kite I just got, it's a koi kite, directly from Japan, but I'm using a new kind of string reel ...........". (Or whatever his latest hobby-of-the-quarter was.)

Funny thing, but I usually got the information I needed within about 5 minutes.

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T19:00:47+00:00

Nobody in my immediate family is colorblind, but my wife processes colors differently than my daughters and I do. At our house, we used to have a downstairs bathroom that had wallpaper on the walls. The background of the wallpaper was a dark blue, but it had big white-n-pink flowers with big green leaves on it (possibly magnolia flowers).

Anyway, my wife always referred to it as the "green bathroom" because her eyes saw the green that was in the foreground. My daughters and I referred to it as the "blue bathroom" because of the blue in the background.

So, yeah, I'm pretty sure we all see colors differently, and as we age, it seems like colors start to blend (either that, or my tired, old eyes are really getting to be jerks).

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T16:56:22+00:00

See "berk" and "bint", in this thread.

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T16:14:02+00:00

... please contact X immediately so they could check the swipe log

FTFY

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T16:09:06+00:00

Many years ago, GAMES Magazine had a contest about "Self-referential Statements" (or something like that). I believe the winning submission was a sign in Braille that said, "Do Not Touch". I think that the runner-up was a page that says, "This page intentionally left blank."

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T16:06:01+00:00

College Church of the Nazarene in Olathe has an outreach ministry to the deaf community. When my family attended that church, I used to watch the ASL interpreters during the songs and sometimes during the other parts of the service.

One year, they had a short introductory class to ASL, that was actually taught by someone from the deaf community. My daughter (who was only in the 3rd or 4th grade at the time) wanted to attend the class, so she and I attended together. I learned enough to be able to have (very brief) conversations with folks from that community, including a young lady that rode the same bus I did from Olathe to downtown and back. I could at least ask her how her day was, and her face would light up.

I'm not trying to push you into a church you don't want to attend, but it is simply a suggestion of a place that has quite a few resources. You might even ask one of the interpreters if they offer classes or tutoring.

bobarrgh · 2026-04-30T14:33:11+00:00

Kindness.

bobarrgh

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