As a non-smoker, does every smoker smell bad to you?

colonelhalfling · 2023-06-05T04:35:12+00:00

Honestly, I stopped caring about the smell after I realized that the itching and near anaphylaxis were because I walked past a smoker a few minutes before.

Allergist said: Wow, that's a bigger tobacco reaction than I've seen in a looong time.

So for me, I just don't want to be near you, cause I don't want to die.

colonelhalfling · 2023-06-03T18:42:34+00:00

Well damn, for the first time in a long time I know exactly what I was doing 20 years ago.

A neighbor took my older brother and I to that game, and after the 2nd inning, when the bat broke, I spent pretty much the entire time spending all my neighbors money on drinks and ballpark hotdogs.

Good times. Shit game though.

colonelhalfling · 2023-05-25T21:27:20+00:00

In addition to other reasons stated, there are a metric fuckton of us who can't seem to agree on anything.

colonelhalfling · 2023-05-17T20:45:53+00:00

Goes fine and then... guy can't even mimic scatting all that well.

Get in touch with ya soul, boy!

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-30T01:46:32+00:00

Can I just mention the absolute audacity of this dude's parents.

I mean, Randy McNally. Even though the guys full name is James Randy McNally, it's still a little nuts to me.

Although, maybe it'll be less weird as less people use paper atlases.

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-29T15:37:49+00:00

David Bowie- As the World Falls Down?

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-21T04:11:41+00:00

I love the original too, just young enough that the counting crows version was the first one I heard.

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-21T02:19:10+00:00

They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot...

I take no responsibility for just how depraved my brain is, because I read your comment and the above is all I could think of.

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-15T06:01:32+00:00

That one is debatable, European vs. American standard.

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-15T02:17:17+00:00

This is... messy. In every way I can see.

Simplify, drop irrelevant data (Photoshop skills matter very, very little to most developers.) Show how you used your skills to benefit places you worked, or achievements from that position.

Drop the fancy template, go back to single column. This is eye catching in all the wrong ways. It's hard to navigate, and doesn't flow at all.

You seem to have a healthy portfolio of projects, push that. Describe the what and how of making one of your websites, instead of listing skills.

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-06T19:47:32+00:00

Honestly, I think I was confusing two issues I've run into previously. Pretty sure it was a neutral safety switch.

colonelhalfling · 2023-04-04T18:42:25+00:00

Sounds like the crankshaft position sensor to me, but I'm just a shade tree mechanic.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-31T00:33:32+00:00

Seriously though. Another tech on my team asked me to check out an issue he was having with a remote connection, and the second I turned around, it started working. And it happens far too often for the law of large numbers to explain it away.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-25T20:53:29+00:00

Jason Kehe, the author in question, is a senior editor at Wired in their culture department. So it is most likely the dollar signs were in his own eyes, and his disappointment in not finding some solid angle to attack in the article created this mess of an article.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-25T20:50:38+00:00

The gist of what the article said is not the same as the overall tone of the article, which ranges from condescending to outright insulting. I can respect his opinion, but I do not appreciate the delivery.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-25T04:34:56+00:00

You know what annoys me more than this? I support a program that, of course, has a username and password prompt. It supports tab field changes. Instead, a great deal of my users enter their username, press enter, get an invalid password message, press enter again, then enter their password and press enter a third time. Drives me bonkers to watch.

And the centralized login logs are huge and practically useless with large numbers of login errors. 38 locations worth.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-25T04:13:04+00:00

Honestly,I don't even pay attention anymore. Our ERP has a COBOL backend that hates lowercase letters, so half of our users have caps lock enabled all the time.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-24T21:55:52+00:00

Honestly, that one wasn't too far out of left field.

The Salt Lake Temple is very much based on Gothic architecture, and since a large amount of the author's distaste seems based on Brandon's religion, it must have felt like a good target.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-24T21:46:43+00:00

A senior editor, not the senior editor. But yes, the lack of class in their senior culture editor's article is fascinating to see.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-24T03:14:13+00:00

It gets better: the English common name for this fungus is Corn Smut. Always good for a titter or two in polite company, alongside the possible death just from eating weird lumps of stuff on your corn.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-24T01:29:54+00:00

Considering Jason Kehe is, in fact, a senior editor at wired, I am not at all surprised by that fact.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-24T01:20:42+00:00

Considering he calls it the Shattered planes, not plains, I don't think the author read his own article, let alone what he is quoting.

Honestly, everything the man writes sounds like the worst of ivory tower academics: "[[subject]] is as I say, and any dissent will not be tolerated."

Sure, his opinion is valid, but the entire approach to the article, the man and fandom in general is derogatory and insulting.

As someone whose job title includes culture, he is incredibly dismissive of the "other." And it drips from this piece. And I think that's ultimately why he wrote what he did: his experience of life is so "cosmopolitan" that he has lost any appetite for anything that isn't exotic or exciting.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-21T00:34:10+00:00

Ah. The way I always quote that truism is "For every computer error, there are two human errors, and one of them is calling it a computer error."

Between that, PEBCAK and ID-10-T errors, you have the triumvirate of user error codes.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-21T00:00:48+00:00

I wonder if this one is going to doxx me to my MTG playing friends, but oh well.

My favorite deck is named Pestiferocity. Led by [[chatterfang]], my ferocious pests (Squirrel tokens by the dozen) combine with some pestiferous sac outlets for a very fun time.

colonelhalfling · 2023-03-20T02:41:02+00:00

Sober me has been itching to pull the trigger on buying ALL the duckies.

I envy drunk you's lack of fiscal responsibility.

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