Something Random

[Stereodude]

Is there any way to know if it is broken?

Yeah, it's called an X-ray. You'll need to see your doctor to get one though.

 

[LunarMist]

Yes, there was damage.

 

[ddrueding]

To the HDD or the foot?

 

[Gilbo]

I thought I'd broken my tailbone a couple weeks ago. It turns out it's just really, badly bruised.

I've been sitting on a phone book at work for the last couple weeks, hanging the end of my ass off the back. Lordy... I was also maxing out the ibuprofen daily dose for a while, but I've been avoiding it the last couple days since things have improved quite a bit.


Lunarmist,
I think a broken foot is similar to my tailbone injury. The doctors can't really do anything, so treatment focuses on pain management.

 

[Mercutio]

Sage Software's Act 2009 lists a 1Gbit network connection as a minimum hardware requirement.

 

[ddrueding]

Sage Software's Act 2009 lists a 1Gbit network connection as a minimum hardware requirement.

I've worked closely with Sage, they are nutjobs. What they really want to do is specify a maximum latency, but they can't do that.

 

[Howell]

I've been sitting on a phone book at work for the last couple weeks, hanging the end of my ass off the back.

Sounds like what you really need is a doughnut pillow.

 

[Handruin]

I was flipping through slashdot and found a link to a website that is designed for getting questions answered...stackoverflow.com. Even if you don't have questions to ask (or answer) there is some good general knowledge in there to read.

 

[Will Rickards]

Yeah stackoverflow is run by Jeff Atwood who writes the Coding Horror blog. It just recently went to public not private beta. Mostly a site for programmers. I'll have to add it to my rotation.

 

[Mercutio]

You know how lip balm (Chapstick, Carmex) is something that you buy, use a few times, and then lose?

I actually finished a tube of Blistex lip balm today. I've had that tube since February 2005. I really feel like I've accomplished something.

 

[LunarMist]

Apparently you don't spend much time outside in the elements. I can consume a chapstick in 3 weeks or so. It seems the content of each unit has been shrinking over the decades.

 

[CougTek]

I've never finished a lip balm stick. Main reason is that I've never started one. I'll never have enough oestrogen in my body to start using lip balm. When your lips feel dry, it means you've been too long without a beer ;-).

Where's the drunken bastard when you need him?

 

[udaman]

I've never finished a lip balm stick. Main reason is that I've never started one. I'll never have enough oestrogen in my body to start using lip balm. When your lips feel dry, it means you've been too long without a beer ;-).

Where's the drunken bastard when you need him?

Must be a cultural colloquial usage, I think Cough is confusing this with lipstick/lipgloss. Guess he'll never be the lead singer of an indie rock band either .

When you have enough/too much testosterone, when you're lips are dry, you've been too long w/o pussy. Drink wine instead of beer and you'll fall asleep forgetting all your troubles...for a while, that is.

 

[Fushigi]

I know Mercutio isn't big on S*ony or Blu-Ray, but he might appreciate this Firefly transfer to blu-Ray.

The October Previews is listing the Firefly Blu-ray box at $89.99 with a December ship date. 4 disc set.

 

[LunarMist]

You know how lip balm (Chapstick, Carmex) is something that you buy, use a few times, and then lose?

I actually finished a tube of Blistex lip balm today. I've had that tube since February 2005. I really feel like I've accomplished something.

One product I never finish is a tube of Neosporin ointment. They always expire with about 85% remaining.

 

[Mercutio]

The October Previews is listing the Firefly Blu-ray box at $89.99 with a December ship date. 4 disc set.

I had a preorder on it, which they canceled. They re-listed it with the different MSRP but then discounted it to the same price I had before. $52.99 or something like that. It was entirely reasonable.

There's a copy of Iron Man on BluRay at my office, but I don't feel like going to get it.

Amazon had a sale on HD DVDs earlier in the week. I picked up a copy of Planet Earth for $12 and with a couple other titles. Interestingly, most of the titles that attracted me to HD DVD in the first place, like Battlestar Galactica season 1, have retained something like their MSRP price.

 

[LunarMist]

:blue: It's all over.

 

[Gilbo]

I've never finished a lip balm stick. Main reason is that I've never started one. I'll never have enough oestrogen in my body to start using lip balm. When your lips feel dry, it means you've been too long without a beer ;-).

That's what I'm talking about!

 

[Mercutio]

:blue: It's all over.

Er... what is?

 

[udaman]

Er... what is?

It's all over for OJ Simpson, jury just convicted him on all charges against him. He may spend the rest of his life in prison. Bet the Goldman's are elated (satisfied?).

Man, OJ sure is dumb, what a loser.

 

[LunarMist]

:blue: It's all over.

Er... what is?

RIP Spotto (1995-2008).

 

[jtr1962]

I haven't been following that case but weren't the charges stuff like breaking and entering? How could you get life for that?

 

[ddrueding]

RIP Spotto (1995-2008).

Sorry to hear that. Do you have any pictures to share?

 

[ddrueding]

I haven't been following that case but weren't the charges stuff like breaking and entering? How could you get life for that?

Three strikes laws would be one way.

 

[Fushigi]

LM: I'm very sorry for your loss. It's been just over 9 months since my cat passed and I'm still not fully over it. We are considering adopting a cat from a local shelter, but I'm not quite ready.

Late December/Christmas seems to be a time of death for my wife's family and it seems to have moved to us as well.


Re: OJ. Apparently his comrades were armed and according to the testimony, armed at OJ's request. That takes it to a much higher level than basic B&E.

 

[ddrueding]

My grandfather died on December the 6th some years ago, and we are considering getting married on the same day.

(Yes, Pearl Harbor, too.)

 

[LunarMist]

Lately some stupid UPS robot rings up and wakes me in the morning every time a package will be delivered.

 

[LunarMist]

Sorry to hear that. Do you have any pictures to share?

No. This one is bothering me more than usual due to the circumstances. I don't want to think about him for a while.

 

[udaman]

Lately some stupid UPS robot rings up and wakes me in the morning every time a package will be delivered.

You're really old when you can remember when buying milk could mean that the milk was delivered to your residence by the 'milkman' driving a milk delivery truck, leaving glass one quart (or in some cases 1/2gal) bottles, that you left out for the milkman (did they ever have milk women???) to recover on the next weekly visit. Think they were still doing that in England till recently.

You're really young when you can't remember when UPS used to required a written (non electronic) signature for delivery of all packages. Now days UPS delivery drivers just ring a doorbell, and quickly dump the package at the door before rushing off to the next stop.

Me thinks LM lives in the twilight zone more than most of us, I've never had UPS call??? Or am I just misinterpreting LM's brief rant? Does 'rings me up' mean a colloquial form of doorbell ringing? At any rate, UPS almost never delivers in my area before afternoon.

re: OJ, it's the 'kidnapping' charges that carry additive extra long prison potential. There's a lot of 'useful' ambiguousness in written criminal code, which can make it easier for prosecutor's to get lengthy prison terms, just be throwing the whole kitchen sink into charges. It's not like OJ kidnapped anyone's children, what he was accused of was restraining, holding people against their wills.

See this if funny, I was thinking about a few years ago on SR, there was a time I was researching some civil law, about trespassing in regards to property ownership, what constitutes various meanings for kind of trespassing on private or public property. I was given a parking pass during the summer months at Malibu's prestigious Pepperdine Univ. campus (Ken Starr was a prof there when he became famous for the Clinton investigation). The have a manned both at both entrances to the roads that provide access to the Univ. I pulled up to that attendant station probably a dozen times over a couple of weeks (mostly weekends, but the law library was open until late on weekdays also...unlike UCLA's law library which has the largest collection in So. Cal. but during summer months is on a drastically reduced operation hours schedule, not even open for weekends, IIRC), I always told them I was going to visit the law library. Then did not ask me any questions at all or tell me that it's a private university, not supposed to be for the general public's use. USC has a law library, and metered parking, but also info booths at all entrances, and those attendants *never* tell you Joe public can't use University libraries.

So any way, after receiving the daily temp visitor parking permit piece of paper to display on the dash of my car, I was doing my research at the library during the off summer months at Pepperdine. I walked down to the info office on campus to ask several times what the hours were for various cafeterias or eating places on campus, where I could get change for dollar bills etc. The campus police department & parking enforcement office was right next door.

So I went to the parking/police office to ask more about when the summer sessions ended, this after having been to that office a couple of times to ask question when the offices were closed for the day...summer hours...only place to get info later in the evenings. It was during the day time, I had asked a question of a clerk, since I had forgotten what the hours of operation where for the eating places, then as I left the police office, just outside the door in the courtyard, a police officer (these are private police, the have no real official government powers as officers of the state or local government) mumbled something at me from behind, quickly got around in front of my face to stop my progression.

He asked/in kind of an accusatory tone, "haven't I talked to you before?". And I said, "no, what about?".

He said "I could have sworn I've talked to you before, you've been coming here to ask questions before, more than a couple of times I've been told, what are you doing here on campus?"

I told him I had been visiting the law library to do some legal research. He then told me that it's a private university and if you're not a student or lawyer (umm, a lawyer is *also* Joe public, unless a professor of that university) you can't use the private university facilities. I told him I did not know that, that I had been using the UCLA law library, but that they are closed on weekends, on restricted operating hours. Actually, UCLA's law library is restricted to general public, at the entrance, you ask for a small pass paper, and sign in, as they limit the numbers of the public at any given hour...whatever the number is, I've been there opening fall schedule and never had any problem with getting a pass.

He tells me that a private university cannot accommodate the volume of the general public, and that I'm breaking the law by trespassing on private property. Then he starts being a total *asshole* and asks me for ID in the form of a driver's license, as I had told him I've been getting daily temp parking permits. I asked him why he needs that, if I'm not supposed to be on a private campus, I'll just get in my car an leave. He said, "no, I need to see your identification". So I show him my DL after taking it out of my wallet, so he can write it down on a note pad he pulls out. The he says "why don't you step over here, I'm going to take your picture for campus records, to make sure you don't come back again."...the harassment/shakedown ensues .

I told him, I'm not going to let him take my picture, I told him that now that he's informed me of the restriction on the law library "I'm leaving right now, there's no reason for you to demand to see my DL, and I'm not going to let you take my picture"...as I did a Heidi Fleiss hand in front of my face when he pointed his PnS digicam at me, lol. He gets in my face and tells me if I don't capitulate to his demands and let him photograph me, he's going to hold me there, and call the Malibu County sheriff's dept.; have them come up to campus while he's holding me, and have me arrested for trespassing. What a total DH. Something else I notice in my few weeks there, was that the campus if freakin full of taller pasty bleach white WASP student body, with what seems like a few token black athletes and a few Asians I could see walking around the law buildings. Felt like I was in the deep south, segregated south. Man this police officer, I asked him what his name was, and he told me his the 'watch commander', and I wanted to write down his badge # & name. DH, and probably a racist flunky from LAPD, got his cushy higher paid job as private police for expensive Univ in Malibu.

Obviously this DH, did not know much about criminal law, specifically trespass law I just happened to be researching, with regards to private property--- came in rather handy. He was holding me against my will, detaining me *illegally* without probable cause, apparently because my skin color wasn't bleach white!

I could have resisted, and then after being arrested, filed a lawsuit for wrongful detention/kidnapping; via contingency fee attorney,against this watch commander and the university. Yeah, I know, it's not really what you or I would consider 'kidnapping', but that's how the code is written to include such acts, like that of OJ being charged with. Of course, this pseudo watch commander was also, acting under the color of law, in his unlawful 'imprisonment/detention' of me. Should have been worth a minimum of $10-50k in negotiated settlement, after filing a lawsuit. Hell, if he tried to detain me, and I resisted and he got rough; could have been a six figure lawsuit. Gloria Allred, here I come .

Only problem with corrupt, immoral police, is that the parking permit I had inside my car most likely would have been confiscated and destroyed. My alibi would have been lost, and my case would have been nil. The guard station gave me *permission* to access the private university, via the daily parking permit; as such I was not trespassing, could not have been prosecuted for such.

I had bigger fish to fry, was far too busy with more urgent important/stressful issues to deal with, so I capitulated to this racist A-hole, in his illegal criminal conduct. He insisted after taking my picture, of 'escorting' me to my car where he also wanted to write down a description of my car and record the license plate #. Harassing A-hole!

I so much wanted to sue his Efin' arse for unlawful detainment, just like OJ was convicted off, big time. Cause I'm sure this is not the 1st time the racist bastard has done this targeting harassment shake down of unsuspecting victims. I'm sure he gets off on being an a-hole like that. As a psuedo police officer, he enjoyed no special privileges to act in such an unlawful manner, though I'm sure he *thinks* he does.

I do note that during the 2 weeks I was visiting the campus, at the main public road where the entrance to the Univ's private drive way is, where they have a large plaque at the corner of that street, there was at the time, a protest with pickets of Univ, food service/janitorial workers, wanting higher pay and some other grievances. All where hispanic workers, darker skin...not sure if that had anything to do with this commander feeling out his A-hole 'oaks' in practicing his racist harassment on unlucky victims.

This is why I LMAO, when the closet racist, now moderator over on SF, living in Nazi Europe, BigBuckHunter guy, said that he thought Seattle was a progressive, multi-ethnic city, that racism is mostly negligible in larger US cities like Seattle. Of course a racist would say that . White supremacists are a minority, but racists are hanging out in just about *every* US city, you just don't read about them until someone gets killed or black family, jewish family has an cross/effigy burned in their front lawn.

Can't say OJ wasn't guilty of crimes charged, but you have to understand how prosecutors throw everything and the kitchen sink at you as a defendant. It's up to your defense to either get the judge to find flaw in those counts/charges and remove them from the complaint (via allowing prosecution to amend the complaint) or get all charges dropped. Same thing happens in civil lawsuits, plaintiff's lawyers throw everything imaginable, even if hopelessly futile, because they know it costs all the more to litigate this through the courts, $$$$.

 

[LunarMist]

You're really old when you can remember when buying milk could mean that the milk was delivered to your residence by the 'milkman' driving a milk delivery truck, leaving glass one quart (or in some cases 1/2gal) bottles, that you left out for the milkman (did they ever have milk women???) to recover on the next weekly visit.

Milk deliveries were 3x a week back in the day. The 1/2 gallon bottles sure made a mess when they broke.

I've never had UPS call??? Or am I just misinterpreting LM's brief rant? Does 'rings me up' mean a colloquial form of doorbell ringing? At any rate, UPS almost never delivers in my area before afternoon.

"Ring up" means to make a telephone call. Perhaps the term is unfamiliar in your country.

UPS just started that crap a few weeks ago AFAIK. Apparently the UPS robot assumes that everyone is awake by 8AM on weekdays. A message that "your package will be delivered between 9AM and 7PM and someone must be present to sign for it" is really f***ing useful. Every heard of a late shift and sleeping in? Idiots!

 

[ddrueding]

Just wrapped a 20 hour day, and I need to leave for work again in 7 hours. Catch you guys later.

 

[Mercutio]

I just came about three inches from hitting a deer this morning. I sure am glad I had my brakes and done a couple weeks ago.

Deer bad.

 

[timwhit]

I just came about three inches from hitting a deer this morning. I sure am glad I had my brakes and done a couple weeks ago.

Deer bad.

If you hit it you could have bought a tag from the state trooper and gotten 60+ lbs of free meat. Free-unless you want to fix your car.

 

[Mercutio]

I don't have any place to put 60lbs. of meat!

On the other hand, it would be nice to have an excuse to fix the dent in my Element's hood. I had a tree limb fall on my car the week after I got it. I had a $500 deductible at the time. Cost of repair was $470.

There's a funny thing about my insurance: I was paying about $2000 a year for two crappy cars with crappy coverage. You know those commercials that say "Switch to Geico" and get awesome coverage? I switched to Geico with my Element, literally maybe a month after I got the car, and my premium went down to $600 a year for ridiculous coverage.


Lunar, I'm really sorry to hear about Spotto.

 

[ddrueding]

Merc,

Thanks for sticking around for 11,000+ posts. I've enjoyed all of them.

 

[Fushigi]

I almost got "deered" the other day. A blonde in a Cadillac sedan just drove out of a gas station right in front of me. She had looked right before entering (she wanted to turn left) but never looked left until about 1/3rd of her car was already in the road. Luckily I was alert; I dove on the brakes and just managed to avoid a collision.

 

[Handruin]

I'm also sorry to hear about Spotto, LM.


Last year I hit a deer somewhere in the July time frame. I was coming down a long hill and two baby deer popped out of the field to my left (the field was lower than the road, so they were running up an embankment and couldn't be seen). They proceeded to run across the road and one of them into the front of my car. I was on full brake, but since it was wet, the car didn't stop in time. I was actually doing the speed limit and there was a state trooper behind me when it happened. I hit the deer square in the center of the car and it rolled up the hood and window only to be flipped into the woods somewhere. The saliva from the deer's face was splatted on my window...poor thing.

The car was still drivable, so it wasn't that bad, but was over $3K in repairs. It dented/curled the hood in on itself and I couldn't open it. The radiator and condenser were also dented and warped along with the hood latch mechanism...so they were replaced because the car was less than a year old. A new hood was required and plastic grill trim along with a bunch of repainting. There was no frame damage to the car, thankfully.

 

[ddrueding]

The only deer issue was when one ran into me. I was enjoying a spirited drive down a country road at night, and saw the deer in time to stop. The thing didn't move, and was right in my lane, so I slowly drove around it. Just as my window was passing the deer, it bolted straight into my window and left a big snot mark before running into the trees.

 

[LunarMist]

Have you had a colonotomy? The procedure is required after age 50. Having a camera system rammed up there sounds painful.

 

[paugie]

Have you had a colonotomy? The procedure is required after age 50. Having a camera system rammed up there sounds painful.

Which reminds me, I have to have a checkup for my prostate. I'm 54 now.
There are times when I have to strain to keep up a stream. Is that worrisome? Or is this too morbid to post here?

er, what do they do on a colonotomy? do they remove anything?