FrankL Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Some guys at work are running a PathFinder game, my office mate is one of them. The other day, J came in to talk about latest character. J: I'm building a new monk. They just have so many options I want to try! I can do this or this or even this! I'm planning on taking X bonus feats and going down Y path. T: Sounds interesting. J: He'll probably be killed quickly. Then I'll just make another monk. I do that frequently. Me: To quote Belkar Bitterleaf, "It's not my fault your core class is fundamentally broken. So you can attack four times per round? Do any of them actually hit?" BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 During a recent rpg session: "What do you think we should do?" "We should break for dinner." "You were asked to pick a strategy, and you choose to eat? You are a Hobbit!" Cancer and BlueCloud2k2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Overheard in class: "When you buy gas, you're buying liquid exploding dinosaurs. It's pretty cheap if you think of it that way." Cancer, tkdguy and BoloOfEarth 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 "You have to wait for it to load." "How do I do that?" I'm surprised my brain didn't explode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 During a doctor's visit: What is your height? Either 5'5" or 5'6". *after measuring* You're 5'4". I shrank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 I was given a small project to work on while my manager is on vacation this week. (NOTE to self: Never, ever, again admit that I know Access.) This is to fix a current program not write a new one. After some work, I figured out the problem. The program in question links to databases made with an older version that the new one cannot open. If this program had come to us for updating even just last month, we could have fixed it easily as some programmers (me among them) still had Access 2010 on their computers just in case this very thing happened. After taking note of the issue, cause, and solution, I went to see our help desk people. Marcus: Frank! How's it going? Frank: Well... M: That's not a good sign. F: Right. I have an odd request. I have a program to fix that was written in an older version of Access that my current version cannot read. Do we have any machine that still has Access 2010? M [eyes get wide]: I don't think so. Let me ask Brux. [While he goes back, I strike up a conversation with the girl at the counter. It turns out she uses this program I'm working on and recognized it when I told Marcus the error message. So glad made no comments about it beyond its obvious age. Moments later] B: Frank! Come back here. Now, what do you need? F: I know you've been phasing out Access 2010 installations, but I was just given a program to fix that links to another DB written in Access '97 and never upgraded. By design, Access 2013 cannot read '97 files. B [closes eyes, thinking about all the emails he sent out over the last year imploring users to test all of the programs they use in 2013 or have someone in IT test it in 2013.]: That's usually a good thing. F: Yes. [As we are talking, I notice that everyone in the help desk is gravitating towards the conversation] B: Can 2003 read it? F: Microsoft said 2010 or prior can read it and convert it. B: Hey, Trent, do we have any VMs with Office 2010? T: No. B: Set one up, and give Frank rights. F: Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 "When did I ingest THAT?!?" "We ate Chinese last night, remember?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 "What is Pokemon about, anyway?" "Kids run around trapping wild animals and making them fight each other. It's basically a cartoon about cockfighting." Pariah, BlueCloud2k2, BoloOfEarth and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Wife (holding up partially eaten strawberry): "The dragon likes strawberries." L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Soooo... We have a new winter storm approaching. Winter Storm Thor. I was wondering how much Marvel paid to have that name inserted into the list, and pointed out to my daughter that this begs the need to have Hurricane Hulk. She said, "No, we need Winter Storm Bucky. 'It'll be tough, but we'll have to Soldier on...'" Lucius, L. Marcus, Pariah and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 well not of my week, but I saw it this week. tkdguy, L. Marcus, Narf the Mouse and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 You have been married a while when on Sunday morning, the kids are in their own rooms plugged into on-line games, and your wife gets a look in her eye and says, "I want donuts." Pariah and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 "... We have many names for this phenomenon, and one of them ... is light." <end of the day's lecture> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 "Hi Old Man, sorry to call you so early, but [my engineer] got run over by a car on his way to work this morning." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 There used to be a "Quote of the Day" thread, but I just found it's been archived. So, that leaves this thread. Here's a quote from someone who understands the value of an education: "It is extremely valuable to train the mind to stand apart and examine its own program. That, to me, is the definition of a liberal education - the ability to examine the programs of life against larger questions and purposes and other paradigms. Training, without such education, narrows and closes the mind so that the assumptions underlying the training are never examined. That's why it is so valuable to read broadly and to expose yourself to great minds." Stephen R. Covey And here's something you can quote me on: "The greatest failure of our educational system may be the number of people who literally do not even know what an education is, let alone recognize its value." Lucius Alexander And an educated palindromedary Cancer and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 From a friend of mine in Ohio: "Ah, spring. That time of year when we shift from Hoth to Dagobah." BlueCloud2k2, L. Marcus, Lord Mhoram and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 We shift from Hoth to Hoth Light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 "To be old and wise, you must first survive being young and stupid." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 That goes along with the First Law of Funnelating: "Use your God-given cowardice. It's there for a reason." Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Just watched Big Hero Six. Me (to my wife): "That's the problem with these Super-Hero movies, they make me wanna break out the hero clix and my champions books." Problem is, no one local want's to play anything other than DnD/Pathfinder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. -Texas Bix Bender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 We shift from Hoth to Hoth Light. Record setting lows this week. Down in the 60s at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 For C? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Then even I would consider pulling on the longjohns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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