Old Man

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread "We're going to Candy Mountain, Chad!"

Re: The cranky thread So I got the flu from my kid, who got it from his cousin, who got it from her mom. Some family get-together. (It's influenza-A, if anyone cares.) Meanwhile, the side effects list on the Tamiflu is entertaining. Blistering rashes? Confusion? Wth is this stuff?

Re: THE ATLANTEAN AGE: What Do *You* Want To See?

Re: The cranky thread Esteemed coworker: Whereas- you routinely forget your own meetings and rely on engineering to remember them for you; you are so poorly organized that you fail to bring important opportunities to our attention in a timely manner; you expect engineering to drop whatever they're doing and meet the submissions deadlines for those opportunities anyway; you have repeatedly failed to credit engineering for their efforts in these matters; you can nevertheless be counted on to report any and all mistakes committed by engineering to your superiors, clearly intending to shift blame away from yourself; The Engineering Department- declines to assist you with your personal meeting schedule henceforth; refuses to create technical specifications for your opportunities with less than 24 hours' notice, lest they be improperly checked for error; will report to your superiors every mistake you ever make, with the eventual goal of having you disciplined or terminated. Most sincerely, Engineering.

Re: The cranky thread There is no last page. That's a bug that's been happening for a while now. You're on the last page, it's just that the boards append a phantom one. Would you measure your depression in fathoms? Back when I used to get it, I would get this image in my mind of being trapped in a box far underground. It was a very claustrophobic feeling.

Re: The cranky thread Far be it for me to question the eccentricities of a Hero gamer... but this part confuses me. Anyway, I sympathize, my two-year-old sticks like a barnacle whenever I'm home. I'd recommend tying them up, but it sounds like you need the whole weekend, not just one game.

Re: The cranky thread

Re: Musings on Random Musings "Ray of Light" and "Frozen" are her best two songs, dude. "Vogue" is the one that she should have been jailed for.

Re: Certain gods in real-world pantheons Yeah, while there may be no clear "evil" deity in some pantheons, some have no clear "good" deity either. The Greek certainly seems like one of these.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And yet I'm guessing that you don't like all, or even most, of her stuff.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Which ones, in your opinion, have both music and vocals that don't suck?

Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't like artists so much as I like specific songs. Madonna's later work includes two or three good songs. There are only one or two musicians in the cosmos where I like a significant percentage of their work.

Re: The cranky thread

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Today my kid's happy meal toy had a laser in it. A frickin' laser. When did it become the future? Then again, the whole point of the toy was to aim the laser into your eye...

Re: The cranky thread Hey, come on, this is the cranky thread. What's with all this "best wishes" crap?

Re: The cranky thread In the process, actually, but thanks. I'm just glad we don't live someplace that gets bad weather.

Re: The cranky thread Sympathies. So far at least, I haven't had to pack up the wife and kid in the car along with the kid's nebulizer and set off at 5 A.M. in the dark, wind, and rain with no working street or traffic lights, searching for a working power outlet before the kid's own bronchial tubes asphyxiate him. But, the year is young.

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Re: A Thread for Random Videos Medium Starch Please (requires audio for full effect): http://www.jawbonefilms.com/#/mediumstarch/ Warning: Totally, utterly, NSFW. Profanity, graphic violence, Asian stereotypes. Absolutely hilarious.

Re: Musings on Random Musings There's still potential for a connection in a current or future phase.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings It's the little things that make or break my day.

Re: The cranky thread I'm sitting on $100,000 worth of consulting work for VMware and because of their broken website they're not going to get it. And neither are we.

Re: Nature + Fire = What? Pain? Eradication? Ash? Dust? Britney Spears?

Re: The cranky thread The especially annoying thing about that is that once an email address gets harvested, it's out there forever. I've been receiving spam on one account since 1994--serves me right for posting to rec.games.frp.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Well, quit grounding out the circuit then. No wonder your hair looks like that.