FrankL

Glad to see some stats being run!

I understand a little of that, Ternaugh. My best friend died our senior year in high school from a bad reaction to an OTC medication. A great friend, not a wife, and even now there are days when I get misty thinking about the things we used to do together. I'm going to sound farm boy here, but I've never seen anyone who could drive a tractor like he could. I swear there were times when he broke the laws of physics.

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Gluten free cornbread has been baked and is now part of leftovers. My regular recipe usually comes out of the oven with a rating of 8 of 10. Iowa has different humidity and weather than Oklahoma and southern Missouri, so it isn't a consistent 9. There are times when every note is hit just right, and I pull a pan of 9.5 from the oven. It works at dinner, for prebed snack (with milk), and when warmed up over the next days. Other times it's a 6 and much of it gets thrown away.

Last night's gluten free rates a 7. Not as good as my regular recipe often is but better than sometimes. It also doesn't hold it's taste as well after reheating and cooling.

What is a gluten free muffin made of?

Sorghum flour, millet flour, and xanthum gum. The taste is fine, but the texture is a little off. If I understand it correctly, the flours are needed for the structure while the gum is needed to hold it all together. We're trying cornbread with it next week. I have trepidation because good cornbread is a holy endeavor where I come from.

My eldest (not quite 8) started having head aches. Most were small and short, but then he had one that incapacitated him for several hours. My wife checked his medications. Turns out that the prescription antacid has "headaches, possibly severe" as a potential side effect. He needed to come off of that, pronto. However, he was on that because he had stomachaches daily (and threw up regularly with them). My wife had been reading about why that might be and we were discussing going gluten free to see if that helped. After this headache, we decided to just go for it.

We stopped the antacid and went gluten free the next meal. That was two weeks ago. Not a single headache since. One stomachache (but he ate three gluten-free blueberry muffins for breakfast that morning and the pain was different than the other ones). His appetite has improved, and he feels better.

And there's a new dented can store about 15 miles away that carries a large selection of almost-expired-and-just-past-date gluten free products for ~75% off the retail price.

I always put at least one joke on the tests. It took them a while to get over the paranoia.

A professor at seminary (who retired before I took a class from him), had a traditional question 3 that was infamous. I don't remember the question, but option C was: "Your professor has gone bananas."

Listened to this several times when I was working from home the other day.

South of Santa Fe, Brooks and Dunn

This one, too.

Big Iron Horses, Restless Heart

Yeah, got it. Know the song, too. I just do not find it particularly noteworthy or ... naughty. Nothing to blush about.

 

(Do you "blush about" something?)

Yes, "blush about" is perfectly acceptable English. "Blush over" would work as well.

Would it help the humor to know that the time this took place, I was a seminary student and she was at the Bible college next door to the seminary. Also, I have always been quiet and had difficulty relating to the opposite sex and somewhere in my mind, when she said, "You need to give me an example," it translated as a hot gal saying "talk dirty to me, just a little." And the innocence of the asker...

Exactly. That's your Imperial Recruitment Poster right there.

Exactly the opposite of that temperance poster I see every now and then.

If I owned a saloon back then, that would be hanging on the wall with a sign underneath it, "They promised!"

GIGO in action!

Yep. And nobody in the whole company can access their team calendars right now.

Heh. I wonder if Rich is reading his forums and shooting each idea down the readers discuss...

 

"Other clerics can buff him!"

 

Next web comic "Oh, guess not."

 

"Durkon could just stay out of range and wait him out..."

 

Today's webcomic 'Oh...." 

He has been known to do that. The oracle's various "for one interpretation of" statements were things fans had thrown out on the forum for "how will this prophecy be fulfilled?"

I was working in the dish room and a friend came in. She was from India and had only been in the states for 2 years. She was a freshman in college. She also had poise and self confidence. Any room she walked into, she was the alpha female. (Full disclosure, I was smitten.)

"Frank. You need to tell me something." That was her way of saying, "I have a question."

"Sure."

"They used a word in my English class that I'm not familiar with."

"Shoot."

"Double entendre."

[blush] "Um, yeah. That's when you say something that has two meanings."

"Like a pun?"

"No. One meaning is innocent, the other is not."

Puzzled look on her face. "You need to give me an example."

Oh boy. Bear in mind that I had listened to the Bellamy Brothers just before coming to work. I said the first one that came to mind. "Ok. If I said you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me."

Eyes widen. Jaw drops. Head cocks to the side. She holds up one finger, about to say something. Turns around and walks out of the room.

So I get an email this morning that the integration routine I upgraded on Friday didn't run correctly. Started looking into it. Oh, wow. Frabuous day. The files I had been given to test my routines against didn't match the actual new production code.

"Pray tell, Mr. Babbage. If we put in the wrong numbers will we still get the right answer?"

A woman walked into a bar and said to the bartender, "Give me a double entendre."

 

He gave her one.

Wondering if I should share the story from the cafeteria where I worked 16 years ago that actually fits in here.... Actually there's more than 1 from that place.

And looks like some people are finding Win10 ISO on their system even though they have said "no" on the "reserve" question. And, yes, Microsoft is actually admitting that this is exactly what is happening:

With that being said, what’s Microsoft position on all of this? How could the company possibly explain why it is forcing Windows 10 installation files on to customers’ computers without permission? Surely the company has a reasonable explanation for its actions? In a statement to The Register, a Microsoft spokesperson wrote:

 

For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade.

When the upgrade is ready, the customer will be prompted to install Windows 10 on the device.

 

In Microsoft’s eyes, if you have agreed to automatic updates in Windows, it’s fair game to send Windows 10 down the pipe.

In MS's eyes, it doesn't matter that this unasked for file is eating up 3-6 GB of HD space and woe to those on metered connections and with data caps!

One of the joys of having a trick ear (randomly miss letters and syllables).

Head Pastor's wife: Friday I have to take my dad to the urologist to see about his Parkinson's.

Me (thinking): Do what? Oh, I dropped the Ne-!

I'm not getting into something that could get as nasty as Kermit being a playah or not. It's just too intense a situation with a no win scenerio

 

I just say it's none of my business.

as long as there isn't a Smurf round, I'll let you live. 

Who wants smurfs? Nac Mac Feegle's all the way for the win!

Not yet, but monkey #2 sure is working on it! Man! That boy has the energy of 12!

 

He should get together with my youngest. "Rocket," as I call him, he first had the nickname of "Mr. Wiggles" because even as an infant, he could not, would not lay still.

 

So this girl walks up to another girl and says "Hey, have you heard of the Bechdel Test?" 

 

And the other girl says, "Yeah, my boyfriend was telling me about it the other day!"

 

I should send that to my niece. She's turning into a fussy feminist lately.

Aol.com is reporting police raided Gene Simmons's house for child pornography.

CES 

Yeah, but it wasn't his. Someone was in the house while the family was gone and used the computers for illicit activity. That's the summary I received of it.

Worse than that (from an IT perspective), they also released an astonishing amount of information about the AM network--infrastructure diagrams, admin accounts, domain information... I don't see how Am can come back from this.   They'd literally have to start over with a brand new IT infrastructure.

So what's the downside of this argument?

Ever have a migraine so bad your pillow feels like a rock? That was my entire afternoon.

A dearly departed friend suffered from visual migraines. He said imagine seeing a paisley pattern that moves.

Take those chemistry puns and barium!

Sorry. Couldn't resist.