FrankL

The amount in my gift card has been returned, WITHOUT me having to jump through hoops.

Aren't they a little cute to be stormtroopers?
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary says they're here to rescue me! Oh wait, oops....I'm not the dude they're looking for.

You can't have a memorial to the Kamikaze and then complain about any damn statue we put up anywhere.

You remember all those references to the food of the gods in Greek mythology? Well, ambrosia is the ancient Greek word for cornbread.

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.

#onlyinAustralia -- A fur seal rides on the back of a whale on the NSW south coast. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/seal-rides-on-the-back-of-a-whale-on-the-nsw-south-coast-20150916-gjo732
 

 
I came in like a wrecking ball...surfing Australia. 

HC Marks on Twitter:
 

Given events like schools over reacting to things like a boy biting a pop tart into the shape of a gun, I'm willing to allow that group may not be the only factor.

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!"

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?"

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?"

An engineer, a mathematician, and an economist were out hunting deer. From their blind, they saw a huge buck. They took aim. The engineer shot to the left, the mathematician shot to the right. The economist shouted, "We got it!"

Depending on your definition of rednecks, that may not be fair. Sadly, there are a lot of twits who say much the same who are 'city dwelling never been on a tractor or a pick up truck' scumballs. 
 
I know some guys who consider themselves rednecks who would be the first to stand up to circle around a young woman to protect her even from cops . of course, as most of said rednecks are white, they might actually live if they tried.

Two thieves are pulling off a breaking-and-entering job in a high-rise office building. Suddenly, they hear someone approaching. The first thief says, “Jump out the window or we’ll get caught!”
 
“You’ve got to be joking! We’re on the 13th floor!”
 
“This is no time to be superstitious!"

*ring*
 
"Hel--"
 
"So did you survive your meeting with the auditor from hell?"
 
"I'm not sure yet.  She's still here in the office.  You're on speaker, by the way."

My wife bought a new blender called a Ninja.
 
Me: If you put bananas and peaches in it, would it be a "Fruit Ninja."
 
She actually laughed at a pun! Took me 15 years to get that reaction from her!

The more I read the sadder that becomes. 

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!"

Yeah, Corporate hates it when their marketing plan is so transparent everyone points and laughs.

Q: How many Mac users does it take to change a light bulb?
 
A: None. Apple engineers decided that the average Mac user would never need to change a light bulb, so there's no way to do it. Have you considered upgrading to an iLamp?

Take those chemistry puns and barium!
 
Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Mental image, Gandalf on the bridge in Moria confronting the Balrog with famous "You shall not pass" challenge. 
Insert label tag on Balrog that says "Windows 10 update".

And this morning, the last $11 per boy was covered. God is good!