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[52-80 19,162]

this week the 'tech' division of our company is hosting a sustainability initiative and theyre doing mini presentations on how to work more 'green'.

today's suggestion: delete and reduce your emails to lower your carbon footprint.  the idea is that unnecessary emails occupy storage space on the servers which itself needs to be powered.  across multiple powerpoint slides, they are non-sarcastically showing people how to 'delete emails'.

the utter lunacy of these people to suggest such an inane and infantalizing thing.... mind you, a gigantic storage drive multipled many times for redundancy is still less 'costly' than a single incandescent lightbulb, and their audience is primarily a group of software engineers and STEM folks working on flow equations and complex physics.

some shit just boggles the mind.

 

 

[SHOOTER12 8,810]

16 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Anyway, a change of subject:

https://www.livescience.com/61966-how-much-you-poop-in-lifetime.html

 

Wholly shit.....

[Kennythetiger 9,389]

3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

this week the 'tech' division of our company is hosting a sustainability initiative and theyre doing mini presentations on how to work more 'green'.

today's suggestion: delete and reduce your emails to lower your carbon footprint.  the idea is that unnecessary emails occupy storage space on the servers which itself needs to be powered.  across multiple powerpoint slides, they are non-sarcastically showing people how to 'delete emails'.

the utter lunacy of these people to suggest such an inane and infantalizing thing.... mind you, a gigantic storage drive multipled many times for redundancy is still less 'costly' than a single incandescent lightbulb, and their audience is primarily a group of software engineers and STEM folks working on flow equations and complex physics.

some shit just boggles the mind.

 

 

Did you tell them about Surly?  Emails would be the least of their problems. 

[52-80 19,162]

3 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

Did you tell them about Surly?  Emails would be the least of their problems. 

my piece of shit 240w-consuming work laptop refuses to sleep and blasts its fan at full speed at all times.  that single computer wastes more energy than some marginal bits of data at rest on a memory chip in a storage array.

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

4 hours ago, 52-80 said:

this week the 'tech' division of our company is hosting a sustainability initiative and theyre doing mini presentations on how to work more 'green'.

today's suggestion: delete and reduce your emails to lower your carbon footprint.  the idea is that unnecessary emails occupy storage space on the servers which itself needs to be powered.  across multiple powerpoint slides, they are non-sarcastically showing people how to 'delete emails'.

the utter lunacy of these people to suggest such an inane and infantalizing thing.... mind you, a gigantic storage drive multipled many times for redundancy is still less 'costly' than a single incandescent lightbulb, and their audience is primarily a group of software engineers and STEM folks working on flow equations and complex physics.

some shit just boggles the mind.

 

 

Make sure to Reply All.

[52-80 19,162]

1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Make sure to Reply All.

using this as my new email signature

[GoPokes83 2,240]

Imagine you go through your whole life, well in adulthood, thinking you were born someplace normal.  From a nice family, good education, decent community, etc., etc.  You have a SS#, DL#, etc.  Just assume you were from near where you first remember being around age 4 like every other human in existence.  Then one day, you're cleaning out your deceased parents filing cabinet.  And you find your original birth certificate in a dusty folder that you have to handle delicately since it's already starting to fall apart.  There'e a marriage license, the title to the house, and your little sister's birth certificate.  You go to the back of the file, and there's your birth certificate and much to your horror and dismay---they had lied to you.  You were their biological son alright, born of healthy height and length at the exact time they said you were.  But you were born in Oklahoma.  So in a fit of confusion, you decide to embrace Oklahoma traditions and culture.  But it's too late, you can't.  Not because they deceived you and it's too late to assimilate.  It's just that you've grown up in modern civilization and even learned to read.  

[Armybrat 40,850]

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

my piece of shit 240w-consuming work laptop refuses to sleep and blasts its fan at full speed at all times.  that single computer wastes more energy than some marginal bits of data at rest on a memory chip in a storage array.

A Dell laptop?

[52-80 19,162]

Just now, Armybrat said:

A Dell laptop?

yes. although not just this specific model - every dell ive had from work sucks.  hate them with the passion of 1000 burning suns.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Almost every time I eat a mochi ball, I stop and think for a moment about how much of my life was wasted before I ever ate my first one. 

[Lurch 5,931]

Almost every time I eat a mochi ball, I stop and think for a moment about how much of my life was wasted before I ever ate my first one. 

I had to google to even see what it was … and I’m still not sure?

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

55 minutes ago, Lurch said:

I had to google to even see what it was … and I’m still not sure?

Ice cream surrounded by a chewy rice-based substance. 

Doesn't make any sense, but that doesn't matter one bit. 

Buy some next time you're at the store. Give it a minute or two out of the freezer before you eat it for maximum texture enjoyment. 

 

[Lurch 5,931]

Ice cream surrounded by a chewy rice-based substance. 
Doesn't make any sense, but that doesn't matter one bit. 
Buy some next time you're at the store. Give it a minute or two out of the freezer before you eat it for maximum texture enjoyment. 
 

I thought 0% chance they’d have that at my store in Florida (they put tortillas in the “ethnic food aisle”) but sure enough…

https://www.publix.com/pd/mymochi-ice-cream-strawberry/RIO-PCI-544681

I’ll give it a try!

[Born to Run 6,569]

I thought 0% chance they’d have that at my store in Florida (they put tortillas in the “ethnic food aisle”) but sure enough…

https://www.publix.com/pd/mymochi-ice-cream-strawberry/RIO-PCI-544681

I’ll give it a try!

Welcome to the party pal! I like the Green Tea. Whole foods must make theirs with Unicorn tears based on price point.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

I don’t care for the middle eastern handshake style. Catches me off guard every time.

[Sandman 3,403]

17 hours ago, Lurch said:

they put tortillas in the “ethnic food aisle”

I turn 50 next month but I hadn't seen or eaten a taco until I was 13 or 14 years old.

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

2 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

I don’t care for the middle eastern handshake style. Catches me off guard every time.

Am I holding a dead fish here???

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Am I holding a dead fish here???

Exactly. Goddamn it man, either shake my hand or don’t.

[Lurch 5,931]

I thought 0% chance they’d have that at my store in Florida (they put tortillas in the “ethnic food aisle”) but sure enough…

https://www.publix.com/pd/mymochi-ice-cream-strawberry/RIO-PCI-544681

I’ll give it a try!

Slams and goes hard. Ice cream finger food with a chew. 8.5/10

[Lurch 5,931]

I turn 50 next month but I hadn't seen or eaten a taco until I was 13 or 14 years old.

They also put refried beans in the same place.

Pretty sure we were doing Taco Tuesday in 1980 in Houston.

[nnm 36,419]

4 hours ago, Sandman said:

I turn 50 next month but I hadn't seen or eaten a taco until I was 13 or 14 years old.

I grew up mostly in northern NM. I had chile with every meal. 

[Sandman 3,403]

Just now, nnm said:

I grew up mostly in northern NM. I had chile with every meal. 

Both of my folks were born in the 40s and raised in the midwest (Indiana & Iowa). I spent most of my childhood in the Philippines or western Europe. My first introduction to tacos was from Taco Mayo in the OKC suburbs. But I had already been eating stuff like fried rice and lumpia from our time in the PI, so I was somewhat cultured.

[RPM 26,322]

I had to stop by Lowe's this morning to pick up a small piece of hardware. I walk down the hardware aisle and a female worker walks up and asks what I'm looking for. "Roll pins." The look on her face confirmed I was Hank Hill in MegaLoMart.

[Brothahorn 10,087]

yes. although not just this specific model - every dell ive had from work sucks.  hate them with the passion of 1000 burning suns.

[Brothahorn 10,087]

On 9/20/2023 at 1:20 PM, Sandman said:

I turn 50 next month but I hadn't seen or eaten a taco until I was 13 or 14 years old.

We never ate crawfish when I was growing up. Not sure why, we just never did. Ate plenty of shrimp though. I was in Austin when I went to my first crawfish boil. 

 

So now when everyone is going crazy over craw fish, I'm like Al Bundy

[Zepol87 9,188]

Buried my godmother today, been reading through our messages and seeing all the times I “forgot” to respond. Take time to talk to your loved ones you never know when it’s the last message or call you will get 

[Jameslaw121 4,448]

On 9/13/2023 at 4:58 PM, nnm said:

We stopped getting anniversary presents for each other a long time ago. We’re fortunate enough to be in the position that if we want something, we buy it. We don’t wait for birthdays, Xmas, anniversary, etc. And neither of us needs more useless kitschy crap. 

What we do instead is for milestone anniversaries, we take a nice trip, without kids, complete with fine dining, etc. Kids are grown and married now, so the without kids part is easy.

20, it was Banff. 25, Provence-Côte d’Azur. 30, Israel. 

I'm extremely lucky in that my wife most of the typical present stuff. She doesn't care for expensive clothes. The only jewelry she wears is wedding ring and occasionally a cheap necklace she got from the kids for mothers day a few years ago. She likes brunch. As long as we go to brunch every couple of weeks she's happy.

Today is her birthday. She got a card from me. And she wants me to go pick up a couple of pizzas at a local place for dinner and watch a movie.

[tbone_ 14,128]

Movie huh? So you don’t even have to talk to her. That’s just bragging.

[deft 6,856]

I had to stop by Lowe's this morning to pick up a small piece of hardware. I walk down the hardware aisle and a female worker walks up and asks what I'm looking for. "Roll pins." The look on her face confirmed I was Hank Hill in MegaLoMart.

[Crapinon 2,257]

18 hours ago, deft said:

You should have an some random guy wandering down the aisle. He could have told you. 

[Scheiss Meister 8,408]

On 9/18/2023 at 11:39 AM, Armybrat said:

Anyway, a change of subject:

https://www.livescience.com/61966-how-much-you-poop-in-lifetime.html

 

This is the blessing and the curse of being a wastewater operator.  The field is recession-proof because as long as people eat, they shit and will need you on the job.  But in case of a hurricane or massive killer ice storm, they don't stop eating and shitting, so you still have to be on the job, even when everyone else is bugging out or home and warm.

Anyway, thank you all for the great career.

Now my random thought: last Saturday we went to the farmer's market in Eugene, Oregon with our daughter (no pictures ever taken).  A couple of booths had Marionberry jam and jelly, so I had to get some.  When I asked if it included crack, the purveyor didn't get it and was offended.

Edited September 24, 2023 by Scheiss Meister

[Brisketexan 105,154]

This is the blessing and the curse of being a wastewater operator.  The field is recession-proof because as long as people eat, they shit and will need you on the job.  But in case of a hurricane or massive killer ice storm, they don't stop eating and shitting, so you still have to be on the job, even when everyone else is bugging out or home and warm.
Anyway, thank you all for the great career.

Some of us are clearly thanked more than others.

You’re welcome.

[Brothahorn 10,087]

So predictably, he's going to become an alcoholic.

I have tweezers strategically dispersed in my truck console, briefcase, suitcase, desk drawer, and dopp kit, kitchen junk drawer in case I pull out a hearing aid and the silicone ear dome remains in my ear. About once a month I have to go digging for one.

Same for me and reading glasses.

I got about 10 pair strategically placed. At least 3 pair on the truck. But I will still walk into the store without them. And struggle to see shit.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,907]

I've lost a lot of reading glasses, but I've never had to use tweezers to pull a pair out of my ear.

[Armybrat 40,850]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Some of us are clearly thanked more than others.

You’re welcome.

You’re not the only one…..

 

[Armybrat 40,850]

53 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:

Same for me and reading glasses.

I got about 10 pair strategically placed. At least 3 pair on the truck. But I will still walk into the store without them. And struggle to see shit.

I had to walk back outside the TexMex joint yesterday to fetch my readers.

[YGIFS 19,450]

13 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I've lost a lot of reading glasses, but I've never had to use tweezers to pull a pair out of my ear.

I've known for awhile that the hearing is my right ear is markedly worse than my left ear.  And I get weekly bouts of tinnitus, almost always in my right ear.  I have to tweeze 1-2x/month a hair or two outta my left ear; usually just little dark brown/black ones---nothing serious and barely visible unless you're right up in my grill.  But my right ear, the gimpy one, I have to tweeze almost weekly and it's a rainforest.  Stubbles, curly hairs, grey hairs, white hairs, blac hairs, off the lone, on the edge of the canal, etc.  Fucking weird.  Chicks don't dig it either.  

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Armybrat said:

You’re not the only one…..

 

Where's this?

[Armybrat 40,850]

Mama Betty’s on Parmer Lane just north of 620 by Davis Spring neighborhood.

 

[thunderlounge 7,865]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

And I get weekly bouts of tinnitus

Lucky. Mine is 24/7, and it fucking sucks. Thanks Uncle Sam, and your damn canoe club.

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

I am convinced that Reba McIntyre is some kind of next-gen Muppet. 

[Lurch 5,931]

You’re not the only one…..
 

What’s this double rice bullshit

[YGIFS 19,450]

He's gotta carb up.  Our man is going on a fuck marathon this week.  

[thunderlounge 7,865]

9 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I am convinced that Reba McIntyre is some kind of next-gen Muppet. 

Still would. 

[Armybrat 40,850]

18 minutes ago, Lurch said:

What’s this double rice bullshit

My gut doesn’t process the refrieds very well, and I have no desire to blow a big hole in the ozone layer overhead.

Brought most of the rice home for today’s dinner side anyway.

 

Edited September 25, 2023 by Armybrat

[Armybrat 40,850]

18 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

He's gotta carb up.  Our man is going on a fuck marathon this week.  

Yeah, your wife made room on her schedule.

[Kennythetiger 9,389]

5 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Yeah, your wife made room on her schedule.

You missed a great “your mom” layup. 

[thunderlounge 7,865]

49 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

He's gotta carb up.  Our man is going on a fuck marathon this week.  

Guess I better hold onto my pfizer shares a little longer. Maybe grab a few more. 

[Armybrat 40,850]

29 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

You missed a great “your mom” layup. 

Why not both?

[Armybrat 40,850]

5 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Guess I better hold onto my pfizer shares a little longer. Maybe grab a few more. 

Better hold off on that until after I have my TAVR procedure done this Thursday morning. 
Just to be sure it goes smoothly.