Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Higgledy wrote:

You don't look like your avatar. I have to say... I'm disappointed.

You could at least wear the glasses and the gloves (although, to be fair, you could be wearing the gloves.)

QFT

LouZiffer wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

500 extra square feet? Sounds like space is no longer an issue!

Does it still have to be a chair, though?

Is space never an issue? I don't think I've ever said "wow, this is just too much space!"

As for the chair, according to the intarwebz I will have an extra $8,500 a year in disposible income. Does it have to be a chair? No. Does it have to be a really nice chair? Most definitely!

DeThroned wrote:

As for the chair, according to the intarwebz I will have an extra $8,500 a year in disposible income. Does it have to be a chair? No. Does it have to be a really nice chair? Most definitely!

Sounds like you should buy yourself a Sultan and have the Atlanta group over for some games.

DeThroned wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

500 extra square feet? Sounds like space is no longer an issue!

Does it still have to be a chair, though?

Is space never an issue? I don't think I've ever said "wow, this is just too much space!"

As for the chair, according to the intarwebz I will have an extra $8,500 a year in disposible income. Does it have to be a chair? No. Does it have to be a really nice chair? Most definitely!

Shouldn't it be a throne?

sometimesdee wrote:

Shouldn't it be a throne?

But then he'd have to change his user name!

misplacedbravado wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

Shouldn't it be a throne?

But then he'd have to change his user name!

No, we can keep kicking him off of it!

Love may be too strong a feeling, but as there isn't a "random thing providing you mild amuseument" thread...

The local cable news station just had a two-minute piece about how the Weather channel has a remote setup here to report on the blizzard. (And naturally, a local family braved the storm to go meet one of their favorite weather channel personalities.)
(Weather channel coverage.)

I love Cincinnati's new news helicopter. I actually don't love the chopper that much, it's pointless... but I'm endlessly amused at how much the station is trying to shoehorn it into EVERYTHING while they just have it circle the city from 4PM-6PM... usually meaning they're on the opposite side of the city when something actually DOES go down, so we still get most of the bigger news stories from the newsroom instead.

And their commercials for it... starting to remind me of the Sklar Brothers.

Demosthenes wrote:

I love Cincinnati's new news helicopter. I actually don't love the chopper that much, it's pointless... but I'm endlessly amused at how much the station is trying to shoehorn it into EVERYTHING while they just have it circle the city from 4PM-6PM... usually meaning they're on the opposite side of the city when something actually DOES go down, so we still get most of the bigger news stories from the newsroom instead.

And their commercials for it... starting to remind me of the Sklar Brothers.

As a TV station employee I'm laughing my butt off because I know exactly how that's going.

So I'm in a real bad mood this afternoon due to work crap. But while I was researching a router to buy for a client, I discovered a local reseller started carrying this brand called JCG. So I went to their web site. And their about page. Watch that video and laugh hysterically. It's like someone made a 10 minute live action SNK game intro.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

So I'm in a real bad mood this afternoon due to work crap. But while I was researching a router to buy for a client, I discovered a local reseller started carrying this brand called JCG. So I went to their web site. And their about page. Watch that video and laugh hysterically. It's like someone made a 10 minute live action SNK game intro.

... Just when you start feeling bad for the narrator some new horribly mangled phrase flips onto the screen and the hilarity starts all over again.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

So I'm in a real bad mood this afternoon due to work crap. But while I was researching a router to buy for a client, I discovered a local reseller started carrying this brand called JCG. So I went to their web site. And their about page. Watch that video and laugh hysterically. It's like someone made a 10 minute live action SNK game intro.

You promised me a ten minute video. It's 10:26. You have absolutely no respect for my time!

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

So I'm in a real bad mood this afternoon due to work crap. But while I was researching a router to buy for a client, I discovered a local reseller started carrying this brand called JCG. So I went to their web site. And their about page. Watch that video and laugh hysterically. It's like someone made a 10 minute live action SNK game intro.

Well that made my day. Those engineers sure do have a lot of vitality.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Those engineers sure do have a lot of vitality.

... and so youthful.
The Culture page is also fun for a few seconds.

Product Concept: Wireless free, Unlimited splendor.
Rezzy wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Those engineers sure do have a lot of vitality.

... and so youthful.
The Culture page is also fun for a few seconds.

Product Concept: Wireless free, Unlimited splendor.

IMAGE(//i.imgflip.com/7hn6h.jpg)

The feedback page will probably give IT techs PSTD-level flashbacks.

And if you have any questions about this glorious venture into a world forerunner, don't forget to contact Frank Wang on MSN at [email protected]

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Rezzy wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

Those engineers sure do have a lot of vitality.

... and so youthful.
The Culture page is also fun for a few seconds.

Product Concept: Wireless free, Unlimited splendor.

IMAGE(//i.imgflip.com/7hn6h.jpg)

Knew this was coming, now I'm quoting so everyone sees it twice.

This reminds me of my walk with my dog last night. We walk by this fenced in yard with two Corgis. One barking his head off at the fence while the obviously wiser one is somewhere in the middle of the yard, not drawing attention to himself. My 100-lb moose of a puppy eagerly wanted to play with the noisy one. I've seen what he does to stuffed toys (and couches). I pulled him away before he got too excited.

Nevin73 wrote:

This reminds me of my walk with my dog last night. We walk by this fenced in yard with two Corgis. One barking his head off at the fence while the obviously wiser one is somewhere in the middle of the yard, not drawing attention to himself. My 100-lb moose of a puppy eagerly wanted to play with the noisy one. I've seen what he does to stuffed toys (and couches). I pulled him away before he got too excited.

When we had a dog he (all 12 lbs of him) liked to play with his bestest friend in the world, a 70-odd pound burnese mountain dog. It was funny as all hell, even when the BMD accidentally used my dog as a skateboard on pavement once.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

So I'm in a real bad mood this afternoon due to work crap. But while I was researching a router to buy for a client, I discovered a local reseller started carrying this brand called JCG. So I went to their web site. And their about page. Watch that video and laugh hysterically. It's like someone made a 10 minute live action SNK game intro.

You promised me a ten minute video. It's 10:26. You have absolutely no respect for my time!

Not true; he said it was like someone made a 10min video. The way it was like that was being close to 10 minutes. RTFM, n00b.

Spending real time with one of my best friends again for the first time in over a decade.

Atras wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

As for the chair, according to the intarwebz I will have an extra $8,500 a year in disposible income. Does it have to be a chair? No. Does it have to be a really nice chair? Most definitely!

Sounds like you should buy yourself a Sultan and have the Atlanta group over for some games.

We have an Atlanta group? That will be awesome to be a part of! Looks like I will be living in Woodstock, I should have the application in and approved within a few days. So who is part of this elite crew?

Think this video was narrated by the same guy

also the text at 18 seconds into the JCG video:
IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/TYfOSQS.jpg)

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Think this video was narrated by the same guy

also the text at 18 seconds into the JCG video:
IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/TYfOSQS.jpg)

I am now on a quest to find every video this production company has made.

Received a job offer last night, and signed it today! Woohoo!

The phone on my office desk just started ringing, with the caller ID saying "Jennifer Dicks". I couldn't stop my inner teenager from guffawing at the name as I picked it up.

I'm kind of glad that she'd already hung up by the time the receiver got to my ear :

Jonman wrote:

The phone on my office desk just started ringing, with the caller ID saying "Jennifer Dicks". I couldn't stop my inner teenager from guffawing at the name as I picked it up.

I'm kind of glad that she'd already hung up by the time the receiver got to my ear :

I'll admit that I giggled a little inside when Rev posted his email for Paypal in his thread and it was a cox.net.

Demosthenes wrote:
Jonman wrote:

The phone on my office desk just started ringing, with the caller ID saying "Jennifer Dicks". I couldn't stop my inner teenager from guffawing at the name as I picked it up.

I'm kind of glad that she'd already hung up by the time the receiver got to my ear :

I'll admit that I giggled a little inside when Rev posted his email for Paypal in his thread and it was a cox.net.

Same here. Meant to mention it in the note.

Just got a call from a telemarketer saying they'd been alerted that my car warranty had expired. I said "You mean the 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty that doesn't expire until 2019?"

I can't figure out why she hung up so suddenly.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:
Jonman wrote:

The phone on my office desk just started ringing, with the caller ID saying "Jennifer Dicks". I couldn't stop my inner teenager from guffawing at the name as I picked it up.

I'm kind of glad that she'd already hung up by the time the receiver got to my ear :

I'll admit that I giggled a little inside when Rev posted his email for Paypal in his thread and it was a cox.net.

Same here. Meant to mention it in the note.

Just got a call from a telemarketer saying they'd been alerted that my car warranty had expired. I said "You mean the 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty that doesn't expire until 2019?"

I can't figure out why she hung up so suddenly.

Amateur. If she was good at her job she'd have convinced you it is 2019.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Just got a call from a telemarketer saying they'd been alerted that my car warranty had expired. I said "You mean the 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty that doesn't expire until 2019?"

I can't figure out why she hung up so suddenly.

Great, now they'll just make a note to call you back in 2019.