Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

I would think her boss or your boss would have made their job easier and cheaper by giving her a cup with a lid. Or told her no more coffee, sheesh!

Or she would have learned not to drink coffee at her desk.

ThatGuy42 wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Coffee should be kept in a coffee cup. Don't put coffee on or in your keyboard. Don't put coffee over your camera and music player. Keep coffee in coffee cup and out of your lap. The floor also doesn't like coffee.

Man I wish I bought a spar keyboard. Of wait my pi kit came with keyboard. Totally forgot about that. Okay I guess I'll grab that and rip the keys off of this one and clean them.

Coffee is like sand, it gets everywhere. Anakin knows what I mean.

Can we do funny story time? Right after I graduated from college my first real IT gig was working end user support. Well at that job we had one person in accounting who always had her coffee at her desk in the morning. She spilled that coffee. A lot. Like at least once a week, but generally two or three times a week she would spill that coffee right into her keyboard. And 22 year old me was always the guy to go and replace her keyboard. I ended up keeping two keyboards spare for her in the closet that I would hang up using the PS/2 cable over a big plastic bin to let the coffee all drip out, with a fan blowing on them to help evaporate the moisture. She'd spill her coffee first thing in the morning, I'd grab the spare and hang the wet keyboard up, let the coffee drip out, then turn on the fan after all the dripping was done, walk the plastic bin to the kitchen and dump the coffee down the drain. Good times.

I think you've got my story beat, but here's a similar tale.

When I was working in IT, I got a call that someone's keyboard stopped working. I went and everything looked fine, but sure enough it wasn't working. I picked it up off the desk and half a cup of coffee came spilling out from inside the keyboard. I looked at her and she said, "I spilled coffee this morning. Do you think that has something to do with this?"

Another time this same person called and said her CD-ROM wasn't working. When I got there I noted that she didn't have a CD-ROM in her computer but instead she stuck an AOL disc into to a 5 1/4 floppy drive. (Not to mention that everyone had been told to never install AOL on their work computers because it broke what we had set up for server access at the time)

Back in the floppy disk days, a co-worker of my Dad asked him for help. She said she couldn’t get the disk out of her computer. When he checked the disk drive there was no disk in it. She had shoved the disk through the little slit between the covers of two empty drive bays and pushed it into the tower!

One time in San Francisco I saw this car that had a sculpted fish tail artfully attached to the rear hatchback. The whole car had fish scales all over it. On closer inspection, the scales were cds which had been glued to the car. We happened to meet the owner and asked where he got all of the cds. They were AOL junk mail cds. Remember that? People would donate the discs to him so he would have enough to cover the car.

Baron of Hell, have you been posting on Reddit's science subreddit behind our backs?

A space leak sounds horrifying. Itd probably suck out all our birds. They'd have to evolve fast and then we would have space birds popping on satellites. Space flight costs would be so much higher because all our capacity would be sending up cosmonauts with shotguns and cleaning supplies.
RawkGWJ wrote:

They were AOL junk mail cds. Remember that?

There was a solid 5 years or so where my family never needed to buy a coaster, thanks to AOL.

You're so vain you probably think this post is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this post is about you
Don't you?
Don't you?

I do.

There were clouds in my coffee.

My scarf it was apricot.

No, wait...

It was a nautical themed Pashmina Afghan!

Believe me when I say...

Baron Of Hell wrote:

You're so vain you probably think this post is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this post is about you
Don't you?
Don't you?

Screw you!

I'm always just left impressed by Stewart Copeland's drum work in the last little drum part of "Message in a Bottle" before the final chorus kicks in. He's just so good.

Copeland is one of my absolute favorites of all time.

People can say Peart is the best (‘cause he is) but I always felt Copeland was the perfect yin-yang compliment. Where Peart can sound clinical with his surgical precision, Copeland has this loose & playful technique that feels quite free form.

Despite the fact that he hates jazz, I've always thought he has the perfect technique and approach for it. Listening to him play is like watching a grandmaster snooker player. Every movement seems completely effortless but lands exactly where he means it to and his flourish is so natural that you don't realise how much is going on until you tease it out of the music and notice how much is missing without it.

Aaron D. wrote:

Copeland is one of my absolute favorites of all time.

People can say Peart is the best (‘cause he is)

Was. RIP Neil Peart.

Aaron D. wrote:

People can say Peart is the best

Excuse me, you misspelled Bonzo.

DRUM WARS

bobbywatson wrote:

Or she would have learned not to drink coffee at her desk.

See, that's not how it works. What she learned is that she didn't have to be careful with her coffee, because the keyboard fairy would replace them on demand. The easiest thing for her to do was to not change a thing.

Ranger Rick wrote:
bobbywatson wrote:

Or she would have learned not to drink coffee at her desk.

See, that's not how it works. What she learned is that she didn't have to be careful with her coffee, because the keyboard fairy would replace them on demand. The easiest thing for her to do was to not change a thing.

"Keyboard fairy" is exactly how I'd title that job experience.

Ranger Rick wrote:
bobbywatson wrote:

Or she would have learned not to drink coffee at her desk.

See, that's not how it works. What she learned is that she didn't have to be careful with her coffee, because the keyboard fairy would replace them on demand. The easiest thing for her to do was to not change a thing.

This is why cops continue to murder unarmed black and brown folks. They are rewarded with a few years of paid vacation and are almost never convicted of a crime. It’s positive reinforcement.

I somehow always seem to skip a check in my checkbook. They have carbons and every once in a while I'll flip through them and notice a clean unused check that I missed.

My Dad would be so disappointed in me.

I'm disappointed you still write checks.

Today, my procrastination tendencies are in full gear. I am doing everything possible to not work, despite the large amount of work that is in my "To Do" list. Clearly, present me is being a real dick to future me. So, when future me posts in the "Loathe" thread about how behind he is, we can all remember this post where past me decided to watch Star Trek DS9 instead of filing the PO expenses and accruals reports.

LeapingGnome wrote:

I'm disappointed you still write checks. :P

I write one a month for my landscaper and one yearly for my tax prep guy. Then it's the occasional check to a plumber or repair person. I wish they'd all take some form of e-payment.

I'm moving in October, and I need some new furniture, but among my considerations....

....should I splurge and get a GAMER CHAIR? My old chair is getting a bit up there and as a 37-year-old man, I need MAXIMUM GAMING COMFORT while I play such gamer-intensive games like Crusader Kings or Out of the Park Baseball.

EDIT: I could also use a desk big enough for not only a dual-monitor setup but that I could really sit my tower on as well, so if you have any recommendations, lemme know.

I upgraded my $200 IKEA office chair to THRONE OF GAMING earlier this year, which very quickly became the THRONE OF TELECOMMUTING, but haven't looked back. So much less sore after a day at my desk.

I splurged big time on a leather Noble chairs Hero, and I love it, BUT that's as much a function as how comfortable my old chair WASN'T.

Does it have to be a desk? Is space an issue?

Jonman, please surrender your GWJ card to the nearest board member.

Awesome page. I bet it could easily be ten times longer.

BadKen wrote:

Awesome page. I bet it could easily be ten times longer. :D

A lot of people think that, but it’s a common misconception.