Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

We had about 160 this year. A bit less than usual, probably because it was raining off and on all day.

LeapingGnome wrote:

We had about 160 this year. A bit less than usual, probably because it was raining off and on all day.

I need to get a ticker counter thing! We started giving out 3-4 pieces per person out of like 6 350 count bags. Probably averaged 2-3 pieces per person because we went down to singles, so we've probably seen like 500-800 kids. We are in the one spot everybody goes with no through traffic.

"[New installment in franchise] isn't that bad if you pretend it's its own thing instead of comparing it to [beloved first installment]" is an inherently disingenuous argument.

Female Doggo we wouldn't even be talking about it if it wasn't part of [franchise]! They don't get to get me in the door by reminding me how much I liked [beloved first installment] and then turn around and tell me to forget all that and do mental backflips so I can trick myself into enjoying this thing that couldn't get greenlit on its own merits!

I know, but you still have to vote blue.

I've managed to cut sugar significantly over the past two or three months, but I saw this morning that peppermint candy canes were out at Walmart, I don't know I'll be able to resist the call very long...

The hard ones? Or the soft ones?

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Soft ones??

Yes. I grew up near Baltimore and had the above treat with King Leo Peppermint Sticks as a kid. You can use any kind of citrus fruit with it, really. The sticks are porous and a bit crumbly, not smooth and solid like the Christmas ones, so you suck the fruit juice up (squeezing as needed to release more) and kind of make your own sweet sour drink. Basically sweet, dissolving drinking straws.

Buy some off of Amazon and before you cut the fruit, lay the fruit down sideways (centerline of the fruit horizontal) and press and roll them to get some of the juice released. Then cut them in half (one "pole" to each half) over a cutting board (it'll be a bit messy), stick a stick in the center of each one, and go to town. Fantastic party treat for about 5-10 year olds, or hip teens and adults who don't mind reverting to childhood lol. Note that if you cut the ends off as shown above, it'll drip juice everywhere, so maybe consider this a hand-held treat and serve in a paper cupcake holder with the ends intact.

You can use them as drink stirrers too, as long as you like sweet drinks. And if you get tired of sucking stuff through them you can just chew them up, the texture is delightful.

Sounds a bit like a citrus-y peppermint-y Tim Tam Slam.

...Hmm, it's getting cold out, maybe I should see if I can find someplace that sells Tim Tams.

...Hmm, I'm trying to eat healthier, maybe I shouldn't.

It is. But good for Summer and holidays, for the kids. Adults will bemoan the state of their teeth after a few pulls...

I'm white but I believe Denzel Washington could play me in a biopic, because I believe he could portray anyone or anything and take their moribund existence and make it exciting (or tolerable.)

In the first season episode of Matlock, "The Stripper," Matlock visits a strip club to question a witness. The bouncer tells him that there's a $5 cover charge and that, "they take off everything but their shoes." Matlock hands the guy a fiver and says, disappointed, "they don't take off their shoes?"

...Am I to understand that Ben Matlock has a foot fetish?

Honestly, that's less curious to me than the idea of a strip club where they take off everything BUT their shoes.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I ACTUALLY JUST SAID "HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN" IN REAL LIFE TO SOMEONE IN MY OFFICE ASKING FOR TECH SUPPORT

And it wasn't a joke! At all!

I don't even WORK in IT!

Prederick wrote:

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I ACTUALLY JUST SAID "HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN" IN REAL LIFE TO SOMEONE IN MY OFFICE ASKING FOR TECH SUPPORT

And it wasn't a joke! At all!

I don't even WORK in IT!

If that doesn't fix it, tell them to try unplugging and then replugging it back in. That should cover the other 50% of the problems.

Prederick wrote:

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I ACTUALLY JUST SAID "HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN" IN REAL LIFE TO SOMEONE IN MY OFFICE ASKING FOR TECH SUPPORT

And it wasn't a joke! At all!

I don't even WORK in IT!

I need to know: did it solve the issue?

I'm always amazed at how often it actually does

My favourite bit is when tech support say to do a "power cycle" instead of just "have you tried turning it off and on again".

halfwaywrong wrote:

My favourite bit is when tech support say to do a "power cycle" instead of just "have you tried turning it off and on again".

I trained my users to know what a power cycle was, eventually, when I did that job. Along with many other small fixes they could do themselves, leaving me to do other fun things like building cables, tracing cables, going under the floor to find excess cables, and installing vampire taps.

I stopped going into the drop ceilings after cables when we discovered that the HVAC contractors had left caches of all their razor sharp scrap metal lying on the ceiling panels. We had to hire someone to come get it out safely after me and a passing NASA researcher were almost sliced to ribbons by a giant, flexible, incredibly sharp piece of curled sheet metal that luckily bounced off my shoulder when I tilted the panel to gain access...

Our build server had an issue with npm not being in the environment path and a reboot fixed it.

It's a trope/meme/joke because it does work sometimes.

It's a trope/meme/joke because it does work way more often than is comfortable, quite frankly.

Fixed that for you.

dejanzie wrote:

I need to know: did it solve the issue?

I'm always amazed at how often it actually does :lol:

It did not, his laptop's monitor was not receiving a signal on startup and that's above my pay grade, so I sent him to the actual IT team.

Prederick wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

I need to know: did it solve the issue?

I'm always amazed at how often it actually does :lol:

It did not, his laptop's monitor was not receiving a signal on startup and that's above my pay grade, so I sent him to the actual IT team.

I bet unplugging and replugging would have solved it.

merphle wrote:
Prederick wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

I need to know: did it solve the issue?

I'm always amazed at how often it actually does :lol:

It did not, his laptop's monitor was not receiving a signal on startup and that's above my pay grade, so I sent him to the actual IT team.

I bet unplugging and replugging would have solved it.

And if that failed, power cycling would likely have done the trick.

Also hitting it on the side while you say "eyyyyyyy".

People call me the Computer Whisperer because problems spontaneously resolve themselves in my presence. I don't even have to touch anything.

Cue the famous quote from AI Koans:

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

The documenting of the new Pokemon game online truly underlines my stated position that games are not released with bugs, but with unintended bonus features.

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Frankly, it's a shock it's been on for that long.

Peak with Neegan and people started turning it off after that horsesh*t season premiere.

Have never watched again and don't intend to.

So for Secret Stan, does someone tell you who to stan? Or do you go with your, you know, actual stan? And do you have to discuss it publicly? Cause that could be embarrassing.

I have questions.