Random Thought Thread

And it's, well, it seems too cruel. I've no way of knowing how painful it is to the coworker. Best not to bring it up period.

 

I was thinking along the "I am compassionate, not a raging asshole" route, but good call!!

 

So Sunday night my bestie staid over and Namir was so upset that I let a stranger in our bed

What he doesn't know is that bed is more hers than his; I have a king size so she can have her own space or cuddle, and I literally just bought new fancy sheets because she said she would spend the night that night so she'd be closer to work the next morning (then we went out for breakfast and felt super adult).

But Namir was so happy the past two nights that he has the bed to just the two of us again.

He's been spreading out in weird positions as if to smugly & confidently show that this is his bed and no one else can sleep here.

Boy is he in for frequent surprises. . .

 

@NoGoodNobu

 

Well I am sold. This is my forum, and the .com version is bland and tasteless.
Cereal they are freaking boring over there.

And now for some more juvenile humor.

 

We just had a load of "New Super-Duper Advanced Energy Drink" (Sorry, I'm not quoting the real name, in case they track me down...but it probably goes for all of them!) given us at work, as a free sample.

A week later, most of the load is still sitting there. In the interests of science (and not turning down a free dinner) I tried it; let me tell you, there is no such thing as a free dinner.

IT IS FOUL.

They haven't yet come up with a caffeine supplement to supplant the real thing.

 

I read in the paper this morning about the guy who phoned up for a prostitute...and his wife turned up.

 

I wonder if there was a discount or a surcharge?

 

My cousin's daughter has drunk the multi-level marketing Kool-aid (some skin care product or another) and has become pain-in-the-ass relentless about recruiting fellow scam victims. Interesting to see each generation stumble into the same worthless frauds as the generations before. 'Get rich easily' has it's appeal.

 

This reminds me of the old Rodney Dangerfield joke: "I don't get no respect... I asked the cab driver to take me where the action is. He took me to my place!"

 

This is pretty good. Hope it brightens your day.

 

The display adapter on my ten-year=old Dell XP desktop wouldn't stream Netflix without skipping and constant buffering, so I bought a six-year-old refurbished HP box from Walmart for $92. Faster processor, twice the RAM and Windows 7. Sadly, the Windows activation code wouldn't work and the customer service reps at the refurbisher couldn't speak English (don't get me started), so I said to hell with it and wiped the drive and installed Linux Mint.

Sweet Jesus, Linux, where have you been my whole life? Everything, and I mean everything, happens much faster, including boot time (25 seconds from power on), opening Office files and even Firefox page loads. Rather than being a impossibly slow vast wasteland, Facebook is now a blazing fast vast wasteland.

It's not perfect (sorry, Thunderbird, but Outlook Express is still the email client gold standard) but it's overall excellent. If you use Windows, try Linux - you;ll thank me.

 

I'm so bored I could cry. 37.5 hours a week at work and I have nothing to do. Nothing. Nor does my boss. And yet we have such a draconian internet policy and filter that I can only access a few entertainment sites (thankfully including WF!) and worry constantly I'll be reprimanded for it.

There was one day this week I actually had something to do and it was bliss. The day flew by. I dragged the task out as long as possible.

What can I do to keep myself occupied all day??

 

You shouldn't be there at 3.45 on a Friday if there's nothing to do, eh?

 

I don't see the point of being here at all until there's a project for me to work on but apparently the bosses value presenteeism.

Ew, why would I want to do that?

 

Well, my wife has a 'job' like you have a 'job,' and see mine's not really a 'job,' but she sits at home most the time, gets paid six times my corn, so you're a woman like she is, and women have all the confidence these days, so you should be sitting at home like a proper job. I think so, you're super bright.

 

This is why we need basic income. People shouldn't be paid to just in an office wasting time.

 

Although, my sister who works for Satan, ie marketing & internet - she spent months negotiating a friday half-day. But then goes and wastes it kite-surfing, which is worse than marketing.

 

@Homer, I used to really like you. Here's your new avatar badge

 

When I was in community college and had 3hr gap between classes one
day a week, I wrote. Packed my heavy ass monster of a laptop into my
backpack, and wrote a dirty short story in between. Also played Doom 3,
or watched shows on the youtubes, because the free wifi the CC provided
wouldn't let me even check my emails.

Also Happy Friday.

 

And then, and then he fucked her in the face, in the rucksack, all over her pencil case rolling in rubbers and rubber burned, burned, burned, it burned my palms mommy. The End

@CT 2009