YSaC, Vol. 750: Hang on Floopy!
2010 August 6
Looking for dinosaur computer
I am looking for an ancient computer with both 5 inch and 3.5 floopies. Trying to get programs all moved to hard drive, but lacking the ability to move from 5 inch floopies.
Thanks
Bob
Ah, yes … the floopy medium. It never really did take off, did it? It’s a shame, too — it’s like Betamax vs. VHS. The floopy just never had a chance.
Well, if Bob can’t find his dinosaur computer with a floopy drive, at least I can help him find a desk:
Desk turned dino
We have a desk that was broken and we made it into a dinosaur. It is about 5’x2’x4′ . Great decoration for the unusual home, or better yet your friend’s dorm room! Please come and take.
Rawr!
Thanks, Wendy!
A little blue pill normally takes care of floopies and gives you a nice hard drive.
*waves to the line*
First comment, and the mythical line is obliterated! Excellent work, kelli!
Deskasaurus Rex is awesome!
:tilts head:
Looks more like a dog begging to me. A very squareish dog.
I know, I kind of love it.
I agree. Totally worthy of the “possibly awesome” tag.
It’s rexepictastic!
It would also be fun if it was rexepilepticastic.
Yeah, I checked the tags to confirm that there was “possibly awesome”… definitely useless, but possibly awesome!
I do like the fact that the second poster suggests it for your *friend’s* dorm room. This could be a great game. Pass the piece of
crapart. Whoever passes out first at the next party or leaves his dorm room unattended gets this put in his room as a punishment.That would so be something my friends and I would do when we were in college.
We had something like that in our dorm. Only it was a hot pink sex toy glued to the window and not a deskasaurus.
Nearly the same if you think about it.
Was it floopy?
It big and floopy, yes.
Poor Bob. He’s looking for a 3.5″ and a 5″ one. Guess he’ll just have to keep searching
Taco caveman now. He no
needverbs.Sounds like it would take some pretty invasive and painful surgery to give him both a 3.5″ and a 5″ floopy.
Well, unless Sparky here is a shark.
Maybe “Bob” is Hamcan!
Oh right. Bob. Where’s that coffee??
Ahem, if you add 5 and 3.5 take out the L reverse the F and P then you would have HamCan.
Watch it Lou or I’ll bring back the Shark Kitty! 😛
I’m glad I missed all that horror yesterday Hammy. Shark Kitty looked like a deformed hybrid of the Cheshire Cat and Pennywise the Clown.
How those two got together, I don’t wanna know.
What happens in Wonderland, should stay in Wonderland.
My family had an “heirloom” like this, for a while. Every Christmas, some unsuspecting cousin/great aunt/sister would receive this “decorative” “art work”. I think someone finally hung it in their guest room, so guests wouldn’t stay too long.
Hahahaha, that’s awesome!
In our family, it was a particularly hideous nightshirt and matching socks… until it got passed to my sister her first year in college back east and she decided it would be useful.
It’s quite like the barber’s chair my friend George had in his bedroom in college…
Oh? Did George buy it from Sweeney Todd?
I always wondered. It was always that, or he got it from whoever sold him the gold-sequined dress that somehow fit a six-foot-tall guy who was NOT skinny. Or, actually, a transvestite.
For some reason, the second picture in the second ad reminds me more of a flower than a dinosaur.
From the frontal, it does look like a flower.
From the side it looks like a bunch of broken boards.
This is just a wild guess, but I think there could have been alcohol involved in Deskasaurus Rex’s construction.
Friends don’t let friends drink and screwdrive.
Ooooh I know that song! That’s Jimmy Buffett, right? Why don’t we get drunk and screwdrive?
I looks to me like they actually followed the assembly directions to the letter. (as translated from Chinese)
It looks a bit like Stone Rose/Man Eater from the Castlevania games.
Full frontal dinosaur?
On a public internet?
Ah, the majestic Deskasauraus Rex. Once roaming the great office plains in the Precubian Era, they were quite the gentle papervores despite their fearsome appearance. The chipboard on this specimen appears to be quite well preserved, too! You don’t find many with with such clean woodgrain appliques. Just lovely!
That was snarktacularly edutaining, Mindfield, bravulations!
Didn’t paleontologists discover that the Deskasaurus Rex was often hunted by the Managerosaurus? A ferocious bipedal that could sniff out the weakest Deskasaurus and kill him by burying him under tons of paper and metal bits in the shape of a staple.
I believe the earliest version of the 3-ring binder was discovered next to one of these creatures.
There’s still some debate over the strange impressions found around Binderopteryx fossils, if the so-called “papers” were used for data storage, mating rituals, or served a purely decorative function.
I’ve always learned in my studies that when-in-doubt always chalk it up to religious or funerary practises.
I believe if you look closely, you’ll find some evidence of the words “Oh God!” and “Jesus Christ!” uttered over many of those papers.
Those must be separate factions of this mysterious Memorandum cult that’s mentioned so often.
Mudsy, I have a friend who did some amateur archaeology/excavation when we were in high school as part of a museum-organized program (not just random digging out in the backyard, or something) and she learned then that anything they didn’t know the function of that they found was a “ritual object.” Now, whenever I see something labeled as such, even at someplace like the Met, I snicker. “We don’t know what the hell it is. Put it in the R.I. bin with all of the other … bits o’ stuff.”
Ah yes, paperclip Jeebus was a predecessor of clothespin Jeebus in some sects.
Lola: I wasn’t lying on that whole chalking-it-up-to-ritual/religion-aspect to archaeology. The Great Flood* must have scared the clothespin/ark splinter beJeebus out of mankind for many millenia.
*this may not necessarily be true
Ah, just one more Motel of The Mysteries item . . .
Also, the Band Binderopteryx (Binderopteryx sousa) is now known to be an ancestor of the Dotbookraptor (Velociraptor drumcorpensis).
Sadly, yes. The Deskasaurus Rex was hunted relentlessly by early Homo Managerius and kept penned up in corner office cells for the prestige they offered and their effectiveness as beasts of burden. H. Managerius were cruel keepers though, often leaving massive loads to weigh them down, give them a swayback posture, or gouging doodles into their hide, dousing them with hot coffee, sexually harassing Executivus Assistianus on top of them and other such atrocities. Sadly, the Cubian Era came and all but wiped them out.
Humans can be so cruel, sometimes.
Don’t forget the endless conference calls and boring meetings that caused the poor Deski to commit seppaku.
I may not be on here much (or at all) the next couple of days, off to NYC
in search of souls to eatfor a little mini-vacation.But– but you’ll be back some day, right?
Don’t eat me.* Other than that, have a nice time here, and be glad that the humidity and heat have gone down some. I know that if you’re from AZ the heat may bother you less, but it’s the
humanityhumidity that makes it brutal.*There isn’t much left of my soul and it probably tastes bad, anyway.
We’re just glad you survived the vicious sharkitty attack, Lola!
Yes … and THAT would explain the freaky dreams I had when I did sleep!
Hot damn, summer in the city. Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty…….
The Band Camp Philosophy: It’s not hot until the heat index hits 113.
Pshaw, 113 is for wimps 🙂
Actually, thanks to a mildly destructive storm cell that happened to pass through just as I had to drive home tonight, I am enjoying the first below 100 evening in many weeks. Unfortunately this means that as soon as the sun comes up it’s going to be Houston humid 🙁
Have a great trip, Kelli!
Honey, I’m not sure how many souls you’re gonna find in NYC. You’re better off looking in, say, NOLA.
Too many vampires 🙂
I’m going to need a Corey. What is Bob still using 5 inch floopies for these days? How ancient is the pc he’s using? I can’t think of a logical explanation. Is Bob finally upgrading his Commodore 64? Help me, Obi Wan Corenobi, you’re my only hope.
Dunno about the 5″ ones but I still have a few favorite games on 3.5″ floppies. I’d have installed them on virtual machines already, too, but my google-fu has failed me in finding a serial number that will actually WORK for the Win 95 disks I have (the last operating system I was able to tweak to make these games work).
I may just end up lifting an image from one of our old computers at work and converting it to a virtual machine.
3.5″ floppies I’ll give you. It’s the 5″ that I’m just in shock over. Such. Old. Technology.
I still have a box of 8″ floopies.
I’ll trade my box of 24” hyracotherium for your 8” floopies. Trust me, they’re delicious. The hyracotherium, that is, not the floopies.
Even more [corey] vexing, you do not have to wander that many consumer electronics stores to find USB capable external floppy (or floopy; for froopie you’ll need to go to Betelgeuse) in bot 3.5 & 5.25 inch formats.
I have a cpu carcass around here somewhere (and if I don’t, my dad does) that has both of the drives installed. The problem there would be in getting the fool things running with an o/s that would then be able to communicate to any other machine.
I mean, really, I have Windows 3.x0something, and it’s on 5.25″ disks, but, I’m pretty sure I’d not want to try installing that. Or get a 486-based machine running again. And, if I did accomplish that amazing feat of prestidigitation, what then? Ever try to install a network interface card in a 486? A USB hub?
I’ve been to this game, it is not fun. Even worse, when you put in 1, 2 hours, for naught, and you still have to bill for your time.
[/corey]
Has Sparky #1 never heard of eBay?
And what sort of program has he been holding on to since the Eighties that he has only now gotten around to trying to upgrade?
Is he trying to preserve his high score in Centipede?
correction: High score in Pong.
I love Pong. I think it’s the now-classic minimalist look of it.*
*Plus, I have crap eye-hand coordination, and anything more challenging than that I suck at.**
**Probably the real reason I like Pong***
***Space Invaders isn’t bad, though.****
****Did anyone else first play this in an arcade at the roller rink?*****
*****Stopping with the ’70s references now.
Lola, your age is showing. You’d better cover it up.
*Hands Astro a copy of “Twelve Ways To Charm A Witch.”*
PS: Lola, I’m not calling you a witch, it’s a Harry Potter joke.
About 10 years ago I had someone tell me that she and her husband still had the husband’s doctoral thesis on floppies and were trying to convert it to something a bit more accessible. (Why after 15 years he had to provide the text of it, I don’t know – paper copy was lost or something.)
It just baffles me. If I had important documents on a certain kind of media and I upgraded my computer and saw that it would no longer accept that sort of media, I would not hold on to the outdated media and get rid of the only machine I owned that could access it until I had found a way to transfer the documents onto a media that my new computer could access.
I’m probably being too logical about this.
Too logical? For a person of average wit and intelligence, no. For a Sparky … well … I’ve bought brighter bulbs from door-to-door salesmen.
SJ, you keep thinking like that and you’ll never post an ad on craigslist that ends up being featured on YSaC!
Way to destroy my life-long dream, Manda.
Bwahahahaha!
What happens after the transfer and it is discovered that the copy is in WordStar 4.4? Or Pagemaker II.3?
Bad enough to discover it’s Word 4.0, sure it will open, just will want reformatting for buckets, and front to back again.
[experience corey]For those of you with such similar documents “for record” get them saved into pdf, as that is a cross-platform image. Also, select to embed images and fonts, which will reduce grief, years, decades, later (when modopress Gallo Xt.ttf is long gone).
[/corey]
Amen, brother.
Embedding avoids SO many problems, it isn’t funny.
Except for when you send someone a document and then have them go, “It won’t open in my Word!” and you then have to explain it’s not a Word document . . .
But such people use Outlook (or Outlock dExpress) and are catching “sparky-ness” by contact.
I understood PDF and Spanish Rooster.
Hehe.
[digital file printing corey]I used to work for a digital print-to-mail technology company. People would submit their documents and their mail lists and we’d print, stuff envelopes, clean their addresses and affix their postage. Because we were bundling a lot of mail together, they generally got a good price on postage and our printing costs were pretty reasonable.
However, because we only had access to what they sent us, and we didn’t necessarily have the font they used (though we certainly TRIED to license every popular font), it led to occasional issues.
A large number of our customer service calls were helping customers with problem documents. We taught a LOT of people about embedding.
It takes the resources your document is using and codes them into your PDF. The file size is larger, but your PDF now has everything it needs to display correctly on any computer.
Not an issue if you are using a default font but if you’ve gone and created something with a custom or rare font, and sent it to someone else, it’ll likely display somewhere between “meh” and “wtf.”
[/corey]
No matter how hard you try… you can’t outrun technology.
Eventually, you have to come out of your cave.
That’s what the bartender told the Geico Caveman, Michael Jackson and Bea Arthur!!!!!
Finally, we got a punchline!
Friends S. 1, Ep. 4. “The One with George Stephanopoulos.”
Rachel: But see, it was a plan. Y’know, it was clear. It was figured out, and now everything’s just kinda like…
Phoebe: Floopy?
Rachel: Yeah.
Monica: So what? You’re not the only one. I mean, half the time we don’t know where we’re going. You’ve just gotta figure at some point it’s all gonna come together, and it’s just gonna be… un-floopy.
Phoebe: Yeah, like that’s a word.
Dinosaur? Where? Looks like any piece of IKEA furniture fresh from the warehouse*.
*some [dis]assembly required
If it was from IKEA wouldn’t it have some obscure name like JÄTTEÖDLA and come with an allen wrench and a handful of miscellaneous bits?
I think the miscellaneous bits are,um,hanging. Must be a boy desk.
IKEA always has extra bits, there are even bins of the most popular bits outside the Customer Service desk inside the store.
(Does it say something about the quality of your merchandise when you not only anticipate that there will be missing items, but have bins of the most likely missing items in the open to cut down on lines of people asking for them?)
I think it’s actually the JÄTTEÖDLA FLOOPY – the only major difference being the JÄTTEÖDLA is the girl desk.
[faux Scandinavian corey]Wouldn’t that be “JÄTTEÖDLA FLÖÖPY”?[/faux Scandinavian corey]
Oh joy! [corey] is International now!
[corey] According to the translator I used, JÄTTEÖDLA is the Swedish word for dinosaur.
:google break:
Deskasaurus Rex = desk + dinosaur + king = SKRIVBÖRD JÄTTEÖDLA KUNG
[/corey]
SKRIVBÖRD JÄTTEÖDLA KUNG
I so want to change my name to this or have it as a professional title or something. It’s umlautastic.
Would international [corey] be [kørêe]?
(or is this inviting møøs bites?)
I just got my IKEA catalog in the mail today, no dino desks though, how sad 🙁
[ late Swedish corey] Directly translated, “jätteödla” just means giant lizard. Dinosaur is usually called “dinosaurie”. Also, the google translator appears to be a little overenthusiastic about the umlauts, “desk” is actually “skrivbord” (without the umlauts over the o). [\late Swedish corey]
BTW, what other pieces of furniture would be more interesting as dinosaurs?
*looks at bed*
Hmmm….
Look what I found when I was googling the Friends quote.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=312712
i have always done this with windows but i dont want windows..
…and YOU WILL NOT GIVE ME WINDOWS!!!! DO WE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING? WELL, DO WE?
The “best” bit?
And by “best” I mean “whisky tango foxtrot, doesn’t anyone use spellcheck?!?”.
My favorite part was pretty much all of that guy’s posts… no caps, no punctuation to speak of, and phrases that only vaguely made sense -_-
I thought the lack of sense came from my near-complete lack of computer programming knowledge.
Luxury!My first computer used tapes! We dreamt of 3.5“ floopies and the thought of 5“ ones made me faint
I remember visiting my mother at work at the hospital and she took me to … some department dealing with records of some kind, and I remember being fascinated by the paper tape the machine was outputting. I was about 6 or so and had no idea that it was actual useful technology; I just thought the tape looked cool.
I remember you had to be one of the granola-n-nuts AppleII community to use the Star-Trek-looking 3.5″ disks.
AppleIIs!
*gets misty-eyed for preadolescence*
C U R 2 a youngin’ {g}
286 machines came out in my mid-twenties, and three-button mouse could set you back a c-note.
Hehe, I had a TRS-80. Spent hours and hours typing in code from a magazine* just to see some cool fractal pattern display on the screen then POOF when you shut it off it was gone forever.
When the “save to cassette tape” option came out we were in heaven!
*Usually so full of bugs you spent as much time fixing problems as you did typing it in.
I remember the cassette tapes! Wondered what they sounded like, but never had a listen. Also wondered what would happen should you subsitute them for, say, Kiss or Donna Summer.
I worked for a distribution warehouse in 97/98 and we used cassettes even then.
I actually put one in a player once, the result was not as cool as you might think.
Kinda like shark kitty fingernails on a chalkboard made from out of tune violins.
Nothing like published-in-magazine code. Very hard to proofread at the best of times. Even more fun when set into a multi-page sidebar or letterbox.
It’s also a fascinating way to learn a sequentially-processed language like Lisp, where the parentheses define the segments, and ))))) is very much not ))))))
Or the spiffy thing where (car(cdr)) can also be (cadr) or (cdr(cdr)) is also (cddr)
And comments occur with a “;”–but embedded comments need a semicolon and a pipe in “;|” “|;” pairs.
Then, after many of us learned this using the monochrome MS Editor, there came authoring tools. Color coding, parentheses matching, error tracking–it was like a miracle.
I got a D in my Fortran class. Never could get the hang of punctuation in that language.
Two years later though, using Excel 4 macro programming, I created a truly beautiful Dark Sun RPG character generator that rolled the dice, let you assign your stats, presented you with allowed race/class combos and let you assign that, and then printed a nicely formatted character sheet.
Then the next version of Excel used VB and I died a little inside.
Today must be earworm Friday…
Since we’re hanging on with Floopy here, all I have to say about the second ad is
Rap
Rap
Rap
They call him the Raptor
Rap
Rap
Rap
You know he’s made after a desk…
The title reminds me that when I was young I thought the song was “Hang On Snoopy.” This may have lead to my confusion on Snoopy’s gender.
Wait… it isn’t “Hang on Snoopy”?
No…Hang on Sloopy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO2Y2sGZ1dk
I have this book of misheard song lyrics. My favorite one has to be the refrain from Bullet with Butterfly Wings (despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage) being misheard as “The spider marines siam steel-chested rabbit arcade.”
I’ve seen those books. Some of them I can believe, and some of them just seem ridiculous. That one veers into the ridiculous, and then takes a left turn into completely implausible. Funny, but implausible.
I want some of what they were smoking!
My brother and I always thought that they lyrics to Everything But The Girl’s “Miss You” was “And I miss you… like the desert’s Listerine.” My parents would get annoyed every time we sang it that way :-p
Another childhood memory … crashed and burned.
Another inch of naivete lost, and now I only have *checks catulator (5″ – 3.5″= 1.5)* 1.5 inches left.
I’ll have to change my name to Bob so as not to lose any more.
What do you think of BobLolly, or LolliBob? LimeyBob?
hrm… no edit box for me today.
[corey]Unless the human brain is short-circuited somehow, we listen for meaning as much as, if not more than, pure sound. Thus, misheard lyrics (when not easily attributable to poor annunciation) generally happen when we don’t understand what was meant and we grasp for something that makes sense to us *and* fits the sound.
So although that is an oddly interesting and bizarre concatenation of syllables, Bridgete, it lacks sense and so was probably not a misunderstood lyric unless the listener was under the influence of something.
Hence my above comment.[/corey]
Edit: THERE it is. I wonder if my previous 4 minutes just passed really quickly.
My favorite (and plausible) mishearing was CCR’s “Bad Moon Rising”: “I see a bathroom on the right.”
Oh, I know it’s totally implausible, I just thought it was funny.
For a plausible mishearing…my favorite is actually one I did. I thought, for the longest time, that Weezer’s Say It Ain’t So went, “My love is Antarctica.” I didn’t find out what it actually was until I was doing karaoke with some friends.
I have always enjoyed the mishearing of Jimi Hendrix’s “Kiss the Sky”. ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy!
That one is in my book too!
My achille’s heel was always/still is:
Blinded by the light
dressed up like a douche
another roller in the night..
[For those of you who just HAVE to know, these are the CORRECT lyrics (I think)]:
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night…
Oy vay! (Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun. But mama that’s where the fun is!).
But really, what has Manfred Mann done lately anyway…
[classic rock corey]Yes, Mudsy, those are the correct lyrics. A “deuce” is slag for the first deuce coupe (as in “My Little Deuce Coupe”) that Ford made, in the 1930’s, possibly one that has been modified for street racing, so when it’s “revved up” it’ll be pretty darn fast.[/corey]
Not much, but I’ve always wanted to name a cat Cat Fred Cat, in honor of Manfred Mann.
I thought it had to do with cards once I learned the “real” words…so I succesfully had a twice-removed-dur-dur-moment with this stupid song.
Catfred Catt is funny… Good thing you didn’t have a dolphin; that would have been awkward. Would have worked with a rat as well — Ratfred Ratt. Me likey!
My favorite mis-heard lyric comes from the book, “Kiss This Guy”: Berlin’s “Metro” original lyric: You were waiting there, swimming through apologies. Mis-heard: You were waiting there, swimming through a pile of cheese.
**Light bulb**
You mean the Beach Boys weren’t singing about a blue scoop?
Drop the catbox!*
*Instead of Rock the Casbah.
Ok. I’ll say it. I hate this song. Really. With that kind of deep loathing that makes you want to cut your own ears off when you hear it. The only song that makes me more insane would have to be “Last Train to Clarksville”, which my husband will play just to watch me go completely bonkers.
Really, Sloopy, I don’t care what your daddy do, for the love of llamanun* just make the singing stop!
*bees be upon her
Okay Manda, to get your mind off it…let’s start* a round of Louie Louie then….
*DON’T YOU DARE!!!
Sorry, MandaB. Due to a certain portion of my educational background, it is mandatory that I like this song.
Mudsy, that one is great. Everyone can sing along!
t
Tree mumble an mumble
Mum mumble mumble
Woah mumble mumble
Mum mumble mumbly
I think I got the lyrics right on that.
Uh oh..somebody must have gone to a university in o-HI-o….
…and here I thought it was mumble mum we gotta “O”…
Oh yeah, and p.s. punchity punch MB
‘sokay, drmk. I respect the right of others to like or even love songs that drive me batshit with loathing. I will now spend the afternoon attempting to remove the Sloopy earworm by singing “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt” until I pass out.
I think that’s part of the chorus, Mudsy. It’s like a Jeopardy category. I’ll take “Song lyrics you can only comprehend when drunk” for 200, Alex.
PS – I see I need to brace for another fabulous Windrose punch. Hooray for not sucking!
PPS- Casa de Bell is partial to schools in Illinois.
“Last Train to Clarksville” reminds me of a time when I was being driven, standing, at the front of a very overcrowded bus on a curvy road in January, my sophomore year of college. As I held on to some kind of pole for dear life and the bus went onto three wheels in one of the turns, I realized the radio was playing “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” and at that point, I prayed possibly the most ardent prayer I have ever uttered: “Please, God, don’t let me die now. I don’t want that to be the last song I ever hear.“*
*This is totally true.
Mudsy:
Hang on, just let me get my lyre, my Baritone, and my flip folder!
But, really, who names their daughter Sloopy, anyway?
Parents who live on the other side of town?
But, since you asked…
[music trivia corey] The year is 1965 and an almost unknown rock band from Ohio called The McCoys recorded a song called “Hang On Sloopy.” “Hang On Sloopy” was inspired by a woman named Dorothy Sloop who was a native of Steubenville, Ohio. Apparently she had a career as a singer in the 1950’s and used the name “Sloopy” as a stage name. Dorothy Sloop passed away in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Her song will long live on in the hearts of people for years to come….[/music trivia corey]
I can’t hold it in any longer. This mistake has been driving me crazy for about two months in various places, and I know my fellow YSaCers won’t hate me for having a grammar nazi moment, so I’m going with it.
Led – the past tense of the verb “to lead”.
Lead – number 82 on the periodic table of elements (when pronounced as if it rhymes with led).
You just had to get the ‘led’ out. 🙂
Haha, yes, I did. 😉
I hate:
Hang
Hanged
Hung (as in William)
Brung irks me to no end.
This was supposed to nest. Oh well.
Did someone say nest?
*Here shark kittykittykitty*
Run, Bridgete, run! Save yourself! Yesterday the gecko got porked! Ruuuunnnnn!
*runs*
*Sets a trap with his tasty innards and waits*
Blech…the word “innards” just reminds me of the part in Hannibal I just read.
*ignores the innards and nimbly avoids Hammy’s trap*
Hmmm, maybe if I change to Chinese food?
Are you running into the deep dark bowels of YSaC, where the Llama-Nun keeps the innards of the archives?
The gecko likes BACON, and PORK, and HAM, and aw hell… I just fell into that one… &^%#
Edit: out of time
Bacon likes Gecko
*winkwink*
Mmm, I do love Chinese food…oh no! It’s a trap!
**narrowly avoids the trap**
Whew, I’m glad I have awesome reflexes.*
*I once knocked a wine glass off the counter…and caught it by the stem an inch from the floor.
Astro…if the deep dark bowels of YSaC will protect me from the shark kitty, then yes.
Tinned meat has a long “shelf” life
Go home DietBacon, Hammy is already nesting with the Gecko!
Kitty Shark LOVES bowels, nom nom nom
Bridgete, come pet KittyShark!
Hmmm, Gravatar seems to be broken today 🙁
Aaaaah! No, not kitty shark!
Well, the fact that newsies blindly follow the AP stylebook and therefore abuse plead and pleaded annoys me.
But, I’ve also had to wrestle word processors over the lead of lead flashing, too.
[Place name corey] Lead is also a town in South Dakota,
pronounced “Leed”. [/corey]
[Random journalism corey] Lead story/graf/sentence is pronounced “leed” and spelled “lede.” At least back in the early/mid-’90s when I was newspapering. [random journo corey]
Ah, but, I know why. When running a linotype machine, you treadle (or stop, depending on the machine) a lede slug to set the byline.
Which used to make me wonder as I keyed articles together, since the type is made up in a lead (led) alloy. Old hand in the print shop pointed out that the term was from lede.
Ah, the days of old. When images were scribed to tin sheets and set in a plate indent in the set of type. Egads, just remembered having to sort the pi stuff trays.
Hmm…my mom and I drove through South Dakota during my cross-country move to Boston.
**Investigates**
Hey, I think we drove through there! We visited Deadwood, and then went down to Keystone. Looking at the map, that’s almost certainly the way we went. But I probably pronounced it wrong, thinking it was like the metal.
*mumbled* “I have a big head and little arms.”
And I don’t think you’ve thought out this plan all the way!
Loved this movie!
New past tense of “troubleshoot” is “troubleshat”…
Having been in the biz long enough to almost be innured to the mangling of “run” and “ran”, I’ll admit to not having much “twitch” left anymore for “troubleshot.”
Not when “virused” seems to be the phrase du jour . . .
This is what those boxes on wheels evolve into
Maybe they transform into Deskasaurus Rex at night to fight the evil Dumpapotamus Army of ninja dumpster-assassins.
Ooooh…Awesome sj!
Now get over here and kindly clean off my computer screen. It has Silk chocolate “milk” all over it now.
You can borrow my Sham-WOW!, I used it to clean off some green tea with lavender and stevia from mine earlier.
I’m secretly hoping someone will post a sketch of Deskasaurus Rex fighting a ninja dumpster-assassin.
“someone”..?
Gee, wonder who under an unblubler that could be…
Well, since Astro’s at band camp, I think there is only one possible artiste.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry. I have a slight ‘eyelander twitch, sometimes.
Also, I really don’t want to draw that over our weekend off in between the two weeks. So, SilvaNoir, YSaC’s Patron Goddess of the Arts, must take up the task.
Hey Bob, I have an ancient computer for you.
It was made by the Acme Abacus company.
They’ve got that Wile E. salesguy, don’t they?
I don’t think he’s that wiley, I’ve always thought he was rather quiet and a reserved – you know, kinda emotionless and flat.
Sadly, yesterday was National Beer Day, which would have been so apt for both of these.
Yesterday, I was having tea… the Long Island kind. Which is strange because as you know, there was absolutely no tea in it at all, and it really didn’t taste like tea… but I drank it anyway.
Which probably explains alot of why I was so chilled out at work today. I think on National Days it should be whatever floats your liver, I mean boat. So… I hope you got to celebrate Beer Day. Slainte!
Well, I had beer, it was a day ending in “y” after all.
I think you have your beer drinking holidays mixed up.
International Beer Day is August 5th.
National Beer Day is April 7th.
There are a lot of unofficial random beer drinking holidays in the US.
New Beer’s Eve – April 6th
National Beer Day – April 7th
National Homebrew Day – May 7th
American Craft Beer Week – Starts on the 3rd Monday in May and goes for a week
International Beer Day – Aug. 5th
National Beer Lover’s Day – Sept. 7th
National Drink a Beer Day – Sept. 28th
American Beer Day – Oct. 27th
National Beer Day (April 7th) is the only with with a historically significant date.
April 7th is National Beer Day here in the US. In 1933 during the prohibition era, the Cullen-Harrison Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on March 23rd. That law was enacted on April 7th allowing the brewing and sale of beer in the United States again as long as it was < 3.2% (4% ABV). It's said that people waited in line overnight on April 6th outside Milwaukee breweries in order to legally buy beer for the first time in over 13 years. As a result, April 7th is known as National Beer Day and April 6th is called New Beers Eve.
National Beer Days around the world –
March 1st – Iceland
April 6th – England
April 7th – USA
April 23rd – Germany
http://www.facebook.com/USNationalBeerDay
hang on floopy, hang on….
NUMBER 5 IS ALIVE!
NO DISASSEMBLE!
Floo-pies, don’t work for me
Floo-pies, don’t work for me
Floo-pies, don’t work for me
For I belong to Sparky
I feel, I feel,
I feel like a desk dino,
I feel, I feel,
I feel like a desk dino.
Sooooo, Floo-pies, don’t work for me,
Floo-pies, don’t work for me,
Floo-pies, don’t work for me,
For I belong to Sparky!
[Strictly off topic corey] Has anyone but me noticed the
preponderance of red headed girl type people that have
turned up here? I have another hunch: How many sinistrals
do we currently boast? *Hands up* Me! [/corey].
PS: How’s that for a word, Cap’n?
Why, ’tis a fine and dandy bit of lexicoagility.
I’m ambidextrous. Does that count as .5?
Edit: Bridgete: Jinx!
Ah, jinx indeed, Lola!
Not sinistral, but I am ambidextrous. Although I write with my right hand because they made me pick one in preschool…they probably encouraged me to pick the right hand.
Well, I’m not in my right mind…..that should count.
Could be a reason for Sparky to want to stop YSaC. Jilted by a
redhead or lefties are immune to his Stupid Ray. Or maybe
a combination of both. Of course Ray would be his drunken
brother-in-law. Possible plot lines from a couple days ago.
OK, I’ll go back to sleep now.
I’m a leftist commie, what’ll that get me?
Yesterday I wasn’t in my right avatar.
Elected president?
*ducks*
YES! Totally my life long ambition, and I’m even old enough now.
Christina 2012! Vote for me because I’ll give everyone ice cream and ponies!!!11elebenty!
Alright.
What’s your stance on electric shock training for spell check?
Christina, I will vote for you…but only because you have a dog in a cat avatar world.
Three dogs, do I get three votes? 😀
Astro, I’m down with electro-shock therapy as long as I can exempt myself and give Taco a presidential pardon.
I’m left-handed.
I’m also a liberal, a moderate on the world scale, but a “dangerous radical” according to the way we do it here in Right-centric America.
Astro, are you SURE you’re only 15? You’re more aware of your political stance than most of the adults I know.
Other than a brief period in high school I’ve never been a redhead (I’m sort of a blondish-head actually) But I am a lefty and a registered Libertarian.
I would totally vote for Comrade Christina!
I forgot to answer the redhead part. I actually dye my hair red on a regular basis. My natural color is dark brown, so I have to pick a really bright dye for it to show up, but after a few years of trying various shades I finally found this really fabulous color (yes, the hairdresser who picked it out is gay, so fabulous is absolutely the right word). I need to get it redone though…red fades so quickly!
Oh, and as for the other type of leftiness…I’m a Boston Democrat. ‘Nuff said.
I identify using politicalcompass.org since “left” and “right” really are …murky… and most folks who identify as “conservatives” don’t seem to be actually conservative these days. Gah. That word just has SO MANY meanings that I really sorta hate it as a label. Similarly with “liberal”.
Numbers are also less emotionally loaded.
That said, I plot in the lower left quadrant along with Nelson Mandela and Ghandi. Nearly every big name in American politics is up in the upper right.
Bridgete: Do you know what the color is called, or what its numbers are? I’m in the same situation–dark brown hair dyed red–and I’d love a fabulous color!
Edit: You can just let me know on Facebook, if that’s ok… that way I won’t miss a response from a days-old post 🙂
EditEdit: Or I’ll just ask there, so YOU don’t have to see a days-old post :-p
MandaB, you are wearing out the carpet in the Don’t Suck box! Punchity Punch Punch!
G’Night, Jurassic Park!