What You've Done Today - Always You Must Meddle, Looking For Trouble Where None Exists.

[Gfted1]

11 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Coworkers all meeting up for drinks as today is "WASPs go get loaded day", so my afternoon meetings are gone - so can get some work done.

I kinda dig this tradition.

[Malcador]

Our water looks like that all the time.

[Sarex]

31 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Grooming calls ? The hell kind of business are you in ?

They made a point of mentioning that it's not PC to call them that, while continuing to call them that...

[Guard Dog]

2 hours ago, Malcador said:

Our water looks like that all the time.

No kidding? This was more what I was expecting:

[BruceVC]

3 hours ago, Malcador said:

Coworkers all meeting up for drinks as today is "WASPs go get loaded day", so my afternoon meetings are gone - so can get some work done.

Malc you really need to start and drinking and socializing with your WASP coworkers , it builds important and durable work relationships if  you have any kind of sales role ?

Edited March 17, 2022 by BruceVC

[Gromnir]

2 hours ago, Guard Dog said:

No kidding? This was more what I was expecting:

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well, let's be honest-- as recent as this previous october, is unlikely that were what you were expecting... sweet summer child that you were. 

"if you think this is cold, count yourself lucky that you weren't here in the winter of _________." 

heard that line from locals?

well, maybe next year is when you take up ice fishing. we got a bunch o' tip-ups and an auger in the garage we never bothered to get rid of but would slit our own wrists before ever again using as a means o' recreation. 

HA! Good Fun!

 

[Malcador]

3 hours ago, Guard Dog said:

No kidding? This was more what I was expecting:

Just a joke on our...uh... "rivers" in Toronto being polluted.  I don't think they are truly bad these days, I know they routinely get polluted with salt runoff from our stormwater in winter.   I put rivers in quotes because, come on

 

Is that really a river ?

[Sarex]

If you want to see a polluted river, then my city can roll with the best of them, at least west side of India.

 

[Gorth]

3 hours ago, Malcador said:

Just a joke on our...uh... "rivers" in Toronto being polluted.  I don't think they are truly bad these days, I know they routinely get polluted with salt runoff from our stormwater in winter.   I put rivers in quotes because, come on

 

Is that really a river ?

That would be a Danish river in a Danish jungle

[Gromnir]

am knowing there is a significant amount o' reflexive hate for nixon, particular with watergate, vietnam, and the thin veiled racism o' his campaigns. all deserved.

that said, nixon pushed for uhc long before bernie sanders were anybody and he normalized relations with china, which likely did more to make the world a safer place than any other post ww2 presidential action. lesser known, he also championed the formation o' the epa. no one person deserves all or most credit for the improvement o' US lakes and rivers from the late 60s to today, but is arguable nobody deserves more credit for cleaning up the cuyahoga, lake erie or a thousand other equal terribad examples. 

nixon were bad, but doesn't mean everything he did were bad and is worth mentioning is nixon who deserves much credit for the fact you can fish the cuyahoga in cleveland or the monongahela in pittsburgh today and the catfish you fry up afterwards is plentiful and perfect safe for consumption. 

HA! Good Fun!

ps 'course our real excuse for posting were to share the james earl jones narrated video. 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Gromnir

[Keyrock]

11 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

I kinda dig this tradition.

A river of Mountain Dew? Get some Doritos and it's gamer heaven.

[Gfted1]

20 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

A river of Mountain Dew? Get some Doritos and it's gamer heaven.

We dye it every year for St. Patricks day. Chicago River - Wikipedia

[Hurlshort]

Nixon is a complicated President. He could have really dragged out the 1960 election considering how close it is, but he didn't want to come across as a sore loser. Can you imagine a modern politician making that decision?

I crashed my bike Tuesday night on a group ride. I was taking a corner pretty tight and trying to catch the back of the group, but a car was coming the other direction, so I ended up going wide on a bad line. I hit a rock and tumbled a few times. Physically I'm doing good. I jammed my thumb and it is purple, and I got some superficial scrapes. But I busted the back wheel on my bike. I also need to replace the front brake, which was giving me issues and probably contributed to the crash.

Luckily I still have my triathlon bike, and I managed a good ride on it last night. I have two weeks until my Half Ironman, so I'm just keeping it interesting.  

[Azdeus]

On 3/17/2022 at 1:50 PM, Guard Dog said:

Waiting for a meeting to start. So with a wandering mind I wonder: why has no one made a Fallout 4 mod that plays CCR's Fortunate Son at max volume when you're riding a Vertibird?  

Theres Ride of the Valkyries atleast;

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/52295?tab=description

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/53448?tab=description

[rjshae]

Here in Washington state we have a reservoir called Diablo Lake that is the most striking aqua-green hue:

Supposedly it's glacial runoff that produces the hue.

[Malcador]

On 3/17/2022 at 12:51 PM, BruceVC said:

Malc you really need to start and drinking and socializing with your WASP coworkers , it builds important and durable work relationships if  you have any kind of sales role ?

Don't drink.  Besides if I wanted to hear endless ego masturbation...I'd just come here.

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Malcador

[Gfted1]

15 minutes ago, rjshae said:

Here in Washington state we have a reservoir called Diablo Lake that is the most striking aqua-green hue:

Beautiful. Its also nice the see the reservoir levels at near or full capacity: USGS Current Conditions for USGS 12176500 DIABLO RESERVOIR NEAR NEWHALEM, WA

[majestic]

We also have greenish lakes:

The weather's been causing interesting skies in our part of Yurop recently:

In theory you could call that a filter effect of a sort, I guess. Not a digital one. Loads of dust in the air. If things are like that here, @213374U probably has seen more spectacular versions of this in Spain this week. 

[213374U]

Actually I haven't. We sometimes get a lot of desert dust from Northern Africa but that picture is quite striking. Very cool except for the fact that breathing that **** is really bad, and it's happening around the same time as polen levels are on the rise...

[Gromnir]

our backyard (redwoods off to the left ain't even in the pic) is looking increasingly terrible and am having little motivation to do the work needed to improve the situation. spent most o' last summer fixing the front yard, but side and back remain eyesores which is only ok 'cause nobody sees our backyard save our infrequent guests. the foliage is overgrown so even the golfers need be right at our fence to see more than fragmented glimpses o' our yard. 

the dogs don't care how much o' a mess we got out back, so is nobody to guilt us into getting off our arse and working.

maybe next week?

HA! Good Fun!

ps the odd shaped fuzzy blob mid-left is a dog. easy to mistake species as she is built more like a hyena... smallish hyena.

 

Edited March 19, 2022 by Gromnir

[BruceVC]

4 hours ago, Malcador said:

Don't drink.  Besides if I wanted to hear endless ego masturbation...I'd just come here.

 

Yes I know you dont drink, thats why I said you need to start 

[LadyCrimson]

When circumstances keep you mostly off and not looking at the world wide web, reminding you that for the past several years,  you are generally more positive and cheerful then.  

EDIT  we keep waffling on which house, still, but yet we are having a lot of fun doing "stuff" in tne meantime.  

Edited March 20, 2022 by LadyCrimson

[ShadySands]

Wife's boss got caught in a lie about her promotion so she's looking to leave for another team or possibly even find something else with a new company. I'm struggling to come up with a name for a new business I'm starting. I also turned down another job offer because they couldn't offer me at least 2 days of working from home and my current job said I could WFH full time and they also offered me a little more lunch money.

[Gromnir]

20 minutes ago, ShadySands said:

 I'm struggling to come up with a name for a new business I'm starting. 

a couple decades past we had a friend who made surfboards. his business didn't last long, but his biz name were rabid dolphin inc. kinda a kewl logo and we may even still have a t-shirt with the image. as such, am gonna suggest "rabid __________." colorado specific? bison? beaver? elk? don't much matter, but am thinking you could come up with a groovy logo and we need a new t-shirt and/or hoodie.

HA! Good Fun!

ps am knowing shady is more into vampires and gothic, so am s'posing he could for  zombie beaver instead o' rabid. would make for an equal interesting t-shirt or coffee mug logo. for us is all 'bout the logo. 

and yes, am fully aware our advice is not helpful.

[BruceVC]

5 hours ago, ShadySands said:

Wife's boss got caught in a lie about her promotion so she's looking to leave for another team or possibly even find something else with a new company. I'm struggling to come up with a name for a new business I'm starting. I also turned down another job offer because they couldn't offer me at least 2 days of working from home and my current job said I could WFH full time and they also offered me a little more lunch money.

We can only assist with clever names if you explain what the business is?