'Realized today that I haven't emptied the lint trap I installed in a cabinet in my garage which the dryer vents into (too long a run to get to an outside wall). It has been three months since I...
So, after digging into the source code for a node module, apparently I wasted an entire day trying to get this fucking thing working. I mean, I guess I should have realized that it only supports...
Being in shape makes you look better. Throwing on 50 pounds of muscle after reaching that point is wasted.
I eat healthy and stay active, but I don't do generalized workouts. I'll do workouts targetted at whatever activity currently holds my interest (eg, workouts keyed toward improving my swing speed and...
As far as friends go, I don't see why they would need to share your interests. Accept your interests and be supportive, yes, but they don't necessarily have to share them.
If they don't want suggestions, I stop giving them. Their choice, and it doesn't bother me at all.
I travel a lot, preferably alone. On the rare times I've let a friend come along, I always ended up wishing I'd gone solo. My favorite trip was making a loop through South America. Europe is nice,...
hehe, I was just too smart-dumb for my own good. In this case, a bunch of us were sleeping at a friend's place and I picked the lock on his parent's liquor cabinet (yeah, they actually had a lock on...
Only been drunk once, about twenty years ago. As I recall, I was too busy puking in the bathroom and passing out in the tub to say much. Apparently ten-year-olds can't hold their tequila. Who knew?
Work trip with the boss starts tomorrow. Assuming the airport is 18.5 miles away, what is the ideal gauge nail to insert into a tire to make it go flat exactly halfway?
One week until a three-day cross-country business trip with the boss and his wife. Now accepting bets on how many miles the plane flies before I start praying for engine failure.
My plan is to do stuff and then die. Everything else is just details that can be filled in as I go.
Spritz them in the face with a spray bottle. Works great for correcting undesirable behavior. Really noisy ones also benefit from a bark collar.
I've found the same joy in getting rid of stuff. Currently have a few boxes of books to take down to the library, did a purge of my two sets of bookshelves this week and cut it down to only needing...
Looking around, there's nothing I couldn't easily live without or would have trouble replacing. If my house caught fire, I'd probably grab some clothes on my way out so I wouldn't have to buy any...
I used to be a perfectionist, but that need has faded significantly as I've gotten older (along with my completionist tendencies, which I think are related). Now I tend to be a good-enough-ist. There...
The most illogical system in the modern era? No thanks. I made a few good investments years ago on some sound advice and got out when it was appropriate. My investments right now are about as...
I'm with you. Once you realize that debates are mostly just rehashing the same things you read on a blog that were summarized from an article written about a study from a researcher with an axe to...
Kinda? I have a large personal bubble when it comes to strangers and acquaintances. With people that I know well and am comfortable with, touch doesn't bother me.
Have less stuff is the obvious answer, of course that requires first breaking the addiction to stuff. Not easily done. An alternative: get a friend who hates messes and you'll slowly be shamed...
I used to run into this problem during the winter. My eyes and sinuses in particular got super dry. A few things I've learned: 1) Radiator-style heaters dry out the air far less than blown-air...
I made it as far as Angel Card Readings on the sidebar before closing the tab. Didn't read the article, but I'm gonna assume its legitimacy falls somewhere between the Zoltan machine at the...
I'd like the perfect ginger ale recipe. I can never find the right type of yeast to use. Champagne yeast has been the best so far, but I'm pretty sure it could be improved upon.
My local airport is spending $943 million over the next three years to renovate. And they still aren't fixing the most rage-inducing aspect of the airport: separate TSA screening stations at the...
Dear Guy-Who-Left-His-Chewing-Gum-On-The-Floor-In-The-Self-Checkout-Queue-That-I've-Spent-The-Last-Ten-Minutes-Scraping-Off-My-Shoe: Permit me to reference an episode of Blackadder: I'm not a...
Third-highest rated review on Steam for Hitman:Absolution: Played game to hone my skills, killed somebody in real life, couldn't find locker to stuff body in. Reviewing from prison. 2/10
Didn't bother me. I already knew I was an antisocial hermitic robot with low-grade narcisissim and dreams of plunging the world into darkness. Seriously though, who cares about stereotypes?
It wasn't all bad. I went to private schools for primary school and a magnet program (special public school) for secondary. The primary schools were pretty accomodating and and the secondary school...
Shadow government. I have no desire to be known as the ruler. Secretly choose leaders to govern, let them control the daily shit while unofficially taking orders from me on major decisions. Each...
I've had friends point this out as well. Put me in a group, and the group instantly becomes less rambunctious. My outwardly chill nature tends to keep people around me from becoming too hyperactive....
When an analyst describes the impact of the current ruble situation, it is probably not best to do it this way: Mr. Rogov said that his own family members had been forced to give up their usual...
Christmas shopping is done. For the first time ever, I did it before December 24. This was too easy. Where's the mad panic, the endless cursing at other drivers, the Line of Doom? Christmas is...
As someone who's survived a few small-ish disasters (hurricanes in my case), I will say that relying on money is dumbest thing you can do. It is a fine tool when things are good, but in bad times...
I don't hear it very often, but I suspect that's because (1) I'm usually willing to try something as long as it is presented correctly, and (2) the people I choose to hang out with understand that I...
Politics ranks right up there with underwater knitting and Irish improvisational rappers. I do my damndest to be as utterly oblivious as possible.
I always wondered why Trac didn't have any decent GUI management tools. Partway through migrating 98 instances from a Linux box to a Windows box with a version upgrade and sundry plugins thrown into...
Giving me something, without asking, which I cannot decline to receive without looking like an asshole in front of the assembled hordes and am now obligated to reciprocate? Sure, sounds great.... ...
I'm a Cat Herder. At least, that's what my business cards used to read back when I spent my time trying to make four Business Analysts agree on software specs. Officially I'm a Senior Developer....
Making chicken stock. My home has smelled like chicken for the past 24 hours. I exist in a state of perpetual hunger :sad:
I generally don't remember any dreams. Though I do still vividly remember a nightmare I had when I was 6. Given the dreams people recount to me (especially when they involve me for some reason),...
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Dueling stares at ten paces. First one to burst into flames loses. An unfair advantage against other types, but that's their problem.
I've found that I understand people, just not in realtime. Give me a few hours to replay the interaction in my head undisturbed and it mostly makes sense. But trying to do so while the conversation...
I got a monkey skull for Christmas once. I have a long-running tradition with a family member of giving weird, WTF-y presents instead of real ones because every year it used to be the same routine:...
I crit failed my CHA roll, and I take an additional 50% frost damage. I solved both by never leaving my house.
I hate our corporate VPN. All the VPNs for our clients are so simple. Cisco VPN is drop-dead simple to set up in Linux with vpnc. But we dropped our Cisco ASA units and went with fricking pptp for...'
