It always amuses me when I belch and Google Meet pops up a notification saying “are you talking? Your microphone is on mute.”
Once I was on an all day meeting with a compatriot and having, shall we say, a bad stomach day. I forgot we were on a call and for some reason - though I almost never am - I was unmuted. Having forgotten these facts and thus with no restraint, I let out a series of the most vile, expressive noises I’ve ever heard from my body … Only, to my horror, to hear “niiiiiiice.”
That would be a sight worth seeing.
That’s too many things.
Back when bash.org was around: Person 1: Person 2 has so little game he could fall into a barrel of nipples and come out sucking his thumb. Person 2: The concept of a barrel of nipples confuses and frightens me.
There’s a Lemmy user I bet would like this.
The Picard Maneuver
Around here I think we’re supposed to refer to them as TPM.
Until today I had assumed it was derived from “total percentage of meters” but now I just don’t know.
Every popular chat client since IRC has been IRC plus whatever feature was seen as needed.
I’m old enough that I met my wife on IRC. A younger coworker of mine once said of modern chat “you can only reskin Slack so many ways.” He was right but got one word wrong.
My mom, who was very much a hippie, always told me “don’t do drugs, but if you do, do them with me so I can make sure you do them right.” Thanks for reminding me of her.
That looks kind of like Philadelphia.
Approximately 29 years ago, I was in the MSN multiplayer client for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (stop judging me, I know almost every word of that sentence fragment indicates that I’m old) and someone linked something that would log the IP of anyone who accessed it. When I, a naive 9-year old, opened it, they copied my IP and posted it in the public chat.
I was so freaked out that I disconnected from the internet and unplugged my computer.
That sounds like a good business plan, but I’m not sure I could convince Ryan Reynolds (or Guy) to work with me.
Given the nature of his proclivities, I wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up here unprompted and dropped the next nugget of financial wisdom.
There’s an early-ish episode of American Dad! that I find pretty hilarious. In it, trans fats are banned. Stan, the protagonist(ish) of the show smuggles some in, then cooks and eats it in the men’s bathroom at his work. His boss, using the restroom and smelling the food, says (paraphrasing because it’s an old episode) “what’s that? I smell something good! I’ve never smelled anything good in here before!”
I had a friend who told me to buy Bitcoin when it cost cents. I didn’t, because at the time it required you to send your ID to an unknown entity.
The same friend had previously recommended that I learn Hadoop. I didn’t because I didn’t have the proper setup to host it and when was it going to be relevant to my job? Incidentally my current job relies - and my previous job relied - heavily on HDFS.
I’m extremely sleep deprived and can’t remember the third thing, but there was a third thing that would have been extremely lucrative if I had followed his advice.
Once I recognized the trend I asked him for the next suggestion. He said I should start my own business. I didn’t because I don’t have any ideas.
Maybe I should start a business.
Clearly written by someone who never read the Evil Overlord List.
John Travolta’s house?
I’ll try to remember to check it out in the morning, thank you.
edit: This worked. This is amazing. Thank you so much.
Don’t let my wife see this. She’s terrified of becoming nose blind to the smells of our house because our cats were young in our first residence and did piss on things. I have a really bad sense of smell so I’m not much help on that subject.
Fortunately she’s befriended someone who doesn’t wrinkle their nose when they enter the house, but seems willing to honestly (and kindly) answer when asked.
We have so many literally industrial air fresheners in our house (they came from the now shuttered factory where her parents worked). I wish she didn’t have to worry about the smell so much … The cats still sometimes protest-pee if their litterboxes haven’t been cleaned but they’ve generally mellowed out a lot and our techniques for handling the smell have improved for when there is an issue.
If I could reassure her that our home isn’t unpleasant, it would be so wonderful.
immediate edit: I tried hard to make this not sound critical of her. I’m not upset with her for being worried, I just wish she weren’t suffering through it. If at any point I sounded angry at her, please know I love her and want her to be happy in her own home.