Why can the Emergency Alert System not achieve decent sound quality? Even with an HDTV and digital feed, their announcements are so full of static and distortion you can barely understand what’s being said. I just can’t figure how an unintelligible burst of static can actually be of any use in an emergency situation.
I was mistaken for my daughter’s grandmother today by a whippersnapper. Get off my porch! grumble
This was after 2pm. But yeah, maybe some breakfast item, though that would have meant he’s coming back to blow a gasket and demand money for it several hours after the fact. Which of course, may well be the case.
I’ve been chasing after the kids all day. Mrs. KJdS finally made an appearance and said “what’s wrong? You look annoyed.” “I’ve been chasing after the kids all day and she just deleted my show.” “She didn’t do it on purpose.” “I know.” “She can’t read, you know.” “I KNOW.” “It’s not like she just… took the remote… and wanted to delete your show… and read the screen and deleted it.”
THANK YOU FOR REPEATEDLY INSISTING IM NOT ALLOWED TO BE ANNOYED - THAT’S REALLY HELPING THE SITUATION A LOT
My best friend is sending her elderly cat off tomorrow. It’s very sad - he’s such a sweet old man. However. If they had taken him to the vet a few years ago, he wouldn’t be so miserable now. It’s his thyroid. Been there, done that with our old dame, Bernie. But my best friend’s daughter knows everything and she was positive his dramatic weight loss, loss of fur, ravenous appetite couldn’t be thyroid. Just like she believes cats claws don’t need to be trimmed, the cat will naturally shed its’ nails.
And while I may wail about my mom, she has nothing on my best friend’s mother. I discovered there was no such thing as homosexuality until Clinton was elected and people heard about oral sex. Yup. And gun control caused the holocaust. Even my mom told her be quiet.
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I’ve been meaning to gripe about this for awhile - we went to visit Universal Studios and Seaworld recently, and after taking our exorbitant entrance fees ($80 each per park), then we discovered that they would add our fingerprints to the information they had already recorded about us before we could enter the parks. I’m not all paranoid about my information or anything, but it seems horribly invasive of my privacy to take my fingerprint just to see an amusement park.
Add that to the irritation about the entrance procedure taking an extraordinary amount of time because of the cashiers entering everyone’s personal information in their database, as well. I’m not sure at this point if I’m glad to have seen these parks; the cost both financial and privacy-wise was really steep. I don’t think I’d be recommending them to anyone else.
The fingerprinting is fraud protection–tickets are only supposed to be used by one person. They generally offer substantial discounts for multi-day passes, they don’t want you to go one day and then hand it off to someone else to come another day (or for you to leave the park early and hand the ticket off to someone new).
But if you find this too intrusive, I’m guessing you’re really not going to like the RFID wrist-bands Disney is rolling out.
And they delete all your information as soon as your ticket expires? I can see what you’re saying, but I don’t agree with their policies. I think they take too much information for what we’re doing.
Nope, I surely won’t. (I’m not planning to ever go there again, though.)
I live in a mature 1970s neighborhood full of middle-aged and elderly people. A few years ago a connecting neighborhood was built, and it’s full of half-million-dollar McMansions inhabited by lots of yuppies with small children. Across the main road from these two neighborhoods is a forest preserve.
And a four-acre plot with a shitty cardboard-construction “castle” on it.
Apparently they have something to party about tonight. They have hired a live band to play in their yard. The live band sounds like drunk karaoke, or possible drunk cats mating while singing karaoke. The live band also has really fucking loud speakers. And has been going and going and going for 2.5 hours now.
FUCK YOU you trashy shits. This isn’t fucking campus. We fucking moved out here to get the fuck away from noisy losers like you. You wanna throw a party with a live band? Hire a fucking venue. FUCK. YOU.
I live with sciatica almost on a daily basis, and I find that ibuprofen really helps- have you tried it? It’s an inflammation of the nerve, and ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory, so it should help you. It does take a couple of weeks of taking it regularly to really act as an anti-inflammatory, but even just taking it as needed should give you enough relief to sleep soundly. I wouldn’t even be able to sleep at all sometimes without it.
Strictly speaking, they’re not even storing the fingerprint to begin with. They’re taking some data from it and storing a checksum, and then just comparing against that checksum on subsequent scans. So regardless of what their retention policy is for that data, it’s pretty irrelevant for you, since it cant be used to reconstruct the fingerprint itself.
I have no words for how much this disturbs me.
Hey, even better. Posting pics of the 50th birthday party you had with all of your friends. So that makes two parties, one with friends, and one with family…
Oh wait, the “family” one didn’t include your brother (me) and sister.
Thanks again. You’ll probably wonder why I don’t show up for your son’s 16th birthday next month. I already said something 6 months ago about his inability to return calls, texts or emails and you didn’t say a word about it. I still have no idea why we’re being cut out of your ‘family’, as we haven’t done anything and even our parents have no idea why.
Hey chimera, for what it’s worth, I’ve had the same kind of interaction with my brother, his family, and my parents. Turns out, as far as I can see, they were positioning themselves to be the favoured recipients in the will-making department. I couldn’t help but think of this when I read about the shenanigans going on with your family.
Not saying it’s the case, but worth thinking about.
For the pregnant lady;
I just saw something written by someone who claims he’s a teacher… and he spelled the word “lightning” as “lightening.” ARRGH
Oh crap, I got the book for my next class and there’s a ton of chemistry in there. I sucked royally at chemistry in high school, do I dare think that 20 years later the light bulb will suddenly go on? Crap, crap, crap. There goes my GPA…
Actually Dr. G, the lightbulb might come on. You’ve spent 20 years using math for practicle applications, so you better understand how it all works. You’ve probably done some cooking as well so you might understand how important it is to follow the recipe instead of just tossing stuff into a pot.
I think you will do great. And if you go into it thinking it will be fun, you might even have fun with it.
Maggie got her shots today. Was extremely well behaved. It was, however, funny to see her eyes bug out when they took her temperature and gave her the shots.
She weighs 6 pounds 4 ounces, or about three times what she weighed just 6 weeks ago when I got her. Doctor looked her over, pronounced her in excellent health, and said she appears to be nearing 6 months old (adult canines about half way in).
The bad news; she has roundworms. I’ll give her the first de-worming treatment tomorrow.