Random Thought of the Day

[Jabberwonky]

What kind of person lets the air out of someone's bike tires at school? I had to ride home 3 miles on a half flat bike with a 45 lb backpack and a violin. My thighs/quadriceps are KILLING me. Boo to mean people.

You didn't have a steam pump to fill it? Or at least an Edison repeater to take a couple of shot at 'em?

Shelly had the same problem oncet...
(check out the receptionist)

[shadowinthelight]

Heh, I actually prefer to use my bike pump to air up my car tires when they get low. Save 50¢ instead of going to the gas station and it's good exercise.

[Julie]

I think I finally found my motivation to either locate my laptop or finally get a powerstrip so I can set up my desktop. I'm home sick today, and checking the comic/posting on these forums from my cell phone sucks! (We moved into this apartment a little more than a month ago, and I've been doing most of my personal browsing from work and looking over my husband's shoulder to browse NSFW websites from home on his laptop.)

[Mark N]

Two days ago I reset my cell phone, today my wireless connection becomes so unstable I have to reset my router? What the hell?

Just a subtle reminder that entropy rules the universe. (As Yeats seemed to agree "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" (From his 'THE SECOND COMING')

[shadowinthelight]

Guile's theme goes with everything, including cell phones. I love making my own ringtones.

[MrFireDragon]

Favorite quotes of the day

“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
–Walt Disney

"We must be the change we wish to see."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
-Steve Jobs

"Blue is a color!"
-Cosmo

[Jabberwonky]

Does anyone else think it's funny that there's more than one 'Final Fantasy'?

[NOTDilbert]

Does anyone else think it's funny that there's more than one 'Final Fantasy'?

Just as funny there's so many 'origin stories' for (insert superhero name here). How many do-overs are you allowed?

[Atomic]

Does anyone else think it's funny that there's more than one 'Final Fantasy'?

The focus group feedback for "Penultimate Fantasy" didn't score well, so they went the the other name instead.

[Jabberwonky]

Does anyone else think it's funny that there's more than one 'Final Fantasy'?

The focus group feedback for "Penultimate Fantasy" didn't score well, so they went the the other name instead.

Okay, I'm weird enough that I'd go see that just see what it was...

[Julie]

There's nothing quite so unsettling as having your world shrink in unexpected places and at unexpected times.

I was minding my business this morning, playing catch-up with my email at the office when I glanced up and noticed that the new recruits were walking by on a quick tour of the office before they start training next week. Normally, this is no big deal. Today, I did a double-take. One of the new recruits is a guy I knew in high school. He was two years older than me, but we knew each other because we were both in marching band. In fact, he and his (mostly) identical twin brother would give me rides to and from band practice since they lived about 5 minutes away from me.

He recognized me too (from the look on his face, I wasn't the only one having a WTF moment), so he stopped by after the tour to catch up a little. It was cool. Weird, but cool. It turns out that he'll be working from this location, too (some of our recruits end up working out of one of our district offices). I'm one of our office's compliance officers, so it's going to be interesting seeing if I can handle an authoritative role over someone who was in the leadership position when I last saw him 15 or so years ago.

But the story's not over yet...

I stopped by our training department to share the information with them. While I was talking about how I knew this guy, one of the ladies frowned a little and asked what high school I attended. When I told her where I went and when I graduated, she asked me if I knew her cousins. Turns out I went to elementary, middle, and high school with one of her cousins, and high school with the other...and he graduated the same year as our new recruit.

My mind kind of esploded today.

[Mark N]

There's nothing quite so unsettling as having your world shrink in unexpected places and at unexpected times.

I was minding my business this morning, playing catch-up with my email at the office when I glanced up and noticed that the new recruits were walking by on a quick tour of the office before they start training next week. Normally, this is no big deal. Today, I did a double-take. One of the new recruits is a guy I knew in high school. He was two years older than me, but we knew each other because we were both in marching band. In fact, he and his (mostly) identical twin brother would give me rides to and from band practice since they lived about 5 minutes away from me.

He recognized me too (from the look on his face, I wasn't the only one having a WTF moment), so he stopped by after the tour to catch up a little. It was cool. Weird, but cool. It turns out that he'll be working from this location, too (some of our recruits end up working out of one of our district offices). I'm one of our office's compliance officers, so it's going to be interesting seeing if I can handle an authoritative role over someone who was in the leadership position when I last saw him 15 or so years ago.

But the story's not over yet...

I stopped by our training department to share the information with them. While I was talking about how I knew this guy, one of the ladies frowned a little and asked what high school I attended. When I told her where I went and when I graduated, she asked me if I knew her cousins. Turns out I went to elementary, middle, and high school with one of her cousins, and high school with the other...and he graduated the same year as our new recruit.

My mind kind of esploded today.

Amazing how small the world can be sometimes.

[Leak]

My mind kind of esploded today.

So that's what they mean by "global village"...

[Graybeard]

There's nothing quite so unsettling as having your world shrink in unexpected places and at unexpected times.

I was minding my business this morning, playing catch-up with my email at the office when I glanced up and noticed that the new recruits were walking by on a quick tour of the office before they start training next week. Normally, this is no big deal. Today, I did a double-take. One of the new recruits is a guy I knew in high school. He was two years older than me, but we knew each other because we were both in marching band. In fact, he and his (mostly) identical twin brother would give me rides to and from band practice since they lived about 5 minutes away from me.

He recognized me too (from the look on his face, I wasn't the only one having a WTF moment), so he stopped by after the tour to catch up a little. It was cool. Weird, but cool. It turns out that he'll be working from this location, too (some of our recruits end up working out of one of our district offices). I'm one of our office's compliance officers, so it's going to be interesting seeing if I can handle an authoritative role over someone who was in the leadership position when I last saw him 15 or so years ago.

But the story's not over yet...

I stopped by our training department to share the information with them. While I was talking about how I knew this guy, one of the ladies frowned a little and asked what high school I attended. When I told her where I went and when I graduated, she asked me if I knew her cousins. Turns out I went to elementary, middle, and high school with one of her cousins, and high school with the other...and he graduated the same year as our new recruit.

My mind kind of esploded today.

Amazing how small the world can be sometimes.

Well, similar people with similar backgrounds wind up in similar places.

Some years ago my wife and I stashed the kids with grandparents between Christmas and New Years so that we could do a short winter backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. We were using one of the less traveled trails (Grandview, for those who've been there -- rather hairy in winter, actually, we had to use crampons for a short stretch), and once we got into the canyon, the only person we saw was a backcountry ranger passing through. So after a very enjoyable night on Horseshoe Mesa, we start back out, again not running into another soul -- until we're about 200 feet from the top, and there's a solitary figure making his way down the hairy part.

Turns out he's one of my musical partners in crime, from our home 500 miles from the Canyon.

My wife says I could run into someone I know on Mars. This is not unreasonable; it's the kind of place where all of us space cases would hang out, after all.

[jwhouk]

The pun vault applies in this thread, too.

[Julie]

Well, similar people with similar backgrounds wind up in similar places.

Some years ago my wife and I stashed the kids with grandparents between Christmas and New Years so that we could do a short winter backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. We were using one of the less traveled trails (Grandview, for those who've been there -- rather hairy in winter, actually, we had to use crampons for a short stretch), and once we got into the canyon, the only person we saw was a backcountry ranger passing through. So after a very enjoyable night on Horseshoe Mesa, we start back out, again not running into another soul -- until we're about 200 feet from the top, and there's a solitary figure making his way down the hairy part.

Turns out he's one of my musical partners in crime, from our home 500 miles from the Canyon.

My wife says I could run into someone I know on Mars. This is not unreasonable; it's the kind of place where all of us space cases would hang out, after all.

You may be right...my husband swears that I know everyone in the Dallas area because during the first few years we dated I seemed to run into people I knew everywhere we went...State Fair (ran into old friends from high school)...movies (ran into the mother of someone I used to be in Girl Scouts with when I was in 5th through 7th grade)...grocery shopping (ran into a guy I used to go to church with)...the deli at my office (ran into the husband of my 8th grade science teacher)...I guess at this point I shouldn't be surprised, but it hadn't really infiltrated my actual office space before.

[Lee M]

As an infrequent flyer, I always find it annoying when the plane touches down and they say something like, "Thank you for choosing to fly Cheapo Airlines". The fact is I've never chosen my own airline, and I suspect 99% of business and holiday travellers don't either. It's always the travel agent - or in the case of business flights the guy in charge of booking flights for a company - that actually chooses the airline. Anyway, the meals always taste the same, the planes are all made by the same companies and the only real difference on long-haul flights is whether they have fixed or on-demand video programming.

So yeah... this is just my way of coping with jet lag.

[MrFireDragon]

Google this: US China San Francisco UFO



Serious wtf.... Perhaps a bunch of nutjobs....but still wtf...

[Jabberwonky]

Google this: US China San Francisco UFO



Serious wtf.... Perhaps a bunch of nutjobs....but still wtf...

Vetrans Today site had an article on it. Not one of the ususal suspects for the woo-woo set.
And, if aliens were going to try and infiltrate human society, San Francisco wouldn't be the worst place to start...

[Julie]

As an infrequent flyer, I always find it annoying when the plane touches down and they say something like, "Thank you for choosing to fly Cheapo Airlines". The fact is I've never chosen my own airline, and I suspect 99% of business and holiday travellers don't either. It's always the travel agent - or in the case of business flights the guy in charge of booking flights for a company - that actually chooses the airline. Anyway, the meals always taste the same, the planes are all made by the same companies and the only real difference on long-haul flights is whether they have fixed or on-demand video programming.

So yeah... this is just my way of coping with jet lag.

I always choose my own airline when travelling for fun/personal holidays. I only have to take what's given to me for business trips, which equates to less than half of my time in airports. I've never worked with a travel agent for personal travel...it just seems cheaper to figure it out on my own. *shrugs*