So, can I get a reading of the hivemind?

What is in this picture? Is it termite dust? dust from another insect?

Bueller?

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I don't know how all y'all with regular jobs don't go about killing your coworkers on a regular basis.

Seriously.

Although admittedly the last time I had an actual coworker, I busted my knuckle punching a chair in frustration at him. So.

Okay, so I ran the world's most inefficient errand run ever, but I am now back home and prepped and tackling the scary but fun task.

eta: Oh, oh, but first I have to report my banking experience. My task--reset the PIN on each of my new post-fraud cards.

Local bank: Hello, I need to reset my pin, fraud, etc. Oh, okay, walk down this counter with me and here's the number pad, type your new pin twice. Commiserations!

Evil national big bank: Standing in line at the merchant teller desk, where there is no merchant teller. Teller finally arrives. Hello, I need to reset my pin, fraud, etc. Oh, a personal banker can do that. Blank stare. So go sit in that chair. Oh, ok. Sitting. Confirming with third person what I want to do. More sitting. Personal banker emerges. Oh, ok. Here, fill out this form. Present id. Answer these four different security questions. Huh, no signature card on file (note: been banking here for a decade). Please wait. Waiting. Provide additional info. Sign here. And here. System is not working. Ok, enter your pin. Waiting. Here's your card. Please check it in the ATM as you leave. Did it work?

Yeah, if they weren't already convinced I was stealing from the bank, I'd have just closed it down right then. But I will shortly, don't you worry, big bank.

So my building's water got shut off right as I was doing my laundry. My clothes are just sitting there, drenched, in the washing machines.

That sound unhelpful, Tom. Got an ETA on when you'll get water back?

Le nubian, my first thought was sand. That's why I can never own property--eventually the bugs would gnaw it down around me and I'd be standing in the wreckage going, "I thought I just forgot to dust."

I have no idea who made le nub's dust.

Today I walked across a university campus and saw, from a distance, a public art display that made me think 1) ah, college, and 2) what is it with the modern abhorrence of pubic hair. Anyone want to guess what it was?

Scary task: totally easy. Life lesson? Probably not learned. Next task ensuing nowish.

I mean, I need a few minutes to gloat, right?

The water came back, but when it did, it was rusty. Grar. Hopefully, the water won't get shut off again while I redo my laundry.

Anyone want to guess what it was?

I'm too scared to guess.

I don't know how all y'all with regular jobs don't go about killing your coworkers on a regular basis.

Ahahahahahaha. Some of us fantasize about it, trust me. There's a particular dev here that I would like to set on fire.

Thinking again about what I posted, making some threads image-able (as in, the pictures are embedded in thread, not linked) would make a specific area of the site change in tenor, so if you have bandwidth or passing off as work issues, you could ignore that thread, or turn images off (my style sheet forces them off, for instance).

I think it would really change the feel and usefulness of b.org for me. Things do change though.

Personally, I am not in favor of having images embedded. This is the one place I can read casually wherever I am and not worry if someone glances over. And I used that functionality a lot when I had a job too. Especially a thread like Beep Me that I click as soon as I see there is a message but I'd be very wary of doing that if images were a possibility. We're not Tumblr. I kinda hope we never are.

If we want an image thread, that's easy enough for me to not subscribe to but if we're adding images to other threads, less easy to avoid.

but I do love our clean uncluttered text look.

I both like it and like being able to choose to follow links.

His response? "Tonight. I'm ugly right now". WTF?

I don't know whether I hope it's a mistype of "on it" or he really thinks being ugly is a reason for not making deadlines.