Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150

[CurlyKitGirl]

Because your laptop is hungry?

Because I'm hungry, and it's dinner time?
Also Math Friend had made muffins yesterday, and I was going over to pick up the Rent soundtrack her Dad had burnt off for me.
So muffins.

They were nice muffins. Better than the cereal I'm eating for dessert.

EDIT:
Cookie if you know what I'm listening to as I type this post.

[Thufir]

Because I'm hungry, and it's dinner time?

Wha-no. Dinner time is defined as the time you eat dinner, fair enough. But muffins are not dinner. Muffins are a snack. You are not eating dinner, ergo it is not dinner time.

Cookie if you know what I'm listening to as I type this post.

Well, since you mentioned the Rent soundtrack further up the post I'm guessing that. If you only iust got it... Seasons of Love?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Wha-no. Dinner time is defined as the time you eat dinner, fair enough. But muffins are not dinner. Muffins are a snack. You are not eating dinner, ergo it is not dinner time.

Muffins makes a good dessert, I was merely having dinner in reverse order. See, I've iust finished eating my main: cereal.
This does ring up an interesting quandary, if I say it is dinner time, or that I'm eating dinner, does that then meant that whatever I'm eating at that point in time becomes dinner even if it is typically considered breakfast, lunch or a snack.
I would say so. Dinner is a state of mind.

Well, since you mentioned the Rent soundtrack further up the post I'm guessing that. If you only iust got it... Seasons of Love?

Nope.
Love of My Life.
I've had that song in my head all day.
Admittedly Rent stuff is next to play.

Although I have iust noticed that my rather large Queen folder under my favourites is completely lacking the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert amongst other things . . .
This must be rectified!

When I grow older
I will be there
At your side
To remind you
How I still love you
I still love you

Hurry back hurry back
DOn't take it away from me
Because you don't know what it
Means to me

Love of my life
Love of my life
Ooooooooooo
Yeah

Except now I crave Bo Rhap.
This is a serious musical dilemma.

[Asta Kask]

One Tough Terrier...

[Thufir]

Muffins makes a good dessert, I was merely having dinner in reverse order. See, I've iust finished eating my main: cereal.
This does ring up an interesting quandary, if I say it is dinner time, or that I'm eating dinner, does that then meant that whatever I'm eating at that point in time becomes dinner even if it is typically considered breakfast, lunch or a snack.
I would say so. Dinner is a state of mind.

No! Cereal is not dinner either! Cereal is breakfast or snack. I define meals by their composition.

Nope.
Love of My Life.
I've had that song in my head all day.

Well how was I supposed to guess that? It's not like I can read your mind. Without anything to suggest it, at best I could figure the odds were heavily in favour of it being Queen or Disney.

[CurlyKitGirl]

No! Cereal is not dinner either! Cereal is breakfast or snack. I define meals by their composition.

This is problematic then, because by this definition I have't actually eaten a proper dinner in a couple of weeks. My dinners are normally what I have for lunch.
And I tend to define dinner by times rather than the make up of the meal.

Well how was I supposed to guess that? It's not like I can read your mind. Without anything to suggest it, at best I could figure the odds were heavily in favour of it being Queen or Disney.

Ah, 'tis true. If it helps, I listened to Seasons of Love iust a few moments ago. I've decided to alternate beween my beloved Queen and my new CDs.
But I'll finish off this Queen stint with a clas -
o.o
He's wearing short shorts.
Iust those, a neckerchief and a wristband.
o.o

[Teddy]

My relationship to RB is a funny one. Pretty often when I check it, I find the current topics not interesting enough to reply to, but that I've missed some other interesting topic two pages ago which was discussed when I was away. Then, when I return half a day later, the thread either hasn't moved at all, and I'm still not interested, or it has moved a few pages forward, and I realize that I actually find the "uninteresting" topic that was discussed earlier interesting now. It is a source of sighs...


@Thread title: When I came up with it, I first thought up 'topicless', and then, pretty instantly, realised that it looked pretty similar to 'topless'. I always read it as 'topicless', though (might be because I wrote it, however ).

[Moff Chumley]

Epic multi-library book hunt today. I'm still two books short of everything Charles Stross has written, and my local libraries have a woeful deficiency of Larry Niven, but it should still be an entertaining week...

Anyhow, Jeniffer Morgue by Charles Stross. It's like if Ian Flemming, Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, Niven, and Cory Doctrow. At the same time.

[Snares]

I once took a test which measured my spatial awareness and my result came back saying I had none. As in, no spatial awareness at all. This is reasonably close to accurate (it's a mystery even to me how I manage to play drums or walk around without smacking into things too often).

Consequently, I am really bad at driving.

I had my test today. ><

I'm just surprised the thing my examiner chose to fail me on was just being in the wrong lane for one small stretch of roundabout. Like, he didn't notice me drift across about three lanes at a different roundabout, nearly scrape a bus, narrowly miss a parked car, and go up the right of some traffic when it was very debatable whether I had the room to? Huh. No mention of it on his reporty thing. I got 6 minors, which is apparently a really rather good drive. I thought I was pretty awful myself. And he randomly told me to pull over and then move off again about six or seven times. It was odd.

Strangely, I can do the manoeuvres perfectly. I just can't drive very well at all. DX

[KuReshtin]

Muffins makes a good dessert, I was merely having dinner in reverse order. See, I've iust finished eating my main: cereal.
This does ring up an interesting quandary, if I say it is dinner time, or that I'm eating dinner, does that then meant that whatever I'm eating at that point in time becomes dinner even if it is typically considered breakfast, lunch or a snack.
I would say so. Dinner is a state of mind.

I agree to a certain extent. Then again, what's the difference between tea, dinner and supper, all three which are eaten at about the same time of the evening.

I grew up with the three basic meals. Breakfast in the morning before heading to school, then lunch at about midday, and then a light meal consisting of some sandwiches and tea/hot chocolate/milk chocolate drink.

Only rarely did we have what I'd define as 'dinner' which would be a cooked meal. Mostly only on Friday or Saturday nights.

My relationship to RB is a funny one. Pretty often when I check it, I find the current topics not interesting enough to reply to, but that I've missed some other interesting topic two pages ago which was discussed when I was away. Then, when I return half a day later, the thread either hasn't moved at all, and I'm still not interested, or it has moved a few pages forward, and I realize that I actually find the "uninteresting" topic that was discussed earlier interesting now. It is a source of sighs...

I get the same feeling every now and then. Sometimes there's just not enough going on that I feel I can contribute to.

I once took a test which measured my spatial awareness and my result came back saying I had none. As in, no spatial awareness at all. This is reasonably close to accurate (it's a mystery even to me how I manage to play drums or walk around without smacking into things too often).

Consequently, I am really bad at driving.

Spatial awareness is quite important when driving. Not having good spatial awareness could result in a very high insurance premium.

I'm just surprised the thing my examiner chose to fail me on was just being in the wrong lane for one small stretch of roundabout. Like, he didn't notice me drift across about three lanes at a different roundabout, nearly scrape a bus, narrowly miss a parked car, and go up the right of some traffic when it was very debatable whether I had the room to? Huh. No mention of it on his reporty thing. I got 6 minors, which is apparently a really rather good drive. I thought I was pretty awful myself. And he randomly told me to pull over and then move off again about six or seven times. It was odd.

Strangely, I can do the manoeuvres perfectly. I just can't drive very well at all. DX

I backed into a wall on my driving test, and I still got my licence.
Was trying to do a three point turn, and didn't make it round all the way first time, so I decided to make it into a five point turn instead (which is acceptable). When I was about to start forward again, I figured I'd make sure that I had enough space to not have to make it into a seven point turn, so I decided to back up a little bit more, 4-5 inches or so.
Problem was that there was a wall only about 3 inches behind the car.
It was just a very tiny bump at basically no speed at all, though, so I got my licence anyways.

[CynicalAvocado]

so i am officially unhappy with dell tech support

[Moff Chumley]

So. Queens of the Stone Age. Why are they so badass?

[EmeraldRose]

Because they are.

Wolfmother is also pure awesomness.

[randman22222]

so i am officially unhappy with dell tech support

The day that DIY laptops become feasible will be a beautiful one, indeed.

[Trobby]

Went to see "Noises Off!" last night. My cousin was in it. Let me tell you, that boy really threw himself into his role.

And I mean he literally threw himself into it, down the stairs, head spinning, and then down the rest of the stairs to finish it off. Probably the best pratfall I've ever seen anyone do, ever.

[CynicalAvocado]

The day that DIY laptops become feasible will be a beautiful one, indeed.

i know, i spent an hour talking to a representative finding out why my lappy was bad screening, he decided it wasnt a hardware problem so i got transferred to a software guy and an hour later he decided my computer was fixed. five minutes later it bad screened again

[randman22222]

i know, i spent an hour talking to a representative finding out why my lappy was bad screening, he decided it wasnt a hardware problem so i got transferred to a software guy and an hour later he decided my computer was fixed. five minutes later it bad screened again

Yeahhh, I once had a tech support guy tell me I should send my laptop back in to have its hard drive reformatted, and Vista reinstalled, because its wireless drivers must have been broken. This was after I explained that on my Ubuntu partition, the exact same problems happened; networks were visible, but I couldn't connect to them.

So yes. Why does tech support suck?

EDIT: I don't typically like XKCD, but... Here. Relevant.

[CynicalAvocado]

Yeahhh, I once had a tech support guy tell me I should send my laptop back in to have its hard drive reformatted, and Vista reinstalled, because its wireless drivers must have been broken. This was after I explained that on my Ubuntu partition, the exact same problems happened; networks were visible, but I couldn't connect to them.

So yes. Why does tech support suck?

EDIT: I don't typically like XKCD, but... Here. Relevant.

i'm under warranty so i just want to replace it

[Moff Chumley]

Because they are.

Wolfmother is also pure awesomness.

Never loved 'em, but maybe that's because they were inescapably popular at my school a few years back... so I'm a bit sick of 'em.

[Cobalt]

...Someone in China logged onto my email account.

...Oh boy.

[CynicalAvocado]

...Someone in China logged onto my email account.

...Oh boy.

i had someone log onto my facebook from Canada once...

[Moff Chumley]

My girlfriend changed my gender of facebook. It took a month for someone to point it out to me...

[randman22222]

...Someone in China logged onto my email account.

...Oh boy.

Someone in... China, I think it was, as well, logged into my iTunes account and used the remaining two dollars or so I had to get a couple C-pop songs.

[Thufir]

My girlfriend changed my gender of facebook. It took a month for someone to point it out to me...

A friend of mine is a lesbian according to facebook, but not in RL. It's been that way for years and I assume she hasn't noticed.
I have no idea who did it though. Could have been any of a number of her friends, or her boyfriend.

[CynicalAvocado]

A friend of mine is a lesbian according to facebook, but not in RL. It's been that way for years and I assume she hasn't noticed.
I have no idea who did it though. Could have been any of a number of her friends, or her boyfriend.

for six weeks after he left his computer logged on, my brother worshipped edward cullen....

[Snares]

Spatial awareness is quite important when driving. Not having good spatial awareness could result in a very high insurance premium.

Yeah. Sometimes it feels as though it's a matter of when I crash into someone/thing rather than if. ><

The day that DIY laptops become feasible will be a beautiful one, indeed.

I agree. My laptop has just come back from the repair place today. It's on its fifth motherboard...

So. Queens of the Stone Age. Why are they so badass?

Do they need a reason to be?

[Thufir]

Well, I iust ate a home-made prawn, mushroom and pineapple pizza. Nom nom deliciousness.

[absolmorph]

I feel manly. I spent the night at my friend's house, and we watched the two Gurren Lagann movies.
And now I feel manly.
Like I should go into a forest with a bare chest and try to catch a grizzly bear.
Or I should try to hack a computer by head butting the login screen.

... That last one may be because of the hacking sequence.

[Snares]

Oh, also, went shopping today. Out to Oxford Street. Tried to get some nice clothes for my interviews at Queen Mary and (possibly) Oxcamfordbridge. I bought... a pair of leather trousers! And some hi-hats. Oh Snares.

Also, I've randomly decided to put together a jazz band with some people I know. No particular reason. Just JAZZ BAND.

[turkishproverb]

Jazz. Fun.