The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Revoltingest]

At this rate you'll hit over 3000 this month, or over 100 posts per day.

No, 3000/month is beyond my grasp.
I can do over 100/day, but not every day.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

No, 3000/month is beyond my grasp.
I can do over 100/day, but not every day.

1300 posts in 18 days.
The challenge has been issued.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

It would be the most boring film since Andy Warhol's movie, "Empire".
Those unfamiliar should google it.

whyever would we want to do that?

 

[Revoltingest]

1300 posts in 18 days.
The challenge has been issued.

Surprisingly, I don't post with a numerical goal in mind.
It just turns out to be a bunch.

 

[Revoltingest]

whyever would we want to do that?

You shouldn't.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I don't think I'll ever understand why people keep saying 30 is old. Literally, no one says I'm old or thinks I'm old unless they know my age. If they don't know it, then people only say I'm young (and often shocked by age). The way I see it, "getting old" won't apply to me for at least another decade, or maybe two.

most people have been shocked--when I was young and underaged--that I was not as old as I should have been to buy booze...and now that I'm knocking on 60, people are surprised that I am really almost old enough to draw Social Security...and in between, many people were surprised that I was older than they thought...although a perceptive few thought I was younger...

Several years ago, a bunch of us from high school days got together, and we all decided that despite being in our early 50s, we all felt like we were really in our mid-to-late 20s...I think that still applies...

 

[sun rise]

I don't think I'll ever understand why people keep saying 30 is old. Literally, no one says I'm old or thinks I'm old unless they know my age. If they don't know it, then people only say I'm young (and often shocked by age). The way I see it, "getting old" won't apply to me for at least another decade, or maybe two.

I'm 72 and don't think I'm old. 80 might be old. 90 is old, 100 is a survivor.

 

[sun rise]

I've also reached the career level where being on call is a thing for me now, from 9 AM Monday until 5 PM Friday. But, so long as it doesn't interfere with LARPing, it's no biggie. And it won't.
And I'm still flabbergasted and stupefied over the fact that a crap pizza delivery job gave me an absolute hard no to getting any weekends off, but yet this job with tons more responsibility and I have every weekend off.

I had rotating 7x24 oncall for a week at my last job. Fortunately they outsourced the overnight stuff to India. That meant I was still oncall but very very unlikely to be woken up at 3am because of an IT problem. It was the kind of outsourcing we all applauded.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

whyever would we want to do that?

I've never understood how people are fascinated with Andy Warhol, and how he got to be up on this huge pedestal. Like this one video he made, it was nothing more than him sitting down in front of a camera, unwrapping a burger and eating it, and calling it art. And the Cambell's soup can? He made it during the 60s of all decades and that was the best he could do? They should have just hired some random hippy, provided the acid, and then they'd have a can wrapper design that would truly stand out.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm 72 and don't think I'm old. 80 might be old. 90 is old, 100 is a survivor.

I think I'm going to quote you to my friend who just turned 30 a few months ago, and has went on and on that she's old now, and who made the mistake of asking a 12-year-old if she thought 30 is old.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I can't believe I'm actually considering a $200 hair treatment. I also can't believe that's such a small percentage of my income now, rather than an entire bi-weekly paycheck.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

That meant I was still oncall but very very unlikely to be woken up at 3am because of an IT problem.

That's one of the reasons I didn't go through with an IT education/career. Calling me at 3 am, my advice would be to grab the shotgun and go tech-hunting.

 

[Wu Wei]

whyever would we want to do that?

This just gave me an evil and diabolical idea

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHA

and just to show I mean business

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA again

 

[Wu Wei]

Christmas Carolers going around my building...it was kind of nice....except for one of their songs that required several high notes...... about that song I can say there are times that having "Relative Pitch" is not your friend

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I've never understood how people are fascinated with Andy Warhol, and how he got to be up on this huge pedestal. Like this one video he made, it was nothing more than him sitting down in front of a camera, unwrapping a burger and eating it, and calling it art. And the Cambell's soup can? He made it during the 60s of all decades and that was the best he could do? They should have just hired some random hippy, provided the acid, and then they'd have a can wrapper design that would truly stand out.

15 minutes of fame...

 

[Revoltingest]

Sunny & 10F this morning!

 

[Brickjectivity]

Amazon will not sell me books to read using its cloud app. I'd need to have a registered device or Windows program before I could use the cloud app. Also Kindle books I had previous purchased are unavailable -- as if I'd never bought them.

In other words, someday Kindle books you have purchased may just disappear. Download them.

 

[Revoltingest]

I just won on the other thread!
(And some people wonder how my post count can rise so high.)

 

[Wu Wei]

I'm drinking coffee....and you know what...it is not that good......Tea is better

 

[savagewind]

I just won on the other thread!
(And some people wonder how my post count can rise so high.)

Nobody is wondering.