Random thought thread!

wisefool · 2011-04-26T14:56:15.000Z

So, if you have cats, how young does a dog have to be to be friends with them? Must they only a few months old?

bluemax · 2011-04-26T16:50:08.000Z

wisefool:

So, if you have cats, how young does a dog have to be to be friends with them? Must they only a few months old?

My ex brought home a kitten at one point and we had a 1 year old puppy and a 3 year old dog. The dog mostly ignored and the cat, but the puppy would pester him a little, although he seemed more interested in eating the cat’s poop than anything else.

rossm · 2011-04-27T08:31:52.000Z

Mightynute:

So, are they retarded or fucking retarded, you mean?

No, this guy kept insisting he was in Korea for 30 days, from 21 February 1979 to 21 March 1979. “That’s one month!”

“No, sir, that’s 29 days. Sorry.”

Sounds like a month to me.

ColonelT · 2011-04-27T08:35:49.000Z

Is it possible to work with someone named “Beverly” and not say her name in a Captain Picard voice? For me, it is not possible.

Athryn · 2011-04-27T08:57:31.000Z

wisefool:

So, if you have cats, how young does a dog have to be to be friends with them? Must they only a few months old?

Depends on the dog and the cat. I adopted a 2 year old dog last year, and it took about a week for one cat to get used to him, but almost an entire year for the other cat to stop hiding upstairs.

Calelari · 2011-04-27T10:15:29.000Z

ColonelT:

Is it possible to work with someone named “Beverly” and not say her name in a Captain Picard voice? For me, it is not possible.

Actually, I think of this:

Fugitive · 2011-04-27T15:42:33.000Z

After nearly 20 years of filling out the government-supplied forms by hand (usually at the last minute), I think this will be the first year I’m going to turn it over to TurboTax. I’m getting old and lazy.

TheTrunkDr · 2011-04-28T06:36:59.000Z

Fugitive:

After nearly 20 years of filling out the government-supplied forms by hand (usually at the last minute), I think this will be the first year I’m going to turn it over to TurboTax. I’m getting old and lazy.

I think you mean you’re finally catching up with 2003. Seriously there’s no reason to fill that crap out by hand and hasn’t been for nearly a decade.

AndrewMyers · 2011-04-28T06:44:48.000Z

ColonelT:

Is it possible to work with someone named “Beverly” and not say her name in a Captain Picard voice? For me, it is not possible.

Nixxter · 2011-04-28T07:02:42.000Z

Fugitive:

After nearly 20 years of filling out the government-supplied forms by hand (usually at the last minute), I think this will be the first year I’m going to turn it over to TurboTax. I’m getting old and lazy.

I’m pretty confident you would have had to do something like this anyway, and that e-filing (not on paper) is mandatory for the federal Form 1040 at this point. Hard to file paper over the internets!

I don’t think you’re old and lazy, more like hip and efficient! It should save you time to use Turbotax, and it’s nice the way it rolls forward last year’s information (another time saver). Though, if you use their free online version, it does have limitations on what you can do, depending on how complicated your tax situation is. So, this could end up being more costly than your old method if you have to pay for whatever version of Turbotax you need.

Fugitive · 2011-04-28T08:05:02.000Z

Oh I know I’m way overdue to switch to electronic preparation, it’s just one of those weird moments where you look back and wonder why you were so stuck in your old ways for so long. If I’d kept hand-filing it any longer, I think I’d be legally required to buy suspenders and start complaining about kids these days.

Bahimiron · 2011-04-28T09:27:43.000Z

Amazon’s suggestion engine is weird at the best of times, but I bought two best sellers and now it thinks I want to buy every best seller. I bought Devil in the White City a while ago for Kindle and the other day I picked up Hunger Games for Kindle on a lark because it was only $5. So now that I’ve purchased a book about a serial killer in 19th century Chicago and a book about children battling to the death, of course I would also want to read Emily Griffin’s Something Borrowed, about the struggles of single women in their 30s and the pressures society places on them to get married. Why wouldn’t I? I mean, I love Kate Hudson!

Blerg.

madkevin · 2011-04-28T09:46:25.000Z

I have a similar problem with Netflix. We watched a surprisingly awesome documentary about breakdancing, Planet B-Boy, and now Netflix thinks I’m the world’s biggest 50 Cent fan.

BrianRubin · 2011-04-28T12:03:00.000Z

I usually listen to soundtracks while I write, and for the last two days, all I can listen to is the soundtrack to Firefly. Dunno why, but it’s still some of the best music around used in any form of media, in my humble opinion.

Meghan_Bowyer · 2011-04-28T16:33:52.000Z

I read today that after one of the tornadoes in Alabama, they found a tree that had been uprooted and thrown some distance. A dog was tied to the tree.

The dog was still alive.

If in a few years there’s a furry, four-legged superhero in Tuscaloosa, I will not be a bit surprised.

John_Many_Jars · 2011-04-28T17:03:35.000Z

I wasn’t paying attention and missed my 6000th post. I had such plans…

BrianRubin · 2011-04-28T18:35:19.000Z

Meghan Bowyer:

I read today that after one of the tornadoes in Alabama, they found a tree that had been uprooted and thrown some distance. A dog was tied to the tree.

The dog was still alive.

If in a few years there’s a furry, four-legged superhero in Tuscaloosa, I will not be a bit surprised.

Yay doggie!

Omniscia · 2011-04-29T05:26:25.000Z

Why aren’t there more aspirin ads in P&R? The pharmaceutical companies are passing up a pretty good opportunity.

Sarkus · 2011-04-29T21:40:37.000Z

Cinnamon disk hard candies are a pretty good option if you want to keep you consumption of candy in a sitting at a minimum and still get a little treat.

Athryn · 2011-04-29T22:59:24.000Z

I successfully cast on my first row of stitches for knitting, I think. Now I have to just actually knit a row, and then purl a row.

I don’t know what it is that’s broken in my brain, but it took me forever to puzzle through the hand diagrams, but one of the books had actual photographs of the hand positions, which kinda helped. I have the same brain dumbness with Origami instructions.

Ah well. My goal is to figure out how to make a hat or maybe a sweater someday. I’d like to actually be able to make something, if that makes sense.