Random thought thread!

Courteous_D · 2015-05-25T17:21:54.000Z

Apparently, those fifteen years of wearing button-fly jeans made me permanently incapable of remembering to zip up my pants.

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-05-26T07:59:52.000Z

No need to worry, a dead horse doesn’t leave the stable.

RichVR · 2015-06-03T17:18:39.000Z

We don’t have a hardware kludge thread so I thought I’d put this here. My wireless router is in a room that has my kitchen in between where I have my laptop (the living room) and my office (in the back of the house). The placement was ideal when I spent all of my time back there with my desktop systems for various reasons. Since then I have a nice newish Asus gaming laptop in the living room to be with people.

When I had issues with the connectivity of the non-wired devices in my house, I came up with a crappy fix. I actually taped up several layers of aluminum foil behind the router. Strangely enough this fixed my problem. It got “two bars” more out of the signal. I have no issue with any online game or downloads now.

Recently the wife has been using the old office for her needs with the laptop there. While she had no problems, while she was there, or even after my connection was sporadic.

Stick with me here.

I couldn’t understand why this would be. I knew that the microwave, directly between my laptop and the router, would kill my connection when on. That wasn’t such a problem if I made sure that nobody used it unless I told them it was okay.

So what was fucking with my connection?

Guess. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

The ceiling fan.

Why?

Not what I thought. I thought it might be the motor in the fan. RF interference.

Nope. The fan blew against the foil taped to the wall. It essentially changed the shape of the reflector behind the router multiple times a second. When the fan was off it worked. When we blocked the air from the fan from blowing the foil. It worked. Even if the fan motor was on full.

Cool, eh?

ChristienMurawski · 2015-06-03T17:40:14.000Z

I am loving the thought of a movie montage where you and your wife figure this out. I’m about to head out on a dog walk, and I’ll be thinking of a song for the montage.

-xtien

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-06-17T10:56:49.000Z

Kirk vs Picard? Kirk.

Why?

New Kirk vs Old Kirk?

This is the nerdguement I see more of these days.

That and “All Praise Bat-God” religion stuff. I am really starting to not like batman.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–s0DgfT_l–/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/19658gmt1biftjpg.jpg

Yeah, Bat-God, my ass.

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-06-24T08:18:36.000Z

Getting close to month 9 of my medical leave. (Insurance denied my surgery so it continues)

I’m starting to feel like James Stewart in Rear Window. Just not as Hitchcock thankfully.

RichVR · 2015-06-24T18:55:30.000Z

Just caught the 40th anniversary showing of Jaws at the local gigantiplex. It really holds up, no matter how many times I’ve seen it before. Glad I got the chance to check it out with a theater audience again. The place was half full, more people than I expected. And the crowd makes a difference.

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-06-25T09:32:48.000Z

Had a very strong thunder storm move through Denver/Aurora last night.

Massive amounts of hail. Was accumulating like snow.

The very scary part was there may have been a tornado 3 miles from my apt.

divedivedive · 2015-07-06T12:03:03.000Z

I’ve been seeing an ad on TV a bunch lately for GMC automobiles with some generic voice over and baseball player, but what really strikes me about the commercial is the song they’re playing over, it’s The Who’s “Eminence Front”. Which, don’t get me wrong, is probably my favorite Who song, but I get the feeling that ad men may not actually be listening to the songs they choose to use. Then again, you don’t hear any of Pete Townshend singing so maybe they realized that they should just go with the instruments.

Timex · 2015-07-07T08:39:38.000Z

I don’t even know where to put this, but I can’t stop laughing.

Man yells, “FUCK THAT ALLIGATOR!”, immediately gets eaten by alligator

CLWheeljack · 2015-07-07T08:57:25.000Z

I dunno, that sign clearly says “No swimming alligators”, so the alligators are probably all on the beach, and the water should be safe.

RichVR · 2015-07-07T11:43:42.000Z

Note to politicians and political organizations: I do indeed agree with what you’re saying. That’s why I read your emails instead of relegating them to spam. That is also why I will, more often than not, sign your petitions. But when you then immediately transfer me to the page that says, You’re Not Done Yet!, and you ask me for money… You are mistaken. I am done. If I have money to donate, I have already donated. So yeah, I’m done.

Papageno · 2015-07-07T12:09:48.000Z

@RichVR
There’s also the bit where they ask you to let them spam all your friends and family.

RichVR · 2015-07-10T07:58:09.000Z

Not so much a though, but certainly random:

Tom Selleck, water thief.

The Calleguas Municipal Water District said in a complaint filed Monday in Ventura County Superior Court that on more than a dozen occasions since 2013, a white truck filled up at a Thousand Oaks hydrant and hauled the water to Selleck’s 60-acre ranch in Westlake Village.

A Fremen would kill him on sight.

Kemper_Boyd · 2015-07-14T16:38:14.000Z

Ableist, shmableist

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-07-15T18:21:12.000Z

I think the only reason 3rd Rock from the Sun was created was to make Dick jokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3rd_Rock_from_the_Sun_episodes

Papageno · 2015-07-15T18:34:31.000Z

The Bitter Cynic:

I think the only reason 3rd Rock from the Sun was created was to make Dick jokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3rd_Rock_from_the_Sun_episodes

Are those the real names of the episodes or did someone go on a spree?

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-07-15T18:40:25.000Z

Those are the names of the episodes.

It’s on Netflix and those are the titles.

RichVR · 2015-07-15T20:23:23.000Z

The movie Phenomenon. You know, the John Travolta one. Okay, his seeing the light was because od a sort of super tumor in his head. And this tumor, at first, gave him all sorts of super-intelligence. That crappy trope where he’s ‘using more of his brain’ than any normal person. And I get that the take-away was supposed to be that we could all be this super-genius.

But what about the telekinesis? That was hand waved so hard that my TV cooled the living room. They never explained how a human brain that was way more efficient than the average, could do that. Why would that work? Because he was working with the pencil? Because all things are energy? Okay sure. Then he could have convinced the pencil to go all E=MC squared too. Right? As long as he asked it nice?

Yeah, I know, it was a tear jerker more than anything else. But that one thing bothered me. Guess I should get a life and stop overthinking John Travolta.

Edit: I was thinking it was like the Twilight Zone, Mr. Dingle the Strong, at first. At the end, I wished it was aliens fucking around. That would have been a better movie. Then he could have had the alien ship removing his powers at the book fair.

Then he could have gotten his life back and lived with the chair making lady. Happily ever after.

But what do I know…

Edit: Here I am overthinking a Travolta vehicle.

The_Bitter_Cynic · 2015-07-15T20:26:41.000Z

Vinnie Barbarino was a douche bag.