newbrof
5821
just watched the Microsoft E3 press conference, until the first Trailer of Fallout 3 was shown. Then I realized it was E3 2008…
Further further advice:
If you’re going to be chopping the hottest fucking pepper commonly available somewhere, invest in a pair of latex or similar gloves.
I’ve been asked if I want to be interviewed on SWR (Southwest German Radio) about the wedding on Saturday. I hope I’ll get the opportunity (Republican rant in poor German incoming!).
Lorini
5824
I was out walking my dogs in the wilderness area of Hahamonga park (not much of a wilderness area really, but we’ll take what we can get) and there was a rattlesnake on the construction road we were on. Freaked me straight out. I turned around and walked home pretty fast. I just don’t know if I should take them back there again. The snake was about 15 feet in front of us so it’s not like it jumped us or something, but still it was pretty scary. There’s a concrete road not far from the construction trail but I wonder if that’s really any safer. I don’t like walking them in the neighborhood because there’s a German Shepard that frequently gets loose (he’s attacked my dogs before). What to do?!
Houngan
5825
Keep walking there and count yourself lucky. Roads are about the only place they would allow you to see them, I ran through the woods nearly every day for ten years in my childhood and never saw a rattler anywhere other than on a road. They hear you coming from a long way off and move out.
H.
Thoro
5826
Carry on as usual. Rattlesnakes aren’t aggressive to humans unless seriously provoked(as in, poked with a stick or the like), and as long as you keep your dogs leashed and under control they should be in no danger either. A rattlesnake spotting you and two dogs coming towards it is quite likely to scarper as quickly as possible.
Yeah I’d just keep walking it, just be a little more aware of what could be out there. Rattlers don’t want to be bothered and he was probably just crossing the road and minding his own business. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
Now if there was a chupacabra, then I’d worry.
— Alan
Yeah, they really need to put up more chupacabra Xing signs, especially in New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California. It’s becoming an epidemic.
walTer
5829
I got (almost) fucked again…what is it with people/businesses that just overcharge as a way of business?
Today in Subway, I got a 5 dollar sandwich…and thinking that I did not have a drink at work I read the "Make it a meal for 2.00) so I said make it a meal. Grabbed chips an the cup from the ONLY stack they had…
Just as I was about to pour my drink, I had a thought and checked my receipt. .25 charge for “LG”…so naturally I went back and asked why my 2.00 dollar meal deal was 2.25. She pointed at the cups (the ONLY cups available) and said, “oh you want a small drink?” Yes, I want the 2.00 dollar meal deal that is on the sign behind you, that is what I ordered. Oh and to be clear, I was charged the .25 surcharge BEFORE I picked up my drink cup…so they didn’t even give me a chance to pay or not pay the .25 cents, they just charged me more than the advertised price.
To make it short, she pulled out a slightly smaller cup out from behind the counter and handed it to me with a quarter. The cups that belong the advertised price are hidden behind the counter and I bet everyone that orders the meal deal get the bigger cup, the .25 charge and have no idea they are being over-charged because they are.
Don’t even get my started on my day on the phone with my daughter’s dentist that kept insisting that the prices on my insurance price sheet were too low…3 days 6 phone calls later she said, oh yes, the prices on your sheet are correct…she was going to charge me what would be about 50% more per filling for my daughter and claimed that she did check with our insurance, and she clearly did not.
WTF? It is a way of life now? So annoying.
Lorini
5830
Thanks everyone. I’m going to stay toward the center of the road and I do keep my dogs on a leash. I noticed that the upper trail (which is much narrower) was closed this morning. Perhaps that’s why.
I’m at the grocery store last week, picking up a few things for my wife after she fell ill with a bad migraine. I’m in front of an older gentleman and behind a Latino woman with two small kids. I remember the Latino part because one of the kids picked up a Snickers bar, the mother said no, and the kid replied in a wonderfully whiny voice, “Me guuuuuuuuuuuusta!” Cutest damn thing.
Anyway, she’s taking a little while to pay, maybe a full minute of getting bills together after the total is given to her. As she’s getting her receipt, he loudly shouts “NEXT!” and starts snapping his fingers. She bustles her kids away and I pay for my things fairly quickly, though not before he turns the Beady Eye on me for daring to look back in his direction to see if there was a magazine my wife might want to read.
As I’m leaving, he slaps his hand on the checkout counter. “You charged me eighty-nine cents for this, when it clearly states that it costs seventy-nine cents in your specials.” He leans in toward the high schooler working the register. “You owe me a dime.”
Fight the good fight, sir. Fight the good fight.
Sarkus
5832
You need to be carfull with Subways in my experience and the $5 footlong thing seems to have made things worse. They are franchised out and I gather the franchises aren’t very happy about the $5 thing. The one at my local Walmart has removed most of the sandwiches off the $5 list at this point, so unless you want the veggie, meatball thing that makes everyone sick at that location, or cold cut combo, you have to pay more.
Eating at a Walmart? Dude. Lower prices and dysentery, guaranteed.
Siren
5834
A supremely geeky guy that I am dating discovered that I had not seen either Firefly or Serenity (not due to lack of desire, just lack of time and opportunity). He has gone on vacation for two weeks, but he left me with Serenity and his boxed set of Firefly, after watching the first two episodes with me. As I am currently unemployed, I blew through both in two days.
Who the hell had the dumbass idea to cancel this? And can we go TP their lawn?
Yeah I learned on my recent storm chase that Subway’s are really nickel & diming people. Don’t get the friggin meals, just get your Sub and leave quick. Get water if you need to drink.
— Alan
Raife
5836
Right. I grabbed a footlong at a Subway just yesterday and with the meal it was over $10. WTF?
An article that I wrote for my firm and posted on our blog (that myself and another young associate pushed for) that is really only of interest to those in my specific legal field, but is tangentially related to the Gulf oil spill, was picked up by all the large websites that cover my field, Lexis Nexis, and I was contacted by NPR’s Marketplace about possibly doing a brief spot on the Morning Report next week on the topic. All the older lawyers who were all “What’s with this blog crazy talk! We’re going to give information to people for free?!?” are now like “we’re totally behind ‘the blogging,’ you’re so marketing-savvy-web2.0-bullshit” etc.
Vindication.
JoshV
5838
That’s true of all fast food, heck true of all restaurants. In California, places are charging 2.50+ for a friggin’ soda from a dispenser, which is an insane markup. Back in my old college days, the owner of the local 7-11 would give us our 64oz big gulp refills for free at least once a week, and even when we paid, they were only 59 cents. (We at DigiPen were also the reason he was the number selling 7-11 in the united states) It boggles my mind that people at my work go out and buy a soda everyday for lunch when drinks are free at work.
On top of that, they tend to charge you another ridiculous fee for the fries/chips/misc side, it basically lets them get away with advertising the main sandwich/meal thing for cheap, and tack on extras. My personal annoyance is when a condiment like cheese or a sauce is extra, and they ask you whether you want it, but don’t mention that it costs extra. Or worse, a restaurant where refills aren’t free, and they come buy and ask if you want a refill but don’t mention it’ll cost ya (This is admittedly rare, only got bit buy it once a French restaurant)
Recall that I was standing on a rattler while walking Bosco back in Chino Hills once (it was a warm night and it was a small snake). Sounded like an electric hum rather than the normal rattling buzz. Anyway, other than me yelling “JEE-ZUS!” rather theatrically and leaping about 10 feet in the air, the snake didn’t do a whole lot. Ran over several while driving back and forth to the lab (the park Lorini is talking about is just a mile down-arroyo from JPL) during the summer time. Just be alert, watch the road ahead, and a firm hold on the dogs.
I just found out that I need to go pick my newborn daughter up from the hospital on the other side of the state.
