The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Is Inkscape's pen tool as good as Illustrators? No/its tricky. Is it better than having to pay Adobe's bull-shit prices? FUCK yes! I don't wanna pay 500 bucks a year,
Nah I've been out for a few years, but really? Shit that's a good deal, site says like 239 a year for teachers and students.
That's pretty sad.
That is the most rightfully sad rhino I have ever seen.
I was in doubt, but that's in NSFW so goes unnoticed by a large part of the people. I'd have gone for NSFL pictures, but it's not a picture. So...Random it was.
I'm not disparaging your choice, I just thought it worthy.
Oh, hey. Just realized today's the day for tax deadline in the USA.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Burglars in Scotland are using a pictorial code, scrawled on the outside walls of houses and sheds, to pass messages between them, such as "good target", "nothing worth stealing", and "alarmed house".
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-32315632
Gee, I wonder if someone's been playing Skyrim recently.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-32315632
Gee, I wonder if someone's been playing Skyrim recently.
Oh, this goes back waaaay further than just Skyrim, I mean this has been going on at least since the end of the 19th century.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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And, more recently, has been used for Trick or Treating.
aka, again, some police officers have fallen for this.
Bargoon codes have existed forever, but are rarely if ever used these days. There's very little 'honor amongst thieves', so informing others isn't a big priority anymore. These days burglars also tend to be actually literate and smart and up to date with modern stuff, and keep their notes, you know, on their person, written down, instead of chalked on the sidewalk where kids can write stuff too, it can get rained away, be tampered with, etc etc.
Believe me (and no, I'm not a thief, I'm a security worker): it's more likely someone trying to prank someone else or a security company trying to raise alarm sales (because, yes, that's still a thing - scaring people into buying stuff) than an actual band of thieves. Those just put it in neat excel tables - "Penn Av 1598, lots to steal, few guards; Penn Av 1600, lots to steal, too many guards to bother; Penn Av 1602, nothing worth stealing" etc. It's easier to choose your targets that way.
However, every few years there's still some police force somewhere who puts out a call like this to be vigilant for signs like these. I assume this is young new police people being convinced they've just discovered the Next Big Thing.[DOUBLEPOST=1429182164,1429181901][/DOUBLEPOST]Pedro Sanchez, secretary general of the PSOE (Spanish socialist party), a staunch defender of the right to abortion, accidentally voted for a law making 16 and 17 year olds require parental consent for an abortion. Oops!
Bargoon codes have existed forever, but are rarely if ever used these days. There's very little 'honor amongst thieves', so informing others isn't a big priority anymore. These days burglars also tend to be actually literate and smart and up to date with modern stuff, and keep their notes, you know, on their person, written down, instead of chalked on the sidewalk where kids can write stuff too, it can get rained away, be tampered with, etc etc.
Believe me (and no, I'm not a thief, I'm a security worker): it's more likely someone trying to prank someone else or a security company trying to raise alarm sales (because, yes, that's still a thing - scaring people into buying stuff) than an actual band of thieves. Those just put it in neat excel tables - "Penn Av 1598, lots to steal, few guards; Penn Av 1600, lots to steal, too many guards to bother; Penn Av 1602, nothing worth stealing" etc. It's easier to choose your targets that way.
However, every few years there's still some police force somewhere who puts out a call like this to be vigilant for signs like these. I assume this is young new police people being convinced they've just discovered the Next Big Thing.[DOUBLEPOST=1429182164,1429181901][/DOUBLEPOST]Pedro Sanchez, secretary general of the PSOE (Spanish socialist party), a staunch defender of the right to abortion, accidentally voted for a law making 16 and 17 year olds require parental consent for an abortion. Oops!
GasBandit
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Wow. The newly updated videostream android app is greatly improved. Before, it was basically just a volume/seek control for whatever was already streaming, so to load up something to watch I had to teamview into my computer over the phone, which was fine, if a little clunky. But the new app now "pairs" with the videostream chrome app running on the computer, and gets the list of that computer's media library... so you can chromecast things directly from the mobile app. I'm not a big fan of the windows media library ui format, but I can deal. And it's free (though you can pony up for a paid version that lets you have playlists).
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Gawker media sites remind me of the Standard Internet King of the Hill Game on a regular basis. So much defense there for MoS and Ang Lee's Hulk lately. That's how it always goes. Most people realize something stinks, but then it gets older, and someone says they like it, then everyone liked it all along, really, they were just kidding.
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You joke, but I saw people defending Mac & Me recently. You mean the low budget ET wannabe with the McDonald's commercial in the middle of it?
GasBandit
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I'm a big fan of how Paul Rudd plays that same clip from Mac & Me every time Conan gets him on the show.
I'm Tits Magee?
GasBandit
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Tits McGee is on vacation.
Would Tits Magee be willing to stop at Shoppers on the way home?
Donated blood today, went slow as hell but hey someone with B+ type blood will benefit so whatevs!
I find the best way to make it go faster is to hyper hydrate in the days before you do it. This makes your blood less thick and allows it to flow a bit easier.
Or at least that's how I do it.
Oh it wasn't the actual donating I'm practically a camel, the wait time was JUST a little too long.
I can't give blood. My veins are small and tend to roll. I have to get butterfly needles when I need a blood test done. They can't use those for blood donation because it takes too much time to fill the bag. I really hate it when my veins collapse after the regular sized needle is already in place. That's happened more times than I care to think about. Last time I went in for surgery the anesthesiologist had to get an ultrasound machine to find a vein in my arm and make sure the needle was placed just so.