As requested, an open thread. I’ll try to get these up more often in the future. This one will be overseen by Morrissey with a cat on his head.
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Open Thread for Personal Stuff: January 2014 Pretty Cats Make Hats Edition
Yay Ally! Sending you all the hugs.
@Kiwi Girl: Yes, they both have college degrees – I was getting tag teamed – the one in sociology and the other in philosophy, which is why that one tried out the Halting Problem on me (we can’t write a program that won’t stop eventually) while the first ended up all, Noah did something we couldn’t do!
Only tangentially related, I have kind of a soft spot for this guy who is or was the Egyptian antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass. He’s pretty charming, and he explained that you can tell a royal mummy by the smell, so I dubbed him “the kingsniffer.”
The ancient world is something else, but lost knowledge?
::looks up Halting Problem::
thinks: well the damn computer will fall to bits/be upgraded in a few years anyway, so it’s all kinda theoretical … 😛
What sort of smell was particular to the royal mummies, Falconer, did he say?
🙂 I would say that every programmer has created an accidental infinite loop, hence the break key on the keyboard. I’ve done that by doing a simple loop with an incrementing counter, and forgotten to include the increment statement /blush I’ve had a few other dozies too, but it’s all come down to having a variable accidentally treated as a constant.
Kiwi girl, when I refill the tanks, I fill them very slowly (because of the temperature difference also) and I just add the declorinator directly to the tank.
Well, the wallpaper in the hallway is like Armageddon, so sure.
Kiwi girl – was it the programmers doing that, or really kitties walking on the keyboard? -_-
@kittehs, a royal mummy had the most expensive oils and incense. I forget if there was something reserved for Pharaoh in the manner of royal purple, but certainly they smelled strongly and he claimed he could tell Pharaoh from noble or priest.
If you go python, make sure the nearest sink has a threaded faucet, the one here doesn’t >.<
Other than that, pretty much any pump will do if you fill a bucket on wheels (a new garbage can or the like) and stick it inside. Just make sure it can handle the head (the height the water has to rise)
And I'm with Serrana, I just add the dechlorinater and (for puff) salt directly into the water as it's going in. For the salt that means running the water through a funnel with salt in it.
Cool! Very useful when excavating the caches or other bodies that had been reburied.
Ah, our tap has a threaded end, I hadn’t noticed it before because it has a little end piece that threads on and makes it look like it’s unthreaded. 🙂
And yes, all my programming errors are because of cats, even the ones I do at work. LOL.
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/99/9903c7c14add3fd0758b7b5b80c24d48101f296f13ce34736799a82c71f61bc2.jpg
At katz’s house. The kitties are adorable. :3
Yay! katz and Ally are home safely, nestled in the paws of their kitteh overseers.
Yayyyyyyyyyyy!
http://youtu.be/S-uxxiAVdfI
Yay, Ally, I’m glad you and Katz are home!
Hey yo, I’m hailing from the beautiful metropolis of Altadena, CA, where I am joined by the lovely and charming Ally. Here is a dramatization of events.
ERRATA:
It may have been a transit center rather than a stake.
And a Corolla rather than a Firefly-class spaceship.
And me rather than Malcolm Reynolds.
You’re still a big damn hero though.
@katz, I thought they gave you a corvette when you first started living in CA. I have been misled! Gratz on the trip and and picking that clip.
I’ll email you my mailing address. Anyone else who wants to send stuff can email me/PM me on DeviantArt/tell me that you don’t have my contact info.
Pretty accurate dramatization. I mean, if I were to stay any day longer at my dad’s place, I think I’d be in real danger. Not as in burned at the stake, but as in being yelled at, insulted, or even physically harmed. She’s a hero all right. ^_^
@ally
Yay! Glad to hear your safe 😀
My dad called the fucking cops on me. X_X Too bad it won’t help him find me.
I hope they told him he’s out of luck. I guess it’s news to him that adults other than him have these weird things called freedom of movement and freedom of association.
My brother has told me that the police told my dad that my phone can’t be tracked. Thank god
Wow, great news!