Every comicsands.com post is just a chain of orange, "Privacy Badger has replaced this X (Twitter) widget" boxes for me.
Thanks Privacy Badger. Do better Comicsands.
They've also started to become the adults in the room sometimes. I'm not sad to see it, but it feels weird.
My company did (via dell) for employee workstations. Microsoft puts you though a site audit if you have anything they ever made. And if you have some products you also end up paying prices for things they didn't make. "You have network connect phones on the same vlan as a windows server? Here's a license for each phone, that'll be $8000 please. Now lets talk about all your printers..."
It's useful if your mental health issues are caused by Microsoft. For example, if I ever have to go through another license audit, I may have a psychotic break.
I can remember this without issue, but if I lost my contacts I'd never be able to call or text my family and friends ever again.
There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
This triggered a random memory. In either 96 or 97 I ended up seeing the band Save Ferris perform at 3 different festivals and at each one Monique Powell prefaced their cover of the song with with this joke:
What's dirtier than Olivia Newton John in Grease?
Come on Eileen
I really hope "dipshit" is the new "weird" of this last stretch of the election.
Proof that LCARS runs on top of Hannah Montana Linux
If that doesn't work try sudo systemctl restart engines && sudo engage
Maybe it's a magic eye, relax your eyes and you'll see the outline of a loon.
I keep saying I'm going to play a PC based on Kingo Nonaka.
But in my version he would have also briefly been a Pacific ocean pirate during his journey from Japan to Mexico.
If all else fails: reprogrammed Borg nanoprobes.
This spinoff of Thomas the Tank Engine wasn't as good, but Ringo Star was still enjoyable as the coachman.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and was a "Latchkey Kid" so sometimes I feel like my childhood first got the breaks applied when I started having to carry a set of house keys with me all the time.
As someone who's also needing to replace a 2007 Toyota soon, I am also curious about this. Cars built after about 2015 seem like nightmares of cost cutting (especially in their lack of physical controls) and surveillance.
But but... Lower Decks has Eugene Cordero! MST3k has Crow T Robot! Does she know about Eugene and Crow?
It's probably a phase. Or maybe she just hasn't experience the right gateway Trek yet.
Mot's Pouch
I know we've already done Mot's apple sauce, but I pictured the Mott's Apple Cannibal as Mot. Now you all have to see it too.
I'm going to forgo accusing you of being a "dipshit with a nine-toed woman" until we get to know each other better.
I need human looking hands
Does anyone know where I can buy 3 to 5 pair of normal looking human hand (or finger) gloves within the next week or so?
I finally thought of an idea for a Halloween Zoom-based costume contest to go as an AI generated person, and one of the key ingredients of it is WAY too many fingers. But as I've searched for non-monster looking latex costume gloves and I'm coming up empty. I assumed I have lots of options but that none would fit my XL sized hands. But instead I just find zombie, ape, alien, or skeleton. Some of the 4 finger alien gloves could work, but its not quite what I'm going for.
Update: Thanks all. Between magic trick thumbs, dismembered prop hands, and tiny novelty hands I should have what I need to put my costume together!\ Update 2: I just placed an order for 14 hands and 10 thumbs. I love Halloween.
30 years of Bort
I happened to notice today that the "Itchy and Scratch Land" episode of The Simpsons aired just over 30 years ago (on Oct. 2nd, 1994).
That means that, for a full 3 decades now, I have checked every single gift, souvenir, and tourist shop I've been in for a Bort plate. Its not obsessive and I'm not going out of my way, but if I see a rack of novelty license plates I make a point to look for Bort.
Anyone else, or am I alone in this particular pop culture predilection?
Missed Connection
Thought about posting this to lemmybewholesome, but thought it might not fit everyone's definition.
The ‘Taylor Swift’ Guitar Smashed by Man After Paying $4,000 for It Was Not Autographed by Singer
A video of a man destroying a 'Taylor Swift' guitar as a Texas charity event has gone viral — but the guitar was not autographed by Swift.
The weird get weirder. He apparently spent $4000 to smash a guitar that was next to a signature.
> A man who for some reason smashed up a guitar with a hammer in Texas may have thought it had been signed by Taylor Swift — but it was not, in fact, an official Swift-certified guitar.
> But contrary to media reports, the guitar the man destroyed had not been signed by Swift — and was not a certified official guitar used by the singer, a source close to her merch company confirmed to Variety. The organization that held the auction, the Ellis County WildGame Dinner, presented the guitar with a signed CD insert but the guitar itself was not signed.
A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in only a few hours from Hurricane Helene.
> Some North Carolina cities were forecasted to receive 10 times their monthly rainfall amount.
> The emergency flash flood warning issued by the NWS says that at least 3,000 people are at risk of emergency flooding downstream of the Broad River and Lake Lure Dam
This is in additional to the flash flood warnings happening all over the state.
My deodorant retired to Cypress after a long career in Adventure
Thanks to Costco fueled bulk buying, between the last time I bought deodorant and this week, my deodorant changed from the Scent of Adventure to the Scent of Cypress.
So is Cypress the sum total of adventure or an overdue respite?
I guess my new station runs Wordpress
I've semi-recently started a career mode game that uses (among others) Stockalike Station Parts and FreeIVA. I finished a station in LKO and was tooling around in the command module when this screen caught my eye. Even from across the room I recognized the output from the ps command.
!Hey Val, what's that screen showing
So I floated over and first noticed that it's upside down compared to other things in the room
When I got closed and looked at the post image it was obvious that this the Apache Litespeep workers serving up a wordpress site. My head canon is that one the Kerbals runs their website on the computers of Hotel Kerbalfornia.
Lovely Man. He wants to have you for dinner.
I don't know why my brain connected Trump's "a concept of a plan" and his obsession with Hannibal (Lecter, but I went with Smith), but here you go.
Happy anniversary Bob and Linda
I used to think Bob was right, "a lot of numbers are divisible by 3" and so its a bad mnemonic. But, on the other hand, I have an easier time remembering the Belcher's anniversary than my own.
John and John perform Letterbox while hosting Post-Modern MTV (1989)
Surprisingly good quality for something from 80's cable TV.
In 2024 the first thing that struck me was that I can barely remember the last time I cared about what was in the mailbox.
They'll Need a Crane on Late Night with Letterman (1989)
A very early performance from TMBG, back when Letterman was still on NBC. February 1989 performing They'll Need a Crane
I love their old TV performances. Especially the Conan appearances. If there's an audience for it I'll post the best (video/audio) quality ones I can find, from time to time.
Cybercriminals have succeeded in stealing the payment card information from over 110,000 animal lovers over several months after meddling with Oregon Zoo's online ticket payment system.
I'm pretty sure this is a new sentence for me: I'm glad I haven't been to the zoo in a few years.
LED screens on roughly seven Oregon Lottery billboards were turned off at locations around the state after they were taken over by a mysterious furry animation this week.
> LED screens designed to show the current Powerball Jackpot were affected in seemingly random locations, including billboards in Coos Bay, Albany and Portland between Aug. 12 and 14. Roughly four of the affected billboards were in the Portland area.
> One of the affected billboards was recorded by Reddit user “HanginWithMrPooper” near the intersection of 68th Ave. and Halsey Street in Northeast Portland.
Heated platforms and purge towers are among Stratasys' infringement claims.
Stratasys is claiming infringements on patents it owns (included ones acquired from Makerbot) on things like purge towers, heated beds, and force detection. Many of them things common to most FFF/FDM 3D printers.
Its an interesting coincidence that this lawsuit against one printer maker is happening on the same day as a new product announcement (the Prusa MK4s) from another major printer maker.
> In two complaints, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, against six entities related to Bambu Lab, Stratasys alleges that Bambu Lab infringed upon 10 patents that it owns, some through subsidiaries like Makerbot (acquired in 2013). Among the patents cited are US9421713B2, "Additive manufacturing method for printing three-dimensional parts with purge towers," and US9592660B2, "Heated build platform and system for three-dimensional printing methods."
> There are not many, if any, 3D printers sold to consumers that do not have a heated bed, which prevents the first layers of a model from cooling during printing and potentially shrinking and warping the model. "Purge towers" (or "prime towers" in Bambu's parlance) allow for multicolor printing by providing a place for the filament remaining in a nozzle to be extracted and prevent bleed-over between colors.
Global Alliance for Responsible Media disputes X lawsuit but stops operations.
The SLAPP seems to working as intended.
> An advertising industry initiative targeted by an Elon Musk lawsuit is "discontinuing" its activities and has deleted the member list from its website.
> Stephan Loerke, the CEO of the WFA, wrote in an email to members, seen by Business Insider, that the decision was "not made lightly" but that GARM is a not-for-profit organization with limited resources.
> Today, the House Judiciary GOP's official account on X called GARM being discontinued a "big win for the First Amendment" and a "big win for oversight." X CEO Linda Yaccarino also applauded the news.