How was your day too....two?

[Poboy kartman]

No...No...No...."rat snake "....(non-venomous) ....big difference....still a very mean snake.....and it can hurt you....although not nearly to the extent a rattlesnake can.....

Many non-venomous snakes rattle their tales while in a defensive posture.

Edituncturation....LOL...

 

[ML-TOYS]

No...No...No...."rat snake "....(non-venomous) ....big difference....still a very mean snake.....and it can hurt you....although not nearly to the extent a rattlesnake can.....

Many non-venomous snakes rattle their tales while in a defensive posture.

Edit:

Oh ok didnt know that about the rattle

 

[StratCat]

That snake is going to connect someday. Hope it isn't to bad !

The whole time I am watching that video I was thinking about a super taco from Taco Casa...

 

[Poboy kartman]

That snake is going to connect someday. Hope it isn't to bad !

The whole time I am watching that video I was thinking about a super taco from Taco Casa...

Nope....super burrito buddy!!!!! ....Or the Chilada!!!!

Or for those Cali members: the "Taco Lightweight "....errrr....I mean "Taco Light".....

 

[Poboy kartman]

That snake is going to connect someday. Hope it isn't to bad !

The whole time I am watching that video I was thinking about a super taco from Taco Casa...

Already has....nailed me on the left side of my head a few days ago.....(wasn't playing....drew blood....)

Soooooo......yeah, not telling me anything I don't already know....I'm playing with fire.....but I'm ready for the consequences....

 

[OzFab]

WARNING: Essay ahead (but still a fun read IMO)

WOW, WHAT A DAY! I've just spent the past two hours cleaning up after noobs, I'm worn out...

Yesterday wasn't much better...

As I'm a bit short of cash & space, it's time to make some of both so, I placed two for sale ads, one for the car I killed a few months back & one for the ATV I aquired & repaired some time ago but have barely used...

Within 30 minutes the phone started ringing, first for the car; one guy calls & says he'll give me $500 for the whole car (I advertised it for wrecking (need a part, come & get it & we'll negotiate a price)); that sounds "ok" but,, then another guy calls & says he'll give me $600 so, I call the first guy back to tell him & he says (I kid you not) "Ok, I'll give you $550..."

What?

Needless to say, the second caller got it...

Now, when I spoke to him I pointed out the problem with the engine, he even called me back to ask "If I swap the engine can it be registered" (road worthy)...

When he arrived to pick it up, uppon starting the engine, he comments that the engine is damaged;
Me: "I told you that on the phone"
Him: (after a breif look around the car, although he'd seen clear pics) "I'll give you $550"
Me: "No, you knew about the engine problem, you'll give me $600 or leave..."

He gave me the $600...

Now, between times, the text messages started rolling in about the ATV; one guy, let's call him "tool", asks if I'll take $200 (advertised price is $300):
Me: "No, I could do $275"
Him: "Ok, how about $250"
Me: "I guess I can live with that"
Him: "I can pick it up tomorrow (Thursday)"
Me: "Ok, fine..."

A little while later, another guy, let's call him "cool", calls asking about the ATV & how flexible I am:
Me: "A little bit but, not a lot"
Him: "Would you take $280?"
Me: "I can do that"
Him: "The only problem is I can't pick it up until Friday"
Me: "Well, I have another buyer will pick up tomorrow for $250"
Him: "Ok, if it sways the decision, I'll give you $300"
Me: "Ok but, I'll have to contact the other buyer"

He even offered to pay a deposit into my bank accout as security...

As soon as the call ended, I sent a message to "tool" saying "I have another buyer willing to pay $300 & can pick up in 30 minutes" (ok, a little white lie, let's call it a negotiation technique); no response...

FOUR HOUR LATER, "tool" calls me:

Him: "My phone has been charging so I only just got your message"
Me: "Well sorry, the bike is gone"
Him: "You can't do that, we made a deal; you should've called me & negotiated"
Me: "It's my bike so, I can do that; I sent you a message, you didn't respond..."
Him: "But I didn't hear it..."
Me: "How is that my problem or my fault? I gave you the opportunity to negotiate, it's not my fault you missed it...
Him: "ok thanks , off..." clunk...

He then sent me a message along the lines of "Thanks for nothing. Wot u did woz a dog act. enjoy yor $300"

Obviously, I "wozn't" dealing with the sharpest "tool" in the shed, maybe he should've left the spellchecker on his phone turned on...

 

[Poboy kartman]

WARNING: Essay ahead (but still a fun read IMO)

WOW, WHAT A DAY! I've just spent the past two hours cleaning up after noobs, I'm worn out...

Yesterday wasn't much better...

As I'm a bit short of cash & space, it's time to make some of both so, I placed two for sale ads, one for the car I killed a few months back & one for the ATV I aquired & repaired some time ago but have barely used...

Within 30 minutes the phone started ringing, first for the car; one guy calls & says he'll give me $500 for the whole car (I advertised it for wrecking (need a part, come & get it & we'll negotiate a price)); that sounds "ok" but,, then another guy calls & says he'll give me $600 so, I call the first guy back to tell him & he says (I kid you not) "Ok, I'll give you $550..."

What?

Needless to say, the second caller got it...

Now, when I spoke to him I pointed out the problem with the engine, he even called me back to ask "If I swap the engine can it be registered" (road worthy)...

When he arrived to pick it up, uppon starting the engine, he comments that the engine is damaged;
Me: "I told you that on the phone"
Him: (after a breif look around the car, although he'd seen clear pics) "I'll give you $550"
Me: "No, you knew about the engine problem, you'll give me $600 or leave..."

He gave me the $600...

Now, between times, the text messages started rolling in about the ATV; one guy, let's call him "tool", asks if I'll take $200 (advertised price is $300):
Me: "No, I could do $275"
Him: "Ok, how about $250"
Me: "I guess I can live with that"
Him: "I can pick it up tomorrow (Thursday)"
Me: "Ok, fine..."

A little while later, another guy, let's call him "cool", calls asking about the ATV & how flexible I am:
Me: "A little bit but, not a lot"
Him: "Would you take $280?"
Me: "I can do that"
Him: "The only problem is I can't pick it up until Friday"
Me: "Well, I have another buyer will pick up tomorrow for $250"
Him: "Ok, if it sways the decision, I'll give you $300"
Me: "Ok but, I'll have to contact the other buyer"

He even offered to pay a deposit into my bank accout as security...

As soon as the call ended, I sent a message to "tool" saying "I have another buyer willing to pay $300 & can pick up in 30 minutes" (ok, a little white lie, let's call it a negotiation technique); no response...

FOUR HOUR LATER, "tool" calls me:

Him: "My phone has been charging so I only just got your message"
Me: "Well sorry, the bike is gone"
Him: "You can't do that, we made a deal; you should've called me & negotiated"
Me: "It's my bike so, I can do that; I sent you a message, you didn't respond..."
Him: "But I didn't hear it..."
Me: "How is that my problem or my fault? I gave you the opportunity to negotiate, it's not my fault you missed it...
Him: "ok thanks , off..." clunk...

He then sent me a message along the lines of "Thanks for nothing. Wot u did woz a dog act. enjoy yor $300"

Obviously, I "wozn't" dealing with the sharpest "tool" in the shed, maybe he should've left the spellchecker on his phone turned on...

I'm with ya on the noobs....

You shouldn't do business with those vacationing Californians.....

 

[landuse]

Sorry I haven't helped with the noobs the last few days, but I have been away for a long weekend, and before that I was sick. I still have this annoying persistent cough. I hate those!

 

[Poboy kartman]

Sorry I haven't helped with the noobs the last few days, but I have been away for a long weekend, and before that I was sick. I still have this annoying persistent cough. I hate those!

Well.....we appreciate what you do when you can.....

I suspected the reins weren't fully secured.....

Amazing how fast things get out of control with just a few problem children that can't seem to take direction.....

Here's to better times ahead, Paul.....

 

[Poboy kartman]

OK....Just so y'all know....it says I have over 5,000 posts....but the mods have deleted over 4,999....sooooo....maybe not as many.....

The funny thing is......they never deleted any of my obnoxious posts to Sicily....only edited them....to add my full name and address? ????

What's up with that?

 

[Poboy kartman]

OK....So.....just a little musing here....so a question on who controlled. 80% of the diamond trade on a retro game show. ....answer: Debeers....

Well....I worked on one of their houses....( I told ya...millionaires and billlionares.....)

One of the Debeers moguls ....was building this house.....it burned down .....so it had to be rebuilt.....

But.....it was one of the many that I will never forget.....because of the opulence....and mind blowing extravagance in almost every detail.....

But....most people will never know this......they will never even see how the "other half" lives.....

BUT.....I came home home from work everyday.....surrounded by the best life has to offer....to my 820 sq. ft. mansion....and NEVER felt slighted in the least....because it was MY castle....but more importantly....it contained my wonderful wife and awesome child....which were priceless......

So....cherish what you have folks.....SERIOUSLY..... you have more than you think....just good health is worth more than all the worldly possessions the richest man on earth has.....

It's so easy to dismiss the blessings of life....and obsess over the little bumps....that.....QUIT BEING STUPID.....and be HAPPY! !!!

Doorbell rang yesterday......Saw a badge.....skeered me fer a sekond....Constable.....served me with papers for back taxes on the house....$1200......no problem.....I have $2 already.....and the Poboy fund has $3 more....only $1195 to go......no problem!!!!

They can take my house....(ain't happening) .....but they'll never take my spirit.....anyway.....that's not what's important......

 

[landuse]

.....and the Poboy fund has $3 more....

I thought the fund had more than that?? Are you sure you are not being embezzled?

 

[Poboy kartman]

Well I do have a "rat" "snake" as treasurer.....could be....
Meanwhile....In Dallas....a couple come out of a cafe to see a cop putting a parking ticket on a windshield.....

Man walks up and says: "Officer, can you give a senior citizen a break?"

Cop replies: "Sorry sir....I'm just doing my job."

The old man goes off on him...."Why ....you young snot nosed punk ...if I was 20 years younger I'd beat your arse!"

Cop says: "Well sir....I just noticed your tires are bald....and starts writing another ticket....."

His wife jumps in and says :"Well you arrogant little sheet!"

Cop writes another ticket......

This goes on for 20 minutes...until the cop leaves after leaving a dozen citations on the windshield...

Just then ....A bus pulls up and the old couple get on....the man says to his wife: "Where now honey, home.....or look for more cars with Obama bumber stickers?"

Yeah.....us old folks is devious! !!.

 

[itsid]

Well, this will be a bit complicated to explain, so excuse the confusion while I'm trying to explain.

I'm currently developing some software.
To have a base to work with said software needs a very specific set of files
containing jibberish, but jibberish that follows certain rules.
The downside is, all I can tell is if one such file is valid or not
and only after I ran it against a test routine
(there is NO way of creating a valid file in the first place!)
Think lottery numbers.. you fill a ticket and have to wait for the lottery to take place in order to know if your ticket has won or not.
(similar chance actually)

NOW, to speed up the process of checking the files,
I dug deep in the neural network territory.
And started my own approach.
A very crude approach I admit, but I wanted to give it a shot.

Imagine it like having a shipping crate full of cellphones (thousands!), and each cellphone (if called) propagates the call to several other phones (hundreds!),
which in turn call other phones and so on and so forth.
An error in the fed file triggers a neuron (cellphone) to propagate the error and the madness begins.
this happens fast and numerous times, and some neurons are called more often than others and whenever a phone is called it basically tries to randomize a new lottery number in order to fix the error.

Without going into too much boring details I set up a graphical representation of my neurons in a 2d grid with 'silent' neurons being blue and 'ringing' neurons being red,
just to get an idea what's going on for myself and maybe identify flaws in my code a little earlier than without. The more often a neuron gets a call, the redder it'll be, actually it was quite fun to watch that going on.

That thing I fired up just yesterday
and somehow I had a bug in my code, a ghost in the machine some might say..
but I sat baffled staring at the screen for minutes....

Every now and then the red neurons spelled my name,
I'm used to Apophenia (seing faces in everyday objects);
but a just slightly fuzzy and perfectly readable name...
(one letter was undecipherable the other eight perfectly readable)
generated by code that is NOWHERE near intended nor caplable of doing so if I wanted to..

I froze.. too much indeed to take a screenshot even;
when I realized what happened I grabbed my phone to record that
and of course it was gone;
tried again today..
same settings, same test file and nothing!
Smiley-faces and arrows.. something that looked like chinese letters or kanji.. yes
but not a single latin letter decipherable ...

spooky to say the very least!

'sid

 

[OzFab]

Sorry I haven't helped with the noobs the last few days, but I have been away for a long weekend, and before that I was sick. I still have this annoying persistent cough. I hate those!

That's ok, I'm sure you had a busy time for the two & a half weeks I was making myself scarce

...Debeers...

That name always reminds me of the former Pakistani cricketer... Dabeers Arheer...

 

[Poboy kartman]

IDKY.....But for some reason....your story reminded me of something' sid.....

Awhile back there was a horror movie....(lack of active brain cells prevents recalling the title....) anyone? jump in if you know......

Anyway....the premise of the movie was this.....people would watch a video....and immediately after .....the phone would ring....they would get a cryptic message and then get killed.......

Sooooooo.....I dialed our home phone # on my cell phone.....and......at the end of the movie.....hit dial.....aaaaannd ......when the little woman answered.....delivered the cryptic line......years of therapy never completely solved her problems......JK....

EDIT: JK about the therapy....I actually made the call....and it scared the crap out of her!

 

[OzFab]

The movie was "The Ring"...

 

[itsid]

LOOOL I know the movie (both actually the japanese original (Ringu) as well as the 2002 remake)
you are a mean one mister grinch!
calling someone fully immersed in a film like that...

Anywhoo, it was not nearly as scary... luckily

'sid

 

[Poboy kartman]

Yeah...see to me all horror movies are just like Abbott and Costello re-runs...a little too stupid to be taken seriously....I laugh at them....but not because they're funny....but they are a joke....I can't take them seriously....

 

[Poboy kartman]

That's ok,
.. Dabeers Arheer...

That's what they say in Boston when the rounds are delivered.....