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Posted by
06/29
03:04 PM

I’m not really a fan of the ink, but if you’re ever looking MD you could do worse



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Posted by
06/29
02:38 PM

I was craving a drink, then I clicked submit and it took so long I’m now drunk.



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Posted by
06/29
02:33 PM

Wanna get a position in my department?  Oh yeah.

Man, I am craving a drink with an intensity that borders on pornographic lust.



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Posted by
06/29
01:55 PM

well i was aroused. then i clicked submit and it took so f*cking long i lost my wood



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Posted by
06/29
12:57 PM
commensurate positions in different departments

well i’m aroused



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Posted by Spazmo
06/29
12:25 PM

I submit text. It doesn’t work. I submit it again, it doesn’t work. Then both pop out at irreguolar times.

Weird.

I cleared the cache on this pig, I think it’s up to EllisLabs to get a dickskin on it and fix this problem.

Or buy me cool stuff.



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Posted by Spazmo
06/29
12:00 PM

I think it would be cool if there was a genetic disease that would cause ‘elfism.’



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/29
11:49 AM

Still waiting on a return answer re: the service call, for what it’s worth.

I’ll see y’all tonight. I’m off to run errands.



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/29
11:36 AM

I’m missing the stubster, for one. Where is he?



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Posted by dimmer
06/29
11:28 AM

I think ExpressionEngine is missing the Stubster. The slowdown is how the system weeps.



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Posted by dimmer
06/29
11:26 AM

So does he work for you?
Nope, commensurate positions in different departments

Alright, that’s fine then. Why didn’t you talk to him in the elevator? Was he taking a whizz or something?



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/29
10:17 AM

Testing again.



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/29
10:14 AM

I just contacted the people at ellis lab about our difficulties.



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/29
10:09 AM

Sometimes, Spazmo, you worry me.



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Posted by
06/29
10:08 AM

What? Pointy ears and the ability to see in the dark?



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Posted by Spazmo
06/29
10:01 AM

Know what I think would be cool? A genetic disease that causes ‘elfism.’



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Posted by
06/29
09:53 AM

So does he work for you?

Nope, commensurate positions in different departments.



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Posted by *hydrated®
06/29
09:49 AM

I’ve notice a general slow down at FJ’s for the past 3 weeks. I’ve been getting error messages when supmitting comments and can’t comment for extended periods of time. But there is no pattern that I can pick up on. I thought it was my server at first but all other web sited are loading just fine.



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Posted by dimmer
06/29
09:43 AM

RE today’s quiz...uh, not to sound pedantic about it, but Torquemada was not a pope. He was a Grand Inquisitor.

No problem, you don’t sound pedantic—more like a geek, nerd or dweeb. Thomas T. worked for Pope Innocent (the something or other) as I remember it?

BTW, there’s not, to date, a Pope John Paul George either, but I’m sure that’s all Yoko’s fault.



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Posted by dimmer
06/29
09:36 AM

the site is running slow and I dunno why

It seems to just be the cooler—maybe we’ve hit a table size problem on the SQL database? I note that if I hit submit, wait a moment, cancel the page load, and submit again it goes through just fine.



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Posted by dimmer
06/29
09:30 AM

Also, hot geek (HG) kinda sucks at his job.  But instead of ripping him a new one, like I would do with any other editor who routinely submitted projects so riddled with errors, I just take it as an oppurtunity to sashay over to his desk and bend over a lot.

So does he work for you? Because that could be bad.



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Posted by
06/29
09:05 AM

MD, have you ever thought about wearing one of these to work? If Hot Geek truly is a geek, this should take care of all problems.



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/29
08:50 AM

That’s been happening to me too, folks, the site is running slow and I dunno why. I’ll ask spazmo but likely it’s a problem with the server. I just pay for the site, I don’t run the server or anything. I wish I could say more than that I really do, because I find it annoying as well.



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Posted by
06/29
08:49 AM

MD, Maybe you need to find a wingman(woman) to break the ice. I’d be happy to help, if I was any where near there.



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Posted by
06/29
08:15 AM

Yeah. I’m more a wonk.



Posted by
06/29
08:14 AM

Sorry, I meant:

Not nerds. Wonks.

Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation occur on their machine?

Yeah. It’s annoying.

And I look cute today and I smell nice too and stuff.

Yes, you’re all that today, thank god. Because what with Lady P’s freezing smell, it was getting a bit whiffy in here.



Posted by
06/29
08:08 AM

the English/Economics/social sciences sort

Not geeks. Wonks.



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Posted by gloveshot
06/29
08:05 AM

Yep it happened again.



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Posted by gloveshot
06/29
08:04 AM

Shifting gears, for the last couple of posts to the Cooler, when I hit submit my computer hangs. I’m always on FireFox. It doesn’t happen anywhere else on the site, only in the Cooler.  If I open a new tab while the wheel spins in the comment page, the comment is there. Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation occur on their machine?



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Posted by gloveshot
06/29
07:58 AM
the only good thing about having to get up in the morning is standing in the shower for 1/2 an hour,

I always enjoy a good cup of coffee when I wake up.  Yesterday, Mrs. GS was nagging me about not checking my blood pressure. So after my second cup of coffee I strapped on the cuff.  BP=102/58, pulse=58. Before coffee, I’m dead.



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Posted by
06/29
07:50 AM

I continue to be a disgrace.  Moseying on in to work a whopping 40 minutes late, I happened to get on the elevator with HG.  And I didn’t say a word.  Didn’t even make eye contact. 

Man, I fucking hate being a social retard.  And I look cute today and I smell nice too and stuff.  Sigh.



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Posted by
06/29
07:46 AM

There is also a dichotomy within the nerd camp between the technical nerds and the non-technical sort. Between the computer/engineering/physics nerds, for example, and the English/Economics/social sciences sort.



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Posted by
06/29
07:09 AM

geek Slang.
–noun
1.a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp. one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.
2.a computer expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often considered offensive when used by outsiders.)
3.a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.
nerd /nɜrd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[nurd] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Slang.
1.a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
2.an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.
dweeb (dwēb) Pronunciation Key
n.  Slang
A person regarded as socially inept or foolish, often on account of being overly studious.

Depending on which definition you use, I think they are pretty interchangeable.

I prefer nerd, just because of the carnie association with geeks and dweeb sounds too much like something Frank Zappa would name a kid. Which isn’t bad if you’re a Zappa fan I guess.



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Posted by *hydrated®
06/29
05:46 AM

What about dweebs?



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Posted by Moira
06/29
05:26 AM

I am a geek. I am gleefully passionate about my various geeky activities and do not attempt to pretend otherwise or yearn vainly after the approval of non-geeks. Nerds always struck me as repressed geeks: awkward, shamed, uncomfortable. Or perhaps they are proto-geeks, not yet accepting and reveling in their geeky heritage. Hmmm, also, geeks are not necessarily all that intelligent; they merely have a non-mainstream passion upon which they are somewhat authoritative. Nerds do tend to be intelligent.

Your average Con attendee will be a geek.



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Posted by
06/29
01:39 AM

I was in the shower this morning, and quite frankly, the only good thing about having to get up in the morning is standing in the shower for 1/2 an hour, so anyway, I was thinking, Am I a geek or a nerd?  And I decided that I wasn’t because I’m just not intelligent enough.



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Posted by
06/28
11:02 PM

ask if he has any copies of Mondo 2000 or Boing Boing (the printed edition)—if he asks why just say all the pages on your copies are stuck together.

All kidding aside, dropping a little nerd-knowledge on the man would likely be a good idea.



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Posted by
06/28
09:33 PM

but Torquemada was not a pope. He was a Grand Inquisitor.

Huh, I thought he was the Taco Bell chihuahua.



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Posted by
06/28
09:13 PM

RE today’s quiz...uh, not to sound pedantic about it, but Torquemada was not a pope. He was a Grand Inquisitor.



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Posted by
06/28
09:12 PM

ask if he has any copies of Mondo 2000 or Boing Boing (the printed edition)—if he asks why just say all the pages on your copies are stuck together.

You bastard.  Women should not have to feign interest in obscure topics just to attract the attention of hot geeks with rather large feet!

(They should only have to wear vertiginous heels and refrain from eating solid foods during the week.)

Also, hot geek (HG) kinda sucks at his job.  But instead of ripping him a new one, like I would do with any other editor who routinely submitted projects so riddled with errors, I just take it as an oppurtunity to sashay over to his desk and bend over a lot.  (See, Dimmer, I did take some of your advice!)

Yeah, I know, I’m a disgrace.



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Posted by dimmer
06/28
09:08 PM

That might work too: but he may wonder if you are trying to actually break in to your bed, which is an illegal hacking activity (attempting to access machine internals without permission)—so I’d say keep it simple: “Thank god my period’s over, I need a fuck—care to join me?”



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Posted by
06/28
09:00 PM

MD, you need to move the romance of the nice geeky boy up a notch or two. Here’s your opening line: “Hey, did you read Chaos Mansion this month? That Pournell is a real pricks prick isn’t he?”

Ha, I was thinking of something along the lines of, Hey, wanna help me break in my new bed?



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Posted by dimmer
06/28
09:00 PM

Fuck, I used the word “meme”—I promised my grammy on her deathbed that I’d never use stupid unnecessary words popularized by Wired as they try to pretend they still have relevance.

Back to MD: as you walk by geeky boy, ask if he has any copies of Mondo 2000 or Boing Boing (the printed edition)—if he asks why just say all the pages on your copies are stuck together.



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Posted by dimmer
06/28
08:44 PM

It’s just a big news day, what can we say?



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Posted by Moira
06/28
08:29 PM

Pretty soon, the entire page will be Thursday links. Are you all having a competition or something?



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Posted by dimmer
06/28
08:16 PM

To combine the memes of wtc and broadcast emails shortly after the event a recruiter who I had worked with years ago sent an email to apparently everyone in his address book (and no, not in BCC either)—his cousins half sisters ex-boyfriend visited NYC last year and THEY COULD HAVE KILLED HIM!

As I’ve said before, he ended his little rant with “DAM THOSE BASTARDS!!!”—sending a smartass reply was so, so tempting.



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Posted by dimmer
06/28
08:11 PM

MD, you need to move the romance of the nice geeky boy up a notch or two. Here’s your opening line: “Hey, did you read Chaos Mansion this month? That Pournell is a real pricks prick isn’t he?”



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Posted by gloveshot
06/28
06:52 PM

Belatedly (or maybe not, by your post), Happy Birthday Madam Mo’.
Another whole year, way to go.
Sorry I am, that I am so slow,
And damn, I screwed up the Cooler’s flow.



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Posted by Lady Penelope
06/28
06:50 PM

You’re fine, MD. No worries. I just wanted to vent. I’m so sick of hearing everybody’s wtc stories and how it really mattered to them. Like it makes them unusual.



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Posted by *hydrated®
06/28
06:14 PM

Hey, where did everybody go? It’s Thursday night get back here!



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