ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
How could you miss “MeinSpace”?
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 6 days ago:
Waaaaaaaay back in my Visual Basic 5 days I used to hide easter eggs in my corporate apps. It was always just a dialog box that would pop up randomly saying something kinda funny. To keep them from being discovered by the other developers, I would put the code in some obscure file and instead of a (searchable) string variable containing the text for the popup, I would convert it to a concatenated series of CHR(ASCII#) statements, and then each line of code would start with a couple of hundred spaces, so it would only ever be seen if someone happened to open the file and also happened to notice that there was a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom. We got many bug reports about the easter eggs but nobody was ever able to locate the code that was producing them. I might have been fired for this but probably not - nobody really cared much about shit like this in 1999.
- Comment on Our love is like 1 week ago:
My favorite horseshoe crab fact is that they have like nine different types of eyes. Even that tail is basically one big eye, covered in photoreceptive cells. We love to call them “primitive” but in fact those fuckers are highly developed pieces of biotechnology, able to survive 400 million years finding food in mud.
- Comment on Maybe we should have this conversation in person so it can be a fist fight. 4 weeks ago:
At my last job I managed a team of coders in Bangalore. They absolutely always wanted instructions vocally because then there would be no written record of what I actually told them to do.
- Comment on Anon checks in on their bully 4 weeks ago:
My last fight was in 1979 when I got jumped by a kid in the locker room after gym class. The kid went on to become chair of the Physics department at Berkeley. Pisses me off more than a little.
- Comment on Real ones will remember 4 weeks ago:
For me the creepiest thing about ancient critters was the first emergence of shelled animals. The shells mean that there were other critters swimming around eating up all the non-shelled animals, but there isn’t any trace remaining of these early predators so we have no idea at all about what they looked like.
- Comment on Anon calls the local bowling alley 1 month ago:
When I was a kid I called up a local store that sold tobacco products.
“Hi, do you carry Prince Albert in a Can?”
Long Pause. “Yes?”
“Well you’d better” click - Comment on Racism nas gone too woke! 1 month ago:
I have two half-Thai cousins who live in Florida (natch) and they are flagrant white supremacists and anti-immigration, despite having been born to a Thai immigrant who only recently became a US citizen. For bonus points, one of them happens to look generically Central American and the other looks Japanese, so they got lots of shit growing up for being a variety of different races. You would think that might have made them sensitive to people on the receiving end of racism, but nope - I guess it just taught them how to do it.
- Comment on Prove you're not a robot 1 month ago:
What am I doing with my life?
Helping to train our replacements.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
I have a coworker who insists that global warming is a hoax because plants give off oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Can’t even get a foothold in that kind of stupid.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
Or better yet, get someone to help you quit.
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 1 month ago:
We have a fondu restaurant where you can get hard cheeses to dip in your cheese goo.
Is it named “The Melting Pot”? I’m hoping someday to encounter a fondue restaurant that isn’t named that. A place named “Fond” just opened near where I live, and I was thinking that must be it, but nope.
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 1 month ago:
I’ve convinced myself that ShopRite cheese ($2 for an 8oz block - which is still fucking $4 a pound) is as good as it gets. If I want something fancy, I soak herbs in vinegar and mix them into a block of neufchatel cheese, which makes a tasty substitute for goat cheese. I also make my own crackers now, which is basically the cost of the flour.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 1 month ago:
They’re not in any way associated with Amazon, as far as I know. But apparently they sell their customer data to them - and immediately.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 1 month ago:
My weirdest Amazon experience was when I went to Lowe’s and bought a drill bit and a pair of cabinet door hinges, and just looked at cabinet pulls for a minute or two - didn’t buy any or even pick any up. That night, Amazon recommended for me drill bits, cabinet door hinges … and cabinet pulls. I’m assuming that I got linked to in-store footage from Lowe’s, which is creepy but certainly not suprising.
- Comment on Any relations experts? 1 month ago:
malefashionadvice
I used to visit that sub a lot about ten years ago. It looks like it hasn’t changed a bit in that time - it even still has the same little fit drawings on the top bar. Has male fashion somehow frozen?
- Comment on Anon hears a noise 2 months ago:
My boy cat died five years ago. I still sometimes wake up in the morning to find myself petting a lump of blanket that is the same size as he was. My girl cat died last summer and when I plop down in my recliner I still leave room on the footrest for her to jump up. I can’t bring myself to get another cat yet, although I hope for the sake of other cats that I can eventually do it.
- Comment on Howling retriever 2 months ago:
- Comment on Carcinisation? 2 months ago:
remote controlled blimp
I always wanted to get one of these and program it to follow me around the disc golf course with my bag slung underneath it.
- Comment on Carcinisation? 2 months ago:
I mean, the whole problem with airships is that they’re just big inflatable sails, and to be barely economical they have just enough propulsive power to move about in normal weather conditions. Once they hit bad weather they’re fucked, which is why nearly every airship built before WWII ended up crashing in a storm. They’re only marginally viable today because of weather prediction that grounds them before they hit the shit. Adding sails isn’t going to help anything.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 months ago:
I would want “lump of star shit” in my obit.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 months ago:
It’s a lot harder to murder somebody when you actually have to stab them or beat their head in with something.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 months ago:
Life expectancy from birth is easily the most misleading statistic in the history of the social sciences because it is a measure of central tendency (aka an average, specifically, a median) of a property (age at death) that not only has no central tendency but actually has the opposite of a central tendency, with values concentrated at the low end (infant and child mortality) and the high end (old age deaths). In almost all societies ever measured, the life expectancy from birth age is usually the age at which a person is least likely to die.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 months ago:
Imagine being proudly offed by Pluto and then they make it not a planet any more.
- Comment on My knee gave out at work today and all I could think of was this 2 months ago:
I once tore my hamstring playing Ultimate on a wet field. I thought I heard a sound like a giant rubber band snapping when it happened but I figured I was just imagining it. But then everybody came running over to me saying “what was that sound?”
- Comment on Cooking advice 2 months ago:
Aloe.
- Comment on Pro tip: it's much easier to lose 100k than it is to earn it 2 months ago:
Huh, I’ve never heard U2 described as “goofy” before, but it works.
- Comment on Currently happening 2 months ago:
I assume you meant “coitus”. Definitely pre-coitus - he had never had sex and I’m willing to bet he still hasn’t ever, 37 years later.
- Comment on Currently happening 2 months ago:
My college was desperate for students and couldn’t afford to kick anybody out. There were people around that did worse shit than this guy and stayed.
- Comment on Currently happening 2 months ago:
I tried to befriend a friendless dude in college. Found out he was friendless because he went around asking women what their “cunt diameter” was. Even women professors!