Recent comments by blinkered

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 8:41 pm (in reply to...)

justaskin wrote:

YouTube - Dude on Price IS Right bids 420 over and over

thank you, for some reason that feels nostalgic .

nytol. I'm wending my way through *battlestar gallactica *on netflix -- I'm trying to see if adama's acting (or lack of) can get any worse. The suspense is killing me.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:57 pm (in reply to...)

blinkered wrote:

I kid you not, I know someone who tried to buy a rock in SF in the late '90s and bought, um, an actual rock.

sheesh, If I worked a little harder, I could have made that sound like a duke story. I gots nutting.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:55 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

I like lots of oregano

I kid you not, I know someone who tried to buy a rock in SF in the late '90s and bought, um, an actual rock.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:42 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

We may be mortal, but bullsh!t to sell product is eternal.

I thought seriously about adding a bitcoin mining thread to my internal app but reason came to town. When these kind of thoughts take flight, I need to go back into my cave and cast a warding spell against my fortune 50s 'culture'.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:37 pm (in reply to...)

Counterpointer wrote:

The hours I wasted on Roland Barthes. It was only about 6 hours, but I'll never get that back.

As rif said, Jealous. Listening to oracle sales people prattle on about secret-sauce, smart scan this and exadata that is like a time machine that only goes into the future. I wind up older and with higher blood pressure.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:29 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

You are 411

Woulda rather had 420. Info, I aint got. Unfocused paranoia? Who wants to know?

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:25 pm (in reply to...)

sm_landlord wrote:

look at the number at the end of the link at the bottom of your browser

showoff. I bet, you got shares and an office, too.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:22 pm (in reply to...)
User 1408

Okay, here's where I fee like an idjit: where are the user numbers? In a similar vein (vain?) how do I see the post numbers? hcn blue?

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:13 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

MY GOD! IT'S FULL OF ON-TOPIC!

cake is a lie. Just a bunch of old people winging...

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:12 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

Less rewarding? Probably. Less useful? Definitely.

Point granted. But sitting in a cube where the windows are sealed shut listening to management prevaricate gets old. I hope my manager's fontanelle seals up soon.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:07 pm

I keep suggesting to my son that a plumber a worthwhile profession. Sitting on the phone with oracle support is a lot less rewarding than fixing a backed up toilet...

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 7:02 pm

okay, higher ed, beef, health care and dammit, a replacement battery for my 15 year old car is 161 bucks plus CA tax plus re-core fee.

Geesh. I feel like a pre-mature oldster yelling at kids to stay off my lawn...

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 6:54 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

I think the answer has become "it depends" and the answer is shifting towards "no" for a lot more young people than we would be comfortable to admit.

What has gone up faster in price than higher ed? Maybe health care and lately beef.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 5/3/2013 - 6:47 pm

is it worth a degree these days? As usual the answer is not cut and dry but to me it's shifted closer to the 'no' column.

I went to a UC school in engineering in the mid to late '80s. Lived on $6K a year with a tiny bit of help from the old man. But I made something like $9/hour grading papers and what-not. Today, what does that cost? 25K and the part time work, if you can get it, pays maybe $12/hour. So in my arbitrary units that's like 666X -> 2000X.

I used to think all those college kids that went to starbucks every day were spoiled since I lived on ramen and water but when working is just pissing in the wind and uncle sam is giving you money (that you have to pay back), I'm not so sure.

blinkered wrote on Fri, 4/26/2013 - 10:03 am (in reply to...)

Bubblisimo Gerkinov wrote:

Oman wrote:

Your handle makes me think it might make you want to do something else...

Too late ... Smile

Something about pickles?

blinkered wrote on Mon, 4/22/2013 - 3:04 pm (in reply to...)

sm_landlord wrote:

CPUs, dear.

plastics, er, asics

blinkered wrote on Mon, 4/22/2013 - 3:03 pm

"Table of Cash Buyers"

[nemo voice]: how do you buy cash?

blinkered wrote on Mon, 4/22/2013 - 2:57 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

godlikeproductions.com ... discovered via broward, it is often a good source of entertainment via the WTF / Facepalm factor... it's probably a big disinfo dump, as an added feature

Thanks. I'll have to check it at home. Work actually blocks some things and this turns out to be one...

blinkered wrote on Mon, 4/22/2013 - 1:47 pm (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

Reading GLP comment threads makes you appreciate HCN

RiF, I need some humor, what's GLP?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/20/2013 - 11:48 am

boston terrier? Never mind.

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 9:20 am (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Disconnect your emotion chip

"It puts the emotion chip on its skin or it gets the hose again."

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 8:51 am (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

In old country, we censored public information channels...

I like our version of the 5 year plans. Our budgeting projections are believable, right?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 8:38 am

so,
with a btc mining rig I can get hash/sec.
with a ebt card I can get hash?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 8:32 am (in reply to...)

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

US Financial Industry to Replace the Dollar with Food Stamps

Wow, my eyes are bleeding from that site. I need a beet stipend just to read that article.

Can I mine ebt cards?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 8:20 am (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

DGAZ

Pronounced, "dear godz"?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 7:52 am (in reply to...)

Yoringe wrote:

Ozon

Is that the sky daddy of christian science?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 7:48 am (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Strange doings.

theories, real or imagined?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 7:44 am (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Strangely lumber is not among them.

To the moon, alice. It's not like they're making more...
Never mind.

blinkered wrote on Sat, 4/13/2013 - 7:39 am

Interesting article about the electrical power required to mine the bits
Virtual Bitcoin Mining Is a Real-World Environmental Disaster - Bloomberg

I guess it's probably less damaging than mining real gold to sit in a vault...

blinkered wrote on Sun, 3/31/2013 - 10:34 am

I wonder if the long term trend of decreasing oil demand is due to
a) iphones and the like. Just watch some teenagers texting. They don't seem to care where they are any more.
b) internet -- we all spend much more time on sites like hcn. It it wan't for the internet I'd have to go and see real people in meat space.
c) demographics. People naturally don't go out as much as they get older...

blinkered wrote on Sun, 3/24/2013 - 8:57 am (in reply to...)

today I learned sscripko must be at leat 70 years old.

blinkered wrote on Sun, 3/17/2013 - 10:22 am (in reply to...)

So another effect of too much money chasing yield? Or just FIRE skimming?

blinkered wrote on Sun, 3/17/2013 - 9:23 am

I don't see how having different 'solutions' to each problem promotes stability. I guess they want to stay flexible but by changing the rules for every bailout...

blinkered wrote on Mon, 3/4/2013 - 9:30 pm (in reply to...)

picosec wrote:

I just tried to watch a DVD from NetFlix and after 8 minutes into advertisements for other films and no way to jump to the next segment I quit trying and came back here.

VLC Media Player. Open source and skips a bunch of the adverts.

blinkered wrote on Sat, 3/2/2013 - 10:51 am (in reply to...)

Yoringe wrote:

85 billion $ is a rounding error on the F-35 program.... Perspective.

[looks outside] yep, the sun came up, although, admittedly I'm a long way from washington.

F-35? Is that one of those entitlement programs?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 3/2/2013 - 10:47 am

Ha. Asking 50% above 2007 sales price. Crazy. 2x800 sq. ft. units. My pencil doesn't seem to want to be a verb and pencil it out.

3590 WALNUT St, Lafayette, CA 94549 | MLS# 40603250 | Redfin

blinkered wrote on Sat, 3/2/2013 - 9:39 am

Nemo and his monkey are fast, on point and funny.

KP's link+condescension monkey, not so much. Is it a bot?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 3/2/2013 - 9:22 am (in reply to...)

Mike_PNW wrote:

as well as our collective 40 yard dash times...

You didn't get invited to the combine either?

blinkered wrote on Sat, 3/2/2013 - 9:13 am (in reply to...)

rd, regarding my avatar:

For some reason, maybe being a ruined bedroom floor and the lingering aroma, I don't find the internet's cat addiction appealing.

Also, Sisyphus is a lot harder to spell and recognize in thumbnail form.

blinkered wrote on Sat, 3/2/2013 - 9:04 am

Is it sad that the funniest thing I'll probably see today is Mary saying she's confused?

blinkered wrote on Mon, 2/25/2013 - 2:05 pm
"Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!"

blinkered wrote on Mon, 2/25/2013 - 2:04 pm

what, no finish off the lows?

blinkered wrote on Wed, 2/20/2013 - 2:13 pm (in reply to...)
Pffft. No slumdog no reportable movement.

damn. I was just loging in to write: Not even a slumdog? Meh.

blinkered wrote on Mon, 2/11/2013 - 1:49 pm

[checks in for first time in a while]

Did I click on the wrong thread, like one from 9 years ago? GB draft dodging?

blinkered wrote on Mon, 1/7/2013 - 9:06 pm (in reply to...)

robj wrote:

They probably should interrupt the fourth quarter of this game with a Teletubbies rerun.

Maybe a 'stros '12 rerun?

blinkered wrote on Mon, 1/7/2013 - 9:05 pm

TIL, yagij is younger than I thought. Too young to be ensconced in a multi-monitor office worrying about his/her pension.

blinkered wrote on Wed, 1/2/2013 - 4:03 pm

Um, 2% pay cut for everyone due to withholding.

What happened to AMT?

Isn't the >$400K rise a nothing burger?

blinkered wrote on Wed, 12/5/2012 - 8:58 pm (in reply to...)

blinkered wrote:

we be in the compromise

I suppose he means we'll be paying for it. Can't argue with that.

blinkered wrote on Wed, 12/5/2012 - 8:55 pm

As usual, I don't know 'nutting. Can't even parse CR's post: "We don't know what else we be in the compromise
Read more at http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/#j4MKWYCwXCey0Qqz.99"

blinkered wrote on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 9:32 am (in reply to...)

energyecon wrote:

getting shellacked playing Starcraft II

Maybe getting shellacked and playing would be better?