Posts made by Auspice

In the latest 'some rich people are living in fantasy worlds...' RAW WATER.

Fun quote from the Vox article:
“It has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms the flavor profile,” Kevin Freeman, a shift manager at the store that sells a 2.5-gallon bottle of “raw water” bottled by Live Water for $36.99, told the New York Times. “Bottled water’s controversial. We’ve curtailed our water selection. But this is totally outside that whole realm.”

Yep. They're hipsterizing water... but now with added cholera!

@sockmonkey said in The Crafting Thread:

Someone posted about Temperature Blankets on Facebook this week and I was like 'Huh, I should teach myself how to crochet..'

It's not going well...

I've wanted to do one of those! And then this past week, I saw a similar idea, but as a mood blanket.

Next year, next year. When I can afford to plan and buy yarn.

But I'm happy to answer crochet questions! I'm great at crochet. The Knit Witch on youtube is a great resource. Her vids are best vids.

@darinelle said in RL things I love:

Homemade honey sriracha wings? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

gib.

https://modsquad.com/join-the-mods/

This is who I work for.
It's a job. That's really all I can say.

...cause it starts at like, $9/hr. And hours aren't guaranteed at the outset. So for people looking for work and desperate, it's something... but I wouldn't recommend it or suggest it long-term.

Y'all.

Crochet porgs.

@haven said in Silly things you'd been tempted to do on/for a MU*:

Silly thing = Delaying sleep to RP with random strangers

F U, random strangers.

One of my favorite people to RP with back in the day was a Brit who could largely only RP from work, meaning his RP schedule started at like, 4am for me. There were times I would nap, wake up, and then set triggers to where my client would chime at me whenever he'd pose so I could nap between poses.

I point at being like, 16/17 at the time as my excuse. And I had graduated (GED ftw), so it's not like I was... screwing up anything other than whatever shitty job I had at the time? >.>

Plus teenagers do stupid things.

@arkandel said in Shout for Help:

@faraday said in Shout for Help:

I can do a search for "Mush attack" and

.. you discover how shitty nodebb's search functionality is.

But yeah, sometimes perfect is the enemy of good enough. I think this is a useful thread to have.

Yeah, nodebb's search is absolutely terrible. I'm good at web searches and I cannot beat it into submission. There's no refining it. It's not 'smart' by any means.

@zobi said in RL things I love:

That kinda makes me think of how numb I am when customers would threaten to sue for x or y reason as a scare tactic. Please, feel free. Sue the company all you want. It doesn't scare me, it just annoys me that you keep talking out of your ass.
#JadedByCustomerService

I frequently screencap/share those threats with my team with a 'please do' joke.

Or my other favorite. the 'I'M CALLING THE BBB.' Yes. Because we're following our clearly posted policies.
Have fun with that.

Sometimes the tickets I get at my job are amazing...

@firansurvivor said in Good or New Movies Review:

@auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

Netflix confirms Bright sequel.

ETA: Original screenwriter Max Landis will not return. (which means my dialogue issues may be resolved, thank god.)

The dialogue was Ayer, who is returning. Max Landis's script in its original form is pretty different then the Bright we got.

Damnit.

@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@lithium said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@lisse24 That or you are just a bit more south of me to get only ice. We're getting rain mixed with snow (Because Floridians have never /heard/ of the word 'sleet' before) and actual snow, that might actually stick. Wouldn't that be something...

SOMETHING DREADFUL!

Wintry mix and sleet are different things!

Not everyone is from Seattle! They only have like one word for rain, too!

(no I am not being serious)

Pffff. Maryland. Where winter is a horror show of ways ice can fuck up your world. (The Mid-Atlantic peeps know.)

@lithium said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@lisse24 That or you are just a bit more south of me to get only ice. We're getting rain mixed with snow (Because Floridians have never /heard/ of the word 'sleet' before) and actual snow, that might actually stick. Wouldn't that be something...

SOMETHING DREADFUL!

Wintry mix and sleet are different things!

@ganymede said in Comfort Food...:

@auspice said in Comfort Food...:

I also just really like mushrooms, so... >.>

In my house, we mix the turkey drippings with mushrooms to make the gravy.

So when are you visiting to cook for me?

@wildbaboons said in Comfort Food...:

@chime said in Comfort Food...:

@auspice Right! But you see in the US 'gravy' usually means that horrifying thing grandmothers make with turkey droppings drippings or something at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

you must have had some terrible gravy growing up. I pity you, truly.

but that isn't a US thing.. by definition gravy is made from the juicy remnants in the pot after cooking meat. Anything else is just some sort of gravy-like sauce.

I also just really like mushrooms, so... >.>

@sg said in Comfort Food...:

@jinshei Most of the specialized poutine places will be lacto-vegetarian by default. Almost all of the poutine shacks I've encountered in Montreal and out west will use a mushroom gravy unless otherwised specified, the only constant is they'll claim they're using the original recipe and everyone else is fake. Might be best to call anywhere near you ahead of a trip. There's a couple places in my city that do pretty good vegan poutines

I had a brief bafflement at the 'vegetarian poutine' myself with a 'well isn't most? unless you specifically add bacon or something...' >.> because yeah, mushroom gravy.

Netflix confirms Bright sequel.

ETA: Original screenwriter Max Landis will not return. (which means my dialogue issues may be resolved, thank god.)

@deadculture said in Random links:

@auspice This flaw exists since Skylake and I'm surprised they didn't fix it already.

Looks like it's being left to fix on the OS-level, which is sad. So, so many people don't update their system.

A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug.

'Why do you keep insisting on buying AMD chips, Auspice. Intel is just fine.'

@darinelle said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

it's a really nice tuxedo cat

I tuxedo cats.

But, taking a cat in who needs it is awesome.