@Cupcake I sometimes used musicians as PBs. A few years back I saw maybe 3 concerts (in one year) that included musicians I'd used as PBs. In my head it was kind of awkward (how weird would it be to high five someone you'd used as a PB, right?), but it was still pretty lulz.
@Auspice There is quite a bit of this, yes.
I do my absolute best to iron out the pros and cons from my perspective and then hand over the decision to her, though. She's Danaerys and I'm Tyrion. We have a good working relationship because some of the guys on my team just talk over her and try to take the decision out of her hands; it's crap.
She's good with people and willing to make boss type decisions. I'll take this any day over my last boss, who was highly technical, but a severe douchebag who would assume the role of father that had to "educate us" on things like money management. Dude absolutely assigned me "Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad" as a goal one year until his boss stepped in and told him that was no bueno.
@Ganymede Uhhhh no it's not for a trivia night team or anything. It's for a team name/logo on a web portal that only we have access to. Nothing client or executive facing.
A little background.
My IT job is 50% project manager, 50% IT Operations Scripting/changes to environments. (So, 100% kitten herder). A lot of what we do is identifying the proper order of operations for IT stuff, and the end result is like surgery or auto repair.
(If you asked someone to make you a plan for washing the dog, you'd be amazed how many people don't include a find a dog to wash step and instead go straight to "fill the tub with water".)
So our current team logo is a logo with a cartoon dog, duck, and a sack of corn. She hates it. So she's asking us all have fun working on a new team logo/private name idea, but I dont think she was expecting stuff like los vaqueros satánicos (The Satanic Cowboys, baaaaybeee).
Oh, the dog, duck, corn is in reference to that non-linear thinking exercise where you have to get all three to the other side of a river, but only have room in the boat for 1 at a time. It's a euphemism for what we do.
@Alamias Hah. I do like my team. Oddly enough, there are definite drawbacks to being in IT and having a non-technical manager, but I love the difference in perspective she has. She's a great presence to offset all of this nerdiness, alcoholism, and testosterone.
And, if you do get a job here (not saying), it would be immediately clear by this description that I'm your coworker. Or...it would be the moment the tattoo guy wheels over and says something like: "You know, when you think about it, Aliens was a story about a mother just tryna feed her damn kids and keep them safe."
My life is basically "The I.T. Crowd", and I make it a point of pride to not let it get too serious around here. Not joking about the IT Crowd thing, not one bit.
All led into the trenches of the IT scripting world by...
A really nice, non-technical lady who fits the "Only watches chick flicks, owns a tiny dog, and binge watches stuff like Footballer Wives and Real Housewives of Las Vegas" stereotype.
This poor, poor woman.
@surreality Hahaha Right.
I even offered cool LOGOS, BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Another guy suggested the Underpants Gnomes. My boss is sighing at us.
I have failed in my suggestions for a team name at work. These dudes are laaaaaame.
@Misadventure said in What do you eat?:
I am sure we will get there.
If Star Trek communicators turned into cell phones (it became real!), then I hope the same thing happens with replicators.
A device that can use existing matter to create (3d print) an actual aged, cooked, and seasoned ribeye steak without having to kill anything seems like a win all around.
@Thenomain Your Shadowrun low lifestyle purchase gives you regular soy-based proteins that you can use any number of chemicals to flavor it.
Someburros has gluten free hot sauce.
I ate a half pint of it today munching on chips.
I no longer eat Someburros gluten free hot sauce because I'm having a Fight Milk moment.
@Wretched Does it come in the awesome box, and when you take it out of the box it expaaaaaaaaaaaaaaands like a sponge?
@Wretched Thems my boys, right there. I actually have a few friends in the Hail Satan? documentary that's just come out (probably soon to Amazon). Because they fucking won in Mississippi over the 15 week ban, the 6 week ban is not likely to hold up, either. Federal judge is poised to tell them no. That judge said "Isn't 6 weeks less than 15? This reeks of defiance against the court system". That doesn't sound like a bought or paid judge to me.
(For those not in the know) TST has done some good work. I wish more people understood that it's not a bunch of people who actually believe in Satan or that some kind of stupid anti-Jesus magic will make Satan come to Earth. They're just using the iconography as a means to using the same language about the dissolution of church and state to have their own "religious liberty", which is pretty much summed up as "My body belongs to me".
Great work. Proud of them.
@Tyche Yeah I hear ya. I apologize if I was trivializing a medical thing; mea culpa.
But I wish there was some kind of "weight loss death ray" every now and then. I'd rent an ice cream truck, put up pictures that say "WEIGHT LOSS MACHINE" on the side, and drive around the neighborhoods charging $50 per shot.
Pew. PewPew.
I'm not taking notes.
I'm collecting information for a school paper. 
Vegetarianism is simple. Veganism is less simple.
I've had a decent sampling of "Vegan substitute foods" (cheese, meat, and other products), and my assessment is that I think vegan food producers should spend less time trying to create vegan versions of non-vegan foods, but focus on making openly vegan foods better.
I love veggie burgers, but vegan cheese (without milk) is not tasty, nor is it actually cheese. So what I'm saying is, I think instead of "Impossible Food" substitutes, I don't care if it's a burger patty made of bean curd and soy, or a mass of legumes broiled into a puck like falafel. I get excited about new recipes and flavors, but if I hear "Vegan Cheese", I think in my head what cheese tastes like, and every...fucking...time the taste hits my tongue I have that weird sensation where you're expecting one flavor, get another, and then immediately your brain questions whether or not that odd flavor means food poisoning.
To be honest, there's a lot of stuff in those categories that I'd go vegetarian for, but not because I want to trick myself out of wanting sirloin, but because I love falafel.
@Tyche said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Ho-lee piss does spironolactone make you have to pee. All the time.
I was on furosemide for 10 days. I lost 38 pounds of water weight. I was in the bathroom almost every hour.
Could you repeat the name of the medication and if it's over the counter or mail-order from either Canada or Mexico?
Asking for a friend.
@Wretched JESUS CHRIST. That's about as egregious as a Cinnabon.
Come one, come all, break out your pickaxes and caribeaners; it's time to climb SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATE MOUNTAIN
