blake_logan

There are 24 breweries in my town, so I can usually find a beer that I like , but for special occasions... If it's really hot outside, there's nothing like a Bombay Sapphire Gin & Tonic: The rest of the year, Jack Daniels with some ice and maybe a splash of water, but never ever cola! Wine almost always makes my head hurt

It really pisses me off when a computer program tries to think for me and it seems to be happening more and more frequently. I guess the developers are trying to be clever, but I'm beginning to suspect that it's something more sinister. The first time I noticed this issue was when I put my collection of mp3 files on the hard drive of my computer and Windows Media Center decided to move them around, rename the folders and put the tunes where it thinks I want to store them. Yes, I found the settings that let it do that and turned them off; then moved every thing back to where I wanted it (took a couple of days of unplanned effort) but whenever there's an upgrade, settings go back to the default and I have to reconfigure everything again. I got a new cell phone last month and on the way home with it, it literally overheated and started sending out messages. When I got home, I learned that Verizon Wireless decided to automatically download all of the apps that were installed on my old phone to the new one and in the process, burned through 95% of the month's data allowance in the first hour I had the new phone. I would have been much happier installing the applications that I wanted on the new phone myself after I was back home and had a Wi-Fi connection available. That one potentially cost me money and I ended up turning off my data connection for the rest of the month so it didn't automatically buy an overage allocation of data :pissed: :pissed: And this one is just creepy. I have an application that manages all my affinity cards called Keyring. When I get to a cash register, I open the app, pull up the virtual card for the salesperson to scan. I don't have to carry around a pocketful of cards for the stores that I do business with so it's really convenient. Keyring recently had an update which added new functionality. I got ready to pay for my groceries the other day and when I turned on the phone, Keyring had already launched itself and opened the card for that merchant. Cyberstalking by an application vendor is almost enough for me to delete the app. Who knows what Windows 10 / Google / Chrome / Firefox / IE are doing for you behind the scenes. It worries me when I go to a web page and one of the advertisements includes everything that was in my most recent order with that merchant. If this keeps up, and I'm sure it will, I may have to learn to program my own apps. I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry if that went from "Whinge Binge" over to "Rant", but there you go.

Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > System Settings Password protection on wake-up: Require a Password / Don't Require a Password

It's the underlying economics that push the topic into the political arena.

When my dentist said "Oops!" Followed by "Get me an endodontics tray"

We had Cliff Notes back then

I used to have two Labrador Retrievers who were apparently part goat....they would eat anything....paper, sticks, tin cans, plastic bottles ... well, you get the picture. If something irritated their stomach, they would throw it up and usually swallow it again, but that's pretty normal for dogs. I also have a relatively large back yard...almost an acre inside the chain link fence and mostly wooded. The patio door in my bedroom opens to a deck which leads down to the enclosed yard. When nature calls, I just have to let the dogs out on the deck and they have free run of the space to attend to their bodily functions, chase rabbits, squirrels and other wildlife and to otherwise just be dogs. This works a lot better for me than putting the dogs on leash, walking through the neighborhood with the little plastic bags to clean up after them and the subsequent transportation of the filled backs home for disposal. At any rate, one night around 3:00 one morning I woke up to that unmistakable rhythmic grunting sound of a dog getting ready to vomit, which was followed shortly by a loud splash which was followed shortly by a wall of stench that made me gag and set my eyes to watering. Apparently during their pre-bedtime pitstop, one of the dogs overindulged in deer poop, decided that he didn't like the taste it left in his mouth and filled up on water before he came back inside for the evening. Over the next few hours, the combination turned into a thick brown slurry of sewage in his stomach which he eventually emptied into my bedroom. I turned on the lights to see the dog sitting in his crate in a pool of this brown muck. I contemplated moving the crate with the dog still in it out to the deck and returning to bed to deal with it in the morning ... maybe that would discourage him from eating deer poop in the future...but between the smell and the spills on the rug, I had to go ahead and clean up in the middle of the night. To make a long story short, I put the dog outside on the back deck and managed to get the crate full of sewage into the bathroom with minimal spills. I drained the crate into the toilet then washed it out in the shower. Next, I pulled out the rug cleaner to shampoo the spots that managed to get out of the crate. Finally, I had to wash the dog, since he was covered in the brown sludge. Just as I was finishing up, my alarm went off and I had to get ready for work. It was not a fun day. I'm not sure if all that beats eating cat boogers, but it's the 'ewww-iest' pet related story I could come up with.

Ummm....perhaps you meant to put this in the "Eew-Day Tuesday" thread???

Mine would be Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. 40 years later, it's still one of my favorites. I have fond memories circa 1993 of listening to "I'm in the high fidelity, first class traveling set and I think I need a Leer Jet" whilst riding in a Gulf Stream somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic

In 1971 I was in college, so I didn't spend a lot of time watching television, but by the end of the year, I'd heard the tune one too many times already. My real question regarding the last episode of Mad Men is this. Was ending the episode with that particular commercial an indication that Don was heading back to McCann get the Coke account?

Or you could just swing by Bojangles

It's gotta be grilled cheese & bacon sandwiches. I'm partial to Monterey Jack & Cheddar with a little Duke's mayo between the bread and the cheese. Doesn't matter which kind of bacon you put between the cheeses .

Depends on the bacon I like British bacon barely browned and never overcooked. I like US bacon nicely browned and moderately crispy, but not so crispy that it breaks into shards when you bite it. But it's hard to go wrong with bacon, except maybe in sweets.

Perhaps Mr. Dornan was typecast in the role of Christian Grey. In the TV series, The Fall, he spends a lot of time tieing up his victims.

I'm pretty sure that was a quote from the last season of "Sons of Anarchy" -- spoken by a junkie pimp to one of his streetwalkers. Probably not the best way to make a good impression in a bar.

Haven't you heard? Lumbersexual is the hot new trend.

GET ON UP! AND DANCE TO THE MUSIC!!!!

And here's the tune that immediately popped into my head....and it wasn't from my childhood

Please pay careful attention to the first 4 minutes:

That won't happen if it's fried

No....this is taking "fresh seafood" a tad too far

Shazbot!