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canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
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Canaderp
Frost on the car again this morning. Impending doom is near.

Bike and crap is packed in the car. Hopefully can play on more trails and leaves tonight. I might attempt to ride a different trail spot every day this week.
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,613
7,271
Colorado
Here.

Barely missed being side-swiped driving in this morning. Guy in an FJ had been driving pretty erratically for the last 4-5 miles and there is a spot going into a right turn that opens into two lanes after a light. Immediately after the light, I made the lane change (blinker on, I was in the Subaru) and was over half-way through when he came ripping up next to me at around 50 in a 35 in pretty dense traffic. The only way he could have pulled that is if he dead committed and started changing in the intersection because he wasn't there when I looked. started changing, checked clear ahead, then looked back he was there. I'm pretty sure he hit the curb because his car lurched pretty hard. Going around the corner the guy driving the car that was behind me gave me that bug-eyed 'what the fuck' mouthing while pointing to the guy. Even weirder, he turned into the store immediately after the turn, which he could have turned into before at the light. Fucking nut bucket drivers.
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
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yay cold weather. flannel time!! might have a bonfire this weekend. gotta bust out the cold weather gear soon. debating picking up an endura singletrack II jacket... its super nice, but also $160...
 

Nick

My name is Nick
Sep 21, 2001
24,064
14,711
where the trails are
mmmmborkmmmm
OATMEAL
Hotel oatmeal this morning ... all the craisins and brown sugar you can eat!
I watched an older truck driving dude sit down with a mountainous plate of those disgusting "eggs" and maybe 11-12 pieces of bacon. I wanted to throw him an apple but i don't believe he'd know what to do with it.
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
40,591
9,599
it seems there will be a graveyard/uncle acid tour next year.....hail satan.
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
38,312
7,738
Hotel oatmeal this morning ... all the craisins and brown sugar you can eat!
I watched an older truck driving dude sit down with a mountainous plate of those disgusting "eggs" and maybe 11-12 pieces of bacon. I wanted to throw him an apple but i don't believe he'd know what to do with it.
Low carb, yo

:D

I am here, on a pancreas conference day as is most every Tuesday for me.
 

TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
14,301
1,353
Jimtown, CO
Coasted down the mountain on fumes this morning to the most expensive gas station in the Front Range.
Currently editing cuckold porn while eating Munchies® wishing I had gotten Cheetos® instead.
 

Greyhound

Trail Rat
Jul 8, 2002
5,065
365
Alamance County, NC
Good Morning!!

Just got finished with a training session on a new material offered by 3M in their architectural graphic films line. To the rest of the world, total snoozeville - but pretty cool stuff in my book.

Changed this small table from an old-school brown laminate to this more modern pickled oak pattern in about 30min. The round corners present a challenge, but I'm a professional, so......:panic:

 

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
65,705
12,739
In a van.... down by the river
So my laptop is acting like a giant pile of shit again. So I tell my boss I need him to get me a new laptop. He gets caught up in the red tape and tells me I have to submit a tech support ticket.

Tech support sends me a note and says they have to fix it, not replace it. And it will be that way until February 2020. Mind you, this is a fucking laptop that was purchased and put into production by the company in *OCTOBER 2015*... they are actually telling me they expect this work laptop to last 4-1/2 fucking years. Who the fuck does that? :confused:

So I told the support guy that it's going to need a new motherboard (randomly overheating), a new disk drive (suspect it's getting cooked by the motherboard), a new case (dropped several times and dented to fuck), a new keyboard (randomly the CTRL key gets stuck), and a new monitor (LCD anomalies all over the left side of the screen).

So they're going to fucking REPAIR this piece of shit. Which not only means that I get all new obsolete hardware, but will be fucked by a loaner-PC for at LEAST several days. Which will waste all kinds of time...

FTS.

Kill List.

:mad:
 

TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
14,301
1,353
Jimtown, CO
So my laptop is acting like a giant pile of shit again. So I tell my boss I need him to get me a new laptop. He gets caught up in the red tape and tells me I have to submit a tech support ticket.

Tech support sends me a note and says they have to fix it, not replace it. And it will be that way until February 2020. Mind you, this is a fucking laptop that was purchased and put into production by the company in *OCTOBER 2015*... they are actually telling me they expect this work laptop to last 4-1/2 fucking years. Who the fuck does that? :confused:

So I told the support guy that it's going to need a new motherboard (randomly overheating), a new disk drive (suspect it's getting cooked by the motherboard), a new case (dropped several times and dented to fuck), a new keyboard (randomly the CTRL key gets stuck), and a new monitor (LCD anomalies all over the left side of the screen).

So they're going to fucking REPAIR this piece of shit. Which not only means that I get all new obsolete hardware, but will be fucked by a loaner-PC for at LEAST several days. Which will waste all kinds of time...

FTS.

Kill List.

:mad:
dude. take better care of your shit.
 

roflbox

roflborx
Jan 23, 2017
3,163
834
Raleigh, NC
So my laptop is acting like a giant pile of shit again. So I tell my boss I need him to get me a new laptop. He gets caught up in the red tape and tells me I have to submit a tech support ticket.

Tech support sends me a note and says they have to fix it, not replace it. And it will be that way until February 2020. Mind you, this is a fucking laptop that was purchased and put into production by the company in *OCTOBER 2015*... they are actually telling me they expect this work laptop to last 4-1/2 fucking years. Who the fuck does that? :confused:

So I told the support guy that it's going to need a new motherboard (randomly overheating), a new disk drive (suspect it's getting cooked by the motherboard), a new case (dropped several times and dented to fuck), a new keyboard (randomly the CTRL key gets stuck), and a new monitor (LCD anomalies all over the left side of the screen).

So they're going to fucking REPAIR this piece of shit. Which not only means that I get all new obsolete hardware, but will be fucked by a loaner-PC for at LEAST several days. Which will waste all kinds of time...

FTS.

Kill List.

:mad:
It sounds like
u did not try it nao
 

StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
21,560
12,505
In hell. Welcome!
So my laptop is acting like a giant pile of shit again. So I tell my boss I need him to get me a new laptop. He gets caught up in the red tape and tells me I have to submit a tech support ticket.

Tech support sends me a note and says they have to fix it, not replace it. And it will be that way until February 2020. Mind you, this is a fucking laptop that was purchased and put into production by the company in *OCTOBER 2015*... they are actually telling me they expect this work laptop to last 4-1/2 fucking years. Who the fuck does that? :confused:

So I told the support guy that it's going to need a new motherboard (randomly overheating), a new disk drive (suspect it's getting cooked by the motherboard), a new case (dropped several times and dented to fuck), a new keyboard (randomly the CTRL key gets stuck), and a new monitor (LCD anomalies all over the left side of the screen).

So they're going to fucking REPAIR this piece of shit. Which not only means that I get all new obsolete hardware, but will be fucked by a loaner-PC for at LEAST several days. Which will waste all kinds of time...

FTS.

Kill List.

:mad:
You obviously don't know how IT budgets work. :popcorn:
 

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
65,705
12,739
In a van.... down by the river
dude. take better care of your shit.
Fuck that. I told my boss if this actually ends up being the case, my laptop will probably "accidentally" end up under a truck tire. :mad:

You obviously don't know how IT budgets work. :popcorn:
Unfortunately... I do. Our backup hardware is from 2013, and we have 10x the data now that was being protected in 2013. :rolleyes:

A couple of our tape libraries are from around 2005.

I should know better.
 

StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
21,560
12,505
In hell. Welcome!
Do waterproof jackets really work for people for winter riding? In my experience they don't ventilate well enough, not even the most expensive ones.

Soft shell jackets for cold weather for me, please.
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
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Do waterproof jackets really work for people for winter riding? In my experience they don't ventilate well enough, not even the most expensive ones.

Soft shell jackets for cold weather for me, please.
when it's raining or snowing heavily, it's pretty much mandatory. but yea, they are lacking in the ventilation department.
 

StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
21,560
12,505
In hell. Welcome!
when it's raining or snowing heavily, it's pretty much mandatory. but yea, they are lacking in the ventilation department.
Fair point, I just don't know that many people who ride in rain or snow storm when it's really cold here. Plus, doing so will get you stoned to death by the fat bike Nazis anyway.
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
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Fair point, I just don't know that many people who ride in rain or snow storm when it's really cold here. Plus, doing so will get you stoned to death by the fat bike Nazis anyway.
if it's that cold it won't be raining....

but i'll go out on my road bike and hit the paved river trails in the rain.
 

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
20,499
19,499
Canaderp
Do waterproof jackets really work for people for winter riding? In my experience they don't ventilate well enough, not even the most expensive ones.

Soft shell jackets for cold weather for me, please.
I sometimes ride with a Patagonia jacket that is pretty much a rain jacket, but it gets brutally hot and I WILL sweat to death in it, no matter how cold it is. I tried wearing a simple hoodie a few times and that actually worked pretty well. Generally I'm not riding for too long in the winter anyways.

a new case (dropped several times and dented to fuck)
SAVAGE!

Just take it apart and remove/bend one of the pins going to the hard drive or something, see if they can find that.