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Re: Random thoughts

by Jizaboz » Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:28 pm

Flack wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:37 pm Hah! If he wants book called Monster Mania, let me know!

When I was in elementary school our library had a bunch of Crestwood monster books.
I used to love those books!

Re: Random thoughts

by Flack » Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:37 pm

Hah! If he wants book called Monster Mania, let me know!

When I was in elementary school our library had a bunch of Crestwood monster books. I checked them out all the time. I was so scared to touch the picture of Dracula or Godzilla, afraid that they would somehow "get me" through the page, and I loved it. Most of them are on Internet Archive, if you ever want to flip through one with him. They are definitely kid friendly but not 3YO friendly.

https://archive.org/search?query=subjec ... d+House%22

Re: Random thoughts

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:50 pm

In a way, I am glad that Wyatt's mom does not have enough liquid cash for Nintendo Switches and stuff, he gets to be a little kid for a while longer.

I did manage to read to him on Sunday and one of the books we have is "You Should Never Touch a Monster." This time, I asked him to read it to me. He said he did not know how to read. I said to try, and he ended up making up a pretty similar story.

I then pressed the button to the Murphy bed he was on, trapping him in there while I put in a quick 76 hour session of Minecraft on the Switch.

Re: Random thoughts

by Flack » Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:40 pm

I found a book at the thrift store called Monster Mania. It's an 8x10 paperback, 100 pages and every one in full color. I bought it for my nephew, who is six. When I was six, I loved monsters. I don't think he could actually read this book (it's probably for like, older grade school kids) but I thought his mom might read it to him and he might like looking at all the monsters. Apparently, my nephew only loves Minecraft. I could not get him off his Nintendo Switch long enough to look at the book. When I finally convinced him to pick it up he grabbed it by the cover and flung it up to the ceiling. So, no book for him. The book is now in my bathroom and I will read a page every time I go poop. Everybody wins.

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:55 pm

And the media was all over it. Funny how all that hype just went away.

Re: Random thoughts

by Da King » Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:02 pm

AArdvark wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 2:47 pm I wonder whatever happened to all the 5G network scare news from teh media. Seems like it wasn't brain melting after all.
Was that the media? I thought that was the conspiracy theorists, blaming 5G for Covid...

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Sun Apr 27, 2025 2:47 pm

I wonder whatever happened to all the 5G network scare news from teh media. Seems like it wasn't brain melting after all.

Re: Random thoughts

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:45 pm

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsf ... -residence
Officials seal doors of Pope Francis’s personal residence
Senior cardinals have locked and sealed the doors of Pope Francis’s personal residence in the Apostolic Palace following his death on Monday.
The entire religion is based upon the belief that doing shit like that is not effective

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:49 pm

Ever'body going crazy cause the bank got robbed

https://www.whec.com/top-news/almost-fr ... in-sweden/

I went to school with Sheriff Baxter. Nice to see some of the Jefferson graduates did something positive. Usually they would be the criminals

Re: Random thoughts

by Jizaboz » Sun Mar 23, 2025 11:21 am

AArdvark wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:05 am Number 21: She got Uncle Fester eyes!
lol

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:09 am

I'm in the computer room, lying under the desk, rearranging some of the wires.

From the kitchen my wife calls to me, "Are you done with this?"

"Yep!" I reply.

I have no idea what she is talking about. I continue to untangle wires.

One of the priceless moments of being married 30 years.

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:05 am

Number 21: She got Uncle Fester eyes!

Re: Random thoughts

by Jizaboz » Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:58 pm

Speaking of random..

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:24 pm

The BBC posted a link to a YouTube randomizer. I quickly bookmarked it and it's soon to be one of my favorite sites. There's no algorithms, just random videos. Granted, most of them are mundane and not in English ( that poses no problem for me) but it shows a normal cross section of what YouTube really is.


Link, almost forgot...

https://walzr.com/IMG_0001

Re: Random thoughts

by Jizaboz » Fri Feb 07, 2025 10:18 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:37 am https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/437 ... tani-fraud

The thing you have to understand about Japanese culture is that it is considered extremely dishonorable to siphon millions of dollars from your employer and spend it on BetMGM.
I've been watching this story. At first knowing nothing about it I wondered what in the world he did that was so bad. This is EXTREMELY bad in Japanese culture. While they may work salarymen to death there, etc.. there is a huge responsibility with being a higher up in a company. A big example of this is when say Nintendo or Toyota loses a lot of money based on a corporate decision. Instead of them "restructuring the company", firing people to cut costs, etc.. they do perhaps a bit of that but mainly the CEO is forced to give up a large portion of his salary so the people under them keep their jobs.

To just gamble away company profits is extremely dishonorable.

Re: Random thoughts

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:37 am

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/437 ... tani-fraud

The thing you have to understand about Japanese culture is that it is considered extremely dishonorable to siphon millions of dollars from your employer and spend it on BetMGM.

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:15 pm

Since the election I've wanted to see the news headlines, only do it in a way that I don't have to constantly look at pictures of the president (usually with his mouth open) A text only browser works well for this, only don't try and use it with a search engine, I might be a bot!

Re: Random thoughts

by Casual Observer » Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:18 pm

AArdvark wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:09 am My text only browser cannot use any of the big search engines anymore. Up until last week it worked just fine on Google, Duckduck and Bing. Now they all just refuse me because I don't want to see any pictures when I browse. If I was paranoid, I would wonder why it's so important that I see pictures when I surf the web


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Confused, images (well, videos) are the #1 thing I consume from the internet. Don't tell me you're still a Playboy magazine guy like my dad.

Re: Random thoughts

by pinback » Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:14 am

Surfing the web without images? That's like watching a movie with the sound off!

Re: Random thoughts

by AArdvark » Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:09 am

My text only browser cannot use any of the big search engines anymore. Up until last week it worked just fine on Google, Duckduck and Bing. Now they all just refuse me because I don't want to see any pictures when I browse. If I was paranoid, I would wonder why it's so important that I see pictures when I surf the web


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