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[Mike (the Paladin)]

Got it.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

It's both pink and purple to me...

[HomeInMyShoes]

Pink was a placement for whatever stereotype. Work with me. :)

Don't get me started on the perils of attempting to actually discuss color across differing monitors.

[Becky]

I read an interesting article about how the "gender colors" used to be reversed - pink for boys and blue for girls.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cu...

also:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I'm still stuck on the fact that there's no way to prove that what i see is what you see... For all I know the light hits everyone's eyes at a slightly different angle. Maybe what i learned to call red is what you call green....

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I'm still stuck on the fact that there's no way to prove that what i see is what you see... For all I know the light hits everyone's eyes at a slightly different angle. Maybe what i learned to call..."

Even if it's red to both of us, it's still not the same red.

It will never be the same red. Even in person.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Becky wrote: "I read an interesting article about how the "gender colors" used to be reversed - pink for boys and blue for girls.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cu......"


And now some things and places are trying to move back towards more neutral stuff, like Target not separating out bedclothes by boys and girls, and people are losing their minds!

[Becky]

It is a sign of the apocalypse, I think.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

so is the gold/white dress!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Ye gods and little fishes, let's not start that again!!!


(Besides, it was totes blue and black.)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

colleen the fabulous fabulaphile wrote: "Ye gods and little fishes, let's not start that again!!!


(Besides, it was totes blue and black.)"

It was WHITE

[Elise]

Black! Definitely black!

[HomeInMyShoes]

colleen the fabulous fabulaphile wrote: "Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I'm still stuck on the fact that there's no way to prove that what i see is what you see... For all I know the light hits everyone's eyes at a slightly different angle. M..."

Yeah, but because whenever you see what I am seeing we both say red, even if it is actually what I call green then its a mute point. It's called the power of labeling.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Beer before liquor...

[HomeInMyShoes]

Is it that time already?

"Beer before wine, you'll be fine, wine before beer, sick for a year."

That's the one I know. Your mileage may vary.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

[HomeInMyShoes]

Time for something totally random.

Alright I know there are some websiters here. Who is using what tools for their websites? I'm asking because I'm going to be helping an organization that is using Weebly. So I played with it for an hour and it seems reasonable, although the link insertion is finicky and weird if you're not hosting the files on it itself.

I'm thinking get them signed up to dropbox for all the attachment crap (some pdfs and maybe some sound files.) That's what I think about that at first glance. They have almost no dynamic forms (just a contact us email submit which I'm assuming almost any of the freebie site hosters will do.) They also have their domain through GoDaddy, but I've heard their tools blow chunks.

Blah, blah, blah what are you using and what's good. This needs to be maintainable by almost complete non-techs.

[Becky]

You should look into using Google. It's pretty easy to use, comes with a lot of tools (Google Docs, Forms, Sheets, Email, etc) is pretty self-explanatory, free up to a point, and integratable with other systems.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Yeah Google is free for non-profits as well (not sure what we'd need to do to prove that, or if there are stipulations based on country (this would be Canada.)

Google isn't really an external website builder at least from what I can see. Their pages talk about they have partnered with Squarespace, Wix and Weebly for hosting the external website you create with them. Now for an internal one and internal document processing, I'm all in on Google.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

I'm not the biggest fan of Google Docs - I don't trust my privacy is protected Plus google is funky.

I have to use it with a client and it gives me hell on IE and Firefox. But my industry needs IE.

Plus they claim it needs additional access to my clipboard when I try to copy/paste. PASS

[Chris , cookie guilt]

Google is very funky. Google + is a bubbly colorful nightmare.

Though Microsoft Outlook isn't any more user friendly, certainly.

[HomeInMyShoes]

They are totally big brother, but if you don't think Microsoft, Apple and Google are all tracking you you're fooling yourself.

I subscribe to the Charles Stross prescription that if you don't want to found, then TAKE THE BATTERY OUT OF THE CELL PHONE!

Must be the same industry.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Chris wrote: "Though Microsoft Outlook isn't any more user friendly, certainly.

Quoted for TRUTH

OMG. I hate MS Outlook 365 with the passion of a million fiery dying stars. The only thing I hate more than Outlook 365 is Office 365 + the new Adobe Acrobat.

DIEdieDIEdieDIE

[HomeInMyShoes]

You forgot a couple of die's.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "They are totally big brother, but if you don't think Microsoft, Apple and Google are all tracking you you're fooling yourself.

I subscribe to the Charles Stross prescription that if you don't want..."

Yeah but Google is a search engine (first) and I get damn tired of it searching my fucking emails to suggest crap to me.

Fuck you google.

And fuck Amazon and Apple, too. I do want to remove the batteries from my cellphone.

I read an article today that said some tech company pulled the records of who went to the Iowa caucus and were able to narrow down the "type" of people they were (like older, younger, family with kids, married no kids, conservative, liberal and COLLEGE CAMPUS location).

FML

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "You forgot a couple of die's."

LMAO

I guess I should go rout those kids off my lawn again.

;-)

[HomeInMyShoes]

Trawling through the organization's site is like going back to 1996. Some pages have headings some don't. There's at least two fontfaces competing. Font sizes are all over the map. Some titles are coloured like the left side navigation some are black. Some pages don't have anything on them. The images are all different sizes and qualities. I think in the two hours I spent fiddling the site is markedly better. I just need to edit the images. They don't need many, but it is just consistency that they need from a exposure/saturation/brightness standpoint and quality. Images on a website should look like they came out of the same brain.

[Becky]

My company uses google and it's pretty smooth and easy to use for document storage. Much easier than Dropbox is. I use Dropbox for my personal stuff (ebooks mostly) and it's aggravating. Definitely not as easy as I want it to be.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I was born in 1952 but I just realized...sometimes I miss the 1940s.

[[deleted user]]

I wonder why a person with a knife blade clenched between the teeth is considerered to be dangerous or menacing? After all, he or she isn't only not threatening anbody, but physically incapable to harm or attack anbyody with the blade, since you have to use your hands in order to use a knife as a tool or weapon.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Ekel wrote: "I wonder why a person with a knife blade clenched between the teeth is considerered to be dangerous or menacing? After all, he or she isn't only not threatening anbody, but physically incapable to ..."

lol
Never thought about that before.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Have you seen the old "cult classic" movie Freaks? It was actually banned in some places. There is a scene where the "freaks" (actual people from carnival side shows played the parts) are in a mass going after someone in the night. There's a shot of a man with no arms crawling along with a knife in his teeth. I always wondered how he'd use it?

[[deleted user]]

If he was born without hands and arms, he probably used his mouth or feet to manage his daily life and tasks. Since he "trained" his feet and/or mouth his whole life, he should have a much higher dexterity skill in using those body parts. Of course, an average person could also try to get the knife handle into the mouth and use the knife this way, but I guess the risk of hurting yourself is still too high. "Knife between your teeth" is simply not an attacking/combat posture.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I don't recall if he had feet either. He was slithering along and may not have had legs either. It was a pretty rough movie as the people in it were actually handicapped or challenged.

[[deleted user]]

I heard of that movie, but didn't watch it yet :(. As far as I remember, there is a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons which is based on the movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehou...

Barney Gumble plays the role of the limbless man, and he indeed hadn't any extremities (beside the head) at all.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Do you know the difference in a dirty bus-stop and a lobster with breast implants?

(view spoiler)[ One's a crusty bus station and the other's a busty crustacean ... (hide spoiler)]

[Chris , cookie guilt]

Notice you didn't put that in the "Funnies" thread.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

It was a random thought....

[Chris , cookie guilt]

It was actually good enough for a chuckle.

[[deleted user]]

I've heard the people of Texas were finally allowed to openly carry firearms in public? As a German citizen, I found this quite fascinating, since we have very strict gun laws here. I wonder how armed people would react to a person clad in protective body armor? One could argue that someone who considers carrying weapons for means of aggressive self defense to be a citizen's right to be tolerant towards people who carry armor for means of defensive/protective/passive self defense. However, I'm not quite sure about this. What do you think? It would be hypocritical otherwise, wouldn't it?

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Arizona has always had open carry. If you want to wear body armor that's cool also. I get that there are different attitudes in different places but as noted body armor isn't illegal if you want to wear it. Is that what you're asking?

[[deleted user]]

The legal aspect is interesting, yes, but I'm also interested in the socio-cultural components.

Germany has very strict gun laws. While hunters and practitioners of shooting sports are allowed to possess weapons, no civilians beside police officers and some security guards are allowed to carry them openly in public. Body armor is allowed, with the exception of political gatherings and demonstrations. However, law and practical reality are two different pair of shoes. In the past, I wore a M35 steel helmet in public, for means of both "fashion" and safety at work (protection against falling objects). A few people apparently felt threatened by it, which is quite irrational, since helmets are simply not designed for harming people, but to protect them. I wonder if someone from a culture with a more "libertarian" attitude towards offensive weapons is also more tolerant to protective devices? I asked my questions here because many of the users here are Americans.

BTW: I have to admit that applying logic and rational thoughts sometimes leads me to rather excentric point of views.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Well, I'm happy to discuss. I am a gun enthusiast though some on the other side of the political spectrum here would probably use a different descriptor, LOL.

America has a strong tradition of freedom of gun ownership. The Constitution before the original 13 states would ratify it had to have the first 10 amendments included. These are called the Bill of Rights. They are meant to limit the power of government and spell out rights that Americans can not be deprived ot.

Of course this has brought about all kinds of debate between those who want to abridge those rights and those who interpret them as written.

The Second Amendment states that:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Since then the debate usually revolves around the meaning of "Militia" which is a non-state controlled group (like the Minutemen who were probably one of the examples that were in mind).

I grew up in a part of America that was very rural at the time and learned gun safety and use young. I still target shoot etc. Gun violence is actually down in America. That isn't convenient for certain political stances so we get lots of reports making arguments to the contrary.

So, feel free to ask whatever.

[Charlton]

Oh my god! I'm from Texas and shake my head a lot.People say we have the right to bear arms"it's in the constitution."

You have pegged it! Thank you,so many people miss the word militia.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

I just floated a review!





*gigglesnort*

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Public Service Announcement:

By the by, I am not picking on the people who find review floating annoying, in general, as I am one of those people.

But I made a semi-substantial change to a review this morning, so reposted it, and I couldn't help but think of the review floating discussion.

Thus my sense of humor.

That is all.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled randomnessosity.

[Becky]

You heathen!

[Chris , cookie guilt]

Our Colleen is such a rebel.

[HomeInMyShoes]

FIGHT THE POWER!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I tend to end up correcting something about every time I go back and look at an old review...oddly I don't feel guilty about anything. I guess I'm despicable...

Don't worry colleen maybe we'll be on the same cell block or something.