On a side note... does someone know how to sabotage an office internal speaker system? The thing is ... broken ... and sounds like a dying person a ventilator :/
Let's see... There's zipties, scissors, crochet hook, my fountain pen, two or three ballpoints, a pencil, eraser, a notebook, an empty lunchbox, an umbrella, cellphone charging cable... but no screwdriver in my backpack :(
@Tinkeringbell If you can get to one speaker in a closet, just connect grid voltage to the wires (they usually go in series). This will also probably fry whatever is driving said speakers, but from what you said, that would probably be an added benefit.
So... my dad always promises me he'll teach me stuff. Fixing a flat bike tire, connecting a lightswitch, how to maintain the car, paper a wall, build a shelve, whatever mundane manly household chore you can think of, he promised he'll teach me.
He's never done any of that. Two years back, I noticed a lamp post we have outside to light the back alley was damaged, the wires were exposed to the weather. I told dad, he fixed the wiring just before my parents went on vacation.
During vacation, it started to rain, dad hadn't properly sealed something and moisture got into the lamp, shortcircuit…
So yeah, my parents never taught me not to mess with stuff, cause messing with stuff is the only way I'm going to find out!
Well, both my non-baby kids (daughter is 8, son is 5.5) know for certain that: 1) Gender does not change over the years, 2) Body parts don't just fall off and can't be pulled off the body, and 3) They can't marry each other. :P
@ShadowtheWelcomingWizard At home, at some point ;) I wasn't at the birth, and I didn't want to go visit the hospital either once I knew I didn't get a sister.
So the lady that came to help out at home for the first two weeks thought it was a good idea to involve me as much as possible in anything, hopefully to encourage a little bonding ;)
Well, if you saw that cord falling, then yeah... assuming other things fall does make some sense, when you have no clue how those other things work.... :D
So sad that kids dream about so many things that can/will never happen....
There's a known children song about a princess who gets sick and wants the moon given to her so she will feel better, then the king try asking all his counsellors to do that.
@Tinkeringbell the actual counsellors give advice like "pull it with ropes", "build a magical bridge to it", etc... and only the royal clown suggests the actual solution, to ask the princess how she want to do it, to find out she wants it as medallion. :D
@Shog9 if you're watching, there's a lot of pluralization bugs in that message. Not just in the form of S's, but also the grammar of the entire first sentence. :) — Mysticial10 mins ago
In a couple of recent meta.SO questions:
Why have I been ban from asking questions from SO? [duplicate]
New users have terrible experiences on SO, and will ultimately be the downfall of this site
The following screenshot (from @Shog9) showed up of the rate-limit message that is shown to new u...
I long for the day I get a report on that from someone who isn't reading a screenshot, @Mysticial. It'll mean someone who could actually benefit from it took the time to read it carefully. — Shog9 ♦1 min ago
@Mysticial As I recall, mod comments only go to the global inbox if posted within an hour of deletion and the mod concerned deleted the post. That question is currently visible, having been deleted and undeleted twice so far.
@PaulWhite Sounds like it might be a bug in the special case handling for mod comments? IIRC, if you don't have 10k, all comments on the deleted post are hidden from the inbox. (I'm not sure about a <10k user with comments on a deleted answer belonging to that user.) So in order for the user to see a mod-comment there might be an exception in there.
@TravisJ I'm not sure the alternate account detection is entirely automated. There's probably some manual process in there before say Brad decides that the OP is being a jerk and diplomatically burns him/her on it with a straight face to everybody's amusement.
@RobertColumbia I would be fine with that. I just think that it tends to give users the idea that new users suck, when in fact, it may be that users bypassing actions against their previous accounts who re-register are the ones that give bad impressions.
I also think that the "Too Broad" closing reason is ridiculous and needs to go, but I am still in the process of gathering evidence for that since it is kind of a large claim.
@JourneymanGeek Again, I wasn't the one who starred the above messages, except one (originally two, but I undid one, it was too late to undo the other).
In a couple of recent meta.SO questions:
Why have I been ban from asking questions from SO? [duplicate]
New users have terrible experiences on SO, and will ultimately be the downfall of this site
The following screenshot (from @Shog9) showed up of the rate-limit message that is shown to new u...
