Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social

Anyone here old enough to remember The Gong Show and it's "OOPS!" slide for censoring inappropriate for broadcast visuals?

Am I really the weird one out for finding the whole emoji thing rather ho-hum and boring? From what i remember, humans moved away from hieroglyphics into expressing ideas with language, both written and spoken. It just seems to be pointless to want to go back in the other direction.

For some reason, I find the end of "The Internet Is For Porn" is much funnier when the street term for a private part is beeped out.

"ERROR: your filesystem is really screwed up. You need to run fsck manually."

Okay, I'll put this out here. I recently came across the documentation for a credit card lawsuit where the final statement (filed as part of the suit) said the defendant owed $11,700+ related to cash advances of a total of $13,200+ at the time of charge-off. What exactly can one infer about the financial habits of such a person given that, and the fact that (s)he had been sued over two other defaulted credit card accounts at around the same time (total $38,000+ across the three)?

(Whew, that was long. And I thought the 500 character limit would always be enough when I started here...)

Just took a look back at logs of an old incident in FreeNode ##chat where I was kicked and banned for discussing politics while others weren't. Worse, my ban was kept until I agreed not to discuss politics even if others were. Today, I went in there and they have clearly labeled the channel a "POLITICS-FREE ZONE" which at least is fair and honestly, is all I ever asked for. (I didn't stick around long enough to see how evenly that policy was enforced.)

I do my best to make sense of what is often a nonsensical grocery list. As it is, I have to type the list in the computer so I can resort the items by the order I would go by them in the store (at least the order of the aisles, the point being to make one trip through the grocery store and not have to double back for every other item). Unfortunately this means the item she put first on the list is often not the first item when I load it onto my phone.

It's amazing how my grandmother blames everything that goes wrong with a grocery shopping trip on me. It's my fault pork chops now cost $9 instead of the $6 or $7 she paid last time. It's my fault she forgets an item because of something I said while she was filling out the list. It's my fault Sunbeam either doesn't make hot dog buns or Kroger doesn't stock them if they do... etc.

"you seem like an asshole by the way" -- actual comment from someone with an apparent fake name on Quora. Reported the comment for a clear-cut BNBR violation, reported the profile for a possibly fake name. Sorry but I am simply not in the mood to deal with horseshit today.

Some guy put a sound clip from Team America: World Police where the guy is singing a song with the lyric "Everyone has AIDS", in a Quake 3 Arena/OpenArena map. I didn't even know it was in there until this one guy i was playing against triggered it like three times in a row. And now, it is stuck in my head.