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[King Zultan]

I'm getting tired of the random cold snaps that have been going on here, but as soon as summer's in full swing I'll be wishing they come back.

[Frumple]

If there's one thing living in Florida all my life has taught me, it's to treasure every moment of cold tolerable weather we get. I might complain about the effects it has on rain and allergies, but never, never about the cold itself. Every single second of the cool time is precious and fleeting, never an imposition and always welcome.

[Iduno]

If there's one thing living in Florida all my life has taught me, it's to treasure every moment of cold tolerable weather we get. I might complain about the effects it has on rain and allergies, but never, never about the cold itself. Every single second of the cool time is precious and fleeting, never an imposition and always welcome.

We got ice for the first time in like a decade here, and it's the first time I didn't have bad allergies. You forget how nice it is not to continually have a headache and be able to breathe.

[King Zultan]

I wish the damned interned wouldn't go out every time we have a storm or high wind, wasn't able to do shit online yesterday because of that crap.

[Vector]

I'm super-weepy today, I haven't gotten very much done. I bet tomorrow will be better but tonight I am kind of upset for no really good reason.

[Bumber]

damned interned

[methylatedspirit]

"Fun" things you realize too late:

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Motherfuckers over at the Blender Foundation rendered this thing with a storage aspect ratio that's different from the display aspect ratio. I'm not at all sure what the storage aspect ratio is, but the display aspect ratio is basically 16:9. Ugh. This seems like something for the DVD release. Eh, at least I can probably change the flags or something, considering I'm using MKV.

I've just accepted my lot in life at this point; just using command-line stuff just to do all this nonsense.

[Caz]

I went into my fridge to look for beer and screamed bc a chicken was in there. Like... ofc there was a chicken in there. But I forgot. and I screamed like a little girl. It's a first.

[Frumple]

I literally don't remember who it was, but either me or my mom did basically that once, except instead of a chicken it was an owl. She had roadkilled one and stuck the body in a freezer for reasons I don't recall, then it slipped the mind for a bit and one of us opened the thing to the sight of unexpected iced owl corpse.

... not sure if that helps any considering the significantly different circumstances, but maybe?

[Caz]

I literally don't remember who it was, but either me or my mom did basically that once, except instead of a chicken it was an owl. She had roadkilled one and stuck the body in a freezer for reasons I don't recall, then it slipped the mind for a bit and one of us opened the thing to the sight of unexpected iced owl corpse.

... not sure if that helps any considering the significantly different circumstances, but maybe?

It certainly has the same surprise mechanism.


...Also, how do you run over an owl?

[None]

It's probably more of a bonk than a thump.

Ogh, I'd probably lose it if that happened to me, I'm a bit phobic of carcasses. I hope never to have to keep the spooky remains of some dinosaur analogue in my fridge.

[Frumple]

Can't recall which it was, but it either got hit swooping on something, or was in the road for some reason and got light blinded then hit, one of those two. Want to say the latter but it was a good twenty plus years ago, so, y'know. Pretty sure it was coming around a curve or somethin'.

Didn't get hit hard -- the body was in remarkably good condition, all things considered -- but it was enough to kill it, unfortunately. Was one of those bigass owls, too, not one of the small breeds. Laws might have been broken taking it home, I'unno.

[Caz]

Ogh, I'd probably lose it if that happened to me, I'm a bit phobic of carcasses. I hope never to have to keep the spooky remains of some dinosaur analogue in my fridge.

 Me neither, but when life knocks you gotta answer.

[Vector]

My aunt used to keep pet guinea pig corpses in the freezer indefinitely ... because she was scared to bury them on land which might change hands, so someone could plant raspberry bushes that would receive nourishment from their bodies someday.

If I remember correctly she eventually moved and switched to rats, which she had autopsied and cremated.

No, she was not an especially rich woman. Just especially nuts.

[scriver]

She should have just sunk them in a bog. Never rotting, ever preserved, in the long embrace of the breathless depths.