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[Harry Baldman]

I hear time flies when you're having fun. His fun, then, must have been downright relativistic.

[Flying Dice]

Grad school application fees.

"Please sir, may I pay you $65 for the chance to be considered for a position of spending thousands of dollars of loaned money for a piece of paper?"

[TempAcc]

Thank you Florida

[Graknorke]

Thank you Florida

Charles Dolling dropping mad fire.

[hops]

I saw a dude earlier wearing a ski mask for warmth. As opposed to robbing a bank. It actually made me kinda happy; there's such a negative stigma against the poor old ski mask and balaclava.

Are you sure he's not also planning to rob a bank later?

[GiglameshDespair]

I saw a dude earlier wearing a ski mask for warmth. As opposed to robbing a bank. It actually made me kinda happy; there's such a negative stigma against the poor old ski mask and balaclava.

Are you sure he's not also planning to rob a bank later?

Maybe he had just robbed a bank and was making a relaxed getaway.

[Rolan7]

I saw a dude earlier wearing a ski mask for warmth. As opposed to robbing a bank. It actually made me kinda happy; there's such a negative stigma against the poor old ski mask and balaclava.

Are you sure he's not also planning to rob a bank later?

Maybe he had just robbed a bank and was making a relaxed getaway.

Related, an examination of "run like you stole something":
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-11-07

[Flying Dice]

That's an offensive stereotype about people who wear ski masks, you should all be ashamed of yourselves for generalizing like that.

[AlleeCat]

Somebody stole the wifi antenna for one of the public computers. Not the adapter, they just stole the antenna. So much random shit gets stolen around here. It baffles me. What the hell would you possibly need with a $2, inch and a half long screw-on antenna? Also, why the hell am I the only person around here who has to deal with these kinds of problems? I only just happened to have a spare antenna laying around, and nobody even noticed the damn thing was missing before I thought to check the wireless card itself. They should really just hire me to do IT here.

[Lord Shonus]

Somebody stole the wifi antenna for one of the public computers. Not the adapter, they just stole the antenna. So much random shit gets stolen around here. It baffles me. What the hell would you possibly need with a $2, inch and a half long screw-on antenna? Also, why the hell am I the only person around here who has to deal with these kinds of problems? I only just happened to have a spare antenna laying around, and nobody even noticed the damn thing was missing before I thought to check the wireless card itself. They should really just hire me to do IT here.

When I was in high school, it was common to take a pair of pliers to the floppy drive eject button (on the case, not the actual drive button) and turn it around 180 degrees so that it did not work, pry random keycaps from the keyboard with one of the class knives, or steal the class match supply. It's essentially vandalism - causing inconveniences for the sake of inconvenience.

[AlleeCat]

pry random keycaps from the keyboard with one of the class knives

Why would you need a knife for that? I can do that with my fingers on practically any keyboard. Also, I still have no idea who would do that, because it inconveniences everyone in the house, not just a few people. Literally everyone who lives here uses the computer for one reason or another.

[Orange Wizard]

I remember people doing that at my highschool, too. We had a computer lab where no keyboard had all of its keys in the right places.

[Frumple]

Somebody stole the wifi antenna for one of the public computers. Not the adapter, they just stole the antenna. So much random shit gets stolen around here. It baffles me. What the hell would you possibly need with a $2, inch and a half long screw-on antenna?

This may be your fundamental conceptual issue. You seem to be assuming people only steal what they need. Or can use, I guess. Sometimes you steal the shiny just to steal the shiny. Metaphorically shiny, anyway. It doesn't actually have to be shiny. Just there. And stealable. There's just this magpie like draw to things that can be pocketed. Some people, some times, cannot resist the allure.

_{no, i don't have a license plate enclosure that once belonged to who the hell knows sitting in my room, why do you ask?}

[FearfulJesuit]

Baking rye sourdough tomorrow in my new baking gig (I've been absent because of all the bread I've had to make.) Rye sourdough starter is- bar none- the foulest thing I have ever smelled. I mean, wow.

[Arcvasti]

pry random keycaps from the keyboard with one of the class knives

Also, I still have no idea who would do that, because it inconveniences everyone in the house, not just a few people.

There is actually a valid emotional reason to remove certain keys.