dontwantaname wrote:Gone again?

I read the ducky cake thing.
I watched Mr Bean at the olympics again.

I need more entertainment here.

Me, too. Just got work in. Might ignore it until tomorrow.

dontwantaname wrote:I give up.
See you tomorrow.

You know I always watch the 11:00 news.

pooflady wrote:I just read somewhere that you shouldn't grill corn in the husk because that steams it, that you should hust it and grill it. Seems like it would burn.

You might have read it on the link to a thread that Inky so kindly put on last post for me yesterday.

Personally I prefer the corn either in the microwave or if having a bbq I take the husk off, put my spices on it including a dab of butter, roll it in tinfoil, seal and pop on grill. Roll it around once in a while, takes about fifteen minutes.

Just a drive bye. Was checking to see when a woot package was coming this week. Good night

lplady wrote:You might have read it on the link to a thread that Inky so kindly put on last post for me yesterday.

Personally I prefer the corn either in the microwave or if having a bbq I take the husk off, put my spices on it including a dab of butter, roll it in tinfoil, seal and pop on grill. Roll it around once in a while, takes about fifteen minutes.

Just a drive bye. Was checking to see when a woot package was coming this week. Good night

I prefer corn grilled in husk, Orc doesn't like it that way because it's harder to get the hot husk off the corn. If I grill or campfire corn I leave them in husk, he strips and wraps in foil. I don't care for grill marks on my corn.

Don't feel like watching the Olympics in Norwegian or Swedish, and I don't feel like trying to get a British proxy to catch the BBC broadcast, so I'm not watching the Olympics at all. Kinda feel like I'm missing out, but I guess I'm not missing much more than the average American.

Hoping to watch Curiosity land with the kids, that will be exciting at least.

Night all. Tomorrow.

Good morning all.

Mornin', folks.

KtCallista wrote:We have plenty of ways to kill ourselves left. I think the biggest issue is that these look like toys, serve a very limited useful purpose and non-parents and people who shouldn't be parents can't tell that these are inappropriate for children - and how dangerous they can be. I think of all the magnetic executive toys that I played with as a kid while my parents dealt with bankers, auto loan guys, tractor parts guys, etc. This would fulfill that roll and if the guy whose desk it was on didn't think about the kid warning since he got it in a white elephant in the last office Christmas and stuck it on his desk and while he's got Mom and Dad's attention junior pops a couple little round magnetic candies.... wow that's a really bad thing for that dude. It wasn't even his kid. And what about the plethora of clueless grandmas? I mean the number of inappropriate gifts bought by well meaning and uninformed grandparents is astronomical. Besides baby walkers are still legal in the US and they kill more kids when inattentive parents, grandparents, and babysitters stick a kid in those and let them fall into things than buckyballs.

*off soapbox*

*on soapbox*

From an editorial, "A dozen swallowing incidents have been linked by the CPSC to Buckyballs since 2009. Compare that to the estimated 30,000 emergency room visits that occur every year as a result of children swallowing government-minted coins.

There are no fewer than five cautionary labels on every Buckyballs or Buckycubes product box; the company distributes an educational video on the dangers of swallowing the toys."

Don't blame the toy.

*off soapbox*

Good morning everybody! We have had more rain. The carpet on the porch is mildewing. Ick. Somehow I don't think spraying Clorox water on it would be good for the carpet. I don't have a carpet machine to extract the water. I bet this is one of the reasons so many of my neighbors have glassed in their porches!

KtCallista wrote:
Don't feel like watching the Olympics in Norwegian or Swedish, and I don't feel like trying to get a British proxy to catch the BBC broadcast, so I'm not watching the Olympics at all.

I've always used BBC Player to watch BBC coverage of stuff, not used it in a while, but was a fairly automated way to use TOR with an exit point in Britain.

Oh.. and as for cooking corn, it's either...

Not husked and soaked for an hour or 2 in water then grilled.

Husked then brushed with olive oil then grilled

or husked and wrapped with salted butter and baked.

I love eating corn picked the same day, and do like grill marks on it (but don't mind not having them either)

joyner wrote:Good morning everybody! We have had more rain. The carpet on the porch is mildewing. Ick. Somehow I don't think spraying Clorox water on it would be good for the carpet. I don't have a carpet machine to extract the water. I bet this is one of the reasons so many of my neighbors have glassed in their porches!

My lanai which is roofed over then open to pool area gets soaked when it pours and the gutter above it cannot handle the downpour. If it stays wet, as it did when I was away- mildew forms along the edge. Since it is specially made for outdoor use, I poured straight chlorine on it - watched it fade to nothing - and then rinsed it off thoroughly. However, if you don't know if that is possible on your carpet, I would not do it unless you can do a test patch somewhere where it will not show.

AND good morning everybody! Getting ready or trying to - get back out to SEA area. My ribcage is still terribly painful from fall. Must not cough, laugh, bend, sit, reach, etc. Makes it a tad difficult to say to least.

klozitshoper wrote:AND good morning everybody! Getting ready or trying to - get back out to SEA area. My ribcage is still terribly painful from fall. Must not cough, laugh, bend, sit, reach, etc. Makes it a tad difficult to say to least.

Ouch! Take it easy!

inkycatz wrote:Ouch! Take it easy!

Darn it, I have no choice! Even sitting at computer gets painful. It is not easy to trip over your own shoe, especially when you are wearing it!! Will go back out to Woodinville to the 20 some tasting rooms to blunt the pain!!

klozitshoper wrote:AND good morning everybody! Getting ready or trying to - get back out to SEA area. My ribcage is still terribly painful from fall. Must not cough, laugh, bend, sit, reach, etc. Makes it a tad difficult to say to least.

How did I miss this? What happened? What's SEA?

Hey PWA!

Love the woot shirt this morning -- works for me on so many levels. And printed on green, too! Haven't bought any woot shirts for some time, but this one was an instant must-have.

And agree w/ AZG about how silly the buckyball ban is. So many other common items out there which cause many many more childhood injuries every year, and they chose to ban these?

pooflady wrote:How did I miss this? What happened? What's SEA?

I believe she's heading back to Seattle.

Turken wrote:Hey PWA!

Love the woot shirt this morning -- works for me on so many levels. And printed on green, too! Haven't bought any woot shirts for some time, but this one was an instant must-have.

And agree w/ AZG about how silly the buckyball ban is. So many other common items out there which cause many many more childhood injuries every year, and they chose to ban these?

Low-hanging fruit, I guess?

I love today's shirt, not for me, but I love that it is on green.

ThunderThighs wrote:Since I'm awake for a bit and there's quite a few of you here, I have a question for you....

Since our servers are now in the cloud, we're not as constrained on resources as we were in the past.

What that means for PWA is that we don't really HAVE to cap the threads at 100 pages any more. We've continued to do it since it was always a fun game to go for last post and start a new thread.

Seems like the chase has died down a bit now though so the question is...

Do you want to continue the cap at 100 pages or move it out some... say 300. A 500 page thread might be a little daunting for a new wooter and a little unwieldy.

Obviously, last post can continue to have the cap if y'all want. The word threads could go a bit longer too if you want.

Discuss? Thoughts?

Sure...now you go and remove the cap.

There was really no reason for it in the first place, and if there was, woot needed better programmers.

Yeesh.

ThunderThighs wrote:Since I'm awake for a bit and there's quite a few of you here, I have a question for you....

Since our servers are now in the cloud, we're not as constrained on resources as we were in the past.

What that means for PWA is that we don't really HAVE to cap the threads at 100 pages any more. We've continued to do it since it was always a fun game to go for last post and start a new thread.

Seems like the chase has died down a bit now though so the question is...

Do you want to continue the cap at 100 pages or move it out some... say 300. A 500 page thread might be a little daunting for a new wooter and a little unwieldy.

Obviously, last post can continue to have the cap if y'all want. The word threads could go a bit longer too if you want.

Discuss? Thoughts?

I prefer having an end in sight, but not averse to it trailing out some; if we could get the mods to agree to occasionally "let it ride!" I like having the name change periodically.

AZGman wrote:I prefer having an end in sight, but not averse to it trailing out some; if we could get the mods to agree to occasionally "let it ride!" I like having the name change periodically.

agree with this.

ThunderThighs wrote:Son has pneumonia.

buckyballs.

ThunderThighs wrote:Maisy has been throwing up nonstop all day.

buckyballs.

ThunderThighs wrote:My hip got whacked out again

buckyballs!

ThunderThighs wrote: Please report it via the Beta Feedback.

Last time I tried to click the button, it didn't work.!

dougall wrote:Last time I tried to click the button, it didn't work.!

buckyballs are the root cause.

no1 wrote:buckyballs are the root cause.

That's it.. I'm switching to rare earth magnetic spheres imported from China.