Daily Discussion Thread:🍺 Fri 15 Mar 2024

Officially signed the contract. I'm now a Project Manager.

Fuuuuuuuuuck yeeeeeees!

Happy Birthday Baku.

OMG I didn't see this! Thank you (and the 12 people who upvoted it!) you're the best
- Happy Birthday!
- I was waiting for you to confirm this.
  Happy Birthday Baku 🎉

I put in an application to volunteer at a cattery, and originally had to sign up for the orientation in April, but! They had a couple of cancellations so I get to attend tomorrow instead!

Yay! Finally, things are starting to turn around! Have to be up at sparrows fart though, to travel on two trams out to the SE, but definitely worth it!

Nice work! Sounds like it'll be a lot of fun!
That sounds like so much fun!
- As much fun as herding cats?

I'm hosting a training session this morning, but my new gaming rig JUST arrived. VERY tempted to go "Ok gang! Today we're setting up Windows 11 and installing steam and drivers! Are we ready? First up, does anyone know if Helldivers 2 or Boulders Gate 3 use their own launchers? No? Ok so here's how we're going to find out!"

I don't know what any of that means but couldn't you do one of those reviews like they do on YouTube. This is the box it comes in. This is what's inside. Let's open it. Here's the instructions....... Make it stretch to a half an hour while everyone watching is thinking fucking hurry up.
How's windows 11 these days? I'm still on 10 and hesitant to upgrade. Is it stable?
- One of my 'puters is 11 and it's stable.
  Only headscratcher was TPM 2.0 which was easily worked around with rufus.
- So far? Seems stable, but yet to actually play anything. My laptop runs 11 and seems happy enough with it though.

Stayed at home today. Feeling run down and sniffly. I slept in for quite awhile and decided to make chicken bullion soup with egg and veggies in it and boiling pasta with it.

Me thinks this weekend will be mostly soups for meals.

I have quite a bit of life-admin to do today. Being an adult is so arduous sometimes. 😭

Wow! Lucky they warned me 🤣

We still doing the 5G thing? Damn.
- We're a little behind out here in the west
I did warm calling for SP Ausnet, back when they were installing smart meters. Boy oh boy, the amount of drivel I heard about the "dangers of 5G". Literally had one guy threaten to shoot our tech and myself. (I got him a police escort instead haha).
People are wack af
- Funny how they still use their phones and microwaves lol

Cool neighbour is going travelling for like 12 months and leaving a set of keys with me.

Basically told me to have at anything that edible, potable or smoke able.

He's a good egg

Do you get the use of his car? Is it better than yours?
- He sold his car recently. So no.
careful with that time machine
- I'm cool with that one. The Gimp dungeon is where it gets interesting.

Cheers everyone 🍺. Sorry @Force_majeure123@aussie.zone

Forgot to mention Mrs's B's car got a good mechanical check, its with the mechanic today getting the RWC sorted but so far it looks and feels pretty good for a 12 year old car. Might need to replace the stereo with something carplay compatible though. Lets just say Bluetooth tech has come a long way.

Definitely socking away money for carplay installation if I get a car without one (likely). Can't live without it now after getting used to it. So much safer than phone on a cradle
Awesome news! Hope this one is a keeper!

Shit 2 weeks at work and I'm OK? It's my job to look after my people even if they have fucked up and they have

But I'm not doing great generally. I'm feeling worn down. I will literally expend my all my energy to provide support for my team, but I'm flagging.

Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns
Now my house smells of
Hot cross buns
If your daughters don't like them
Give them all to me
I will happily take them
Hot cross buns

The crow remake looks like a piece of shit.

Time to torrent the old one and watch it tonight in 4k.

I’m fed up with remakes in general. Yes, there are purportedly only X number of plots, but you could at least try to make something new.
- Some things need a remake. Lord of the Rings needed the remake and is now outstanding. Dune needed a remake, though I don't know if the new one is good.
  The Mummy did not need a remake.
  Total Recall did not need a remake.
  The Crow did not need a remake.
I'm shocked at how oddly nondescript it looks. It looks like a boring revenge flick. What's up with all these revenge flicks anyway? Someone needs to make a cinematic universe revenge crossover spoof series. Where's Leslie Nielsen when we needed him most. Oh, right. Yeah.

World Sleep Day?

Blessed I have nothing to get up for tomorrow morning. ✨

Wot she said ⬆️ 3am. Gah.

The FishieCAT has earned a hat trick for disconnecting the internet three days in a row. It would help if the moron who installed the NBN box knew what plaster plugs were (or put it on the same wall as a power point)

My bird :(

I went on the puffing billy today. I didn't like it, but TIL that anything can become fun if you have people to shit talk with

Also maccas was broken. No drive through, no app, no self serve, no chocolate ice cream, no frappes, no receipts, no registers. They were hand writing the orders. I really did take a trip back in time today

The maccas outage is apparently world wide or nearly. link
- Maccageddon.
- Oh wild. I thought my maccas was just uniquely fucked.
  They were still taking EFTPOS payments, I'm pretty sure that at least for my store the issue was only that the orders could be put through, but the screens displaying them were all broken, so they closed the self serve and drive through so that people's orders wouldn't be losf
There's a Maccas out Puffing Billy way? I thought they protested that
Edit: Oh ok. They're in a bunch of places out there now
- Idk whether there are or not, but we stopped at this maccas on the way back, so the other side of the city

Any music makers in here? Just curious.

In the last couple of years I've been learning drums. Have had a few jams with a mate on guitar. Does that count? Tell me I'm an ARTIST!
- It absolutely counts! Electric kit or acoustic?
- if you do stuff you're an artist
  but being an artist who is famous and earns a good living, that's something different again
  some people want to be famous, some just want to do their stuff and maybe make themselves and other people happy and that's enough
🎺
Can I ask what genre of music you make? Where do you get your inspiration from? Favourite bands?
- Hi! Sorry for the late reply 🙂
  I listen to everything from Ben Harper and Jeff Buckley, to nine inch nails and Deftones.
  My inspiration mainly comes from my past and my day to day life. I find it I'm being a hermit then I lack inspiration. I need experiences to push my creative buttons.
  These days I mainly make acoustic singer songwriter stuff, play in a punk band, and also make my own "Egyptian industrial" weird thing lol
  How about yourself?

some people might want to his dog pictures :)
they might not be able to have a dog and are living vicariously

Metal detectors at the G.

Rumours of my criminality precede me

I saw them doing sniffer drug dogs at Oakleigh station early last year. It was a full scale operation, with command vehicles and everything. Kinda wanted to go through it just because I've never experienced it before, but my roommate was smoking a lot of weed and I didn't want to end up being strip searched so I just took photos of them from a safe distance away instead

I've never been the type of person who plays online games. But this helldivers game is pretty fun.

my rig just arrived today. DEFFO giving this a go.
Is it because it's coop instead of competitive? Or because spreading managed democracy is just that fun?
- I generally stick to single player story driven stuff. But this is really, really cool.

I'm thinking about the milky caffeinated dumplings (edit) @Force_majeure123 was dreaming of.

I have zero energy, lactose intolerance and my stomach is being a massive jerk so I can also only dream. But I found a coffee pastry cream recipe. You could probably stir some condensed milk in there too for a Vietnamese coffee sort of taste.

I was thinking the thin slippery unleavened dumpling skins might not go well unless you wanted to fake it with mochi or use one intended for sweet buns. I wondered about sweetening a pork bun dough recipe and making it like bao.

Then I found out Cantonese custard buns exist. Perhaps if you cooked the pastry cream down thick enough or added coffee to the intended custard filling it might work. It doesn't look quite creamy though. These are more complicated but look runnier.

Actually... the supermarket used to sell tubes of coffee flavoured condensed milk. You could put the flat dough skins in muffin trays to hold up the edges against spillage, squeeze it into the centre and quickly wrap it inside. I can't see the coffee tubes at Woolies or Coles but there are still tins you can spoon it out of... unfortunately the brand is Nestle.

Or chocolate steamed buns with white chocolate for the ganache.

I love that you have put so much thought into this!! I think the 'more complicated' Cantonese custard buns look like the closest to my dream - but it was even runnier. I feel like you could just add some caffeine powder to that and it would be the one. Strangely enough - in my dream the dumplings were caffeinated for sure, but were not coffee flavoured, just milk flavour. Maybe I need to think about it it patenting this idea... 🤔
- Yeah I love weird food science. It's interesting to think about. There was this Wonka book when I was a kid that let you make edible marshmallow pillows.
  Sounds like a great breakfast idea, or perfect for an afternoon slump
  Edit: The filling sounds like an unfrozen 'sweet cream' flavour icecream base
I think steamed is probably the way to go. The filling would need to be either frozen or some sort of gel to melt when you cook the outside. Not going to try it, coffee disagrees with me.
- You could use invertase like in chocolate cherries. I have no idea how it would respond to heat though. Would it speed the liquification, get denatured/not survive the cooking process, or would it still take weeks as the dough went stale...
  Freezing is possible. They do it for Bombe Alaska. But it could cause the filling to split

Might take today off. You can have a super short week if you and the kids are sick

the kids are ALWAYS sick. At least thats my experience so far.
- I read somewhere kids get on average 11 viruses a year.

I know it's world sleep day but I don't wanna. After sleep comes waking up and going to work and I am really not ready for that.

tomorrow is day of the book smugglers in lithuania
- 🤣
- This interests me. ( these people are heroes )
  Opposing imperial Russian authorities' efforts to replace the traditional Latin orthography with Cyrillic, and transporting printed matter from as far away as the United States to do so, the book smugglers became a symbol of Lithuanians' resistance to Russification.
  Book smuggler Jurgis Bielinis, who created a secret distribution network for banned Lithuanian books, was born on 16 March 1846, and this date is commemorated in Lithuania as the Day of the Book Smugglers (Knygnešio diena).[5]
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_book_smugglers
I'm trying not to remember to set my alarm. I do like my job, and have a reasonable day in terms of clients and colleagues but I don't want the alarm.....

Currently sitting here in South Aus where I'm waiting for the 30 min time difference to tick over so that I can comment in the Saturday 15th thread

Go

Boss calls: "Can you please call supplier and organise X?" Me: does exactly that and notifies people boss requested Half hour later, supplier calls: "Your boss just rang and asked for Y, can you please confirm?"

WHYYYYY ask me to do something, if you're just going to call up and arrange different shit?!

Actual comment on my just-submitted Pull Request:
Odds of this build working first time are about the same as Daniel Riccardo winning next weekend. Not 0%, but not 90% either.

But we'd really like him to win. Does that count for extra %?
- I don't think even Max would be angry if Danny got that dream win in Australia.

My CBDA oil and THC balm arrived in the mail today. Just so happened I had a cracking headache at lunch so I rubbed some balm on my temples and back of neck as described and it has actually fixed me right up!

You can literally just order this stuff online from a normal website. I had no idea. You do have to pay $1 to join their community, then you get access to the store and just buy stuff. Can't wait until our country catches up to other countries and we can head down to the local dispensary.

Hadnt heard of CBDA, you kinda can go to a dispensary here but you obviously need a prescription but they are fairly easy to get. That being said i dont think CBDA is available yet?
I never had any issues ordering CBD online but i think its technically not legal and i have dispensary down the end of my street so decided to just get the prescription
- I have a prescription, for CBD oil and some flower, to treat CPTSD-induced insomnia. Literally a miracle drug imo.

I just made some passionfruit cheesecake on pavlova cups with berry sauce. mmm mmm mmm delicious

It plays for me and I still need a dozen please.
This is showing as an unplayable video, but imma gonna like it anyway because passionfruit
- I eated it. Can't take a photo until I make more up tommorrow.
I'll take a dozen thanks.
- they are lactose free as well 👍
Playable for me! Looks yum, and agile!
As below, this shows as unplayable vid for me as well
Can’t see it but would still like a dozen here too, please

The week after I got my breadmaker, I discovered my really itchy eczema rash I'd had for a year could be gluten related. So I cut out gluten and wasted $180 on a breadmaker.

3 weeks later when I had little one over, decided to use the last packet to make bread and because I have zero self control and the smell of it made me drool I had some and no rash/no return/nothing (but still staying away from gluten if I can).

My body is a mystery.

Hola

Morning mother

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

An absence of pastry and a sleeping pill please
- 🥩💊
craving steak right now
- 🥩
Bacon and egg muffin with a hash brown please
- 🥓🍳🧀🧁🥔
Mapo tofu and rice please
- 🌶️▫️▫️🍚

The CCP left a voicemail with loud bangs at the end.

"fireworks" 🎆🎇🎇🎆 be gone you foreign devil

It took about a minute for the hot chip line to run out of chips

Work complete.

Jack on, water bottle full, and I’m off to the footy 🏉

I'm no expert, but i'm pretty sure you're supposed to jack off
Go Sydney! 😆
I'll be equally delighted and stunned if the Swans win.
- Against all odds I’ve actually tipped the Swannies to take this one.
  With the fury of Grundy and hopefully their midfield I’m hoping they’ll overrun the pies.

Gosh I had such a good streak going and then last Sunday I became a couch potato cuz it was like 89494 degrees outside 😪

I'm pretty proud of my eggplant and golden capsicum stir fry with jazzed up tvp (soaked unflavoured larger pieces in salt water, squeezed them out, blitzed in processor, cooked up in a highly flavoured sauce).

I added too much of my fiery chilli paste tho and between that and the excess sodium I'm sure the outer layer of my lips and palate will be gone by tomorrow morning. Sure is restaurant quality though. A bit greasy and moreish

Black rice vinegar is good for cutting down the heat. I find that upping the sweetness and acidity can mellow out some heat.
Looks good though, for sure.
- Oh that's a good idea. It's been on my to buy list for ages. I did add some brown sugar to the mix, will definitely try a different vinegar too next time.

Up to Harry Potter 7.

Just another fight for world domination story.

All these nuts are the same. Blofeld, Dr Evil, Putin, Smersh, Voldemort.

Dr. Claw, Skeletor, Brain, Shredder, Baron von Greenback...
Edit: I think I just aged myself big time =)
- In my fave action adventure show as a kid, Thunderbirds, there was no evil organisation trying to take over the world 🤔
- https://youtu.be/lZBQ0tXA-QM?si=WSYleFDK32pLXYci
- Appleman, Texas Pete
Voldy was more nuanced than that. The movies don't really cover it that well, but his big motivator was to be special. He used control of the ministry and domination of the muggles as a carrot for his supporters. But at a personal level, he didn't care about power and control as end goals.
He wanted to be the most renown, feared and admired person in the world. He wanted to be so special that everyone just did whatever he wanted. Not that he wanted to rule the world - but whoever did rule it answered to his every whim.
It's a very petty and vain motivator. But, I can actually believe it. Actually ruling the world sounds like too much work.

What's for dinner folks? I'm thinking either Chinese style eggplant with capsicum and minced tvp to go with rice, or a quick dal to go with upma (savoury semolina mush)

salmon veggies rice
- I could go for that. Grilled salmon?
A weird gin & beer combo that was 50% off.
- Also sounds like what you need - hopefully it recharges you. Or makes you get funky, as needed.
Chicken and chorizo sub topped with whipped spinach and feta, red onion and roquette
- That'd be an easy $23 at a cafe. Sounds tantalising!
Chicken soup with pasta for me.
- Sounds like what you need - hopefully it recharges you.
Depends what I find near my seat at the G
- May it be satisfying and mood-boosting!
Mexican restaurant with a mate to celebrate the job news. Haven't been to St Kilda in ages. I might move back that way in a couple of months
- Onya, you definitely deserve a Friday night out. I'd have a look at adjacent suburbs like St Kilda East, even Elwood and Balaclava aren't as prissy as I thought they would be (I know that's why you moved out of your last suburb).

ok, so I reupped my sub to nyt for the xwords

I used to do them years ago, would buy the print books

I'm due to make my ~quarterly subscription movie/tv show switch from paramount to somewhere else. Who's got a good tv show I should watch that's recently released somewhere?

Switch to plex and watch whatever TF you want whenever you feel like it until the end of time (or your hard drive fails)?
- Never heard of Plex before wow. Looks kinda... Awesome?!