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[bainidhe_dub]

I stole the password from my old office to use at my new job. It has numbers so it's easier to change when the system demands it. I only have one program where I'm using my personal password since it doesn't have to change, and I do get mixed up sometimes.

[Welu]

I have two types of passwords that both have elements I can rotate around, since my college password makes you change it every six weeks and it won't let you use a previous password.

I work at the Video Online team at my faculty in University, so the log in is Video Online.

The password is audiooffline.

Someone had a very creative moment there.

In my college a student can use a mac with a very easy to guess password. I also heard the password to the college WiFi was something like, "GetMeTheHellOutOfHere" but never chanced entering it.

[Loki]

I work at the Video Online team at my faculty in University, so the log in is Video Online.

The password is audiooffline.

Someone had a very creative moment there.

You should be careful what you publish online 

[Masterpiece]

you'd have to have local access to the machine, which you don't. That mac doesn't exist in the university network, which coincidentally can also only be accessed through PCs connected to it.

[Loki]

It should be easy enough to find out where it is physically located, then ... uhm.

[Masterpiece]

good luck getting through the locked door(s)

[mtmerrick]

Dammit,  they're shutting down/retiring San Onofre. >_< And no indication they're gonna be replacing it with a new one either.

We need more nukes,  not less. >_<

Here's to a big 'ol hike in our electric bill.  >_>

[Masterpiece]

We need more nukes,  not less. >_<

Chernobyl would say otherwise. But this is not the Discuss thread so I'm not going to discuss this further.

[pwhodges]

When Britain shuts down its last nuclear power station, it will no longer have sufficient native generating capacity for peak winter requirements.  We already import electricity from France, who have built nuclear power plants to supply us - how crazy is that?  And don't get me started on the misconceptions about Chernobyl (my wife used to lecture on the subject).

But this is not the Discuss thread so I'm not going to discuss this further.

You're better disciplined than me!

[Loki]

What do you call a group of human females? A flock? A herd? A murder?

[Carl-E]

Gaggle? 

[mtmerrick]

Discuss thread for nuclear power?

And the scientifically accurate answer is "clique"

[Loki]

....

In certain regions of Holland, a Gaggle can also refer to a group of adolescent females.

Primo, I think clique refers to a social construct, I am looking for the more... quantitative term.

[Welu]

I discovered a town in Northern Ireland colloquially refers to women/girls as "blades". I doubt that's the spelling and I don't know the reason but there ya go.

[Valdís]

Chernobyl would say otherwise.

I live next to a Nuclear Power-plant and I disagree. They are unequivocally a good thing in all ways.

Humans are just ridiculous and panicky about it.

[Game and Watch Forever]

I was looking at the forum on my phone and accidentally hit the "mark all messages as read" button. Now I'm wondering if I missed anything important. 

EDIT: Actually, I realized I care less about missing what anyone says and more about the fact that the forum looks naked without all the "NEW" tags. For god's sake put some clothes on you guys! 

[Loki]

I am sorry

[Zingoleb]

i've decided that forties don't come in packs, they come in regrets

[Is it cold in here?]

Death to passwords.

[TinPenguin]

What do you call a group of human females? A flock? A herd? A murder?

According to this, it's either a bevy or a gaggle. Which seems slightly sexist as they are both collective nouns for birds.

When Britain shuts down its last nuclear power station, it will no longer have sufficient native generating capacity for peak winter requirements.  We already import electricity from France, who have built nuclear power plants to supply us - how crazy is that?

Don't think of it as importation; think of it as enslavement of the ancient enemy.

[Loki]

And the best part is, you can brag about it on the Internet in English and they won't understand it

[LTK]

I wonder if anyone ever tried to improve the design of the fork we've all been using for, what, hundreds of years?

[Loki]

Huh. That's an interesting question. There are, obviously, certain kinds of forks optimized for certain kinds of food, such as the cake fork. Your question made me read the (German) Wikipedia article on forks. It lists at least ten kind of forks (including those which are used simply for serving meat and the like). Also, it points out that the relevant edge of the cake fork is on the left side, which, I suppose, is optimized for right-handers. Are there "flipped" forks for left-handers, I wonder?

Relevant:

http://xkcd.com/419/

Also, regarding

what, hundreds of years?

It says that at least the ancient Romans used forks, but mostly for serving, not for eating.

[TinPenguin]

The Romans also used forks as a method of execution.

[BeoPuppy]

How do you read alt text on an ipad?

... Not random, at all really, but I just don't know ...

[pwhodges]

Try this

If you're thinking specifically of comics like xkcd, than the app Comic Chameleon will display it.

[cesium133]

Google's tracking may have missed its mark a bit on me...

(click to show/hide)

[Loki]

How do you read alt text on an ipad?

... Not random, at all really, but I just don't know ...

For xkcd try http://m.xkcd.com. You should be able to click the text that says "alt-text".

[GarandMarine]

Is it weird I prefer chopsticks to forks and spoons? I just find they're easier to use for pretty much everything.

That isn't a 20oz steak, but I tend to eat that by tearing chunks out of it in the corner growling at any one who gets close any way.

[Loki]

How do you eat soup with chopsticks?

I agree they have their uses, and I do use them for Asian food up to a point, but they also have their limits.

[GarandMarine]

Bowl to mouth.

[ackblom12]

Also the greatest soup spoons to ever be made.

[BeoPuppy]

Thanks PW, Loki.

[Emoroffle]

mm Pecan pie. Also I will only pop in periodically due to my new laptop being windows 8 and thus not compatible with my modem. I miss my FFXI character so much. Siren represent!

[Patrick]

Easy

ITT Paul googles things for us

[Pilchard123]

So, what bleach-requiring things can we trick him into searching for?

[pwhodges]

You called?

[Zingoleb]

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[pwhodges]

No, Unicorn - just no (and before you come over aggrieved, you must know that I would have done the same whoever had posted that).

[Zingoleb]

i have a cat in the shape of a teapot. the head comes off, it how you fill it up.

so read what you want.

[Patrick]

did you know they have pins that show all the different kinds of meat there are? fun to wear at vegan conventions. see meatspin.com for more info!

(NSFW)

[pwhodges]

i have a cat in the shape of a teapot. the head comes off, it how you fill it up.

so read what you want.

Well OK, maybe you had me fooled there (though I did wonder for a time if it was a Bleach reference that I didn't get; after all, there's a scene in the Evangelion manga where a kitten's neck is broken) - but c'mon, it was not a pleasant read as it stood.  If actually presented as a riddle, perhaps...

[Zingoleb]

how's the line go - art should disturb the comfortable and comfOrr the disturbed?(?

[Is it cold in here?]

A cat in the shape of a teapot is a much stranger and more remarkable thing than a teapot in the shape of a cat.

Choo Choo Bear could do it, I suppose.

[ChaoSera]

Choo Choo Bear could do it, I suppose.

Pretty much what I thought.

But now I keep wondering what was there in Unicorn's post that you censored. I can't get it out of my head.

[pwhodges]

how's the line go - art should disturb the comfortable and comfOrr the disturbed?(?

Sure; but being disturbing doesn't in itself make it art.

[Zingoleb]

no, but what i wrote was art nonetheless, and here i'll post it again for those curious:

(click to show/hide)

today i wrapped my fingers around my cats head and i
gently slowly twisted until it came clean off and i
poured boiling water down her throat until
it spilled all down her front and left her silent and soaked and
unresponsive

and it made me think of when i was small and i
had found my muse and i
knew she was so very beautiful that all i
could do was to kill and eat her, too.

[ChaoSera]

Hm, it's weird but not that disturbing. I've read worse (both description and poetry).

[Zingoleb]

i guess i should direct these things to the poetry thread but this thread came up and i instead just hammered that out in one go (it may yet be unfinished; i am having a professional but intense disagreement with a particularly unsavory adjective. shan't say which, mustn't say which.)

[Is it cold in here?]

Cats take on the shape of their containers, so I guess this is a cat in the shape of a teapot:
http://pinterest.com/pin/114771490474569610/