Isn't that what the "Caption This!" thread is for? What about "Name that Quest?"

Holy replies, batman!

12000 replies! And it's not even the first coffee shop thread!

Anyone else think that's a reason to celebrate?

If you think that´s cause for celebration, take a look at the Everything Thread..

Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woooooooooooooooooooo!

I don´t get it. I´ve always been a bachelor but I don´t see the big deal with it..

That’s a nice looking number!

Urgh!!...Just changed the skin to that one...I scaaaared!... ...*Changes back*...Ahhh... ...

Still, very cool number that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor's_degree

Here’s a postcard from Grits World.

The Girl is relaxing on the couch before school. Grits is wandering around playing with her new toy.


Grits: Look. I just got a decibel meter for my phone.

The Girl: *removes earbud* What for?

Grits: To prove that your dad eats potato chips louder than any other human. Only dogs eat them louder.

The Girl: …

Grits: So I shall inform you how loud every noise is, starting now.

The Girl: *laughs*

Grits: Fifty-seven decibels.

The Girl: *replaces earbud* Hashtag nerd life.

@Grits: So how loud do you type?


I'll grab a beer! Wait... It's only noon.


Thanks!


Now I have a fancy piece of paper making it official!

@KC: You got a fancy piece of paper! I got the second carbon from a computer printout with mine.

The "Associate of the Royal College of Science" certificate that came along with it was way more impressive than the degree itself.

Technically I don't have the fancy paper yet... it should be in the mail sometime soon. Lol I hope mine is nicer than a printout! Ah what would it really matter if it was though.

These vignettes always make me laugh. Thank you.

The story that follows is not as good- but is probably representative- or something....

So when one becomes a Doggie of a Certain Age, one does not sleep through the night, because of... reasons™.

When I have to go on one of those excursions, I do not bother with my glasses- or to turn on any lights- in fact, I try to stay as close to still asleep as possible.

So, several nights ago, I wander down the hall and into the bathroom. The black and white cat is resting on the throw rug- which is not unusual for him- keeps his belly warm and the rest of him in the air-conditioning. Just as I am beginning the process of ... removing hydraulic pressure... I feel something small and fuzzy "tap" my foot. Then the yellow Princess cat darts past my legs. "Oh- just a small, delicate kitty paw," I think.

Mission accomplished, I step out and see that Princess Kitty and her cohorts are chasing a live mouse. The same one she just dropped on my foot...

So, my aunt is making it all difficult with how we´re gonna break up the farm, and so is our other neighbour. I swear, someday I´m gonna [censored] kill someone!!

Wish I could say I hadn't seen that coming... ...

My sympathies matey...Hopefully it'll work out alright for all of you...



@Treydog... ...Lights man!!...Lights!...*Shudders*...Furries...Yick...

Thanks, McB. But right now I´m having anything but light, fuzzy thoughts...

treydog, that is hilarious! I’m glad you didn’t realize it was a mouse at the moment of contact! Princess kitty must love you lots to share her midnight game with you.

Good luck, mirocu. It will all be decided some day.

It’s a gorgeous day in Grits world. The Grits males are engaged in some frightful event called “Sports Day” that thankfully has nothing to do with me. The Girl and I are going out for coffee soon. Our local shop has a very nice potted garden/patio area. And today it’s a little too windy for the bees.

trey - Mice that go pee in the night.

mirocu - Sorry to hear the farm's disposition is still being troublesome.

Grits - Enjoy the girls' morning out for coffee!

Hi people! I've no idea of how long it's been since I last posted anything here, so it's probably about time to post an update and let you guys know I'm alive.

Because of various reasons (studying for my drivers licence, school, my upcoming trip to Africa next term, earning money for that upcoming trip) I've been incredibly busy and have been forced to prioritise things that aren't writing or orienteering. Life's good though, partly because I've been so busy. I've finally managed to get a job over the summer, I'm pretty certain I'll be ready to get my licence as soon as I finish the theory stuff I need to do online, my trip is now a certainty, and next week is the last week of school Well, for this term at least.

I'm not likely to get back to regularly posting anytime soon, but I hope everyone's alright. And for those of you who're having troubles, I hope it all works out.

Great to hear from you, Saquira, and thanks for checking in. Your trip sounds exciting! Great that you found a job to help fund things. Don't be a stranger!

It has been a while, glad to hear from you and that things seem to be going well even if they are busy.

YAY!!... ...

Awesome news!...Just watch yourself in that there Africa...The news is never happy when it comes from that direction, these days... ...


Very nice to see you though!...

LISTEN !!

I will make a statement!!


I HAVE NOT changed my post count!!! I do NOT know HOW to do that SOOOO!

And I do NOT lock threads.....

I´m off on Saturday to look on some small excavators

What do you mean, I´ve gone on about them?

Anyway.... It´ll probably be either one of the below. The first is very slightly bigger than the other but the other has expandable tracks. We´ll see which one I get..!

Bigger

Smaller with expandable tracks

@minque - But then how did you suddenly get 98676 posts??

Official information: Moderators cannot modify post counts at all. It is impossible.

Rather, I am very proud to announce that Chorrol.com™ now sports a feature that transforms actual post counts into felt post counts. This new and innovative high technology feature allows us to more accurately display post counts than in the past when we used negative value quantum interpositioning technology to quantify post counts.

Thank you and have a good day.

And here I was thinking we'd actually got Alteration magic to work.

http://i.imgur.com/242kZp3.png




Go big or go home!

It´s too big for us!

This one will have to do...

I'm leaving later today on a six day pilgrimage to visit Acadian Sr. He's heading into his ninety third summer, and I try to visit him each spring and fall.

I'll be off line the entire time, but look forward to catching up on the wonderful stories and threads that I follow when I get back.

I hope you have a lovely trip, Acadian!

Summer just hit us today, 90 degrees in Grits world. We have a couple of deer who live in our little back yard. The boy one was sprawled out in the grass this afternoon. At first glance he did not look alive, but then I saw he had his head barely up. Later he scared the crap out of me by strolling right past the window. Deer are BIG.

There’s also a new baby back there. Yesterday we had a sudden downpour and it came to the edge of the woods to look out at the rain and then jump around a little.

Have a nice trip and an even better stay with Acadian sr!

@Grits - I don´t know if I think deer are that big, but they sure are heavy to carry out of the woods even with their guts out of the way

Saw a buck today btw when I was out driving

Edit: No, I didn´t see a dollar...

Buck Rodgers?... ...


Good luck with the trip Acadian!!... ...93!!...Fair dues... ...


Gritseh!...90 degrees...Urgh... ...



Long story short...The silage is taking longer than usual, due to size of crop and weather issues...It seems to be far harder work than usual...Which is worrying, somewhat...However, the sheer volume of what's left to get in the sheds may likely mean we only need to do one more round of silage in six weeks time, as opposed to the more usual two lots, the second being around six weeks after the one I previously mention-ed-ahhh...


Hope all is well with you all... ...

I HAVE JUST BOUGHT AN EXCAVATOR!!

Pixies one, two and three


It´s due to arrive next Saturday!

Beautiful

D'awww it's a cute little thing. What are you going to name it?

Well, given those letters on the bottom there, I'd call it Eric...Eric Claptout or something... ...

Very nice...It's good to want things...Most people go for books or CDs or DVDs though...Y'know?...But, each to their own and all that... ...

He already has a name; Diggy


I´ve usually gone for games but this time I wanted something that wouldn´t look good in a collection...

WHAT? hehe....I admit I'm not a mathematician but i have studied science...now THIS beats me....

My guess?

He means that your posts are inherently important and that rather than quantifying your post count with the actual number, that your post count has been converted to a number beyond the reach of people looking to supplant your awesome posting power by means of sheer post count.

Really though, I have no idea.

Lots of love for Minque though, her and Treydog are the main reasons that I came to this site. Respect for long time members like Black Hand and of course the Admins around here too.

As Stargelman noted, mods actually don't have much power over administrative actions. This is why when people hit me with account related requests all I can do is forward it to one of the guys in charge.

Congrats on Diggy, mirocu! He’s adorable. May you move many piles of dirt together.

I’m stilling chuckling over Felt Post Counts. He blinded me with science!

It was a wild week in Grits world but now I’m on the other side of it. Although there is one critical issue to resolve. Last night while I was relaxing (finally!) on the porch with an appropriate beverage, a hawk swooped down and murdered our resident chipmunk right before my eyes. That’s not the problem, he was just doing what hawks do. BUT in my surprise and subsequent surprised juggling of glass and napkin I failed to identify him. It was not a red-tail and it was not one of the red-shouldered hawks from across the street. My best guess is a Cooper’s hawk, but he could have been a sharpie. He had a long tail. Argh! This is still bugging me.

I keep a sharpie in my backpack for writing labels by hand. I didn't know they made hawks too!

"Cooper’s hawks may also regularly take small rodents and mammals, though this is rare for sharp-shinned hawks." - suggests your best guess is probably the right one.

It will give me peace of mind to decide it was a Cooper’s. Sharp-shinned would be a new one for my back yard, and a guess after a single, brief, slightly cocktail-addled viewing is not very reliable.

In related rodent news, while stalking the feeder (through the kitchen window) this morning I have now witnessed two more chipmunks cavorting in the grass. So it did not get the single bachelor chipmunk as I imagined. In a way I suppose it missed two. Yikes. One chipmunk is cute, a family is a potential disaster. Come back, hungry hawk!

This post was found at Bethsoft and I´m re-posting it here.


Nicho, on 09 Jun 2014 - 6:02 PM, said:

I just logged in to the Nexus site and discovered a notification about a hack that occurred there recently. Apparently someone gained access to a staff account and was able to switch a number of popular files with malicious ones. There is a notice of what occurred here http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/news/12350/? with a list of the files affected. If you recently downloaded one of them you might want to remove it and scan your system thoroughly. I'll post this message in all the relevant forums so everyone knows about the incident.

It quite likely will, if it thinks it found a good spot for hunting. Have a camera handy for next time!

I was just over at the Nexus site and this was front page news on both the Oblivion and Skyrim sites. For Oblivion, OCO 2 was replaced with a malware file; on Skyrim it was SkyUI and I think SkyHair. There was a couple of others for Fallout, too. The article does a good job explaining what happened, what the malware is and does, and what was done to neutralize it. So long story short, if you downloaded a suspect file sometime within a very narrow time frame it would be best to run a virus scan and remove the file without opening or installing it.

I’m heading into a week of uncertain internet. I’ll be reading on my phone but possibly not posting. (That actually happens a lot.) Anyway I’m hoping to be awed and amazed and experience full service all week. We’ll see.

I hope all of our Chorrol dads had a wonderful Father’s Day.

Happy Fourth of July!

Yep, Happy Independence Day!