Brainless moments

[KJbushway]

I had two yestarday.

first: how the hell does someone get bit by a mosquito in the middle of their hand. literally, how does someone not notice that?

second: I noticed one of my arms is tanner than the other, then it hit me. I should probably stop putting my hand out the window when in a car.

 

[Terengo]

In a recent "Beetle Bailey" comic, someone asked Sarge what he thought when he saw a beautiful woman. He replied that he wondered how good a meatloaf she could make. The cartoonist of course was just making a joke about how sexist Sarge is, thinking a woman's worth lies in her cooking ability. I, however, misread it and thought Sarge was talking about cannibalism!

 

[Finn]

I had two yestarday.

first: how the hell does someone get bit by a mosquito in the middle of their hand. literally, how does someone not notice that?

second: I noticed one of my arms is tanner than the other, then it hit me. I should probably stop putting my hand out the window when in a car.

Sounds normal to me. Everybody finds a bug bite or a paper cut long after the injury was inflicted on them, even on their hands.

And for the arm tan, get a British car and alternate drive it with the other one.

 

[captcalhoun]

i was watching a movie with a mate once and someone in the movie mentioned the KGB. mate said 'what does KGB stand for?' i replied, 'i dunno, probably something Russian.'

no shit, sherlock.

 

[sojourner]

second: I noticed one of my arms is tanner than the other, then it hit me. I should probably stop putting my hand out the window when in a car.

That's called "trucker's arm".

 

[KJbushway]

I don't do it very often. I am just surprised because I am outside for long periods of time sometimes.

 

[Jadzia]

Cassettes are all the rage now.

Local composer Ceephax Acid Crew releases almost all of his stuff on cassettes.

I though vinyl was all the rage now. Cassettes just suck

Interesting. Some kind of analog counter-revolutionary movement?

I guess that's one way of making it more difficult for people to download your music

I think it's less about preventing downloading, and more about retro fashion. The composer I mentioned above seems to know that people put his work on youtube, and even links to some of those videos on his website.

For many people, music isn't a thing in itself, but something that is used to shape our feelings about different situations, to set a mood or create an atmosphere.

When we look at things from that perspective, being retro is just another aspect of the atmosphere that's being crafted.

For example, the ghettoblaster can be the focal point of a group of young people, that defines their image and style as much as the music it's thumping out. Then like attracts like, and the group attracts new members who feel the same personal connection to that style.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Cassettes are all the rage now.

Local composer Ceephax Acid Crew releases almost all of his stuff on cassettes.

I though vinyl was all the rage now. Cassettes just suck

Interesting. Some kind of analog counter-revolutionary movement?

I guess that's one way of making it more difficult for people to download your music: don't record it in a downloadable format. And now that dual-cassette stereos are no longer ubiquitous, it must be more difficult to make analog copies as well. People will still find a way, of course, but at least you're not making it easier for them.

But like Ar-Pharazon, I don't feel any nostalgia for cassettes. LPs, yes. Cassettes, no.

I don't have nostalgia for vinyl either, but it's renewed popularity stems from the "warm" sound that a record gives.

And they make USB connectible turntables. I got a pre-amp for my older turntable & hooked it right into the I/O thingy I had in my computer before that sound card took a dump.

Ripped a whole bunch of albums that were unavailable in other formats, including 2 that never saw the light of day except as vinyl.

 

[iBender]

I wrote about my ex girlfriend on the internet, wasn't thinking, used her name, potentially ruined her career.

 

[KJbushway]

damn.

 

[DimesDan]

Last week I had to go to my cousins wedding reception, so I decided to go in my suit. The last time I wore said suit was about a month ago for an interview, around this time a month ago I mislaid my glasses. Now after a month with out them, I was getting a wee bit panicked and thinking that I may have to get another pair. After putting my jacket on, I noticed something in the pocket and low and behold, my glasses were there.

 

[iBender]

I momentary wasn't sure how to spell my name this morning, I mean I know it, but I had to quickly recite a poem of letters in my head spelling my name.

"Be you are are oh, double'u es'

 

[rhubarbodendron]

^too many naughty dreams the previous night, I suppose?

Some years ago I twisted 2 letters and ended up giving an official permission to build a Krapfen- (doghnut) -pond instead of a Karpfen- (carp) -pond. I only noticed the typo when the pond owner called me to ask whether a special treatment of the used hot oil was required. Of course I sent him a new and typo-free permission but rumour has it that he framed the other one and hung it over his sofa. Highly embarassing...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Sadly, the first thing I saw in the word Krapfen was...well, you can see it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I got lost on my way out of a movie theater in Boston a few years ago.

I left through the screening area's exit that was in fact clearly marked EXIT, and then found myself at the end of a hallway facing another door (and only one door) which said that it was not an exit. So I went back into the theater and left through the front of the building.

So I guess the 'brainless moment' was by me AND by the architect who designed the theater.

 

[scotpens]

When I was in Israel, I worked for the art & advertising department of a hotel chain. The artwork for all their internal business forms was done by hand back then, painstakingly ruled with drafting pens and lettered with rub-on type. I didn’t know much Hebrew beyond a few basic words and phrases, and on one form I used transfer type to label a column “Number of slaves per room” in Hebrew, instead of “number of workers per room.” No one caught the error and it got printed like that. Since I was a trainee, everyone just had a good laugh about it.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ Are we certain they aren't the same in Hebrew?

It's an old language after all.

 

[Sean Aaron]

^ Are we certain they aren't the same in Hebrew?

It's an old language after all.

They have the same root so they are related, but if you're not putting in the vowels (this is normal) it's an easy mistake to make because you only need to leave out a letter:

eved (ayin vet dalet) = slave

oved (ayin vav/cholom vet dalet) = worker

There are alternate words, but this is a simple (amusing) spelling mistake.

 

[BlobVanDam]

I just had a brainless moment.

I spent 2 whole hours looking over my program code to find a bug, only to realize the problem was that I was comparing a boolean variable to an integer value, instead of true/false! Boy does my face look red! Of course it would have been nice if the compiler picked up on it. If I can't use 0/1 interchangeably with true/false, then what possible purpose is their for the compiler letting that one slide?

Yep, typical brainless moment that we can all relate to.

 

[bluedana]

I just had a brainless moment.

I spent 2 whole hours looking over my program code to find a bug, only to realize the problem was that I was comparing a boolean variable to an integer value, instead of true/false! Boy does my face look red! Of course it would have been nice if the compiler picked up on it. If I can't use 0/1 interchangeably with true/false, then what possible purpose is their for the compiler letting that one slide?

Yep, typical brainless moment that we can all relate to.

I feel even more brainless because I can't even understand your brainless moment. . .