Something to lighten the mood

[boswald]

The fifth type is the engineer - because he knows the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

The sixth type is the realist--the glass is full, half with liquid and half with gas.

 

[wiseoldtech]

For a decade we HAD to use IE to get Windows Patches (don't say update).

I was startled to see that in Win10, updates are a different program (Settings??), and that 10 minutes of hacking killed 98% of MS's calls to the new MS browser. However Windows Help is liable to run an EDGE search on BING and turn-up scuzzy websites before MS's own helpless help pages. (Rarely this works in my favor.)

I disabled Edge on this Win10 computer.
Default browser is Firefox and it runs just fine!

 

[daqvin_carter]

I disabled Edge on this Win10 computer.
Default browser is Firefox and it runs just fine!

I have a work laptop and needed to run Firefox for a site test. I got the pitiful message saying "Please try Microsoft Edge instead. You will love it".

 

[Cal Weldon]

My boy came home from high school today and said he got 0/4 on a biology question. The question was:
Name four advantages of breast milk.
His answers?

1. Can't be stolen
2. Available whenever needed
3. Pre-warmed
4. Served in attractive containers

I'm not sure what's wrong with his teacher.

 

[lcsaszar]

A sysadmin prepares two glass of water on his bedside in the evening: one full in case he'll got thirsty at night, and one empty in case he won't.

 

[Galu]

Milk/teacher related joke thingy:

 

[Galu]

Let's take a deep breath.

 

[Cal Weldon]

And a deeper one if you don't want big Cal to be mean. Let's not lose track here. It's so easy to delete posts and make you ride the pine. Stay the **** away from that sort of thing would be my advice.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

 

[Galu]

Cal, did I detect a baseball reference?

 

[boswald]

Hockey.

(Unless it's a sexual threat.)

 

[techtool]

Maybe there's still hope...

 

[AllenB]

I thought ride the pine meant getting bodily tossed down some kind of disposal slide. I wouldn't have equated ride with sitting still.. unless you were to straddle the seat and add a pair of handlebars.. vroom.

 

[wg_ski]

I thought “pine” referred to the pine bench one SITS on while the rest of the team gets to play.

 

[Galu]

To "ride the pine" is to "sit on the bench" - I looked it up.

ride the pine. In sports (especially baseball), to remain sitting on the bench, rather than be an active participant in the game.

 

[Galu]

Relax.

 

[boswald]

To "ride the pine" is to "sit on the bench" - I looked it up.

Oddly, in Pennsylvania, my friends and me playing both, I only heard 'pine' in hockey. In baseball it was just a bench.

 

[Galu]

Where does Dracula buy his pencils?

Pennsylvania.

 

[AllenB]

I looked it up.

Here you work at a bench, you don't sit on one.

 

[techtool]

In the court room, the Honorable Judge sits on the bench and is in charge of everything. All others must request permission to even approach the bench.
In sports, the guy on the bench is probably the least important.
Makes one pine for consistent definitions.

 

[Cal Weldon]

I leave for a couple hours and look what the inmates get up to.

Yes, riding the pine and being benched are one and the same.

And yes again, the word bench also means a type of table, oft referred to as workbench. If I were to guess, I'd say bench just means a horizontal surface, supported by legs, on which to place things. How it differs from a table?

Only the Shadow knows.