Random Rants

[Chris]

To be clear, I'm not going to be shooting at raccoons in or around my house.  I'm hiring a pest control company to trap/remove them.  Whether they leave the house live or dead is up to the raccoons, but they will be leaving.

As for firearms laws, Texas is, not without controversy, a "Castle Doctrine" state.  Whether that's good or bad is a debate for another forum…

[apba1166]

Game 2 had Anand's weird blunder, and now an even weirder game today. Carlsen either spent the whole game re-finding the best book moves or spending too much time going through the alternatives, and then when he simply slips out of the book for one move, it's not like he drifts: he is lost instantly. So many of championship re-matches devolved into similar long-winded games of cat-and-mouse preparation and produced very paranthetical games over the long term.

[4c]

Ha! Always thought it might be urban myth or something and was never quite sure… That’s really interesting, thanks Chris!

[JCMx800]

I have to work on:
13.12
14.12
24.12
27.12
28.12
31.12
01.01
I normally work 4 days a month…

[Giles]

Double whammy.  Extra cash coming in/less going out on going out…

[Seul]

@JCMx800:

I normally work 4 days a month…

Are you a Saturday Night Gigolo?.. I feel ya though… Things are about to get hectic @work for me as well... Already have been doing basically every Sunday since urm... spring 2k14?..

Asked Jan 03-04-05 off to have a nice start for 2k15 though 

[JCMx800]

Its just a parttime job to buy IH gear, if I get more money and pass a limit, I have to pay full taxes and stuff like that…

[Seul]

Roger. Yeah that's a hard one. All those extra Sundays I do are taxed so heavily, I barely see any extra money… But I rather work on a Sunday than sleep...

[JCMx800]

I could need those day offs to do all my school stuff… Didactic analysis, methodological discussions and other artsy fartsy stuff like that.

[louisbosco]

concepts boston is taking fecking long to send one reply. and i've already sent them 4! 

[mclaincausey]

Citibank is a fucking joke. On their corporate cards, they have really bad password complexity restrictions, I mean criminally bad, should literally be illegal for a financial institution. Then on top of that shit sandwich, they inhibit paste into the username and password fields, making it hard to use a password manager. So in effect they are pushing people to use guessable passwords. Did I mention they're a goddamned bank? And the cherry on top, it's not letting me in because it claims I have another open session. First of all, why would that matter? Secondly, the fact that they can't tell that I don't in fact have another session open is pretty damn disturbing.

This institution simply doesn't meet the bar–they shouldn't be allowed to operate online as a bank until they improve their security posture. I really wish we'd stuck with Amex.

[seawolf]

I have to use Citibank for my Government purchase card and I can't stand their archaic web interface. They need to get with the program.

[DougNg]

@seawolf:

I have to use Citibank for my Government purchase card and I can't stand their archaic web interface. They need to get with the program.

That's weird. Ours is with JP Morgan Chase. I guess DOD uses a diff bank?

[seawolf]

I think so.  Every card I've ever had from the government is always citi.

[rocket]

black friday sucks….

[Max Power]

Being broke sucks….

[mclaincausey]

Being sick sucks…

[Giles]

@rocket:

black friday sucks….

Yeah, won't join in with the "in crowd" next year.  I feel like we're just one of a load of band wagonners…..

[rocket]

true that, smart people will make…. for the rest I might PM you, haha...

I get like 5 million emails with black friday, what does in fact piss me and btw the best was a worldwide shipping UK based store, that restricted the discount to US and Canada, hello?

[Snowy]

@Giles:

@rocket:

black friday sucks….

Yeah, won't join in with the "in crowd" next year.  I feel like we're just one of a load of band wagonners…..

Obviously the Friday before is when it should be next year. A step ahead of the crowd