The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[93boomer]

I will go to Target. I will buy Star Wars and leave. I will not wander aimlessly through and end up with a full shopping cart. And I shall repeat these words before I go.

Good luck with that!

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I will go to Target. I will buy Star Wars and leave. I will not wander aimlessly through and end up with a full shopping cart. And I shall repeat these words before I go.

And then forget them when you enter.

 

[21stamps]

My family loved Tetrus, especially on their gameboys. Gameboys really made airline travel nice with young kids back in the 'ole days. I never liked video games in any era. I still want a real pinball machine. The closest I ever came to a hand held game that I like was a foot ball game and it had a line for each player. Some graphics huh?

Still have it. It still works.

I remember that!!!

Interesting. We had zero anything Michael Jackson while my kids grew up, nor was there any requests. My kids nor us adults had any love for
Capt. EO either at Epcot. The ying and yang of what grabs ya. We spent way too much time and Money at Disney with the TMNT's back in the same timeframe at Disney.

I may have to report you for child abuse. MJ is a MUST!!

I may or may not have bout the MJ Wii game the first day it went on sale.. and I may or may not have put the glove on and danced to it continuously.. and I also may or may not have been forcing my kid to the same, since he was 2.

This reminds me of a news story from (New York) the other day, about the right to disconnect from work, when on one's own time:

http://www.newsweek.com/nyc-858400

Our cruise was the first time that I’ve felt truly disconnected during the past 15 years. Until I opened my email...

I'll set up a Touring Plans alert... It's just crazy to me that the hold up would be ohana not PPO CRT, lol

I know that everyone says CRT is so hard to get, but it was available during our ‘15 and ‘16 trip.
My sis just did her reservations at 60 days out.. CRT was available on the 2 days we checked, for each meal, for 4 people. The dinner was later than what she wanted, but that’s about it.
I think the “CRT is so difficult!” may be overblown.

 

[Cesar R M]

hopefully, the hearing issue won't turn out to be any sort of disadvantage.

Its always going to be a disadvantage to many people regardless of my skills or options to mitigate it.
Its more related to perception and how certain bosses just outright do not want to "have the risk of more responsibility".

I don't think it will even disappear if they installed a bionic hear that surpasses the human hear. As long something is visible.. they will think something is wrong.

I hope in my lifetime there will be a way to restore close to 100% the hearing and as close as humans do.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

And then forget them when you enter.

I wish, but I still have to go home and work for a bit, so...

I'm saving all the mindless data entry stuff I have to do for when I get home so I can do it while watching TV. Don't tell my boss.

 

[Cesar R M]

Then you would think they would not want to be out at night. Dumb animals.

Not sure if joking but i'll bite.. Night = less change for certain predators to catch them from farther distance (advantage to some animals).
But also other predators are more active at night (See animals like Owls, bats and lions)


Anyway, its all about evolution. Animals cant evolve (takes a few thousand years) for something that just appeared and keeps changing every 10 years (technology)

I remember that while technology is leaving the mark on humans, even as far as rewriting some DNA on some people. They are still not constant changes that could potentially change or trigger a full evolution cycle.

But mutations are already there. Like people with 6 fingers or slender, longer and stronger fingers (longer arms, weaker arms strenght wise) to handle the dexterity need for office jobs and delicate engineering stuff).

 

[Cesar R M]

I like Kingdom Hearts and Ratchet

Ratchet as in the transformers one, or ratchet and clank?

I love ratchet and clank. IT was sad selling my PS3 and Ps4 with all my collected games.. but hey, needed the money and I barely played on my console.

In the other hand, I still get completely lost at what the purpose and story behind Kingdom Hearts.
The names of each game makes it even harder to understand the timeline.

I mean, Kingdom Hearts , Kingdom Hearts: chain of memories, Kingdom Hearts II, Coded, 358/2 days, Birth by Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, X, Unchained X, Kingdom Hearts rebirth, Final Mix, Re Chain of memories, 2.8 HD Final Chapter Prologue and so on.. :|

I'm scratching my head just looking at those titles!

Now, if you look at the wiki, the order of these names are not the order of the timeline!
Not even of the games!!! there are chapters inside the game that jump back and forth and mess, mix and settle between each other game.

I mean.. look at this:

 

[Cesar R M]

Tandy's were sold by Radio Shack. I loved mine. This is what it looked like.
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We had monocromes TX in my early school when I was tiny. So fun.

The first contact with a real computer was my dad's with Turbo button from company LANIX.
Unsure if it was a 386DX or a 286... But it was cool.

Later I had access to 386 40Mhz ones with turbo and the newest most expensive 486DX (very powerful at the time) in a school.
I ended with a 486DX 40Mhz when my father lended me one computer for learning.

 

[Cesar R M]

PPO CRT = easy peasy
Bon Voyage Breakfast = cake walk

Ohana dinner = nothing available

Keep trying lol.
I had to barrage the website EVERY DAY 4 hours a day for 2 months if I remember correctly ( I posted my adventures here) to get reservations to California Grill.

And similar experiences earlier to get to OHANA during the Cochlear Convention back in 2015.

 

[Cesar R M]

The app is super buggy this morning. It shows times available, but then it gives you a server error. When you get back to the screen you were on the times have become earlier or later by five minutes. It's really quite funny. Like these two times started out at 4:20 and 8:05 but the more you click then the earlier the first time gets and the later the second time gets (which is opposite of what i need, lol)
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Try the browser version then. Might be an issue with the app only.

 

[Cesar R M]

I will go to Target. I will buy Star Wars and leave. I will not wander aimlessly through and end up with a full shopping cart. And I shall repeat these words before I go.

Riiiight, good luck.

I expect you to return carrying at least half the cart full of Star Wars gifts, toys and clothes

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Not sure if joking but i'll bite.. Night = less change for certain predators to catch them from farther distance (advantage to some animals).
But also other predators are more active at night (See animals like Owls, bats and lions)


Anyway, its all about evolution. Animals cant evolve (takes a few thousand years) for something that just appeared and keeps changing every 10 years (technology)

I remember that while technology is leaving the mark on humans, even as far as rewriting some DNA on some people. They are still not constant changes that could potentially change or trigger a full evolution cycle.

But mutations are already there. Like people with 6 fingers or slender, longer and stronger fingers (longer arms, weaker arms strenght wise) to handle the dexterity need for office jobs and delicate engineering stuff).

Yes, a bit of sarcasm there.

 

[Cesar R M]

Rant ahead..

Sometimes I really hate my boss, he's a stubborn mule.

He always seem to have had a secretary who translated his gibberish or what he wanted and then the secretary wrote everything to the employees.

Because, no seriously, my boss CANNOT WRITE AN EMAIL TO SAVE HIS LIFE.
Then he wonders why we both end ed when I cant decipher what he says.

I mean "Put blue text on red area, behind white area, like the other site".

There are 3 blue texts, 4 red areas, 6 white areas and 36 "other sites".

Then he doesnt exactly tells me WHAT TEXT TO PUT.

Then he sends me like 50 emails of images and search links (as in google image searches) and tells me "use the blue one".
The search delivers 3000000 blue images. or he simply doesn't tell me what he wants me to do with these images.

Usually my other boss helped me translate his gibberish, but now the other boss is too busy with other projects and doesnt want to deal with this crap and my first boss doesn't want me to "distract" the second boss..



So I tell him ways to make him explain better, with diagrams, even photos taken with his cell phone.. but no, he has to write every single email with his ipad in the same broken english gibberish and gets angry at me for not understanding.. All because somehow its also MY JOB to read HIS MIND while he refuses to write better...

 

[Figgy1]

I didn't think you know the meaning of that word ...

Nap: short period of sleep not during normal sleep times

 

[Figgy1]

Have you tried the Spyro series or the new one Yooka Laylee ?

We have the original Spyros downloaded to the 3. Yooka Layee????

 

[Figgy1]

Keep trying. You are only 2. Something will open up I am sure. Just keep checking everyday. People cancel.

^^^This good luck

 

[Figgy1]

Rant ahead..

Sometimes I really hate my boss, he's a stubborn mule.

He always seem to have had a secretary who translated his gibberish or what he wanted and then the secretary wrote everything to the employees.

Because, no seriously, my boss CANNOT WRITE AN EMAIL TO SAVE HIS LIFE.
Then he wonders why we both end ****ed when I cant decipher what he says.

I mean "Put blue text on red area, behind white area, like the other site".

There are 3 blue texts, 4 red areas, 6 white areas and 36 "other sites".

Then he doesnt exactly tells me WHAT TEXT TO PUT.

Then he sends me like 50 emails of images and search links (as in google image searches) and tells me "use the blue one".
The search delivers 3000000 blue images. or he simply doesn't tell me what he wants me to do with these images.

Usually my other boss helped me translate his gibberish, but now the other boss is too busy with other projects and doesnt want to deal with this crap and my first boss doesn't want me to "distract" the second boss..



So I tell him ways to make him explain better, with diagrams, even photos taken with his cell phone.. but no, he has to write every single ******* email with his ipad in the same broken english gibberish and gets angry at me for not understanding.. All because somehow its also MY JOB to read HIS MIND while he refuses to write better...

Sympathy like

 

[Figgy1]

That would be the reason why I have mixed emotions about today's technology. Back in the dark ages you could take a vacation and no one could get in touch with you unless you absolutely wanted them too. If contact was made it was you that made that happen. Even back when I owned my own business, I adjusted because I set up a time each day when I would call and find out what was going on, but, they couldn't call me. Sounds like a formula for disaster right? Nothing ever happened that they couldn't handle and did because they didn't have any choice. I remember in the late 90's working at a place and receiving a call from one of the tenants of the complex I was in. He called just to tell me that at that point in time he was driving through Jacksonville, Florida. I was in Vermont. It was amazing to me. A couple of years later I bought one of those box like car phones and did the same thing to my parents. Such an incredible feeling at the time. One of the high points was that you never were told to shut off your cell phone at a movie, theme park ride or anyplace else. They didn't exist.

Even as I was typing that, I could almost hear a collective groan from all those that have never known another way but being constantly connected. Even I, now, have been known to turn my car around and drive back 10 miles because I forgot my phone. The thing was I was only going to be away for about an hour. However, panic set in as I wondered..."what if someone is trying to get in touch with me?" We have gotten quite dependent, quite quickly. My kids will panic if they call me and I don't answer. They are sure I am dead or something. Someday they could be right, but, what we assumed before the advent of cell phones was that they must be out someplace.

Edited to include: Flashing back to 2005 or so. I had a company phone that had a (for lack of a better term) intercom type thing. I haven't really seen one since then, but, they might exist. I'm thinking it was a Motorola brand. You just went to you contacts picked one out and pushed the button and spoke into it. Whomever was targeted could hear you and respond in absolute real time. That amazed me. I used it once when I was at the entrance to Universal Hollywood. There seemed to be no noticeable delay time and you could have a back and forth with someone clear across the country. I didn't understand then and I don't understand now exactly how that worked. It was almost instant yet that signal had to cross the country and find me or the person I was talking too. That still remains as one of the most impressive technological thing I was ever able to utilize.

OK, now for all you young folks rolling your eyes and thinking that guy must be older then god... just don't be jealous that I got to deal with it when it was a brand new thing and was exciting. You guys only got to see it after it was an old thing. Which is why Apple can persuade you to spend hundreds of dollars every few days to buy a new thing that they just added to their (not yours) new phone. My guess is that they have a whole closet full of "new" items that they are introducing every few months to get you to run out and spend more money.

@93boomer , @Mr Ferret 88 I added a few things since you read this...

Previous to cell phones they had walkie talkies at his job and I was strapped to a beeper at one point.

 

[Figgy1]

I will go to Target. I will buy Star Wars and leave. I will not wander aimlessly through and end up with a full shopping cart. And I shall repeat these words before I go.

Good luck with that. I was somewhat good. Dry shampoo, air fresheners, soy milk and a few other odds and ends

 

[Figgy1]

I remember that!!!



I may have to report you for child abuse. MJ is a MUST!!

I may or may not have bout the MJ Wii game the first day it went on sale.. and I may or may not have put the glove on and danced to it continuously.. and I also may or may not have been forcing my kid to the same, since he was 2.



Our cruise was the first time that I’ve felt truly disconnected during the past 15 years. Until I opened my email...



I know that everyone says CRT is so hard to get, but it was available during our ‘15 and ‘16 trip.
My sis just did her reservations at 60 days out.. CRT was available on the 2 days we checked, for each meal, for 4 people. The dinner was later than what she wanted, but that’s about it.
I think the “CRT is so difficult!” may be overblown.

CRT has been easier to get since BOG opened