Random Thoughts — Page 59

Sluggo said:

And seriously, why don't they start building houses that are designed so you can haul a couch upstairs without having an blood vessel explode in your brain?

Having worked in construction in a former life, I can tell you that when we are drawing up the blue prints we do our best to ensure getting a couch up them will be no easy task. It is kind of a conspiracy, but too silly of a one for anyone to get to worked up about.

My favorite house I worked on, a relatives place after my construction years had ended, had a stairway that made it impossible to get any large furniture into the basement. All big furniture had to be brought in through the basement window before it was installed. Now that the window has been installed and fixed in concrete, no new furniture is going in, and now old furniture is going out... in one piece, anyway.

It is a design the man who drew it up should be truly proud of.

C3PX said:

Interestingly, I heard Xhonzi voice much the same way I do now before I ever even heard it. Upon first hearing him speak, I immediately thought to myself, "Wow, that guy sounds just like I expected him to sound."

Wow, that's kind of weird.  It reminds me of this guy at work.  Well, he's in LA and I'm in Boulder.  I talked to him on the phone for probably three months before meeting him in person.  I also have a mostly undeserved reputation as some kind of god around here (when someone asked me if I was a god, I said 'yes') and this guy was picking up on it and being very deferential to me.  Then I met him in person.  I'm already younger than most people I work with, but I also look younger than that.  This was a couple of years ago, so I suppose I looked like I was about 20, though I was actually 25 or 28- somewhere in there.  At any rate, he just immediately lost all respect for me.  He did a double take and then incredulously asked, "So... YOU are the great xhonzi?"  "Yeah," says me, " a little disappointing.  Isn't it?"  And he didn't know how to respond to that.  So he didn't.

I think he felt so manipulated over the whole thing that he ended up sort of stepping on me every time he got the chance.  Ah, well... that's office politics for you.

Well, back to being fed peeled grapes.

Sigh.  I woke up today to find that I had been invited as a guest on my favorite Dragon Ball podcast, for a website that I had followed since I was 14.  I spent the entire day buying a new headset, checking sound levels... and then my internet died for several hours.  So I just stood up the webmasters of two of the most popular and respected Dragon Ball websites.  FML doesn't even begin to cover it...

Aww man, that really sucks Gaff. :(

Any chance they'll give you a rain check and have you on another time?

Wow Gaff, super cool, while super sucky. That's what they get for doing live podcasts?

Screw bkev!... he's still ignoring me.

Has he even been around since the ugly act?  Maybe it was some kind of parting shot.  Some ending joke.  A deathbed... well, not repentance but whatever the reverse of that is.

xhonzi said:

Has he even been around since the ugly act?  Maybe it was some kind of parting shot.  Some ending joke.  A deathbed... well, not repentance but whatever the reverse of that is.

The "ugly act?" What happened?

I thought maybe it was to make me feel better for not being ignored (and thusly: excluded) by JT34.  But it's gone on plenty long now.

Something happen with vfp? Or he just hasn't been around?

Last thing I think that happened to him is that Leonardo put him at the bottom of the bottomless chasm.

Oh, stop ruining my fun with facts and research.