I shared warm wishes with my friends and family on FB yesterday and one slip of the keyboard and suddenly things went awry:
The hazard of having ducks. One slip of the finger and suddenly instead of texting someone ducks pictures, you’re sending them dick pix.
Also, my saga of Google Home adventures continues.
True story:
I’m not sure, but I think Google Home is going to go to HR about me.Me: When’s the snow going to stop? (desperation in my voice)GH John Legend voice: According to the NWS, snow showers will end by 4 pmMe: (excited and grateful) Thanks, babe!GH John Legend voice: Anytime. And you can call me google assistant.?
Bonus Scout (she seems to have ennui):
Open thread
trollhattan
Big lazy dog is bigly lazy. I’m sure the body language speaks for many.
The fam, who struggled mightily to get over the Grapevine through snow closures yesterday, learned VERY early this a.m. that the 8:30 soccer match had been cancelled, due to rain making the fields muddy. Twelve hours they’ll never have back, although Thanksgiving pizza in a packed mall is a memory that will never go out of style.
So now they get to go back over the Grapevine (light snow showers predicted) and on to Fresno, and hopefully a meet-and-greet with Devin’s cow. At least nobody cleated my kid today.
mrmoshpotato
We like duck pix around here! *makes sure that’s spelled correctly, hits Post
mrmoshpotato
Also, not to detract from the embarrassing typos, but this is spot on and needs to be spread wide and far.
JAFD
Tell Roger-of-the-large-hands to check out
morekeyboard.com
Got one a while back. Improved my blog commenting tremendously.
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
It is reminiscent of more than a couple “pubic meeting announcement” press releases I’ve been associated with.
Baud
I always enjoy looking at the photos of your fucks, Tamara.
Major Major Major Major
The one time it DIDN’T autocorrect a bad word to duck…
When you’re making an iPhone app, the button to say “disable autocorrect for this input” is a duck with a line through it. Cracked us up at the office when we found out.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: ? Bad Baud!
laura
@Baud: coffee straight out of the nose right onto screen, hands, jammies and bedding.
Oh Baud, so so so very glad you back Bauding it up!
Duane
It sounds like Google assistant just isn’t that into you.
NotMax
There’s a “motherducker” joke in there somewhere.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: Meeting of the pubes!
Yarrow
This thread made me laugh. Half eaten pies, doggos with fat tummies and a few guilty looks.
mrmoshpotato
@laura: Ouch.
Yarrow
@Yarrow: Somehow that got ducked up.
Actual tweet:
Yarrow
@Yarrow: Okay, no it didn’t. This new commenting system is as frustrating as the old FYWP but in different ways.
mrmoshpotato
@Yarrow: Mwhaha!
Mnemosyne
@Yarrow:
If I don’t see my comment immediately, I reload. It’s saving me worse annoyance.
Gelfling 545
Among those present at our feast yesterday were 5 dogs from 15 lb Flora the Pug to 100 lb Marshall the Malamute. My nephew, the host, has his dogs self feed. Flora had never seen such an abundance of dog food as I strictly control her intake. She’s spent most of today sleeping off her dietary excesses. They were all Very Good Dogs.
mrmoshpotato
@Gelfling 545: “Well as long as our hoomans are packing on the pounds…” *snoutplant!
Yarrow
So the No Quid Pro Quo call didn’t actually happen.
Link. WaPo has a similar report.
Yarrow
@Mnemosyne: I reloaded and it came up right. I reloaded again and it reverted back to the wrong version. I reloaded again, still wrong. Wrote my reply, posted it and then original comment showed correctly. Then incorrectly. It was going back and forth so no idea what was going on. Also, ability to edit disappeared after first edit.
CaseyL
@Gelfling 545: Yay for Flora’s Very Happy Thanksgiving! (After all, why shouldn’t doggies be able to join their humans in a food coma?)
We did the Thanksgiving-flavored Indian Food thing at a local restaurant. Turkey makes a very good butter-chicken adaptation; Tandoor Turkey somewhat less so. I was a Very Good Girl and stayed away from the naan and mashed potatoes, then undid that with a double helping of Rice Pudding dessert. (The restaurant was, BTW, packed.)
CaseyL
@Baud: Thanks for helping my coffee go down the wrong way. Keep on like that, and you’ll be President some day!
OK, another Comment Oddity: Tried to add the reply to Baud to my original comment, but it took a couple of [Refresh]es for the comment to appear and when it did, no [Edit] button came with it. So I added the reply to Baud as a separate comment. When I refreshed twice to see that, both of my comments came up complete with [Edit] button.
MacBook Pro, Firefox.
Jim Bales
“u” vs neighboring “i” key — I get it!
I teach photography. In communicating with my students, I often type ”shutter“
Jim
TaMara (HFG)
@Baud: Obligatory
LuciaMia
Hmmm, “Keep the d*cks warm but not too warm?” Could be an admonition to not sit too close to the fireplace.
Obvious Russian Troll
@CaseyL: Went to a restaurant recently in Victoria, BC, which did French-Indian fusion food. Now, you might think such a thing is an abomination, but I’m here to tell you that it was a *tasty* abomination.
They even had decent gluten-free bread (to the point where I was concerned that I’d accidentally gotten real bread, which I’m just going to say would not have been pleasant).
Kent
Well, our Thanksgiving yesterday didn’t end with the old people going all MAGA. Actually they are mostly old liberals who are more likely to bend your ear about campaigning for Adali Stevenson or something.
No, in our household, the Thanksgiving tradition is that the oldsters pull out their iPhones and the grandkids stare at them in horror, take over the phones, and spend half an hour updating, installing apps, re-setting preferences to put things back like they are supposed to be so once again iMessaging starts working and the photo sharing starts working again and the keyboard is no longer set to Spanish or Albanian or whatever…..
So in our family, Thanksgiving dinner is basically the annual free tech support for the oldsters.
Catherine D.
My dear friend’s beau just cleaned my compost filled gutters. Worse, it was frozen compost. All hail Mathew!
jeffreyw
We roasted a turkey last weekend, spatchcocked, herb butter. Big thing of gravy made with the turkey fat and broth made from the backbone, neck and giblets. We were eating on that all week long. Decided to go out for t-day dinner. Chinese was closed, old folks corral had a line out the door. We went to Applebee’s. We still have turkey in gravy.
JaySinWA
Okay this is a UI problem that I hadn’t heard of.
zhena gogolia
I just made cranberry sauce and tore up the sourdough bread to dry out for the stuffing I’m making tomorrow along with a turkey breast. My husband and I are going to have second Thanksgiving with turkey, after goose with friends yesterday. It was fun except when the conversation strayed into politics. You think it’s only MAGAts who don’t get what the Democrats are presenting for impeachment. It’s also too-cool academics who are so above it all. It terrifies me.
JaySinWA
@Yarrow: You have experienced the Balloon Juice Roulette. There should be a prize for low probability events.
WaterGirl
Hahaha. I worked at a computer networking firm, way back when nobody knew what a network was and almost no one knew what even was. Our email system had a simple way to send email or reply to the entire office. One of the employees was a very religious fellow who liked to preach to the women that we were all going to hell because we were working instead of being at home taking care of the men.
Anyway, one day right before the holidays he sent email to “All” explaining about the “hard dick problem” he had experienced. It was perhaps unkind of us, but we really enjoyed that moment and had no sympathy for the utter humiliation he experienced.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Now everyone in the train station wants to know why I’m laughing.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: That’s kind of nuts. Would love to know what device and browser you experienced that with. Chrome is my best guess. Let me know if you get a chance?
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: I’ll give you a *dollar if you submit that through the Site Feedback form along with the URL to this thread.
*a virtual dollar
WaterGirl
Since I already the last 4 comments on a possibly dead thread, I just have to say that this thread is very funny and deserves at least 150 comments, if not more. Maybe everyone is traveling like I am, and they don’t know what they are missing.
JaySinWA
That’s odd.
JaySinWA
@CaseyL:
Glad to see it isn’t just us Chome bums playing BJ roulette.
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA:
An equal opportunity bug. We should be proud. Seriously, though, I can’t wait for Monday when I expect the developers will be back at work bug-fixing.
The Lodger
@WaterGirl: If it’s still formatting after four hours, see your doctor.
StringOnAStick
Turkey question: I’m cooking ours today a d plan to spatchcock it since that worked so well last year. I have some compound butter I made with roasted garlic and cherry tomatoes; anyone else think it’s a good idea to put this under the skin before roasting?
karen marie
@StringOnAStick: Sounds like a great idea.
JaySinWA
@StringOnAStick: It sounds good to me, but in the few times I have spatchcocked, I haven’t loosened the skin to add anything, You might need to pin the skin back down after the rub to keep it in place.
StringOnAStick
@JaySinWA: Good hint, thanks!
CaseyL
@WaterGirl: Done.
Please to put virtual dollar in virtual kitty.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Did you see the mention in an earlier thread that commenting went kablooey for about 15 minutes or so around 11 p.m. blog time yesterday?
Submitting a comment led to a 502 error page. BillinGlendaleCA concurred he was getting the same error.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: @CaseyL: Thank you, Casey! That’s super helpful because it gives me your email access right there with the report, so I can get back to you with followup questions, if necessary, or notify you of the resolution.
zhena gogolia
Has anyone seen Knives Out? It sounds good.
Jay
https://richardhughes.ca/if-saudi-arabia-is-in-trouble-the-rest-of-the-oil-producing-world-should-probably-start-to-panic/
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I saw the advertisement, if that helps!
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Yep, I saw that when I was at the train station and I believe I left a note saying the information was super helpful. you can’t fix what you don’t know about. thanks.
Jay
@The Lodger:
with M4A you could actually afford to see a Doctor if it lasts for more than 4 hours.
WaterGirl
@The Lodger: Sadly, those warnings weren’t out back then, but if they were, that would have been a great retort. I recall writing something to him in return, butI have no idea what I said, so let’s just pretend it was something clever.
Jay
Jay
Jay
debbie
Scout could be in a Manet painting!
TaMara (HFG)
@StringOnAStick: Well, you’ve probably already taken care of it, but I always to an herb butter under the skin when I spatchcock the bird. I actually find it easier to reach the thighs then when the bird whole.
Can’t wait to hear how it turns out.