At the hospital where I had my sleep studies done the only available parking was next to a probably five story building. On the second floor down from the top someone had put a mannequin in an EMS vest against their office window and left the lights on.

Whoever that person was should feel accomplished, as it successfully startled me every time I had to walk across that parking lot alone at 10pm.

A wise coworker of mine once told me that, when it comes to what Unix commands stand for, you kind of make it up as you go.

In this case, though, looks like we were both wrong.

In EverQuest there was a character named Canloe Nusback who would accept endless amounts of Crushbone resources in a repeatable quest and so who was commonly used for grinding.

It was popular to call him “Camel Nutsack.” Once, I told someone in OOC chat that he was “fondly” referred to as such and someone else said that they’d never talked about a nutsack fondly. The exchange stuck with me, apparently for two and a half decades. Thus, your username reminds me of that conversation and, subsequently, the character and game.

I mean, for at least the first five letters, I can’t even tell the difference.

I played the original HALO when it came out and did awfully at it.

I recently bought the PC Master Chief collection and was surprised it was so easy since I’d had so much trouble with the original.

Then I realized the difference was controller vs. m+k. Controllers are good for some styles of games, but IMHO, shooters ain’t one of them.

Every time I see you, your username reminds me of EverQuest.

I think I’ve brought it up before.

You run a Discord server for work? I thought my company using Google was crazy.

My client apparently no longer allows editing or deleting, but please disregard this comment.

A tool, primarily within Linux, that can overwrite disks. I’ve never seen it recommended for data deletion, but I guess it makes sense.

It stands for “disk to disk” and is usually used for things like writing ISOs.

However, shred is the usual approach.

What are “stage in servers”?

It seems like my client removed the ability to edit? I can’t find it, anyway.

Regardless, that was entertaining. Thank you for the links.

This happened on screen with “let’s go” by Arin from Game Grumps.

I don’t feel the need to discuss the rest of the movie but that car, though … It was a thing of beauty.

Thanks! I’ll check it out now.

Back in my day, it was “I’m going insane … Short trip.”

Relevant part at ~1:50

… But personally I like the whole clip.

I haven’t and would like to be enlightened.

My cats once got in a fight with a praying mantis in an old townhouse.

I’d seen praying mantisses before but this one was a. in my home and b. large enough to be genuinely a little intimidating. The cats won, but it took a long time because they were being more cautious than usual.

I have a friend who named his kid after a character from the Star Wars EU.

The friend in question was very upset when the EU was declared noncanon.