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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 8, 2023 20:52:44 GMT -5
More of an observation than an insight, but it's amazing to me that there aren't more movies with shrinking involved. That is all.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 16, 2023 21:24:20 GMT -5
It's sad how many times a day I heat up a neck/shoulder pad in the microwave only to forget it. I mean like early onset senility sad.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 21, 2023 15:33:53 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 24, 2023 20:35:27 GMT -5
At some point soon*, I'm going to end a call, thankful to have gotten to speak to a real human about some billing issue, only to have actually been talking to AI.
*If it hasn't happened already.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 28, 2023 15:10:47 GMT -5
At some point soon*, I'm going to end a call, thankful to have gotten to speak to a real human about some billing issue, only to have actually been talking to AI.
*If it hasn't happened already.
As someone who (briefly) worked under a headset, the goal is to turn the humans who answer those calls into machines. For six months or so, I worked for a company that handled overflow tech support for Microsoft. We'd all been trained to field-strip WindowsXP and put the registry hives back together blindfolded in under a minute, as it were. Then some of us were transferred to handle calls for a dial up ISP. Within a week we had "coaches" flying in from Houston to lecture us on how we'd all be fired if we deviated from the script. The problem, you see, was we all actually knew how to fix people's dial up service which took longer than the four-minutes per call service target. Spoiler: the script ended "We're sorry we can't help you with that today. Have you tried calling Microsoft?" |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 30, 2023 14:24:39 GMT -5
The pigeons and squirrels who come to feed in the yard are an almost identical shade of grey. I enjoy watching the toddler-like thinking they exhibit towards each other. I'd hardly call it a rivalry, but they both have a tendency to congregate where the other happens to be foraging. Like their whole thought-process is: "Well, he's eating, so the food must be over there", even though I do a solid job of distributing the feed allover the back yard. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 30, 2023 14:34:21 GMT -5
Hate when my mood doesn't fit the day. It's gorgeous out for the first time in a few, but I'm in total bookworm mode. Ah, such is life. Day might have gone different if I didn't need to make a run downtown to sign papers earlier.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 4, 2023 13:55:57 GMT -5
The pigeons and squirrels who come to feed in the yard are an almost identical shade of grey. I enjoy watching the toddler-like thinking they exhibit towards each other. I'd hardly call it a rivalry, but they both have a tendency to congregate where the other happens to be foraging. Like their whole thought-process is: "Well, he's eating, so the food must be over there", even though I do a solid job of distributing the feed allover the back yard. Saw some pigeons that called the lie to my statement above. They were moving across the yard like one of those missing persons searches you see on TV. Just far enough apart from each other that they'd get a thorough look everywhere. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 4, 2023 20:07:36 GMT -5
Hate when my mood doesn't fit the day. It's gorgeous out for the first time in a few, but I'm in total bookworm mode. Ah, such is life. Day might have gone different if I didn't need to make a run downtown to sign papers earlier. Wait, isn't bookworm mode the happiest feeling there is!? |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 24, 2023 7:53:41 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 25, 2023 19:09:25 GMT -5
As they say, nature finds a way. I have a neighbor who lives like a pig to one side, and I myself am attracting all sorts of animal life by throwing out high quality nut & berry blend bird food. Naturally, a couple of rats from his overgrown backyard have made their way over to my backyard buffet in recent weeks. Obviously, that's not great, and the neighborhood cats have been slouching about doing their one job - eliminating rodents. Well, now there's a huge hawk the size of a large cat preying on the feast below. I followed the cat's gaze up into the pine with a dangling branch and that hawk was going to town. Unfortunately, it was on one of the poor pigeons. But, I'm hoping hawk sticks around for lunch tomorrow. I really don't want to put out rat traps for fear of accidentally injuring one of the squirrels.
R.I.P. Fred T. Pigeon {Birth:?-Death:April25,2023} Your eerie cooing will be missed.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 26, 2023 12:35:46 GMT -5
As they say, nature finds a way. I have a neighbor who lives like a pig to one side, and I myself am attracting all sorts of animal life by throwing out high quality nut & berry blend bird food. Naturally, a couple of rats from his overgrown backyard have made their way over to my backyard buffet in recent weeks. Obviously, that's not great, and the neighborhood cats have been slouching about doing their one job - eliminating rodents. Well, now there's a huge hawk the size of a large cat preying on the feast below. I followed the cat's gaze up into the pine with a dangling branch and that hawk was going to town. Unfortunately, it was on one of the poor pigeons. But, I'm hoping hawk sticks around for lunch tomorrow. I really don't want to put out rat traps for fear of accidentally injuring one of the squirrels.
R.I.P. Fred T. Pigeon {Birth:?-Death:April25,2023} Your eerie cooing will be missed.
Type of hawk?
Some of the ones around here eat the mourning doves for preference.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 26, 2023 19:37:44 GMT -5
As they say, nature finds a way. I have a neighbor who lives like a pig to one side, and I myself am attracting all sorts of animal life by throwing out high quality nut & berry blend bird food. Naturally, a couple of rats from his overgrown backyard have made their way over to my backyard buffet in recent weeks. Obviously, that's not great, and the neighborhood cats have been slouching about doing their one job - eliminating rodents. Well, now there's a huge hawk the size of a large cat preying on the feast below. I followed the cat's gaze up into the pine with a dangling branch and that hawk was going to town. Unfortunately, it was on one of the poor pigeons. But, I'm hoping hawk sticks around for lunch tomorrow. I really don't want to put out rat traps for fear of accidentally injuring one of the squirrels.
R.I.P. Fred T. Pigeon {Birth:?-Death:April25,2023} Your eerie cooing will be missed.
Type of hawk?
Some of the ones around here eat the mourning doves for preference.
I don't know my birds like I should. At first I thought it was a damn eagle, it was so big! It was too high up to get a decent camera shot, but I did observe it munching down on Fred with my binoculars. Had an off-white, almost yellowish chest and neck, with some black spots here and there. Head looked darker. Most of the body/wings looked more brown-to-dar-brown. Gorgeous creature, but I can see now why squirrels spend their whole lives in a perpetual state of panic. |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 26, 2023 20:56:42 GMT -5
Type of hawk? Some of the ones around here eat the mourning doves for preference. I don't know my birds like I should. At first I thought it was a damn eagle, it was so big! It was too high up to get a decent camera shot, but I did observe it munching down on Fred with my binoculars. Had an off-white, almost yellowish chest and neck, with some black spots here and there. Head looked darker. Most of the body/wings looked more brown-to-dar-brown. Gorgeous creature, but I can see now why squirrels spend their whole lives in a perpetual state of panic.  Wunnadese, maybe? |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 26, 2023 21:28:57 GMT -5
I don't know my birds like I should. At first I thought it was a damn eagle, it was so big! It was too high up to get a decent camera shot, but I did observe it munching down on Fred with my binoculars. Had an off-white, almost yellowish chest and neck, with some black spots here and there. Head looked darker. Most of the body/wings looked more brown-to-dar-brown. Gorgeous creature, but I can see now why squirrels spend their whole lives in a perpetual state of panic. Wunnadese, maybe? It's entirely possible. How big do those get? |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 26, 2023 21:35:59 GMT -5
Driving to work today, I saw a red-tailed hawk drop out of the sky and snatch a songbird, maybe a robin, off the curb with several cars bearing down on them at 50 mph. I dimly remembered reading that this is supposed to be an omen of something, but then I thought, huh, would it be an omen for me or for one of the other drivers who saw this? Or for all of us, maybe?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 14, 2023 14:00:21 GMT -5
I feel too dumb for Reddit and too sane for 4chan.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 14, 2023 14:08:53 GMT -5
Reviewing my work years, it occurs to me it was always the worst workers and/or managers who told me my job was easy.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 22, 2023 14:31:57 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 6, 2023 10:58:20 GMT -5
Tears are like psychic sweat.
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