[MP-Ryan]

Woot.  Just managed to shave with a bladed non-electric razor again for the first time in over 16 years... and only cut myself once.  I'm rather pleased with myself... figured with my thick-and-rapid-growing facial hair that said 5-bladed razor was going to spend a considerable amount of time removing my face.

Protip:  When packing your electric shaver, DO NOT FORGET TO LOCK IT BEFORE PLACING IT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG.  Turns out the 5-hour drive between Edmonton and Fort McMurray is more than ample to kill the battery.   

[Mongoose]

I have this great image of the little thing happily buzzing away for half the drive.

Also I've always been too chicken**** to try a non-electric razor.

[Dark Hunter]

Got called by a scammer today. Never actually had one of those on the line before.

Apparently, my "Windows machine" was secretly downloading ads and pop-ups and only they had the software to get rid of them. Oh, and these were somehow being downloaded directly from the Internet, bypassing my home network completely.

So yeah, it was actually kind of fun messing with them. Lead them on for about five minutes with stupidly easy technical questions they couldn't answer before they just started repeating themselves and I got bored.

Ignorant assholes are so cute.

[MP-Ryan]

Also I've always been too chicken**** to try a non-electric razor.

The evidence would suggest that any idiot can do it, seeing as I just did

[headdie]

I have this great image of the little thing happily buzzing away for half the drive.

Also I've always been too chicken**** to try a non-electric razor.

having used 2 Brawn electrics, a Gillette Mach 3 and a Gillette Fusion I have to say the blades are the better razors they irritate much less and tug less, especially when dealing with day+ growth.  As for cutting myself I have to be really tired to manage anything more than a scratch that stops bleeding after a couple of minutes and has healed in a couple of days

[deathfun]

On the subject, I used to use the bladed manual one for a long while

However, after growing my beard into something I can sport, electric is really the only thing I can use for trimming
Though, the electric one I use isn't in the style that you guys use



I suppose, those are technically called hair clippers, but I've always called them razors. Semantics



Never had problems with either. It's not like you're using one of those razors which are basically a switchblade to your throat

[Colonol Dekker]

Speak for yourselves!!
(insert Jesse Ventura quotes)

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[deathfun]

Of course you do

[FireSpawn]

You still use that? Tell me, have you sliced through any more strops recently?

[Colonol Dekker]

I do, and I haven't
I bought it last February in anticipation of deploying to Afghanistan. No need for new blades, no need to recharge it. Happy days!

(I took the photo this morn, check the exif data)

[Dilmah G]

**** yeah, AFL.

**** yeah indeed. Just finalized details for a trip to Melbourne to watch the Eagles smash the Pies at the G in August (Round 22). Should be good.

Sweet! If you see any games at Patersons let me know, I've got a job supervising the sale of icecream there so I can hook you up with icecream/drinks for free.

EDIT: About to open up Pt. 2 of the MW essay and see what the rest of my night is going to be consisting of.

[StarSlayer]

Lego B-Wing:













Fun build, 1,487 pieces, haven't build lego in a while but wanted to build something without all the painting and periphery of a scale model.

[Scotty]

Saw trailers for COD:Ghosts.

I'm more hopeful about this one than the last few installments.

[Kopachris]

Going to have a good weekend (Wed, Thu nights for me), I hope.

Plan to write a Python script to read some RSS feeds and text me through Google Voice with updates (will run it on my RasPi).  Also, with any luck, I'll be getting an HTC One this Thursday.

[haloboy100]

Pretty sure I'm going to fail university.
Which is bad because the only way to get a job remotely associated with my field is with a master's degree in my province...a Ph.D anywhere else in the country.

I'm being told that preschool educators (considering this since I want a job dealing with kids) are being paid "more than dentists" which is one hell of a claim that goes against everything I've been told and learned in researching the topic. I know there's a demand for them in Alberta, but I seriously doubt a preschool teacher (with the required one-year diploma) can ever hope to make the six-digit figures that Albertan dentists frequently make.

[deathfun]

Lego has changed so damned much
I remember the old B-Wing set
They're basically taking old sets, and making them so much more frigging awesome and complicated

[Mongoose]

I think that's one of the "professional" sets, or whatever they're called, which are a different line than the normal Lego System sets that minifigures ride in.  Those are the ones that tend to have crazy-high piece counts and be much more detailed.  I know my little B-wing model is like a tenth of that size.

[deathfun]

I suppose that makes sense
Although I don't see the smaller ones anymore these days. Hell, I hardly see anything that isn't Star Wars lego


Different note: I direct you to the following news article
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Survivor+recalls+discarded+mortar+killed+childhood+pals/8544705/story.html

This piece would generally be "Okay, so that happened" to which I figured was an addition to the ongoing articles about unspent ammunition near old training sites

Then I came across the following bits:

Fifty years later, the sole survivor of the blast says he is still waiting for his apology from the Department of National Defence.

But during the 1940s, the pasture had been used for war games and training exercises as part of Vernon Military Camp. Unbeknownst to Crane and his buddies, that history was scattered all over the field in the form of mortar shells that remained live decades later.

“He looks at it and says, ‘Oh, it looks like a bomb’,” Crane said in an interview Tuesday. “‘Let’s see if it’s live.’”

Hope banged the blunt end of the hatchet on the narrow tube attached to what turned out to be a foot-long mortar.

‘Oh, it looks like a bomb’,” Crane said in an interview Tuesday. “‘Let’s see if it’s live.’”

“‘Let’s see if it’s live.’”

banged the blunt end of the hatchet on the narrow tube

ARE YOU ****ING RETARDED

It's no wonder the Department of National Defense hasn't given him an apology. His troupe was filled with dumbasses
HURR DURR LET'S BANG THIS MORTAR WHICH WE KNOW IS A MORTAR WITH A ****ING HATCHET

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

First, the Boy Scouts dropped the ball by NOT INFORMING THE PEOPLE IN THIS ESCAPADE THAT THIS PLACE WAS USED AS A TRAINING GROUND FOR THE MILITARY.

When I was in Cadets and we did our "in the field" stuff, we were explicitly told "You see metal or something that looks like a bomb, IGNORE THE **** OUT OF IT AND LET ONE OF US KNOW. We'll then inform the actual Officers that this has been discovered, and they'll dispatch the Engineers to take care of it"

I do not feel bad for people who bang explosive objects with hatchets to "see if it's live"

[NGTM-1R]

You know, it's bad enough my post gets eaten by a momentary downtime, but then HLP pretends it didn't and tells me I've already submitted it a couple times. That's going too far.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

[CTRL+R]amming speed?