The cesspit / chat thread.

[GIANT_CRAB]

Went for a Bluemix & Softlayer talk yesterday (for free CUZ I'm a student else it would be expensive). Pretty cool. Watson can be easily leveraged using their APIs and Bluemix. Bluemix uses CLOUDfoundry, so it's definitely floating.

Some awesome stuff made using Bluemix (not by me): http://your-celebrity-match.mybluemix.net/

http://friendme.mybluemix.net/

 

[HN-Matt]

 

[Geek]

Iron Chef changes a man.

 

[Geek]

For shame, Magnum.  For shame.

Tom Selleck accused of stealing 'truckloads of water' for California ranch

http://www.katu.com/news/entertainment/Tom-Selleck-accused-of-stealing-water-for-California-ranch-312618461.html

 

[MannDude]

Was a nice day for a bike ride! Damn I am out of shape. I used to ride like 30+ hours a week. I need to get back to riding daily again.

 

[Geek]

I miss having a bike.  I mean I could go out and buy one but I don't know when I'd ever ride it again.  When I was a kid I used to ride with my parents after school. I'm literally right on the border between Oregon and Washington, and we used to ride up to WA, get a Subway or something, and ride all the way back.

Now in the afternoons I'm lucky to get a nap.  Thirty hours a week, though?  No way... I couldn't do it.  I've got a geek gut, and it would get in the way.  

 

[MannDude]

I miss having a bike.  I mean I could go out and buy one but I don't know when I'd ever ride it again.  When I was a kid I used to ride with my parents after school. I'm literally right on the border between Oregon and Washington, and we used to ride up to WA, get a Subway or something, and ride all the way back.

Now in the afternoons I'm lucky to get a nap.  Thirty hours a week, though?  No way... I couldn't do it.  I've got a geek gut, and it would get in the way.  

Ha. I used to ride BMX from about age 12 to 21 or so. Then it started to hurt more when I fell and took longer to recover from injuries.





















Now all I want to do is ride fast around town.

EDIT: I should grow my hair back out... haha

 

[Geek]

Awesome pics dude. I used to watch those BMX competitions if I caught one on TV. Still don't know how you guys do some of those moves.  

...I had an awesome grampa-built bike ramp that became the envy of the neighborhood when I was a kid.  He didn't know how  high to make it, so I came home from school one day and there was this ramp in front of my house that was about as high as the roof of the garage (exaggerating a bit for my height at the time).  I busted my knee the first time out and...well, it hurt.  For about a week.  Asked him to take it down about a foot or so (yeah, it really WAS that high). Then it was perfect.  The neighbor kid and I used to show off for the neighborhood girls before school.  I'd completely forgotten about it until I saw yer pics.  Thanks for the flashback dude.  

 

[Geek]

And you thought Disney cartoons were all sweet & shit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAlauy5cS8

 

[Jive]

And you thought Disney cartoons were all sweet & shit...

Kinda sweet in the end. Watching this as a kid probably would have made me wet myself though.

 

[MannDude]

Silly cat. That is no place for kitties.

She likes to hang out there and watch me work. Or she sits on my sub woofer next to the monitor and watches me.

 

[drmike]

Was a nice day for a bike ride! Damn I am out of shape. I used to ride like 30+ hours a week. I need to get back to riding daily again.

Ride til you die!

 

[Geek]

"Throwing dildos over the power lines has become a thing in Portland"

http://www.inquisitr.com/2250573/mystery-as-hundreds-of-sex-toys-dangle-from-power-lines-in-portland-oregon/

 

[drmike]

"Throwing dildos over the power lines has become a thing in Portland"

http://www.inquisitr.com/2250573/mystery-as-hundreds-of-sex-toys-dangle-from-power-lines-in-portland-oregon/

Paging @XFS_Duke .... We have more dildo throwers.

 

[Geek]

"A spokesman for public utility Portland General Electric said he did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard."

 

[drmike]

"A spokesman for public utility Portland General Electric said he did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard."

Without proper lubrication friction shall happen... Friction could create flame.

Seriously though, these are more likely to wear thing on the laces/cord and doink someone in the head or crash through someones windshield.

 

[MannDude]

"Throwing dildos over the power lines has become a thing in Portland"

http://www.inquisitr.com/2250573/mystery-as-hundreds-of-sex-toys-dangle-from-power-lines-in-portland-oregon/

Without reading the article I'm just going to make the assumption this is being done as some feminist or social justice movement to protest... something?

Am I right?

Or am I just an asshole?

 

[Geek]

Nope, just another Summer in Portland. 

Far as I can tell, nobody knows why, only that's it's happening. 

 

[HalfEatenPie]

We all know Portland is where all the hipsters live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBt4HlcDUDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAlWrT5P2VI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHO391xTO-s

Totally unrelated though.  I wouldn't mind moving to San Francisco right about now.  

 

[HN-Matt]

A spokesman for public utility Portland General Electric said he did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard."

Without proper lubrication friction shall happen... Friction could create flame.


Seriously though, these are more likely to wear thing on the laces/cord and doink someone in the head or crash through someones windshield.

Global wildfire switch now set to ‘on’ for longer