What's mildly amusing you today? - Page 8

Pie · 07-13-2009, 01:48 PM

Snork!

xoxoxoBruce · 07-15-2009, 09:41 AM

And sincere.

Pie · 07-15-2009, 09:44 AM

Holy crap, HM got a shout-out on Boingboing!

Quote:

Tapecraft: art made with tape and markers

Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 14, 2009 10:01 PM | permalink

Flickr user Happy Monkey has a set of "Tapecraft" objects: "Crafts constructed from simple invisible tape and colored with permanent markers." Tapecraft (via Evil Mad Scientists)

Clodfobble · 07-15-2009, 10:00 AM

Sweet! Go HM!!

Happy Monkey · 07-15-2009, 11:17 AM

Whee! I was wondering why my flickr stats were exploding!

Shawnee123 · 07-15-2009, 11:20 AM

Very cool HM. See, we have the best monkeys.

Clodfobble · 07-16-2009, 01:10 PM

Somewhere there exists a woman with my first and last name, about my age. Her mother is email-challenged, despite working in a relatively technical field, and routinely sends me emails intended for her daughter. This poor woman has never once responded to my repeated replies that I am not her daughter and she should double-check her email address, so I continue to get these detailed glimpses into someone else's life, including family photos. Apparently the anti-me just had a baby a few days ago. I replied and told the woman to tell her daughter congratulations for me.

Pie · 07-16-2009, 01:18 PM

Maybe you could set up an automatic "rule" to forward on Mom's emails to the daughter?

lumberjim · 07-16-2009, 01:32 PM

can i have her email address please? I'd like to rick roll her.

glatt · 07-16-2009, 01:34 PM

I was getting e-mails meant for a high school teacher from his students. Some of them containing homework. At first I worked hard to clear up the misunderstandings. Went on intermittently for a year or more. Then I just started deleting them. Deleting them worked faster in my case. I stopped getting them shortly after that. I guess that when students get zeros on homework for failing to turn them in, the teacher realizes there is a serious problem. What teacher uses gmail for work anyway?

lumberjim · 07-16-2009, 01:38 PM

gmail offers a mail service for 'your domain' that is just like regular gmail

I have jhelm@whereiwork.com and it was a simple thing to set my main gmail acct to pull emails into it. when i send mail, i can select which address i'm sending it from. slick

Shawnee123 · 07-16-2009, 01:39 PM

Are there adjunct HS teachers? lol

Clodfobble · 07-16-2009, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pie

Maybe you could set up an automatic "rule" to forward on Mom's emails to the daughter?

I would, but I don't know the daughter's address, other than it must be similar to mine. The woman's phone number is in her signature, since she emails me from work, so one of these days I suppose I'll get bothered enough to call her on the phone and remind her again that her daughter must be so sad, thinking her mother never emails her and doesn't love her.

dar512 · 07-16-2009, 02:38 PM

Clod, you are seeing the half-empty jar and missing out on a lot of fun. Just reply and tell her all about your

new tatoo
decision to name your child Michael Jackson
tongue piercing
new job as pole dancer
decision to move to the opposite coast
decision to become a lesbian

I'm sure you could think of a lot more.

ZenGum · 07-16-2009, 08:30 PM

I too have a problem with gmail doubling up.

I am Zen.Gum at gmail. (not my real address)

Someone else registered ZenGum at gmail. Gmail cheerfully assures me that it is in fact me. Dumbasses.

Every now and then one aimed at him reaches me. One time I got an offer of an internship in a Chicago law office, or something. That one I replied to, to straighten things out, but lately I am ignoring them. If it keeps up, I think I will try Dar's solution. Nice idea.

07-13-2009, 01:48 PM	#106
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Snork! __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

07-15-2009, 09:41 AM	#107
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	And sincere. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-15-2009, 10:00 AM	#109
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Sweet! Go HM!! __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

07-15-2009, 11:17 AM	#110
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Whee! I was wondering why my flickr stats were exploding! __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

07-15-2009, 11:20 AM	#111
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Very cool HM. See, we have the best monkeys. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-16-2009, 01:10 PM	#112
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Somewhere there exists a woman with my first and last name, about my age. Her mother is email-challenged, despite working in a relatively technical field, and routinely sends me emails intended for her daughter. This poor woman has never once responded to my repeated replies that I am not her daughter and she should double-check her email address, so I continue to get these detailed glimpses into someone else's life, including family photos. Apparently the anti-me just had a baby a few days ago. I replied and told the woman to tell her daughter congratulations for me. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

07-16-2009, 01:18 PM	#113
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Maybe you could set up an automatic "rule" to forward on Mom's emails to the daughter? __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

07-16-2009, 01:32 PM	#114
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	can i have her email address please? I'd like to rick roll her. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

07-16-2009, 01:34 PM	#115
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I was getting e-mails meant for a high school teacher from his students. Some of them containing homework. At first I worked hard to clear up the misunderstandings. Went on intermittently for a year or more. Then I just started deleting them. Deleting them worked faster in my case. I stopped getting them shortly after that. I guess that when students get zeros on homework for failing to turn them in, the teacher realizes there is a serious problem. What teacher uses gmail for work anyway?

07-16-2009, 01:38 PM	#116
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	gmail offers a mail service for 'your domain' that is just like regular gmail I have jhelm@whereiwork.com and it was a simple thing to set my main gmail acct to pull emails into it. when i send mail, i can select which address i'm sending it from. slick __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

07-16-2009, 01:39 PM	#117
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Are there adjunct HS teachers? lol __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-16-2009, 02:38 PM	#119
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Clod, you are seeing the half-empty jar and missing out on a lot of fun. Just reply and tell her all about your new tatoo decision to name your child Michael Jackson tongue piercing new job as pole dancer decision to move to the opposite coast decision to become a lesbian I'm sure you could think of a lot more. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

07-16-2009, 08:30 PM	#120
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I too have a problem with gmail doubling up. I am Zen.Gum at gmail. (not my real address) Someone else registered ZenGum at gmail. Gmail cheerfully assures me that it is in fact me. Dumbasses. Every now and then one aimed at him reaches me. One time I got an offer of an internship in a Chicago law office, or something. That one I replied to, to straighten things out, but lately I am ignoring them. If it keeps up, I think I will try Dar's solution. Nice idea. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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