@kittykat9180
Using my skill of deduction, I can say with high certainty that Mediocrebot must have accidentally posted the poll too early, then deleted it to avoid unnecessary shame and attention. Then as a valiant show of not humour, it gives us that as an option for the poll, in a self-depracating manner.
I like to clear my mine by heading to Port Jefferson Harbor to watch the sunset and the ferry. I also wave at Connecticut, but it probably can’t see me.
It may sound tedious but way way back in the day I recorded tons of mst3k episodes and loading one up, listening to the vhs motors hum and letting it track. Old commercials, old music, is like a visit to the Smithsonian.
@poppaearl I was just watching Clue with my wife tonight lamenting that my family’s vhs tapes recorded from tv have been lost. I can’t watch Rudolph without thinking of commercials about the 7 Up spot drilling into ice for Santa or Wario trying to hypnotize me to find the 8 Golden Coins on the Gameboy or all the new features of the 1993 Jeep at whatever dealership was around in Denver while John Elway was still playing football. The internet helps but there is something special about the ads you memorized from VCRs.
@2many2no That clears my mind, too. I can put on headphones to drown everything else out, close my eyes, and just feel the screaming and instruments deep in my soul.
are there a lot of new K medalions going around? how is that possible? could i have a k medalion please? i do have a “k” t-shirt, so that’s kinda legit, right?
/8ball “is that legit?” Ask again later
some of the “k” here, i don’t remember from long ago
@chienfou@rockblossom the big (21"!) old 80 lb color monitors we used had degauss buttons and you could feel the pulse across the room. We used to erase floppy (!x2) disks by setting them on top of the monitor and hitting that button. Ah, good times …
@rockblossom@stolicat that’s brilliant. My favorite thing to ‘erase’ is a CD. You put it in the microwave for about 3-5 seconds and you get the coolest lightening storm across the surface and it turns into small disrupted blocks of silver foil about 1cm square. I do this with xray data disks that people forget to take with them from the ER. Take that HIPPA…try to read the data off of it now!
@chienfou@rockblossom@stolicat Used to do that at work. Word of caution- don’t do more than 3 seconds or so. Otherwise the burning plastic smell will knock you off your feet (and it’s probably not good for you).
@mehcuda67@rockblossom@stolicat yeah, I found 3-5 seconds will generally do it depending on the strength of the microwave. I always keep a finger on the cancel button to hit it as soon as the main “lightening show” is over. (I think the sample below runs a bit long in the microwave…but you get the idea)
(and yes, it can stink up the place a bit… not something you want to do all the time, but in a pinch a great way to render a CD/DVD unreadable)
The same thing as I answered yesterday?
Take a long walk.
Trepanation and suction, works every time.
@awk yes, I looked it up, and came back to star because I chuckled.
Nap
@katbyter ditto …
@katbyter That was my answer yesterday before the poll was deleted
Drink, not that it’s a problem…
@Oldelvis Everclear.
Bake
@katbyter get baked.
@katbyter @PocketBrain Yes
And… repeat.
What’s the poll one mean? Someone explain.
@kittykat9180
Using my skill of deduction, I can say with high certainty that Mediocrebot must have accidentally posted the poll too early, then deleted it to avoid unnecessary shame and attention. Then as a valiant show of not humour, it gives us that as an option for the poll, in a self-depracating manner.
Play a game of solitaire.
@andyw Is that an euphemism?
@andyw @rtjhnstn
@rtjhnstn Not a euphemism. I play FreeCell, Klondike and Spider from the Microsoft program.
@Gypsigirl213 @rtjhnstn I’m glad I was not sitting across from her!
@andyw @rtjhnstn You mean a euphemism for onanism?
@andyw @macromeh @rtjhnstn “beats me” …
Bike.
Watch baseball, or the sun set if I have a deadline.
Hang out in the chicken run with my crazy-ass birbs.
@Pony so would that be hangin’ in the burbs with your birbs?
@chienfou Our town is too small to have burbs for birbs to hang in.
Grab a book and read.
Lotta poll setters around here
I like to clear my mine by heading to Port Jefferson Harbor to watch the sunset and the ferry. I also wave at Connecticut, but it probably can’t see me.
@heartny Nice photo! I’ve enjoyed that ferry and have a friend who lives in walking distance.
@heartny Keep your mines away from the ferry! That’s illegal!
@InnocuousFarmer Oopsie. I usually leave my mines home when I go to Port Jefferson.
Destroy something.
@simplersimon Viking funeral!
It may sound tedious but way way back in the day I recorded tons of mst3k episodes and loading one up, listening to the vhs motors hum and letting it track. Old commercials, old music, is like a visit to the Smithsonian.
@poppaearl I was just watching Clue with my wife tonight lamenting that my family’s vhs tapes recorded from tv have been lost. I can’t watch Rudolph without thinking of commercials about the 7 Up spot drilling into ice for Santa or Wario trying to hypnotize me to find the 8 Golden Coins on the Gameboy or all the new features of the 1993 Jeep at whatever dealership was around in Denver while John Elway was still playing football. The internet helps but there is something special about the ads you memorized from VCRs.
@Moose @poppaearl That would be 6 Golden Coins
Play video games on i-Pad
Ctrl-Alt-Del
@mehcuda67
Open Task Manager directly by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
Listen to loud heavy metal music.
@2many2no That clears my mind, too. I can put on headphones to drown everything else out, close my eyes, and just feel the screaming and instruments deep in my soul.
are there a lot of new K medalions going around? how is that possible? could i have a k medalion please? i do have a “k” t-shirt, so that’s kinda legit, right?
/8ball “is that legit?”
Ask again later
some of the “k” here, i don’t remember from long ago
M4Y83 17 15 JU57 M3
@Yoda_Daenerys No, there are no new K’s. The reason you don’t remember them is that you don’t remember them.
@Barney @Yoda_Daenerys or maybe it’s something else… I forget…
I take Fenris for a ride!
Be intimate with the Mrs.
@rtjhnstn wait… what ? You sleep with my wife???
Pray.
Meditation works for me. Has to be at least 20 minutes.
@sylvandoc TM
@sylvandoc meditation has been life-changing in helping my anxiety disorder.
Go for a run.
Read the meh. polls
Meditation!
Go fishing
Browse the Meh forums.
I have my hippocampus degaussed.
@rockblossom aaawwww Yoda is my favorite
@rockblossom I remember having a degauss button on some of my old monitors.
@chienfou @rockblossom the big (21"!) old 80 lb color monitors we used had degauss buttons and you could feel the pulse across the room. We used to erase floppy (!x2) disks by setting them on top of the monitor and hitting that button. Ah, good times …
@rockblossom @stolicat that’s brilliant. My favorite thing to ‘erase’ is a CD. You put it in the microwave for about 3-5 seconds and you get the coolest lightening storm across the surface and it turns into small disrupted blocks of silver foil about 1cm square. I do this with xray data disks that people forget to take with them from the ER. Take that HIPPA…try to read the data off of it now!
@chienfou @rockblossom oh, now I’m going to have to try that …
@chienfou @rockblossom @stolicat Used to do that at work. Word of caution- don’t do more than 3 seconds or so. Otherwise the burning plastic smell will knock you off your feet (and it’s probably not good for you).
@mehcuda67 @rockblossom @stolicat yeah, I found 3-5 seconds will generally do it depending on the strength of the microwave. I always keep a finger on the cancel button to hit it as soon as the main “lightening show” is over. (I think the sample below runs a bit long in the microwave…but you get the idea)
(and yes, it can stink up the place a bit… not something you want to do all the time, but in a pinch a great way to render a CD/DVD unreadable)
Usually, I don’t. Meditation occasionally helps, but my mind is a noisy place.