[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago

Yep, also they had previously been warned about serving coffee that hot, but studies had shown that serving it that hot meant that people drank less of it. And that "crazy" judgement (2.5 million?) wasn't a random number. That's how much they make off coffee in one day.

[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Atlanta has the BAY Bridge. Atlanta is nowhere near any bay of any kind and it's just a bridge over the interstate. BAY is actually an acronym so the real meaning is the Big Ass Yellow bridge, although the news and other "clean" sources will use the term but say it's the "big and yellow" bridge.

[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Well did he cum or what?

[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I remember the "blizzard of '93", but in the south, Georgia, that was probably 6-8" of snow. We were out of school for like a week though. I had the bright idea to take the wheels off of my rollerblades and use them as ice skates. That did not work as well in practice as it did in my head.

[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

When I was a kid my house was struck by lightning. It actually struck my bedroom but we were all downstairs watching TV at the time. It was a super loud bang and the power went out, and our dog started yelping like she was dying. We found the dog huddled in the back corner of the yard. She was fine, we think the noise just scared her. The outlet in my bedroom wall where it hit was destroyed, just some charred chunks of plastic and metal that had blown out of the wall and hit the side of my bed. I think we ended up having to replace all the outlets in my room. It knocked off the siding where it hit the outside of my bedroom wall, but i don't think it even damaged it, we just hung it back up. The fire department came and made sure there were no hotspots, and they were able to trace the path. It hit my room, traveled through the house, and then out to the transformer on the street, which had blown up. Oddly though, I don't think any of the electronics in the house were damaged, not even the stereo in my room right by where the lightning struck.

[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

We bought my son's costume for something like $25, he was a Ghostbuster. My wife and I got tablecloths from the dollar store for a couple bucks each and were ghosts. Costumes don't have to be perfect or expensive!

[-] elfharm@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Well I'm old and don't really game anymore, but for me it was the original Halflife. The story sucked me in, not to mention the fact that I was running it on my brand new PC, which I believe was one of the first Pentium IIIs, so I could run it at the max resolution and the graphics were amazing!. I think it was 1024x768, on a huge 17" CRT monitor!

elfharm

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