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Title: Tumbleweed.
Post by: mongers on April 28, 2013, 10:52:30 AM
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Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Syt on April 28, 2013, 11:17:47 AM
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Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Ideologue on April 28, 2013, 02:16:23 PM
That's a rough weed.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: The Brain on April 28, 2013, 02:17:52 PM
How long did you bike today?
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 28, 2013, 02:42:37 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 28, 2013, 02:17:52 PM
How long did you bike today?

:P
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Razgovory on April 28, 2013, 02:45:53 PM
Yeah, those things actually exist.  They aren't just in the movies.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: mongers on April 28, 2013, 02:48:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 28, 2013, 02:45:53 PM
Yeah, those things actually exist.  They aren't just in the movies.

Good to know.  :)

Birds with long legs and a penchant for avoiding long stringy wires and falling safes too ? :unsure:
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2013, 02:56:39 PM
Roadrunners do exist, and to my knowledge none has ever been hit by a falling safe.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: mongers on April 28, 2013, 02:59:02 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 28, 2013, 02:56:39 PM
Roadrunners do exist, and to my knowledge none has ever been hit by a falling safe.

So that's a non-zero probability ?  :P
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Razgovory on April 28, 2013, 03:16:47 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 28, 2013, 02:48:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 28, 2013, 02:45:53 PM
Yeah, those things actually exist.  They aren't just in the movies.

Good to know.  :)

Birds with long legs and a penchant for avoiding long stringy wires and falling safes too ? :unsure:

The birds, yeah they exist.  They are really small.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: PDH on April 28, 2013, 04:03:16 PM
I've known people who, when they move to Wyoming, send tumbleweeds back to relatives as special gifts...

It is kind of empty and dry here...
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Caliga on April 28, 2013, 04:31:34 PM
Believe it or not we have them here too, though I wouldn't say they're common by any means.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: garbon on April 28, 2013, 10:44:16 PM
Though terrible, it was pretty funny when my little cousin was taken out by a tumbleweed.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: MadImmortalMan on April 29, 2013, 10:47:01 AM
The damn things are everywhere. They're dead sage bushes and juniper.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: KRonn on April 29, 2013, 02:37:19 PM
Quote from: Syt on April 28, 2013, 11:17:47 AM
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Hehe, great gif.    :D
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on April 29, 2013, 05:46:50 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 29, 2013, 02:37:19 PM
Quote from: Syt on April 28, 2013, 11:17:47 AM
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Hehe, great gif.    :D

I might have to appropriate that.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Razgovory on April 29, 2013, 09:03:26 PM
This is pretty good Giff

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Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: mongers on May 05, 2013, 07:33:07 AM
 :whistle: in empty building.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: garbon on May 05, 2013, 01:07:06 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 05, 2013, 07:33:07 AM
:whistle: in empty building.

Hardly a surprise that there wasn't a flurry of posts when North America was sleeping in on Sunday morning. ;)
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: sbr on May 05, 2013, 01:53:58 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

Hard G.

A soft G is a J and that is peanut butter.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:58:52 PM
That's how I've always said it.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: sbr on May 05, 2013, 01:59:45 PM
Which one?
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: The Brain on May 05, 2013, 02:17:24 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

No they are not.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 05, 2013, 02:17:24 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

No they are not.

They are in Jaron's workplace and to anyone who doesn't mind sounding like a tech noob.

BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 05, 2013, 02:50:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.

You can date how old a person is by what they call it.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: mongers on May 05, 2013, 02:51:52 PM
To my mind, the hard G makes sense as using a soft G introduces confusion eg how do you spell it, is that as in the toilet cleaner etc. 
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: garbon on May 05, 2013, 04:45:12 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 05, 2013, 01:53:58 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

Hard G.

A soft G is a J and that is peanut butter.

I've always said it like it is jif. Though thankfully that doesn't come up often.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 09:38:32 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 05, 2013, 02:17:24 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Lately we've been having quite a row in my department on whether to pronounce GIF with a soft or hard G. Apparently both ways are acceptable.

No they are not.

They are in Jaron's workplace and to anyone who doesn't mind sounding like a tech noob.

BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.

I don't say it like the peanut butter. I say it like gif (not jif). Most people I know say it that way, but the guy who created the format pronounces it like jif and a few people I work with say it like that.

We have a lot of little discussions like that. S-Q-L or Sequel, W-S-D-L or WSDL. The only one we all agree on is WYSIWYG. :P

Most of the developers I work with don't use letters but pronounce these things like a single word.
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Josephus on May 05, 2013, 09:59:18 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 05, 2013, 02:50:19 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 05, 2013, 02:48:00 PM
BTW, is it acceptable to pronounce SQL as "s-q-l" rather than Sequel? Seems I've heard people do that before.

You can date how old a person is by what they call it.

I say SQL. How old am I?

I'll make it easier...I don't even know what the fuck that is. A computer code language I guess?
Title: Re: Tumbleweed.
Post by: Jaron on May 05, 2013, 10:07:10 PM
Yes, for databases.