Random Thoughts Thread

[Luke]

Women find the humor in receiving a fake rose from the gas station on Valentine's Day, don't they?

[Stark]

Women find the humor in receiving a fake rose from the gas station on Valentine's Day, don't they?

If she does, she's a keeper.

[Luke]

Women find the humor in receiving a fake rose from the gas station on Valentine's Day, don't they?

If she does, she's a keeper.

She's a keeper indeed, but I was only goofing. I bought the wife a beautiful bouquet of a dozen red roses* with greenery and babies breath, plus a bottle of Imperial Moet Champagne. I'm cooking a lobster risotto for dinner, and will make a Baked Alaska for dessert.

Every year I tell myself to tone it down, but every year on Valentine's Day my savings account takes quite the hit.

*You can't beat a classic. I wanted to get a dozen Yellow Tulips, which signifies hopeless love, but I couldn't find a florist who had any decent tulips in stock.

[Stark]

*You can't beat a classic. I wanted to get a dozen Yellow Tulips, which signifies hopeless love, but I couldn't find a florist who had any decent tulips in stock.

Not too surprising, it's not really the growing season for tulips yet.

[Luke]

Not too surprising, it's not really the growing season for tulips yet.

I'm somewhat of an annoying know-it-all, but I don't know Jack about botany.

[Stark]

Not too surprising, it's not really the growing season for tulips yet.

I'm somewhat of an annoying know-it-all, but I don't know Jack about botany.

Neither do I, I just so happen to live within a few miles of acres of tulip fields ...

[flojocabron]

Figure I put this here, since I don't know if it would make a good thread,

But here's the creme of the crop of the 1%

The richest of the rich

All in a convenient site.

http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2013-01-31/aaa

They can own every video game in existence twice over and still have money left over.

[BoneSnapDeez]

http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2013-01-31/aaa

They can own every video game in existence twice over and still have money left over.

That's the thing... I could spend my whole life collecting games and one of these rich dudes could simply drop some dough and nab a collection 10 times the size of mine in a single day.

Hell, my wife makes 10x as much as I do. She could probably equal my games collection within a month or two (not that she would ever collect video games haha).

[AppleQueso]

Opened up my RGB monitor to look around and see if I can spot any bad caps, figuring a bad capacitor might be the source of my pincushion problems.



Holy crap, I've never seen a CRT that looked like THIS on the inside.

All that metal shielding makes it hard to look around, and it looks like it'll be a huge pain to remove...

[Ack]

http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2013-01-31/aaa

They can own every video game in existence twice over and still have money left over.

That's the thing... I could spend my whole life collecting games and one of these rich dudes could simply drop some dough and nab a collection 10 times the size of mine in a single day.

Hell, my wife makes 10x as much as I do. She could probably equal my games collection within a month or two (not that she would ever collect video games haha).

True, but why worry about those guys buying games? I'm sure they collect their own stuff, like fine wines and alcohol, yachts, airplanes, underage slave girls, and pink slips to give to poor people.

But if you could find out what they collect, then you've got something to discuss. Because sure, having the collection is nice, but I'm sure they appreciate the thrill of the hunt just as much as we do. They're just hunting for things like diamond-encrusted gold toilet seats.