I'm back with a new modem!

And I just managed to clean out my bed drawers, so I can move on to the next step when I'm ready.

I doubt I set any records, but now my cat can't jump on my PC and hit the power button or reset button, so... improvement.

Back in St. Olaf they used to have IKEA building contests...

enjoy yur affordable Svedish crap.

Ikea is dangerous. I bought a new desk and a bed frame...

Var.

Oh, and there's also a few percent extra wage for every overtime hour on top of that.

Some people just work an hour extra every day and then request a day off when they have collected enough hours.

Come in on your day off? Work an hour extra on a normal working day? Counts. What you do with your overtime doesn't matter just as long as you worked overtime in the first place.

Anything goes - filing a request for financial compensation for your overtime, getting them compensated by spare time either in full "stay at home" days or "go home early" days (always with permission by your superior), it doesn't matter. What matters is that you worked longer than your contract and your official shift plan require you on any given day.

Now the important thing here is that overtime is clocked daily, so if you work an hour extra (all overtime prior to the Christmas peak season is voluntary) and then immediately work an hour less on the following day (assuming you got your superior's permission), you may have a net zero on your overtime account but still scored one hour for the premium regardless.

In other news, I unlocked an achievement at work: There is an agreement between the works council and the employer which states that anyone who works 55 overtime hours this year between January and the end of September gets a premium in October.

Of course, the idiots keep bringing up the fact that DC used it "first", despite us telling them over and over again that who was "first" is completely irrelevant in trademarks.

Actually they just settled.

Sounds like Hasbro should win it easily.. They'be been using it constantly for years, so even if DC did have it, they haven't been using and defending their trademark.

Well, haven't in a long time, that is.

And there haven't been any toys based on DC's Teen Titans Bumblebee character until recently.

Because Hasbro is selling toys.

The trademark dispute was specifically about toys.

Thought to be fair I didn't even know Hasbro and DC were having a trademark dispute. I thought that was something that would have been settled years ago (and DC wouldn't be doing much with their Bumblebee at the moment given Marvel's using Wasp at the moment)

It sounds like the kind of person isn't going to be deflected by petty concerns like "reason" or "facts".

I told him repeatedly that the insects are completely irrelevant because THEY ARE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF SELLING TOYS (or ANY business at all, for that matter).

Even if he meant that the word "bumblebee" has been used to describe a particular type of insect (which is a much more coherent statement) it's still wrong.

Claiming that Hasbro's trademark has always been for "Autobot Bumblebee" (a quick look at any toy packaging in the past 12 years proves this wrong), Apple the computer company has never held a trademark for "Apple", only for "Apple Computers" (the USPTO database proves this wrong), you cannot trademark common words (the USPTO database proves this wrong), the insects have been using the name "Bumblebee" for thousands of years (insects don't speak English), and ARGHHHH.

Jesus, there's this moron at TFW2005 who has a history of exceptionally outrageous bulls*** claims who is making all sorts of provably false statements in the thread about the Hasbro/DC "Bumblebee" trademark dispute.

If you stop for gas/directions shortly before getting there and the attendant is unusually creepy and/or inbred, turn back

Booked a cheap cabin in the stormy mountains filled with alcohol. This is either a great find or the start of a horror film.

I loved those commercials...

Paladin drank Bud Ice once in the 90s, and the penguins have been after him ever since.

You weren't using it anyway.

one by one the penguins steal my sanity...

New band name: The Sabre Worf Hypothesis

That never goes away. I still have little panic attacks when I see water where it's not supposed to be. I've lived through enough leaking roofs, broken pipes and floods to know it could be a very bad sign.

Despite my parents explaining that to me when I was a kid, I still half-panic every time I see condensation dripping.

Yup. If the water happens to be on the left or right of the vehicle, make sure to remember that. That way it's real easy to tell if it's something else dripping.

So I checked online and it appears... it's totally normal, that's apparently condensed water from the air conditioning.

Phew!" For a moment I thought I was in real trouble because when I arrived at home and drove my car into the garage, there was a trail of large wet spots.

The showerhead exploded off the pipe this morning. So yeah... think it's going to be a "great" day.

Luckily, it was "Wheel Horse Lawnmower"

I knew that my father was getting old when he finally posted a facebook status that was clearly a search term.

could've been worse then

So when he tried to pry into his daughter's love life, he ended up posting numerous search terms relating to "hot boy".

I once saw this comedy episode wherein a dad mistakenly thought the status bar on Facebook was the search bar.

is cool squawkbox =/= search box

iron man note to self

Happy Birthday to Nevermore and Angelus!

I like how that game had all kinds of transformation attacks. Some of them may not have made much sense, but they looked cool.

Menasor kinda did that in the Devastation video game. He'd split into the Stunticons and run you over.

Megatron screams "decepticons attack", the constructicons form devastator, who then screams "Multi-vector assault mode" and breaks back into invdividual bots to attack seperately.