The mice are engaging in an organized, cooperative, and objective-based plan to keep me from sleeping at night.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
The mice are engaging in an organized, cooperative, and objective-based plan to keep me from sleeping at night.
...and the milk's in me.
Is it their squeaking and knocking things over at night? Or does it go... deeper?
You want to moderate the 20 spammers that try and register each day? I don't know how or why the captcha seems to be ineffective, but somehow they're getting through. My best guess is maybe it isn't a bot but some crazy dude(s) who really does register each account.
The real issue isn't stopping them from posting. I can have it set to require my approval before they are an active member. But, unless I know someone is signing up, or they're not an obvious spammer, how can I deny people? Or conversely, how can I take the chance and let them become active?
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I can hear them at night scuffling around, preparing. Giggling. I uneasily try to sleep through it.
Last night, they turned over the food bowl and emptied it out, and then carried it across the entire cage, and wedged it underneath the exercise wheel. Then, at four a.m., they got on the wheel and began running, which was the audio equivilent of banging a wooden spoon on a saucepan. I literally fell out of bed in alarm. I turned on the light, unwedged the bowl,and scolded them. I crawled back into bed, only to turn around and see the little effers dragging the bowl over to the wheel again.
I took out the food bowl. They looked at me reproachfully.
...and the milk's in me.
Alright. I pruned all the banned and inactive accounts. I will open registration while still requiring my approval to become an active account.
However, we're not that visibile of a site. I would appreciate those with connections to refer people. Otherwise, only spammers will probably stop by to register.
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Honesty, I didn't know registration was closed to begin with. I hope it doesn't create problems...
...and the milk's in me.
I think I'd rather make uninformed suggestions while refusing to take any personal responsibility for their results.
:P
Anyway, I think sites running fine as is. Seems we've retained membership pretty well without open registration. It's was just a thought I threw out there.
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At the same time, all closed systems die out. It'll be like the Shakers all over again.
...and the milk's in me.
As you try to sleep tonight, that tapping sound that is keeping you awake is...
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Raiders: Their names are Beatrice and Bianca. Beatrice is black, and Bianca is grey. They are half-sisters and both have black eyes and tiny little hands.
Please do not let them register.
Thank you.
...and the milk's in me.
You can be bored or you can play Pig On A Rocket.
My previous roommate got a mouse. I considered letting it "out of its ball" and going wherever nature took it.
Hate mice.
Sorry Mara.
Since childhood, I've always had a thing for exotic "pets". In addition to the tropical fish, cats, and dogs (I'm a dog person all the way) I've also had pet...
Lizard
Turtle
Alligator
Duck
Armadillo
Tarantula
Rat
Vietnamese Pot-bellied Pig
None of which are pets in the traditional sense, of course. But some can be trained. The pig did lots of tricks for food. Just as you'd expect.
Never had a snake. Don't like 'em.
I've heard that pigs can actually make great pets.
Geroge Clooney had/has one.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I'm in a real bind, Raiders. All of my friends are also spammers. Will that complicate things? By the way, have you heard about the Slap-Chop? Slap your worries away with the Slap-Cho++++++++++BANNED.
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Nice!
We've wanted a pot-bellied pig for some time.
I've had a variety of lizards and snakes as well. I had a 2-foot long alligator lizard at one time - he was a mean SOB.
I also had a hedgehog.
Tell me about this guy...
Wiki entry on the southern Alligator Lizard:
And that's the truth! I've never had a lizard bite me so many times. That dude was always pissed off.
We'd catch all kind of reptiles, keep them for a couple of days, and then let them go.
Looked a lot like this guy:
When I lived in Texas, you saw 'em all over the place...flat as pancakes, usually...but I found him on a back road and brought him home. Kept him for a while...he did fairly well in captivity but he was a sneaky bastard and found his way out before too long.
You're gonna love my nuts!
Billy Bob Thornton. He takes his music seriously,* and you had better respect that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw
*but not seriously enough to bother bringing his drums to the radio station.
This reminds me of a Texas story. One day I was hauling ass down the highway and an armadillo thought that crossing the highway in front of me would be a wise decision. I swerve into the center emergency lane to avoid it, almost losing control. I recover and just when I look into my rear view mirror, I see the car behind me clip the little fucker shooting it like a cue ball off the road. Needless to say, in my 8 years of living in Texas I've seen probably 3 live armadillos, and probably 500 or so in some level of dead. Not the world's smartest animals, though I've heard they make tasty chili.
This one time I was driving home from a family reunion in... I think... Wyoming. It was really remote. My second cousin and I drove back together in his rented car, which was an SUV (which I had no experience driving.) We left around midnight (for reasons I don't remember) and the first several hours of driving were on an isolated, two-lane road in the middle of nowhere. There were huge semis and trucks coming the opposite way, so I had no room to swerve.
The problem was that there were about a thousand little hoppity bunnies on the road. They kept looking up at me, and there was nothing I could do about it, since I had an embankment on my right, trucks on my left, and cars going 65 mph right behind me. The first couple of thuds bothered me, but then I got used to it.
What was awful was several hours later when the sun came up, and the street was a massacre of dead bunnies. There was literally a bunny every three feet, with a spray of blood behind it. To this day, it was the goriest thing I'd ever seen.
...and the milk's in me.
There are a number of loud women in my office. (This is culturally foreign to me, but I see a lot of around Baltimore: women who are really, really loud even if they're not angry.)
It's escalated to full yelling today, but I can't tell if they are actually fighting, or agreeing with each other at full voice. I'm a little concerned and will likely hide in my office for most of the day.
...and the milk's in me.
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