old skool

Wallow in the despair of @sadtopographies.

Been unable to leave the house since Friday. Wine is almost out.

A guy is taking his girlfriend to prom. He waits in the ticket line for a really long time but gets them. He goes to rent a limo. The rental line is really long but he eventually does it. He goes to buy her flowers. The line at the florist is really long but eventually he gets the flowers. At prom, she asks him to go get punch. He goes to the refreshment table and there’s no punchline.

fearofpop

“These devices don’t recognize your specific voice and so then we have the situations where you have a guest staying or you have a child who is talking and accidentally order something because the device isn’t aware that it’s a child versus a parent,” said Stephen Cobb, senior security researcher for ESET North America.

Which is exactly what happened today during CW6 in the morning when Jim Patton and Lynda Martin were talking about a child who accidentally bought a dollhouse and four pounds of cookies

“I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse,’” said Patton.

As soon as Patton said that, viewers all over San Diego started complaining their echo devices had tried to order doll houses.

The freezing, accumulating end-times are rapidly descending on us. I'm gonna skip out of work soon and get a jump on the snowy rush-hour(s) madness. Get home, open the win and wait for the end.

I tried to buy a generator last night, so we could run a space heater and maybe not freeze to death when the power inevitably goes out until next week. But, none of the models left at the local hardware store would fit in my car. And they couldn't deliver anything until Tuesday. And I don't know anyone with a truck. According to their web sites, none of the other hardware stores or sporting goods stores within 60 miles of here have any that will fit in my car, either. So, if the power goes out, the four of us will probably freeze to death in our lovely new house.

It's been nice knowing you all. Enjoy your shitty 2017.

bots are chatting.

Want to cut your chances for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias? A new study suggests that picking a home far from major roadways might help.

The Canadian study found that people who lived relatively close to busy traffic had a slightly higher risk for dementia.

More specifically, this type of mental decline was more common among those who lived within about 160 feet of a major street, the study found. And the closer people lived to heavy traffic, the stronger the association.

CBS News

A Pennsylvania woman furious because she never won money playing the lottery allegedly threatened to kill state lottery officials.
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Shields made the "very graphic and vulgar" threats by phone and by leaving voice mails between April and December 2016, the report said.

Shields gave specific dates in which lottery workers would be killed and told the employees she found their addresses online.

NJ.com

YouTube thinks I need some deuterium in my life.