Hey, I have been gone for a while. Is that java exploit virus still hanging out here? Hey..... Wait...... Everything looks different now! What has happened? Oh my God! The place has been hacked!!!!!
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I have been away from here for a good while and things have changed. Now I have a minute and I want to tell a story. This belongs in the break room, but I want to risk the ban hammer so as to fill this thread out a wee bit.
My fourth of July adventure........ Actually I didn't do ANYTHING for independence day, But independence day did me!I l spent the whole day in my chair streaming black-n-white tv shows on netflix. The usual fourth of July racket was resounding from every side as I huddled indoors until it started to get dark.
One particular neighbor looked like they were having a reunion and was presenting quite a fireworks show for the extended family. I ignored it for the most part, even as the light flashed around the room and the windows rattled. There came a time when smoke was infiltrating into the house, and shortly after that it looked and sounded like the Tet offensive was taking place across the street, so I decided to go out and watch the carnage.
Now everybody understand this, I am an old fat crippled up hippie who can barely walk at all and then with the help of a stick or on some days with a walker. With that in mind, make a mental picture of what happens next, I hobble outside to my porch and close the door behind me so as to not let the dogs get out. The smoke is so thick that I cannot see the street, The only thing visible was flashing colors illuminating the smoke from across the street. It seems to be a fairly impressive end-of-show barrage. Unfortunately there has been a misfire, knocking all manner of rockets and roman candles every which way. Now what to my wondering eyes should appear? A mortar ball, one that later turned out to be a 3 inch mortar ball, came streaking out of the clouds and bounces around my feet. Of course it then proceeds to go off!
Now, this thing didn't explode........ Firecrackers explode. This thing DETONATED! HOLY CRAP!!!....... We are talking about a shockwave like a true high explosive charge! Oddly enough I never heard the sound. I felt the impact, my eyes hurt and all of my hair flew straight up (all 2 feet of it) but I don't remember hearing anything. As a matter of fact I don't remember hearing anything for about 10 minutes.
So here I am, standing propped up by my stick. My glasses are all sideways and my hair is pointing all directions at once. I have smoke curling out of my hair and beard. Smoke it oozing out of my jeans and t shirt. I have little bits of paper in my hair, in my mouth, my ears, my pockets and sticking all over me. As the smoke clears I begin to see the neighbors and they can see me. The neighbors are laughing so hard that they cannot contain themselves. they cannot come to see if I am catatonic or shell shocked, they cannot stomp out the grass fire that is slowly spreading from the launching area. They are falling all about paralyzed with the humor of me in my disarray! GEE.... THANKS..... My pals! One kid laughed so hard that he got asthma and his mother rushed him off to the hospital.
Ok, so I know that s**t happens..... When people are having fun with high explosives there is some element of risk and I am as juvenile and reckless as the next guy, but I can't let this go unanswered. I am thinking about a gallon jug full of oxy/acetylene torch mix, maybe with a pull string party popper to set it off. Probably with a whole bottle of smurf blue chalk-line chalk in the jug, just to make a nice blue cloud around an unsuspecting guy. Sort of an early morning running-out-to-work wake up call....... I don't know, I am studying on it........
Anyway, that's what I did over the holiday!