Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Theodosia - Oct 23, 2013 6:46:10 am PDT #9836 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Either that, or trade them for drugs.


Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2013 6:48:03 am PDT #9837 of 30000
hwæt

trade them for drugs.

Nope, he missed the boat on that one. And if he had cashed out BEFORE the Feds shut down Silk Road, they would have been worth a lot more.


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2013 6:53:45 am PDT #9838 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

And if he had cashed out BEFORE the Feds shut down Silk Road, they would have been worth a lot more.

I've heard that. Apparently the Chinese have bid the price back up again, but I don't know how the current price ($207) compares to back then.


Dana - Oct 23, 2013 7:02:42 am PDT #9839 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Hey, Hil (or other knowledgeable people), I have discovered a CD with some family tree work that an uncle did, so I'm poking around with it.

Is it possible that Vicher and Vicknair are the same name, just...changed or evolved?

Also, shrift, I found a *YourLastName* in my family tree, so I'm now convinced that we're related.


erikaj - Oct 23, 2013 7:04:37 am PDT #9840 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

All I've found with FB is it gives my family another platform to not communicate.


Dana - Oct 23, 2013 7:06:52 am PDT #9841 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Huh, looks like the original family name was German, Wichner, so it seems pretty likely to me that it could be either Vicher (a Frenchified version) or Vicknair (a more literal spelling based on the pronunciation).


Theodosia - Oct 23, 2013 7:07:32 am PDT #9842 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Good friends of mine discovered they were distant cousins when they ran into each other at a big family reunion thing. They'd jokingly called each other Cousin Larry and Cousin Herb before this.


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2013 7:10:37 am PDT #9843 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Shit. It looks like it'll take me 3.7 days to synchronize my Bitcoin wallet with my laptop running continuously.


Dana - Oct 23, 2013 7:12:39 am PDT #9844 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

This is really kind of amazing. I've discovered ancestors back to 1767 on one branch and 1700 on another.


Steph L. - Oct 23, 2013 7:18:52 am PDT #9845 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Shit. It looks like it'll take me 3.7 days to synchronize my Bitcoin wallet with my laptop running continuously.

If you synchronize your Bitcoin wallet, does that obligate you to sell once it's synced? IOW, it seems like syncing is a good idea anyway, so that at some point you could sell. Because even if the exchange rate drops in the short-term, if it goes back up and you haven't synced yet, you'll be back in this situation.

Might as well do it now.