Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

Going to have a look.

Ah, leave it be.  There's no point splattering shit all over the...

...holy shit.  I'm getting OLD.

You should use it the way Zach and I use it. As an intermittent fuckfest, when we get bored with other things.

Oh, I'll be back, once I get over my butthurt.

I don't know why it bothered me so much.  It wasn't exactly surprising.

I still think it's a misunderstanding based on the arbitrary order in which Facebook posts comments. For you, his comment came right after your comment. For  me, it showed up in response to the Bieber comment, which posted  the same minute yours did, and "who cares?" makes way more sense in reply to a Bieber comment, from a guy who has been spamming Bieber comments all over the fucking place for weeks. It's his thing. It makes little to no sense in reply to your comment.

This is why I haven't been spraying shit all over the walls.  He might not have been talking to me.

Plus, there's this whole "Why can't Roger seem to get along with anyone this month" thing, which is apparently ME and not all of You People.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.

YOU KNOW

Um, I thought I would have to start from scratch, but for some reason they helpfully included those 16 credits from 20 years ago. 

You actually might be surprised at what they won't make you re-take.

Worth a mention, since you will soon find yourself not supporting a kid.

Yeah, but what I remember of math wouldn't get me through one semester.  I'd have to retake it because I don't remember it.  Trig, yes.  Some algebra, yes.  The chain rule.  That's it.

Also, I was talking with some Canucks back in the Old Country, and one of them wrote this (spelling unchanged):

If this government wants to get rid of something get rid of them blood suckers in the senet. Make them members live on there wadges ,take there perks and boneses away.

WTF, CANADA?  WTF? 

The world is ending.

Maritime provinces, I presume?

Retired mail carrier in Hamilton, Ontario.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

Everything I have ever heard from EVERYONE about calc is that it makes everything make sense, and it makes it SO MUCH EASIER.

And they are in fact telling you the truth.  But are they remembering how many problems they had to run to learn the damn stuff well enough for a test?  For me, it was about 3 hours a day, 7 days a week, but I have to bash stuff through my skull.  You should plan on 2 hours/day, 6 days per week.

[Cain]

Finished my article on Iraq.  Will need a bit of polishing before it gets sent off, but that can be done tomorrow.  It's mostly all there.

I hate having writing assignments hanging over me.  After this, there is another one for my course.  20 days or so away, give or take, but knowing it is there is annoying.

[Suu]

Some of the guys in my SCA household are trying to plan a Norse feast, in which they are talking about eating hearty meats and drinking mead.

So I showed them hakarl, and said that in order to be a real Viking, you have to eat REAL Viking food.

...Suddenly, they changed their mind.

[LMNO]

Is that the rotten shark meat stuff that's more of a dare than actual food?

[trippinprincezz13]

Irritable as all hell today. Not angry at or with anything, or even in a particularly bad mood, if that makes sense. It just feels like everything is grating on my last nerve just because it's there, but again, not worked up enough to be mad at anything. A bit tired, but even sleep sounds annoying. More that I just want to crawl out of my own skin.

Meh

[East Coast Hustle]

Let me know if you're headed up towards Bangor. There's actually not shit in Bangor worth seeing, really, but there's lots of cool stuff an hour's drive in any direction, including the restaurant I used to chef at and may be cheffing at again by the time you get up that way.

Will do. There's a lot of nature up there and the almost-husband wants to take me out into it.

Oh yeah, there is no shortage of really really awesome spots in central/eastern/midcoast Maine. Gulf Hagis, The Forks, Schoodic Peninsula, Roque Bluffs, Camden Hills, and any of the offshore islands are all pretty amazing and mostly not overrun with tourists like Acadia is, though Camden Hills can get crowded in the summer if you try to go to the main entrance. Baxter State Park is more impressive than most national parks and if you're up for the long and rugged hike, the view from the top of Katahdin is the single most stunning viewpoint in the US east of the Rockies.

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I'm off to have my orifices probed! First physical since my surgery. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

I bet you're healthy as an ox!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

Everything I have ever heard from EVERYONE about calc is that it makes everything make sense, and it makes it SO MUCH EASIER.

And they are in fact telling you the truth.  But are they remembering how many problems they had to run to learn the damn stuff well enough for a test?  For me, it was about 3 hours a day, 7 days a week, but I have to bash stuff through my skull.  You should plan on 2 hours/day, 6 days per week.

Most of the people I know who talk about calc are students who are taking it right now. 12 hours of homework a week sounds about right.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm off to have my orifices probed! First physical since my surgery. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

I bet you're healthy as an ox!

Other than high blood pressure, it looks  like I am. Blood tests will take a week or so though. Knock on wood!

[Suu]

Is that the rotten shark meat stuff that's more of a dare than actual food?

It is. But people actually eat it, and have been eating it, since the Norse colonized Iceland.

[LMNO]

I believe that's one of the few foods Andrew Zimmern wouldn't eat.

[Junkenstein]

Some of the guys in my SCA household are trying to plan a Norse feast, in which they are talking about eating hearty meats and drinking mead.

So I showed them hakarl, and said that in order to be a real Viking, you have to eat REAL Viking food.

...Suddenly, they changed their mind.

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/bestandworstfood/post1221743

I live in Sweden - and it pains me to tell you this, but I have eaten "SurStrömming".
Sprouts are like Cadbury's chocolate... and Smoked Eel (eaten here at x-mas) is a tasty treat in comparison.

Here's how the culinary comedians make it.
Catch Herring.
Kill Herring
Put Herring in Salt water... and LEAVE IT OUT IN THE SUN. (wankers)
Check to see if the fish stinks yet...
Leave it out in the sun some more.
Tin the herring in special corrugated tins that can expand. (this shit FERMENTS)

There are some airlines who won't allow you to fly with this stuff. NOT because the exploding tin is dangerous, but because the smell is impossible to get rid of, and until the plane is stripped and re-furnished, all passengers will be vomiting and gagging.

So... A happy summers day and a Swede says "Hey... have you tried Shuurshtrööömming yet?"
My first mistake was to say "no"
Leif happily produces a Tin that looks like a metal Football, and grinning like a wanking Eskimo he places it on a fencing post and hands me a rifle... "open it" says he...

My second shot grazed the tin, and it span off into the long grass hissing like an angry moggie with a stick of ginger up it's arse.

The smell of the fetid fish-oil on the approach to the tin made me gag... this is quite literately rotten fish, and you can buy it in the supermarkets. some of the tins aren't even even painted - probably because it just peels off again..

Admittedly when eating it you back it up with shed-loads of vodka and the like, but I honestly have never tasted anything so vile in my entire life. Even managing to get it into your mouth is a hurdle - based on the smell, your body tries to reject it. A reasonable reflex in my opinion.
The purest Absolout failed to strip my pallet of the taste, and god knows, I tried again and again.

Sprouts, (though it is satan's addition to x-mas), are a meal for kings when compared.

I developed the opinion that anything that has to be opened at a distance with a firearm should not actually be classed as food

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.