OPEN BAR: NO CISNORMATIVE ELVEN PATRIARCHS ALLOWED

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That sounds like full-on suck, Cain.

I'm having one of those mornings where I wake up at 5 for no fucking reason and can't get back to sleep, but of course I'm tired as hell and today is going to suck.

I've been pondering why it is that many of the people who cry loudest about science and skepticism are the least educated in science, often to the point of having no idea what they're talking about other than parroting some science guy they think is cool. It sometimes makes skeptic groups hard to tolerate... well, that and the incessant obsession with religion. This morning a woman in the PDX skeptics FB group posted "The Catholic Church has absolutely no business mixing with education".

headdesk.

[LMNO]

Those are exactly the type of people that are being referenced when the Holists in the audience are pointing to when they whine about the "religion of science".  Because in that case, it is.  They have very little idea of what they're talking about, put a lot of faith in authority figures, and have an unreasonable amount of confidence that their beliefs are true.

[Doktor Howl]

That sounds like full-on suck, Cain.

I'm having one of those mornings where I wake up at 5 for no fucking reason and can't get back to sleep, but of course I'm tired as hell and today is going to suck.

I've been pondering why it is that many of the people who cry loudest about science and skepticism are the least educated in science, often to the point of having no idea what they're talking about other than parroting some science guy they think is cool. It sometimes makes skeptic groups hard to tolerate... well, that and the incessant obsession with religion. This morning a woman in the PDX skeptics FB group posted "The Catholic Church has absolutely no business mixing with education".

headdesk.

Yes.  Dawkins is basically replacement Jesus.

[Doktor Howl]

I came back to a rolling series of disasters.  The new bigass ball mill spit a door brick, which got buried in the media.  I have the operations guy asking me why I can't dump 500F media into plasticized cloth bags today.  I would think the answer to that would be obvious (media passing right though the bags, both igniting the bags and then sending 500F golfball-esque media bouncing all over the place.  The old Jetmill blew up internally (it was due for a failure).  The gearbox on one of the smaller mills took a shit (2 guys, 2 days to fix), 800 feet of natural gas lines need to be purged with argon so they can be removed, the computer on one of the tunnel kilns is pulling a Hal9000, and the waste-water pump went bang.

I have been asked if I can get all of this done today. I laughed.  How I laughed.  ha!  HAHA!  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[LMNO]

igniting the bags and then sending 500F golfball-esque media bouncing all over the place. 

Yeah, but think of the YouTube videos!  You'd be viral in a heartbeat!

[Doktor Howl]

igniting the bags and then sending 500F golfball-esque media bouncing all over the place. 

Yeah, but think of the YouTube videos!  You'd be viral in a heartbeat!

I'd also be in a burn ward, if not slain by the impact of a few hundred golf balls made out of incredibly dense ceramic.

But that's a small price to pay for internet fame.   

[LMNO]

I don't think you're SERIOUS about having a good time.










...god, I've always wanted to say that to you.

[Demolition Squid]

Obligatory Youtube link for Dok Howl

My work issues are much less exciting. I've spent most of the day being blamed for other people's fuckups, which is always grand, and then having to fix one of my own!

I may also be getting banned from the Penny Arcade forums for pointing out that a conversation had gone around four or five times with the exact same points made on all sides and nobody accepting anything anyone else said. For a forum dedicated to a semi-funny video game webcomic, their admin have a huge stick up their rear.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't think you're SERIOUS about having a good time.










...god, I've always wanted to say that to you.

I would totally do it.  But I am, after all, a professional.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Sounds like February is happening. My condolences to... Uh, everyone, in varying degrees as appropriate based on severity of your personal February.

[Doktor Howl]

Sounds like February is happening. My condolences to... Uh, everyone, in varying degrees as appropriate based on severity of your personal February.

My February hasn't gone below 75F.

Which means my June is going to be hell on Earth.

[Cain]

Damn.  That sounds bad.  Is this in spite of the flu shot, or were you not able to get one?

I don't qualify for it anymore.  Which is strange, given I work in a building full of teenagers and 20somethings.  I mean, I'm not A priority like I was when I had asthma, but I should be somewhere on the list.

[LMNO]

Hold on, I thought the healthcare system over there was better than ours.

[Cain]

Well, I can still go to it and get treatment without paying up front.  I mean, if I wanted to (there is no point - I know what I have, and how to treat it.  Hell, that was how I caught this in the first place - sitting in a waiting room with a student with the flu.  His case was a little more severe though, he may have had concurrent norovirus or something, but either way, he couldn't even drink water without vomiting, so they had to put him on an IV drip for a couple of hours).

But behind the scenes, it's a huge mess of a failed IT database system costing billions, bloated middle management and a government intent on getting people to switch to private providers

[LMNO]

So, exactly like the US, then.