:bacon:
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 13, 2014, 10:33:52 PM
Well, it wouldn't be PD without the annual "a bunch of people fuck off for awhile in a fit of butthurt", would it?
I've been able to un-fuck off a little bit today.
Too much to catch up on though.
Le Sigh.
Here I sit waiting for a distributor to bring me beer so I can write a check and go home.
Yeay.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 13, 2014, 10:33:52 PM
Well, it wouldn't be PD without the annual "a bunch of people fuck off for awhile in a fit of butthurt", would it?
I'm still here. I'm just going to be traveling for the next 10 days, so a little busy.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 13, 2014, 10:45:08 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 13, 2014, 10:33:52 PM
Well, it wouldn't be PD without the annual "a bunch of people fuck off for awhile in a fit of butthurt", would it?
I'm still here. I'm just going to be traveling for the next 10 days, so a little busy.
Too bad you're leaving the east side right before I get there
-OR-
Good move, sir.
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Midterms for me. Plus some catching up to do in Algebra. But not so much for it to interfere with Roger's arrival.
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 13, 2014, 10:45:08 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 13, 2014, 10:33:52 PM
Well, it wouldn't be PD without the annual "a bunch of people fuck off for awhile in a fit of butthurt", would it?
I'm still here. I'm just going to be traveling for the next 10 days, so a little busy.
Too bad you're leaving the east side right before I get there
-OR-
Good move, sir.
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTORm_kYrsySXEXYggdVBCiQYP6hFlgLQd_3l9x-QpvLYEhmXwY)
This ain't my first perm, ma'am.
Packing laptop. See you spags later.
Have fun on your trip.
Quote from: Cain on March 14, 2014, 12:32:19 AM
Have fun on your trip.
I'll be on tomorrow at work, until 10:30AM real time.
'Night.
Later Spag!
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 13, 2014, 10:33:52 PM
Well, it wouldn't be PD without the annual "a bunch of people fuck off for awhile in a fit of butthurt", would it?
We are February.
We are butthurt.
February does not forgive.
February does not forget.
Expect February.
Quote from: The Johnny on March 14, 2014, 12:38:59 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 13, 2014, 10:33:52 PM
Well, it wouldn't be PD without the annual "a bunch of people fuck off for awhile in a fit of butthurt", would it?
We are February.
We are butthurt.
February does not forgive.
February does not forget.
Expect February.
But expect it in March.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 14, 2014, 12:34:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on March 14, 2014, 12:32:19 AM
Have fun on your trip.
I'll be on tomorrow at work, until 10:30AM real time.
'Night.
I wont be. I'm working a night shift tomorrow, and Sunday too. Will probably be on Saturday night though...no point messing around my sleep patterns before
Monday Tuesday...uh, fuck, I guess I'm being nocturnal all this week.
Made big turkey Ravioli using soy flour and egg whites.
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Tonight, I found myself staring at asses of professional baseball players that I could have babysat for in high school. :eek:
Fortunately, my sister could have babysat for them as well, so I wasn't alone in my misery.
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
Quote from: Nobody understands birds on March 14, 2014, 01:27:01 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's
Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
Actually, shaking them out was a sludgy mess, and I'm not sure if that was because too much time had passed between tonight and the last time we knocked them out (F1 was going into the morgue anyway, so we were all like fuck it, let's use a lot of ether). Some of the others in my class had the same problem. I was afraid I had killed my F2 pupae and larvae, but the professor said they were fine.
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:49:06 AM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 02:16:15 AM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Thanks! I'll probably be fine, it's only 10% of the grade for the class, but there's SO MUCH INFORMATION. So many phyla. So many details about reproduction and elimination and development. Fuck.
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Thanks! I'll probably be fine, it's only 10% of the grade for the class, but there's SO MUCH INFORMATION. So many phyla. So many details about reproduction and elimination and development. Fuck.
we may have gotten the Drosophila module, but your class seems to be further along than ours. Today we covered geologic eras and mass extinctions. I think we left off with the Pleistocene Extinction in North America (it was a long day. I woke up 3 hours earlier than I normally do 3 blocks from work, worked a full day, went to school , zoned and then started counting twitching bugs stuck together blue goop and then sorted them by both gender and eye color).
Quote from: Sita on February 02, 2014, 04:22:39 AM
Well it looks like if my son can force himself to slow down and actually concentrate on his math he'll be fine. Worked with him today on the 3 or 4 pages he had for homework and he only threw a tantrum once (he really doesn't like it if he tries something twice and still has it wrong) so it's improvement.
I'm sure the idea of not being able to go on the class trip in May if he doesn't have at least a C is helping motivate him some too.
Khan Academy all the time https://www.khanacademy.org/
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 02:30:37 AM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Thanks! I'll probably be fine, it's only 10% of the grade for the class, but there's SO MUCH INFORMATION. So many phyla. So many details about reproduction and elimination and development. Fuck.
we may have gotten the Drosophila module, but your class seems to be further along than ours. Today we covered geologic eras and mass extinctions. I think we left off with the Pleistocene Extinction in North America (it was a long day. I woke up 3 hours earlier than I normally do 3 blocks from work, worked a full day, went to school , zoned and then started counting twitching bugs stuck together blue goop and then sorted them by both gender and eye color).
Yeah, you probably are covering it more slowly because you're on a different schedule, but honestly I think that gives you the chance to explore it in greater depth. I hate the quarter system. I wish we were at least on trimesters. I actually think that the quarter system as it's implemented in Oregon was designed to allow people to graduate on an accelerated schedule, because in theory if you take max credits and summer classes you can graduate with a baccalaureate in 2.5 years (if you were completely insane, I can't imagine trying to do that), which is why I'm able to have 132 credits and I've only been in school for two years, but it's also highly conducive to burnout.
Finally managed to get below 220 pounds. Fuck yeah.
Nice!
Congrats Waffle!
Why does it seem that you weigh less than I do in your pictures?
Vikings are much more dense. Their skeletons are made of iron, ffs, it all adds up
So today is a teacher planning day and next week is spring break.
I'll have 10 days of hearing nothing but Minecraft, Brickforce or Roblox. And the constant asking from my son to join him in playing these games.
Oh and Everquest, since they just had an update that let even the free accounts start with a lvl 85 if they want. The boy is ecstatic about that since now he can group with us. Only problem is that he still has no clue how to play beyond hailing an NPC and hitting the attack key (for auto attack). At 85 there is a whole lot more to playing the character than that.
I'm taking a lady out to this today:
http://www.bodyworldsboston.com/ (http://www.bodyworldsboston.com/)
I am excited for preserved anatomy, and for potential, and for this being my first attempt at dating since the breakup that totally fucked me up four months ago. :)
Also, Roger, if you're looking to kill some time while you're in Boston - there's always this.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 14, 2014, 12:49:03 PM
I'm taking a lady out to this today:
http://www.bodyworldsboston.com/ (http://www.bodyworldsboston.com/)
I am excited for preserved anatomy, and for potential, and for this being my first attempt at dating since the breakup that totally fucked me up four months ago. :)
Also, Roger, if you're looking to kill some time while you're in Boston - there's always this.
And this:
http://www.museumofbadart.org/ (http://www.museumofbadart.org/)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 14, 2014, 11:14:54 AM
Why does it seem that you weigh less than I do in your pictures?
All of my excess weight is around my stomach/chest, and I tend to not wear too tight fitting clothes I guess.
It has to be said, that I am much leaner now than I was half a year ago, but I weigh more.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 14, 2014, 11:20:00 AM
Vikings are much more dense. Their skeletons are made of iron, ffs, it all adds up
And this of course.
3 hours of horror, then onto the plane to Rhode Island.
With a stop in Atlanta. I hope nobody gets their dandruff on the ground and they cancel all flights.
The really important part of this, of course, is that I'm getting a harpoon at last.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 14, 2014, 02:17:10 PM
The really important part of this, of course, is that I'm getting a harpoon at last.
It's been ages since I did a good harpooning. I'm jealous.
To moor onto a passing Tuscon as it majestically drifts by?
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 14, 2014, 02:18:43 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 14, 2014, 02:17:10 PM
The really important part of this, of course, is that I'm getting a harpoon at last.
It's been ages since I did a good harpooning. I'm jealous.
Tucson has a severe harpoon shortage.
Quote from: Faust on March 14, 2014, 02:18:51 PM
To moor onto a passing Tuscon as it majestically drifts by?
Sky whales. And that fucking Goodyear Blimp.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 14, 2014, 01:24:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 14, 2014, 11:14:54 AM
Why does it seem that you weigh less than I do in your pictures?
All of my excess weight is around my stomach/chest, and I tend to not wear too tight fitting clothes I guess.
It has to be said, that I am much leaner now than I was half a year ago, but I weigh more.
Healthy muscle tissue fills, as a ballpark, about half the volume of fat for a given weight. Turning fat into muscle is not a biological possibility but the effect is analogous - if you start building healthy muscle tissue, while trimming down on fat, it's perfectly feasible to go from blimp to ripped and stay the same weight the whole time.
This is one of several key reasons weight loss programs (diets in popular parlance) are fucking retarded.
Boston/Providence spags: Getting on the plane in a half hour.
Everyone else: See ya around. I may be on here and there, but not often and not for long. See you on the 24th.
Happy travels, Roger!
Vaya con dios!
Have fun!
So I'm no longer going to grow facial hair, or grow out my side burns thick. It's itchy as fuck, and also I don't want people to think I'm a Magic: The Gathering player.
(http://s10.postimg.org/j4pjae5dl/Snapshot_20140312.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 02:16:15 AM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Turned out I was more prepared than I thought. I totally lost it when it came to terrestrial arthropods breathing pores. Spiracles! And I am pretty sure I put down subphylum instead of phylum for a couple things. But I probably got at least a 95.
Quote from: /b/earman on March 14, 2014, 07:13:08 PM
So I'm no longer going to grow facial hair, or grow out my side burns thick. It's itchy as fuck, and also I don't want people to think I'm a Magic: The Gathering player.
(http://s10.postimg.org/j4pjae5dl/Snapshot_20140312.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Looking good! I like the clean-shaven look on you.
Quote from: Nobody understands birds on March 14, 2014, 07:20:36 PM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:49:06 AM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Turned out I was more prepared than I thought. I totally lost it when it came to terrestrial arthropods breathing pores. Spiracles! And I am pretty sure I put down subphylum instead of phylum for a couple things. But I probably got at least a 95.
Impressive if that is your score!
How good are you at estimating your results on tests? I heard that a high accuracy on those estimates is correlated to a high IQ. For what that's worth.
Quote from: Nobody understands birds on March 14, 2014, 07:21:20 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on March 14, 2014, 07:13:08 PM
So I'm no longer going to grow facial hair, or grow out my side burns thick. It's itchy as fuck, and also I don't want people to think I'm a Magic: The Gathering player.
(http://s10.postimg.org/j4pjae5dl/Snapshot_20140312.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Looking good! I like the clean-shaven look on you.
You look younger, it works for you.
Quote from: :regret: on March 14, 2014, 07:29:53 PM
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Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on March 14, 2014, 01:05:05 AM
Ethered my F1 fruitflies to death. Phenotypes did not match my predictions.
Ah, fuck, that worksheet is due tomorrow.
I've got Biotech and it's Spring Still Just As Wintry Break
We're doing the plants lab for heritable traits and it's due at the practicum, which is in the morning. Am I ready? NOPE.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it. Good luck, man.
Turned out I was more prepared than I thought. I totally lost it when it came to terrestrial arthropods breathing pores. Spiracles! And I am pretty sure I put down subphylum instead of phylum for a couple things. But I probably got at least a 95.
Impressive if that is your score!
How good are you at estimating your results on tests? I heard that a high accuracy on those estimates is correlated to a high IQ. For what that's worth.
Usually I'm within a couple points. Typically I know what I didn't know on a test. Once in a while I'm surprised.
Today was the day we were to learn who among us was being laid off. I haven't heard anything, so barring a call from the employment agency, I may yet be employed (unless and until we find out that the lay-offs did not in fact save the company and the whole works goes down). Cute story behind it all...for another post.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on March 14, 2014, 09:17:43 PM
Today was the day we were to learn who among us was being laid off. I haven't heard anything, so barring a call from the employment agency, I may yet be employed (unless and until we find out that the lay-offs did not in fact save the company and the whole works goes down). Cute story behind it all...for another post.
Ugh, good luck!
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I went and got sunburned.
Seriously, this is my first real burn in years. I think I've gone native New Englander. :argh!:
Hi, PD. Do you think it is wrong to have a policy of not having sex with women who don't identify with being feminists? In this world of lots of bad people, I feel it's necessary to set up some restrictions. Xoxoxo, Lenin
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on March 15, 2014, 12:08:47 AM
Hi, PD. Do you think it is wrong to have a policy of not having sex with women who don't identify with being feminists? In this world of lots of bad people, I feel it's necessary to set up some restrictions. Xoxoxo, Lenin
There's one problem with that policy: What about women who are feminists through their actions but do not self-identify as feminists?
Quote from: Net on March 15, 2014, 12:40:17 AM
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on March 15, 2014, 12:08:47 AM
Hi, PD. Do you think it is wrong to have a policy of not having sex with women who don't identify with being feminists? In this world of lots of bad people, I feel it's necessary to set up some restrictions. Xoxoxo, Lenin
There's one problem with that policy: What about women who are feminists through their actions but do not self-identify as feminists?
True. Suppose I'll have to be a bit flexible.
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Some good IRL friends are rent-a-pigs. Why would that change my opinion? A job's a job.
So the guy in that V-J Day picture died.
Is it bad that my first thought was to change the headline to:"Notorious nurse-face assaulting sailor dies, is celebrated primarily as iconic mouth-violator"?
Oh lawd, I went and pissed off Coyote on the Facespace with my opinion of English Literature. I misread something he posted in his argument against Shakespeare, and now he has to prove to me in his expert undergraduate English major opinion that I'm wrong, even though I stated, clearly, that I misread his post. Instead, I got a thesis, and he's being a whiny bitch despite me telling him to chill the fuck out. :lulz:
ENGLISH MAJOR PRIVILEGE. :lulz:
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THIS
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
THIS IS TERRIBLE. JESUS WEPT.
Quote from: The Suu on March 14, 2014, 11:58:32 PM
I went and got sunburned.
Seriously, this is my first real burn in years. I think I've gone native New Englander. :argh!:
What is this "sun burn"?
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on March 15, 2014, 12:08:47 AM
Hi, PD. Do you think it is wrong to have a policy of not having sex with women who don't identify with being feminists? In this world of lots of bad people, I feel it's necessary to set up some restrictions. Xoxoxo, Lenin
Kinda what Net said. I think that it would be reasonable to have a policy of not having sex with women who identify as not-feminists, though, totally.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 14, 2014, 02:05:45 PM
3 hours of horror, then onto the plane to Rhode Island.
With a stop in Atlanta. I hope nobody gets their dandruff on the ground and they cancel all flights.
It's just cold. No precipitation. You will hear much wailing and gnashing of teeth as the natives begin the ritual summoning of Summer which involves lots and lots whining about how cold it is when it's 75 and sunny. Just nod, smile, and make sure you're drinking Coca-Cola.
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Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THIS
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
THIS IS TERRIBLE. JESUS WEPT.
I was a rent-a-cop for five years. No one died. Congrats on passing your security test. I'm relieved to know you aren't a 'person of interest'.
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Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THIS
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
THIS IS TERRIBLE. JESUS WEPT.
I was a rent-a-cop for five years. No one died. Congrats on passing your security test. I'm relieved to know you aren't a 'person of interest'.
B-b-b-but he's not doing porn anymore. :cry:
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Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THIS
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
THIS IS TERRIBLE. JESUS WEPT.
I was a rent-a-cop for five years. No one died. Congrats on passing your security test. I'm relieved to know you aren't a 'person of interest'.
B-b-b-but he's not doing porn anymore. :cry:
That is indeed a tragedy. However, we all must move on and find new challenges and whatnot. Now I've got an image of Hoopla as a rent-a-cop stripper with women's lingerie under his uniform.
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Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THIS
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
THIS IS TERRIBLE. JESUS WEPT.
I was a rent-a-cop for five years. No one died. Congrats on passing your security test. I'm relieved to know you aren't a 'person of interest'.
B-b-b-but he's not doing porn anymore. :cry:
That is indeed a tragedy. However, we all must move on and find new challenges and whatnot. Now I've got an image of Hoopla as a rent-a-cop stripper with women's lingerie under his uniform.
:fap:
I can roll with that.
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Welcome to the club.
Incidentally, this town is such a shithole. While riding back from work, I saw a pile of vomit, some blood splatter and a crushed up bottle of Lucozade, and my first thought was "well, at least someone had fun last night".
Cain,
did not have fun last night.
So, based upon yesterday's conversation with Scilon, I've discovered that a Sincerity Troll is actually a thing, and it's hella fun watching some asshole spew vitriol all over authentically polite posts. Self-pwnage at its best.
I'm not even at work yet and I already know it's fucked up. Pissy boss called in another co-worker on his only day off and then took off. Don't know why. And now the computer/register is down again and shit is blowing up and fuuuuuuck thiiiiis shiiiiit.
Looking forward to a fun-filled, action-packed day! :D
Quote from: Nigel on March 15, 2014, 03:47:51 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 15, 2014, 03:16:40 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 15, 2014, 02:59:07 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 15, 2014, 02:57:33 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 15, 2014, 02:54:21 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THIS
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
THIS IS TERRIBLE. JESUS WEPT.
I was a rent-a-cop for five years. No one died. Congrats on passing your security test. I'm relieved to know you aren't a 'person of interest'.
B-b-b-but he's not doing porn anymore. :cry:
That is indeed a tragedy. However, we all must move on and find new challenges and whatnot. Now I've got an image of Hoopla as a rent-a-cop stripper with women's lingerie under his uniform.
:fap:
I can roll with that.
This is not inaccurate.
Quote from: Cain on March 15, 2014, 07:43:21 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Welcome to the club.
Incidentally, this town is such a shithole. While riding back from work, I saw a pile of vomit, some blood splatter and a crushed up bottle of Lucozade, and my first thought was "well, at least someone had fun last night".
Cain,
did not have fun last night.
All of civilization, distilled into one splash of humanity.
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on March 15, 2014, 12:46:25 AM
Quote from: Net on March 15, 2014, 12:40:17 AM
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on March 15, 2014, 12:08:47 AM
Hi, PD. Do you think it is wrong to have a policy of not having sex with women who don't identify with being feminists? In this world of lots of bad people, I feel it's necessary to set up some restrictions. Xoxoxo, Lenin
There's one problem with that policy: What about women who are feminists through their actions but do not self-identify as feminists?
True. Suppose I'll have to be a bit flexible.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
Makin' harpoons today. :)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 15, 2014, 08:32:29 PM
Makin' harpoons today. :)
TGRR and harpoons?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHRMeRszw4
Quote from: Sita on March 14, 2014, 11:39:30 AM
So today is a teacher planning day and next week is spring break.
I'll have 10 days of hearing nothing but Minecraft, Brickforce or Roblox. And the constant asking from my son to join him in playing these games.
Oh and Everquest, since they just had an update that let even the free accounts start with a lvl 85 if they want. The boy is ecstatic about that since now he can group with us. Only problem is that he still has no clue how to play beyond hailing an NPC and hitting the attack key (for auto attack). At 85 there is a whole lot more to playing the character than that.
Wow, I'm oddly comforted to know Liv and I aren't the only ones going through that. @_@
brand new scars on my face.
And nada for you.
fuck you.
What. Did. You. Do.
MINSITRY
I am no longer pretty.
Everyone is OK. That matters. Repairs have been made.
Quote from: Richter on March 16, 2014, 05:18:50 AM
Everyone is OK. That matters. Repairs have been made.
Who cares? They were laughing yesterday. An early grave to all of them.
WHAT THE SHIT?
the fuck????
You let Richter design your harpoon?!!
Where the Fuck is Luna and why weren't you supervised?!
I'm trying to piece together a scenario involving harpoons, shotgun pellets, Richter, and your face.
I'm sure whatever I'm imagining doesn't compete with what actually happened.
Quote from: The Suu on March 16, 2014, 11:00:59 AM
Where the Fuck is Luna and why weren't you supervised?!
Luna was busy so we snuck out.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 16, 2014, 11:51:00 AM
I'm trying to piece together a scenario involving harpoons, shotgun pellets, Richter, and your face.
I'm sure whatever I'm imagining doesn't compete with what actually happened.
We have decided that it is classified. Carry on.
So help me, if Richter was sharpening space-time again...
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 16, 2014, 02:58:44 PM
So help me, if Richter was sharpening space-time again...
Yeah? What're you going to do about it?
Well, I won't be running. I'd only die tired.
Something something broken glass something missing part of his nose...[Facebook].
WTF? :eek:
Quote from: Telarus on March 16, 2014, 03:42:02 PM
Something something broken glass something missing part of his nose...[Facebook].
WTF? :eek:
No, none actually missing. Just cut really bad.
I think Squiddy sent hit men.
Muhuhuhahahaaawait, no man.
Those weren't mine.
So if they weren't mine...
WHOSE WERE THEY!?!?
Shit.
Scott Ashton, drummer of The Stooges, has died.
He influenced a lot of my drumming growing up.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 16, 2014, 10:11:52 PM
Shit.
Scott Ashton, drummer of The Stooges, has died.
He influenced a lot of my drumming growing up.
That blows. How old was he?
So I unfriended some MRA/PUA dude I picked up on TDS like an STD because I just don't need that shit on my wall, and the following chat conversation ensued:
Him: So you dump me as a friend because i disagree with you on one issue?
Me: No, it's mostly because I think you're kind of a toxic creep and I don't have time for that.I gave it the old college try... but no, thanks.
Him: You really didn't. I have kept freinds for years that i fundamentally disagreed with on issues on both sides. The bottom line is the ones that ran were the ones that did not really want their view of the world fundamentally challanged. Sorry, I thought yu were stronger than that.
Me: Dude, I don't even know you.
Him: You seem to think you know me well enough to cut off communication.
Me: I am chatting right now with a friend I have had for 22 years and he does a great job of challenging my worldview, but is not a slightly creepy, pushy stranger.
Him: Well now you are making vague emotional accusation at me so I guess it is a lost cause. Bye.
I love the negging at the end. :lulz:
After 5 years without hearing a peep from my best friend of yore, Larry (formerly known here as the mountain monk), he calls me out of the blue. Which is good.
One of the next trips I make is to a company that is 3 miles from his house. Which is good.
His wife, however, died at the ripe old age of 41 this last January. She had some weird Crohns thing, and for whatever reason had her on immune suppressants, and she died from the flu. Which is bad. I never met her in person, but we'd talked several times and she seemed really, really nice.
.
Me: LOL PUA tactics. Good luck out there.
Him: You apparently think guys that criticize you on legitimate grounds are hitting on you. Were you hitting on me when you implied that I was a bad father?
Me: God you're an emotional little shit. Don't make me block you.
Quote from: Nigel on March 16, 2014, 10:48:47 PM
So I unfriended some MRA/PUA dude I picked up on TDS like an STD because I just don't need that shit on my wall, and the following chat conversation ensued:
Him: So you dump me as a friend because i disagree with you on one issue?
Me: No, it's mostly because I think you're kind of a toxic creep and I don't have time for that.I gave it the old college try... but no, thanks.
Him: You really didn't. I have kept freinds for years that i fundamentally disagreed with on issues on both sides. The bottom line is the ones that ran were the ones that did not really want their view of the world fundamentally challanged. Sorry, I thought yu were stronger than that.
Me: Dude, I don't even know you.
Him: You seem to think you know me well enough to cut off communication.
Me: I am chatting right now with a friend I have had for 22 years and he does a great job of challenging my worldview, but is not a slightly creepy, pushy stranger.
Him: Well now you are making vague emotional accusation at me so I guess it is a lost cause. Bye.
I love the negging at the end. :lulz:
Is that the michael milchakwhatever guy?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 16, 2014, 10:52:08 PM
After 5 years without hearing a peep from my best friend of yore, Larry (formerly known here as the mountain monk), he calls me out of the blue. Which is good.
One of the next trips I make is to a company that is 3 miles from his house. Which is good.
His wife, however, died at the ripe old age of 41 this last January. She had some weird Crohns thing, and for whatever reason had her on immune suppressants, and she died from the flu. Which is bad. I never met her in person, but we'd talked several times and she seemed really, really nice.
.
That really sucks. :( About the wife, but good that your friend got hold of you.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 16, 2014, 10:52:47 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 16, 2014, 10:48:47 PM
So I unfriended some MRA/PUA dude I picked up on TDS like an STD because I just don't need that shit on my wall, and the following chat conversation ensued:
Him: So you dump me as a friend because i disagree with you on one issue?
Me: No, it's mostly because I think you're kind of a toxic creep and I don't have time for that.I gave it the old college try... but no, thanks.
Him: You really didn't. I have kept freinds for years that i fundamentally disagreed with on issues on both sides. The bottom line is the ones that ran were the ones that did not really want their view of the world fundamentally challanged. Sorry, I thought yu were stronger than that.
Me: Dude, I don't even know you.
Him: You seem to think you know me well enough to cut off communication.
Me: I am chatting right now with a friend I have had for 22 years and he does a great job of challenging my worldview, but is not a slightly creepy, pushy stranger.
Him: Well now you are making vague emotional accusation at me so I guess it is a lost cause. Bye.
I love the negging at the end. :lulz:
Is that the michael milchakwhatever guy?
Yep.
CREEEEEEEPTASTIC. The part about how apparently, by his logic, I shouldn't unfriend him because I don't know him well enough to decide whether I want to be his friend (ie. the "YOU OWE ME A CHANCE" gambit) was my favorite.
Quote from: Nigel on March 16, 2014, 10:56:38 PM
.
Yep.
CREEEEEEEPTASTIC. The part about how apparently, by his logic, I shouldn't unfriend him because I don't know him well enough to decide whether I want to be his friend (ie. the "YOU OWE ME A CHANCE" gambit) was my favorite.
But based on his earlier writing, you owe him a chance to do what? FOOL HIM INTO KNOCKING YOU UP, SO YOU CAN LIVE THE LIFE OF REILLY ON HIS DIME, BECAUSE THAT'S THE SORT OF JET-SETTING THAT GOES ON WITH SINGLE MOTHERS.
Why is he so self-destructive? He should be hiding from women at all times, in case they trick him into sex again.
Incidentally, this is the very worst Holiday Inn in which that I have ever had the joy of staying.
Nothing works. Yeah, this particular one is off the vendor list.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 16, 2014, 10:59:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 16, 2014, 10:56:38 PM
.
Yep.
CREEEEEEEPTASTIC. The part about how apparently, by his logic, I shouldn't unfriend him because I don't know him well enough to decide whether I want to be his friend (ie. the "YOU OWE ME A CHANCE" gambit) was my favorite.
But based on his earlier writing, you owe him a chance to do what? FOOL HIM INTO KNOCKING YOU UP, SO YOU CAN LIVE THE LIFE OF REILLY ON HIS DIME, BECAUSE THAT'S THE SORT OF JET-SETTING THAT GOES ON WITH SINGLE MOTHERS.
Why is he so self-destructive? He should be hiding from women at all times, in case they trick him into sex again.
:lulz:
In an earlier conversation, he offered to help me with my homework, offered me some incredibly rudimentary advice about attending college, and then told me that I "seem like a smart cookie".
I seriously think he thinks he's being charming. He's probably seething right now about how I have no right to reject him because he's such a nice guy.
Quote from: Nigel on March 16, 2014, 11:03:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 16, 2014, 10:59:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 16, 2014, 10:56:38 PM
.
Yep.
CREEEEEEEPTASTIC. The part about how apparently, by his logic, I shouldn't unfriend him because I don't know him well enough to decide whether I want to be his friend (ie. the "YOU OWE ME A CHANCE" gambit) was my favorite.
But based on his earlier writing, you owe him a chance to do what? FOOL HIM INTO KNOCKING YOU UP, SO YOU CAN LIVE THE LIFE OF REILLY ON HIS DIME, BECAUSE THAT'S THE SORT OF JET-SETTING THAT GOES ON WITH SINGLE MOTHERS.
Why is he so self-destructive? He should be hiding from women at all times, in case they trick him into sex again.
:lulz:
In an earlier conversation, he offered to help me with my homework, offered me some incredibly rudimentary advice about attending college, and then told me that I "seem like a smart cookie".
I seriously think he thinks he's being charming. He's probably seething right now about how I have no right to reject him because he's such a nice guy.
And that's awful, because nowdays he has nowhere to turn from that sort of abuse.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/28/earl-silverman-who-ran-mens-safe-house-dies-in-apparent-suicide/
:sad:
I found that on his wall. There wasn't anything about women's shelters, strangely enough.
Also, this shelter, in the pic (which, granted, only shows the front door) looks a little more posh than some shelters I have seen.
Yeah, I visited his wall yesterday, it was SUPER SPECIAL.
Although men are also victims of domestic violence without a doubt, I am skeptical about that shelter guy because he was involved in men's rights groups, which seem almost entirely to be about blaming women in general and not about increasing equality.
It's interesting that he blamed his inability to get Federal funds on the fact that he ran a shelter for men. I suspect it had a lot more to do with the structure of his organization. There are men's halfway houses that receive government funding, so the "it's because they were discriminating against men" thing is a little thin.
An hour later, after he's had time to calm down and come up with something he thinks is cool and collected:
QuoteIf you block me, that is your decision. I am not responsible for your decisions.
:lol:
I haven't blocked him yet because it's funny watching him try to keep my attention.
I'll probably just ignore him from here on out though. Unless something hilarious occurs to me.
My sister made national sports headlines today cutting hair for the Rays for their annual fundraiser to benefit kids with cancer. Naturally, I am never going to be as awesome as her now, because not only was she on ESPN, NESN, Sunshine Network, MLB Network, and all the internets, she also complained that she doesn't have enough money to compete this year, so it's way way way more important to raise money for her to hit her taekwondo qualifiers and that we absolutely need to find her a sponsor.
Oh, I got into grad school. How nice. I hope they don't have to help me pay for it, because they can't afford it.
...So I told my dad that I hope he relies on my sister's waning athleticism to take care of them when they get old, because I can't afford it. Mom found this HYSTERICAL. :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on March 15, 2014, 07:43:21 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Welcome to the club.
Incidentally, this town is such a shithole. While riding back from work, I saw a pile of vomit, some blood splatter and a crushed up bottle of Lucozade, and my first thought was "well, at least someone had fun last night".
Cain,
did not have fun last night.
I may have to steal that. :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on March 15, 2014, 07:43:21 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Welcome to the club.
Incidentally, this town is such a shithole. While riding back from work, I saw a pile of vomit, some blood splatter and a crushed up bottle of Lucozade, and my first thought was "well, at least someone had fun last night".
Cain,
did not have fun last night.
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 17, 2014, 01:41:47 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 16, 2014, 10:48:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 16, 2014, 10:11:52 PM
Shit.
Scott Ashton, drummer of The Stooges, has died.
He influenced a lot of my drumming growing up.
That blows. How old was he?
64.
At least that's a decent age.
It's never a decent age.
Apropos of nothing, hot gay clowns.
http://www.queerty.com/photos-hot-gay-clowns-make-us-forget-our-biggest-childhood-fears-20140316/
You're welcome.
Possibly NSFW.
That is probably the single creepiest thing I have ever seen.
I didn't have a clown phobia before clicking that link.
Note the past tense.
I suppose my work here is done.
Dammit
Now I'm scared for getting raped by gay clowns.
Why would a gay clown want to rape you?
Cant play Skyrim until the end of the month, because that's when the new Civil War Overhaul mod rolls out, and Apollodawn, despite being an awesome codemaster, requires a new game for each installation #firstworldproblems
On the plus side, an actual freaking civil war, rather than three lameass fort battles, one siege and one zerg-rush is worth waiting for. Especially if he can weed out the bugs and improve stability.
I just cannot fathom why Bethesda didn't finish the war the way they intended. And why they cut the related Boethiah's Bidding quest. Assassinating a Jarl....now that would've had some worthy consequences, no matter whose side you were on.
BETHESDA, Y U DUMB STUFF DOWN?
Quote from: Cain on March 17, 2014, 04:09:37 PM
BETHESDA, Y U DUMB STUFF DOWN?
Seriously. My money is on:
(http://compsciteacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/99bugs.jpg)
Plus budget or schedule crunch.
Quote from: BethesdaLOLBUGS (http://support.bethsoft.com/?i=4552&l=en)
But at the same time, as the series progresses, there's a strategic simplification for console play going on, so it could be that politics are too complicated.
Quote from: Hoopla on March 15, 2014, 04:58:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 15, 2014, 07:43:21 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Welcome to the club.
Incidentally, this town is such a shithole. While riding back from work, I saw a pile of vomit, some blood splatter and a crushed up bottle of Lucozade, and my first thought was "well, at least someone had fun last night".
Cain,
did not have fun last night.
All of civilization, distilled into one splash of humanity.
Well, I think linking this place and civilization is a bit of a stretch. I was woken up the other day by cows.
COWS.
Quote from: Pæs on March 17, 2014, 06:59:42 PM
Quote from: BethesdaLOLBUGS (http://support.bethsoft.com/?i=4552&l=en)
Quote from: Pæs on March 17, 2014, 07:01:17 PM
But at the same time, as the series progresses, there's a strategic simplification for console play going on, so it could be that politics are too complicated.
Quote from: Telarus on March 17, 2014, 06:51:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 17, 2014, 04:09:37 PM
BETHESDA, Y U DUMB STUFF DOWN?
Seriously. My money is on:
(http://compsciteacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/99bugs.jpg)
Plus budget or schedule crunch.
All true. Bethesda is also trying to widen the appeal of the Elder Scrolls series (see TES:Online) from the wierdness and difficulty of Morrowind, IMO. Which is kinda strange, since series like Dark Souls have shown that console peasan-uh, players, contrary to the stereotype, enjoy complex mythology and sometimes excruciatingly difficult challenges.
Of course, the base-code complexity of any Elder Scrolls game is going to be far in advance of a more hack-and-slash game, which does mean budget and time constraints will be much more difficult. And at least on PC, genius code-monkeys can take up the slack. But still, it's kinda disappointing, because no matter how skilled those code-monkeys are, they don't have the resources or people that a studio can bring to the fore.
Also, less fucking spiders, Bethesda. Jeez.
Next stop, Hillsboro, Oregon.
Quote from: Cain on March 17, 2014, 08:32:26 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 15, 2014, 04:58:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 15, 2014, 07:43:21 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 14, 2014, 10:49:16 PM
I passed my security test. I am one step closer to a temporary existence as a rent-a-pig. I apologize if this shatters anyone's impression of me. And I weep if it doesn't.
Welcome to the club.
Incidentally, this town is such a shithole. While riding back from work, I saw a pile of vomit, some blood splatter and a crushed up bottle of Lucozade, and my first thought was "well, at least someone had fun last night".
Cain,
did not have fun last night.
All of civilization, distilled into one splash of humanity.
Well, I think linking this place and civilization is a bit of a stretch. I was woken up the other day by cows. COWS.
1000 times better than being woken by a satanic pig/hog squeal
Quote from: Cain on March 17, 2014, 08:40:44 PM
Also, less fucking spiders, Bethesda. Jeez.
I'm sorry, I love those furry little bastards.
I use the ritual stone/aetherial crown to have a constant army of them following me, raising them again when they fall.
I am the spider king.
My dad has pissed me off this whole fucking visit.
My version of the diet is not as good as his, and I'm going to get fat again while he acts like a fucking anorexic twat.
He refuses to drink anything, but he sure as fuck downed those free bloody marys this morning at the baseball game.
And now, he doesn't want to go out tonight as planned with his friends because he's "not drinking" so I'm stranded at home instead of doing ANYTHING tonight. Amateur night? Yeah, I know, but it's a craft beer tour in downtown Dunedin, and I was looking forward to it, but nooooo, the parade was cancelled and he's not drinking beer and I'm just going to get fat again so we're not going.
My sister has to go pick up her BF at the airport tonight, and my mom doesn't want to do anything, either. So glad we had all these fucking plans.
I think I'm skipping Christmas this year.
I can fix this.
I can drink all the liquor in the house.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 17, 2014, 03:44:39 PM
Why would a gay clown want to rape you?
In my nightmares it doesn't matter WHY.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 09:18:33 PM
Next stop, Hillsboro, Oregon.
:eek: Are they sending you to Hillsboro???
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? There's nothing there except Nike and I think Intel.
I just got back from taking my bio midterm, think I did OK and should get an A in the class.
In other news, I feel utterly unprepared for my chemistry final.
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:05:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 09:18:33 PM
Next stop, Hillsboro, Oregon.
:eek: Are they sending you to Hillsboro???
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? There's nothing there except Nike and I think Intel.
And a ceramic company that I need to use. We just have some disagreements over terms and conditions.
So far, I kinda like this new position. I was paid for being shouty today. Well, sort of shouty. I didn't actually raise my voice, but it was shouty.
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:06:21 PM
I just got back from taking my bio midterm, think I did OK and should get an A in the class.
In other news, I feel utterly unprepared for my chemistry final.
1. Excellent.
2. You're gonna kick that pig.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 10:15:54 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:05:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 09:18:33 PM
Next stop, Hillsboro, Oregon.
:eek: Are they sending you to Hillsboro???
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? There's nothing there except Nike and I think Intel.
And a ceramic company that I need to use. We just have some disagreements over terms and conditions.
So far, I kinda like this new position. I was paid for being shouty today. Well, sort of shouty. I didn't actually raise my voice, but it was shouty.
Haha that's awesome!
Well, Hillsboro is right outside of Portland, it's one of the suburbs I make fun of when I'm trying to think of a place nobody wants to go. Let me know when you're in town!
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:24:35 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 10:15:54 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:05:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 09:18:33 PM
Next stop, Hillsboro, Oregon.
:eek: Are they sending you to Hillsboro???
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? There's nothing there except Nike and I think Intel.
And a ceramic company that I need to use. We just have some disagreements over terms and conditions.
So far, I kinda like this new position. I was paid for being shouty today. Well, sort of shouty. I didn't actually raise my voice, but it was shouty.
Haha that's awesome!
Well, Hillsboro is right outside of Portland, it's one of the suburbs I make fun of when I'm trying to think of a place nobody wants to go. Let me know when you're in town!
Will do. You promised to show me that weird Escher-esque mausoleum thingie. And the pipe.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 10:16:19 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:06:21 PM
I just got back from taking my bio midterm, think I did OK and should get an A in the class.
In other news, I feel utterly unprepared for my chemistry final.
1. Excellent.
2. You're gonna kick that pig.
Ugh, I hope so. I got a 96 on the last midterm. But these last few weeks it's gotten pretty crazy, like she's just throwing equations at us like "memorize this". I'm going to go over the practice test tomorrow in the LC, just to make sure I have all the concepts down.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 10:25:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:24:35 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 10:15:54 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 10:05:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 17, 2014, 09:18:33 PM
Next stop, Hillsboro, Oregon.
:eek: Are they sending you to Hillsboro???
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? There's nothing there except Nike and I think Intel.
And a ceramic company that I need to use. We just have some disagreements over terms and conditions.
So far, I kinda like this new position. I was paid for being shouty today. Well, sort of shouty. I didn't actually raise my voice, but it was shouty.
Haha that's awesome!
Well, Hillsboro is right outside of Portland, it's one of the suburbs I make fun of when I'm trying to think of a place nobody wants to go. Let me know when you're in town!
Will do. You promised to show me that weird Escher-esque mausoleum thingie. And the pipe.
Hell yeah! The pipe is a little hypothermic this time of year but we can at least eyeball the entrance.
Work seemed like small problems and low volume after the weekend. Perspective like that means the time off was done RIGHT :lulz:
Roger in PDX? I'd be down for that. :)
Quote from: Telarus on March 17, 2014, 10:53:49 PM
Roger in PDX? I'd be down for that. :)
Might even be able to drag E.O.T. out of hiding for it!
Quote from: Richter on March 17, 2014, 10:45:08 PM
Work seemed like small problems and low volume after the weekend. Perspective like that means the time off was done RIGHT :lulz:
So, what did you get up to on your vacation?
So, I was doing some SCIENCE, and I discovered that the fitbit interprets male masturbation as "steps". Just something to keep in mind.
LMNO
-hit my goal in 15 minutes.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 17, 2014, 11:40:19 PM
So, I was doing some SCIENCE, and I discovered that the fitbit interprets male masturbation as "steps". Just something to keep in mind.
LMNO
-hit my goal in 15 minutes.
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 17, 2014, 11:40:19 PM
So, I was doing some SCIENCE, and I discovered that the fitbit interprets male masturbation as "steps". Just something to keep in mind.
LMNO
-hit my goal in 15 minutes.
I feel cheated. My fitbit doesn't count anything that doesn't involve at least some change in location.
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 12:02:42 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 17, 2014, 11:40:19 PM
So, I was doing some SCIENCE, and I discovered that the fitbit interprets male masturbation as "steps". Just something to keep in mind.
LMNO
-hit my goal in 15 minutes.
I feel cheated. My fitbit doesn't count anything that doesn't involve at least some change in location.
Neither does LMNO's.
Quote from: Richter on March 17, 2014, 10:45:08 PM
Work seemed like small problems and low volume after the weekend. Perspective like that means the time off was done RIGHT :lulz:
Yep. Now that my face has stopped pounding, everything has become clear. Depression abated.
Roger's new cure for depression: GET STABBED INNA FACE.
Quote from: Nigel on March 17, 2014, 11:17:43 PM
Quote from: Telarus on March 17, 2014, 10:53:49 PM
Roger in PDX? I'd be down for that. :)
Might even be able to drag E.O.T. out of hiding for it!
This sounds awesome.
INCIDENTALLY: My personal cell is off, close to dead, on account of I'm a GENIUS, and my charger is sitting next to the bed at home. So is the work phone charger, of course, but it turns out that Richter doesn't just keep a surgery in his house, he also has the micro-USB connectors all over the place, so the workphone functions.
Should anyone need to reach me, PM me here or on FB for the alternate number.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 18, 2014, 12:08:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 12:02:42 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 17, 2014, 11:40:19 PM
So, I was doing some SCIENCE, and I discovered that the fitbit interprets male masturbation as "steps". Just something to keep in mind.
LMNO
-hit my goal in 15 minutes.
I feel cheated. My fitbit doesn't count anything that doesn't involve at least some change in location.
Neither does LMNO's.
:lol: :eek:
My god, I hate chemistry.
One more term of this, and then Ochem, and then FREE FOREVER.
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 12:31:01 AM
My god, I hate chemistry.
One more term of this, and then Ochem, and then FREE FOREVER.
I loved chem in high school, but in college I wanted to hurt people. I don't know why. The labs were fine, but the lectures were god awful and I couldn't grasp anything even though I felt like I knew it all 15 years ago.
I have found new fun on airplanes.
Requires two things to happen, though.
1. Guy next to you is a nervous flier.
2. Guy next to you is an asshole to the flight attendants and those around him.
Talk about the missing Malaysian airliner. Watch dude's fingers dig into the armrest.
"Hey, I fly a whole lot, and that turbulence felt fuckin' WEIRD."
or
"Hear that? What was that?"
6 different managers in 4 years. Awesome.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 18, 2014, 01:06:06 AM
I have found new fun on airplanes.
Requires two things to happen, though.
1. Guy next to you is a nervous flier.
2. Guy next to you is an asshole to the flight attendants and those around him.
Talk about the missing Malaysian airliner. Watch dude's fingers dig into the armrest.
"Hey, I fly a whole lot, and that turbulence felt fuckin' WEIRD."
or
"Hear that? What was that?"
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 18, 2014, 01:06:06 AM
I have found new fun on airplanes.
Requires two things to happen, though.
1. Guy next to you is a nervous flier.
2. Guy next to you is an asshole to the flight attendants and those around him.
Talk about the missing Malaysian airliner. Watch dude's fingers dig into the armrest.
"Hey, I fly a whole lot, and that turbulence felt fuckin' WEIRD."
or
"Hear that? What was that?"
:lulz: A flier after my own heart. Also good: they're talking to you and you suddenly stare past them and out the window, eyes wide. They say "What???" and you say "Oh I'm sure it's nothing. What were you saying?"
Quote from: The Suu on March 18, 2014, 01:02:11 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 12:31:01 AM
My god, I hate chemistry.
One more term of this, and then Ochem, and then FREE FOREVER.
I loved chem in high school, but in college I wanted to hurt people. I don't know why. The labs were fine, but the lectures were god awful and I couldn't grasp anything even though I felt like I knew it all 15 years ago.
Well, for a feel for chemistry for science majors, compound that by about 1000. I've been helping a friend with her non-science-major chemistry and it's a cakewalk.
Bored. Might upload my SFW trolling pics to Facebook, for a laugh and online backup.
Or, you could post more Dishonored or DAO.....
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 18, 2014, 11:11:30 AM
Or, you could post more Dishonored or DAO.....
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I have yet to go through these. Are you doing the Michael Maddson expansions as well cain?
I actually have some DAO for this afternoon. I just need to mock up the thumbnail...and have another coffee.
Faust, I will be doing all the DLC after the main game, yes. So Dunwall City Challenges, Knife of Dunwall and the Brigmore Witches.
Trolling pics for YUO
https://www.facebook.com/cain.aerte/media_set?set=a.10152323926144393.1073741826.826069392&type=3
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2014, 11:38:48 AM
Faust, I will be doing all the DLC after the main game, yes. So Dunwall City Challenges, Knife of Dunwall and the Brigmore Witches.
Awesome, Knife of Dunwall was my favourite
Today's schedule is full of ugh.
Stupid amount of dishes that need washed, due to last week being one of my worse depressed episodes in a while and thus not a damned thing got done.
Need to go through the stuff in the boy's room and see if we can't get rid of at least half the toys he doesn't play with anymore.
Also need to do the checkbook and see if I can get myself a new pillow, since I think once it starts to shred just taking the pillow case off means a replacement is in order.
At least the boy is playing outside this morning.
Quote from: Faust on March 18, 2014, 12:32:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2014, 11:38:48 AM
Faust, I will be doing all the DLC after the main game, yes. So Dunwall City Challenges, Knife of Dunwall and the Brigmore Witches.
Awesome, Knife of Dunwall was my favourite
From what I've heard of it, it does sound good. And since I'm playing a bloodthirsty Covo, I may well play a more...penitent Daud.
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2014, 12:27:10 PM
Trolling pics for YUO
https://www.facebook.com/cain.aerte/media_set?set=a.10152323926144393.1073741826.826069392&type=3
I don't believe it. I've just bookmarked someone's facebook page.
Well played, sir.
I've just realised that the gifs don't animate on FB. :sad:
Yes. Is sad.
It means such awesomeness as this will not display properly:
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wha
I don't know! But if you're in an argument with an anarchist, posting it always causes some kind of hilarious reaction.
Yeah, that seems designed to completely derail everything.
Ah, I think I know what it is now. Something to do with a Political-Crossfire pissing match involving (of course), anarchists.
Regardless, I shall use it wherever it seems appropriate. Which is everywhere.
I gotta heave up a rant.
Today seems to be mostly composed of working on a practice test that has a lot of problems on it using equations we never went over in class, which means that for each one I have to look it up and figure it out, and also working on a lot of molarity/molality/mole fraction stuff, which isn't hard as much as it requires a lot of housekeeping.
I certainly hope that this is all relevant to the test tomorrow. It will piss me off if I spend all day working on this shit and it turns out I really should have spent my time on polarity or somesuch.
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 05:53:43 PM
Today seems to be mostly composed of working on a practice test that has a lot of problems on it using equations we never went over in class, which means that for each one I have to look it up and figure it out, and also working on a lot of molarity/molality/mole fraction stuff, which isn't hard as much as it requires a lot of housekeeping.
I certainly hope that this is all relevant to the test tomorrow. It will piss me off if I spend all day working on this shit and it turns out I really should have spent my time on polarity or somesuch.
Let me get this straight...This teacher gets
paid?
QuoteThe mole fraction of iron(III) acetate, Fe(CH3COO)3, in an aqueous solution is 4.46E-2 .
The percent by mass of iron(III) acetate in the solution is ?%.
Blah, blah, blah.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 18, 2014, 05:55:17 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 05:53:43 PM
Today seems to be mostly composed of working on a practice test that has a lot of problems on it using equations we never went over in class, which means that for each one I have to look it up and figure it out, and also working on a lot of molarity/molality/mole fraction stuff, which isn't hard as much as it requires a lot of housekeeping.
I certainly hope that this is all relevant to the test tomorrow. It will piss me off if I spend all day working on this shit and it turns out I really should have spent my time on polarity or somesuch.
Let me get this straight...This teacher gets paid?
YEP. She's staff, too, which means she's salary.
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 05:53:43 PM
Today seems to be mostly composed of working on a practice test that has a lot of problems on it using equations we never went over in class, which means that for each one I have to look it up and figure it out, and also working on a lot of molarity/molality/mole fraction stuff, which isn't hard as much as it requires a lot of housekeeping.
I certainly hope that this is all relevant to the test tomorrow. It will piss me off if I spend all day working on this shit and it turns out I really should have spent my time on polarity or somesuch.
Sounds exactly my security academy, except... you know... what you are learning is important.
Psh, since when has maths been important for science anyway?
:lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Second tutorial in 2 days on less than 5 hours of sleep.
Also, should have a new DAO episode up on Youtube in about 2 hours or less.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 18, 2014, 06:21:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
6 sets of 3 problems per set to go! Woohoo!
I wrote. Fun things and wretched things. I feel better.
I am quite clearly coming down with something, which I intend to douse with zinc and vitamin C and lots of drugs, and just enough wine to help me sleep without ending up with a hangover. Just one more day, and then I can get sick.
Work is shaping up nicely. I think my current manager is going to lose his mind in short order. We're going to need another Timmy pretty soon.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 18, 2014, 09:07:28 PM
Work is shaping up nicely. I think my current manager is going to lose his mind in short order. We're going to need another Timmy pretty soon.
:lulz:
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 18, 2014, 09:07:28 PM
Work is shaping up nicely. I think my current manager is going to lose his mind in short order. We're going to need another Timmy pretty soon.
EXCELLENT.
I'm working on not barfing.
GREAT timing for this.
Me: "Just a heads up, I have finals this week so I'll be busy with studying until Thursday"
Housemate, at multiple points during the day: "Nigel, are you busy studying right now?"
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OMG. THE GRAD SCHOOL CLASSES I AM BEING OFFERED. :fap:
UNH takes URI and blows it across the water as far as the history department goes! They already have my award letter done, and I got some work-study, but I'm going to see if I can get an assistantship instead when I meet with the department next week when I get home.
Nigel, you're gonna LOVE it when you cross to the other side of academia. The individual VS number treatment is actually true, and I've only been accepted for a week.
I already have an email and an online account for everything.
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Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
Okay, that makes things more clear.
Stealing a pair of my sister's designer sunglasses.
I don't think I've ever seen her wear Versace anyway.
Quote from: The Suu on March 18, 2014, 10:43:48 PM
OMG. THE GRAD SCHOOL CLASSES I AM BEING OFFERED. :fap:
UNH takes URI and blows it across the water as far as the history department goes! They already have my award letter done, and I got some work-study, but I'm going to see if I can get an assistantship instead when I meet with the department next week when I get home.
Nigel, you're gonna LOVE it when you cross to the other side of academia. The individual VS number treatment is actually true, and I've only been accepted for a week.
I already have an email and an online account for everything.
Yeah, I hear that every term gets easier and that grad school is loads easier than the first two years are.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 18, 2014, 10:45:25 PM
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Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
Okay, that makes things more clear.
Yeah, the good news is that once I have the certificate I'll be able to apply for junior chemist jobs, if I get desperate.
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Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
Okay, that makes things more clear.
Yeah, the good news is that once I have the certificate I'll be able to apply for junior chemist jobs, if I get desperate.
The more qualifications the better. Hell, our plant tends to hire AS/chemistry for lab techs, because BS/chemists are too expensive (although we have a couple, because straight up chemistry jobs in Tucson are kinda thin on the ground when the mines aren't active).
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Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
Okay, that makes things more clear.
Yeah, the good news is that once I have the certificate I'll be able to apply for junior chemist jobs, if I get desperate.
The more qualifications the better. Hell, our plant tends to hire AS/chemistry for lab techs, because BS/chemists are too expensive (although we have a couple, because straight up chemistry jobs in Tucson are kinda thin on the ground when the mines aren't active).
Yeah, I figure it certainly won't hurt to be more qualified in any lab, rather than less.
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Quote from: Nigel on March 18, 2014, 06:04:26 PM
She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
Okay, that makes things more clear.
Yeah, the good news is that once I have the certificate I'll be able to apply for junior chemist jobs, if I get desperate.
The more qualifications the better. Hell, our plant tends to hire AS/chemistry for lab techs, because BS/chemists are too expensive (although we have a couple, because straight up chemistry jobs in Tucson are kinda thin on the ground when the mines aren't active).
Yeah, I figure it certainly won't hurt to be more qualified in any lab, rather than less.
Captain Obvious would now like to tell you all kinds of cool shit about YOUR academic and/or workforce future!
:kojak:
I think I found it.
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I wasn't even looking for it, and there it was!
I'm convinced my family caught a case of the Florida douchebag sometime between Christmas and now. My sister just ripped the pizza place she ordered a calzone from a new one with the most epic profanity I would NEVER use on the phone to another person, ever.
I'm pretty embarrassed to be in the same room with her. I mean, I get it, they fucked up your order, and the woman on the line was a bit snarky, but calling the woman a "fucking cunt ass stupid bitch" is unacceptable. And then she wonders why she didn't get anything for free.
Now she's walking around the house, at 10pm, screaming that her calzone is fucking disgusting, and wants to trash it. This is the 2nd time delivery food has been wasted in the house this week, and no matter what I say, she tells me I'm a fat fucking bitch and I should shut up. My brother can't even fix her right now.
Can I leave for the airport, yet?
Quote from: The Suu on March 19, 2014, 01:11:33 AM
I'm convinced my family caught a case of the Florida douchebag sometime between Christmas and now. My sister just ripped the pizza place she ordered a calzone from a new one with the most epic profanity I would NEVER use on the phone to another person, ever.
I'm pretty embarrassed to be in the same room with her. I mean, I get it, they fucked up your order, and the woman on the line was a bit snarky, but calling the woman a "fucking cunt ass stupid bitch" is unacceptable. And then she wonders why she didn't get anything for free.
Now she's walking around the house, at 10pm, screaming that her calzone is fucking disgusting, and wants to trash it. This is the 2nd time delivery food has been wasted in the house this week, and no matter what I say, she tells me I'm a fat fucking bitch and I should shut up. My brother can't even fix her right now.
Can I leave for the airport, yet?
You probably should not tolerate that sort of abuse. Perhaps if you punched her in the nose?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 19, 2014, 01:13:56 AM
Quote from: The Suu on March 19, 2014, 01:11:33 AM
I'm convinced my family caught a case of the Florida douchebag sometime between Christmas and now. My sister just ripped the pizza place she ordered a calzone from a new one with the most epic profanity I would NEVER use on the phone to another person, ever.
I'm pretty embarrassed to be in the same room with her. I mean, I get it, they fucked up your order, and the woman on the line was a bit snarky, but calling the woman a "fucking cunt ass stupid bitch" is unacceptable. And then she wonders why she didn't get anything for free.
Now she's walking around the house, at 10pm, screaming that her calzone is fucking disgusting, and wants to trash it. This is the 2nd time delivery food has been wasted in the house this week, and no matter what I say, she tells me I'm a fat fucking bitch and I should shut up. My brother can't even fix her right now.
Can I leave for the airport, yet?
You probably should not tolerate that sort of abuse. Perhaps if you punched her in the nose?
Straight in the fucking nose.
Suu, fun is fun; but that's not fun. It's rude.
Face punches and reality checks are in order.
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She's also the better of the two remaining options on my campus next term. The really good teacher isn't teaching the class next term, and the other decent teacher got a better job.
Which leaves me with the nice, but scattered teacher who has a terrible memory and is bad at math.
She may be nice, but she's putting things on tests that weren't covered in class, if I understand you correctly.
Yes, but she's also giving us notice that it will be in the test, and it's in the book and the homework. This is not like the guy I had a couple of terms ago who would test us on stuff he hadn't even introduced to us.
So, yeah, she should have covered this in class, but she ran out of time (snow days) but we're required to know it anyway, which is really not her fault (IUPAC regulations) and since we want our IUPAC certifications at the end of next term, we suck it up and learn on our own. And hope that spending all this time learning the stuff she ran out of time for doesn't turn into a liability because we should have been brushing up on stuff she DID go over in class.
Okay, that makes things more clear.
Yeah, the good news is that once I have the certificate I'll be able to apply for junior chemist jobs, if I get desperate.
The more qualifications the better. Hell, our plant tends to hire AS/chemistry for lab techs, because BS/chemists are too expensive (although we have a couple, because straight up chemistry jobs in Tucson are kinda thin on the ground when the mines aren't active).
Yeah, I figure it certainly won't hurt to be more qualified in any lab, rather than less.
Captain Obvious would now like to tell you all kinds of cool shit about YOUR academic and/or workforce future!
:kojak:
:lulz:
Quote from: The Suu on March 19, 2014, 01:11:33 AM
I'm convinced my family caught a case of the Florida douchebag sometime between Christmas and now. My sister just ripped the pizza place she ordered a calzone from a new one with the most epic profanity I would NEVER use on the phone to another person, ever.
I'm pretty embarrassed to be in the same room with her. I mean, I get it, they fucked up your order, and the woman on the line was a bit snarky, but calling the woman a "fucking cunt ass stupid bitch" is unacceptable. And then she wonders why she didn't get anything for free.
Now she's walking around the house, at 10pm, screaming that her calzone is fucking disgusting, and wants to trash it. This is the 2nd time delivery food has been wasted in the house this week, and no matter what I say, she tells me I'm a fat fucking bitch and I should shut up. My brother can't even fix her right now.
Can I leave for the airport, yet?
Wow
um, your sister sounds genuinely unbalanced.
4 sets of 3 problems left. I don't know if I'm going to make it tonight, these are taking on average 20 minutes a problem. What is the mole weight of the unknown if after adding 12.80 grams of the unknown to 254 grams of Benzene, the boiling point of the resulting solution is 80.661°C? The molecular weight of the unknown is please kill me.
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 02:24:54 AM
4 sets of 3 problems left. I don't know if I'm going to make it tonight, these are taking on average 20 minutes a problem. What is the mole weight of the unknown if after adding 12.80 grams of the unknown to 254 grams of Benzene, the boiling point of the resulting solution is 80.661°C? The molecular weight of the unknown is please kill me.
4 more hours? Jesus H Christ.
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 02:24:54 AM
4 sets of 3 problems left. I don't know if I'm going to make it tonight, these are taking on average 20 minutes a problem. What is the mole weight of the unknown if after adding 12.80 grams of the unknown to 254 grams of Benzene, the boiling point of the resulting solution is 80.661°C? The molecular weight of the unknown is please kill me.
I started to try to work out the problem, but then my brain said the answer is cancer because benzene.
Quote from: The Suu on March 19, 2014, 01:11:33 AM
I'm convinced my family caught a case of the Florida douchebag sometime between Christmas and now. My sister just ripped the pizza place she ordered a calzone from a new one with the most epic profanity I would NEVER use on the phone to another person, ever.
I'm pretty embarrassed to be in the same room with her. I mean, I get it, they fucked up your order, and the woman on the line was a bit snarky, but calling the woman a "fucking cunt ass stupid bitch" is unacceptable. And then she wonders why she didn't get anything for free.
Now she's walking around the house, at 10pm, screaming that her calzone is fucking disgusting, and wants to trash it. This is the 2nd time delivery food has been wasted in the house this week, and no matter what I say, she tells me I'm a fat fucking bitch and I should shut up. My brother can't even fix her right now.
Can I leave for the airport, yet?
The fuck is wrong with her??
She sounds like an entitled spoiled little bitch today.
Do I need to go over there and snap my foot off in her ass?
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 02:39:16 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 02:24:54 AM
4 sets of 3 problems left. I don't know if I'm going to make it tonight, these are taking on average 20 minutes a problem. What is the mole weight of the unknown if after adding 12.80 grams of the unknown to 254 grams of Benzene, the boiling point of the resulting solution is 80.661°C? The molecular weight of the unknown is please kill me.
I started to try to work out the problem, but then my brain said the answer is cancer because benzene.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 19, 2014, 02:37:39 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 02:24:54 AM
4 sets of 3 problems left. I don't know if I'm going to make it tonight, these are taking on average 20 minutes a problem. What is the mole weight of the unknown if after adding 12.80 grams of the unknown to 254 grams of Benzene, the boiling point of the resulting solution is 80.661°C? The molecular weight of the unknown is please kill me.
4 more hours? Jesus H Christ.
Two of the problem sets turned out to be way way easier so I just blew through them, only two left. Totally manageable if I decide to hold off until the morning.
The ones I hate are the ones where I have to GO LOOK SHIT UP ON A TABLE, I'm like, OK yes I get that we need to be able to use tables, but you couldn't just give me the boiling point and boiling point elevation constant for the solvent?
~22.9? (no idea if I'm close, so you can laugh if it's nowhere near a number that makes sense).
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 02:59:53 AM
The ones I hate are the ones where I have to GO LOOK SHIT UP ON A TABLE, I'm like, OK yes I get that we need to be able to use tables, but you couldn't just give me the boiling point and boiling point elevation constant for the solvent?
Oh that was my entire thermo science class. Nothing but steam tables. Quarter of the textbook was steam tables.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 03:04:16 AM
~22.9?
227g/mol... the boiling point of Benzene is 80.100°C and the boiling point elevation is 2.53°C/m, solve using deltaT = mK.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 03:08:24 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 02:59:53 AM
The ones I hate are the ones where I have to GO LOOK SHIT UP ON A TABLE, I'm like, OK yes I get that we need to be able to use tables, but you couldn't just give me the boiling point and boiling point elevation constant for the solvent?
Oh that was my entire thermo science class. Nothing but steam tables. Quarter of the textbook was steam tables.
It just makes me sigh because it adds a minute or so to the whole thing, making it epically more tedious.
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 03:12:19 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 03:04:16 AM
~22.9?
227g/mol... the boiling point of Benzene is 80.100°C and the boiling point elevation is 2.53°C/m, solve using deltaT = mK.
I seriously need to go back to school, I found the right info and managed to fail at the math part. I'm sad.
It is worth noting that the main reason these are taking so ling is because I've never done them before. They're probably 5-10 minute problems at MOST to someone who is experienced and can just look at it and go "yeah, sweet, I just put this over here and solve for m and multiply by solvent in kilograms and divide grams by moles" whereas I'm all, derp de derp derp, what do I have? Where does it go? What do I need? Oh shit, how do I get there from here?
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 03:18:14 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 19, 2014, 03:12:19 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 03:04:16 AM
~22.9?
227g/mol... the boiling point of Benzene is 80.100°C and the boiling point elevation is 2.53°C/m, solve using deltaT = mK.
I seriously need to go back to school, I found the right info and managed to fail at the math part. I'm sad.
Awwww!
But seriously, if you're not using it on a regular basis, there is really no reason for your brain to keep this stuff ready at hand.
Damnit I had 12.8g/.0559mol written down, that ended kinda close maybe I had a definition problem
True, but I hate my current job and degrading of skills is just a sign it's making my brain shrink.
Paes, I am having serious fun with your Necronomicoin idea. Awesome fun. Thanks for putting it out there. :)
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 19, 2014, 03:26:09 AM
Damnit I had 12.8g/.0559mol written down, that ended kinda close maybe I had a definition problem
Yeah, that should have been close enough. Blame it on a brain fart!
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 19, 2014, 03:34:51 AM
Paes, I am having serious fun with your Necronomicoin idea. Awesome fun. Thanks for putting it out there. :)
No worries. I feel like I read the word somewhere a couple weeks ago and just remembered to throw it out there. Loving what you're doing with it.
Just because people check here first...new DAO episode is up
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=35846.msg1334608#msg1334608
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: I'm going to participate in a March Madness bracket.
Mind you, I know nothing about basketball.
So, it's gonna be coin flips, all the way down.
CAN HE DO BETTER THAN THE STATISTICAL AVERAGE!?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: I'm going to participate in a March Madness bracket.
Mind you, I know nothing about basketball.
So, it's gonna be coin flips, all the way down.
CAN HE DO BETTER THAN THE STATISTICAL AVERAGE!?
I'd put money on "Yes". I assume there's some people who take it all very seriously who will get a little upset about this. I'd suggest making your method of selection as public as possible to increase the potential shame that can be later inflicted.
Quote from: Scilon Agent on March 19, 2014, 03:19:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: I'm going to participate in a March Madness bracket.
Mind you, I know nothing about basketball.
So, it's gonna be coin flips, all the way down.
CAN HE DO BETTER THAN THE STATISTICAL AVERAGE!?
I was 1 game off from winning an office bracket with zero previous basketball experience. Let your penis guide you.
FTFY
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 19, 2014, 03:20:12 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: I'm going to participate in a March Madness bracket.
Mind you, I know nothing about basketball.
So, it's gonna be coin flips, all the way down.
CAN HE DO BETTER THAN THE STATISTICAL AVERAGE!?
I'd put money on "Yes". I assume there's some people who take it all very seriously who will get a little upset about this. I'd suggest making your method of selection as public as possible to increase the potential shame that can be later inflicted.
Without at least weighting by seeds, I'm guessing no. Even people who don't otherwise know anything about the teams tend to look at a 1 vs 16 match-up and pick the 1 seed (which has, historically, never proven incorrect).
***although, any given series of coin flips...
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 19, 2014, 03:23:46 PM
Quote from: Scilon Agent on March 19, 2014, 03:19:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: I'm going to participate in a March Madness bracket.
Mind you, I know nothing about basketball.
So, it's gonna be coin flips, all the way down.
CAN HE DO BETTER THAN THE STATISTICAL AVERAGE!?
I was 1 game off from winning an office bracket with zero previous basketball experience. Let your penis guide you.
FTFY
I was 1 game off from winning an office bracket with zero previous basketball experience. Let your
cat's penis guide you.
If you're going to fix it, fix it right :wink:
NORTH DAKOTA STATE IS GONNA WIN IT ALL THIS YEAR!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: (...)
Gah, me too.
I took work home :crankey:
Oh well, at least i am getting the overtime paid.
You know what I'm doing?
Making a pretty pretty schedule for some project.
You know why i am doing that at home?
Because the bossman got 'worried' about me getting all the work done: I was following his orders to make this schedule instead of doing my real job.
I... I... Oh goddes, I think my collar is changing colour! IT IS TURNING WHITE! NO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I swear to god.
I just worked through a relatively lengthy problem with constant interruptions and then when I finally finished it and hit enter I'd been logged off due to inactivity
Somebody is going to die this morning.
Quote from: Scilon Agent on March 19, 2014, 03:32:35 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 19, 2014, 03:23:46 PM
Quote from: Scilon Agent on March 19, 2014, 03:19:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:16:18 PM
Well, I've taken one more step towards office-drone-hood: I'm going to participate in a March Madness bracket.
Mind you, I know nothing about basketball.
So, it's gonna be coin flips, all the way down.
CAN HE DO BETTER THAN THE STATISTICAL AVERAGE!?
I was 1 game off from winning an office bracket with zero previous basketball experience. Let your penis guide you.
FTFY
I was 1 game off from winning an office bracket with zero previous basketball experience. Let your cat's penis guide you.
If you're going to fix it, fix it right :wink:
My cat has nothing to do with his basketballs.
I did fix it right.
New "job". Again. At a bookstore.
"Job", because they let me work there, and the gubbmint pays me, to get work experience, and a foot inside the door. Which is a good thing.
This was how I came to work at the previous place too, only when they'd had me there for a year, they "couldn't afford" to actually hire me.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 19, 2014, 06:06:00 PM
New "job". Again. At a bookstore.
"Job", because they let me work there, and the gubbmint pays me, to get work experience, and a foot inside the door. Which is a good thing.
This was how I came to work at the previous place too, only when they'd had me there for a year, they "couldn't afford" to actually hire me.
Working in a bookstore can be cool! I would do it if I could stand to work with customers without killing them all.
Bookstore workin' is fun! Good times.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 19, 2014, 06:06:00 PM
New "job". Again. At a bookstore.
"Job", because they let me work there, and the gubbmint pays me, to get work experience, and a foot inside the door. Which is a good thing.
This was how I came to work at the previous place too, only when they'd had me there for a year, they "couldn't afford" to actually hire me.
Fuck any company that will let you do work they can't afford to pay you for. Fuck any government that thinks this is acceptable. Only real plus I ever found was to get the "new boss" to agree to give you a reference for having worked there, since your last period of employment. This can be handy for erasing long periods of unemployment from your CV.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 19, 2014, 06:19:04 PM
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 19, 2014, 06:06:00 PM
New "job". Again. At a bookstore.
"Job", because they let me work there, and the gubbmint pays me, to get work experience, and a foot inside the door. Which is a good thing.
This was how I came to work at the previous place too, only when they'd had me there for a year, they "couldn't afford" to actually hire me.
Fuck any company that will let you do work they can't afford to pay you for. Fuck any government that thinks this is acceptable. Only real plus I ever found was to get the "new boss" to agree to give you a reference for having worked there, since your last period of employment. This can be handy for erasing long periods of unemployment from your CV.
That, and a possibility of actually getting work there after three months is what makes it all right.
Yeah, when I was doing that unemployment thing I learned a fair bit about how popular government-sponsored workforces are.
SORRY BRO, EVERYONE WHO WORKS HERE IS PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT. WORKS OUT SUPER CHEAP FOR ME.
Workfare is a hell of a scam. I'd put it up there with prison labour in terms of coercion/profits/government unwillingness to do anything about.
I think there are ways to do it that would be functionally acceptable, but not the way it's run under our current system. Which I suspect is even worse here in the US.
I had my chemistry final, yay! I feel pretty decent about it. Probably an A, we'll see. It was incredibly long, and took almost three hours.
Ate something that has been trying to convince my stomach to exit via my navel since 10 am yesterday. It is now 2 am today. Work was extra exciting with this new development.
Our location doesn't make the shiny new psuedo-food the other locations make, causing uprisings and fewer tips. The computer/cash regiser is broken. The ice machine is broken. And if the nausea continues, I'm going to break the toilet.
Tee-hee!!
Quote from: Nigel on March 20, 2014, 05:02:22 AM
I had my chemistry final, yay! I feel pretty decent about it. Probably an A, we'll see. It was incredibly long, and took almost three hours.
Nice!
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 20, 2014, 05:12:33 AM
Ate something that has been trying to convince my stomach to exit via my navel since 10 am yesterday. It is now 2 am today. Work was extra exciting with this new development.
Our location doesn't make the shiny new psuedo-food the other locations make, causing uprisings and fewer tips. The computer/cash regiser is broken. The ice machine is broken. And if the nausea continues, I'm going to break the toilet.
Tee-hee!!
What else can go wrong?
Quote from: Nigel on March 20, 2014, 05:01:25 AM
I think there are ways to do it that would be functionally acceptable, but not the way it's run under our current system. Which I suspect is even worse here in the US.
In the UK, a good start would be instead of cutting benefits, assuring the workfare employees were being paid minimum wage. Sharing the costs of employment between government and private sector, perhaps on a means-tested basis. Trying to create paths into employment by some kind of system of checks and assessment for performance.
But our government will never do that. It will just send people 50 miles away every day, to work 14 hour shifts in factories under the threat of having what little money they get from the government to live on taken away. That's just how they roll.
Quote from: Cain on March 19, 2014, 08:20:43 PM
Workfare is a hell of a scam. I'd put it up there with prison labour in terms of coercion/profits/government unwillingness to do anything about.
It kind of works here in Ireland, A lot of people get kept on and paid a reasonable wage when it ends. But by a lot I still only mean like 5 to 10% of the people on the scheme.
That's still quite a few compared the the standard UK rate of 0%. Seriously, I'm yet to hear about anyone actually keeping a job from a workfare posting.
Those are some horrorstories.
In true "Suu goes away and always comes back to hell" fashion, let's just say that we're getting married tomorrow in Concord so it's expedited, and he leaves on Monday.
Leaves. On. Monday.
He was given a 6 day notice. Originally it was June.
I'm a wreck right now, but I can't really lose my shit until he's gone. Nope, dunno where, dunno how long. All I know is that I ain't got time to freak out.
Quote from: :regret: on March 20, 2014, 11:12:22 AM
Those are some horrorstories.
Not really, the real horror is in the number of people it seems directly responsible for killing on a week to week basis. Around 30 or so the last time I looked.
Don't worry though, the other lot will fix all these problems and more:
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/labours-workfare-plus-a-sandwich/
QuoteJust like on the New Deal – Tony Blair's bodged plan to cure youth unemployment - those in a compulsory job will also face mandatory training for 10 hours a week. It is unclear how this will work in practice, although a Labour Press Release seems to suggest this will merely mean employers are handed £500 on top of their free workers to provide this training. It seems likely that people with Compulsory Jobs will find themselves working these ten hours without wages under the guise of it being 'work experience'. This will mean participants on the scheme working five hours a week more than those on current workfare.
On the Politics Show yesterday, the Shadow Employment Minister Stephen Timms, admitted that the cost of the Jobs Guarantee may mean that other previously announced initiatives, such as building more low cost homes, may not be included in the party's next manifesto. Labour would rather spend money forcing people to work on poverty pay than in solving the housing crisis – the real reason for the spiralling benefit bill and the cause of huge suffering for both the young and old alike.
2 man con indeed.
Needless to say, the lack of affordable housing in the UK is a key factor in several issues. The levels of social housing built by councils have been minimal for years and is a direct factor in high rents and subsequent high house prices. Needless to say, by dropping any intention of fixing the housing situation banks, landlords and the almighty markets will be sure to reward them accordingly.
There's also the angle of many tenants requiring housing benefit so in a very real way the offer here is for Labour to continue to fund landlords.
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 20, 2014, 12:36:55 PM
Quote from: :regret: on March 20, 2014, 11:12:22 AM
Those are some horrorstories.
Not really, the real horror is in the number of people it seems directly responsible for killing on a week to week basis. Around 30 or so the last time I looked.
Don't worry though, the other lot will fix all these problems and more:
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/labours-workfare-plus-a-sandwich/
QuoteJust like on the New Deal – Tony Blair's bodged plan to cure youth unemployment - those in a compulsory job will also face mandatory training for 10 hours a week. It is unclear how this will work in practice, although a Labour Press Release seems to suggest this will merely mean employers are handed £500 on top of their free workers to provide this training. It seems likely that people with Compulsory Jobs will find themselves working these ten hours without wages under the guise of it being 'work experience'. This will mean participants on the scheme working five hours a week more than those on current workfare.
On the Politics Show yesterday, the Shadow Employment Minister Stephen Timms, admitted that the cost of the Jobs Guarantee may mean that other previously announced initiatives, such as building more low cost homes, may not be included in the party's next manifesto. Labour would rather spend money forcing people to work on poverty pay than in solving the housing crisis – the real reason for the spiralling benefit bill and the cause of huge suffering for both the young and old alike.
2 man con indeed.
Needless to say, the lack of affordable housing in the UK is a key factor in several issues. The levels of social housing built by councils have been minimal for years and is a direct factor in high rents and subsequent high house prices. Needless to say, by dropping any intention of fixing the housing situation banks, landlords and the almighty markets will be sure to reward them accordingly.
There's also the angle of many tenants requiring housing benefit so in a very real way the offer here is for Labour to continue to fund landlords.
The deaths i didn't see coming, I assume that it is statistically significantly more death than in normal workplaces?
The housing situation is quite fucked here as well. There's something about social housing and housing benefits that leads to more expensive housing for everyone. We are getting fucked on both sides of the north sea.
Quote from: The Suu on March 20, 2014, 12:26:48 PM
In true "Suu goes away and always comes back to hell" fashion, let's just say that we're getting married tomorrow in Concord so it's expedited, and he leaves on Monday.
Yikes!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 01:09:57 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 20, 2014, 12:26:48 PM
In true "Suu goes away and always comes back to hell" fashion, let's just say that we're getting married tomorrow in Concord so it's expedited, and he leaves on Monday.
Yikes!
Ask yourself if you're really surprised?
Since this is you we're talking about, no. Not really.
Welp, I just achieved power absolute in ME3MP. Only taken 18 months of playing, but I've finally unlocked the Hurricane X (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/N7_Hurricane). Video forthcoming, if the hot drinks improve my throat any.
That game... So much is happening, it can be hard to follow sometimes.
Yeah, playing on Gold doesn't help. On lower difficulties, you get less enemy spawns, and less powerful spawns. But you also get less money, and since I am on a quest for all blacklisted weapons at level X, I need as much money as I can get. I'd play Platinum difficulty, which is even worse, but there are so many bad players on Platinum it's not funny. Then again, there are lots of bad people on Gold too, but at least I know I can usually carry the match.
Especially with this baby unlocked.
Quote from: Cain on March 20, 2014, 08:11:16 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 20, 2014, 05:01:25 AM
I think there are ways to do it that would be functionally acceptable, but not the way it's run under our current system. Which I suspect is even worse here in the US.
In the UK, a good start would be instead of cutting benefits, assuring the workfare employees were being paid minimum wage. Sharing the costs of employment between government and private sector, perhaps on a means-tested basis. Trying to create paths into employment by some kind of system of checks and assessment for performance.
But our government will never do that. It will just send people 50 miles away every day, to work 14 hour shifts in factories under the threat of having what little money they get from the government to live on taken away. That's just how they roll.
But they're clothing and housing their workers. They're good masters, and their workers should be grateful.
Quote from: :regret: on March 20, 2014, 01:06:41 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 20, 2014, 12:36:55 PM
Quote from: :regret: on March 20, 2014, 11:12:22 AM
Those are some horrorstories.
Not really, the real horror is in the number of people it seems directly responsible for killing on a week to week basis. Around 30 or so the last time I looked.
Don't worry though, the other lot will fix all these problems and more:
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/labours-workfare-plus-a-sandwich/
QuoteJust like on the New Deal – Tony Blair's bodged plan to cure youth unemployment - those in a compulsory job will also face mandatory training for 10 hours a week. It is unclear how this will work in practice, although a Labour Press Release seems to suggest this will merely mean employers are handed £500 on top of their free workers to provide this training. It seems likely that people with Compulsory Jobs will find themselves working these ten hours without wages under the guise of it being 'work experience'. This will mean participants on the scheme working five hours a week more than those on current workfare.
On the Politics Show yesterday, the Shadow Employment Minister Stephen Timms, admitted that the cost of the Jobs Guarantee may mean that other previously announced initiatives, such as building more low cost homes, may not be included in the party's next manifesto. Labour would rather spend money forcing people to work on poverty pay than in solving the housing crisis – the real reason for the spiralling benefit bill and the cause of huge suffering for both the young and old alike.
2 man con indeed.
Needless to say, the lack of affordable housing in the UK is a key factor in several issues. The levels of social housing built by councils have been minimal for years and is a direct factor in high rents and subsequent high house prices. Needless to say, by dropping any intention of fixing the housing situation banks, landlords and the almighty markets will be sure to reward them accordingly.
There's also the angle of many tenants requiring housing benefit so in a very real way the offer here is for Labour to continue to fund landlords.
The deaths i didn't see coming, I assume that it is statistically significantly more death than in normal workplaces?
The housing situation is quite fucked here as well. There's something about social housing and housing benefits that leads to more expensive housing for everyone. We are getting fucked on both sides of the north sea.
The problem here is pretty firmly rooted in the "Right to buy" schemes pioneered by Thatcher and championed by new labour. In short, owning your own house is seen as something of a right and mandatory obligation in the UK. The media is constantly informing you about how much your house is/isn't worth and how much it's value has apparently increased or decreased. It was a great vote winner and had a lot of people convinced that X party is for me because they let me buy this place for Y.
The money raised by the selling was supposed to fund new social housing but in reality it ended up covering council budget shortfalls.
Even funnier are "section 106" agreements. These mean that any development of a certain size is supposed to allocate X% to affordable (By which I mean "Substantially below market value") homes. A section 106 payment allows developers to give cash straight to the council so they don't have to do this and the council can go and build these affordable places elsewhere. Guess how much building councils actually do.
It was a relatively noble idea to try and ensure that nurses/teachers/etc. are able to live near where they work. Again, the reality is that you are very unlikely to find nurses/teachers/etc. living near their workplace, particularly in larger towns and cities as the rent/mortgage can in no way be covered by the wage earned.
As a result many new developments, particularly in larger places become ghettos for the wealthier in society.
As a total aside, there is something very sick in a society that deems a 5/6 figure debt to a bank as a
good thing. I'm sure this has nothing to do with banks, UK government and media interact at all.
They Navy just changed their mind. Again. He's not going as of about 5 minutes ago. I'm not buying this just yet.
The Navy has the kind of strong, decisive leaders that will make this country GREAT again.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 03:00:27 PM
The Navy has the kind of strong, decisive leaders that will make this country GREAT again.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
:horrormirth:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 03:00:27 PM
The Navy has the kind of strong, decisive leaders that will make this country GREAT again.
He just read that and started choking. :horrormirth:
But seriously, this little faux pas is all you need to know about how our government works. This isn't a normal occurrence, but going full retard happens.
I need to fix my brain now. It just went from happy vacation mode to FUCK THE WORLD I NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS ON THE FLY to oh, well, Eris.
In /b/ear health.
Blood Pressure was at 140/90. Which means I'm at the door at Stage 1 Hypertension. Doctor told me he won't give me meds until 3-4 months from now. If it stays the same then I get meds. Blood sugar was at 77 after fasting. Acanthosis Nigricans was detected, and was told I will have type 2 if I don't drop the weight off. Glucose urine test produced normal levels. Cholesterol is fine. His goal for me is to drop to 300 lbs even. He told me he's happy I've stuck with the gym, and lost 30+ pounds so far. Just keep doing what I'm doing and start eating less sodium, and to continue not picking up smoking. Everything will come together once weight is at 300. He asked if I was walking 30 minutes a day. I said Hell fucking No! I do 1-1.5 hrs 2-3 week on a ski machine. He was surprised that I was able to last that long. Waiting on my thyroid and other things as well. Feel like I dodged a bullet, or two.
TL;DR Bear needs to lose more weight and then America wins.
Pro tip from another high blood pressure person:
1. Lay off booze (LOL)
2. Unsalted butter, or olive oil
3. Acids. Vinegar, citrus.
4. Make your own hot sauce. It's really easy. I may post something in Cooking With.
Good to hear things are improving in /b/ear country.
I've recorded the video....but since my throat still don't feel great, I have instead come up with a brilliant idea to compensate. First, Mass Effect 2 music in the background...by far the best music of the series (Virmire Ride aside). Secondly, as we're fighting Collectors, quotes from Harbinger will appear throughout the battle, much as they did in Mass Effect 2 when fighting that enemy.
This will be awesome, I promise. I just need to do more editing.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 04:11:06 PM
Pro tip from another high blood pressure person:
1. Lay off booze (LOL)
2. Unsalted butter, or olive oil
3. Acids. Vinegar, citrus.
4. Make your own hot sauce. It's really easy. I may post something in Cooking With.
I don't drink hard liquor and I have 2-3 beers once a month. Is that good?
I use olive oil very rarely do we use butter. Looking at our stuff in pantry and throwing away anything that has stupid amounts of sodium. A few years ago we switched to the liquid/gel bouillon that has very little sodium.
Quote from: The Suu on March 20, 2014, 02:55:05 PM
They Navy just changed their mind. Again. He's not going as of about 5 minutes ago. I'm not buying this just yet.
Damn Suu, I'm sorry you are going through this.
I also found this glorious site!
http://diabeticgourmet.com/recipes/Meat/Pork/
What I've learned in the last six months:
-"Craft Beer Geeks" are assholes AND idiots
-People who use Yelp (website) are cheap, lookin for something free, and don't tip for shit
-Kegs are heavy as fuck when they're full, light as fuck when empty
-Key kegs (disposable) are sons of bitches and whoever invented them should be dragged out into the street and beaten till they piss blood
-Lipstick is bartender's bane
-Pulling levers and filling glasses is fun and fulfilling
-Putting together cider and cheese pairings affordably is not as easy as it seems
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 20, 2014, 04:45:52 PM
What I've learned in the last six months:
-"Craft Beer Geeks" are assholes AND idiots
-People who use Yelp (website) are cheap, lookin for something free, and don't tip for shit
-Kegs are heavy as fuck when they're full, light as fuck when empty
-Key kegs (disposable) are sons of bitches and whoever invented them should be dragged out into the street and beaten till they piss blood
-Lipstick is bartender's bane
-Pulling levers and filling glasses is fun and fulfilling
-Putting together cider and cheese pairings affordably is not as easy as it seems
I want this gig when I'm old and retired!
Quote from: /b/earman on March 20, 2014, 04:51:39 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 20, 2014, 04:45:52 PM
What I've learned in the last six months:
-"Craft Beer Geeks" are assholes AND idiots
-People who use Yelp (website) are cheap, lookin for something free, and don't tip for shit
-Kegs are heavy as fuck when they're full, light as fuck when empty
-Key kegs (disposable) are sons of bitches and whoever invented them should be dragged out into the street and beaten till they piss blood
-Lipstick is bartender's bane
-Pulling levers and filling glasses is fun and fulfilling
-Putting together cider and cheese pairings affordably is not as easy as it seems
I want this gig when I'm old and retired!
I want that gig in my
own bar one day.
Still workin on that.
I am pretty pleased with my Springfest lineup though:
Tap X Meine Porter Weisse
Aktien Zwick'l Kellerbier
Zunft Kölsch
Mönchshof Schwarzbier
Kulmbacher Reichelbrau Eisbock
Grätzer Historic Ale
Uerige Doppelsticke
Aecht Schlenkerla Fastenbier
That's some good stuff right thur.
Yeah, but is there anything I can drink?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:53:37 PM
NORTH DAKOTA STATE IS GONNA WIN IT ALL THIS YEAR!
http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/ (http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/)
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 20, 2014, 06:26:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 19, 2014, 03:53:37 PM
NORTH DAKOTA STATE IS GONNA WIN IT ALL THIS YEAR!
http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/ (http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/)
LESS THAN ONE PERCENT! WE CAN DO IT!
Link came courtesy of this article (http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/20/can-buffetts-1b-bracket-gamble-or-nate-silvers-statistical-tricks-tame-march-madness/) Billion spondoolicks up fer grabs!
Amusingly, I'm* the only one who picked Dayton to beat Ohio State, so I'm currently winning.
*Eris -- or Chance, actually.
Never ascribe to chance that which can be ascribed to a malevolent deity :evil:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 05:22:09 PM
Yeah, but is there anything I can drink?
:lol:
Also- my bar manager built a randall and it works!
We're testing it with water and cucumber.
This is exciting to me, as we can run awesome stuff through awesome beer.
Like rose petals through Bink Bloesem. Whoa.
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
If you came into my bar and asked for something that wouldn't get you fucked up, I'd show you the door mister :argh!:
Dear sir, I intend to get fucked up, but I'd like to take my time doing it. Otherwise, it's just rolling I to a bar, ordering five shots of tequila, and drinking them in quick succession.
There's just no ART to it.
The art happens after you're shitfaced 8)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:23:07 PM
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
There are plenty of things like Old Speckled Hen, All Day IPA, Hop Ticket Session IPA, pretty much any ESB, Anderson Valley just released their Keebarlin' session ale. It seems session ales and lagers are the thing this spring. Terrapin made a helles lager with smoked pineapple called Pineapple Express that's just barely slightly smoky but has a nice light hop finish. IMO a little hoppy for a helles lager, but not bad by any means.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 20, 2014, 08:04:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:23:07 PM
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
There are plenty of things like Old Speckled Hen, All Day IPA, Hop Ticket Session IPA, pretty much any ESB, Anderson Valley just released their Keebarlin' session ale. It seems session ales and lagers are the thing this spring. Terrapin made a helles lager with smoked pineapple called Pineapple Express that's just barely slightly smoky but has a nice light hop finish. IMO a little hoppy for a helles lager, but not bad by any means.
Dammit, I'm jealous. You Americans have a great approach to beer.
Here we just have about 10 big beerbrands that all make pilsener and each makes roughly the same set of "special" beers. There are quite a few smaller brands but not many special enough to warrant remembering their names. There are all in all only a couple of hundred beers you can get your hands on, not counting import.
In America when you order a beer you ask for it by name, here you just ask for a beer and get whatever generic pilsener they happen to have on tap. You
can order special beers almost everywhere but it is not a common behaviour and the selection is similar everywhere you go.
Quote from: :regret: on March 20, 2014, 08:16:40 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 20, 2014, 08:04:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:23:07 PM
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
There are plenty of things like Old Speckled Hen, All Day IPA, Hop Ticket Session IPA, pretty much any ESB, Anderson Valley just released their Keebarlin' session ale. It seems session ales and lagers are the thing this spring. Terrapin made a helles lager with smoked pineapple called Pineapple Express that's just barely slightly smoky but has a nice light hop finish. IMO a little hoppy for a helles lager, but not bad by any means.
Dammit, I'm jealous. You Americans have a great approach to beer.
Here we just have about 10 big beerbrands that all make pilsener and each makes roughly the same set of "special" beers. There are quite a few smaller brands but not many special enough to warrant remembering their names. There are all in all only a couple of hundred beers you can get your hands on, not counting import.
In America when you order a beer you ask for it by name, here you just ask for a beer and get whatever generic pilsener they happen to have on tap. You can order special beers almost everywhere but it is not a common behaviour and the selection is similar everywhere you go.
In America most bars offer 2 or 3 different kinds of pilsner on tap (Bud, Miller, Coors) and that is it. You can get other stuff in abottle but it is mostly crap. Squid just happens to work in a good bar. We have a lot of microbreweries but most aren't available in most bars. Sounds like you guys are aut ready for a microbrew explosion.
Quote from: Pergamos on March 20, 2014, 08:22:44 PM
Quote from: :regret: on March 20, 2014, 08:16:40 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 20, 2014, 08:04:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:23:07 PM
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
There are plenty of things like Old Speckled Hen, All Day IPA, Hop Ticket Session IPA, pretty much any ESB, Anderson Valley just released their Keebarlin' session ale. It seems session ales and lagers are the thing this spring. Terrapin made a helles lager with smoked pineapple called Pineapple Express that's just barely slightly smoky but has a nice light hop finish. IMO a little hoppy for a helles lager, but not bad by any means.
Dammit, I'm jealous. You Americans have a great approach to beer.
Here we just have about 10 big beerbrands that all make pilsener and each makes roughly the same set of "special" beers. There are quite a few smaller brands but not many special enough to warrant remembering their names. There are all in all only a couple of hundred beers you can get your hands on, not counting import.
In America when you order a beer you ask for it by name, here you just ask for a beer and get whatever generic pilsener they happen to have on tap. You can order special beers almost everywhere but it is not a common behaviour and the selection is similar everywhere you go.
In America most bars offer 2 or 3 different kinds of pilsner on tap (Bud, Miller, Coors) and that is it. You can get other stuff in abottle but it is mostly crap. Squid just happens to work in a good bar. We have a lot of microbreweries but most aren't available in most bars. Sounds like you guys are aut ready for a microbrew explosion.
Florida is about to start exploding with microbreweries. We have a few good ones already like Cigar City, Funky Buddha, Engine 15, Saint Somewhere and 7venth Sun. (I hate when 7's are used in names like that)
A lot of ordinary bars are just your standard big 3, but our craft beer bars are also taking off pretty well.
Dat Randall!
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f45/Squidoid667/DenasRandall_zps330a9035.jpg)
The possibilities are endless.
Cocoa nibs through vanilla stout
Roses through saison
mango/other tropical fruit through IPAs
Cookies through porters...
Oh my ::faint::
Apparently I moved to craft beer central and had no idea. Aside from Redhook and Shittynose being in-town, we have at least half a dozen more brewpubs in town. The smoked pig head and lavender stout was fucking WEIRD.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:28:05 PM
Dear sir, I intend to get fucked up, but I'd like to take my time doing it. Otherwise, it's just rolling I to a bar, ordering five shots of tequila, and drinking them in quick succession.
There's just no ART to it.
On this subject, any idea what's going on with the GAY BAR tomorrow? Roger hasn't been on in a few days.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:23:07 PM
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
What kind of ABV are you talking about here? Like a 4.5?
Quote from: Nigel on March 20, 2014, 09:46:05 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 07:23:07 PM
Ok, honestly, if I came in looking for a session beer, bitter but not face-smacking, balanced but not too malty, with a ABV that I could have a few pints without getting fucked up, what would I order at your bar?
Example: 21st Amendment Bitter American.
What kind of ABV are you talking about here? Like a 4.5?
I'm guessing what he's asking for is anywhere between 4 and 5.
I'm digging a lot of these berliner weisses (at around 3.5) lately.
Tart, but not totally sour. Mmmmm.
Yeah, 4.5 sounds about right.
ESBs are my jam.
Dunno about the logistics for Madonna night yet. Quite possibly meet at Beat Hotel in Cambridge first, then head over.
As previously mentioned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzcUmS5U60&feature=youtu.be)
Met up with Roger today. I forgot how tiring walking around Boston can be. Needless to say, I bought sneakers straight after. Was good times. Roger boggled my mind a bit explaining calculus, but he gave me solid advice on how to tackle it when I take it in September. Richter and Leln were also in attendance for a late lunch at the Pour House.
Also, I think for the first time in a while I've either broke even or am working on a deficit calorically, in a not dear god I'm hung over as fuck setting. Which is good. I've got a bit of winter chub to work off. Not too much, but just enough to make some of my pants tight in a not "hey there" sort of way.
Also also, it's amazing how many drunk people you will come across in Downtown Boston at like, 3 pm. I forgot this, because I usually am only in Somerville, the Medical Area, or Charlestown on weekdays.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 20, 2014, 06:37:20 PM
Amusingly, I'm* the only one who picked Dayton to beat Ohio State, so I'm currently winning.
*Eris -- or Chance, actually.
AND ND State upset Oklahoma today. Curse your mad science for actually making me care about that game!
Quote from: Cain on March 20, 2014, 11:22:16 PM
As previously mentioned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzcUmS5U60&feature=youtu.be)
Impressive.
This scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk01a63Imt8) came to mind. "You just
spray the
area."
I'm at the ER. Hail Eris.
Possible UTI or lodged kidney stone. Or both. They don't know yet, I'm just back to pissing shards of glass.
You know, when Roger talks about being a "walking glitch", he doesn't mean being one to yourself.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 21, 2014, 01:22:10 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 20, 2014, 11:22:16 PM
As previously mentioned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzcUmS5U60&feature=youtu.be)
Impressive.
This scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk01a63Imt8) came to mind. "You just spray the area."
I wish the previous match had recorded properly. I was on fire for that one. 20 headshots before 25 kills, didn't even go down until round 10, scored 200k in points, it was the epitome of brutal destruction.
But yeah. Hurricane = overpowered. Hurricane with no down sides = insanely overpowered.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 21, 2014, 01:58:05 PM
You know, when Roger talks about being a "walking glitch", he doesn't mean being one to yourself.
I can't help it. My body does this shit. I'm never sick, but when I AM sick, it usually requires hospitalization and fancy pills for a while.
The verdict was, and I quote, "The most impressive UTI they've seen in a while." It spread from my bladder to my kidneys in 12 hours. That's a new record, even for me. I'm on horrid antibiotics (sulfa) for a full 7 days, Pyridian (orange piss pills) for 2 days until the pain stops, and as much water as I can stand until I'm DONE with the antibiotics, when I get to start on probiotics to repopulate my intestines so they can function after this. Drinking cranberry juice can aid in the formation of kidney stones (but helps UTIs, wtf) so I need to use sparingly.
I am AWESOME. :banana:
Doom. Hope that goes by quickly!
Meh, after the week I've had? I'm lucky a meteor hasn't hit my house or something.
Damn, Suu, that sucks.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 21, 2014, 01:58:05 PM
You know, when Roger talks about being a "walking glitch", he doesn't mean being one to yourself.
Yes I do.
See you at THE GAY BAR. We'll be there around 9-ish.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2014, 04:54:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 21, 2014, 01:58:05 PM
You know, when Roger talks about being a "walking glitch", he doesn't mean being one to yourself.
Yes I do.
See you at THE GAY BAR. We'll be there around 9-ish.
the Madonna Party is SELLING OUT.
Go here and see if you can get an advance ticket:
http://americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/videodrome-discoth%C3%A8que-episode-99-love-so-fine-0
Let me know if you can't, we'll work something else out.
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 01:35:32 PM
I'm at the ER. Hail Eris.
Possible UTI or lodged kidney stone. Or both. They don't know yet, I'm just back to pissing shards of glass.
I'm so sorry to hear about your cat's... wait... your OWN urinary tract. :sad:
Depression is in full swing today. Thanks a lot, scumbag brain.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 21, 2014, 05:15:29 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 01:35:32 PM
I'm at the ER. Hail Eris.
Possible UTI or lodged kidney stone. Or both. They don't know yet, I'm just back to pissing shards of glass.
I'm so sorry to hear about your cat's... wait... your OWN urinary tract. :sad:
Depression is in full swing today. Thanks a lot, scumbag brain.
Pour whiskey on it. That will shut it up.
Working the next two nights. See you spags Sunday afternoon.
Quote from: Cain on March 21, 2014, 05:59:57 PM
Working the next two nights. See you spags Sunday afternoon.
I'll see you Monday. I'll be offline in a half hour until then.
Have a good weekend, Cain!
CAIN! IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS:
http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2014, 05:24:18 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 21, 2014, 05:15:29 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 01:35:32 PM
I'm at the ER. Hail Eris.
Possible UTI or lodged kidney stone. Or both. They don't know yet, I'm just back to pissing shards of glass.
I'm so sorry to hear about your cat's... wait... your OWN urinary tract. :sad:
Depression is in full swing today. Thanks a lot, scumbag brain.
Pour whiskey on it. That will shut it up.
Sounds delightful. After work.
My hospital just called to tell me that the antibiotics are going to fuck with the effectiveness of my birth control. :lulz:
*sings*
"it's getting better...all the tiiiiiime!"
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE.
URI didn't send UNH my full completed transcript that shows I graduated. Conveniently, the system that I need to use to request a new transcript to be sent is down.
:whack:
:suu:
I ate cake tonight.
Hey guys, haven't logged on in a while! It's nice to see that the forum's still active.
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 01:35:32 PM
I'm at the ER. Hail Eris.
Possible UTI or lodged kidney stone. Or both. They don't know yet, I'm just back to pissing shards of glass.
Sucktastic!
Boss calls me in early to cover his shift so he can go cover a shift at another store. I show up and he tells me he's getting a $40 bonus to go to that other store. I ask him what I'm getting. He's confused. I explain that if he's getting a bonus to cut out on his shift to work less time somewhere else for three times as much money then I want to know what I'm getting for coming in to work his shift so he can go work this other magical money tripling shift.
He says I'm getting nothing. I say okay, then I won't come in next time. He says I'm already here. I say yep, but next time I won't be. He then says he was lying about the bonus and he really has to go now. I ask him what we're out of and if any of the broken stuff has been fixed.
He says nothing has been fixed and then RUNS out the door before he can explain that there aren't back-ups of anything and I'm basically opening the store in the middle of the afternoon, need fresh EVERYTHING, because there were three people there that didn't do DICK after the lunch rush.
I cackle. And then pull in four times the normal tips. Because instilling fear in the hearts of men and working towards getting myself fired in the process makes me gleeful which makes the customers properly appreciative of my ability to use a knife.
And every time I got a complaint (which, oddly, there were TONS of complaints tonight) because something was broken or we were out of something or our ridiculous prices because he jacked everything up to put more money in his pocket, I helpfully showed the customers where the survey was and explained how easy it was to click a few buttons and leave a comment telling our owners what the customers REALLY think.
Tee-hee. :)
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 09:54:40 PM
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE.
URI didn't send UNH my full completed transcript that shows I graduated. Conveniently, the system that I need to use to request a new transcript to be sent is down.
:whack:
:suu:
Damn, Suu. O.o It's okay. Really. The world will not self-destruct if happy things happen. Honest. Your inner glitch doesn't need to blow shit up to crash down all the happy awesome that is grad school and impending wedded bliss. Just put down the reality distorter and back away . . .
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 08:02:16 PM
My hospital just called to tell me that the antibiotics are going to fuck with the effectiveness of my birth control. :lulz:
*sings*
"it's getting better...all the tiiiiiime!"
Hold on. You didn't already know this?
It's in the instructions that come with your birth control, and usually somewhere in the thing that comes with your antibiotics.
Do never sex on pill alone with antibiotics!
This is a thing! Always.
Quote from: Idem on March 22, 2014, 04:36:23 AM
Hey guys, haven't logged on in a while! It's nice to see that the forum's still active.
ZOMG IDEM!
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 22, 2014, 06:27:21 AM
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 08:02:16 PM
My hospital just called to tell me that the antibiotics are going to fuck with the effectiveness of my birth control. :lulz:
*sings*
"it's getting better...all the tiiiiiime!"
Hold on. You didn't already know this?
It's in the instructions that come with your birth control, and usually somewhere in the thing that comes with your antibiotics.
Do never sex on pill alone with antibiotics!
This is a thing! Always.
ANY antibiotics. Ever.
Knew a girl who has a lovely son due to that.
Partied hard last night with friends. I had half a pint. /b/ear did good.
Holy shit Suu!
Cake good!
Cardinal I expect you to shit in the sink!
I would eat the HELL out of one of CPD's sammishes.
Quote from: /b/earman on March 22, 2014, 01:08:31 PM
Partied hard last night with friends. I had half a pint. /b/ear did good.
Holy shit Suu!
Cake good!
Cardinal I expect you to shit in the sink!
If I shit in the sink, it would probably stay there until I cleaned it up. I'll save that for when I quit. :P
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 22, 2014, 03:11:11 PM
I would eat the HELL out of one of CPD's sammishes.
Damn right! :D
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 22, 2014, 06:27:21 AM
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 08:02:16 PM
My hospital just called to tell me that the antibiotics are going to fuck with the effectiveness of my birth control. :lulz:
*sings*
"it's getting better...all the tiiiiiime!"
Hold on. You didn't already know this?
It's in the instructions that come with your birth control, and usually somewhere in the thing that comes with your antibiotics.
Do never sex on pill alone with antibiotics!
This is a thing! Always.
What Squiddy said.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 22, 2014, 03:11:11 PM
I would eat the HELL out of one of CPD's sammishes.
I want one in my face right now.
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 12:06:57 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 22, 2014, 10:31:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 22, 2014, 05:02:08 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 22, 2014, 03:11:11 PM
I would eat the HELL out of one of CPD's sammishes.
I want one in my face right now.
:lmnuendo:
:lulz:
Oh my!
Roger told me I am a maniacal version of the traveling gnome despite being taller than him. Minutes later, an awesome drunk SCAdian lady called me a "little asshole" after the first words I said to her.
EoC,
stature determined by popular vote.
:lulz:
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 23, 2014, 03:11:42 AM
Roger told me I am a maniacal version of the traveling gnome despite being taller than him. Minutes later, an awesome drunk SCAdian lady called me a "little asshole" after the first words I said to her.
EoC,
stature determined by popular vote.
:lulz:
13.5 hours of screaming through Boston in the back of EoC's fucking Shiner car, with NO FUCKING CLUE where the hell I was or where I was going, yeah fuck you, you're Satan's version of the fucking travelocity gnome.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 03:18:43 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 23, 2014, 03:11:42 AM
Roger told me I am a maniacal version of the traveling gnome despite being taller than him. Minutes later, an awesome drunk SCAdian lady called me a "little asshole" after the first words I said to her.
EoC,
stature determined by popular vote.
:lulz:
13.5 hours of screaming through Boston in the back of EoC's fucking Shiner car, with NO FUCKING CLUE where the hell I was or where I was going, yeah fuck you, you're Satan's version of the fucking travelocity gnome.
That's part of the experience.
We were driving through my brain. :)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 03:18:43 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 23, 2014, 03:11:42 AM
Roger told me I am a maniacal version of the traveling gnome despite being taller than him. Minutes later, an awesome drunk SCAdian lady called me a "little asshole" after the first words I said to her.
EoC,
stature determined by popular vote.
:lulz:
13.5 hours of screaming through Boston in the back of EoC's fucking Shiner car, with NO FUCKING CLUE where the hell I was or where I was going, yeah fuck you, you're Satan's version of the fucking travelocity gnome.
:lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 03:32:21 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 03:18:43 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 23, 2014, 03:11:42 AM
Roger told me I am a maniacal version of the traveling gnome despite being taller than him. Minutes later, an awesome drunk SCAdian lady called me a "little asshole" after the first words I said to her.
EoC,
stature determined by popular vote.
:lulz:
13.5 hours of screaming through Boston in the back of EoC's fucking Shiner car, with NO FUCKING CLUE where the hell I was or where I was going, yeah fuck you, you're Satan's version of the fucking travelocity gnome.
:lulz:
So, Richter and I, weighing in at a combined 500 pounds, are jammed into EoC's 2 door toy car thing, and HIS BACK SHOCKS ARE SHOT TO SHIT. On the tank trap they call "The MA tollway". My kidneys moved in with my lungs, on account of they've always liked each other and why pay 2 rent cheques?
One of my friends is being a superfreak and I don't know what to do. I can't tell if she's in crisis, or just unusually clueless all of a sudden. Wednesday, she invites me over for dinner (same night invitation, I normally don't but it was after my last final). While we were there FBF invited us both over for dinner Friday, I explained that I couldn't. Friday afternoon Superfreak texted me, letting me know she was at a coffeeshop if I cared to join, and I told her I couldn't. Then she texted me again two hours later while I was at dinner with the bf and his coworkers, asking if I could come grab a drink. And then tonight, she texted me twice from a bar. I'm thinking, it's after ten o'clock, WTF? I know it's Saturday night, but dude, I am not that girl. What the hell is even going on.
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 04:53:26 AM
One of my friends is being a superfreak and I don't know what to do. I can't tell if she's in crisis, or just unusually clueless all of a sudden. Wednesday, she invites me over for dinner (same night invitation, I normally don't but it was after my last final). While we were there FBF invited us both over for dinner Friday, I explained that I couldn't. Friday afternoon Superfreak texted me, letting me know she was at a coffeeshop if I cared to join, and I told her I couldn't. Then she texted me again two hours later while I was at dinner with the bf and his coworkers, asking if I could come grab a drink. And then tonight, she texted me twice from a bar. I'm thinking, it's after ten o'clock, WTF? I know it's Saturday night, but dude, I am not that girl. What the hell is even going on.
People go to you, I think, because you will not bullshit them. So they THINK they're calling you to get a shoulder to cry on, when they're REALLY calling you because they at some level know they need to be told to cut the shit.
Just a thought.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:00:20 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 04:53:26 AM
One of my friends is being a superfreak and I don't know what to do. I can't tell if she's in crisis, or just unusually clueless all of a sudden. Wednesday, she invites me over for dinner (same night invitation, I normally don't but it was after my last final). While we were there FBF invited us both over for dinner Friday, I explained that I couldn't. Friday afternoon Superfreak texted me, letting me know she was at a coffeeshop if I cared to join, and I told her I couldn't. Then she texted me again two hours later while I was at dinner with the bf and his coworkers, asking if I could come grab a drink. And then tonight, she texted me twice from a bar. I'm thinking, it's after ten o'clock, WTF? I know it's Saturday night, but dude, I am not that girl. What the hell is even going on.
People go to you, I think, because you will not bullshit them. So they THINK they're calling you to get a shoulder to cry on, when they're REALLY calling you because they at some level know they need to be told to cut the shit.
Just a thought.
Hahaha maybe that's it. I said "Are you drunk? Go home".
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:22:49 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:00:20 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 04:53:26 AM
One of my friends is being a superfreak and I don't know what to do. I can't tell if she's in crisis, or just unusually clueless all of a sudden. Wednesday, she invites me over for dinner (same night invitation, I normally don't but it was after my last final). While we were there FBF invited us both over for dinner Friday, I explained that I couldn't. Friday afternoon Superfreak texted me, letting me know she was at a coffeeshop if I cared to join, and I told her I couldn't. Then she texted me again two hours later while I was at dinner with the bf and his coworkers, asking if I could come grab a drink. And then tonight, she texted me twice from a bar. I'm thinking, it's after ten o'clock, WTF? I know it's Saturday night, but dude, I am not that girl. What the hell is even going on.
People go to you, I think, because you will not bullshit them. So they THINK they're calling you to get a shoulder to cry on, when they're REALLY calling you because they at some level know they need to be told to cut the shit.
Just a thought.
Hahaha maybe that's it. I said "Are you drunk? Go home".
We need a "GO HOME PORTLAND, YOU'RE DRUNK" WOMP-athon.
Found a new High Tech Karaoke joint. With cider on tap for only $3.75.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:23:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:22:49 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:00:20 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 04:53:26 AM
One of my friends is being a superfreak and I don't know what to do. I can't tell if she's in crisis, or just unusually clueless all of a sudden. Wednesday, she invites me over for dinner (same night invitation, I normally don't but it was after my last final). While we were there FBF invited us both over for dinner Friday, I explained that I couldn't. Friday afternoon Superfreak texted me, letting me know she was at a coffeeshop if I cared to join, and I told her I couldn't. Then she texted me again two hours later while I was at dinner with the bf and his coworkers, asking if I could come grab a drink. And then tonight, she texted me twice from a bar. I'm thinking, it's after ten o'clock, WTF? I know it's Saturday night, but dude, I am not that girl. What the hell is even going on.
People go to you, I think, because you will not bullshit them. So they THINK they're calling you to get a shoulder to cry on, when they're REALLY calling you because they at some level know they need to be told to cut the shit.
Just a thought.
Hahaha maybe that's it. I said "Are you drunk? Go home".
We need a "GO HOME PORTLAND, YOU'RE DRUNK" WOMP-athon.
:lulz:
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Staying up all night, sleeping on flight.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:54:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Staying up all night, sleeping on flight.
TGRR delivered to airport. It is possible I used too much strapping tape, but one can never be too careful. The baggage handlers were, when I left, arguing whether the low man on the seniority list had to load him into the cargo bay, or if they were going to draw straws. The new guy was crying, even AFTER I swore that I'd locked the Hannibal mask tight under the layers of duct tape.
Thank you LMNO for introducing me into Radishes, and Thank you Twid for introducing me into Turnips. I find them yummy!
Quote from: /b/earman on March 23, 2014, 01:03:58 PM
Thank you LMNO for introducing me into Radishes, and Thank you Twid for introducing me into Turnips. I find them yummy!
You make me sad. Me ----> :sad:
Quote from: Luna on March 23, 2014, 08:45:14 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:54:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Staying up all night, sleeping on flight.
TGRR delivered to airport. It is possible I used too much strapping tape, but one can never be too careful. The baggage handlers were, when I left, arguing whether the low man on the seniority list had to load him into the cargo bay, or if they were going to draw straws. The new guy was crying, even AFTER I swore that I'd locked the Hannibal mask tight under the layers of duct tape.
Home alive. Thanks again!
Quote from: Nigel on March 22, 2014, 05:01:24 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 22, 2014, 06:27:21 AM
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 08:02:16 PM
My hospital just called to tell me that the antibiotics are going to fuck with the effectiveness of my birth control. :lulz:
*sings*
"it's getting better...all the tiiiiiime!"
Hold on. You didn't already know this?
It's in the instructions that come with your birth control, and usually somewhere in the thing that comes with your antibiotics.
Do never sex on pill alone with antibiotics!
This is a thing! Always.
What Squiddy said.
Oh, I've known it for a while, but the fact that the hospital called me AFTER the fact was funny, oh, and that the pharmacist didn't say a damn thing despite I refilled my BC scrip at the same time. I'm surrounded by fucking stupid.
And yes.
I did pay for my Bailey's consumption last night. My head was all kinds of poundy this morning. Was better after leftovers and lots of coffee.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 10:20:00 PM
Quote from: Luna on March 23, 2014, 08:45:14 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:54:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Staying up all night, sleeping on flight.
TGRR delivered to airport. It is possible I used too much strapping tape, but one can never be too careful. The baggage handlers were, when I left, arguing whether the low man on the seniority list had to load him into the cargo bay, or if they were going to draw straws. The new guy was crying, even AFTER I swore that I'd locked the Hannibal mask tight under the layers of duct tape.
Home alive. Thanks again!
Good to know. :) Though now, I suppose, I won't have to do that THING to the guys at the airport...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 10:19:32 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on March 23, 2014, 01:03:58 PM
Thank you LMNO for introducing me into Radishes, and Thank you Twid for introducing me into Turnips. I find them yummy!
You make me sad. Me ----> :sad:
They're yummy swimming in the pork tenderloin juices!
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
You know... I totally forgot it was Spring Break. At least it explains why everyone has been going crazy around here. :eek: When you see a line wrapped around each and every shaved ice, Italian ice or similar ice-snack stand, you know
something is going down!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:54:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Staying up all night, sleeping on flight.
Kinda feel like that encapsulates everthing
I think my degree has run out of real work for us to do. My assignment for next week is, essentially, "critique Nate Silver". :sad:
The fuck?
Are you requesting a fucking refund? I think everyone did their critique of Nate Silver when it was, you know, relevant.
I'm not complaining. It's a methods and sources class, and it makes my assignment easy as hell. That's useful, given I have an interview later this week, another assignment for Monday, and my original research project lurking in the background.
Half an hour of watching him twaffling on TED, writing his flaws down in Word and then making a powerpoint presentation just means more time to spend on other things.
Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2014, 05:44:17 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 23, 2014, 05:54:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2014, 05:28:21 AM
I just had a moment of anxiety because it's like 11:30, and then I remembered that it's Spring Break and who cares? I can do what I want! Woohoo@!!!1
Staying up all night, sleeping on flight.
Kinda feel like that encapsulates everthing
It worked. I slept 2 hours on the flight, then at home from 2PM-4PM, then went to bed at 9:30 PM and woke up at the normal time. I'll be wiped out by the time I get home, of course.
It was good to see all of you on Saturday. Sorry it couldn't have been gayer.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 02:58:04 PM
It was good to see all of you on Saturday. Sorry it couldn't have been gayer.
I had a blast. I laughed so much that my ribs cramped.
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Quote from: The Suu on March 23, 2014, 11:11:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 22, 2014, 05:01:24 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 22, 2014, 06:27:21 AM
Quote from: The Suu on March 21, 2014, 08:02:16 PM
My hospital just called to tell me that the antibiotics are going to fuck with the effectiveness of my birth control. :lulz:
*sings*
"it's getting better...all the tiiiiiime!"
Hold on. You didn't already know this?
It's in the instructions that come with your birth control, and usually somewhere in the thing that comes with your antibiotics.
Do never sex on pill alone with antibiotics!
This is a thing! Always.
What Squiddy said.
Oh, I've known it for a while, but the fact that the hospital called me AFTER the fact was funny, oh, and that the pharmacist didn't say a damn thing despite I refilled my BC scrip at the same time. I'm surrounded by fucking stupid.
Or maybe, y'know, the "have you taken this medication before" plus assuming that a 30-year-old woman knows how to read
which, I realize, is a tall order.
Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 09:27:34 AM
I think my degree has run out of real work for us to do. My assignment for next week is, essentially, "critique Nate Silver". :sad:
:lulz:
My accountant's assignment for this week is "Watch a Humphrey Bogart movie and write about it."
Also, his term paper, I shit you not: "on hegemonic masculinity in reference to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."
QuoteThe stupid is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE
Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2014, 04:37:58 PM
QuoteThe stupid is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Please note I am happy to lend whatever engineering skills I posess to make this happen.
Also, we developed the "Homeopathing Principle of Ninjas" -- Namely, the more ninjas there are, the easier it is to kill them all.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 04:48:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Please note I am happy to lend whatever engineering skills I posess to make this happen.
Also, we developed the "Homeopathing Principle of Ninjas" -- Namely, the more ninjas there are, the easier it is to kill them all.
:lulz:
Yep. If there's one ninja in the movie, he's an unkillable death machine. If there's 50, the hero shoots them down like Kent State.
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2014, 03:47:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 09:27:34 AM
I think my degree has run out of real work for us to do. My assignment for next week is, essentially, "critique Nate Silver". :sad:
:lulz:
My accountant's assignment for this week is "Watch a Humphrey Bogart movie and write about it."
Also, his term paper, I shit you not: "on hegemonic masculinity in reference to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."
Those at least sound like fun.
Mine is watching this http://www.ted.com/talks/nate_silver_on_race_and_politics
Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
:banana:
Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
Congratulations! :)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:07:38 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 02:58:04 PM
It was good to see all of you on Saturday. Sorry it couldn't have been gayer.
I had a blast. I laughed so much that my ribs cramped.
An awesome time was had.
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Why do you have to go give Twid and Villager an impossible Holy Quest™?
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 02:58:04 PM
It was good to see all of you on Saturday. Sorry it couldn't have been gayer.
Quite a time nonetheless. Glad we could finally meet.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 24, 2014, 06:09:42 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 05:19:05 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 05:16:11 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
:banana:
:banana:
:banana:
:banana:
Back from visiting my maternal grandfather, the only one left of that generation on both sides of my family. He's got lung cancer. Luckily there's hardly any spread and the survival rate is at 80%. Still sucks massive dragon dick.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 04:48:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Please note I am happy to lend whatever engineering skills I posess to make this happen.
Also, we developed the "Homeopathing Principle of Ninjas" -- Namely, the more ninjas there are, the easier it is to kill them all.
You mean the Conservation of Ninjutsu (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu) principle?
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 24, 2014, 06:10:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Why do you have to go give Twid and Villager an impossible Holy Quest™?
:lulz:
Holy Quests™ are not supposed to be something just anyone can do. Did you ever read about God telling an Israelite king to pop around to the corner for cigarettes? No. It was always shit like facing down a giant with a slingshot, or riding around in a whale.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 24, 2014, 06:11:59 PM
Back from visiting my maternal grandfather, the only one left of that generation on both sides of my family. He's got lung cancer. Luckily there's hardly any spread and the survival rate is at 80%. Still sucks massive dragon dick.
FUCK CANCER
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 06:12:51 PM
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 24, 2014, 06:10:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Why do you have to go give Twid and Villager an impossible Holy Quest™?
:lulz:
Holy Quests™ are not supposed to be something just anyone can do. Did you ever read about God telling an Israelite king to pop around to the corner for cigarettes? No. It was always shit like facing down a giant with a slingshot, or riding around in a whale.
Point. Still. They're gonna need my help. If that's allowed.
Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 06:12:10 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 04:48:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Please note I am happy to lend whatever engineering skills I posess to make this happen.
Also, we developed the "Homeopathing Principle of Ninjas" -- Namely, the more ninjas there are, the easier it is to kill them all.
You mean the Conservation of Ninjutsu (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu) principle?
Well, I suppose there is nothing new in the world.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 24, 2014, 06:14:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 06:12:51 PM
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 24, 2014, 06:10:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Why do you have to go give Twid and Villager an impossible Holy Quest™?
:lulz:
Holy Quests™ are not supposed to be something just anyone can do. Did you ever read about God telling an Israelite king to pop around to the corner for cigarettes? No. It was always shit like facing down a giant with a slingshot, or riding around in a whale.
Point. Still. They're gonna need my help. If that's allowed.
Required.
Villager has begun a list of what needs to be present/done.
You are number one on the list, just ahead of "someone on stage must be on fire".
If it makes you feel better, no-one has explicity noticed this trope in regards to vampires and demons.
Rename it quickly, and you can still claim a completely unknown principle of drama.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 06:16:47 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 06:12:10 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 24, 2014, 04:48:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
Worth noting to the rest of the board:
Twid and Villager have a Holy Quest™. They have to break the Norway Metal Barrier. The scale of metal, you see, runs from "Fred Rogers" (No metal at all), to "Norway" (all known metal). Anarchangel must break the NMB or face doom.
Please note I am happy to lend whatever engineering skills I posess to make this happen.
Also, we developed the "Homeopathing Principle of Ninjas" -- Namely, the more ninjas there are, the easier it is to kill them all.
You mean the Conservation of Ninjutsu (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu) principle?
Well, I suppose there is nothing new in the world.
Welcome to my world. :lulz:
Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
Congrats!!! Best to both of you!
Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 05:11:20 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2014, 03:47:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 09:27:34 AM
I think my degree has run out of real work for us to do. My assignment for next week is, essentially, "critique Nate Silver". :sad:
:lulz:
My accountant's assignment for this week is "Watch a Humphrey Bogart movie and write about it."
Also, his term paper, I shit you not: "on hegemonic masculinity in reference to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."
Those at least sound like fun.
Mine is watching this http://www.ted.com/talks/nate_silver_on_race_and_politics
:lulz: Oh no.
Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
Good luck!
Congratumalations
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 24, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
I've been eyeballing the Nexus 7.
But the price on that is likely to drop this July when they figure out whether they're going to release the Nexus 8 and/or a newer version of the Nexus 7. Currently, I think it's still a good deal at the $229 asking price.
Spec-wise, it's fairly impressive:
• 7.02" 1920x1200 HD display (323 ppi)
• CPU: Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 Pro, 1.5GHz
• GPU: Adreno 320, 400MHz
• 2 GB of RAM
• Compatible with the Qi wireless charger
• 9 hours of battery life
Apple and Samsung want roughly twice as much for comparable or worse specs.
Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
Congrats Suu!
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Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
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Quote from: Cain on March 24, 2014, 06:21:16 PM
If it makes you feel better, no-one has explicity noticed this trope in regards to vampires and demons.
Rename it quickly, and you can still claim a completely unknown principle of drama.
Yang Fang Permutation
So, I'm really sick with something. Not sure what exactly, but I do know I feel like someone has stuffed an armoury's worth of swords inside my stomach and all my joints and every movement results in excruciating pain.
I don't think I'm working this weekend.
Quote from: Cain on March 25, 2014, 12:01:37 AM
So, I'm really sick with something. Not sure what exactly, but I do know I feel like someone has stuffed an armoury's worth of swords inside my stomach and all my joints and every movement results in excruciating pain.
I don't think I'm working this weekend.
That blows. You guys have the flu going around?
Suspected case of norovirus at work. I don't think it's precisely that, but I did feel like vomiting not long ago, so it's probably similar.
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Quote from: The Suu on March 24, 2014, 04:58:31 PM
Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
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Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
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Holy shit. I'm married by the power vested in the state of New Hampshire.
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Amazingly, I'm not dead after last night, when I half expected to wake up and find I'd choked on my own vomit. I'd lose a fight with a kitten, but I'm still alive and able to sit upright...something I wasn't able to do 5 hours ago.
Quote from: Cain on March 25, 2014, 12:45:22 PM
Amazingly, I'm not dead after last night, when I half expected to wake up and find I'd choked on my own vomit. I'd lose a fight with a kitten, but I'm still alive and able to sit upright...something I wasn't able to do 5 hours ago.
Good to hear that things seem to be looking up.
Thanks. I'm sure no-one actually wants to hear all the gory details, but it's either that, or work on my Uni project.
Quote from: Cain on March 25, 2014, 01:06:30 PM
Thanks. I'm sure no-one actually wants to hear all the gory details, but it's either that, or work on my Uni project.
I love gory details! Gimme phlegm stories!
If it's what I think it is, every orifice came into play.
Well, they tried to. By virtue of my will alone, they were intimidated into merely growling with discontent.
Pretty sure this isn't the norovirus, which is good.
My dad had norovirus a few years back. Trust me, it's...not pleasant. He was hospitalized because like LMNO said, every orifice comes into play. You can't keep fluid in your system at all. It's definitely a good thing you don't have it.
Twid/Villager/TGRR. To finish the Holy Quest™, we must first dethrone Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7oNQ2SYs8
I live next door to a small Air Force base. So far, I have had 3 C-17s and 4 KC-135s fly over to land in the last half hour. This is amusing me way more than it should be. If it was 30 degrees out, I'd sit on the deck and play Name that Jet.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 25, 2014, 04:46:17 PM
Twid/Villager/TGRR. To finish the Holy Quest™, we must first dethrone Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7oNQ2SYs8
I can't look at that right this minute, but I will as soon as these yahoos get out of my office.
Quote from: The Suu on March 25, 2014, 04:47:13 PM
I live next door to a small Air Force base. So far, I have had 3 C-17s and 4 KC-135s fly over to land in the last half hour. This is amusing me way more than it should be. If it was 30 degrees out, I'd sit on the deck and play Name that Jet.
The back yard of my plant is the largest AFB in the world. We get everything here.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 25, 2014, 04:53:24 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 25, 2014, 04:47:13 PM
I live next door to a small Air Force base. So far, I have had 3 C-17s and 4 KC-135s fly over to land in the last half hour. This is amusing me way more than it should be. If it was 30 degrees out, I'd sit on the deck and play Name that Jet.
The back yard of my plant is the largest AFB in the world. We get everything here.
This is just a refueling wing so I didn't even expect to see C-17s, but they certainly are busy this afternoon. I have a friend that works over there as an aircraft mechanic, and I told him to stop fucking with me. He shot back and said that it's what I get for marrying Navy. Asshole. :lulz:
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 24, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
I have a Nexus, and I like it.
And that's about all I can say about that.
I got straight A's this term.
I have a completely impossible schedule next term.
But I don't have to think about that now, it's Spring Break, so I'm gonna go to Vancouver with E.O.T.
Hurrah for you , Nigel!
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2014, 07:29:45 PM
I got straight A's this term.
I have a completely impossible schedule next term.
But I don't have to think about that now, it's Spring Break, so I'm gonna go to Vancouver with E.O.T.
:cheers:
That's awesome
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2014, 07:29:45 PM
I got straight A's this term.
I have a completely impossible schedule next term.
But I don't have to think about that now, it's Spring Break, so I'm gonna go to Vancouver with E.O.T.
Congrats, Nigel. :)
You're gonna OWN that next term!
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Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 24, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
I have a Nexus, and I like it.
And that's about all I can say about that.
WhatWhatWHAT??? I'm over here right now. Also, I'm housesitting on Alberta this week. Was wondering if EOT is still doing that DJ thing over there. It's walking distance and all.
I just ate a whole box of Campari tomatoes and regret nothing. I have no idea why I wanted tomatoes so much, but those were fucking delicious.
Also, sulfa antibiotics are simply the most vile things on earth. Everything about me reeks of sulphur. EVERY. THING.
My poor husband, he's like, "YOUR BREATH SMELLS LIKE RECLAIMED WATER. THIS IS NOT SEXY."
I'm telling ya, Roger. If you ever need to go on antibiotics, go for sulfa if you can. This shit will be full on biological warfare in your possession, if it isn't already banned by the Geneva Convention.
Quote from: The Suu on March 26, 2014, 12:19:03 AM
Also, sulfa antibiotics are simply the most vile things on earth. Everything about me reeks of sulphur. EVERY. THING.
My poor husband, he's like, "YOUR BREATH SMELLS LIKE RECLAIMED WATER. THIS IS NOT SEXY."
I'm telling ya, Roger. If you ever need to go on antibiotics, go for sulfa if you can. This shit will be full on biological warfare in your possession, if it isn't already banned by the Geneva Convention.
I've taken sulfa. It's like Goddamn spinach to Popeye.
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Quote from: The Suu on March 26, 2014, 12:19:03 AM
Also, sulfa antibiotics are simply the most vile things on earth. Everything about me reeks of sulphur. EVERY. THING.
My poor husband, he's like, "YOUR BREATH SMELLS LIKE RECLAIMED WATER. THIS IS NOT SEXY."
I'm telling ya, Roger. If you ever need to go on antibiotics, go for sulfa if you can. This shit will be full on biological warfare in your possession, if it isn't already banned by the Geneva Convention.
I've taken sulfa. It's like Goddamn spinach to Popeye.
I am a walking brimstone bomb. I am VOLATILE.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on March 25, 2014, 09:27:22 PM
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Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 24, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
I have a Nexus, and I like it.
And that's about all I can say about that.
WhatWhatWHAT??? I'm over here right now. Also, I'm housesitting on Alberta this week. Was wondering if EOT is still doing that DJ thing over there. It's walking distance and all.
Naw, he moved, and then he got stupid sick, and now I don't think he's DJing but our friend opened a new place on Dekum and MLK that has some sweet kareoke.
Thanks for all the congrats, guys. :) I have decided that I'm going to apply to med school and to the bio grad program for backups.
Nigel, that rocks. You rock.
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Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 24, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
I have a Nexus, and I like it.
And that's about all I can say about that.
WhatWhatWHAT??? I'm over here right now. Also, I'm housesitting on Alberta this week. Was wondering if EOT is still doing that DJ thing over there. It's walking distance and all.
Naw, he moved, and then he got stupid sick, and now I don't think he's DJing but our friend opened a new place on Dekum and MLK that has some sweet kareoke.
The High Water Mark? That's someone you know? That's rad, because the owner's awesome and he ordered me Vanilla Stoli when I asked for it and he didn't have it.
SICK
:vom:
Oh, dear.
You really must go into work.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 26, 2014, 02:30:22 PM
Oh, dear.
You really must go into work.
Can't drive 40 minutes.
Besides, everyone has it. The management team today consists of 2 people. My crew consists of 4 people.
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Quote from: Jet City Hustle on March 24, 2014, 05:39:19 PM
So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.
I have a Nexus, and I like it.
And that's about all I can say about that.
WhatWhatWHAT??? I'm over here right now. Also, I'm housesitting on Alberta this week. Was wondering if EOT is still doing that DJ thing over there. It's walking distance and all.
Naw, he moved, and then he got stupid sick, and now I don't think he's DJing but our friend opened a new place on Dekum and MLK that has some sweet kareoke.
The High Water Mark? That's someone you know? That's rad, because the owner's awesome and he ordered me Vanilla Stoli when I asked for it and he didn't have it.
Yeah, that's Eric. Total sweetheart. And the super fantastically hot guy bartender is E.O.T.'s housemate.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2014, 02:27:22 PM
SICK
:vom:
Oh no!
I have found that about 80% of the time, if I have the barfy or the cholera sprayhose, fresh kim chi will kill it.
Doctor Nigel has a delightfully ominous ring to it :evil:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 26, 2014, 03:21:17 PM
Doctor Nigel has a delightfully ominous ring to it :evil:
All the way down the spine, that. Congrats, Nigel!
I'm about to watch a trainwreck of a family totally derail. I'm confused as to if I should just get popcorn at this point or continue to try to talk her out of things.
Back story: They meet on the internet, he's 20 years older than she is. He leaves his wife for her, and knocks her up. They get married, and she gives birth to a little ADHD monster they can't control. He's Aspergers (supposedly, it took her 3 doctors to get a "diagnosis.") and she fights for him to go on disability because he simply "shuts down" when he tries to work. Somehow, after a year of fighting the courts, they win, they take all the disability money, and move to Florida and immediately get annual passes to all the parks. She gets an internship at Disney, and blows it, in 2 days, because she falls and "hurts herself" at work, and they let her go. They rent a house they can barely afford because she HAD to have a house near Orlando, despite working for about $10 an hour as a receptionist while she gets her MBA from a diploma mill online. She graduates school, after using all her loans to pay for the rent, and they have to move in with her father into one bedroom with bunk beds to "save money" to buy a house, while really just stockpiling her husband's disability money to go to London on a vacation they really cannot afford. Apparently they just found a house they can afford...somehow, despite her husband having no credit, and all this money she's put away for going to London for a week. She always complains that she hates her job and wonders why she can't get a good job with her MBA (derrr, diploma mill. Businesses aren't fucking stupid.) And that her husband cannot control their little monster. So here she is, stockpiling disability checks to go on vacation and pad the bank account to buy a house, while she makes $10/hr. She lives 30 minutes from Universal and STILL got a hotel room for just her and her son for his 5th birthday.......during which he got lost in the park and the police had to help. Oh, and she put her student loans into financial hardship forebearance. Of course.
I cannot wait to see what happens next. :horrormirth:
I would make a whole shitload of jiffy-pop and laugh.
Quote from: Hoopla on March 26, 2014, 04:19:44 PM
I would make a whole shitload of jiffy-pop and laugh.
Their kid is going to run off in London and drown in the Thames River. The husband is going to make an ass of himself when it comes to not wanting to eat anything British and being a total rude fuck (he thinks he's being funny...even Rhode Islanders never found him funny) and she's going to be completely in financial dire straits for the rest of her existence. She's already been quoted that she's only still with her husband until she can replace his disability income, but right now the "tax benefits" are nice.
Oh golddigger, you're doing it wrong.
Yup - definitely popcorn and yucks. Pull up a ringside seat and warm up them mandibles :lulz:
We bought an apartment. Moving in three weeks. Wohooo.
You entering into some kind of settling down period, viking?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 26, 2014, 06:30:51 PM
You entering into some kind of settling down period, viking?
Nah. Just good to have a place for all the loot when I come back from summer raids.
:lulz:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 26, 2014, 03:21:17 PM
Doctor Nigel has a delightfully ominous ring to it :evil:
I'll cure what ails ya.
Quote from: The Suu on March 26, 2014, 06:04:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 26, 2014, 04:19:44 PM
I would make a whole shitload of jiffy-pop and laugh.
Their kid is going to run off in London and drown in the Thames River. The husband is going to make an ass of himself when it comes to not wanting to eat anything British and being a total rude fuck (he thinks he's being funny...even Rhode Islanders never found him funny) and she's going to be completely in financial dire straits for the rest of her existence. She's already been quoted that she's only still with her husband until she can replace his disability income, but right now the "tax benefits" are nice.
Oh golddigger, you're doing it wrong.
Pointing and laughing time, for sure.
Though I have to say, I have a soft spot and a fascination for people who just inexorably seem drawn toward making the worst possible decisions for themselves.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on March 26, 2014, 06:32:13 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 26, 2014, 06:30:51 PM
You entering into some kind of settling down period, viking?
Nah. Just good to have a place for all the loot when I come back from summer raids.
:lulz:
I spent the last half hour, instead of doing a presentation for Monday's tutorial on terrorism and irregular warfare, figuring out how to install Skyrim twice on my laptop so I can have two different sets of mods running at once.
Benefits of an elite education, right here.
In other news, I have an interview tomorrow to become a supply teacher. Could be fun. Would mean a full work week, but I don't have to plan any classes, get full holidays and the school is a 10 minute bike ride away.
So after I get my Mech. Engineering degree I will apply to the University of Houston for a Biological Engineering Degree mainly to focus on Genetic Engineering. So I'll be a techie, and a actual scientist!
If a machine breaks down. STAND BACK LET ME SCIENCE THIS BITCH!
Also had a fun time at the H.I.M concert last night. I saw 4 ex girlfriends of mine there. Good times indeed.
Quote from: /b/earman on March 26, 2014, 09:42:41 PM
So after I get my Mech. Engineering degree I will apply to the University of Houston for a Biological Engineering Degree mainly to focus on Genetic Engineering. So I'll be a techie, and a actual scientist!
If a machine breaks down. STAND BACK LET ME SCIENCE THIS BITCH!
Also had a fun time at the H.I.M concert last night. I saw 4 ex girlfriends of mine there. Good times indeed.
*ahem*
ENGINEERS ARE NOT FOR TOUCHING SHIT. MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS ARE FOR THAT. KEEP YOUR GRUBBY PAWS OFF OF EQUIPMENT, KEEP ALL FINGERS.
:crankey:
IT'S MY ANGRY MONKEY BRAIN! IF I WANT TO DROWN IT IN LUBRICATE I FUCKING WILL! YOU'RE NOT MY MOM!
"The Richard Nixon school of ballet and the arts" ? :lulz:
Quote from: /b/earman on March 26, 2014, 09:42:41 PM
So after I get my Mech. Engineering degree I will apply to the University of Houston for a Biological Engineering Degree mainly to focus on Genetic Engineering. So I'll be a techie, and a actual scientist!
If a machine breaks down. STAND BACK LET ME SCIENCE THIS BITCH!
Also had a fun time at the H.I.M concert last night. I saw 4 ex girlfriends of mine there. Good times indeed.
That sounds fucking FASCINATING. Genetics and genetic engineering are cool as shit!
I did some research on the neurology residency program at OHSU, and they admit FOUR students a year. If I got into medical school I could apply after my first year. My first choice is still the neuroscience program, but it's good to have backup plans.
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 12:36:48 AM
I did some research on the neurology residency program at OHSU, and they admit FOUR students a year. If I got into medical school I could apply after my first year. My first choice is still the neuroscience program, but it's good to have backup plans.
STUDY ALL THE THINGS!
You could move to Tucson, then you'd have time! It's always summer you'll never get cold you'll never get hungry you'll never get old and grey we'll see your shadow wandering off somewhere you'll never make it home but you really won't care you wanted the lost highway you'll happier there than you are today.
True story, I was looking at going to UofA. Then I remembered Tucson.
Quote from: The Suu on March 27, 2014, 12:44:23 AM
True story, I was looking at going to UofA. Then I remembered Tucson.
It's awesome here. As long as you can dodge the Hiroshima Shadows and the Grabby Girls.
And how do we describe Tucson?
Easy. Rip off Fastball lyrics. :lulz: Hey, they have the right idea.
AHEM. Wrote a song about it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 12:40:30 AM
You could move to Tucson, then you'd have time! It's always summer you'll never get cold you'll never get hungry you'll never get old and grey we'll see your shadow wandering off somewhere you'll never make it home but you really won't care you wanted the lost highway you'll happier there than you are today.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:
No thank you, sir... that's ok.
I wish I could send my children to the store to buy me a bottle of wine.
I want wine.
Buuuut I don't really want to go to the store.
#firstworldproblems
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 01:15:02 AM
I wish I could send my children to the store to buy me a bottle of wine.
I want wine.
Buuuut I don't really want to go to the store.
#firstworldproblems
We need liquor stores that deliver like they used to. And drugstores.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 27, 2014, 01:13:02 AM
AHEM. Wrote a song about it.
Yep. Between you, Fastball, and Tom Waits, we have the legal district covered.
Now you need to do South Filth for me.
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 01:13:10 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 12:40:30 AM
You could move to Tucson, then you'd have time! It's always summer you'll never get cold you'll never get hungry you'll never get old and grey we'll see your shadow wandering off somewhere you'll never make it home but you really won't care you wanted the lost highway you'll happier there than you are today.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:
No thank you, sir... that's ok.
I was just going through some shit I wrote here, and I tripped across the "What Kind of World Do You Want?" thing.
And I asked myself, "what kind of world DO I want?" And I said to myself, "That's EASY. I want a world with Nigel and ECH fighting 30 foot poisonous lizards with razor sharp fucking halberds (ECH and Nigel, not the lizards) on Drachmann Street (outside of the damn Meetrack) with Stella and CPD and Squiddy singing backup while beating the mortal shit out of random passers-by and everyone SHUTS UP and I have a harpoon. One of the cheating ones that fucking explode on impact. Hot diggity.
Simple, really. But I am a simple man.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 01:26:00 AM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 12:40:30 AM
You could move to Tucson, then you'd have time! It's always summer you'll never get cold you'll never get hungry you'll never get old and grey we'll see your shadow wandering off somewhere you'll never make it home but you really won't care you wanted the lost highway you'll happier there than you are today.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:
No thank you, sir... that's ok.
I was just going through some shit I wrote here, and I tripped across the "What Kind of World Do You Want?" thing.
And I asked myself, "what kind of world DO I want?" And I said to myself, "That's EASY. I want a world with Nigel and ECH fighting 30 foot poisonous lizards with razor sharp fucking halberds (ECH and Nigel, not the lizards) on Drachmann Street (outside of the damn Meetrack) with Stella and CPD and Squiddy singing backup while beating the mortal shit out of random passers-by and everyone SHUTS UP and I have a harpoon. One of the cheating ones that fucking explode on impact. Hot diggity.
Simple, really. But I am a simple man.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: That sounds
completely reasonable.
Quote from: The Suu on March 27, 2014, 01:17:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 01:15:02 AM
I wish I could send my children to the store to buy me a bottle of wine.
I want wine.
Buuuut I don't really want to go to the store.
#firstworldproblems
We need liquor stores that deliver like they used to. And drugstores.
Truuuue story.
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 01:49:33 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 01:26:00 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 01:13:10 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 12:40:30 AM
You could move to Tucson, then you'd have time! It's always summer you'll never get cold you'll never get hungry you'll never get old and grey we'll see your shadow wandering off somewhere you'll never make it home but you really won't care you wanted the lost highway you'll happier there than you are today.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:
No thank you, sir... that's ok.
I was just going through some shit I wrote here, and I tripped across the "What Kind of World Do You Want?" thing.
And I asked myself, "what kind of world DO I want?" And I said to myself, "That's EASY. I want a world with Nigel and ECH fighting 30 foot poisonous lizards with razor sharp fucking halberds (ECH and Nigel, not the lizards) on Drachmann Street (outside of the damn Meetrack) with Stella and CPD and Squiddy singing backup while beating the mortal shit out of random passers-by and everyone SHUTS UP and I have a harpoon. One of the cheating ones that fucking explode on impact. Hot diggity.
Simple, really. But I am a simple man.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: That sounds completely reasonable.
Part of my brain is old and vile, and the other part got stuck at age 5 or some shit.
It's like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4
And that's the way it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 01:26:00 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 01:13:10 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 27, 2014, 12:40:30 AM
You could move to Tucson, then you'd have time! It's always summer you'll never get cold you'll never get hungry you'll never get old and grey we'll see your shadow wandering off somewhere you'll never make it home but you really won't care you wanted the lost highway you'll happier there than you are today.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:
No thank you, sir... that's ok.
I was just going through some shit I wrote here, and I tripped across the "What Kind of World Do You Want?" thing.
And I asked myself, "what kind of world DO I want?" And I said to myself, "That's EASY. I want a world with Nigel and ECH fighting 30 foot poisonous lizards with razor sharp fucking halberds (ECH and Nigel, not the lizards) on Drachmann Street (outside of the damn Meetrack) with Stella and CPD and Squiddy singing backup while beating the mortal shit out of random passers-by and everyone SHUTS UP and I have a harpoon. One of the cheating ones that fucking explode on impact. Hot diggity.
Simple, really. But I am a simple man.
Well, shit. Richter, we got time for a little redesign?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2014, 10:03:01 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on March 26, 2014, 09:42:41 PM
So after I get my Mech. Engineering degree I will apply to the University of Houston for a Biological Engineering Degree mainly to focus on Genetic Engineering. So I'll be a techie, and a actual scientist!
If a machine breaks down. STAND BACK LET ME SCIENCE THIS BITCH!
Also had a fun time at the H.I.M concert last night. I saw 4 ex girlfriends of mine there. Good times indeed.
*ahem*
ENGINEERS ARE NOT FOR TOUCHING SHIT. MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS ARE FOR THAT. KEEP YOUR GRUBBY PAWS OFF OF EQUIPMENT, KEEP ALL FINGERS.
:crankey:
And this is why halfway through my engineering course in high school I realized it wasn't for me. I'm a hands on kinda girl, love tinkering and fixing stuff.
Holy shit, I just found out that the cell bio class I need is 7 credits, with recitation three times a week. :eek:
My schedule for Spring is so dumb, and it just got dumber because I decided I want Mondays to suck less, plus I REALLY want my old chem lab partner back. So,
Mondays: Downtown 9 am, NE 11 am, NE 6 pm.
Tuesdays: Downtown 9 am, downtown noon, NE 6pm.
Wednesdays: Downtown 9 am, NE 11 am, NE 6 pm.
Thursdays: oh thank fuck, I have Thursdays off.
Fridays: Downtown 9 am, NE 10 am (note that this is actually impossible).
There is a good chance that I will take my MWF am class pass/fail, because the only way to get to NE by 10 is to leave halfway through the Friday lecture.
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 02:48:08 PM
Holy shit, I just found out that the cell bio class I need is 7 credits, with recitation three times a week. :eek:
How does your credit system work again? With us, it's basically 3 credits for a lecture class, 4 for for a lecture/lab class (though I note that one of the classes I'll be taking in Spring 2015 is 5 credits)
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on March 27, 2014, 03:35:13 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 27, 2014, 02:48:08 PM
Holy shit, I just found out that the cell bio class I need is 7 credits, with recitation three times a week. :eek:
How does your credit system work again? With us, it's basically 3 credits for a lecture class, 4 for for a lecture/lab class (though I note that one of the classes I'll be taking in Spring 2015 is 5 credits)
It depends (the university uses a slightly different system than the community college because you enroll in the labs separately) but it's tied to the number of hours per week. For example, my geology lecture is 3 credits, and about 2.5 hours in lecture per week, and my geology lab is 1 credit and 1.5 hours per week. My chemistry and biology classes at PCC combine lecture and lab and are 5 credits each, about 4 hours a week in lecture and 3 hours in lab. Average for most classes is 4 credits, with some science and math classes being 5 credits. An associate's degree here is 90 credits, and a baccalaureate is 180 credits.
Bleh. Not teaching. Not surprised. When a teaching assistant from the school applies for a job, you might as well pack up and go home. The school is just wasting your time at that point.
Post-midterm blues. My head feels lost and I'm convinced I'm going to fail half my classes. In reality, I'm probably just not sleeping enough and will walk away with no lower than a B in any class.
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
Awesome, dude! :)
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 27, 2014, 09:58:19 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
Awesome, dude! :)
Soon I shall be 275 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal!
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
Good.
Live long and prosper.
Twid,
Means it. \\//,
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:59:04 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 27, 2014, 09:58:19 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
Awesome, dude! :)
Soon I shall be 275 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal!
That is awesome news, man. :) Congrats.
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
It's been Bearman on low wattage/half power all along?
Prepare you anuses, indeed!!!!! :lulz:
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
You will actually be astonished how fast you'll lose weight if they dial your thyroid in (important note: This takes a few trips to the doctor to do properly, I gather), especially if you're active.
Tell me more. So if I understand you correctly. Keep going back til I get my perfect dose?
Quote from: /b/earman on March 28, 2014, 01:36:41 AM
Tell me more. So if I understand you correctly. Keep going back til I get my perfect dose?
The doc will explain it to you. They take blood, analyze it, then prescibe a dose.
Then you come back, they take more blood, change the dose a bit.
Rinse, repeat, until your thyroid is working properly or they suck all your blood out and you die.
I'm scheduled to go back in 6 months. Should I come banging at his door every 2 months?
Quote from: /b/earman on March 28, 2014, 01:40:31 AM
I'm scheduled to go back in 6 months. Should I come banging at his door every 2 months?
Naw. My wife had this done 4 years back, I can't remember how often she had to have the blood work done.
Sweet. I was going to ask about your wife, but I didn't want to post personal information etc.
Quote from: /b/earman on March 28, 2014, 01:44:09 AM
Sweet. I was going to ask about your wife, but I didn't want to post personal information etc.
She lost 65 pounds in a about 6 months.
changing blood chemistry takes a while. follow the schedule unless you think they're fucking with you. in that case, get a second opinion.
My cat tore up the roommate's cat's ear. Fuuuuuuck.
After 10 years of really heavy smoking, and many failed attempts, I have finally quit the weed.
I passed my usual threshold of 3 months, smoked some, and really disliked how I felt the next morning. More importantly, I did not proceed to buy as much as I could afford.
This is a milestone. Thank you, liquid nicotine, thank you.
Oh, hey guys.
Hey Alty. I've been considering the same thing recently. Considering.
I can't recommend it to everyone, but giving up weed, booze, and fast women has really...isolated me socially from Alaskans more than I ever thought was possible.
Ok, the women aren't that fast.
Not after enough booze and weed, anyway.
Troof. And their brains have a hard time catching up on that.
They do make up for by connecting those brains with the floor with the quickness though.
True story, I was at Darwin's, one of the louder dive bars, and this woman totally fell down. Everyone was, like, woah.
Hi, Alty!
Good on ya about the debbil weed. I was never that heavy a smoker, but I did start noticing it would put me down for at least a day or two.
We've got to get you out of AK, somehow.
Dating/being married to a member of the armed forces has given me an amazing glimpse at how inept the government really is. He had to update some stuff online last night, nothing major, just basic information that the government wants updated every 5 years and it went like this.
"Give us your last 10 years of residential history, complete with references so that we may contact them."
"LOL, WHAT? 5 YEARS OF THAT I WAS ON A SUBMARINE!"
"Are you enrolled in Selective Service?"
"I'M ALREADY IN THE FUCKING NAVY!"
*Page header: US Active Duty Military Personnel*
What is your employment status? Full Time or Part Time?
" ...............Ten more years of this shit, eh?"
He ended up hitting his head on the wall a few times before walking off to go to bed. He was a nice quiet man before we met. I swear.
In other news, we're going out with the couple across the hall tonight to a nice sit down meal. I'm more content with hiding in my fortress of evil all day long working than meeting other Navy wives, and apparently she's the same way, which isn't really a GOOD thing when inevitable deployments happen, since the two of us are going to be in this together for the next 2 and a half years with this boat. I've only seen her once, and that's because they have a cute dog. They're about 10 years younger than us, also. He is RIGHT out of nuke school, an absolute baby. So this should be interesting.
You should start a band with other Navy wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6FBEuKiE
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 12:36:59 PM
You should start a band with other Navy wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6FBEuKiE
Depends. Apparently there's a social structure I need to adhere to.
:spag:
Quote from: The Suu on March 28, 2014, 01:13:43 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 12:36:59 PM
You should start a band with other Navy wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6FBEuKiE
Depends. Apparently there's a social structure I need to adhere to.
:spag:
This should end well.
:popcorn:
Well my husband's attempt to have me make a friend has not panned out.
A month or two ago he mentioned a friend at work that we'd hang out with, think I mentioned it here, but schedules needed to mesh.
Schedules have yet to mesh, I've only met her once while we were picking up a prescription that he forgot to get before leaving work. They are now moving to South Carolina in 2 weeks (I think, might be 3). So it is highly unlikely I will meet her again.
Just another day.
Quote from: Alty on March 28, 2014, 03:10:45 AM
After 10 years of really heavy smoking, and many failed attempts, I have finally quit the weed.
I passed my usual threshold of 3 months, smoked some, and really disliked how I felt the next morning. More importantly, I did not proceed to buy as much as I could afford.
This is a milestone. Thank you, liquid nicotine, thank you.
Oh, hey guys.
Hey!
Also, yes. I haven't touched actual tobacco since last September. I don't know how I spent that many years feeling so crappy.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 28, 2014, 04:32:44 PM
Quote from: Alty on March 28, 2014, 03:10:45 AM
After 10 years of really heavy smoking, and many failed attempts, I have finally quit the weed.
I passed my usual threshold of 3 months, smoked some, and really disliked how I felt the next morning. More importantly, I did not proceed to buy as much as I could afford.
This is a milestone. Thank you, liquid nicotine, thank you.
Oh, hey guys.
Hey!
Also, yes. I haven't touched actual tobacco since last September. I don't know how I spent that many years feeling so crappy.
Congratulations to both of you!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 01:16:08 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 28, 2014, 01:13:43 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 12:36:59 PM
You should start a band with other Navy wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6FBEuKiE
Depends. Apparently there's a social structure I need to adhere to.
:spag:
This should end well.
:popcorn:
Husband is not a junior rank. You're not really supposed to fraternize with junior ranks (guy across the hall, but this is to get me and her out of the house.) Chiefs' wives stay out the way and look pretty when they have to. Officer's wives pretend to be actually in the Navy, and the rest of them are usually little whiny girls. He is almost a chief. Will probably make it this summer, if not definitely next summer. I like the dress codes, too. I wear different levels of dress depending on which uniform he's in. This is why we like to stay home. :)
So started a new job...
My fiance had the same job at a different store and their initial instructions for how to use a particular piece of heavy equipment covered in warning signs and "No one under 18 may use this equipment" labels and stuff was "Don't touch it until we've had a chance to train you."
The store I'm working? First day and I haven't had ANY training, and they put me on the thing unsupervised with one sentence of instruction and no safety briefing or anything. :horrormirth:
Time to start the job hunt back up already...
Busy as fuck right now.
Which is killing me, because I really want to write some more Pit.
I'll get on it as soon as I can. Which probably means Monday.
Anything broken at the plant yet?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 06:50:01 PM
Anything broken at the plant yet?
We just finished fixing everything. It's fucking SPOOKY.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 06:54:56 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 28, 2014, 06:52:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 06:50:01 PM
Anything broken at the plant yet?
We just finished fixing everything. It's fucking SPOOKY.
Take a picture. It'll last longer.
No, I don't want to jinx it.
TGRR,
Cargo Cult Repairman.
Dinner went a lot better than expected. Turns out that she's from Upstate NY and he's from Florida, and if that wasn't ironic enough, they're both archers.
Oh, and we both decided that our downstairs neighbors are way too creepy, and they need to go. So we're going to start booby trapping the building. These guys are disgusting trashy people, and the guy already tried stalking me (bad idea) and tried to ask my husband for help moving a couch when he wasn't home but got scared by his armor in the living room, and...AND he walked freely into the apartment across the hall WITH HER HOME, and since the apartment complex seems uninterested in doing something, we're just going to take matters into our own hands. Plus, I lived in Providence. I got this shit.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on March 27, 2014, 07:32:04 PM
Post-midterm blues. My head feels lost and I'm convinced I'm going to fail half my classes. In reality, I'm probably just not sleeping enough and will walk away with no lower than a B in any class.
I seriously felt that way by second midterms but ended up doing OK, and I bet you will too.
Quote from: /b/earman on March 27, 2014, 09:54:16 PM
Blood results came in!
Good News!
Type 2 diabetes averted. My blood pressure won't be a issue once my meds drop me down. I'm fat no matter how healthy I ate because of my under-active thyroid. So the medicine will help me shred pounds more and I won't be as tired anymore. I come back in 6 months. The low-GI diet I followed along with my parent and exercise only prolonged the weight gain.
So I'm one of the special snowflake cases where I actually take Levothyroxine now. So I get to be THAT guy if I want whenever someone makes a fat post on Facebook. I'm trying to take a good picture of me in a "Actually" pose. Binks is mad because I get a free pass to derail her threads. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I can't wait to work out and feel the energy levels like a normal god damn person. Prepare your anus! Bears back in his ultimate form!
Kick ass! I've known people with hypothyroid issues before, medication changes ALL THE THINGS!!!
Quote from: Alty on March 28, 2014, 03:10:45 AM
After 10 years of really heavy smoking, and many failed attempts, I have finally quit the weed.
I passed my usual threshold of 3 months, smoked some, and really disliked how I felt the next morning. More importantly, I did not proceed to buy as much as I could afford.
This is a milestone. Thank you, liquid nicotine, thank you.
Oh, hey guys.
Kick ASS! I mean, I don't think there's an inherent problem with the weed, but if you personally recognized a problem with the weed, and quit it, rock the fuck on.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 12:36:59 PM
You should start a band with other Navy wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6FBEuKiE
Well, or, there are many many Facebook groups for military wives. They are reknowned globally for their amazing capacity for complaining, even amongst other military wives. Especially the ones who have no jobs outside of being military wives; those ones love to make memes about how they have the hardest job on earth.
Alright, cats, I'll be in Colombia for a couple of weeks so you won't hear from me. Treat yourselves as EoC would treat you.
Good night.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 29, 2014, 01:54:44 AM
Alright, cats, I'll be in Colombia for a couple of weeks so you won't hear from me. Treat yourselves as EoC would treat you.
Good night.
Well, I damn well ain't gonna buy myself budweiser clamato.
Quote from: Alty on March 29, 2014, 02:52:24 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 29, 2014, 01:54:44 AM
Alright, cats, I'll be in Colombia for a couple of weeks so you won't hear from me. Treat yourselves as EoC would treat you.
Good night.
Well, I damn well ain't gonna buy myself budweiser clamato.
:lulz:
Hey, anti-vaxxers: We now have 9 outbreaks of measles in the last 3 months. Well done. Well fucking done. What the HELL are you even doing in MY GODDAMN CENTURY? I feel bad for your kids, mind you, it's not THEIR fault that they're SICK AS HELL because their parents are DUMBASSES. Aren't you glad, in hindsight, that you thought taking medical advice from JENNY MCCARTHY was a GOOD IDEA? Plague-mongering bastards. I hate you all.
Quote from: Alty on March 29, 2014, 02:52:24 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 29, 2014, 01:54:44 AM
Alright, cats, I'll be in Colombia for a couple of weeks so you won't hear from me. Treat yourselves as EoC would treat you.
Good night.
Well, I damn well ain't gonna buy myself budweiser clamato.
:lulz:
I found out that my crazy sister I have long since stopped talking to, who is currently engaged in emotionally abusing my favorite uncle who has brain cancer, super-hardcore-hit-on the guy who I was, at the time, totally in love with, before suing him for spurious reasons. So Jerry Springer. Much wow.
Looking at April 15-20th in Portland. Busy for 15, 16 during the daytime, not sure about 17th. 18-20 nothing to do but see the city and abuse my liver with shitty beer. I have decided that bourbon isn't my friend anymore, after behavior associated with forgetting to NOT take my sleeping pills while housed.
Quote from: Nigel on March 29, 2014, 04:08:08 AM
I found out that my crazy sister I have long since stopped talking to, who is currently engaged in emotionally abusing my favorite uncle who has brain cancer, super-hardcore-hit-on the guy who I was, at the time, totally in love with, before suing him for spurious reasons. So Jerry Springer. Much wow.
You have a sister like I have a sister. Only with added lawsuit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:06:15 AM
Hey, anti-vaxxers: We now have 9 outbreaks of measles in the last 3 months. Well done. Well fucking done. What the HELL are you even doing in MY GODDAMN CENTURY? I feel bad for your kids, mind you, it's not THEIR fault that they're SICK AS HELL because their parents are DUMBASSES. Aren't you glad, in hindsight, that you thought taking medical advice from JENNY MCCARTHY was a GOOD IDEA? Plague-mongering bastards. I hate you all.
I HATE THOSE FUCKTARDS.
Dude, they deliberately avoided a low-risk treatment that would PREVENT THEIR KIDS from developing a LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS that they can PASS ON TO OTHERS.
douchebags supreme, and I feel so so sorry for their kids, who never signed on for this idiocy.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:08:15 AM
Looking at April 15-20th in Portland. Busy for 15, 16 during the daytime, not sure about 17th. 18-20 nothing to do but see the city and abuse my liver with shitty beer. I have decided that bourbon isn't my friend anymore, after behavior associated with forgetting to NOT take my sleeping pills while housed.
OK OK OK. So,
April 15 I have a work meeting 9-10, lab 12-2. Totally free after that. 16th, classes 9 am - 8 pm. TOTALLY FREE Thursday 17th. Friday, class 9 am-1pm, FREE THEREAFTER ALL WEEKEND.
Quote from: Nigel on March 29, 2014, 04:11:26 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:06:15 AM
Hey, anti-vaxxers: We now have 9 outbreaks of measles in the last 3 months. Well done. Well fucking done. What the HELL are you even doing in MY GODDAMN CENTURY? I feel bad for your kids, mind you, it's not THEIR fault that they're SICK AS HELL because their parents are DUMBASSES. Aren't you glad, in hindsight, that you thought taking medical advice from JENNY MCCARTHY was a GOOD IDEA? Plague-mongering bastards. I hate you all.
I HATE THOSE FUCKTARDS.
Dude, they deliberately avoided a low-risk treatment that would PREVENT THEIR KIDS from developing a LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS that they can PASS ON TO OTHERS.
douchebags supreme, and I feel so so sorry for their kids, who never signed on for this idiocy.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2014/03/27/Measles-outbreak-in-California-growing-21-cases-in-one-county/5151395940214/
QuoteFrom Jan. 1 to Feb. 28, 54 people in the United States reported having measles -- usually only about 60 cases in the United States are reported each year.
Quote from: Nigel on March 29, 2014, 04:16:45 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:08:15 AM
Looking at April 15-20th in Portland. Busy for 15, 16 during the daytime, not sure about 17th. 18-20 nothing to do but see the city and abuse my liver with shitty beer. I have decided that bourbon isn't my friend anymore, after behavior associated with forgetting to NOT take my sleeping pills while housed.
OK OK OK. So,
April 15 I have a work meeting 9-10, lab 12-2. Totally free after that. 16th, classes 9 am - 8 pm. TOTALLY FREE Thursday 17th. Friday, class 9 am-1pm, FREE THEREAFTER ALL WEEKEND.
SWEET.
I'll have a hotel room, probably near the airport, and a rental car, so gasoline is covered for touring your
horrible urban nightmare fair city.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:18:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 29, 2014, 04:11:26 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:06:15 AM
Hey, anti-vaxxers: We now have 9 outbreaks of measles in the last 3 months. Well done. Well fucking done. What the HELL are you even doing in MY GODDAMN CENTURY? I feel bad for your kids, mind you, it's not THEIR fault that they're SICK AS HELL because their parents are DUMBASSES. Aren't you glad, in hindsight, that you thought taking medical advice from JENNY MCCARTHY was a GOOD IDEA? Plague-mongering bastards. I hate you all.
I HATE THOSE FUCKTARDS.
Dude, they deliberately avoided a low-risk treatment that would PREVENT THEIR KIDS from developing a LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS that they can PASS ON TO OTHERS.
douchebags supreme, and I feel so so sorry for their kids, who never signed on for this idiocy.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2014/03/27/Measles-outbreak-in-California-growing-21-cases-in-one-county/5151395940214/
QuoteFrom Jan. 1 to Feb. 28, 54 people in the United States reported having measles -- usually only about 60 cases in the United States are reported each year.
Reading it again, there's a really ambiguous statement in there.
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/measles/a/measles-outbreaks.htm Most of the "outbreaks" are relatively small...Onesy-twoseys. But the total number in the country spiked over the last two years.
Quote from: Nigel on March 29, 2014, 12:23:52 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 28, 2014, 12:36:59 PM
You should start a band with other Navy wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6FBEuKiE
Well, or, there are many many Facebook groups for military wives. They are reknowned globally for their amazing capacity for complaining, even amongst other military wives. Especially the ones who have no jobs outside of being military wives; those ones love to make memes about how they have the hardest job on earth.
Which is exactly why the husband has told me to STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THEM.
Mikayla across the hall is cool though. Anyone who is willing to peg a creepy neighbor with a recurve bow is a-ok in my book.
Pegged or pegged? I'm not judging....
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:19:34 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 29, 2014, 04:16:45 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:08:15 AM
Looking at April 15-20th in Portland. Busy for 15, 16 during the daytime, not sure about 17th. 18-20 nothing to do but see the city and abuse my liver with shitty beer. I have decided that bourbon isn't my friend anymore, after behavior associated with forgetting to NOT take my sleeping pills while housed.
OK OK OK. So,
April 15 I have a work meeting 9-10, lab 12-2. Totally free after that. 16th, classes 9 am - 8 pm. TOTALLY FREE Thursday 17th. Friday, class 9 am-1pm, FREE THEREAFTER ALL WEEKEND.
SWEET.
I'll have a hotel room, probably near the airport, and a rental car, so gasoline is covered for touring your horrible urban nightmare fair city.
:lulz: Making plans.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:23:15 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:18:35 AM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:06:15 AM
Hey, anti-vaxxers: We now have 9 outbreaks of measles in the last 3 months. Well done. Well fucking done. What the HELL are you even doing in MY GODDAMN CENTURY? I feel bad for your kids, mind you, it's not THEIR fault that they're SICK AS HELL because their parents are DUMBASSES. Aren't you glad, in hindsight, that you thought taking medical advice from JENNY MCCARTHY was a GOOD IDEA? Plague-mongering bastards. I hate you all.
I HATE THOSE FUCKTARDS.
Dude, they deliberately avoided a low-risk treatment that would PREVENT THEIR KIDS from developing a LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS that they can PASS ON TO OTHERS.
douchebags supreme, and I feel so so sorry for their kids, who never signed on for this idiocy.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2014/03/27/Measles-outbreak-in-California-growing-21-cases-in-one-county/5151395940214/
QuoteFrom Jan. 1 to Feb. 28, 54 people in the United States reported having measles -- usually only about 60 cases in the United States are reported each year.
Reading it again, there's a really ambiguous statement in there.
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/measles/a/measles-outbreaks.htm Most of the "outbreaks" are relatively small...Onesy-twoseys. But the total number in the country spiked over the last two years.
What that statement is telling us is actually unambiguous and really important. It is saying that herd immunity is still effectively isolating those measles cases, preventing the disease from spreading from unvaccinated person to unvaccinated person.
My fun plan for Saturday night:
1. Make powerpoint
2. Stay up until 7am, because I'm working tomorrow night.
3. ?????
4. Something.
Quote from: Cain on March 29, 2014, 04:42:29 PM
My fun plan for Saturday night:
1. Make powerpoint
2. Stay up until 7am, because I'm working tomorrow night.
3. ?????
4. Something.
PARTY TIIIIIME!!!
Yesterday I had breakfast at the Otis Cafe, and then I peed on the Willamette Stone. I now own all of Oregon and Washington. Carry on, citizens. Carry on.
Maybe. Probably not.
I have actually been suggested to take part in an insane series of challenges (http://forum.bioware.com/topic/496320-n7-challenge-series-archive-still-open/) to prove my Mass Effect 3 skills, such as they are. I keep telling them, I'm only good at ME3 because of clever use of game mechanics and a mostly maxed out manifest, but they wont listen.
I'm fairly sure I can do up to and including the N5 challenges without any major problem. So long as I get the right objectives and stuff, N1 and N2 should be a breeze. But N7 in particular is going to be tough. Then again, that's kinda the point (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/N7).
Gah, Netwar is so boring. And somewhat embarrassing. It's hard to believe I bought into this shit. Well, maybe that's a bit unfair. It's hard to believe I thought this was a qualitatively different form of conflict from past versions, though. Never buy into a theory's own hype.
Quote from: Cain on March 29, 2014, 07:55:47 PM
Gah, Netwar is so boring. And somewhat embarrassing. It's hard to believe I bought into this shit. Well, maybe that's a bit unfair. It's hard to believe I thought this was a qualitatively different form of conflict from past versions, though. Never buy into a theory's own hype.
Unless you can perform an N7 Platinum extraction, like myself :eek:
I keep getting 4 device hacks on wave 10. Seriously. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It's like the Random Number Generator has it in for me.
I'll try it again some day. My PPR is almost at level X. I'm thinking TGI/PPR Incendiary Ammo IV solves almost all problems.
Quote from: Cain on March 29, 2014, 03:40:03 PM
Pegged or pegged? I'm not judging....
He may enjoy the latter, considering how he's been keen on trying to stalk us both. *skeeved*
Quote from: Cain on March 29, 2014, 08:26:58 PM
I keep getting 4 device hacks on wave 10. Seriously. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It's like the Random Number Generator has it in for me.
I'll try it again some day. My PPR is almost at level X. I'm thinking TGI/PPR Incendiary Ammo IV solves almost all problems.
If I had actually made it that far (I had to stop) I think my personal hygiene levels would have qualified ersatz halitosis as Dragonbreath V.
Yeah, the time requirements a max manifest are pretty insane. Fortunately, I did most of it while on call at work, so I was sitting around doing nothing anyway. And getting paid for it, no less.
Second powerpoint done. Bleh. Not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of my night now.
Doing Nothing is always the only real kind of work. :lulz:
My downstairs creepy neighbors are actually moving out this weekend.
This ruins EVERYTHING! :cry:
Quote from: The Suu on March 30, 2014, 12:32:31 AM
My downstairs creepy neighbors are actually moving out this weekend.
This ruins EVERYTHING! :cry:
Stage a gregorian chant style rendition of South Pacific as the theme of operations to perform onward of Sunday afternoon, and I'd clear it :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on March 29, 2014, 04:42:29 PM
My fun plan for Saturday night:
1. Make powerpoint
2. Stay up until 7am, because I'm working tomorrow night.
3. ?????
4. Something.
Ice Cream.
Quote from: LuciferX on March 30, 2014, 03:14:19 AM
Quote from: The Suu on March 30, 2014, 12:32:31 AM
My downstairs creepy neighbors are actually moving out this weekend.
This ruins EVERYTHING! :cry:
Stage a gregorian chant style rendition of South Pacific as the theme of operations to perform onward of Sunday afternoon, and I'd clear it :lulz:
That sounds fucking brilliant. Too bad it's pouring out or we'd take this out back.
Whyyyyy won't Facebook let me turn off chat? Or at least make it so that I don't pop up as "available"? Fuck Facebook in the eye.
Quote from: Nigel on March 30, 2014, 05:04:38 PM
Whyyyyy won't Facebook let me turn off chat? Or at least make it so that I don't pop up as "available"? Fuck Facebook in the eye.
Options turn off chat doohicky doesn't work?
Never fiddled with it before.
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Quote from: Nigel on March 30, 2014, 05:04:38 PM
Whyyyyy won't Facebook let me turn off chat? Or at least make it so that I don't pop up as "available"? Fuck Facebook in the eye.
Options turn off chat doohicky doesn't work?
Never fiddled with it before.
Yeah no. Keeps turning back on.
Fuck school for putting the neuro lecture group on FB.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 05:07:57 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 31, 2014, 12:23:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 30, 2014, 05:04:38 PM
Whyyyyy won't Facebook let me turn off chat? Or at least make it so that I don't pop up as "available"? Fuck Facebook in the eye.
Options turn off chat doohicky doesn't work?
Never fiddled with it before.
Yeah no. Keeps turning back on.
Fuck school for putting the neuro lecture group on FB.
What? :lol:
Woken by housemates talking about warhammer loudly outside my room about half an hour after I fell asleep. Didn't get back to sleep again last night.
Like a zombie now without any of the benefits of actually being dead.
Quote from: :regret: on March 31, 2014, 06:07:00 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 05:07:57 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on March 31, 2014, 12:23:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 30, 2014, 05:04:38 PM
Whyyyyy won't Facebook let me turn off chat? Or at least make it so that I don't pop up as "available"? Fuck Facebook in the eye.
Options turn off chat doohicky doesn't work?
Never fiddled with it before.
Yeah no. Keeps turning back on.
Fuck school for putting the neuro lecture group on FB.
What? :lol:
It's basically the organizing page for the neuroscience club, so every time I try to check out the current lecture/event listings, check my messages, or participate in planning, I end up getting chatted by friends with pop-ups of "What's up? Want to grab a drink?" I guess it seems obvious and logical that if I'm on Facebook I'm bored and looking to kill time, because that's what people do, but it's becoming really annoying and I'd like the chat feature to stay off when I turn it off.
But no.
Fortunately it works for me... I almost abandoned FB because of the constant messages from goofballs. Why is it that it always ends up being the one person you were already wishing you hadn't "befriended"?
Quote from: Hoopla on March 31, 2014, 12:47:53 PM
Fortunately it works for me... I almost abandoned FB because of the constant messages from goofballs. Why is it that it always ends up being the one person you were already wishing you hadn't "befriended"?
I'm getting pretty ruthless about just unfriending anyone who annoys me.
Unfortunately, a lot of the chats are from friends who just sincerely don't get it. The "I just thought I'd ask!" contingent. One girl in particular is just relentless about trying to get me to go drink and pick up guys with her on the spur of the moment, and apparently can't wrap her head around the fact that I am not interested in doing that, or that I seriously really do mean it when I say that I would love to have dinner and hang out but I need to make plans in advance.
She is a nice girl, but seriously. Just no.
And then also I just hate chat. And want it to stop turning itself back on. I also hate that Facebook turns PMs into chats. WTF Facebook.
"BE MOAR SOCIAL."
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:02:28 PMI also hate that Facebook turns PMs into chats. WTF Facebook.
THIS. Jesus christ I hate that.
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Quote from: The Suu on March 31, 2014, 01:20:37 PM
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Yes. That is how it's supposed to work, when you turn chat off and it stays off instead of inexplicably turning itself back on the next time you log in.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:02:28 PM
I also hate that Facebook turns PMs into chats.
This. Sometimes I just wanna SAY something. Then it turns into two people spending WAY too much time basically texting.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:30:56 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 31, 2014, 01:20:37 PM
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Yes. That is how it's supposed to work, when you turn chat off and it stays off instead of inexplicably turning itself back on the next time you log in.
I never log out.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 01:31:34 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:02:28 PM
I also hate that Facebook turns PMs into chats.
This. Sometimes I just wanna SAY something. Then it turns into two people spending WAY too much time basically texting.
YES.
And the thing is, because you can't tell the difference between "person trying to send PM" and "person trying to initiate a chat session" it always feels like you should respond promptly, which often has the effect of creating a chat session that NEITHER PERSON WANTED.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 01:32:09 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:30:56 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 31, 2014, 01:20:37 PM
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Yes. That is how it's supposed to work, when you turn chat off and it stays off instead of inexplicably turning itself back on the next time you log in.
I never log out.
My kids use my computer, so...
Today is going to be a complainy day. I woke up way too early and now it's too late to go back to sleep.
GEOLOGY. SLEEP DEPRIVATION. CRANKINESS.
I guess I could try to lay back down for an hour and see if it helps at all.
I also spent Spring Break Spring Breaking way too hard and now I think I'm Spring Broken. Time for a few months of clean livin'.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:34:22 PM
Today is going to be a complainy day. I woke up way too early and now it's too late to go back to sleep.
I am going to complain about young people today. Not because I hate them, but because old people did it when I was young, and I don't want the kids of today to feel left out.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:30:56 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 31, 2014, 01:20:37 PM
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Yes. That is how it's supposed to work, when you turn chat off and it stays off instead of inexplicably turning itself back on the next time you log in.
I get the same thing with the "Recent Posts" vs "Newsfeed". I don't
care what your algorithms say is popular.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 31, 2014, 01:39:39 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:30:56 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 31, 2014, 01:20:37 PM
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Yes. That is how it's supposed to work, when you turn chat off and it stays off instead of inexplicably turning itself back on the next time you log in.
I get the same thing with the "Recent Posts" vs "Newsfeed". I don't care what your algorithms say is popular.
I just mark everything as read.
I have none of these facebook problems as no one but family ever messages me.
I'm seriously thinking of just unfriending everyone, besides family, I have on my list since I haven't spoke two words with them since I added them. Would free up the newsfeed some.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 31, 2014, 01:39:39 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:30:56 PM
Quote from: The Suu on March 31, 2014, 01:20:37 PM
I can turn chat off, but PMs still appear in the messages folder. They just don't pop up.
Yes. That is how it's supposed to work, when you turn chat off and it stays off instead of inexplicably turning itself back on the next time you log in.
I get the same thing with the "Recent Posts" vs "Newsfeed". I don't care what your algorithms say is popular.
Actually here's something sickening. Facebook despise the most recent sorting and about two years ago switched to the top as the default, which resets itself every few weeks.
I could live with that but they have changed most recent, it's not actually most recent:
Facebook automatically downranks news items from people in your list that you haven't clicked on in a long time. Don't believe me? Click on a bunch of your friends that you haven't clicked on in a long time and watch your newsfeed change.
I HATE it. there are plenty of really funny people I have on facebook that I only know in passing but that I might enjoy reading their updates.
Apart from that there is the whole implication of facebook deciding who you are closer to and imposing it's decision upon you.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 29, 2014, 04:08:15 AM
Looking at April 15-20th in Portland. Busy for 15, 16 during the daytime, not sure about 17th. 18-20 nothing to do but see the city and abuse my liver with shitty beer. I have decided that bourbon isn't my friend anymore, after behavior associated with forgetting to NOT take my sleeping pills while housed.
Hell!Yes!
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:36:32 PM
I also spent Spring Break Spring Breaking way too hard and now I think I'm Spring Broken. Time for a few months of clean livin'.
Me too, only I didn't get out of town because I had to work, so I just ended up being in really bad shape from 7-4 for 5 days while somehow managing to hit the ground running again as soon as I got off everyday. Why? BECAUSE SPRING BREAK, THAT'S WHY! (ouch)
Everything in a state of fire, collapse, panic or explosion. Bad times. Not been around a lot recently, doubt I will be for a while at this rate.
Fuck everything and anything associated with it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 01:36:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 01:34:22 PM
Today is going to be a complainy day. I woke up way too early and now it's too late to go back to sleep.
I am going to complain about young people today. Not because I hate them, but because old people did it when I was young, and I don't want the kids of today to feel left out.
:lulz:
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 02:39:17 PM
Everything in a state of fire, collapse, panic or explosion. Bad times. Not been around a lot recently, doubt I will be for a while at this rate.
Fuck everything and anything associated with it.
I hope everything gets better Junkenstein!
I am sleep-deprived and overcaffienated, on my way to my first day of University. Wooo!
Well, I was working all last night, and didn't get to sleep until around...11am today. It's now 4pm. I got a presentation to do in a couple of hours, on networks and netwar.
This should be fun.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 03:05:30 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 02:39:17 PM
Everything in a state of fire, collapse, panic or explosion. Bad times. Not been around a lot recently, doubt I will be for a while at this rate.
Fuck everything and anything associated with it.
I hope everything gets better Junkenstein!
I am sleep-deprived and overcaffienated, on my way to my first day of University. Wooo!
Thanks. It'll be fine, nothing can be on fire indefinitely. Probably. At least it's a real fire and not kids trying to set light to concrete again.
I swear, this is the most telling indictment of the education system here, wannabe arsonists can't even pick shit that burns.
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 03:53:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 03:05:30 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 02:39:17 PM
Everything in a state of fire, collapse, panic or explosion. Bad times. Not been around a lot recently, doubt I will be for a while at this rate.
Fuck everything and anything associated with it.
I hope everything gets better Junkenstein!
I am sleep-deprived and overcaffienated, on my way to my first day of University. Wooo!
Thanks. It'll be fine, nothing can be on fire indefinitely. Probably. At least it's a real fire and not kids trying to set light to concrete again.
I swear, this is the most telling indictment of the education system here, wannabe arsonists can't even pick shit that burns.
The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States since at least May 27, 1962. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 31, 2014, 03:59:35 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 03:53:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 03:05:30 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 02:39:17 PM
Everything in a state of fire, collapse, panic or explosion. Bad times. Not been around a lot recently, doubt I will be for a while at this rate.
Fuck everything and anything associated with it.
I hope everything gets better Junkenstein!
I am sleep-deprived and overcaffienated, on my way to my first day of University. Wooo!
Thanks. It'll be fine, nothing can be on fire indefinitely. Probably. At least it's a real fire and not kids trying to set light to concrete again.
I swear, this is the most telling indictment of the education system here, wannabe arsonists can't even pick shit that burns.
The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States since at least May 27, 1962. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire)
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-burning-mountain-coal-fire-south-wales-4612875.html
5000 years.
Australia: Where even the ground tries to kill you.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 31, 2014, 04:02:54 PM
Australia: Where even the ground tries to kill you.
Yes, we in Arizona love Australia, because it means we aren't on the very bottom of the heap.
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 03:53:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 03:05:30 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 31, 2014, 02:39:17 PM
Everything in a state of fire, collapse, panic or explosion. Bad times. Not been around a lot recently, doubt I will be for a while at this rate.
Fuck everything and anything associated with it.
I hope everything gets better Junkenstein!
I am sleep-deprived and overcaffienated, on my way to my first day of University. Wooo!
Thanks. It'll be fine, nothing can be on fire indefinitely. Probably. At least it's a real fire and not kids trying to set light to concrete again.
I swear, this is the most telling indictment of the education system here, wannabe arsonists can't even pick shit that burns.
I'm fucked.
I've always had a policy in the past of working at a place for at least twice as long as it takes to be properly trained for the job.
But I'm taking Roger's advice and bailing from this funhouse at the first opportunity.
Next shift I'm scheduled, I'm going to be searching for the reality tv cameras.
Quote from: CorbeauEtRenard on March 31, 2014, 05:39:51 PM
I've always had a policy in the past of working at a place for at least twice as long as it takes to be properly trained for the job.
But I'm taking Roger's advice and bailing from this funhouse at the first opportunity.
Next shift I'm scheduled, I'm going to be searching for the reality tv cameras.
Life is too short to hate your life.
Why America is awesome and shut up:
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1888514_645825965485976_15839501_n.jpg)
I'd hit it just before decapitation.
Mutually assured decapitation.
Well, I guess I'll take a nap.
But if you sleep, you'll miss Scilon Agent creeping around the board, removing his posts while muttering to himself "they'll HAVE to ban me now, hehehe".
Also, in a tutorial. Will be back on shortly.
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:11:16 PM
But if you sleep, you'll miss Scilon Agent creeping around the board, removing his posts while muttering to himself "they'll HAVE to ban me now, hehehe".
Yeah, but he's all show and no go. I keep waiting for him to do the Jeremy Irons MUHAHA in the tower thing, and he has failed to deliver.
It's disappointing, really.
No-one does the classics anymore. We really need another threat to destroy us. Ominious threats. "The day of judgement is coming", that sort of thing. Daruko did that well. Really well actually, despite mocking him I did half-wonder if he was going to try something.
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:33:33 PM
It's disappointing, really.
No-one does the classics anymore. We really need another threat to destroy us. Ominious threats. "The day of judgement is coming", that sort of thing. Daruko did that well. Really well actually, despite mocking him I did half-wonder if he was going to try something.
I was pretty good for that, back in 2005. :lulz:
Dead Kennedy, Number 6...Classics. They knew how to make an exit.
Kids these days. No stamina, I tell you.
I keep meaning to sign up to tumblr, for example. Just so the kids can get a good dose of old school trolling. None of this new-fangled "go kill urself lol" nonsense. Punching em straight on the ego stuff, from back in the day.
Also, gave my presentation. It was awful. I sounded like a fucking zombie. Probably because I am, mentally, at this stage.
Will try and do better tomorrow.
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:38:36 PM
Kids these days. No stamina, I tell you.
I keep meaning to sign up to tumblr, for example. Just so the kids can get a good dose of old school trolling. None of this new-fangled "go kill urself lol" nonsense. Punching em straight on the ego stuff, from back in the day.
Actually, I've been enjoying watching Racism School and one or two of her arch-enemies damage their real lives by not being able to stop fucking with each other.
I was also kinda shocked. RS is apparently in her 30s.
Oh man, yeah, the Racismschool thing. I've only really caught one side of it so far, but it's pretty nasty.
Everyone forgot rule 1. Bury your PI unless you're willing to accept the consequences. And never go to PI unless your own is threatened. It's no fun once things go down that road.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 08:42:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:38:36 PM
Kids these days. No stamina, I tell you.
I keep meaning to sign up to tumblr, for example. Just so the kids can get a good dose of old school trolling. None of this new-fangled "go kill urself lol" nonsense. Punching em straight on the ego stuff, from back in the day.
Actually, I've been enjoying watching Racism School and one or two of her arch-enemies damage their real lives by not being able to stop fucking with each other.
I was also kinda shocked. RS is apparently in her 30s.
What or who is Racism School?
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
Oh man, yeah, the Racismschool thing. I've only really caught one side of it so far, but it's pretty nasty.
Everyone forgot rule 1. Bury your PI unless you're willing to accept the consequences. And never go to PI unless your own is threatened. It's no fun once things go down that road.
Well, the two of them (there are more people involved, but it's mostly two people) have harmed each other's jobs, etc. And Racism School is not taking things well, after she spent the last couple of years doxing other people.
My sympathy is at all time low levels.
In other news, Yellowstone is outgassing helium at an astounding rate. If you hear a loud bang, that was just North America.
Quote from: Hoopla on March 31, 2014, 08:55:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 08:42:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:38:36 PM
Kids these days. No stamina, I tell you.
I keep meaning to sign up to tumblr, for example. Just so the kids can get a good dose of old school trolling. None of this new-fangled "go kill urself lol" nonsense. Punching em straight on the ego stuff, from back in the day.
Actually, I've been enjoying watching Racism School and one or two of her arch-enemies damage their real lives by not being able to stop fucking with each other.
I was also kinda shocked. RS is apparently in her 30s.
What or who is Racism School?
Start here (http://chaotically-neutral.tumblr.com/post/81223465141/mskittykatknows-im-shaking-from-rage-and-im).
Quote from: Hoopla on March 31, 2014, 08:55:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 08:42:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:38:36 PM
Kids these days. No stamina, I tell you.
I keep meaning to sign up to tumblr, for example. Just so the kids can get a good dose of old school trolling. None of this new-fangled "go kill urself lol" nonsense. Punching em straight on the ego stuff, from back in the day.
Actually, I've been enjoying watching Racism School and one or two of her arch-enemies damage their real lives by not being able to stop fucking with each other.
I was also kinda shocked. RS is apparently in her 30s.
What or who is Racism School?
33 year old tumblr queen/social justice warrior. Spends all her time Garboing, though that isn't really fair to Garbo, even at her worst. Garbo is being a 20-something upper class twit. RS is geniunely a bad person.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 08:55:33 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
Oh man, yeah, the Racismschool thing. I've only really caught one side of it so far, but it's pretty nasty.
Everyone forgot rule 1. Bury your PI unless you're willing to accept the consequences. And never go to PI unless your own is threatened. It's no fun once things go down that road.
Well, the two of them (there are more people involved, but it's mostly two people) have harmed each other's jobs, etc. And Racism School is not taking things well, after she spent the last couple of years doxing other people.
My sympathy is at all time low levels.
In other news, Yellowstone is outgassing helium at an astounding rate. If you hear a loud bang, that was just North America.
Has anyone tried doxxing Yellowstone to blackmail it into stopping that shit?
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:57:44 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 08:55:33 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
Oh man, yeah, the Racismschool thing. I've only really caught one side of it so far, but it's pretty nasty.
Everyone forgot rule 1. Bury your PI unless you're willing to accept the consequences. And never go to PI unless your own is threatened. It's no fun once things go down that road.
Well, the two of them (there are more people involved, but it's mostly two people) have harmed each other's jobs, etc. And Racism School is not taking things well, after she spent the last couple of years doxing other people.
My sympathy is at all time low levels.
In other news, Yellowstone is outgassing helium at an astounding rate. If you hear a loud bang, that was just North America.
Has anyone tried doxxing Yellowstone to blackmail it into stopping that shit?
Yellowstone is old school. Just doesn't give a FUCK.
"Yeah, now you know where I live. Come do something about it."
I can't afford tickets to go to Yellowstone for a fight. Fuck.
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:57:03 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 31, 2014, 08:55:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 08:42:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 08:38:36 PM
Kids these days. No stamina, I tell you.
I keep meaning to sign up to tumblr, for example. Just so the kids can get a good dose of old school trolling. None of this new-fangled "go kill urself lol" nonsense. Punching em straight on the ego stuff, from back in the day.
Actually, I've been enjoying watching Racism School and one or two of her arch-enemies damage their real lives by not being able to stop fucking with each other.
I was also kinda shocked. RS is apparently in her 30s.
What or who is Racism School?
Start here (http://chaotically-neutral.tumblr.com/post/81223465141/mskittykatknows-im-shaking-from-rage-and-im).
Oh my... I have some reading to do...
Just putting it out there, but RacismSchool reminds me of MsScribe (http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_penny/1074.html). Like, a lot.
So, Yellowstone is acting funny, and I have to go to Oregon.
This is how disaster movies begin, you know.
Just stick near the closest Russian oligarch around (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzh0J2MmvOY) and you'll be fine.
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2014, 09:43:05 PM
Just stick near the closest Russian oligarch around (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzh0J2MmvOY) and you'll be fine.
:lulz:
That plane (there are only two of them) lands at D/M airforce base (very near to me) about once every 3 months. It's actually
offensive watching something that large in the air.
I would imagine so. The thing looks too damn big to get into the air, let alone stay up.
The Russians do love that plane, though. I was once watching 2012 with a bunch of Russian students, and after that line they were all "YEEAAAAAAAAAH" and "RUSSIA" and high-fiving each other.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 09:39:30 PM
So, Yellowstone is acting funny, and I have to go to Oregon.
This is how disaster movies begin, you know.
It's OK, Yellowstone is far away and we have our own volcanos.
Which may in fact be connected to the same lava field, but that's another matter.
I am absolutely unbelievably tired right now. I can't wait to sleep. After my evening class.
Trying to buy a house. :eek:
Quote from: Pæs on March 31, 2014, 11:08:04 PM
Trying to buy a house. :eek:
The first law of owning a house is that you don't own the house. The house owns you.
So be CHOOSY. Take your time.
Good luck.
http://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resources/macy-v-holder-appeal-no-0120120821-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-apr-20-2012 (http://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resources/macy-v-holder-appeal-no-0120120821-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-apr-20-2012)
The Macy in this case is the "loud scoffer who knows things" in my investigations class. (She really does know things in this instance, which is cool, but no less jarring and disruptive).
My instructors are a former investigator for the Federal Defender's office, and the chief investigator for that department.
The current investigator is English and says "obligat'ry" and "steeeewpid". I kind of love it.
We are right now 15 minutes into a tangential discussion about irrelevant details of a hypothetical that was offered to illustrate a completely lost point. These rabbit holes get on my damned nerves so very much. I think one of the instructor's about to pull the focus back to the topic at hand--so I'm going to go tune back in now.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 09:39:30 PM
So, Yellowstone is acting funny, and I have to go to Oregon.
This is how disaster movies begin, you know.
It's OK, Yellowstone is far away and we have our own volcanos.
Which may in fact be connected to the same lava field, but that's another matter.
Been some seismic activity up on Mt. Hood in the last few days as well.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 10:11:51 PM
It's OK, Yellowstone is far away
:(
I was kinda looking forward to that.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on April 01, 2014, 03:48:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2014, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2014, 09:39:30 PM
So, Yellowstone is acting funny, and I have to go to Oregon.
This is how disaster movies begin, you know.
It's OK, Yellowstone is far away and we have our own volcanos.
Which may in fact be connected to the same lava field, but that's another matter.
Been some seismic activity up on Mt. Hood in the last few days as well.
Yeah, nothing to write home about though.
Quote from: Pæs on March 31, 2014, 11:08:04 PM
Trying to buy a house. :eek:
Look at everything, get an inspector when you find one you like. Inspect even if it's new.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 01, 2014, 04:25:10 AM
Quote from: Pæs on March 31, 2014, 11:08:04 PM
Trying to buy a house. :eek:
Look at everything, get an inspector when you find one you like. Inspect even if it's new.
Offer made, conditional on all manner of reports, inspections and our comfort with finance terms.
Quote from: Pæs on April 01, 2014, 04:39:14 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 01, 2014, 04:25:10 AM
Quote from: Pæs on March 31, 2014, 11:08:04 PM
Trying to buy a house. :eek:
Look at everything, get an inspector when you find one you like. Inspect even if it's new.
Offer made, conditional on all manner of reports, inspections and our comfort with finance terms.
Nice! Good luck!
Manager #6 is asking what my goals are for the year.
They don't like the whole list of 'things I'm not going to do' as goals.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 01, 2014, 04:42:48 AM
Manager #6 is asking what my goals are for the year.
They don't like the whole list of 'things I'm not going to do' as goals.
:lulz:
So, I am not going to detail all of the things I did over Spring Break (other than that I now own Oregon and Washington in their entirety) but suffice it to say that yesterday, after doing some activity of low morality and questionable legality at the Tulip Festival without occasion, I was kicked out of a mall in Woodburn for going pants shopping without any pants.
Apparently mall security failed to recognize the superior logic of my approach.
Quote from: Nigel on April 01, 2014, 04:48:45 AM
Apparently mall security failed to recognize the superior logic of my approach.
It sounds more efficient.
Big arguments with boss. Apparently everything I do/have done is unacceptable. Also my appearance now seems to be a problem.
I'm moderately sure the guy has some form of bi-polar and some kind of memory issue but I'm starting to get to the end of my rope now. Probably time to move on.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 01, 2014, 04:42:48 AM
Manager #6 is asking what my goals are for the year.
They don't like the whole list of 'things I'm not going to do' as goals.
My goals: to carry out my job description and additional duties relating to those, as directed by my line manager or supervisory officials.
Secondary goal: Not to do the job of management, which is to figure out what those goals are, as part of some kind of cheap "self-reflection" exercise. Not without a management level payrise, anyway.
Quote from: Nigel on April 01, 2014, 04:48:45 AM
Apparently mall security failed to recognize the superior logic of my approach.
They expected you to try on pants
over your pants?
Quote from: Hoopla on April 01, 2014, 12:25:51 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 01, 2014, 04:48:45 AM
Apparently mall security failed to recognize the superior logic of my approach.
They expected you to try on pants over your pants?
Did we learn NOTHING from O.J.?
I learned how he would've done it, if he were guilty. Which he's not.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2cpfit4Dc2c/TINulSkAl5I/AAAAAAAAAbk/ePmd_s33qi4/s1600/OJ+Simpson+--+Glove.jpg)
I'll bet they kicked him out of the mall, too!
PRd at the gym yesterday. Fuck yeah. Didn't reach all my PR goals. Boo.
Started painting the new apartment too. ALL THAT WHITE!
Wrapping up the move, looking forward to never talking to my landlord again, about vaccinations or anything else.
FOR THE RECORD: why yes, yes I would rather live in a van than under the roof of an anti-vaccer.
Alty,
Always shoving my money in my mouth. Which is really gross.
Also, more gunfire, last night, the night before, all the time.
You know, I think I'm gonna go to facebook for the rest of the day.
As dead as this place is today, FB isn't any more fun...I mean, yeah, blocking damage cases on DS2014 is worth a giggle, but the amusement wears off quickly.
Everyone is out of the office, which means I have REAL ULTIMATE POWER.
But that also means everyone's coming to me with questions.
Blech.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 01, 2014, 06:28:10 PM
Everyone is out of the office, which means I have REAL ULTIMATE POWER.
But that also means everyone's coming to me with questions.
Blech.
To me, that's an excuse to hand out the really sucky work orders. Pretty soon everyone leaves you alone.
Sooo...May have to go to England in May. Some place called "Corby" or "Northants". Or maybe it's Corby in Northants.
Anyone know where the fuck that is?
"Northants" is short for Northamptonshire.
So, about 100km north-west of London. County seat is Northampton, which isn't anything special. Dunno about Corby though.
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 06:50:26 PM
"Northants" is short for Northamptonshire.
So, about 100km north-west of London. County seat is Northampton, which isn't anything special. Dunno about Corby though.
60 miles or so? Easy.
I thought that wa 17 gallons, American.
Seems I have to go to England this summer. A mere 1755kilometer drive.
Or the plane, y'know.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 01, 2014, 07:16:21 PM
Seems I have to go to England this summer. A mere 1755kilometer drive.
Or the plane, y'know.
VIKINGS: DRIVING ACROSS OCEANS.
Fucking April Fools Day. I've been Rickrolled three times and I keep falling for it.
So, I started retaliating with Reichrolls, and people aren't finding it as funny. :?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 07:17:21 PM
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 01, 2014, 07:16:21 PM
Seems I have to go to England this summer. A mere 1755kilometer drive.
Or the plane, y'know.
VIKINGS: DRIVING ACROSS OCEANS.
WE HAVE WHEELS ON OUR LONGBOATS NOW. IT'S AWESOME
Relevant to the Forthcoming War, Roger.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Space_Viking_(pb_cover_02ba).jpg)
Oh boy, let's talk about Nate Silver and data interpretation
*commits seppuku with microphone*
This would have been easier if you had let Richter sharpen the mic.
Our tutorial group has reached a consensus: "fuck Nate Silver".
You have a very sensible tutorial group.
Today is a good day to bury another pillar of modern thought, just in time so I can do my favorite tenant a solid for his birthday, later this month :retard:
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 01, 2014, 07:29:03 PM
Relevant to the Forthcoming War, Roger.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Space_Viking_(pb_cover_02ba).jpg)
You guys and your helmets. :roll:
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
Well, I just spent half an hour playing with the Global Terrorism Database and discovering ridiculous names for terrorist groups.
The Erotic Anti-Authority Cells are winning, so far.
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 09:10:11 PM
Well, I just spent half an hour playing with the Global Terrorism Database and discovering ridiculous names for terrorist groups.
The Erotic Anti-Authority Cells are winning, so far.
What? :lulz:
Greek, I think. I was doing research on other groups, so I wasn't able to look into them. Usually the weird names are either Greek, Italian or Spanish/South American.
There was also Wild Geese of the Cities, Artisans' Cooperative of Fire And Related Products, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Council for the Destruction of Order, Deniers of Holidays, Enraged Revolutionaries and Core Conspirators for the Extension of Chaos.
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 09:45:29 PM
Greek, I think. I was doing research on other groups, so I wasn't able to look into them. Usually the weird names are either Greek, Italian or Spanish/South American.
There was also Wild Geese of the Cities, Artisans' Cooperative of Fire And Related Products, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Council for the Destruction of Order, Deniers of Holidays, Enraged Revolutionaries and Core Conspirators for the Extension of Chaos.
This is fucking awesome.
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 09:45:29 PM
Greek, I think. I was doing research on other groups, so I wasn't able to look into them. Usually the weird names are either Greek, Italian or Spanish/South American.
There was also Wild Geese of the Cities, Artisans' Cooperative of Fire And Related Products, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Council for the Destruction of Order, Deniers of Holidays, Enraged Revolutionaries and Core Conspirators for the Extension of Chaos.
Sounds like a list of bands in a RAW novel.
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/
All under the "Perpetrator" tag
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 07:36:15 PM
Our tutorial group has reached a consensus: "fuck Nate Silver".
:lulz:
So today in my first official work meeting I learned that I'm not officially a research assistant but a researcher, and that I will be a co-author when we're done. I've also, along with my research partner (heretofore to be known as Research Buddy) been asked to take the lead in terms of selecting and contacting our candidates, as well as rewriting the script for our research conversations.
That's a lot to think about by next Wednesday.
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2014, 09:45:29 PM
Greek, I think. I was doing research on other groups, so I wasn't able to look into them. Usually the weird names are either Greek, Italian or Spanish/South American.
There was also Wild Geese of the Cities, Artisans' Cooperative of Fire And Related Products, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Council for the Destruction of Order, Deniers of Holidays, Enraged Revolutionaries and Core Conspirators for the Extension of Chaos.
:lulz:
It's amazing how fast an 11 year old can from being very happy to angry as hell to happy again.
Report cards were today. He did not do well.
After being told that his computer time is restricted to the weekend and that there would be no TV for an hour after he gets home from school (instead just being able to watch right after homework) he proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs, punch the sofa once or twice and then said that it wasn't fair and I shouldn't be able to be on the computer either then.
Due to his little outburst he got started on his homework late and actually ended up with 2 hours before tv tonight :lol:
Turns out the shooting from my.last night in glorious Mt View was a drive-by targeting some specific person but killed a random 15 year old girl.
Quote from: Alty on April 02, 2014, 01:27:53 AM
Turns out the shooting from my.last night in glorious Mt View was a drive-by targeting some specific person but killed a random 15 year old girl.
Aw, shit. :sad:
Quote from: Alty on April 02, 2014, 01:27:53 AM
Turns out the shooting from my.last night in glorious Mt View was a drive-by targeting some specific person but killed a random 15 year old girl.
Dammit.
Thank fuck I got out of there, and thank fuck I was lucky all the times I spent walking through that place. I guess the money I spent on cabs was worth it.
That poor girl and her poor family. I can't even imagine.
Daam that sucks!
Also Alty is back !
Quote from: Alty on April 02, 2014, 01:27:53 AM
Turns out the shooting from my.last night in glorious Mt View was a drive-by targeting some specific person but killed a random 15 year old girl.
:sad:
I may be going on a business trip to Boulder, Colorado.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
If it's any consolation, the two become more similar by the day. If you ignore the weather anyway.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 08:33:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
If it's any consolation, the two become more similar by the day. If you ignore the weather anyway.
Wait, wait, England may be back in the running.
Going to spend this evening doing recordings, as I have been remiss.
Also, the next two weeks will be my research project, so I sure as fuck wont be doing them then. And, after a two week grace period, I'll be doing my final essay for the year.
Quote from: Cain on April 02, 2014, 02:13:54 PM
Going to spend this evening doing recordings, as I have been remiss.
:banana:
Quote
Also, the next two weeks will be my research project, so I sure as fuck wont be doing them then. And, after a two week grace period, I'll be doing my final essay for the year.
:sadbanana:
Quote from: Regret on April 02, 2014, 08:16:53 AM
I may be going on a business trip to Boulder, Colorado.
No need to pack your own patchouli...you'll find plenty there.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 08:33:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
If it's any consolation, the two become more similar by the day. If you ignore the weather anyway.
Wait, wait, England may be back in the running.
Keep me in the know. I'd make a point of planning my month accordingly.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on April 02, 2014, 02:20:50 PM
Quote from: Regret on April 02, 2014, 08:16:53 AM
I may be going on a business trip to Boulder, Colorado.
No need to pack your own patchouli...you'll find plenty there.
I'm looking forward to it. The only person from our warehouse there i've met is quite a character. His uncle apparently makes moonshine and he managed to piss off our scottish coworker by refering to bourbon as whiskey. There are few things as hilarious as seeing a scotsman stomping through the warehouse muttering incoherently about 'fucking Yanks'.
Come to think of it, I expected myself to refuse such an offer on account of my dislike of being molested for wanting to cross a border. Sure, they have machines doing most of the molesting but that doesn't change the principle of the thing. But apparently i have no spine and will just say yes whenever a free trip to the other side of the world is offered.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 03:33:49 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 08:33:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
If it's any consolation, the two become more similar by the day. If you ignore the weather anyway.
Wait, wait, England may be back in the running.
Keep me in the know. I'd make a point of planning my month accordingly.
And I must prepare the longboat. It's gonna be a long drive.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 02, 2014, 05:51:02 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 03:33:49 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 08:33:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
If it's any consolation, the two become more similar by the day. If you ignore the weather anyway.
Wait, wait, England may be back in the running.
Keep me in the know. I'd make a point of planning my month accordingly.
And I must prepare the longboat. It's gonna be a long drive.
:lol:
Remember to sail on the left.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 05:52:38 PM
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 02, 2014, 05:51:02 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 03:33:49 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 02, 2014, 08:33:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 01, 2014, 08:45:33 PM
England is out, in favor OF...
...More Texas. :tgrr:
If it's any consolation, the two become more similar by the day. If you ignore the weather anyway.
Wait, wait, England may be back in the running.
Keep me in the know. I'd make a point of planning my month accordingly.
And I must prepare the longboat. It's gonna be a long drive.
:lol:
Remember to sail on the left.
I was just going to install a plough on the bow, but perhaps your way is easier.
If you two insane fucks are planning on arriving on my landmass I want in. If fact, I demand it :evil:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:15:24 PM
If you two insane fucks are planning on arriving on my landmass I want in. If fact, I demand it :evil:
Wouldn't have it any other way.
There will be shitty beer. There will be bad music. Things will not turn out for the best.
I have a weeks leave still to take. I was going to use it for some impending honeymoon shenanigans but this sounds more important!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:30:10 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:15:24 PM
If you two insane fucks are planning on arriving on my landmass I want in. If fact, I demand it :evil:
Wouldn't have it any other way.
There will be shitty beer. There will be bad music. Things will not turn out for the best.
Send pictures!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
I have a weeks leave still to take. I was going to use it for some impending honeymoon shenanigans but this sounds more important!
Um, this is definitely not for sure. Honeymoon shenanigans take priority.
I'm working on a substantial Latin text that needs to be memorized or as least easily queued from my wax tablet for Saturday. This is just a first world nerd problem.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:37:54 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
I have a weeks leave still to take. I was going to use it for some impending honeymoon shenanigans but this sounds more important!
Um, this is definitely not for sure. Honeymoon shenanigans take priority.
I've already been married. Seen one honeymoon, seen them all. I have never wilfully sabotaged the entire nation of England, however. I just need to couch the proposal in language that makes it sound like the most romantic thing anyone has ever done. Leave it with me...
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:42:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:37:54 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
I have a weeks leave still to take. I was going to use it for some impending honeymoon shenanigans but this sounds more important!
Um, this is definitely not for sure. Honeymoon shenanigans take priority.
I've already been married. Seen one honeymoon, seen them all. I have never wilfully sabotaged the entire nation of England, however. I just need to couch the proposal in language that makes it sound like the most romantic thing anyone has ever done. Leave it with me...
:lulz:
My love is like a hundred thousand english skulls
stripped of flesh, their eyeless gaze affixed on thy divine contenance
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:42:50 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:42:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:37:54 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
I have a weeks leave still to take. I was going to use it for some impending honeymoon shenanigans but this sounds more important!
Um, this is definitely not for sure. Honeymoon shenanigans take priority.
I've already been married. Seen one honeymoon, seen them all. I have never wilfully sabotaged the entire nation of England, however. I just need to couch the proposal in language that makes it sound like the most romantic thing anyone has ever done. Leave it with me...
:lulz:
What could possibly go wrong?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:42:50 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:42:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 06:37:54 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 02, 2014, 06:37:17 PM
I have a weeks leave still to take. I was going to use it for some impending honeymoon shenanigans but this sounds more important!
Um, this is definitely not for sure. Honeymoon shenanigans take priority.
I've already been married. Seen one honeymoon, seen them all. I have never wilfully sabotaged the entire nation of England, however. I just need to couch the proposal in language that makes it sound like the most romantic thing anyone has ever done. Leave it with me...
:lulz:
"As we are now Man and Wife, I am obligated to take your for a blessing from my Holey Man....."
Fucking Minecraft.
I turned it on planning to play an hour at most, as I have a hella lot of stuff to get done, but no....
4 hours later I suddenly realize I haven't had anything to drink or eat since breakfast, then notice the time.
I haven't had a game pull me in so much in a very long time. And it's such a simple thing, it's not like I got lost in story or something.
I need to start setting an alarm so I don't waste the day again.
And now it's time to get off the computer and try and get something done before people start coming home :/
Someone is going to get their spanking new sponge-bob square pants iPhone returned to them when they get back to base. I am the good Samaritan.
In my capacity as this board's country music expert, I am hereby declaring that the only country song worth a shit since 2010 has been Lady Gaga's You and I. I have apparently fallen through some sort of wormhole.
Quote from: LuciferX on April 02, 2014, 07:41:31 PM
Someone is going to get their spanking new sponge-bob square pants iPhone returned to them when they get back to base. I am the good Samaritan.
Good man.
Quote from: Sita on April 02, 2014, 07:14:03 PM
Fucking Minecraft.
I turned it on planning to play an hour at most, as I have a hella lot of stuff to get done, but no....
4 hours later I suddenly realize I haven't had anything to drink or eat since breakfast, then notice the time.
I haven't had a game pull me in so much in a very long time. And it's such a simple thing, it's not like I got lost in story or something.
I need to start setting an alarm so I don't waste the day again.
And now it's time to get off the computer and try and get something done before people start coming home :/
I uninstalled it when school started two terms ago. Haven't reinstalled it yet. I'm tempted to do so over the summer since I won't have classes, but then again...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 07:41:57 PM
In my capacity as this board's country music expert, I am hereby declaring that the only country song worth a shit since 2010 has been Lady Gaga's You and I. I have apparently fallen through some sort of wormhole.
And here I thought country music hasn't been worth a shit since the 1970s. I've been having this argument with the husband. Apparently he's trying to convince me that good songs still come out, but I don't believe him. The damn station he listens to plays the same three songs all day long and it drives me fucking crazy. They did play the Chattahoochee song the other day and he got all excited and turned it up so we could both sing like idiots. That was at least worth it.
Edit: You're right, this song is fucking awesome.
Good songs come out from time to time, vastly outnumbered by mountains of complete shite.
Contrary to popular belief, it's always been like that.
This is how it's always been. This is how we do things in the country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJm2yEQo4aU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJm2yEQo4aU)
QuoteLate in the dark times
I went creeping round the town
Into every pine board shed
all their tools I did found
I put them in my vice grip
turned them to the left and right
returned them to their tool sheds
straightened out the town with might
Now when they hoe a garden
everything angles to the northeast
when they raise a new building
well it leans askew and lord does it creak
Now when they shape a new tool
from the ones I made unstraight
see every which way which they cross it up
lord these crooked graves
they will be our fate.
This is how it's always been
this is how we do things in the country.
If you're not listening to Slim Cessna...you need to be.
Don't they have recording studios in the country, then? :eek:
My eyes are burning
fuck trees.
Quote from: Nigel on April 02, 2014, 09:53:50 PM
My eyes are burning
fuck trees.
Newsfeed!
If I had to guess I'd say hay fever but I enjoy that quote on a much deeper level if I don't guess :lulz:
So someone's shooting up Fort Hood again. (http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/fort-hood-253637831.html)
Quote from: The Suu on April 02, 2014, 09:01:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 07:41:57 PM
In my capacity as this board's country music expert, I am hereby declaring that the only country song worth a shit since 2010 has been Lady Gaga's You and I. I have apparently fallen through some sort of wormhole.
And here I thought country music hasn't been worth a shit since the 1970s. I've been having this argument with the husband. Apparently he's trying to convince me that good songs still come out, but I don't believe him. The damn station he listens to plays the same three songs all day long and it drives me fucking crazy. They did play the Chattahoochee song the other day and he got all excited and turned it up so we could both sing like idiots. That was at least worth it.
Edit: You're right, this song is fucking awesome.
1970s country was fucking TERRIBLE. Charlie Pride and that FUCKING Conway Twitty.
Johnny Cash was the only listenable country music for 15 fucking years, and it killed him.
Quote from: The Suu on April 02, 2014, 09:01:26 PM
They did play the Chattahoochee song the other day and he got all excited and turned it up so we could both sing like idiots.
This makes me want to harpoon a school bus.
You have made me very, very sad.
TGRR,
Hates that song like Martin Bormann wrote it.
I figured out that I can surf the PeeDeez while making dinner and solving chemistry equations, if I sort of alternate between the three. I don't know if this is going to work long-term, but so far so good.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 10:48:48 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 02, 2014, 09:01:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 07:41:57 PM
In my capacity as this board's country music expert, I am hereby declaring that the only country song worth a shit since 2010 has been Lady Gaga's You and I. I have apparently fallen through some sort of wormhole.
And here I thought country music hasn't been worth a shit since the 1970s. I've been having this argument with the husband. Apparently he's trying to convince me that good songs still come out, but I don't believe him. The damn station he listens to plays the same three songs all day long and it drives me fucking crazy. They did play the Chattahoochee song the other day and he got all excited and turned it up so we could both sing like idiots. That was at least worth it.
Edit: You're right, this song is fucking awesome.
1970s country was fucking TERRIBLE. Charlie Pride and that FUCKING Conway Twitty.
Johnny Cash was the only listenable country music for 15 fucking years, and it killed him.
Willie Nelson. Shut up.
I feel very confident that my company will not burn me up at both ends and then huff my scorched remains like bad crank.
No, really.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 02, 2014, 10:59:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 10:48:48 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 02, 2014, 09:01:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 07:41:57 PM
In my capacity as this board's country music expert, I am hereby declaring that the only country song worth a shit since 2010 has been Lady Gaga's You and I. I have apparently fallen through some sort of wormhole.
And here I thought country music hasn't been worth a shit since the 1970s. I've been having this argument with the husband. Apparently he's trying to convince me that good songs still come out, but I don't believe him. The damn station he listens to plays the same three songs all day long and it drives me fucking crazy. They did play the Chattahoochee song the other day and he got all excited and turned it up so we could both sing like idiots. That was at least worth it.
Edit: You're right, this song is fucking awesome.
1970s country was fucking TERRIBLE. Charlie Pride and that FUCKING Conway Twitty.
Johnny Cash was the only listenable country music for 15 fucking years, and it killed him.
Willie Nelson. Shut up.
I'm talking 1965-1979 for the sucky part. Because 1979 led to Merle Haggard. In fact, if you subtract that fat slug Williams Jr, the 80s was THE decade for country music.
Companies are made of people and so are as friendly and warm as all of those people put together.
They are FULL TO THE BRIM of humanity.
You have nothing to fear.
Quote from: Pæs on April 02, 2014, 11:02:23 PM
Companies are made of people and so are as friendly and warm as all of those people put together.
They are FULL TO THE BRIM of humanity.
You have nothing to fear.
Just some friction burns, is all.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on April 02, 2014, 07:49:38 PM
Quote from: Sita on April 02, 2014, 07:14:03 PM
Fucking Minecraft.
I turned it on planning to play an hour at most, as I have a hella lot of stuff to get done, but no....
4 hours later I suddenly realize I haven't had anything to drink or eat since breakfast, then notice the time.
I haven't had a game pull me in so much in a very long time. And it's such a simple thing, it's not like I got lost in story or something.
I need to start setting an alarm so I don't waste the day again.
And now it's time to get off the computer and try and get something done before people start coming home :/
I uninstalled it when school started two terms ago. Haven't reinstalled it yet. I'm tempted to do so over the summer since I won't have classes, but then again...
We have it on the 360. Mainly because we found it used and on sale. Husband was willing to pay 15 dollars for what he considers a stupid game, but not the 27 that the PC version costs.
But it's still fun even if I have to just have vanilla Minecraft.
I'm not sure I follow.
Shotgun Willie
Release date: 1973
Phases and Stages
Release date: 1974
Red Headed Stranger
Release Date: 1975
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 02, 2014, 11:08:26 PM
I'm not sure I follow.
Shotgun Willie
Release date: 1973
Phases and Stages
Release date: 1974
Red Headed Stranger
Release Date: 1975
He wasn't worth a fuck until 1982. THERE. I SAID IT.
The HELL is wrong with you, old man?
Also, George Jones.
:onefingersalute:
Kids on my lawn!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 11:00:53 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 02, 2014, 10:59:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 10:48:48 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 02, 2014, 09:01:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 02, 2014, 07:41:57 PM
In my capacity as this board's country music expert, I am hereby declaring that the only country song worth a shit since 2010 has been Lady Gaga's You and I. I have apparently fallen through some sort of wormhole.
And here I thought country music hasn't been worth a shit since the 1970s. I've been having this argument with the husband. Apparently he's trying to convince me that good songs still come out, but I don't believe him. The damn station he listens to plays the same three songs all day long and it drives me fucking crazy. They did play the Chattahoochee song the other day and he got all excited and turned it up so we could both sing like idiots. That was at least worth it.
Edit: You're right, this song is fucking awesome.
1970s country was fucking TERRIBLE. Charlie Pride and that FUCKING Conway Twitty.
Johnny Cash was the only listenable country music for 15 fucking years, and it killed him.
Willie Nelson. Shut up.
I'm talking 1965-1979 for the sucky part. Because 1979 led to Merle Haggard. In fact, if you subtract that fat slug Williams Jr, the 80s was THE decade for country music.
Ain't you never seen Altman's
Nashville? That movie was filmed in 75 and is FILLED with good music.
D/N/T
Williams Jr. is solid fucking proof talent skips a generation, because his father and son are goddamn awesome.
And what about David Allen Coe?
I'm not going to lie, I like country music, but all the shit I like was done in the 80's. This new shit they're selling as country isn't. It's pop in cowboy boots. Fuck that noise.
My mom likes classic country, but she always listened to her hippie dippie shit when I was younger. Dad is into punk, new wave, and prog rock, so I was never exposed to country, I mean, my parents met at a club in NYC, ffs. The closest was Southern rock, which I guess is closer to what country is now then what it was 30 years ago. Got into electronic music because of my dad in middle school, and that was about it. I would hear the other kids in school listen to country and I would be all, "WAT IS THIS SHIT?" Which is much of the same reaction the boy had when he first heard my playlists. I take pride in the fact that I have pretty diverse listening tastes for someone my age, but modern country, much like most of current hip hop and pop, IMO is garbage.
Quote from: The Suu on April 03, 2014, 03:28:33 AM
My mom likes classic country, but she always listened to her hippie dippie shit when I was younger. Dad is into punk, new wave, and prog rock, so I was never exposed to country, I mean, my parents met at a club in NYC, ffs. The closest was Southern rock, which I guess is closer to what country is now then what it was 30 years ago. Got into electronic music because of my dad in middle school, and that was about it. I would hear the other kids in school listen to country and I would be all, "WAT IS THIS SHIT?" Which is much of the same reaction the boy had when he first heard my playlists. I take pride in the fact that I have pretty diverse listening tastes for someone my age, but modern country, much like most of current hip hop and pop, IMO is garbage.
Sturgeon's Law up in this shit.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 03, 2014, 03:11:52 AM
I'm not going to lie, I like country music, but all the shit I like was done in the 80's. This new shit they're selling as country isn't. It's pop in cowboy boots. Fuck that noise.
Steel guitar and rims.
Soooo, some friends who were letting me use their driveway and their house as a command base have a spare closet under the stairs they offered me.
I have a home now! I can almost stretch out completely.
What with this crawlspace and my new haircut I'm on top of the world today!
Quote from: Alty on April 03, 2014, 08:00:06 AM
Soooo, some friends who were letting me use their driveway and their house as a command base have a spare closet under the stairs they offered me.
I have a home now! I can almost stretch out completely.
What with this crawlspace and my new haircut I'm on top of the world today!
<3
Woke up to news that a friend, the daughter of old SCA friends, passed away. She was only 31.
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
Woke up to news that a friend, the daughter of old SCA friends, passed away. She was only 31.
Me too. Hit me in the goddamn heart strings hard.
Ah, shit. Condolences.
I have something to say today.
Probably right after the morning meeting.
Quote from: The Suu on April 03, 2014, 02:24:36 AM
Williams Jr. is solid fucking proof talent skips a generation, because his father and son are goddamn awesome.
And what about David Allen Coe?
Gnarly, racist, redneck. Despite myself, I love his music.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on April 03, 2014, 02:37:08 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 03, 2014, 02:24:36 AM
Williams Jr. is solid fucking proof talent skips a generation, because his father and son are goddamn awesome.
And what about David Allen Coe?
Gnarly, racist, redneck. Despite myself, I love his music.
I gathered the gnarly redneck part by looking at him, racist I didn't know. Not that it's totally surprising.
Blah. Work tonight and Saturday. In two months of being here, I will have worked exactly one night consecutive to my first night of work for the week. I mean, I suppose there is an upside, as two 12 hour shifts, back to back, are pretty heavy going. But it does mean not spending from Thursday morning until Sunday sleeping during the day.
That doesn't exactly sound like what you signed up for.
Well, I knew from my interview they couldn't guarantee two nights in a row. For me. For others, sure. But not me. I'm also working, normally, a Friday and Sunday shift. Which is fair enough, as I have no social life, but if I did...well, that would be pretty annoying.
I bleedin' hate conditioning.
The hair dye I bought has gone missing, which is pissing me off. I swear to god.
Spent my shift telling my boss WHAT. Apparently that's his kink because now I am his favorite. Except I got bitched at for being mean to the "new" guy. Who is 'just a kid' even though he's only one year younger than our boss. It was fun. Also, apparently I'm the only one literate enough to use the new computer system without it taking a shit.
Going to see Captain America tonight.
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
Woke up to news that a friend, the daughter of old SCA friends, passed away. She was only 31.
And my father.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 03, 2014, 09:43:06 PM
Spent my shift telling my boss WHAT. Apparently that's his kink because now I am his favorite. Except I got bitched at for being mean to the "new" guy. Who is 'just a kid' even though he's only one year younger than our boss. It was fun. Also, apparently I'm the only one literate enough to use the new computer system without it taking a shit.
Going to see Captain America tonight.
FUCK YEAH!
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 10:41:00 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
Woke up to news that a friend, the daughter of old SCA friends, passed away. She was only 31.
And my father.
:cry:
Oh, no.
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 10:41:00 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
Woke up to news that a friend, the daughter of old SCA friends, passed away. She was only 31.
And my father.
Oh Luna, I'm so sorry!
I was going to post this to Facebook, but it's.... I'd rather the sentiment be here, rather than in Boston. I want the sentiment to be genuine, and not construed as show:
QuoteI have now cried over Anders' death. Not because I felt particularly closer to her than anyone else but because she was my friend and that was a shitty fucking death, and she didn't fucking deserve it. Not that anyone would. But it makes me angry and sad. I dunno, I pictured her going out riding a mutant cat with eye lasers and an irate Air Force taking her down.
Context:
http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/04/01/boston-music-scene-remembers-anderson-mar-died-injuries-fall-river-fire/
For like, the first solid two years of me playing as a live musician, Anderson was the booker and promoter.
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 10:41:00 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 03, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
Woke up to news that a friend, the daughter of old SCA friends, passed away. She was only 31.
And my father.
Shit. Sorry to hear that Luna, hope things get better for you.
Thanks, all. Trying to find out if I'll be visiting Texas, or if we will be bringing him home to Pennsylvania. My Grandma is in PA, and isn't up to traveling far.
Damn. I'm sorry to hear that.
Very sorry for your loss, Luna.
Got accepted to CU Boulder because OH FUCK YES.
Going down to look at a god send apartment on Sat & probably cutting them a check for an august pre-lease. Finishing out this fucking piece of paper.
Nicely Done!
Quote from: Da6s on April 04, 2014, 02:31:32 PM
Got accepted to CU Boulder because OH FUCK YES.
Going down to look at a god send apartment on Sat & probably cutting them a check for an august pre-lease. Finishing out this fucking piece of paper.
Congratulations! Welcome to student lyfe, yo.
Congrats!
So my DNA/Ancestry Test results came back.
58% = Native American/Mexican Indian
18%= Spanish/Portugal
8% = Italian/Greek
7%= African
6%= Finnish/Russian
<1% other races. (European Jewish, European East, Ireland,Melanesia)
I will keep it real 7% of the time.
Sorry to hear about your loss Luna.
Quote from: /b/earman on April 04, 2014, 02:58:42 PM
So my DNA/Ancestry Test results came back.
58% = Native American/Mexican Indian
18%= Spanish/Portugal
8% = Italian/Greek
7%= African
6%= Finnish/Russian
<1% other races. (European Jewish, European East, Ireland,Melanesia)
I will keep it real 7% of the time.
This is fascinating... I keep thinking I want to do this, partly to determine just how accurate my father's idea of our ancestry is, given especially that my mother's turned out to be wildly inaccurate.
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 03:35:17 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on April 04, 2014, 02:58:42 PM
So my DNA/Ancestry Test results came back.
58% = Native American/Mexican Indian
18%= Spanish/Portugal
8% = Italian/Greek
7%= African
6%= Finnish/Russian
<1% other races. (European Jewish, European East, Ireland,Melanesia)
I will keep it real 7% of the time.
This is fascinating... I keep thinking I want to do this, partly to determine just how accurate my father's idea of our ancestry is, given especially that my mother's turned out to be wildly inaccurate.
It was only $99 for me. All you do is spit in tube, and wait 6-8 weeks.
Quote from: /b/earman on April 04, 2014, 03:37:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 03:35:17 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on April 04, 2014, 02:58:42 PM
So my DNA/Ancestry Test results came back.
58% = Native American/Mexican Indian
18%= Spanish/Portugal
8% = Italian/Greek
7%= African
6%= Finnish/Russian
<1% other races. (European Jewish, European East, Ireland,Melanesia)
I will keep it real 7% of the time.
This is fascinating... I keep thinking I want to do this, partly to determine just how accurate my father's idea of our ancestry is, given especially that my mother's turned out to be wildly inaccurate.
It was only $99 for me. All you do is spit in tube, and wait 6-8 weeks.
Eh, someday when $99 isn't critical for eating.
Quote from: /b/earman on April 04, 2014, 03:37:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 03:35:17 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on April 04, 2014, 02:58:42 PM
So my DNA/Ancestry Test results came back.
58% = Native American/Mexican Indian
18%= Spanish/Portugal
8% = Italian/Greek
7%= African
6%= Finnish/Russian
<1% other races. (European Jewish, European East, Ireland,Melanesia)
I will keep it real 7% of the time.
This is fascinating... I keep thinking I want to do this, partly to determine just how accurate my father's idea of our ancestry is, given especially that my mother's turned out to be wildly inaccurate.
It was only $99 for me. All you do is spit in tube, and wait 6-8 weeks.
This should be mandatory for all white supremacists. Hell, anyone with strong beliefs based around race should be forced to take it. if I had time I'd try and market it to them. "Whiter than white? Or just whiter than the next guy? Prove your Aryan worth with our $199 test!"
With a bit of luck it'll be a $10 over the counter test quite soon and rednecks everywhere will shit themselves.
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
Basically, anyone outside of family who wants my time/attention in the near future: no. Just no. Don't call me, text me, PM me, or try to chat me. You might see me online fucking around and trying to have fun, and that is because I am destressing in what precious little spare time I have. Don't tell me about your project; I don't care about your project, or your job, or your finances, or your sex life. I don't have any extra caring left over. And for fuck sake don't ask if there's anything you can do, because we both know damn well there isn't anything you can do unless you want to come over and stay up nights with the kid.
I don't want anything from you Nigel, I want to let you know I care about you, and the people you care for. That's all.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
I really want to post the above post on my FB wall, where it might do some good. But I can't, for various reasons including protecting my kid's privacy, so I posted it here instead, where it's safe.
PeeDee as safe space. Who would ever have imagined that day would come?
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:46:01 PM
Basically, anyone outside of family who wants my time/attention in the near future: no. Just no. Don't call me, text me, PM me, or try to chat me. You might see me online fucking around and trying to have fun, and that is because I am destressing in what precious little spare time I have. Don't tell me about your project; I don't care about your project, or your job, or your finances, or your sex life. I don't have any extra caring left over. And for fuck sake don't ask if there's anything you can do, because we both know damn well there isn't anything you can do unless you want to come over and stay up nights with the kid.
Understood, and then some (I've been busy as shit myself). I'll PM trip details here, instead.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 05, 2014, 12:22:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:46:01 PM
Basically, anyone outside of family who wants my time/attention in the near future: no. Just no. Don't call me, text me, PM me, or try to chat me. You might see me online fucking around and trying to have fun, and that is because I am destressing in what precious little spare time I have. Don't tell me about your project; I don't care about your project, or your job, or your finances, or your sex life. I don't have any extra caring left over. And for fuck sake don't ask if there's anything you can do, because we both know damn well there isn't anything you can do unless you want to come over and stay up nights with the kid.
Understood, and then some (I've been busy as shit myself). I'll PM trip details here, instead.
That sounds excellent. I am thinking that a little carousing on the Wednesday you're here might not be a bad thing... I will probably need a couple shots of bourbon. :lol: Right now I am thinking you, me, Chaz, and anyone else we can round up, for a whirlwind tour of the creepiest spots in Portland.
Quote from: Nigel on April 05, 2014, 12:27:06 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 05, 2014, 12:22:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:46:01 PM
Basically, anyone outside of family who wants my time/attention in the near future: no. Just no. Don't call me, text me, PM me, or try to chat me. You might see me online fucking around and trying to have fun, and that is because I am destressing in what precious little spare time I have. Don't tell me about your project; I don't care about your project, or your job, or your finances, or your sex life. I don't have any extra caring left over. And for fuck sake don't ask if there's anything you can do, because we both know damn well there isn't anything you can do unless you want to come over and stay up nights with the kid.
Understood, and then some (I've been busy as shit myself). I'll PM trip details here, instead.
That sounds excellent. I am thinking that a little carousing on the Wednesday you're here might not be a bad thing... I will probably need a couple shots of bourbon. :lol: Right now I am thinking you, me, Chaz, and anyone else we can round up, for a whirlwind tour of the creepiest spots in Portland.
I'm down with it.
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
Fuck.
Good luck with figuring out how to handle that, if there is anything i can do (I mean that literally: Imagine something insane a Belgian can do for you/anyone/entertainment)
So my dad now has Self-Absorbed Old Guy disease... you know the thing, where people reach a certain point in age where they literally do not give a fuck about you as anything other than an audience, and just ramble on about themselves endlessly, launching straight from "hello" to some lengthy story about what they're doing, their entire personal history, some random problem their friend had/has, and whatever medical problems they're experiencing right now without at any point so much as a "how are you doing?" expecting you to listen raptly to their riveting tales of their last Dr. checkup and and everything else that crosses their minds until they decide they're done talking, at which point they leave.
It's sad, but it also drives me insane. I mean, I would sure appreciate SOME indication that I might have plans, or interests, or acknowledgement that I'm alive. Something other than "Oh, you answered the door? Let me tell you about me for a while".
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
No! Give her my love. That just...
No!
Taking bets how long it takes me to name and tag 7000 ebooks from my "Untitled" category.
I was so fucking anxious and stressed about whether or not I made the right choice uprooting everything and coming back to Maine.
My stress and anxiety is diminishing at an unprecedented pace. I think I made a REALLY good decision. This is gonna be so top-notch once we get shit up and running and dialed in. And the money is finally decent and the perks are already proving to be magnificent. And I gotta admit, I've always particularly loved the menu development and kitchen build-out parts of this business. I'd love to someday be one of those consultant chefs who just gets paid to get posh restaurants up and running before handing it over to the schlub who's gonna actually have to do the day-to-day shit.
I get to go on a junket next week. A fucking junket. 3 days, 2 nights, all expenses paid. Down to Portland Monday night with my sous chef and head bartender. Check in to our suite at the Embassy Suites in downtown Portland, which has a FREE HAPPY HOUR. Portland food show tuesday morning and afternoon, meeting with my contact at the seafood wholesaler wednesday morning before leaving wednesday afternoon to head back up the coast. And the best part? The entire time, starting with dinner Monday night and ending with dinner Wednesday night, we will be strategically eating and drinking at the best seafood restaurants and raw bars in and around Portland and back up the coast between Portland and Castine, all on the company dime. I'm giddy like a kid on christmas eve about it. I haven't put together the entire list of places we'll be hitting, but I've been waiting for fucking YEARS to have a chance to eat at Miyake (http://www.miyakerestaurants.com/uploads/Miyake%20Dinner%2011.5.13.pdf). And fucking Eventide (http://www.eventideoysterco.com/#eat-and-drink). My belly has a raging hard-on.
Awesome to hear, ECH!
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on April 05, 2014, 10:53:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
No! Give her my love. That just...
No!
Thanks man, I will.
ECH, that's rad!
Deposit made on boulder apartment. Shits as good as mine.
Down there today it was perfect - mid 50s overcast. Came back up to Breck and it was 25 and snowing. Again.
Now just to survive until August . Need to buy a decent road bike. Because boulder. Why the hell are road bikes 1k?
Quote from: Da6s on April 06, 2014, 03:46:45 AM
Deposit made on boulder apartment. Shits as good as mine.
Down there today it was perfect - mid 50s overcast. Came back up to Breck and it was 25 and snowing. Again.
Now just to survive until August . Need to buy a decent road bike. Because boulder. Why the hell are road bikes 1k?
Because the world is a jerk.
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2014, 04:42:24 AM
Quote from: Da6s on April 06, 2014, 03:46:45 AM
Deposit made on boulder apartment. Shits as good as mine.
Down there today it was perfect - mid 50s overcast. Came back up to Breck and it was 25 and snowing. Again.
Now just to survive until August . Need to buy a decent road bike. Because boulder. Why the hell are road bikes 1k?
Because the world is a jerk.
:lol:
Bleh. My answer for anything in the next...18 hours is: "outlook hazy, try later".
Outlook here both referring to general events, and to my particular mental state at this moment in time.
I wish flowers weren't so fucking expensive to send to people, but I hate not being able to help others when they're in need. SCA friends' daughter's wake is today, and funeral is tomorrow. If we would have known 2 hours earlier when we were driving home from NJ, we would have made it, now I feel like fucking shit we couldn't go. We definitely can't go tomorrow. :(
As for Luna, they don't do bouquets of booze, but that would be a bad idea to ship to Providence, anyway. :sad:
This moving North of the Wall bullshit has made me fucking useless, because I could have at least cooked a week's worth of food for both of them, because this is what I do. When people die, I feed the grieving. You can't eat a bouquet of fucking flowers. You can't clean their house with it. You cannot hug someone with a dozen roses. All it says is, "I'm too lazy to come down there and help." That's what it says.
Goddamnit.
And goddamnit, Nigel. I hope she's going to be alright. Thank you for taking her in and hopefully reassuring her that she's still loved.
I cant get back out ther either :sad:. There will be more times to be around to support and help them.
Building another database.
It occured for me, to get a meaningful baseline for deciding whether said terrorist ideology was underrepresented in the lierature, I'd need another set of data to give me that figure in the first place.
In reality, I should really be breaking down every terrorist event in the past decade by ideological inclincation and working from the mean as a baseline, but I suspect that Islamist terrorist groups would be unfairly overrepresented in such a methodology and, more importantly:
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xS1MROkUZoI/UUh_Toi2RhI/AAAAAAAAP4U/_uUpofoh84U/aint-nobody-got-time-fo-dat4.jpg?imgmax=800)
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
Quote from: Cain on April 07, 2014, 11:08:25 AM
Building another database.
It occured for me, to get a meaningful baseline for deciding whether said terrorist ideology was underrepresented in the lierature, I'd need another set of data to give me that figure in the first place.
In reality, I should really be breaking down every terrorist event in the past decade by ideological inclincation and working from the mean as a baseline, but I suspect that Islamist terrorist groups would be unfairly overrepresented in such a methodology and, more importantly:
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xS1MROkUZoI/UUh_Toi2RhI/AAAAAAAAP4U/_uUpofoh84U/aint-nobody-got-time-fo-dat4.jpg?imgmax=800)
I wonder, what are the main ones after you exclude Islamist groups? I'd guess white supremacists or similar but I would suspect most of their antics are classed as "domestic extremism" to avoid calling white people terrorists.
I'd say ethno-nationalist and sepratist groups. That covers everything from the IRA to various Palestinian groups. And nationalism is the world's most popular ideology. It's also the one I'm using as my control.
That makes sense. "My tribe is better than your tribe" is probably the oldest war chant in the world.
That and much of the modern world is made up of states where several distinct groups and languages were mashed together, with quite a few of them having no say in this process.
Throw into the equation a world where states are the preferred system of political organization and easy access to small arms, and, well, you don't need to be a genius to see it as a recipe for conflict.
Should have a video up later today. This is part 1 of 21 of the N7 Challenge Series (http://forum.bioware.com/topic/496320-n7-challenge-series-archive-still-open/), a series of progressively more difficult solo missions designed by fans of Mass Effect 3. They set the map, the enemy, and the weapons. I choose the build, equipment (except Armoured Compartments) and the skills. Or lack, as it will no doubt turn out to be.
I probably wont make it to N7. Or, if I do, I doubt I will complete it. Still, it gives me something to aim for, while attempting to max out my manifest.
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
I feel like shit I'm not there. Just saying.
Fuck this New Hampshire shit.
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
Something smells very weird, here.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 03:24:47 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
Something smells very weird, here.
Yeah. This has not escaped our notice.
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 04:08:51 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 03:24:47 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
Something smells very weird, here.
Yeah. This has not escaped our notice.
I'd be asking the police to question the "suicide". Seriously.
Quote from: The Suu on April 07, 2014, 03:03:02 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
I feel like shit I'm not there. Just saying.
Fuck this New Hampshire shit.
Given the blood relations, things are going as well as can be expected. Only one cousin had to be backhanded and ejected. (Had I heard what she said to Lady T, a split lip would be the least of her problems.)
I've already spoken to the police.
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 04:11:55 PM
I've already spoken to the police.
Okay.
It's probably ugly and tawdry, but not as outright sinister as my instincts tell me.
It is hard to articulate just exactly how desperate for sleep I am right now.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 04:30:15 PM
It is hard to articulate just exactly how desperate for sleep I am right now.
I'm sleeping a solid right or nine hours a night, opposed to my usual five or six. I can't say if I'm dreaming, but I know I wake up more tired than I go to sleep.
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 04:11:55 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 07, 2014, 03:03:02 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
I feel like shit I'm not there. Just saying.
Fuck this New Hampshire shit.
Given the blood relations, things are going as well as can be expected. Only one cousin had to be backhanded and ejected. (Had I heard what she said to Lady T, a split lip would be the least of her problems.)
Death can bring out the worst in people. Sometimes, simply the worst people. :/
Taking a nap at my desk.
Someone holler if anyone shows up or anything.
Nap interrupted. Now pissed off, which is interfering with my earlier anger.
This shit should be scheduled.
I think I'm going to go home and sleep for about 10 hours.
That most likely won't happen, however.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 07, 2014, 07:54:59 PM
I think I'm going to go home and sleep for about 10 hours.
That most likely won't happen, however.
Yeah, I know the feeling.
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
I managed 10 hours last night. It was pretty amazing. I didn't get any sleep after my all night shift, which isn't normally the case. So, by 10pm, I basically fell unconscious the moment I got into bed.
Quote from: Cain on April 07, 2014, 08:19:36 PM
I managed 10 hours last night. It was pretty amazing. I didn't get any sleep after my all night shift, which isn't normally the case. So, by 10pm, I basically fell unconscious the moment I got into bed.
I was in bed by 7 PM, but then anger and 2 AM.
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
Uh oh.
Do you know anything about this woman at all?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
Similar situation that precipitated my foster-daughter's attempt at self-destruction.
And the girl who decided to dump her as "best friend" has already done the same thing to a string of other girls, generally the moment they decide they are no longer interested in being told what to do and covering for her shit.
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 09:44:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
Similar situation that precipitated my foster-daughter's attempt at self-destruction.
Wait. What?
QuoteAnd the girl who decided to dump her as "best friend" has already done the same thing to a string of other girls, generally the moment they decide they are no longer interested in being told what to do and covering for her shit.
Yeah, this girl that has Keelin pissed off doesn't even have primate games as an excuse. Just plain old mean-spiritedness. She got Keelin to confide in her about something that had Keelin mad, and then smiled at her and told her to "stop whining".
Which seems to me to be borderline suicidal. Keelin, though, is a good person and just walked away and hasn't had contact with her since.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 09:48:00 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 09:44:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
Similar situation that precipitated my foster-daughter's attempt at self-destruction.
Wait. What?
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
Quote
QuoteAnd the girl who decided to dump her as "best friend" has already done the same thing to a string of other girls, generally the moment they decide they are no longer interested in being told what to do and covering for her shit.
Yeah, this girl that has Keelin pissed off doesn't even have primate games as an excuse. Just plain old mean-spiritedness. She got Keelin to confide in her about something that had Keelin mad, and then smiled at her and told her to "stop whining".
Which seems to me to be borderline suicidal. Keelin, though, is a good person and just walked away and hasn't had contact with her since.
Smart kid. Walking away is the only way to handle people who pull stuff like that.
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 11:19:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 09:48:00 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 09:44:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
Similar situation that precipitated my foster-daughter's attempt at self-destruction.
Wait. What?
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
Quote
QuoteAnd the girl who decided to dump her as "best friend" has already done the same thing to a string of other girls, generally the moment they decide they are no longer interested in being told what to do and covering for her shit.
Yeah, this girl that has Keelin pissed off doesn't even have primate games as an excuse. Just plain old mean-spiritedness. She got Keelin to confide in her about something that had Keelin mad, and then smiled at her and told her to "stop whining".
Which seems to me to be borderline suicidal. Keelin, though, is a good person and just walked away and hasn't had contact with her since.
Smart kid. Walking away is the only way to handle people who pull stuff like that.
Oh, shit. How is she?
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 09:40:41 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 07, 2014, 11:32:00 AM
I've been at SCA friends' house since Thursday. There's enough food around to feed a small army for a month. Given that Lady T's family IS a mid-sized army, we're running about even.
Turns out Dad named a woman who lived next door to him in Kentucky, who followed him to Texas, executor, and she's handling EVERYTHING. The only reason I know ANYTHING is that I called the local police department down there to find out what the hell is going on. To say that this has left me a fucking wreck is to understate it spectacularly, particularly when I got a hold of the funeral home, said I was his daughter, and they called me by HER name.
Uh oh.
Do you know anything about this woman at all?
Other than her first name, that she and her significant other lived next door to Dad when his second wife died, and that they moved with him to Texas, zip. I'm less than thrilled.
My brother is in contact with the courthouse. I spent today dealing with the funeral of the friends' daughter, I figure I'll contact the police department again tomorrow.
Driving in Norway:
http://vimeo.com/31573731
That is a TERRIBLE thing to do to a Rambler. That car was a CLASSIC.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 08, 2014, 12:25:41 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 11:19:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 09:48:00 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 09:44:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
Similar situation that precipitated my foster-daughter's attempt at self-destruction.
Wait. What?
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
Quote
QuoteAnd the girl who decided to dump her as "best friend" has already done the same thing to a string of other girls, generally the moment they decide they are no longer interested in being told what to do and covering for her shit.
Yeah, this girl that has Keelin pissed off doesn't even have primate games as an excuse. Just plain old mean-spiritedness. She got Keelin to confide in her about something that had Keelin mad, and then smiled at her and told her to "stop whining".
Which seems to me to be borderline suicidal. Keelin, though, is a good person and just walked away and hasn't had contact with her since.
Smart kid. Walking away is the only way to handle people who pull stuff like that.
Oh, shit. How is she?
Up and down. No permanent physical damage. But, yeah, this is why I'm basically telling everyone who wants a piece of my time or energy that they can wait a while.
Quote from: Nigel on April 08, 2014, 04:42:08 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 08, 2014, 12:25:41 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 11:19:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 09:48:00 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2014, 09:44:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM
My daughter just had a similar experience to the one that generated my butthurt.
A friend of 4 years has decided that she is scorn-worthy, for no readily apparent reason. I suggested that she merely stop talking to the person.
Someone who views you in contempt or as a means to an end is not a friend.
Similar situation that precipitated my foster-daughter's attempt at self-destruction.
Wait. What?
Quote from: Nigel on April 04, 2014, 08:36:28 PM
It's been a strange day. My foster kid attempted suicide at around 4am last night so I spent my morning in the ER. Right now she's OK, who knows what the future holds?
Quote
QuoteAnd the girl who decided to dump her as "best friend" has already done the same thing to a string of other girls, generally the moment they decide they are no longer interested in being told what to do and covering for her shit.
Yeah, this girl that has Keelin pissed off doesn't even have primate games as an excuse. Just plain old mean-spiritedness. She got Keelin to confide in her about something that had Keelin mad, and then smiled at her and told her to "stop whining".
Which seems to me to be borderline suicidal. Keelin, though, is a good person and just walked away and hasn't had contact with her since.
Smart kid. Walking away is the only way to handle people who pull stuff like that.
Oh, shit. How is she?
Up and down. No permanent physical damage. But, yeah, this is why I'm basically telling everyone who wants a piece of my time or energy that they can wait a while.
Sorry to hear it Nigel, glad she's alright-ish.
I decided to crack a joke on my Microbiology homework.
Or maybe I'm just tired:
5. What about those new drugs Jack has heard about on TV? Can his girlfriend take those and
cure herself? Or at least avoid infecting him? Give some detail.
There is no cure for herpes. The drugs help reduce the risk since they suppress outbreak of lesions and reduce healing time, but as noted before, she can still infect him even if she is asymptomatic. She probably wants those drugs anyway. I don't imagine that anyone enjoys having scabs on their stuff, never mind what Jack thinks about it. That's probably why people are always riding bikes or jogging in those commercials. Either way, they help. Not 100%, and Jack may need to get a prescription too at some point, but the risk is reduced.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 07, 2014, 08:22:08 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 07, 2014, 08:19:36 PM
I managed 10 hours last night. It was pretty amazing. I didn't get any sleep after my all night shift, which isn't normally the case. So, by 10pm, I basically fell unconscious the moment I got into bed.
I was in bed by 7 PM, but then anger and 2 AM.
7 hours is decent. It's more than I normally live on.
Also, video didn't upload yesterday. It was like 2300 and still at 40%. So I've started earlier today. It's interesting how upload time does not proceed in a linear fashion - I can normally upload a half hour video in five hours, yet it took 9 hours to only get 40% of the way there.
I'm sure science could explain this.
Quote from: Cain on April 08, 2014, 08:24:20 AM
Also, video didn't upload yesterday. It was like 2300 and still at 40%. So I've started earlier today. It's interesting how upload time does not proceed in a linear fashion - I can normally upload a half hour video in five hours, yet it took 9 hours to only get 40% of the way there.
I'm sure science could explain this.
Sciencytific explanation: Wireless sucks ass.
Tru dat. Currently at 22%. According to Youtube's expert predictions, it should only take another 1632 minutes to complete. That's 27 hours. And by expert predictions, I mean "almost always wrong".
One of the intertubes is clogged.
Quote from: Nigel on April 08, 2014, 04:42:08 AM
Up and down. No permanent physical damage. But, yeah, this is why I'm basically telling everyone who wants a piece of my time or energy that they can wait a while.
Oh, yeah. No worries.
More Pit today, I think. In an hour or two. I have some work (choke!) to take care of first.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 08, 2014, 02:59:37 AM
Driving in Norway:
http://vimeo.com/31573731
That is a TERRIBLE thing to do to a Rambler. That car was a CLASSIC.
THAT'S HOW WE ROLL!
Luna, I'm so, so sorry.
It's my birthday. Huzzah.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 08, 2014, 05:09:59 PM
It's my birthday. Huzzah.
Happy birthday, Belgian mutant. :wave:
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 08, 2014, 05:09:13 PM
Luna, I'm so, so sorry.
Thanks, Waffles. Hope you have an awesome birthday.
Thanks TGRR and Luna.
I'm drinking Norwegian micro brews and German weißbier. Life's good. I didn't even have to paint the ceilings in the new apartment today (bcause I finished it yesterday), and I got to leave work early (because I worked late yesterday).
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 08, 2014, 05:09:59 PM
It's my birthday. Huzzah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEu6X-tnh1w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEu6X-tnh1w)
Happy Birthday Waffles!
Happy Birthday Waffle-Man!
I have the kind of tired that can only happen when you have too much to do on top of too much to think about. I got basically zero homework done over the weekend, for obvious reasons, which means that I am behind in both biology and chemistry, with a 6-page formal lab report due in three hours and a research proposal due sooner than I'd like to think about it, and I'm two chapters behind in reading for bio.
Luckily my geology class seems to be REALLY straightforward, needing minimal home-time work. Equally luckily, chemistry this term is mostly applied, which means fewer new concepts and more math and formulas. I also need to write some sections for my research project's focus group, which may be easier said than done, I don't know, and do a literature review, but I feel like that's stuff I can fairly easily just skim through on the bus if need be.
I feel a little bit like I'm being forced through a sieve.
MIDTERMS NEXT WEEK. YAY.
Quote from: Nigel on April 08, 2014, 09:51:58 PM
I feel a little bit like I'm being forced through a sieve.
MIDTERMS NEXT WEEK. YAY.
Hang in there, you got this shit.
Quote from: Luna on April 08, 2014, 11:47:21 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 08, 2014, 09:51:58 PM
I feel a little bit like I'm being forced through a sieve.
MIDTERMS NEXT WEEK. YAY.
Hang in there, you got this shit.
I am behind in plant anatomy and not sure when I'll get a chance to catch up. Chemistry I got. Biology is a lot of info and it's all about having the time to go over it. :(
I may have stumbled upon a line of research.
I'm not sure if the question has ever even been asked. I really hope not.
That's going to have to remain vague for a while. Sorry about that.
Quote from: Nigel on April 08, 2014, 09:51:58 PM
I feel a little bit like I'm being forced through a sieve.
MIDTERMS NEXT EVERY WEEK. YAY.
ftfy
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 12:55:13 AM
I may have stumbled upon a line of research.
I'm not sure if the question has ever even been asked. I really hope not.
That's going to have to remain vague for a while. Sorry about that.
Obviously.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 12:58:04 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 12:55:13 AM
I may have stumbled upon a line of research.
I'm not sure if the question has ever even been asked. I really hope not.
That's going to have to remain vague for a while. Sorry about that.
Obviously.
When I asked my professor, he got this look on his face and said, "I don't know. You should look into that, see if the question has been asked before."
Happy Birthday, Waffles.
Nigel, I got no words for what's going on with your kid. I hope it all works out.
So I got to go to the hospital today. Thanks, vodka!
Quote from: President Television on April 09, 2014, 01:46:56 AM
So I got to go to the hospital today. Thanks, vodka!
Glad you're presumably ok. And vodka will do that.
Quote from: President Television on April 09, 2014, 01:46:56 AM
So I got to go to the hospital today. Thanks, vodka!
Vodka lies its ass off. Says it's your friend, but then you wake up halfway up a tree with your wallet in your arse.
AGAIN.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 01:48:51 AM
Quote from: President Television on April 09, 2014, 01:46:56 AM
So I got to go to the hospital today. Thanks, vodka!
Glad you're presumably ok. And vodka will do that.
Yeah, I'm pretty much fine now and laughing my ass off. Basically, my body started rejecting water whenever I tried to drink it. I had to get an IV drip so I could take in fluids without vomiting them back up. I can't eat anything really substantial for a couple of days, but I should be fine in the long term. Also, I get to tell people that I've been poisoned, which sounds so much cooler than "sick".
What's odd is that this exact thing happened to me a couple of years ago when I tried eating food from my workplace.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 01:05:10 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 12:58:04 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 12:55:13 AM
I may have stumbled upon a line of research.
I'm not sure if the question has ever even been asked. I really hope not.
That's going to have to remain vague for a while. Sorry about that.
Obviously.
When I asked my professor, he got this look on his face and said, "I don't know. You should look into that, see if the question has been asked before."
That sounds promising!
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 09, 2014, 01:13:31 AM
Nigel, I got no words for what's going on with your kid. I hope it all works out.
Thanks. I think she'll be OK. I hope so, anyway.
Quote from: Nigel on April 09, 2014, 06:53:52 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 01:05:10 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 12:58:04 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 12:55:13 AM
I may have stumbled upon a line of research.
I'm not sure if the question has ever even been asked. I really hope not.
That's going to have to remain vague for a while. Sorry about that.
Obviously.
When I asked my professor, he got this look on his face and said, "I don't know. You should look into that, see if the question has been asked before."
That sounds promising!
I'm actually really excited about it. I asked the question out of earshot because the professor said something, and it was one of those things where you notice that you yourself make a facial expression when the thought occurs to you.
Tonight may have decided whether or not I go into biological research or biotech.
The crap part is now wading through a shit ton of articles.
Twid,
Science life, yo
Quote from: President Television on April 09, 2014, 02:33:40 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 09, 2014, 01:48:51 AM
Quote from: President Television on April 09, 2014, 01:46:56 AM
So I got to go to the hospital today. Thanks, vodka!
Glad you're presumably ok. And vodka will do that.
Yeah, I'm pretty much fine now and laughing my ass off. Basically, my body started rejecting water whenever I tried to drink it. I had to get an IV drip so I could take in fluids without vomiting them back up. I can't eat anything really substantial for a couple of days, but I should be fine in the long term. Also, I get to tell people that I've been poisoned, which sounds so much cooler than "sick".
What's odd is that this exact thing happened to me a couple of years ago when I tried eating food from my workplace.
....
I'm glad you're ok.
90% of my research is now done. I just need to go through some journal articles for the past decade (titles only, thank God) and then start writing.
On the plus side, I have now discovered that Youtube will now allow me to resume interrupted downloads. At least, it seems to be, with my current one. So, hopefully, in an hour or so, a video will be up. And I'll get another one uploaded shortly after.
Video up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z15ZCo2dow). No commentary, but there is an awesome soundtrack, if I do say so myself.
Watching now.
Also, Prez Telly: Try not to do that too often.
Edited to add: How's Dishonored going?
Been neglecting it horribly. It's somewhat taxing on my laptop's capabilities, so it's not possible to play and record while uploading other stuff, unlike with DAO. It's something I'll be rectifying once this essay is over and done with (just over a week's time).
Creepy neighbors moved out.
Creepy cockroaches moved up to my floor.
I may not have an immaculately clean apartment, but I. DO. NOT. DEAL. WITH. GERMAN. COCKROACHES.
Complex is aware of the situation, and the strike team is hitting the apartment on Monday. Until then, I'm getting baits.
I hate everyone today.
Quote from: Nigel on April 09, 2014, 03:18:06 PM
I hate everyone today.
Spread it around. It's what I'm doing.
So, someone in Kiev, someone in Donetsk and someone in Minsk, Belarus, all decided to read a thread of mine at the same time.
Not the most current one about the Ukraine crisis.
But I'm sure it's just coincidence.
Quote from: Nigel on April 09, 2014, 03:18:06 PM
I hate everyone today.
I just want everyone around me to CALM THE FUCK DOWN.
Everything is running great, we're meeting shipping schedules, etc, for the first time in ages, and everyone is still stuck in emergency mode.
I have also run out of patience with Angry Ed's anger.
If anyone wants to run 91.124.83.41, 178.216.123.170 and 93.125.126.232 through some geolocation mechanisms, please feel free. I'm trying my usual, normally reliable site, but I'm getting suspiciously non-useful information, considering the circumstances.
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 03:58:06 PM
If anyone wants to run 91.124.83.41, 178.216.123.170 and 93.125.126.232 through some geolocation mechanisms, please feel free. I'm trying my usual, normally reliable site, but I'm getting suspiciously non-useful information, considering the circumstances.
First one resolves to Kiev/Ukraine
Second one to Kiev/Ukraine
Third one to Minsk/Belarus
Thanks, anything else? They just seemed to give state telecom information for the ISP, no organisation or anything like that. Same for you?
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 04:02:42 PM
Thanks, anything else? They just seemed to give state telecom information for the ISP, no organisation or anything like that. Same for you?
Correct. Region stats were populated, but no organizations.
I got dirt on me. :argh!:
Now for more pit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 04:26:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 04:02:42 PM
Thanks, anything else? They just seemed to give state telecom information for the ISP, no organisation or anything like that. Same for you?
Correct. Region stats were populated, but no organizations.
Bleh. Don't these people know staring is rude. At least say hello.
Preferably not with a molotov cocktail at 3am.
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 04:29:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 04:26:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 04:02:42 PM
Thanks, anything else? They just seemed to give state telecom information for the ISP, no organisation or anything like that. Same for you?
Correct. Region stats were populated, but no organizations.
Bleh. Don't these people know staring is rude. At least say hello.
Preferably not with a molotov cocktail at 3am.
I think you're being a little culturally insensitive, here. It's how they say they love you.
If we don't hear from you in the next 48 hours, should we be concerned?
Actually, that should be a standing request for most PD people. You are all a bunch of risk-taking motherfuckers.
Probably. Since I'll be online most of tomorrow. Or intend to be, anyway.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 09, 2014, 05:55:44 PM
Actually, that should be a standing request for most PD people. You are all a bunch of risk-taking motherfuckers.
Not me.
TGRR,
Getting in EoC's car, don't give a FUCK. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 03:53:51 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 09, 2014, 03:18:06 PM
I hate everyone today.
I just want everyone around me to CALM THE FUCK DOWN.
Everything is running great, we're meeting shipping schedules, etc, for the first time in ages, and everyone is still stuck in emergency mode.
I have also run out of patience with Angry Ed's anger.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 09, 2014, 03:39:17 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 09, 2014, 03:18:06 PM
I hate everyone today.
Spread it around. It's what I'm doing.
Somehow, I feel like you ought to be able to leverage Junkenstein to do something with Angry Ed's anger.
I JUST GOT HOME. HOW IS IT ALREADY THREE O'CLOCK?
Goddammit.
Everything changed from "Do it yesterday" to "Hurry up and wait".
I have no first hand experience, but if there was ever an industry that seems to model itself on the military, it's this one.
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 04:29:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 09, 2014, 04:26:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 09, 2014, 04:02:42 PM
Thanks, anything else? They just seemed to give state telecom information for the ISP, no organisation or anything like that. Same for you?
Correct. Region stats were populated, but no organizations.
Bleh. Don't these people know staring is rude. At least say hello.
Preferably not with a molotov cocktail at 3am.
Have you got a list of vaugely suspicious IP resolves relating to this forum? Offhand, I can recall more than a few and I would assume there are many more than that. It's been going on for some years now and it's probably worth it's own thread at this point.
Eh, not especially. A lot of the IPs that seem to follow my posts in particular resolve to Amazon and similar, which suggest they're probably part of some NSA dragnet or another. Sadly, I'm definitely not covered by any 4th amendment provisions because FISA. So I sorta expect that.
The former Soviet Union is a new one, though. I have no idea why three people, at least one of which was in a different country from the other two, would be looking at an old thread of mine.
If something goes down in the Ukraine in the next couple of days, people will have questions for you.
Was this thread http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24624.msg849832#msg849832
It's a good thread, don't get me wrong. Just....irrelevant to anything going on in that part of the world right now.
I'm not so sure.
There's probably a government post opening up soon for foreign affairs advisor. Badly spelt emails with a job offer may be amusingly legitimate.
Total aside, there's more than a few PD posters who would be actually quite good in governmental positions.
I have a critical lift to oversee today. When that's done, I'm adding a chapter to the pit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 02:02:11 PM
I have a critical lift to oversee today. When that's done, I'm adding a chapter to the pit.
Amusingly, I'm charging standing time on a 750T because an ultra critical lift is now not happening until whenever.
The bill is eye watering, even by my standards.
Do you even lift critically bro?
I went out for a drink with three of my friends last night, at a bar of their choosing, where well pours are $6. During the evening, my lab buddy calls to make plans to get together today for brunch to discuss our term project. Not having gone out for brunch since approximately 2003, I ask my friends for a suggestion. "Tasty & Sons!" they cheerfully chorus, "or Equinox!"
I stare at them for a moment. Then, I say "How about a place with student-friendly prices?"
They look blank. "Tasty is pretty student-friendly" says one.
They are completely out of touch. $14 plates is not student-friendly. I feel strangely disconnected from them, and their financial worries are completely foreign to me. Having to dip into savings for a vacation? What's that? "Savings"? "Vacation"?
My financial aid disbursed yesterday. $2900. Most of it goes into my bank account, because my scholarship covered my tuition. I have $1200 in the bank, and another $1000 coming from my tax refund. I owe PSU $800 for my geology class. I owe my mortgage company $4500, but if I jump on it before the 15th, I can pay them $3000 and roll the other $1500 into what I'll owe when summer term comes. My tags have been expired for almost a year, but my car needs work I can't afford, so I just don't drive anymore. I'm thinking about selling it to cover the mortgage. My friend's boyfriend just bought her a new car. $45,000.
I don't tell them any of this, while they go on to talk about how they can only afford to spend $350k on a house, TOPS, because they qualify for more but they only have $35k to put down.
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 03:39:20 PM
I went out for a drink with three of my friends last night, at a bar of their choosing, where well pours are $6. During the evening, my lab buddy calls to make plans to get together today for brunch to discuss our term project. Not having gone out for brunch since approximately 2003, I ask my friends for a suggestion. "Tasty & Sons!" they cheerfully chorus, "or Equinox!"
I stare at them for a moment. Then, I say "How about a place with student-friendly prices?"
They look blank. "Tasty is pretty student-friendly" says one.
They are completely out of touch. $14 plates is not student-friendly. I feel strangely disconnected from them, and their financial worries are completely foreign to me. Having to dip into savings for a vacation? What's that? "Savings"? "Vacation"?
My financial aid disbursed yesterday. $2900. Most of it goes into my bank account, because my scholarship covered my tuition. I have $1200 in the bank, and another $1000 coming from my tax refund. I owe PSU $800 for my geology class. I owe my mortgage company $4500, but if I jump on it before the 15th, I can pay them $3000 and roll the other $1500 into what I'll owe when summer term comes. My tags have been expired for almost a year, but my car needs work I can't afford, so I just don't drive anymore. I'm thinking about selling it to cover the mortgage. My friend's boyfriend just bought her a new car. $45,000.
I don't tell them any of this, while they go on to talk about how they can only afford to spend $350k on a house, TOPS, because they qualify for more but they only have $35k to put down.
When my folks were grad students, my mother was out with some of her friends that weren't trying to support 4 people on a stipend. They all stopped for an ice cream cone. My mother didn't get one, and her friends were puzzled. After all, it was only a dime.
This was at a time when Rice-A-Roni was a luxury.
She didn't tell
them, either.
Also, http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=36411.msg1338592#new
So every bastard in Oro Valley can SHUT UP NOW or I will FUCK YOUR ASS UP WITH SHITTY STICKS and GOD PROBABLY WON'T INTERVENE.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 03:55:17 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 03:39:20 PM
I went out for a drink with three of my friends last night, at a bar of their choosing, where well pours are $6. During the evening, my lab buddy calls to make plans to get together today for brunch to discuss our term project. Not having gone out for brunch since approximately 2003, I ask my friends for a suggestion. "Tasty & Sons!" they cheerfully chorus, "or Equinox!"
I stare at them for a moment. Then, I say "How about a place with student-friendly prices?"
They look blank. "Tasty is pretty student-friendly" says one.
They are completely out of touch. $14 plates is not student-friendly. I feel strangely disconnected from them, and their financial worries are completely foreign to me. Having to dip into savings for a vacation? What's that? "Savings"? "Vacation"?
My financial aid disbursed yesterday. $2900. Most of it goes into my bank account, because my scholarship covered my tuition. I have $1200 in the bank, and another $1000 coming from my tax refund. I owe PSU $800 for my geology class. I owe my mortgage company $4500, but if I jump on it before the 15th, I can pay them $3000 and roll the other $1500 into what I'll owe when summer term comes. My tags have been expired for almost a year, but my car needs work I can't afford, so I just don't drive anymore. I'm thinking about selling it to cover the mortgage. My friend's boyfriend just bought her a new car. $45,000.
I don't tell them any of this, while they go on to talk about how they can only afford to spend $350k on a house, TOPS, because they qualify for more but they only have $35k to put down.
When my folks were grad students, my mother was out with some of her friends that weren't trying to support 4 people on a stipend. They all stopped for an ice cream cone. My mother didn't get one, and her friends were puzzled. After all, it was only a dime.
This was at a time when Rice-A-Roni was a luxury.
She didn't tell them, either.
It's weird. I've never felt so disconnected from my friends, ever.
And the one with two Masters degrees is a prime example of working hard in school so that you never have to work again; she basically just fucks off on the internet all day and gets flown to conferences, and occasionally publishes an article. She's also constantly texting me in the middle of the day to see if I want to go for a walk or get coffee, because she's bored, and I'm like ???
Oh, Academia!
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:23:05 PM
It's weird. I've never felt so disconnected from my friends, ever.
Are they our age? Because 30s-40s people are often so comfortable (or at least accustomed to) where they landed in life that they assume everyone's in the same boat they are. This can be a problem, as in your case and also in the different case of EVERYONE I KNOW in Tucson that's my age. They drink non-stop and jabber about Alex Jones. And they assume YOU want to, as well.
And yet flamethrowers are still for some reason illegal. It's simply not fair.
Basically, hanging out with your incredibly successful friends is fun when you're a successful artist with too much money, but kind of fucking depressing when you're a broke-ass student. :lol:
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:30:25 PM
Basically, hanging out with your incredibly successful friends is fun when you're a successful artist with too much money, but kind of fucking depressing when you're a broke-ass student. :lol:
Have any of them told you to count your blessings? Because you can legally kill them if they do that.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 04:26:34 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:23:05 PM
It's weird. I've never felt so disconnected from my friends, ever.
Are they our age? Because 30s-40s people are often so comfortable (or at least accustomed to) where they landed in life that they assume everyone's in the same boat they are. This can be a problem, as in your case and also in the different case of EVERYONE I KNOW in Tucson that's my age. They drink non-stop and jabber about Alex Jones. And they assume YOU want to, as well.
And yet flamethrowers are still for some reason illegal. It's simply not fair.
Yeah, I'm the oldest and they're all mid-thirties to early forties. Funny thing is, it doesn't seem that long ago that I was buying THEM drinks and food while they finished grad school.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 04:31:42 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:30:25 PM
Basically, hanging out with your incredibly successful friends is fun when you're a successful artist with too much money, but kind of fucking depressing when you're a broke-ass student. :lol:
Have any of them told you to count your blessings? Because you can legally kill them if they do that.
Not YET.
Also, weirdly, only one of them has kids. I'm for the most part the only person in my social circle, other than Cordelia The Enucleator, who has reproduced. A couple of my other friends have kids, but I never see them anymore (well, one of them was always kind of a hermit, one of them is an MD and doesn't have time to socialize, and one of them moved to Bainbridge Island to start a bakery, so there are good reasons).
It's so weird because I was wildly successful and the first to own a house and have kids and all the other trappings of adulthood in my 20's and 30's, and now it's like I've regressed and am doing the poor broke student shit that they did while I was doing the glass artist thing. Probably some kind of poetic justice in there.
I am certainly complainy today.
In happy news, I got into the geology field research class I wanted, and I might be able to do my 20 hours of biology field studies in the medical lab at Outside In, thanks to one of the friends I was just complaining about who is a higher-up there and can probably work something out for me.
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:40:50 PM
It's so weird because I was wildly successful and the first to own a house and have kids and all the other trappings of adulthood in my 20's and 30's, and now it's like I've regressed and am doing the poor broke shit that they did while I was doing the glass artist thing. Probably some kind of poetic justice in there.
Dunno. You're rebooting, which I find interesting as all hell (though I am not suggesting that it is easy, fun, or designed to interest me or anyone else). I've done that before, but never in such an all-encompassing way...And certainly never with a raft of dependents.
You won't be sitting around at age 80, cursing yourself for having wasted your life. That might not be important to you, but to me, it's my greatest fear.
That's my plan for post grad school - fly to conferences, write occasional articles, fuck around on the internet all day and get coffee otherwise.
However, at the moment, I'm looking at an internship with a magazine. I'm probably going to be 10 years older than everyone else applying, but it's at least a paid position, and it's better work than guarding empty buildings late at night.
Nigel, that sounds like it sucks.
Roger, I fear the same thing.
Cain, that sounds like an improvement.
I'll be going offline now because apparently i cannot form an actual thought at the moment.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 04:43:56 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:40:50 PM
It's so weird because I was wildly successful and the first to own a house and have kids and all the other trappings of adulthood in my 20's and 30's, and now it's like I've regressed and am doing the poor broke shit that they did while I was doing the glass artist thing. Probably some kind of poetic justice in there.
Dunno. You're rebooting, which I find interesting as all hell (though I am not suggesting that it is easy, fun, or designed to interest me or anyone else). I've done that before, but never in such an all-encompassing way...And certainly never with a raft of dependents.
You won't be sitting around at age 80, cursing yourself for having wasted your life. That might not be important to you, but to me, it's my greatest fear.
I hope to still be working at 80, doing research and giving interviews. That's
my American dream. :lol:
I want to someday be a line of trivia; "Did you know that Dr. Nigel didn't start college until she was 40 years old?"
I'd just like to be employed after grad school. Thinking short-term goals, here.
Also, why do people think veganism is a good way to lose weight? Congrats, you kicked meat and dairy and live off of vegetables and carb, and now you can eat all the Oreo cookies you want because the cream ain't real cream. Good luck on that diet. Oh, you're still drinking beer and wine because yeast is a microorganism and doesn't count? Oh, silly me, that's how you get your B vitamins, of course. :roll:
I AM SO TIRED OF PACKING AND MOVING I COULD PUKE ASS COLOURED RAINBOWS
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 10, 2014, 05:20:05 PM
I AM SO TIRED OF PACKING AND MOVING I COULD PUKE ASS COLOURED RAINBOWS
I hear you.
-Suu
Still not fully unpacked. Doesn't care anymore.
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 05:04:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 04:43:56 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:40:50 PM
It's so weird because I was wildly successful and the first to own a house and have kids and all the other trappings of adulthood in my 20's and 30's, and now it's like I've regressed and am doing the poor broke shit that they did while I was doing the glass artist thing. Probably some kind of poetic justice in there.
Dunno. You're rebooting, which I find interesting as all hell (though I am not suggesting that it is easy, fun, or designed to interest me or anyone else). I've done that before, but never in such an all-encompassing way...And certainly never with a raft of dependents.
You won't be sitting around at age 80, cursing yourself for having wasted your life. That might not be important to you, but to me, it's my greatest fear.
I hope to still be working at 80, doing research and giving interviews. That's my American dream. :lol:
I want to someday be a line of trivia; "Did you know that Dr. Nigel didn't start college until she was 40 years old?"
"Noble Prize winning researcher and convicted serial flenser Dr Nigel did not begin her academic career until she was 40 years old. She was some sort of artist before that, but frankly, we were afraid to ask, on account of what happened to Bob over at NBC."
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Also, why do people think veganism is a good way to lose weight?
What people?
(http://i.imgur.com/uwyYr.png)
:lulz:
AHAHAHAHAH!!!! Pepsi just came out my nose. Nice, Cain, nice.
"Canadian Police" :lulz:
Meat Privilege.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 06:21:23 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Also, why do people think veganism is a good way to lose weight?
What people?
A friend of mine I've known for ages, but we were talking on Facebook. She's always blabbing about how "fat" she is (she's like a size 6) and now she became a vegan with the sole reason of losing weight, except that she gained weight, and she has no idea what to do. Then said, "Oh hey, do you know Oreos are vegan?!" She PMed me to ask how I was losing weight.
:spag:
Basically, she decided that her version of veganism for weight loss was going to be ditching all evil meat and dairy, and loading on raw vegetables and...wait for it..."brown" carbohydrates. So, as long as they aren't baked with milk, and they aren't refined white carbs, it's okay.
:kingmeh:
Edit: She just told me she's switching to an all-juice diet to see if that will help. Even after I told her she should probably just balance her meals better and actually get off her ass or something.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/10/new-tests-show-evidence-forgery-gospel-jesus-wife/IusII8b4eI86HgDTKipLhN/story.html
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 07:51:57 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 06:21:23 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Also, why do people think veganism is a good way to lose weight?
What people?
A friend of mine I've known for ages, but we were talking on Facebook. She's always blabbing about how "fat" she is (she's like a size 6) and now she became a vegan with the sole reason of losing weight, except that she gained weight, and she has no idea what to do. Then said, "Oh hey, do you know Oreos are vegan?!" She PMed me to ask how I was losing weight.
:spag:
Basically, she decided that her version of veganism for weight loss was going to be ditching all evil meat and dairy, and loading on raw vegetables and...wait for it..."brown" carbohydrates. So, as long as they aren't baked with milk, and they aren't refined white carbs, it's okay.
:kingmeh:
Edit: She just told me she's switching to an all-juice diet to see if that will help. Even after I told her she should probably just balance her meals better and actually get off her ass or something.
Put her in contact with me. I have a weight loss program that is EQUALLY SCIENTIFIC
and Holy™ to boot. Cheap.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/10/new-tests-show-evidence-forgery-gospel-jesus-wife/IusII8b4eI86HgDTKipLhN/story.html
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
There is no way a Jewish man in Judea around 30 CE wasn't married. However, this is a great find. As a classicist, I'm stoked, and I bet Phox is more so, since she's done a lot of work with early Judeo-Christian pieces.
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there is no situation. Or recognizable face!
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Also, why do people think veganism is a good way to lose weight?
What people?
A friend of mine I've known for ages, but we were talking on Facebook. She's always blabbing about how "fat" she is (she's like a size 6) and now she became a vegan with the sole reason of losing weight, except that she gained weight, and she has no idea what to do. Then said, "Oh hey, do you know Oreos are vegan?!" She PMed me to ask how I was losing weight.
:spag:
Basically, she decided that her version of veganism for weight loss was going to be ditching all evil meat and dairy, and loading on raw vegetables and...wait for it..."brown" carbohydrates. So, as long as they aren't baked with milk, and they aren't refined white carbs, it's okay.
:kingmeh:
Edit: She just told me she's switching to an all-juice diet to see if that will help. Even after I told her she should probably just balance her meals better and actually get off her ass or something.
Put her in contact with me. I have a weight loss program that is EQUALLY SCIENTIFIC and Holy™ to boot. Cheap.
ROGER'S REGIMEN: WEIGHT LOSS AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE. BETTER THAN VEGANISM, GUARANTEED.
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 08:09:37 PM
ROGER'S REGIMEN: GUARANTEED WEIGHT LOSS AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE. BETTER THAN VEGANISM, GUARANTEED.
Financial options are available for those who qualify.
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there is no situation. Or recognizable face!
Then you're in jail and nobody's there to protect the kid.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:10:33 PM
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there is no situation. Or recognizable face!
Then you're in jail and nobody's there to protect the kid.
Yeah. Especially since I keep saying that. I need a stranger on a train.
This may just lead to a hasty exudos from AK. She is willing to flee the state much faster, I just need to figure out a place to land.
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there
is no situation. Or recognizable face!
Creepy. WTF? Has she been able to identify him or alert the police?
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 08:13:27 PM
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there
is no situation. Or recognizable face!
Creepy. WTF? Has she been able to identify him or alert the police?
He's the most recent ex and she.didnt file a report a few months back when my son.let him in.the door, he refused to leave saying "Call thr cops, go ahead, all the cops. I have pleaded with her to do so now.
Damn...
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:15:29 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 08:13:27 PM
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there
is no situation. Or recognizable face!
Creepy. WTF? Has she been able to identify him or alert the police?
He's the most recent ex and she.didnt file a report a few months back when my son.let him in.the door, he refused to leave saying "Call thr cops, go ahead, all the cops. I have pleaded with her to do so now.
Hopefully she will. That's just scary as hell, and your kid doesn't need to deal with any possible outcome otherwise.
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Well...then plant evidence that he's a vegan on his body.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:22:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Wait, you can get convicted for killing someone who isn't dead at all but merely buggered off to Istanbul?
How about murdering fictional characters?
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:25:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:22:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Wait, you can get convicted for killing someone who isn't dead at all but merely buggered off to Istanbul?
How about murdering fictional characters?
Yeah, and people have thereafter shown up and here's someone rotting in prison.
FUN FACT ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM: Just because someone else is found to have committed the crime and is convicted OR the guy was never murdered in the first place DOES NOT mean an automatic out for the poor bastard who was falsely convicted. In fact, in at least one case that I know of, the DA fought the overturning of a conviction along those lines.
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Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:25:50 PM
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Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Wait, you can get convicted for killing someone who isn't dead at all but merely buggered off to Istanbul?
How about murdering fictional characters?
Yeah, and people have thereafter shown up and here's someone rotting in prison.
FUN FACT ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM: Just because someone else is found to have committed the crime and is convicted OR the guy was never murdered in the first place DOES NOT mean an automatic out for the poor bastard who was falsely convicted. In fact, in at least one case that I know of, the DA fought the overturning of a conviction along those lines.
...
I offer my condolences to you and your countrymen.
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:32:45 PM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:22:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Wait, you can get convicted for killing someone who isn't dead at all but merely buggered off to Istanbul?
How about murdering fictional characters?
Yeah, and people have thereafter shown up and here's someone rotting in prison.
FUN FACT ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM: Just because someone else is found to have committed the crime and is convicted OR the guy was never murdered in the first place DOES NOT mean an automatic out for the poor bastard who was falsely convicted. In fact, in at least one case that I know of, the DA fought the overturning of a conviction along those lines.
...
I offer my condolences to you and your countrymen.
We're mildy brain damaged, so we mostly don't notice this sort of shit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:38:41 PM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:29:19 PM
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:25:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:22:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Wait, you can get convicted for killing someone who isn't dead at all but merely buggered off to Istanbul?
How about murdering fictional characters?
Yeah, and people have thereafter shown up and here's someone rotting in prison.
FUN FACT ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM: Just because someone else is found to have committed the crime and is convicted OR the guy was never murdered in the first place DOES NOT mean an automatic out for the poor bastard who was falsely convicted. In fact, in at least one case that I know of, the DA fought the overturning of a conviction along those lines.
...
I offer my condolences to you and your countrymen.
We're mildy brain damaged, so we mostly don't notice this sort of shit.
Heh, we aren't exactly sane either:
The average voter for our currently biggest political party PVV says "All Morrocans should go back to Istanbul!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhxlHCvTLc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhxlHCvTLc)
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:46:57 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:38:41 PM
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:32:45 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:29:19 PM
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:25:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 08:22:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 10, 2014, 08:20:21 PM
It's only murder if they find a body.
What? I occasionally like to spout random facts about the legal system.
Not here.
Wait, you can get convicted for killing someone who isn't dead at all but merely buggered off to Istanbul?
How about murdering fictional characters?
Yeah, and people have thereafter shown up and here's someone rotting in prison.
FUN FACT ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM: Just because someone else is found to have committed the crime and is convicted OR the guy was never murdered in the first place DOES NOT mean an automatic out for the poor bastard who was falsely convicted. In fact, in at least one case that I know of, the DA fought the overturning of a conviction along those lines.
...
I offer my condolences to you and your countrymen.
We're mildy brain damaged, so we mostly don't notice this sort of shit.
Heh, we aren't exactly sane either:
The average voter for our currently biggest political party PVV says "All Morrocans should go back to Istanbul!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhxlHCvTLc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhxlHCvTLc)
:um:
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Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 04:40:50 PM
It's so weird because I was wildly successful and the first to own a house and have kids and all the other trappings of adulthood in my 20's and 30's, and now it's like I've regressed and am doing the poor broke shit that they did while I was doing the glass artist thing. Probably some kind of poetic justice in there.
Dunno. You're rebooting, which I find interesting as all hell (though I am not suggesting that it is easy, fun, or designed to interest me or anyone else). I've done that before, but never in such an all-encompassing way...And certainly never with a raft of dependents.
You won't be sitting around at age 80, cursing yourself for having wasted your life. That might not be important to you, but to me, it's my greatest fear.
I hope to still be working at 80, doing research and giving interviews. That's my American dream. :lol:
I want to someday be a line of trivia; "Did you know that Dr. Nigel didn't start college until she was 40 years old?"
"Noble Prize winning researcher and convicted serial flenser Dr Nigel did not begin her academic career until she was 40 years old. She was some sort of artist before that, but frankly, we were afraid to ask, on account of what happened to Bob over at NBC."
:lol:
Quote from: Regret on April 10, 2014, 08:25:50 PM
How about murdering fictional characters?
George RR Martin is in sooooo much trouble...
Quote from: Alty on April 10, 2014, 08:08:15 PM
The Boy's mom has a drunk, heavily armed stalker!
He was watching me as I spent the day at her place taking care of The Boy!
I would like to apply a crowbar to this situation until there is no situation. Or recognizable face!
The place you live is horrible.
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
I'm taking a goddamn Xanax.
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
girl ? have U even gone in to talk to Ruth????/
Quote from: hirley0 on April 10, 2014, 10:50:31 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
girl ? have U even gone in to talk to Ruth????/
No, who's Ruth?
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 11:14:47 PM
Quote from: hirley0 on April 10, 2014, 10:50:31 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
girl ? have U even gone in to talk to Ruth????/
Talk To Ruth, or swap thing?
No, who's Ruth?
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
Gah, sorry to hear that, Nigel.
Quote from: Pæs on April 10, 2014, 11:36:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
Gah, sorry to hear that, Nigel.
It was a bit of a shocker.
I'll be over here in a fetal position if anyone needs me.
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
5 credits total or 5 classes? If you can sneak it one more credit somehow you can qualify for federal aid, because that's less than half-time enrollment otherwise.
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 11:40:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
5 credits total or 5 classes? If you can sneak it one more credit somehow you can qualify for federal aid, because that's less than half-time enrollment otherwise.
Pretty sure she said 5 credits. Pretty sure that's not all she's taking.
Quote from: Facebook FriendTHIS ARTICLE HEADLINE MADE ME SO MAD I COULDN'T EVEN READ IT, JUST SKIMMED STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE PETITION TO SIGN IT.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
:cpd:
That is all I have to say about today this week forever.
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 11:40:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
5 credits total or 5 classes? If you can sneak it one more credit somehow you can qualify for federal aid, because that's less than half-time enrollment otherwise.
Dude, don't be a dipshit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 11:53:00 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 10, 2014, 11:40:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
5 credits total or 5 classes? If you can sneak it one more credit somehow you can qualify for federal aid, because that's less than half-time enrollment otherwise.
Pretty sure she said 5 credits. Pretty sure that's not all she's taking.
Yeah. I do, in fact, understand what words mean when I say them.
Tomorrow I leave for a week, to tell the country of Wales what. Apparently their coastline is HARDCORE!!! We'll see about that. I'ma make The Bitches (http://www.the-bitches.co.uk/) my bitch. Plant my feet in the Witches Cauldron - a beach you can only stand on by floating in a very small boat, swimming or abseiling in through the roof. Cliffs, caves, tiderace playspots. One week of my idea of heaven.
Jam packed with the welsh :argh!:
Pics when I'm back online/out of jail
Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
I can sympathize, though, not entirely (never had a car to sell nor children to feed, for example). From September 2014-May 2015 is all out of pocket (June 2015 is when I transfer to UMass and am eligible for more financial aid). Of course that's two full time semesters. Out of pocket.
Funny enough the bill for Fall semester is due on my birthday.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 11, 2014, 07:09:13 AM
Tomorrow I leave for a week, to tell the country of Wales what. Apparently their coastline is HARDCORE!!! We'll see about that. I'ma make The Bitches (http://www.the-bitches.co.uk/) my bitch. Plant my feet in the Witches Cauldron - a beach you can only stand on by floating in a very small boat, swimming or abseiling in through the roof. Cliffs, caves, tiderace playspots. One week of my idea of heaven.
Jam packed with the welsh :argh!:
Pics when I'm back online/out of jail
If you pass by this way, I'll pay good money for edible food from the motherland. Otherwise, enjoy yourself, I'll listen out for the screams.
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 05:51:07 AM
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Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
5 credits total or 5 classes? If you can sneak it one more credit somehow you can qualify for federal aid, because that's less than half-time enrollment otherwise.
Pretty sure she said 5 credits. Pretty sure that's not all she's taking.
Yeah. I do, in fact, understand what words mean when I say them.
:lol:
You keep forgetting that that is extraordinary.
http://www.tv2.no/a/5496086
Norwegian article.
Bjørn (64) found dildo in cod's stomach
It's a vibrator though, so fact check fail.
That guy looks so happy.
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
Whose job was it to check the shaft?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 11, 2014, 01:52:58 PM
Whose job was it to check the shaft?
Nobody's. We feel that might be demeaning or even offensive.
I suppose your work environment is hostile enough.
Quote from: Regret on April 11, 2014, 08:09:21 AM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 10, 2014, 11:53:00 PM
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Quote from: Nigel on April 10, 2014, 09:23:51 PM
I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
5 credits total or 5 classes? If you can sneak it one more credit somehow you can qualify for federal aid, because that's less than half-time enrollment otherwise.
Pretty sure she said 5 credits. Pretty sure that's not all she's taking.
Yeah. I do, in fact, understand what words mean when I say them.
:lol:
You keep forgetting that that is extraordinary.
:lol: I guess I figured that people here would know that by now. And also, not that I expect anyone to be up to date on the trivial details of my life, but it seemed like
maybe it's been clear that I've been a full-time student for the last two years. The truly observant might even have picked up on the fact that I'm taking some science classes. I wouldn't expect anyone other than Twid and Roger to have noticed which ones, but yeah, that's been part of my ongoing narrative since 2012.
So, yeah, to recap: taking ten credits at the community college to finish foundational chemistry and biology, and four (was, briefly, five, but I dropped the field trip) credits at the university, to enable me to get paid for the job that will ultimately pay far less than the extra tuition and fees for just this one 200-level class.
And then they charged me $80 to drop the field trip.
Seriously, so much bullshit.
Quote from: Allfather Waffles on April 11, 2014, 09:02:21 AM
http://www.tv2.no/a/5496086
Norwegian article.
Bjørn (64) found dildo in cod's stomach
It's a vibrator though, so fact check fail.
:horrormirth:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 01:45:08 PM
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
FFS. :lol:
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 02:47:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 01:45:08 PM
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
FFS. :lol:
It's like we're all Sisyphus here.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 02:54:42 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 02:47:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 01:45:08 PM
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
FFS. :lol:
It's like we're all Sisyphus here.
I was going to ask whether you've ever considered that maybe you're actually in Hell, and then I remembered that yes, in fact, you have.
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 02:54:42 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 02:47:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 01:45:08 PM
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
FFS. :lol:
It's like we're all Sisyphus here.
I was going to ask whether you've ever considered that maybe you're actually in Hell, and then I remembered that yes, in fact, you have.
This has been established. Not HELL, more like HECK.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 03:04:48 PM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 02:54:42 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 02:47:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 01:45:08 PM
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
FFS. :lol:
It's like we're all Sisyphus here.
I was going to ask whether you've ever considered that maybe you're actually in Hell, and then I remembered that yes, in fact, you have.
This has been established. Not HELL, more like HECK.
:lulz: Heck: more mediocre than Hell, and therefore inexplicably worse.
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 03:16:54 PM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 02:54:42 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 02:47:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 01:45:08 PM
The lift we did yesterday went perfectly. Flawlessly. Couldn't have gone better.
UNTIL
The shaft we were putting the gearbox on turned out to be bent. So we do it again today.
FFS. :lol:
It's like we're all Sisyphus here.
I was going to ask whether you've ever considered that maybe you're actually in Hell, and then I remembered that yes, in fact, you have.
This has been established. Not HELL, more like HECK.
:lulz: Heck: more mediocre than Hell, and therefore inexplicably worse.
Yeah, in hell you'd meet more interesting people.
More pit today, at some point.
Had a serious dose of Murphy and Finagle this morning. Luckily, what I was doing was small-scale and resulted in nothing but inconvenience to myself; no actual damage. But the bullshit just kept coming at a steady rate for about 3 hours.
I know I ran all these reports just a month ago.
Why can't I think straight enough to just knock them out again?
Y'alls lives are full of suckage. So is mine but at least i planted some peas, lettuce, watermelon and unknown seeds today. Also, I started a new hermetically sealed (half-assed sealing as usual) bottle-ecology today. This time i am using morning glory instead of strawberry because strawberry does not respond well to enclosed spaces and the hardware store had morning glory seeds. The unknown seeds i planted came from my mom, the bottle said "Parsley (?), Marjoram or Opium." I have no idea how she couldn't tell what was in teh bottle because i am pretty sure those plants have quite distinct looks.
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I just found out that my PSU bill for 5 credits is more than $2k.
I guess I'm selling my car.
girl ? have U even gone in to talk to Ruth????/
No, who's Ruth?
/She is the head at the Anthro department ? just a min?/?
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tell her i sent U
to check her WOODEN spoon handle
she is the one with the ORa in her hand {Maybe:
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
Hung out with the neighbor all day. We're both very disappointed that we couldn't do anything with the neighbors, but we're going to start bow shooting together on a weekly basis in the event of Hunger Games. This disturbs both of our husbands, but they're glad to know that when they get deployed we'll be able to survive.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
I just wrote down all the plant parts and their definitions.
All of them. :argh!:
Oh, fuck, except for flowers. I hate flowers.
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 08:39:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
I just wrote down all the plant parts and their definitions.
All of them. :argh!:
Oh, fuck, except for flowers. I hate flowers.
Nobody likes flowers. Except the Red Queen, and she was a psychopath, which tells you all you need to know about people who like flowers.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 08:45:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 08:39:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
I just wrote down all the plant parts and their definitions.
All of them. :argh!:
Oh, fuck, except for flowers. I hate flowers.
Nobody likes flowers. Except the Red Queen, and she was a psychopath, which tells you all you need to know about people who like flowers.
You mean those things that alcoholics steal from the cemetery to give to their wives when they've been out all night?
ECH'S DAY OFF.
WARNING: NSFW EVEN A BIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 08:45:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 08:39:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
I just wrote down all the plant parts and their definitions.
All of them. :argh!:
Oh, fuck, except for flowers. I hate flowers.
Nobody likes flowers. Except the Red Queen, and she was a psychopath, which tells you all you need to know about people who like flowers.
But I lik... Never mind.
Quote from: Luna on April 11, 2014, 09:28:00 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 08:45:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 08:39:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
I just wrote down all the plant parts and their definitions.
All of them. :argh!:
Oh, fuck, except for flowers. I hate flowers.
Nobody likes flowers. Except the Red Queen, and she was a psychopath, which tells you all you need to know about people who like flowers.
But I lik... Never mind.
Do I really need to bring up all those rotting bodies in your back yard?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 09:28:42 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 11, 2014, 09:28:00 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 08:45:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 08:39:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 11, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2014, 07:21:54 PM
I dropped the field trip and the guy at Registration knocked a grand off my bill. That was friendly of him. Then I gave all my money to the cashier. It's still almost $1300 for, basically, four credits, but $500 of that is a matriculation fee and a quarterly bus pass.
Next term shouldn't be as bad, because my credit-to-fee ratio will be much higher. I just have to, y'know, survive this term.
Speaking of which, I need to get off the internet and do some bio studying.
See you when you surface for air. :wave:
I just wrote down all the plant parts and their definitions.
All of them. :argh!:
Oh, fuck, except for flowers. I hate flowers.
Nobody likes flowers. Except the Red Queen, and she was a psychopath, which tells you all you need to know about people who like flowers.
But I lik... Never mind.
Do I really need to bring up all those rotting bodies in your back yard?
Those are experiments. When I get the formula right, my armies will rise, and...
Um...
Yeah, I blame Richter.
3:03-THUS: walking West West on the sunny side of the street (N)
carying water to the flower seeds i had deposited on the east side of
11th
the day before? i could see the camera deployed on the corner of
Main & 11th | the person who was standing in the L&F door
whom the camera was pointed at. then i saw the live sign on the
side of the camera about 2/3 of the way across Main. no sign of
which channel on the side of the large camera? then today tuning
past ch8 i think i saw the person standing in the door was one
of the kgw weather crew ????/ i did drop a few drops
of water off my finger tips upon stepping up on the curb, to
round the corner onto 11th AVe and emptying the rest into
the dirt were the flower seeds had been place {yeah never mind
this was a tail about some Pnks {Dianthus? planted on Broadway
years ago, near the Native center. its a very small cluster
up from the corner of Jackson past the building on the right {NASCC
where the fence corner exists .|_
the point is after NYPD was involved in outing me from Stoott
over the illedged use of computers in the Gym etc etc,
i sort of abandon the upkeep of Dianthus there at that point
years pat an Morning Glories too over the fence corner
now someone ? or thing has killed of the MG
no i donno
maybe some spray was used
the last i saw of the Russin delagation was in Newburger
they deploy mostly as maintenance people / with 2way$
however have a room ?/? nh430m {Maybe |x_
where they keep the old 16 mm film | psu1969
Made for prime tme Ch2,6,8,10,&12 {never mind 16mm stuff
i did see the Chineese proff
in the safeway line 2 days ago
so ask across isles about the strike
he told me it was over / /\/o
he sure look displeased to be questioned
about events in April 3:33&1/3
I had a dream last night I flounced from PD. Which is really bullshit, because one never truly flounces. You always find your way home, like a sad old dog, even if you were left in the woods to die.
That's pretty much the truth.
I actually managed to hammer out a surprising amount of crap yesterday, so today my to-do list is reasonably short.
Still impossible, but really only 5 line items and I'm halfway through one of them.
I wonder if I've expressed just how utterly I hate chemistry? Yeah, I hate it.
My dad is here "educating" me on some of the same things he's been educating me on for the last 20 years. I don't know what it is about guys of a certain age who love to lecture, but jesus it's tiresome. History lectures all up and down this bitch. If I wanted to know, I'd look it up in a book.
ALSO I TOTALLY DIDN'T TAKE HISTORY CLASSES BECAUSE I DON'T FUCKING CARE. I DON'T CARE I DON'T CARE I DON'T CARE STOP TALKING DAD.
It's a combination of unbelievably boring and shit I already know. Oh god he's going to start talking about war next, I just know it.
Turns out the government took 20% of my pay, despite me not earning enough to get taxed.
I'm mildly annoyed by this. I'm even more annoyed that, when I relayed this information to my parents, their response was bullshit along the lines of "everyone has to pay taxes". Yeah, and if I were bitching about that, then your response would actually make sense. I've never complained about paying taxes, I am annoyed however when I lose 1/5th of my pay for no good reason.
I'm actually more annoyed at being treated like a moron than I am about losing the pay.
Quote from: Cain on April 12, 2014, 06:34:15 PM
Turns out the government took 20% of my pay, despite me not earning enough to get taxed.
I'm mildly annoyed by this. I'm even more annoyed that, when I relayed this information to my parents, their response was bullshit along the lines of "everyone has to pay taxes". Yeah, and if I were bitching about that, then your response would actually make sense. I've never complained about paying taxes, I am annoyed however when I lose 1/5th of my pay for no good reason.
I'm actually more annoyed at being treated like a moron than I am about losing the pay.
It's not taxes, it's an interest-free loan!
:lol:
True. Good thing I don't need that money right away, or I'd really be screwed.
So my car died. There is an oil leak from somewhere above the starter, and stick a fork in it, because that starter is DONE. I am wondering if I shouldn't sell it, and then use the money to get notebook or something and some internet subsidy whatsit program, and just ride the bus. I'll get a car when I get enough for a downpayment on one from a job, it might be better.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on April 13, 2014, 01:50:04 AM
So my car died. There is an oil leak from somewhere above the starter, and stick a fork in it, because that starter is DONE. I am wondering if I shouldn't sell it, and then use the money to get notebook or something and some internet subsidy whatsit program, and just ride the bus. I'll get a car when I get enough for a downpayment on one from a job, it might be better.
Starters are cheap, for what it's worth.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 13, 2014, 04:31:58 AM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on April 13, 2014, 01:50:04 AM
So my car died. There is an oil leak from somewhere above the starter, and stick a fork in it, because that starter is DONE. I am wondering if I shouldn't sell it, and then use the money to get notebook or something and some internet subsidy whatsit program, and just ride the bus. I'll get a car when I get enough for a downpayment on one from a job, it might be better.
Starters are cheap, for what it's worth.
Hella cheap, I've replaced 3.
Can be a PITA to replace though, depending on the car.
I am in New Bedford again.
I am so, soo happy about this.
Painfully happy.
Went away for a few days. To a weekend Fiber Expo thingie and a remarkably unremarkable hotel. Already tired of being back. WOO!
We finally found our apartment after 2 months of habitation. I can now eat on my kitchen table, rather than deal with moving sewing shit out of the way first. Exterminator is coming tomorrow to deal with the presents the neighbors left us, and all I can think about is The Naked Lunch.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 14, 2014, 01:46:51 AM
I am in New Bedford again.
I am so, soo happy about this.
Painfully happy.
Think how *I* feel.
Uuuuuuugggggggggggggh
Cain,
uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggghhhhhh
The day after nightshifts are over always sucks.
Company sold. Closing the end of June. Whether or not I will have a job after that completely unclear, but, as the new owners are based out of Arizona and Texas, i'm thinking it's unlikely.
I can not deal with this shit this week.
Quote from: Luna on April 14, 2014, 04:58:25 PM
Company sold. Closing the end of June. Whether or not I will have a job after that completely unclear, but, as the new owners are based out of Arizona and Texas, i'm thinking it's unlikely.
I can not deal with this shit this week.
Start your UI paperwork now, if you're lucky, Rhode Island will have it ready for you in 5 years.
You hated that place, anyway. You also seem to have an aptitude for both numbers, and dealing with assholes. Ever considered a move to HR?
Quote from: Luna on April 14, 2014, 04:58:25 PM
Company sold. Closing the end of June. Whether or not I will have a job after that completely unclear, but, as the new owners are based out of Arizona and Texas, i'm thinking it's unlikely.
I can not deal with this shit this week.
MAYBE YOU CAN TRANSFER IT'S GLORIOUS HERE WE NEVER CRY
Just in case anyone was wondering... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_scientifically_controlled_double_blind_studies_which_have_conclusively_demonstrated_the_efficacy_of_homeopathy)
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 14, 2014, 06:09:56 PM
Just in case anyone was wondering... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_scientifically_controlled_double_blind_studies_which_have_conclusively_demonstrated_the_efficacy_of_homeopathy)
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 14, 2014, 05:59:08 PM
You hated that place, anyway. You also seem to have an aptitude for both numbers, and dealing with assholes. Ever considered a move to HR?
I'm in payroll. So, yeah, HR would be fine.
I figure I'll hand on and see what's what. I'll give my temp agency a call when i hear when my final day will be and get them looking, they have done okay for me.
Oh, HAY...
http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-traitor-looms-over-pulitzers-041946322.html
Quote"These are fabulous pieces of journalism on the one hand, but on the other hand the documents were leaked, they were classified, they were distressing to the US government," Janensch said.
and
QuoteIn January, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that journalists reporting on the leaks had acted as Snowden's "accomplices."
:teabagger1:
Quote from: Nigel on April 13, 2014, 08:03:41 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 13, 2014, 04:31:58 AM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on April 13, 2014, 01:50:04 AM
So my car died. There is an oil leak from somewhere above the starter, and stick a fork in it, because that starter is DONE. I am wondering if I shouldn't sell it, and then use the money to get notebook or something and some internet subsidy whatsit program, and just ride the bus. I'll get a car when I get enough for a downpayment on one from a job, it might be better.
Starters are cheap, for what it's worth.
Hella cheap, I've replaced 3.
I did notice that for a car part they are cheap, huh? A car does have benefits.
Like being able to meet the school bus on time, instead of missing it unless I drop all tasks an hour and a half before it is due.
Wednesday I must take take the Monkey to La Frontera to be evaluated for behavioral or emotional thingy. He kicked a girl last week and they nearly called the cops. Is state law.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 14, 2014, 06:09:56 PM
Just in case anyone was wondering... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_scientifically_controlled_double_blind_studies_which_have_conclusively_demonstrated_the_efficacy_of_homeopathy)
Anyone want to start a homeopathic bar?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 14, 2014, 06:09:56 PM
Just in case anyone was wondering... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_scientifically_controlled_double_blind_studies_which_have_conclusively_demonstrated_the_efficacy_of_homeopathy)
You know, I don't even need "conclusively" because nothing in medicine is ever really conclusive. Just "any real evidence of efficacy" would make me not treat it like a bad joke.
So I'm home. Have I mentioned that I hate my new schedule? I should really go to bed in 15 minutes, so that I can get up at 7 and be gone all day tomorrow too.
:crankey:
Summer term, I am only taking two classes. I just can't hang with this shit. I need a break.
Finishing up my research study. Wont be around much for the next 2 days or so.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 14, 2014, 06:09:56 PM
Just in case anyone was wondering... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_scientifically_controlled_double_blind_studies_which_have_conclusively_demonstrated_the_efficacy_of_homeopathy)
:lol:
RationalWiki is, in fact, pretty funny at times. Example (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woden%27s_Folk):
QuoteWoden's Folk is a racist English neopagan group. It was apparently started on April 23rd 1998 after its founder Wulf Ingessunu (who can't decide whether to spell his name "Ingessunu" or "Ingesunnu", bless) claimed to have "a series of mystical experiences centred around the appearance of the Hale Bopp comet in 1997".[3]
The group claims not to be Odinist or Wodenist. "Our reformed religion is based upon the essence of our ancient Folk-Religion, but recreated in a new form suited to the times that we live in today", it says. "This is why we call our faith the Woden Folk-Religion rather than just 'Wodenism'".[4] However, the group's sister site, English Movement, refers to Woden's Folk as "the leading Wodenist Movement here in England".[5]
The reference to the group's theology being "recreated in new form" presumably explains why, despite its ostensible emphasis on the Anglo-Saxons, it's actually a weird grab-bag taking elements from Hinduism, the King James Bible, 1950s fantasy literature, 1980s television, the 2012 apocalypse scare and original writing by Wulf Ingesunnu. In particular, the group has lifted a significant amount of its theology from the eighties television series Robin of Sherwood.
Admittedly, Woden's Folk provided a LOT of material to work with, but still :lol:
Also http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
Voting is open today for a contest I entered through one of my fabric suppliers. I'd appreciate any votes you spags would like to give me. You can vote on multiple entries, but you can only vote once per entry per account.
http://fabrics-store.com/thestudio/index.php?r=photo/showbestphotos&q=&gallery_id=55012&profile_type=0
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2014, 02:15:22 PM
Also http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
I raise you:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reptoid
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg/690px-David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 15, 2014, 02:56:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg/690px-David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg)
I don't get it.
Quote from: The Suu on April 15, 2014, 02:26:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
So, my doctor tells me I'm a jerk and a fucking waste of his time, and with good reason. So TGG and I are heading to the gym this Saturday to get started again. Her, so she can make the entry requirements for the army, me so I can stop my weight fluctuations.
I have to say, I find it very fucking unfair that the moment you have 2 or 3 things finally figured out, you fucking fall apart.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 03:12:26 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 15, 2014, 02:26:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
There's only one cure for this, you know. Good luck.
Quote from: The Suu on April 15, 2014, 03:29:13 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 03:12:26 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 15, 2014, 02:26:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
There's only one cure for this, you know. Good luck.
THERE IS NO CURE FOR HORRORBAG. JUST ENDLESS PAIN.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 03:11:33 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 15, 2014, 02:56:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg/690px-David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg)
I don't get it.
To be honest I've had very little sleep for about a week and this picture of Icke looking vaguely concerned about your reptoid bowels is more amusing to me than it probably should be.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 15, 2014, 03:37:59 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 03:11:33 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 15, 2014, 02:56:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg/690px-David_Icke_by_Stef_%28cropped%29.jpg)
I don't get it.
To be honest I've had very little sleep for about a week and this picture of Icke looking vaguely concerned about your reptoid bowels is more amusing to me than it probably should be.
You know, I had always thought that being a reptile person would exempt me from miserable shit like this.
HORRORBAG!
Moved into the new place. Lovin' it. Especially since we own it. No debts, even.
Also, Nigel, a while ago you posted a link where it said that pharmaceutical companies are subsidized for making vaccines. Do you have it handy?
Why is everyone Derriking?
Also, the correct mental state for ranting:
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10178131_10152710541214989_5806547805811519740_n.jpg)
AW GAWWWD!
In a couple of hours or so, I shall be ordering a new toilet.
DEATH BAG
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:08:09 PM
AW GAWWWD!
In a couple of hours or so, I shall be ordering a new toilet.
DEATH BAG
:lulz:
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 15, 2014, 05:09:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:08:09 PM
AW GAWWWD!
In a couple of hours or so, I shall be ordering a new toilet.
DEATH BAG
:lulz:
You laugh NOW, but I will be venting this horror into YOUR UNIVERSE.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:10:37 PM
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 15, 2014, 05:09:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:08:09 PM
AW GAWWWD!
In a couple of hours or so, I shall be ordering a new toilet.
DEATH BAG
:lulz:
You laugh NOW, but I will be venting this horror into YOUR UNIVERSE.
I am prepared. I bought a kosmonaut suit off BelgianBay.
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 15, 2014, 05:12:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:10:37 PM
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 15, 2014, 05:09:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:08:09 PM
AW GAWWWD!
In a couple of hours or so, I shall be ordering a new toilet.
DEATH BAG
:lulz:
You laugh NOW, but I will be venting this horror into YOUR UNIVERSE.
I am prepared. I bought a kosmonaut suit off BelgianBay.
Russian space hardware, you say?
SOUNDS REASONABLE.
I want to take a nap, but HORROR BAG.
:sad:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 05:08:09 PM
AW GAWWWD!
In a couple of hours or so, I shall be ordering a new toilet.
DEATH BAG
YOU FOUND THE CURE FOR HORRORBAG! :horrormirth:
Some people age like wine.
Others, like dick cheese.
That is all.
Quote from: Alty on April 15, 2014, 06:35:49 PM
Some people age like wine.
Others, like dick cheese.
That is all.
Others, like a dead rat in the walls.
And we LIKE it that way.
TGRR,
Stinking up your business.
STANKY!
:hammer:
I am no longer homeless at all! Got my own room and all.
Feels good, man.
Quote from: Alty on April 15, 2014, 06:50:44 PM
I am no longer homeless at all! Got my own room and all.
Feels good, man.
Woot!
I, on the other hand, have HORROR BAG today, AND I just learned that they're killing Windows 8 just like they did XP. I hate Windows 8, mind you, but now I have to get another OS.
I can tell you one thing: It won't be a Microsoft product.
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 06:53:43 PM
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Damn skippy. I am never, ever again buying ANYTHING made by HP or Microsoft.
EVER.
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
Right now, I'd even bite the bullet and use Linux, after all these years of making fun of it.
ANYTHING but Microsoft.
Also, telling me which error occurred is like a brain surgeon explaining the human brain to a slightly retarded chipmunk.
Only scrubs use MS.
Real men use an abacus, made from a tree they cut down and fashioned themselves, and with beads made of their own teeth. Anything else would be admitting defeat.
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2014, 07:13:38 PM
Only scrubs use MS.
Real men use an abacus, made from a tree they cut down and fashioned themselves, and with beads made of their own teeth. Anything else would be admitting defeat.
I will use whatever works. Except for MS, because I fucking hate them with the fire of a thousand suns.
Windows 7 still works great, and is getting security updates and everything.
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2014, 07:26:50 PM
Windows 7 still works great, and is getting security updates and everything.
Yeah, my wife has that on her laptop. AND THAT'S FINE. But I am never giving them money again, because I hate them.
Pirate the software?
Apparently I offended people on the Facebook today.
They got offended that I swore like a sailor on one of my SCA groups, so they said it was unfitting a woman of my education to speak such a way, and that I should try harder with a dictionary and thesaurus. So I responded in Latin, and I was called a child-like bitch and blocked. :? I even used a dictionary!
I'm offended so many fucking people get offended by me.
No wait, no I'm not, I'm happy, because if you can't handle my extra special rants about seams on a fucking corset, you're not cool enough to be my friend, goddamnit. I've been behaving lately, really, I have, because some folks have found my anger a bit harsh and have asked me to keep things cool, and I have. Really. I started this whole mellow thing of being mellow and taking deep breaths and yoga stretches and shit, and all it does it make me extra flexible with extra hate to go around.
Goddamnit, fuck your goddamn request. Who the fuck are people to come on my goddamn cyber front lawn and picket my anger? What the fuck is this shit? The goddamn Westboro Fucktard Church of Bad Reenactors? Eat shit and die, poseurs, you're talking to the goddamn industry professional. Somebody gave me fucking DIPLOMAS in this shit so I can tell you you're wrong and be okay with it, I mean, I would have been okay with it anyway, but expensive pieces of goddamn paper are like more street cred. Bonus if I can make those cool Chinese throwing stars around it. And then you have the fucking balls to call me a goddamn child after saying I needed to act more educated AND I DID. Latin ain't dead, that shit is immortal, and I just proved your point.
This shit always reminds me of Maria's Art of the Brag, because my goddamn ovaries DO shoot motherfucking ball bearings, and I LIKE IT. I like being on top of the goddamn food chain as one of the educated ones, and still be able to throw an F-bomb on the table like it's a goddamn Sunday pot roast, that's what. Eat it. EAT THAT, WITH MY SPECIAL GRAVY OF DISDAIN AND CHASTISEMENT, because every time you try to knock me down a peg, all I do is let that shit sit a bit until I remember I'm fucking awesome at what I do. And if I want to call a friend of mine a pussy because we joke all the goddamn time, I can do so, in English or Latin, and you can kiss my shiny Classicist ass.
No, this ain't no special fucking rant about anything deep, all it is, is a reassurance, that even though I cry sometimes, and I fuck up, because I'm a goddamn human, that's exactly why, because I AM a goddamn human being, and I'm good at it. Be awesome at your own humanity, and I'll be awesome at mine, just eat my fucking gravy first.
Piss on 'em.
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 02:08:01 AM
Apparently I offended people on the Facebook today.
They got offended that I swore like a sailor on one of my SCA groups, so they said it was unfitting a woman of my education to speak such a way, and that I should try harder with a dictionary and thesaurus. So I responded in Latin, and I was called a child-like bitch and blocked. :? I even used a dictionary!
I'm offended so many fucking people get offended by me.
No wait, no I'm not, I'm happy, because if you can't handle my extra special rants about seams on a fucking corset, you're not cool enough to be my friend, goddamnit. I've been behaving lately, really, I have, because some folks have found my anger a bit harsh and have asked me to keep things cool, and I have. Really. I started this whole mellow thing of being mellow and taking deep breaths and yoga stretches and shit, and all it does it make me extra flexible with extra hate to go around.
Goddamnit, fuck your goddamn request. Who the fuck are people to come on my goddamn cyber front lawn and picket my anger? What the fuck is this shit? The goddamn Westboro Fucktard Church of Bad Reenactors? Eat shit and die, poseurs, you're talking to the goddamn industry professional. Somebody gave me fucking DIPLOMAS in this shit so I can tell you you're wrong and be okay with it, I mean, I would have been okay with it anyway, but expensive pieces of goddamn paper are like more street cred. Bonus if I can make those cool Chinese throwing stars around it. And then you have the fucking balls to call me a goddamn child after saying I needed to act more educated AND I DID. Latin ain't dead, that shit is immortal, and I just proved your point.
This shit always reminds me of Maria's Art of the Brag, because my goddamn ovaries DO shoot motherfucking ball bearings, and I LIKE IT. I like being on top of the goddamn food chain as one of the educated ones, and still be able to throw an F-bomb on the table like it's a goddamn Sunday pot roast, that's what. Eat it. EAT THAT, WITH MY SPECIAL GRAVY OF DISDAIN AND CHASTISEMENT, because every time you try to knock me down a peg, all I do is let that shit sit a bit until I remember I'm fucking awesome at what I do. And if I want to call a friend of mine a pussy because we joke all the goddamn time, I can do so, in English or Latin, and you can kiss my shiny Classicist ass.
No, this ain't no special fucking rant about anything deep, all it is, is a reassurance, that even though I cry sometimes, and I fuck up, because I'm a goddamn human, that's exactly why, because I AM a goddamn human being, and I'm good at it. Be awesome at your own humanity, and I'll be awesome at mine, just eat my fucking gravy first.
Bumping to top of the page.
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<3 Suu!
If motherfuckers can't sew, then them cuntblasting feltchmongers ain't allowed to shit-splatter their dick-breath opinions on your work.
I should post that over in Or Kill Me. :lulz:
Yup. It fits.
I didn't expect to explode like that, but I feel better now. I need to rant my guts up a hellavalot more these days I think.
It was enjoyable.
For some reason, it reminded me of this scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMtMeiSyCE
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 02:42:19 AM
I should post that over in Or Kill Me. :lulz:
It's a first class rant.
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Who the what now?
And does Tucson have a filtration system?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2014, 03:13:17 AM
Who the what now?
And does Tucson have a filtration system?
Presumably, but it's Tucson, so no way to know. :lulz:
We can't even run a sanitary district without gassing a quarter of the city.
I mean, when THIS isn't happening.
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/14644465/tucson-man-charged-in-chemical-attack
I just googled that shit.
To quote Jaws, "DONT GO INTO THE WATER!"
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2014, 03:26:38 AM
I just googled that shit.
To quote Jaws, "DONT GO INTO THE WATER!"
95%+ fatality rate, only one treatment, which hardly ever works and makes your liver fall out of your ass.
It's so very Tucson.
That's one of the worst things I cN imagine.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2014, 03:32:02 AM
That's one of the worst things I cN imagine.
The sun is an angry old testament God, the place is radioactive and full of poisonous critters and now...BRAIN AMOEBAS!
What's amazing is that this place is so wretched, nobody even noticed the chlorine bomb guy until he went to trial.
True story.
Wait. What Chlorine Bomb Guy?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:25:18 AM
I mean, when THIS isn't happening.
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/14644465/tucson-man-charged-in-chemical-attack
Got buried at the bottom of the page.
And then this happened.
http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.it/2014/04/rip-acdc-1973-2014.html
Horrible shitty loser bars and pool halls all over the country in mourning.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 03:12:26 PM
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I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
Awww :(
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 10:40:26 PM
Quote from: Derrick Hogue on April 15, 2014, 10:39:09 PM
Pirate the software?
Nope.
Yeah, pirating is for chumps.
I'd recommend trying Ubuntu, if you're looking at Linux as a possibility. By all accounts it is pretty newb friendly, and one of the most popular desktop Linux installs.
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 06:40:54 AM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
Awww :(
I should be okay by tomorrow, which is my anniversary.
Quote from: Alty on April 15, 2014, 06:50:44 PM
I am no longer homeless at all! Got my own room and all.
Feels good, man.
Yay!
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
Awww :(
I should be okay by tomorrow, which is my anniversary.
Happy anniversary! Hope you and the lady get to do something fancy tonight.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 06:54:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 06:53:43 PM
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Damn skippy. I am never, ever again buying ANYTHING made by HP or Microsoft.
I am typing this on an 8-year-old Mac Mini that cost $500 and still basically does what I need it to do, despite the fact that the hardware is so old I can't upgrade any of the software.
I bought a brand-new touch-screen notebook, thinking it would be great, but Windows 8 so I almost never use it, unless I'm backed into some kind of corner. It's slow and horrible and difficult to use.
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 02:09:39 PM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 02:16:36 PM
I accidentally ate beef on the way to work this morning, at a roach coach.
My stomach is a horror bag.
Meeting day? If not, it should be.
No, unfortunately not. But it's not just the fact that I am outgassing like thawed permafrost...I am also doubled over in pain.
Awww :(
I should be okay by tomorrow, which is my anniversary.
Happy anniversary! Hope you and the lady get to do something fancy tonight.
Tomorrow, as I have Friday off. And yes, I have plans. She thinks we're going out to dinner.
No more details, she sometimes reads this forum.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 06:53:43 PM
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Damn skippy. I am never, ever again buying ANYTHING made by HP or Microsoft.
I am typing this on an 8-year-old Mac Mini that cost $500 and still basically does what I need it to do, despite the fact that the hardware is so old I can't upgrade any of the software.
I bought a brand-new touch-screen notebook, thinking it would be great, but Windows 8 so I almost never use it, unless I'm backed into some kind of corner. It's slow and horrible and difficult to use.
Yeah, I'm thinking a Mac.
This looks like an interesting addition to my resume.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/help-transcribe-diaries-first-world-war-180950125/?no-ist
Transcribing war diaries from World War I. Volunteer work, entirely online, but an interesting way to be a bit more hands-on with world history while helping researchers.
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 03:11:48 PM
This looks like an interesting addition to my resume.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/help-transcribe-diaries-first-world-war-180950125/?no-ist
Transcribing war diaries from World War I. Volunteer work, entirely online, but an interesting way to be a bit more hands-on with world history while helping researchers.
That's kind of awesome, especially given that the 100th anniversary is coming up.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 02:18:47 PM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2014, 06:54:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 06:53:43 PM
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Damn skippy. I am never, ever again buying ANYTHING made by HP or Microsoft.
I am typing this on an 8-year-old Mac Mini that cost $500 and still basically does what I need it to do, despite the fact that the hardware is so old I can't upgrade any of the software.
I bought a brand-new touch-screen notebook, thinking it would be great, but Windows 8 so I almost never use it, unless I'm backed into some kind of corner. It's slow and horrible and difficult to use.
Yeah, I'm thinking a Mac.
What are you using the machine for? You may regret moving to the mac if you've never used one routinely before. A mac is fine for home browsing but you play the occasional game don't you? I've been using a mac for home use for the last decade but when this laptop dies I'll be moving back to windows or linux.
Windows 8 is a no go but windows 7 is still an excellent OS
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 06:53:43 PM
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Damn skippy. I am never, ever again buying ANYTHING made by HP or Microsoft.
I am typing this on an 8-year-old Mac Mini that cost $500 and still basically does what I need it to do, despite the fact that the hardware is so old I can't upgrade any of the software.
I bought a brand-new touch-screen notebook, thinking it would be great, but Windows 8 so I almost never use it, unless I'm backed into some kind of corner. It's slow and horrible and difficult to use.
Yeah, I'm thinking a Mac.
What are you using the machine for? You may regret moving to the mac if you've never used one routinely before. A mac is fine for home browsing but you play the occasional game don't you? I've been using a mac for home use for the last decade but when this laptop dies I'll be moving back to windows or linux.
Windows 8 is a no go but windows 7 is still an excellent OS
I play Civ V, but honestly, I could live without it (and have more time). If I can look at PDFs and use a word processor and the interbutts, I have what I need.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 06:53:43 PM
Yay, Alty!
Is Roger finally going to be joining the Kult of Macintosh?
Damn skippy. I am never, ever again buying ANYTHING made by HP or Microsoft.
I am typing this on an 8-year-old Mac Mini that cost $500 and still basically does what I need it to do, despite the fact that the hardware is so old I can't upgrade any of the software.
I bought a brand-new touch-screen notebook, thinking it would be great, but Windows 8 so I almost never use it, unless I'm backed into some kind of corner. It's slow and horrible and difficult to use.
Yeah, I'm thinking a Mac.
What are you using the machine for? You may regret moving to the mac if you've never used one routinely before. A mac is fine for home browsing but you play the occasional game don't you? I've been using a mac for home use for the last decade but when this laptop dies I'll be moving back to windows or linux.
Windows 8 is a no go but windows 7 is still an excellent OS
I play Civ V, but honestly, I could live without it (and have more time). If I can look at PDFs and use a word processor and the interbutts, I have what I need.
Then you should be ok. Word for mac isn't the nicest. It's own alternative Pages is better but if all you are looking for is writing text and not worrying too much about formatting etc then pretty much anything will do.
Pages is much better than I rember a Mac word processing program previously being. But I also use GoogleDocs, so there's that.
I've been using Macs for so long that when I am sat in front of a PC, I tend to spend at least 30ish minutes poking at it like a drunk chimp.
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Trains have outlets in them, so at least you can charge your electronics.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 04:43:11 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Trains have outlets in them, so at least you can charge your electronics.
So do coach buses now, as well as free wi-fi, but airplanes do not.
I've never taken the train further south than NYC, so this is going to be something else. But it was cheaper than flying, and, well, I can't really think of any other way for a bitchy New Englander to travel west. Trains have bars, I should be fine.
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 05:13:38 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 04:43:11 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Trains have outlets in them, so at least you can charge your electronics.
So do coach buses now, as well as free wi-fi, but airplanes do not.
I've never taken the train further south than NYC, so this is going to be something else. But it was cheaper than flying, and, well, I can't really think of any other way for a bitchy New Englander to travel west. Trains have bars, I should be fine.
Airplanes have wifi. It was available during my trip to Providence.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 05:15:25 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 05:13:38 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 04:43:11 PM
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Trains have outlets in them, so at least you can charge your electronics.
So do coach buses now, as well as free wi-fi, but airplanes do not.
I've never taken the train further south than NYC, so this is going to be something else. But it was cheaper than flying, and, well, I can't really think of any other way for a bitchy New Englander to travel west. Trains have bars, I should be fine.
Airplanes have wifi. It was available during my trip to Providence.
True, depending on the airline and distance of the flight.
My computer or interbutts are running like ass today, so I'm off to do some actual work.
Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Why are you going to the middle of the US?
Isn't that where despair, boredom, and tornadoes are born?
Squid- knows nothing of these places
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Quote from: The Suu on April 16, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
A week from today, I start my 30 hour train ride to Kansas City. Bizarre. I'm INSANE.
Why are you going to the middle of the US?
Isn't that where despair, boredom, and tornadoes are born?
Squid- knows nothing of these places
Doing presentations on historical clothing at a convention in Independence, the next city over. Yes, it's early tornado season, but they're still getting snow so we should be okay.
Also: Barbecue.
The first half of the ride is going to be filled with lovely scenery of the Appalachians, large Eastern cities, and a layover in Chicago.
...Then I cross the Mississippi and expect to see lots of corn.
I'm playing hockey with no-touch football rules, with Putin.
In your face, Thomas Friedman (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/friedman-playing-hockey-with-putin.html?ref=todayspaper)!
The NYT will hire anyone won't they?
So, I am told that we are now in our 20th straight year of drought.
...
...
...
NO SHIT. IT'S TUCSON.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 06:56:23 PM
So, I am told that we are now in our 20th straight year of drought.
...
...
...
NO SHIT. IT'S TUCSON.
I will never understand how droughts can exist in the fucking desert. I thought that was the point?
So, my grandfather is undergoing chemo for his lung cancer (he'll get completely well again, the doctors say. YAY), and looks like Charles Bronson. The criminal, not the actor. I approve.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2014, 06:56:16 PM
The NYT will hire anyone won't they?
I'm actually fairly sure, Paul Krugman aside, that to get a regular column there you have to suffer from Pathological Idiocy.
This may be true of most columnists, everywhere.
No need to thank me.
http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/inspiration/the-muppets-twin-peaks/
For those that are bored, and want to help me win $500 worth of linen, go vote for me here:
http://fabrics-store.com/thestudio/index.php?r=photo/detailedPhoto&contest_id=4&id=145
You need an account, or multiple accounts if you're feeling generous. You can vote once per 24 hours.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
"...but you can almost certainly fix it painlessly after a quick Google search"
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 08:11:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
"...but you can almost certainly fix it painlessly after a quick Google search"
I keep a neckbeard on retainer.
Which is to say, I feed him Carls Jr and he fixes my shit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 16, 2014, 07:54:56 PM
No need to thank me.
http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/inspiration/the-muppets-twin-peaks/
Holy crap :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 09:34:14 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
:lulz:
Science is proving my hypothesis wrong.
I'm not strongly attached to said hypothesis, so I'm mostly amused by this outcome, as it means I'm writing a somewhat different research study from the one I expected. Also, not all the data has been compiled yet. But so far, three out of three times, the group I expected to be underrepresented in the literature has actually been overrepresented, when compared with my control group.
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 08:11:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
"...but you can almost certainly fix it painlessly after a quick Google search"
Problem: I cannot connect to Google.
Note to self: the Russian heat rub I bought is not for WaffleGF.
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 16, 2014, 11:26:15 PM
Note to self: the Russian heat rub I bought is not for WaffleGF.
WaffleGF is not
serious about having a good time.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 11:26:58 PM
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 16, 2014, 11:26:15 PM
Note to self: the Russian heat rub I bought is not for WaffleGF.
WaffleGF is not serious about having a good time.
Oh she tried it. It just ended in 30 minutes of crying and wet towels, some of which had spent time in the freezer.
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 16, 2014, 11:29:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 11:26:58 PM
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 16, 2014, 11:26:15 PM
Note to self: the Russian heat rub I bought is not for WaffleGF.
WaffleGF is not serious about having a good time.
Oh she tried it. It just ended in 30 minutes of crying and wet towels, some of which had spent time in the freezer.
Oh.
Was she crying, or were you?
She was. I use it when working out, and the burn is almost unbearable. She wanted to try it. It did not end well.
She's ok now, though.
Quote from: Oberinspektor Derrick on April 16, 2014, 11:34:55 PM
She was. I use it when working out, and the burn is almost unbearable. She wanted to try it. It did not end well.
She's ok now, though.
It could be worse. She could be here.
My wife is in the other room, watching TV. In the past half hour, there have been THREE anti-Obamacare commercials run by various Koch Bros mouthpieces, all of which featured grandmother-types speaking in worried voices, or even more cynically, hispanic people with impossibly thick accents.
And this is about the normal number of these fucking things. One every TEN MINUTES. WaffleGF would be DEMANDING the hot cream shit. Then she'd kick a hole in the TV set and fuck it to death with one of Nigel's horribly deformed dildos. I know this, because I've been to Europe and I know you bastards don't put up with this kind of shit without burning half of Germany down in response.
I have 45 minutes in which to take a shower, do homework, and theoretically, eat some dinner, before going to my next class. I don't feel rock solid about any one of those things, let alone all three.
Batting a thousand on the Obamacare commercials, here. I want to stomp on something. FFS.
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 11:54:42 PM
I have 45 minutes in which to take a shower, do homework, and theoretically, eat some dinner, before going to my next class. I don't feel rock solid about any one of those things, let alone all three.
Skip the shower. Smell sexy.
RIGHT ON THE MINUTE, the Hispanic one again.
I hate these bastards like they were Hitler's personal fuckrag.
I am just going to start measuring time in anti-ACA commercials. 6 commercials = 1 hour. 144 commercials = 1 day.
25920 commercials until the election.
I hate you all.
Edit for math error.
Edit because it occurs to me that I've apparently started talking to myself, so fuck it.
The above isn't bitching at other people. It's me realizing that I'm posting just as people leave.
And I'm talking to myself again.
I need to get out of here.
Well, I just got back from crunching my new data-set.
It didn't help. Same conclusion, just more accurate.
On the plus side, I'm changing the focus of my research onto "why do researchers, with 20 bajillion attacks by 50 bajillion groups in the START database, still only talk about the IRA, ETA, PKK and Palestinian groups? Is it because they are lazy fucks? Maybe, maybe not, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate on why only THE SAME 14 GROUPS out of 202 with a similar ideology ever get any airtime."
I know I probably can't ask the details of your analysis, but is this one of those things where a negative result is helpful?
It may well be. I was looking into how eco-terrorism was underrepresented in academic literature, and found that, actually that wasn't the case (at least by the criteria I used). However, I needed a control, which was ethno-terrorist groups, to compare results for.
And in doing that, I discovered that the vast majority of the groups I listed for my comparison data-set were also not in fact referenced in the academic literature. Removing those without an explicit mention reduced attacks by one-third, and cut out 90% of the groups.
Meaning the most prolific and famous groups were getting all the attention. Meaning most researchers are lazy gits, relying on media access, proximity and older pieces of research for their papers. Meaning they're distorting the field, through undue focus on specific groups. The world really does not need yet another sociological analysis on the working class composition of the Provisional IRA. But I'll bet on getting another 10 before the decade is out, because venturing out into the field is scary and stuff.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 09:34:14 PM
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I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Oar, always remember to pack some Thorazine with that towel :horrormirth:
Quote from: LuciferX on April 17, 2014, 01:36:30 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 09:34:14 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Oar, always remember to pack some Thorazine with that towel :horrormirth:
Well, thanks for acknowledging my existence. I thought I turned invisible or some shit.
But if I was going to drug myself out of knowing my brain was being eaten by amoebas, I'd go whole hog and shoot heroin.
I've been sitting here getting pissed off about being talked around.
It occurs to me that this is symptom #2 of teh brain flukes.
Gonna fuck off until I know for sure, I think.
Oddly enough, symptom #1, headache, didn't happen.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 01:45:30 AM
I've been sitting here getting pissed off about being talked around.
It occurs to me that this is symptom #2 of teh brain flukes.
Gonna fuck off until I know for sure, I think.
Sorry, I may not have been clear. My previous to previous post was, in part, an explanation of why I wasn't around.
And, to be fair, it is almost 3am here. I'm working tomorrow night, which means I have to finish this research tonight.
Teh struggle is real, comrades.
Quote from: Cain on April 17, 2014, 01:49:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 01:45:30 AM
I've been sitting here getting pissed off about being talked around.
It occurs to me that this is symptom #2 of teh brain flukes.
Gonna fuck off until I know for sure, I think.
Sorry, I may not have been clear. My previous to previous post was, in part, an explanation of why I wasn't around.
And, to be fair, it is almost 3am here. I'm working tomorrow night, which means I have to finish this research tonight.
Teh struggle is real, comrades.
It wouldn't have mattered if Mother Theresa was posting, Cain. :lol:
The problem is in my head, not in your posts.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 01:46:13 AM
Oddly enough, symptom #1, headache, didn't happen.
A good sign, I hope?
My friend's brother died last Friday suddenly, at home, at 31. The funeral service has a memory book to sign online, which I did, and most of the energy I would have spent on Necronomicoin today I spent on that. They also have a Life Images section. If you click on it, it reads, I shit you not, Slide 1 of Infinity.
The slide is completely black.
I think writing existential horror is fucking up my brain because that is the scariest goddamn thing.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 17, 2014, 01:58:12 AM
My friend's brother died last Friday suddenly, at home, at 31. The funeral service has a memory book to sign online, which I did, and most of the energy I would have spent on Necronomicoin today I spent on that. They also have a Life Images section. If you click on it, it reads, I shit you not, Slide 1 of Infinity.
The slide is completely black.
I think writing existential horror is fucking up my brain because that is the scariest goddamn thing.
That's fucking creepy.
That's exactly the kind of cheery thought I stayed up until 3am to hear. Thanks, EoC.
I don't think the writing is affecting you. That gave me the horrors.
Quote from: Cain on April 17, 2014, 02:04:50 AM
That's exactly the kind of cheery thought I stayed up until 3am to hear. Thanks, EoC.
:lulz:
Apologies.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:07:28 AM
I don't think the writing is affecting you. That gave me the horrors.
This is what fucking happens when you hire Nyarlathotep as your web designer.
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's horrifying. I don't envy you.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 01:43:31 AM
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Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Oar, always remember to pack some Thorazine with that towel :horrormirth:
Well, thanks for acknowledging my existence. I thought I turned invisible or some shit.
But if I was going to drug myself out of knowing my brain was being eaten by amoebas, I'd go whole hog and shoot heroin.
I totally respect your pursuit of peak experience, it's just that the Thorazine, this time, has been shown to TREAT REAL (vs. metaphorical) brain bugs :eek:
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 01:43:31 AM
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Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Oar, always remember to pack some Thorazine with that towel :horrormirth:
Well, thanks for acknowledging my existence. I thought I turned invisible or some shit.
But if I was going to drug myself out of knowing my brain was being eaten by amoebas, I'd go whole hog and shoot heroin.
I totally respect your pursuit of peak experience, it's just that the Thorazine, this time, has been shown to TREAT REAL (vs. metaphorical) brain bugs :eek:
Not naegleria fowleri. The only treatment that seems to work is Miltefosine. And it fucks your shit.
Quote from: President Television on April 17, 2014, 02:17:44 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's horrifying. I don't envy you.
It's like standing in a blizzard of shit.
Is this happening elsewhere in the states? It must be, though we'd be a heavy target, alongside Florida.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:21:25 AM
Quote from: President Television on April 17, 2014, 02:17:44 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's horrifying. I don't envy you.
It's like standing in a blizzard of shit.
Is this happening elsewhere in the states? It must be, though we'd be a heavy target, alongside Florida.
We probably aren't watching the right channels, but I'm not seeing one bit of it.
They're probably targetted ads.
Targetting you specifically.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 17, 2014, 02:23:20 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:21:25 AM
Quote from: President Television on April 17, 2014, 02:17:44 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's horrifying. I don't envy you.
It's like standing in a blizzard of shit.
Is this happening elsewhere in the states? It must be, though we'd be a heavy target, alongside Florida.
We probably aren't watching the right channels, but I'm not seeing one bit of it.
They're probably targetted ads.
Targetting you specifically.
Targeting retirees.
Arizona, like Florida, is a retirement state. Retirees are one of the fastest growing demographics, and they are the ones most concerned with the state of their healthcare.
The level of scare-mongering in these ads is intense.
Very concerned granny voice/husky, worried thick accented middle age Hispanic lady voice:
"Seniors are losing their doctors. Tell congressman Barbour that Obamacare is not working. keepthemaccountable.net"
I could say that precisely, because it was time for another iteration.
I live in hell.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:20:42 AM
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Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Oar, always remember to pack some Thorazine with that towel :horrormirth:
Well, thanks for acknowledging my existence. I thought I turned invisible or some shit.
But if I was going to drug myself out of knowing my brain was being eaten by amoebas, I'd go whole hog and shoot heroin.
I totally respect your pursuit of peak experience, it's just that the Thorazine, this time, has been shown to TREAT REAL (vs. metaphorical) brain bugs :eek:
Not naegleria fowleri. The only treatment that seems to work is Miltefosine. And it fucks your shit.
Totally, it's not naegeleria fowleri, still:
QuoteWhile miltefosine had therapeutic effects during an in vivo study in mice, chlorpromazine (Thorazine) showed to be the most effective substance – the authors concluded: "Chlorpromazine had the best therapeutic activity against N. fowleri in vitro and in vivo. Therefore, it may be a more useful therapeutic agent for the treatment of PAME than amphotericin B."[17]
wiki
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:20:42 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on April 17, 2014, 02:18:39 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 01:43:31 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on April 17, 2014, 01:36:30 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 09:34:14 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 09:33:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 16, 2014, 03:00:53 AM
I just found out there's naegleria fowleri in the Colorado river.
Where we get our drinking water.
:banana:
Just don't swim in the Colorado river and you'll be fine.
Don't ruin the magic, Nigel.
Oar, always remember to pack some Thorazine with that towel :horrormirth:
Well, thanks for acknowledging my existence. I thought I turned invisible or some shit.
But if I was going to drug myself out of knowing my brain was being eaten by amoebas, I'd go whole hog and shoot heroin.
I totally respect your pursuit of peak experience, it's just that the Thorazine, this time, has been shown to TREAT REAL (vs. metaphorical) brain bugs :eek:
Not naegleria fowleri. The only treatment that seems to work is Miltefosine. And it fucks your shit.
Totally, it's not naegeleria fowleri, still:
QuoteWhile miltefosine had therapeutic effects during an in vivo study in mice, chlorpromazine (Thorazine) showed to be the most effective substance – the authors concluded: "Chlorpromazine had the best therapeutic activity against N. fowleri in vitro and in vivo. Therefore, it may be a more useful therapeutic agent for the treatment of PAME than amphotericin B."[17]
wiki
You're as bad as Nigel, sucking all the fun out of Tucson. :argh!:
:oops: :oops: :oops:
Quote from: Cain on April 16, 2014, 10:23:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 08:11:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
"...but you can almost certainly fix it painlessly after a quick Google search"
Problem: I cannot connect to Google.
YOU'RE FUCKED FOREVER.
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:08:24 AM
Quote from: Cain on April 16, 2014, 10:23:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 08:11:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
"...but you can almost certainly fix it painlessly after a quick Google search"
Problem: I cannot connect to Google.
YOU'RE FUCKED FOREVER.
:lulz:
You know, the world missed something when you weren't on FC with ECH, Cain, and I.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 12:51:22 AM
The above isn't bitching at other people. It's me realizing that I'm posting just as people leave.
And I'm talking to myself again.
I need to get out of here.
Thing is, your post is still gonna be there when everybody comes back to read. And perhaps respond. It's one of the many benefits of the forum format over Facebook; you don't miss out on posts because you weren't there when they were posted.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 17, 2014, 01:58:12 AM
My friend's brother died last Friday suddenly, at home, at 31. The funeral service has a memory book to sign online, which I did, and most of the energy I would have spent on Necronomicoin today I spent on that. They also have a Life Images section. If you click on it, it reads, I shit you not, Slide 1 of Infinity.
The slide is completely black.
I think writing existential horror is fucking up my brain because that is the scariest goddamn thing.
:aaa:
That's. Kinda twisted. And kinda awesome.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's extremely interesting, because they wouldn't put that much money into convincing people if they didn't really REALLY think it's going to take a lot of convincing. Which is actually the first solid evidence I've seen that perhaps the ACA is working out pretty well for a lot of people.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 03:09:42 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:08:24 AM
Quote from: Cain on April 16, 2014, 10:23:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 16, 2014, 08:11:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Welcome to the world of, "There's an error, but we won't tell you what it is."
"...but you can almost certainly fix it painlessly after a quick Google search"
Problem: I cannot connect to Google.
YOU'RE FUCKED FOREVER.
:lulz:
You know, the world missed something when you weren't on FC with ECH, Cain, and I.
That would have been GLORIOUS.
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:10:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 12:51:22 AM
The above isn't bitching at other people. It's me realizing that I'm posting just as people leave.
And I'm talking to myself again.
I need to get out of here.
Thing is, your post is still gonna be there when everybody comes back to read. And perhaps respond. It's one of the many benefits of the forum format over Facebook; you don't miss out on posts because you weren't there when they were posted.
Don't mind me, Nigel, it is just occurring to me that I am now very glad my trip got delayed.
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:13:49 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's extremely interesting, because they wouldn't put that much money into convincing people if they didn't really REALLY think it's going to take a lot of convincing. Which is actually the first solid evidence I've seen that perhaps the ACA is working out pretty well for a lot of people.
It's working here. They're in panic mode.
I did a little digging on the website of the PAC that's funding this shit, at least the public face.
keepthemaccountable.com claims to be non-partisan.
They are an offshoot of the libre foundation.
Which is run by Daniel Garza. They proudly announce that he was a member of the Bush administration and takes part in conservative action PACs all over the country.
In short, they never even took the time to tidy up their own spoor. It reeks of incompetence and desperation. Also, the over-saturation this far from the election is puzzling.
Although I am borderline delirious at the end of the first half of my week, I also have good news, which is that not only am I (knock on wood) getting co-authoring on this study I'm working on, but there is also a pretty decent possibility that the university will send me to New Orleans in November to present. SQUEEE!!! Totally crossing my fingers on that. It won't happen if it's not in the budget.
Also, a decent likelihood that I'll be able to publish as first author on my summer project, which is peer mentoring incoming community college transferees. If I get really lucky, I might be able to parlay it into a grant that would pay me to continue mentoring for the rest of my undergrad.
Also good news; took my first midterm today, think I did OK. I'm looking forward so hard to taking two easy classes this summer, like maybe geology and physics, or geology and human development. Additionally: today I discovered that there are totally people who are doing the genre of research that I want to do, and it's got a name!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 03:14:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:10:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 12:51:22 AM
The above isn't bitching at other people. It's me realizing that I'm posting just as people leave.
And I'm talking to myself again.
I need to get out of here.
Thing is, your post is still gonna be there when everybody comes back to read. And perhaps respond. It's one of the many benefits of the forum format over Facebook; you don't miss out on posts because you weren't there when they were posted.
Don't mind me, Nigel, it is just occurring to me that I am now very glad my trip got delayed.
Daww. I hope it passes with haste.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 03:17:57 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:13:49 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:14:30 AM
This is uncanny. I said fuck it and timed the commercials. They are almost precisely 10 minutes apart (+/- 30 seconds), and there are exactly 1 per commercial break, last commercial, 6 per hour.
The level of saturation is HUGE. The Koch Brothers must be spending a few hundred thousand in Southern Arizona alone.
That's extremely interesting, because they wouldn't put that much money into convincing people if they didn't really REALLY think it's going to take a lot of convincing. Which is actually the first solid evidence I've seen that perhaps the ACA is working out pretty well for a lot of people.
It's working here. They're in panic mode.
I did a little digging on the website of the PAC that's funding this shit, at least the public face.
keepthemaccountable.com claims to be non-partisan.
They are an offshoot of the libre foundation.
Which is run by Daniel Garza. They proudly announce that he was a member of the Bush administration and takes part in conservative action PACs all over the country.
In short, they never even took the time to tidy up their own spoor. It reeks of incompetence and desperation. Also, the over-saturation this far from the election is puzzling.
My bet is that they're trying to get people to delay signing up, because the more people sign up and have no problems and get to keep their doctors, the more their chances of a repeal go out the window. There will be a certain percentage of procrastinators and protesters who won't sign up in the first year, and its those they want to point to as proof that "it's not working", as well as having those people on their side at voting time, so they want that number to be as large as possible.
Fuck, trying to stretch my essay out for another 800 or so words. It feels more than a bit short. Not sure what else I can do, though. 5000 words is the limit, which means ideally aiming for 4800 or so. The 4 appendixes will make the essay look larger, but I still need a few hundred to hit that limit, and I'm fairly sure I just repeated everything I said twice.
Ah, got it. Future research directions and improvements to this study.
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:23:56 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 03:14:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 03:10:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 12:51:22 AM
The above isn't bitching at other people. It's me realizing that I'm posting just as people leave.
And I'm talking to myself again.
I need to get out of here.
Thing is, your post is still gonna be there when everybody comes back to read. And perhaps respond. It's one of the many benefits of the forum format over Facebook; you don't miss out on posts because you weren't there when they were posted.
Don't mind me, Nigel, it is just occurring to me that I am now very glad my trip got delayed.
Daww. I hope it passes with haste.
I think it might. I'm not even sure it's a thing yet. None of the physical signs, just a whiff of paranoia.
Quote from: Cain on April 17, 2014, 03:47:07 AM
Ah, got it. Future research directions and improvements to this study.
Oh, nicely played.
:thanks:
The thing is, with more time and, y'know, an army of flying monkeys stooges undergrads, this could be really useful. Not Correlates of War (http://www.correlatesofwar.org/) useful, probably not even START database (http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/) useful, but more useful than, say, an op-ed by John Bolton in the Washington Post. Which is as useful as anything needs to be in academia, as far as I can see.
Plus I purposefully limited the scope of my research because I didn't want to spend 2 whole weeks digging around in online journals and making my eyes bleed. Now I reap the reward of that....doubly. This is the sophisticated, master-level method of doing research. A winner's way. Cain's way.
And I have to do an abstract still. That's another 250 words, easy.
Bleh, that was an asspull of an essay. Nothing like running out of research material halfway into your word count.
Well, it's been submitted. I guess I'll find out how I did in a month. Which is about when my next paper is due.
Now I can look forward to...a night of work. Oh joy.
Quote from: Cain on April 17, 2014, 03:47:07 AM
Ah, got it. Future research directions and improvements to this study.
From what I've seen in my extremely limited experience in academia, "improvements" and "next steps" are a fabulous way to pad out a paper.
I agree. Blame me for it. I'll be there when you really need a reason. Trust in my availability.
Meeting with the history department today at UNH to discuss funding my education with some free monies. I'm a bit nervous. It's cold outside, and I have to take public transportation, so I'm not really "dressing up" but trying to not look like a slob, either. I guess I should put makeup on at the very least. Not that I feel I need it because I never really wear it even in my 30s, but um...I'm in my 30s, I should probably look like I tried to be put together for this.
A lot of stuff happens overnight, I guess. Roger, is there a way to minimize the fluke attack?
Nigel, that's awesome news! You must be very tired.
Cain, I find it interesting ecoterrorism isn't over-reported, but I find myself not surprised that a small slice of ethnoterrorism is.
Roger, those commercials are god's way of saying READ A BOOK.
EoC, shitfuckdamn. I'm sorry to hear about your friend's brother. That Life Images site is impressively creepy, though.
Nigel, from what I can tell, (through Krugman, mostly), the ACA is doing very well indeed, and it's scaring the hell out of the GOP. The White House is totally blowing it on the messaging, though. Which makes me wonder if it's incompetence, or something else is going on.
Suu, I find a structured blazer makes almost any outfit more put together.
I think that's mostly everything.
Thank you, LMNO. Other than my disbelief, I just feel terribly for the family. They've had a difficult few years.
It looks like someone uploaded a few photos, though, so the webpage is at least less awful.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 17, 2014, 12:11:01 PM
A lot of stuff happens overnight, I guess. Roger, is there a way to minimize the fluke attack?
The behavior, yes. The rest, not so much.
Ugh. Suckage.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 17, 2014, 02:13:39 PM
Ugh. Suckage.
Well, the classic symptoms all presented in the middle of the night, so it's on.
I don't take this as an excuse to be out of line, but I might get that way without seeing it. If so, would one of you freaks PM me and tell me to knock it off? I'd really appreciate it.
So I get to campus, and the professor I need to speak with isn't even in his office. Ugh. However, I can tell that he is a man of distinction, as he has a fake mustache tacked on his door.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 17, 2014, 02:17:09 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 17, 2014, 02:13:39 PM
Ugh. Suckage.
Well, the classic symptoms all presented in the middle of the night, so it's on.
I don't take this as an excuse to be out of line, but I might get that way without seeing it. If so, would one of you freaks PM me and tell me to knock it off? I'd really appreciate it.
Yes, sir!
QuoteCain, I find it interesting ecoterrorism isn't over-reported, but I find myself not surprised that a small slice of ethnoterrorism is.
Well, how else can we justify claiming Al-Qaeda are an existential threat, without assuming an IRA level of organisation with, well, Al-Qaeda levels of fanaticism.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 17, 2014, 12:11:01 PM
Nigel, from what I can tell, (through Krugman, mostly), the ACA is doing very well indeed, and it's scaring the hell out of the GOP. The White House is totally blowing it on the messaging, though. Which makes me wonder if it's incompetence, or something else is going on.
That's also very interesting... perhaps they are waiting until closer to the election? I imagine that if the ACA is so successful, they may be able to leverage it to galvanize voters by running counter-ads that simply say that big money is trying to take away our functioning health care, which would be reinforced by the anti-ACA ads.
The Koch Institute is also rolling out major protest against "abuses and racism in the criminal justice system" at the moment.
Maybe the Kochs are making a big play. Get the economic libertarians with one campaign, the social libertarians with another. The Kochtopus wins.
Quote from: Cain on April 17, 2014, 04:42:13 PM
The Koch Institute is also rolling out major protest against "abuses and racism in the criminal justice system" at the moment.
Maybe the Kochs are making a big play. Get the economic libertarians with one campaign, the social libertarians with another. The Kochtopus wins.
That's a terrifying prospect.
They've already got Glenn Greenwald being a useful idiot for the latter campaign. No doubt lots of well-intentioned liberals are gonna sign up, not realising the game-plan is co-option.
So apparently military spouses are eligible for in-state tuition and nobody told me until, oh, just now. I just may be able to save myself $5k a year. That would be HUGE. I'm still going to go forth with my NH state residency anyway so RI doesn't chase me for taxes, but this is great news.
So my boss is two steps away from the chopping block. Better late than never.
A friend's sister died last Friday and the funeral was a few days ago. She was 25 and one of those genuinely decent people it gives me stomach ulcers to be around.
Came home last night, went to bed. Slept straight through the night and woke up this morning thinking it was still only 11pm because I wake up every half hour and it was the first time I remembered waking up. It was actually 7 am. Went to breakfast. Came back, went back to sleep. Woke up at 2pm. Wooo!
I'm tired.
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
There's still a creepy stalker about, but I am slowly not freaking put about that. Dunno what to do about it. Nothing, I guess.
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
Very glad to hear that.
Thanks, me too!
It's looking like it'll be a good summer. Which I could use.
Plus, I get unmarried next week.
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
Hey Alty!
These are good things.
A very merry unmarriage to you?
...That sounds terrible. There is no way to make that sound okay at all.
Best of luck, dude.
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
:awesome:
5
DAY
WEEKEND.
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
Yay! May good things be abundant in your life!
BTW did you get the book?
Today I found out that my proposal was accepted and I'm presenting my poster on the 7th, and also that I am being interviewed for a Ford Foundation scholarship. 89 interviewees, 50 awards. So nerves, many anxiety.
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 10:33:51 PM
Today I found out that my proposal was accepted and I'm presenting my poster on the 7th, and also that I am being interviewed for a Ford Foundation scholarship. 89 interviewees, 50 awards. So nerves, many anxiety.
YOU GOT THIS
:lulz:
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 17, 2014, 10:46:03 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 10:33:51 PM
Today I found out that my proposal was accepted and I'm presenting my poster on the 7th, and also that I am being interviewed for a Ford Foundation scholarship. 89 interviewees, 50 awards. So nerves, many anxiety.
YOU GOT THIS
:lulz:
:lulz: :argh!:
Today ended well.
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Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 10:32:16 PM
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
Yay! May good things be abundant in your life!
BTW did you get the book?
I did! Thank you.
I have gotten as far as beef is kinda fucked up.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
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Nice work!
Quote from: Net on April 18, 2014, 01:31:19 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
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Nice work!
The real work will be to make sure I don't get booted out for drooping grades when I take physics, chem and calculus in autumn. :lulz:
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:32:29 AM
Quote from: Net on April 18, 2014, 01:31:19 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
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Nice work!
The real work will be to make sure I don't get booted out for drooping grades when I take physics, chem and calculus in autumn. :lulz:
I bet you'll do better than you think you will.
Quote from: Net on April 18, 2014, 01:35:52 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:32:29 AM
Quote from: Net on April 18, 2014, 01:31:19 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/award_zpsadb8c37a.jpg)
Nice work!
The real work will be to make sure I don't get booted out for drooping grades when I take physics, chem and calculus in autumn. :lulz:
I bet you'll do better than you think you will.
Thanks Net. :) I hope so.
And, yeah, it's at the point in the semester where I start doodling on my notes, as you can sort of see behind the frame.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/award_zpsadb8c37a.jpg)
Congratulations, Twid!
I considered joining as well, but still haven't gotten to it. I really probably should.
Quote from: Alty on April 18, 2014, 01:28:54 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 10:32:16 PM
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
Yay! May good things be abundant in your life!
BTW did you get the book?
I did! Thank you.
I have gotten as far as beef is kinda fucked up.
I found the first 1/3 to 1/2 of the book kind of tedious, as in my case it was essentially preaching to the converted. Probably also true for you as well, but if you haven't done much reading on agriculture and environmental science yet it might be pretty interesting.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:32:29 AM
Quote from: Net on April 18, 2014, 01:31:19 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/award_zpsadb8c37a.jpg)
Nice work!
The real work will be to make sure I don't get booted out for drooping grades when I take physics, chem and calculus in autumn. :lulz:
You might do way better than you think, because those all support each other really well. Not that I've taken calculus or physics yet, but I should have. :lol:
Quote from: Nigel on April 18, 2014, 03:56:51 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/award_zpsadb8c37a.jpg)
Congratulations, Twid!
I considered joining as well, but still haven't gotten to it. I really probably should.
My main reasons for doing it was that it would look good and that I could get discounts on tuition, so $60 investment. But, the idea of having a group of fellow nerds helping me out where I might be having trouble and reciprocating is also appealing.
Quote from: Alty on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 PM
Things are a whole lot better than they were a few weeks ago.
I am around good people and they have a kid and both the kids get along.
Had a renter drop, but may have another at a higher rent by today.
So far my business is not tanking horribly, I probably won't get shot in the near future, and my kid and I have a friendly home.
I was worried for a while there.
Hooray good stuff!!
Quote from: Nigel on April 17, 2014, 10:33:51 PM
Today I found out that my proposal was accepted and I'm presenting my poster on the 7th, and also that I am being interviewed for a Ford Foundation scholarship. 89 interviewees, 50 awards. So nerves, many anxiety.
They'll probably give you two of the awards. One because you're awesome and the other so you don't flay them and wear their skins like fleshy feather boas.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 01:21:53 AM
Today ended well.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/award_zpsadb8c37a.jpg)
Congrats, man. :)
Veterans Services just contacted me from UNH, in-state tuition is being granted. :banana:
Thanks CPD! Congrats Suu!
So, had a workplace injury last night. And as the result of a completely preventable workplace accident, I have ended up losing a thumb.
Well, part of a thumb.
Well, half the nail of the thumb. On my non-dominant hand.
But it really fucking hurts.
Quote from: The Suu on April 18, 2014, 02:05:21 PM
Veterans Services just contacted me from UNH, in-state tuition is being granted. :banana:
WOOOOOO!!
Quote from: Cain on April 18, 2014, 05:53:32 PM
So, had a workplace injury last night. UAnd as the result of a completely preventable workplace accident, I have ended up losing a thumb.
Well, part of a thumb.
Well, half the nail of the thumb. On my non-dominant hand.
But it really fucking hurts.
Ouch.... I cringed a little bit
We just bought an epic plaid couch. It's so full of awful and wonderment, and it will fit in with our Early Disaster interior design theme. It was $40 at Salvation Army, normally I cringe at 2nd hand furniture, but it's spotlessly clean, and a LaZBoy. It looks like it was never used.
(http://i.imgur.com/TV0fDCS.jpg)
He also got me one of these:
(http://i.imgur.com/wwkF9ix.jpg)
That's a classic White rotary, it's strong enough to go through leather and in mint condition with all the attachments...$15.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 06:45:20 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 18, 2014, 05:53:32 PM
So, had a workplace injury last night. UAnd as the result of a completely preventable workplace accident, I have ended up losing a thumb.
Well, part of a thumb.
Well, half the nail of the thumb. On my non-dominant hand.
But it really fucking hurts.
Ouch.... I cringed a little bit
Prepare to cringe more. The sliced bit of nail didn't come off clean, it was about 3/4 of the way through, but it was left hanging there. So, naturally, I had to rip it off the rest of the way.
Fun times.
I audibly sucked air through my teeth and winced.
Quote from: Cain on April 18, 2014, 08:02:19 PM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 18, 2014, 06:45:20 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 18, 2014, 05:53:32 PM
So, had a workplace injury last night. UAnd as the result of a completely preventable workplace accident, I have ended up losing a thumb.
Well, part of a thumb.
Well, half the nail of the thumb. On my non-dominant hand.
But it really fucking hurts.
Ouch.... I cringed a little bit
Prepare to cringe more. The sliced bit of nail didn't come off clean, it was about 3/4 of the way through, but it was left hanging there. So, naturally, I had to rip it off the rest of the way.
Fun times.
Nasty.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 18, 2014, 08:36:50 PM
I audibly sucked air through my teeth and winced.
Because every single one of us who have ever lost a nail, know EXACTLY how he felt at that moment.
Quote from: The Suu on April 18, 2014, 10:27:57 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 18, 2014, 08:36:50 PM
I audibly sucked air through my teeth and winced.
Because every single one of us who have ever lost a nail, know EXACTLY how he felt at that moment.
Yep. Happened to me when I was a kid. Right ring finger.
The most comments I ever had on a facebook post before is 15. I post a Bundy ranch thing and I have 33.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 19, 2014, 03:44:31 AM
The most comments I ever had on a facebook post before is 15. I post a Bundy ranch thing and I have 33.
Some people have lost their bloody minds about that mess.
Transit police in tactical vests one of which telling the other about his license to carry. Yep that is completely normal.
Wedding tonight, followed by Easter celebration tomorrow. Mexican style! See you guys next week!
Quote from: Derrick Hogue on April 19, 2014, 09:21:02 PM
Wedding tonight, followed by Easter celebration tomorrow. Mexican style! See you guys next week!
Congratulations! I wish I was there to eat all your delicious wedding food!
Yesterday, at his brother's funeral, my friend came up to me and said "So A---'s mom just came up to me and asked, is that J-- H----? I think he friended me by accident on facebook, but I love reading his posts. Should I ask him for his autograph?"
:lulz:
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 20, 2014, 01:53:31 AM
Yesterday, at his brother's funeral, my friend came up to me and said "So A---'s mom just came up to me and asked, is that J-- H----? I think he friended me by accident on facebook, but I love reading his posts. Should I ask him for his autograph?"
:lulz:
Aww. :)
"Why would you move back to Maine?", they asked. "Isn't it just boring as all fuck out there?"
Well, I'm not sure I have a good answer for that question so maybe they should ask the guy who didn't get flat-out charged by a 6 point buck last night while wandering semi-lost through the woods on a head full of some obscure synthetic hallucinogen.
Because this is totally subjective and all, but I don't think that was particularly boring.
Quote from: Luna on April 19, 2014, 09:33:39 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 19, 2014, 03:44:31 AM
The most comments I ever had on a facebook post before is 15. I post a Bundy ranch thing and I have 33.
Some people have lost their bloody minds about that mess.
Ain't it awesome?
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on April 20, 2014, 01:35:26 PM
"Why would you move back to Maine?", they asked. "Isn't it just boring as all fuck out there?"
Well, I'm not sure I have a good answer for that question so maybe they should ask the guy who didn't get flat-out charged by a 6 point buck last night while wandering semi-lost through the woods on a head full of some obscure synthetic hallucinogen.
Because this is totally subjective and all, but I don't think that was particularly boring.
Ain't it awesome?
Of course, I'd just try to brain the deer with a whiskey bottle and eat it. Wouldn't end well.
Quote from: Nigel on April 19, 2014, 10:56:47 PM
Quote from: Derrick Hogue on April 19, 2014, 09:21:02 PM
Wedding tonight, followed by Easter celebration tomorrow. Mexican style! See you guys next week!
Congratulations! I wish I was there to eat all your delicious wedding food!
The wedding was for my neighbor's parents. 50 FUCKING YEARS!!! So I'm assuming their at least 70 years old.
Now we wait and prepare for Jesus to come back, and whip the shit of the bankers here in America.
Wife: "God I hate white weddings you either get chicken breasts stuffed with bacon, or beef stroganoff. The music is either: "The Macarena", "Cha Cha Slide", or "White Snake/Poison" all night long.
Then I headed out to go see binks and charge see her mom celebrate her anniversary at a Karaoke bar.
I always forget little binks is our jazz singer, and I'm officially convinced now to only do Elvis covers.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on April 20, 2014, 01:35:26 PM
"Why would you move back to Maine?", they asked. "Isn't it just boring as all fuck out there?"
Well, I'm not sure I have a good answer for that question so maybe they should ask the guy who didn't get flat-out charged by a 6 point buck last night while wandering semi-lost through the woods on a head full of some obscure synthetic hallucinogen.
Because this is totally subjective and all, but I don't think that was particularly boring.
:lol:
I finally saw what New Hampshire calls a beach today.
I'm fucking frightened. I want to move back to Rhode Island, now. The majority of them are not sand, they're pebbles and chunks of granite building a breakwater to stop Nor'easters from ruining the pretty summer houses...with spiders! SPIDERS ON THE BEACH. RUNNING ALL AROUND THE PEBBLES FROM THE WATER AND THE PEOPLE. WHAT THE FUCK?
Hampton Beach, NH's "resort town," is transplanted right from the Jersey Shore circa 1962. The beach is sandy and expansive, which is nice, but with the 3000 shandy motels, arcades, lobster shacks and kitschy stores, I can't see myself easily finding a piece of sand to brown my Vitamin D deficient ass in 2 months time. I found one local beach that I may go to not far from home, but it cost $15 to even ride my bike there, because this state is the goddamn libertarian paradise you've always wanted...with beach spiders.
Quote from: The Suu on April 21, 2014, 01:13:13 AM
I finally saw what New Hampshire calls a beach today.
I'm fucking frightened. I want to move back to Rhode Island, now. The majority of them are not sand, they're pebbles and chunks of granite building a breakwater to stop Nor'easters from ruining the pretty summer houses...with spiders! SPIDERS ON THE BEACH. RUNNING ALL AROUND THE PEBBLES FROM THE WATER AND THE PEOPLE. WHAT THE FUCK?
Hampton Beach, NH's "resort town," is transplanted right from the Jersey Shore circa 1962. The beach is sandy and expansive, which is nice, but with the 3000 shandy motels, arcades, lobster shacks and kitschy stores, I can't see myself easily finding a piece of sand to brown my Vitamin D deficient ass in 2 months time. I found one local beach that I may go to not far from home, but it cost $15 to even ride my bike there, because this state is the goddamn libertarian paradise you've always wanted...with beach spiders.
Small price to pay for freedom.
Or death. Y'know, if those are the options.
Quote from: The Suu on April 21, 2014, 01:13:13 AM
I finally saw what New Hampshire calls a beach today.
I'm fucking frightened. I want to move back to Rhode Island, now. The majority of them are not sand, they're pebbles and chunks of granite building a breakwater to stop Nor'easters from ruining the pretty summer houses...with spiders! SPIDERS ON THE BEACH. RUNNING ALL AROUND THE PEBBLES FROM THE WATER AND THE PEOPLE. WHAT THE FUCK?
Hampton Beach, NH's "resort town," is transplanted right from the Jersey Shore circa 1962. The beach is sandy and expansive, which is nice, but with the 3000 shandy motels, arcades, lobster shacks and kitschy stores, I can't see myself easily finding a piece of sand to brown my Vitamin D deficient ass in 2 months time. I found one local beach that I may go to not far from home, but it cost $15 to even ride my bike there, because this state is the goddamn libertarian paradise you've always wanted...with beach spiders.
You're spitting distance from some amazing beaches, you'll just have to drive across the Piscataqua.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on April 21, 2014, 02:04:29 AM
Quote from: The Suu on April 21, 2014, 01:13:13 AM
I finally saw what New Hampshire calls a beach today.
I'm fucking frightened. I want to move back to Rhode Island, now. The majority of them are not sand, they're pebbles and chunks of granite building a breakwater to stop Nor'easters from ruining the pretty summer houses...with spiders! SPIDERS ON THE BEACH. RUNNING ALL AROUND THE PEBBLES FROM THE WATER AND THE PEOPLE. WHAT THE FUCK?
Hampton Beach, NH's "resort town," is transplanted right from the Jersey Shore circa 1962. The beach is sandy and expansive, which is nice, but with the 3000 shandy motels, arcades, lobster shacks and kitschy stores, I can't see myself easily finding a piece of sand to brown my Vitamin D deficient ass in 2 months time. I found one local beach that I may go to not far from home, but it cost $15 to even ride my bike there, because this state is the goddamn libertarian paradise you've always wanted...with beach spiders.
You're spitting distance from some amazing beaches, you'll just have to drive across the Piscataqua.
That's what the locals tell me, fuck New Hampshire beaches, and just head up to Maine for the day.
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
Aw, hell with it. The interbutts are empty. THE WHOLE THING.
Taking a nap.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
:lulz: Holy shit!
You get to have all the fun.
Quote from: Net (+ 1 Hidden) on April 21, 2014, 05:00:45 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
:lulz: Holy shit!
You get to have all the fun.
It's like one of those isolation-thrillers. 9 people stuck in cabins in the mountains. How long before they start barking like dogs and eating each other?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
I thought you always liked Mike, it was the assistants you couldn't fucking stand.
Quote from: The Suu on April 21, 2014, 05:14:23 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
I thought you always liked Mike, it was the assistants you couldn't fucking stand.
One assistant. I hate him.
And I hate Mike. I used to find him oddly endearing in King Hell Nerd kind of way, but now I want to slap him until his gut oscillates like a water balloon in a centerfuge.
You work in an environment envisioned by Hunter Thompson, but none of you are on LSD.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 21, 2014, 05:22:12 PM
You work in an environment envisioned by Hunter Thompson, but none of you are on LSD.
They're on Tucson, they don't NEED LSD.
Weirdness moved to the "A New Currency" thread.
Good move.
God damn Roger!
Quote from: Derrick Hogue on April 21, 2014, 08:23:59 PM
God damn Roger!
What? It was an appropriate thread split. That stuff was too good to lose.
No, I mean your morning.
GOOD MORNING!
So I woke up at 9:15 and was pissed that my alarm didn't go off. Checked my clock on my phone "Why the hell isn't there an alarm set for Monday!!", I yelled.
I promptly texted my boss to inform him of this clock situation and that I would mostly likely be running late.
His response quickly snapped me back to reality. "Um, Squid. It's Monday.".
Of course it's Mond--- oh. We're closed Mondays.
WELP, always a good thing to occasionally remind my boss that he hired a functional retard. Fuck.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
Holy shit, that's amazing! :lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:46:40 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
Holy shit, that's amazing! :lulz:
On some days,
special days, Tucson delivers.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on April 21, 2014, 09:20:53 PM
GOOD MORNING!
So I woke up at 9:15 and was pissed that my alarm didn't go off. Checked my clock on my phone "Why the hell isn't there an alarm set for Monday!!", I yelled.
I promptly texted my boss to inform him of this clock situation and that I would mostly likely be running late.
His response quickly snapped me back to reality. "Um, Squid. It's Monday.".
Of course it's Mond--- oh. We're closed Mondays.
WELP, always a good thing to occasionally remind my boss that he hired a functional retard. Fuck.
Yes, but your our functional retard.
I have had a fairly good weekend. Went to the Hoot, which is a good old-fashioned hootenanny. The good news: I'm going to the next two Hoots. The bad news: there will only be two more Hoots, because the property the old barn is on, which used to be in the middle of the country, is now at the edge of the city and has been sold to developers. :(
Hung out on the porch drinking cheap beer and singing with my housemates for a couple hours. Woke up with a hangover, and went to geology, where mercifully, someone seems to have told GoogleEarth "Broham" Einstein to shut his stupid-leaker before they popped him in it, because he didn't pipe up with a single "theory" based on the fact that he has an internet connection and endless free time.
Checked my email and discovered that they've posted my degrees. I am officially an Associate of Art & Science and I graduated on the President's List. Not bad for a chick who didn't even have a GED two years ago.
Now I'm procrastinating chemistry homework.
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:56:15 PM
I have had a fairly good weekend. Went to the Hoot, which is a good old-fashioned hootenanny. The good news: I'm going to the next two Hoots. The bad news: there will only be two more Hoots, because the property the old barn is on, which used to be in the middle of the country, is now at the edge of the city and has been sold to developers. :(
Hung out on the porch drinking cheap beer and singing with my housemates for a couple hours. Woke up with a hangover, and went to geology, where mercifully, someone seems to have told GoogleEarth "Broham" Einstein to shut his stupid-leaker before they popped him in it, because he didn't pipe up with a single "theory" based on the fact that he has an internet connection and endless free time.
Checked my email and discovered that they've posted my degrees. I am officially an Associate of Art & Science and I graduated on the President's List. Not bad for a chick who didn't even have a GED two years ago.
Now I'm procrastinating chemistry homework.
Congratulations!
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:56:15 PM
I have had a fairly good weekend. Went to the Hoot, which is a good old-fashioned hootenanny. The good news: I'm going to the next two Hoots. The bad news: there will only be two more Hoots, because the property the old barn is on, which used to be in the middle of the country, is now at the edge of the city and has been sold to developers. :(
Hung out on the porch drinking cheap beer and singing with my housemates for a couple hours. Woke up with a hangover, and went to geology, where mercifully, someone seems to have told GoogleEarth "Broham" Einstein to shut his stupid-leaker before they popped him in it, because he didn't pipe up with a single "theory" based on the fact that he has an internet connection and endless free time.
Checked my email and discovered that they've posted my degrees. I am officially an Associate of Art & Science and I graduated on the President's List. Not bad for a chick who didn't even have a GED two years ago.
Now I'm procrastinating chemistry homework.
Awww Yeah!
On one hand I could use some physical human contact I'm not getting paid for.
On the other, filthy stink-monkeys are filthy and stinky monkeys.
Congrats, Nigel.
I celebrated the rising of Our Lord with margaritas. Still considering if that was the best course of action.
I haven't had much to say about anything, and very little that I feel passion for, which is why I haven't been on much.
Quote from: Regret on April 21, 2014, 09:58:45 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:56:15 PM
I have had a fairly good weekend. Went to the Hoot, which is a good old-fashioned hootenanny. The good news: I'm going to the next two Hoots. The bad news: there will only be two more Hoots, because the property the old barn is on, which used to be in the middle of the country, is now at the edge of the city and has been sold to developers. :(
Hung out on the porch drinking cheap beer and singing with my housemates for a couple hours. Woke up with a hangover, and went to geology, where mercifully, someone seems to have told GoogleEarth "Broham" Einstein to shut his stupid-leaker before they popped him in it, because he didn't pipe up with a single "theory" based on the fact that he has an internet connection and endless free time.
Checked my email and discovered that they've posted my degrees. I am officially an Associate of Art & Science and I graduated on the President's List. Not bad for a chick who didn't even have a GED two years ago.
Now I'm procrastinating chemistry homework.
Congratulations!
Thanks! :)
I feel like I am on the right path. If I get this Ford scholarship I'll be able to really relax and devote myself to my studies without having to stress about money. My hope is that I'll be able to excel over the next two years, and perhaps win a Ford Fellowship, which would allow me to study anything I want at any school I want.
Quote from: Alty on April 21, 2014, 10:20:24 PM
I haven't had much to say about anything, and very little that I feel passion for, which is why I haven't been on much.
Aw. :( I hope you get through it soon. I don't know if it's divorce-related, but one of the things I hated about ending long-term relationships is that there seems to be this directionless ennui that sets in after the grief has mostly ended.
What the hell, future? I've finally got a watch I can make phone calls with like 007, with a built-in camera and voice-activated world clock. It sends emails and also functions as a pedometer and IT'S POINTLESS.
IF I HAVE TO BRING MY WATCH UP TO MY FACE TO COMMUNICATE, IT DOESN'T COUNT AS HANDS-FREE AND I MIGHT AS WELL JUST HOLD MY DAMN PHONE AND NOT SHARE THE CALL WITH EVERYONE NEARBY.
And what non-creepy uses are there for a camera-watch? Which non-pervert finds themselves thinking "Here is a situation I would like to capture an image of, but I won't capture this image with my high-quality yet obvious camera, I will capture it with my lower-quality covert watch lens instead because not being detected is more important than image quality."
HEY WATCH, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A LARGE ENOUGH SCREEN FOR ME TO READ EMAILS ON. WHAT IS THE USE CASE FOR THIS? WHO ARE YOU DESIGNED FOR?
There's a serious computer in my watch which could do amazing things if someone would just tell it to, but instead they're trying to duplicate the functionality of the phone it needs to connect to to function. WHAT'S THIS ON MY WRIST? OH, REDUNDANCY.
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:46:40 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
Holy shit, that's amazing! :lulz:
Holy shit, I can't believe I missed this! :lulz:
Also congrats Nigel!! Success WOOOO!
Also also- I have no idea what a hootnanny is other than what you get when you mix an owl and a goat, but it sounds fun?
Handy, my wrist just vibrated to alert me to a txt message!
Wait, so did my phone. OKAY, I GET IT.
Nigel, I don't say this often enough:
You can be infuriating, you can be stubborn, and you can be rude. Nevertheless, you're one of the most awesome and wonderful people I've ever known. Congrats. You deserve it.
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 10:21:04 PM
Quote from: Regret on April 21, 2014, 09:58:45 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:56:15 PM
I have had a fairly good weekend. Went to the Hoot, which is a good old-fashioned hootenanny. The good news: I'm going to the next two Hoots. The bad news: there will only be two more Hoots, because the property the old barn is on, which used to be in the middle of the country, is now at the edge of the city and has been sold to developers. :(
Hung out on the porch drinking cheap beer and singing with my housemates for a couple hours. Woke up with a hangover, and went to geology, where mercifully, someone seems to have told GoogleEarth "Broham" Einstein to shut his stupid-leaker before they popped him in it, because he didn't pipe up with a single "theory" based on the fact that he has an internet connection and endless free time.
Checked my email and discovered that they've posted my degrees. I am officially an Associate of Art & Science and I graduated on the President's List. Not bad for a chick who didn't even have a GED two years ago.
Now I'm procrastinating chemistry homework.
Congratulations!
Thanks! :)
I feel like I am on the right path. If I get this Ford scholarship I'll be able to really relax and devote myself to my studies without having to stress about money. My hope is that I'll be able to excel over the next two years, and perhaps win a Ford Fellowship, which would allow me to study anything I want at any school I want.
:banana:
Nigel is pretty badass, tbh and puts to shame students who don't also have to be functional adults.
Air Force buddy of mine decided to drop in for a few days while he checks out the area before maybe transferring to Pease. There is drunk.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
Glad you're back. Holy Shit Biscuits, Mike's done gone over the edge. Is it time to bust out the champagne? Wow.
Quote from: Nigel on April 21, 2014, 09:56:15 PM
I have had a fairly good weekend. Went to the Hoot, which is a good old-fashioned hootenanny. The good news: I'm going to the next two Hoots. The bad news: there will only be two more Hoots, because the property the old barn is on, which used to be in the middle of the country, is now at the edge of the city and has been sold to developers. :(
Hung out on the porch drinking cheap beer and singing with my housemates for a couple hours. Woke up with a hangover, and went to geology, where mercifully, someone seems to have told GoogleEarth "Broham" Einstein to shut his stupid-leaker before they popped him in it, because he didn't pipe up with a single "theory" based on the fact that he has an internet connection and endless free time.
Checked my email and discovered that they've posted my degrees. I am officially an Associate of Art & Science and I graduated on the President's List. Not bad for a chick who didn't even have a GED two years ago.
Now I'm procrastinating chemistry homework.
That sounds like a great weekend. Congrats on the awesome, Nigel. Excellent work. Soon you will be ruling over us from your space lab in space.
BY THE POWER OF WOMP, I HAVE MODDED FLAPPY BIRD INTO A KIWI.
[redacted]
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 21, 2014, 11:37:09 PM
Nigel, I don't say this often enough:
You can be infuriating, you can be stubborn, and you can be rude. Nevertheless, you're one of the most awesome and wonderful people I've ever known. Congrats. You deserve it.
Aww <3
Thank you!
Also, alla youse guys, I have many heart for you, and thanks for all the encouragements. You rock!
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 06:59:28 AM
Also, alla youse guys, I have many heart for you, and thanks for all the encouragements. You rock!
No, you do.
Quote from: Pæs on April 21, 2014, 10:27:32 PM
What the hell, future? I've finally got a watch I can make phone calls with like 007, with a built-in camera and voice-activated world clock. It sends emails and also functions as a pedometer and IT'S POINTLESS.
IF I HAVE TO BRING MY WATCH UP TO MY FACE TO COMMUNICATE, IT DOESN'T COUNT AS HANDS-FREE AND I MIGHT AS WELL JUST HOLD MY DAMN PHONE AND NOT SHARE THE CALL WITH EVERYONE NEARBY.
And what non-creepy uses are there for a camera-watch? Which non-pervert finds themselves thinking "Here is a situation I would like to capture an image of, but I won't capture this image with my high-quality yet obvious camera, I will capture it with my lower-quality covert watch lens instead because not being detected is more important than image quality."
HEY WATCH, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A LARGE ENOUGH SCREEN FOR ME TO READ EMAILS ON. WHAT IS THE USE CASE FOR THIS? WHO ARE YOU DESIGNED FOR?
There's a serious computer in my watch which could do amazing things if someone would just tell it to, but instead they're trying to duplicate the functionality of the phone it needs to connect to to function. WHAT'S THIS ON MY WRIST? OH, REDUNDANCY.
While I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much all of this, I've found a need for the bold on more than the odd occasion for work related reasons. So while the device is pretty much inherently worthless (Remember MP3 watches? A whole 32MB of music! ON YOUR WRIST!) it may get to a point in about 5/7 years where the display enlarges somehow to be actually useful and a replacement for phones.
Of course, by that time we'll all have google monocle installed so it's a bit moot.
Also, Nigel, nice going. Always good to hear about shit going right for you.
So, I didn't want to bring this up but it's bugging me.
Villager and I had a conversation over the weekend and she is disinclined to have biological children. Mainly because by the time I get my BS, I'll be 36 and she 33. And then of course grad school. And the idea of pregnancy in general is unappealing to her. I can't blame her on any of that. I just consider it a bit of a bummer. I guess I figured part of the reason I was doing this was to make that possible. She hasn't ruled it out entirely, but well.... It seems like I have to accept that I will be a genetic dead end or break up with her. So... I guess I'm a genetic dead end. It's not what I want, but given the alternative. I'd rather take that gamble with her than without her.
Twid, there's always adoption. Genetics may not carry on, but if she is disinclined to give birth (I am the same way) and there comes a time that both of you do desire to have kids, there's still options. So although it may be a bummer right now, remember that things do change (please, do not force them to do so) and even if they don't, you're still doing the right thing by standing by the decision of the woman you love. Some men don't do that.
If you want to talk about this more sometime, shoot me a PM.
Rain for Chicago on Thursday and Monday. That city fucking hates me.
However, Kansas City looks to be a nice weekend until Sunday when there's a chance of severe weather, because no trip to the Midwest should be complete without a tornado. :argh!:
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 22, 2014, 07:35:41 AM
So, I didn't want to bring this up but it's bugging me.
Villager and I had a conversation over the weekend and she is disinclined to have biological children. Mainly because by the time I get my BS, I'll be 36 and she 33. And then of course grad school. And the idea of pregnancy in general is unappealing to her. I can't blame her on any of that. I just consider it a bit of a bummer. I guess I figured part of the reason I was doing this was to make that possible. She hasn't ruled it out entirely, but well.... It seems like I have to accept that I will be a genetic dead end or break up with her. So... I guess I'm a genetic dead end. It's not what I want, but given the alternative. I'd rather take that gamble with her than without her.
Adoption, surrogacy, etc.
Unless she outright doesn't want kids.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 22, 2014, 07:35:41 AM
So, I didn't want to bring this up but it's bugging me.
Villager and I had a conversation over the weekend and she is disinclined to have biological children. Mainly because by the time I get my BS, I'll be 36 and she 33. And then of course grad school. And the idea of pregnancy in general is unappealing to her. I can't blame her on any of that. I just consider it a bit of a bummer. I guess I figured part of the reason I was doing this was to make that possible. She hasn't ruled it out entirely, but well.... It seems like I have to accept that I will be a genetic dead end or break up with her. So... I guess I'm a genetic dead end. It's not what I want, but given the alternative. I'd rather take that gamble with her than without her.
33 is still quite young for childbearing.
Pregnancy isn't especially fun, but if she's not dead set against it, it might be a conversation worth revisiting if it's something important to you.
There's a wealth of options and alternatives, so don't feel like you've hit a dead end.
2011, not sure of accuracy, funny nonetheless:
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131476-watch-prius-owner-completely-flip-farmer-family-driving-truck/
Request for honest feedback: should I continue with my Colombia/Necronomicoin storyline, or is it losing steam?
I'm loving it. Sorry for not commenting on today's chapter.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 22, 2014, 03:36:04 PM
Request for honest feedback: should I continue with my Colombia/Necronomicoin storyline, or is it losing steam?
I'm enjoying it.
Well, she did want kids a few months ago. She still does but at this point would rather adopt. Which was not against either way. But I figured that she and I would reproduce at some point. She said we're both different people now with new priorities, and for her having children is not one of those priorities.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 22, 2014, 03:36:04 PM
Request for honest feedback: should I continue with my Colombia/Necronomicoin storyline, or is it losing steam?
Keep going. Not read anything new in that thread but I'm looking forward to it.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 22, 2014, 03:40:22 PM
Well, she did want kids a few months ago. She still does but at this point would rather adopt. Which was not against either way. But I figured that she and I would reproduce at some point. She said we're both different people now with new priorities, and for her having children is not one of those priorities.
For the moment.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 03:42:24 PM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 22, 2014, 03:40:22 PM
Well, she did want kids a few months ago. She still does but at this point would rather adopt. Which was not against either way. But I figured that she and I would reproduce at some point. She said we're both different people now with new priorities, and for her having children is not one of those priorities.
For the moment.
Granted. It's a good point, she may change her mind about it again. I guess it was just a bit of a shock to me.
Thank you. I'm not confident with scope, so please forgive the insecurity.
Today's ironic moment: Attendees at the Food Safety Summit get food poisoning. (http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/side-irony-meal-sickens-people-food-safety-summit-n83671)
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 22, 2014, 03:45:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 03:42:24 PM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 22, 2014, 03:40:22 PM
Well, she did want kids a few months ago. She still does but at this point would rather adopt. Which was not against either way. But I figured that she and I would reproduce at some point. She said we're both different people now with new priorities, and for her having children is not one of those priorities.
For the moment.
Granted. It's a good point, she may change her mind about it again. I guess it was just a bit of a shock to me.
It sounds to me like she's just trying to work out what she wants to do and where she wants to be. Totally normal. Just let her mull about, and I wouldn't let this bother you too much. You guys are still plenty young and healthy.
Whereas I am old and vile, and my sperms are shaped like origami.
Any child I fathered now would be given a reality TV show the moment they were born.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 04:24:55 PM
Whereas I am old and vile, and my sperms are shaped like origami
Any child I fathered now would be given a reality TV show the moment they were born.
:lulz:
NIGEL. YOU ROCK.
My other Long Island Italian cousin got engaged. This is the fussy younger one of the fun one I always go and drink across Manhattan with. The one my grandmother really wanted me to set up with Richter for some reason.
This is going to be the funniest Big Fat Italian Wedding ever.
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
Sounds like the ideal pretext to start throwing accusations of racism around and letting the less tolerant show themselves.
From what I've seen/heard, this is practically inevitable.
I have to admit I like the Orange Line because the trackway through Forest Hills and JP is kinda cool. I don't care who lives in what part of the city it goes through.
I mean, at least it's not the Green Line.
Quote from: Alty on April 21, 2014, 10:20:24 PM
I haven't had much to say about anything, and very little that I feel passion for, which is why I haven't been on much.
You got my number.
So the thing on my back, that the doctor froze off some months ago, is back. And it brought friends. Anyone got a sharped melon baller I can borrow?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 03:21:57 PM
2011, not sure of accuracy, funny nonetheless:
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131476-watch-prius-owner-completely-flip-farmer-family-driving-truck/
Wow. :eek: What a complete and utter lunatic.
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:45:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 03:21:57 PM
2011, not sure of accuracy, funny nonetheless:
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131476-watch-prius-owner-completely-flip-farmer-family-driving-truck/
Wow. :eek: What a complete and utter lunatic.
It takes all kinds.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 03:50:05 PM
Today's ironic moment: Attendees at the Food Safety Summit get food poisoning. (http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/side-irony-meal-sickens-people-food-safety-summit-n83671)
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
Oh my god. That's almost the most inane conversation imaginable.
I think I should try to get one of those started on Facebook about the MAX. YELLOW LINE ALL THE WAY, BITCHEZ!
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:48:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
Oh my god. That's almost the most inane conversation imaginable.
I think I should try to get one of those started on Facebook about the MAX. YELLOW LINE ALL THE WAY, BITCHEZ!
PURPLE LINE OR GTFO.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 22, 2014, 03:36:04 PM
Request for honest feedback: should I continue with my Colombia/Necronomicoin storyline, or is it losing steam?
I'd say keep going... I really dig what I've read so far, and though I might not get a chance to read any more until Thursday because of my jacked-up schedule, I look forward to catching up.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 09:49:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:48:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
Oh my god. That's almost the most inane conversation imaginable.
I think I should try to get one of those started on Facebook about the MAX. YELLOW LINE ALL THE WAY, BITCHEZ!
PURPLE LINE OR GTFO.
LIGHT RAIL WARS
SQUARE OFF AT THE TRANSIT CENTER!
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 22, 2014, 09:43:23 PM
So the thing on my back, that the doctor froze off some months ago, is back. And it brought friends. Anyone got a sharped melon baller I can borrow?
Eeeek! Papillomas are assholes. Make them kill it better this time.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 09:45:57 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:45:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 03:21:57 PM
2011, not sure of accuracy, funny nonetheless:
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131476-watch-prius-owner-completely-flip-farmer-family-driving-truck/
Wow. :eek: What a complete and utter lunatic.
It takes all kinds.
I hope that kind is the first kind eaten.
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:50:10 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 22, 2014, 03:36:04 PM
Request for honest feedback: should I continue with my Colombia/Necronomicoin storyline, or is it losing steam?
I'd say keep going... I really dig what I've read so far, and though I might not get a chance to read any more until Thursday because of my jacked-up schedule, I look forward to catching up.
I've been enjoying it. LMNO and I (and a couple of others) went sideways with it a bit.
I'm waiting for the last remnants of the brain weasels to clear up before hitting The Pit again, because some of my best ideas happen right about then, for reasons that a neurologist might be able to explain.
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:52:38 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 09:45:57 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:45:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 03:21:57 PM
2011, not sure of accuracy, funny nonetheless:
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/131476-watch-prius-owner-completely-flip-farmer-family-driving-truck/
Wow. :eek: What a complete and utter lunatic.
It takes all kinds.
I hope that kind is the first kind eaten.
I hate giant pickup trucks, I admit this. Mostly because they completely block my view.
I don't see how that gives me a right to walk up and lecture someone like a complete fucking psycho.
So, today's events: my workjob just had our last 8:30 am meeting, which is a relief. We don't meet again until the focus group on the 10th. My boss offered to coach me about my upcoming Ford Foundation interview, and she's rad so I bet she'll be super helpful.
I was an hour late for my geology quiz because I was working on my chemistry lab and for some reason I thought geology lab was at 1. The instructor did not give a single fuck, and I was done at the normal time so all's well that ends well.
I almost died when a truck ran a red light and stopped six inches short of the bus, which it was about to T-bone right where I was sitting. OK, so maybe I wouldn't have died, but it would have hells of sucked.
I found a food cart that serves enormous salad rolls for $3.50. This is my new snacktreat stop.
Kid disappeared and missed school and her therapy session. Kid was found safe in Canby, being irresponsible.
I came home and started beans for various salads, and now I'm procrastinating finishing my chemistry homework. I hate chemistry. I really really do. Hate it.
There is suddenly a thunderstorm.
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
I almost died when a truck ran a red light and stopped six inches short of the bus, which it was about to T-bone right where I was sitting. OK, so maybe I wouldn't have died, but it would have hells of sucked.
You know, I try to tell my brother this shit. You can be on top of the world, like he is, smugly convinced that you put yourself there all on your lonesome, and an accident that you have NO control over can throw you right into the shitter.
In fact, it occurs to me that people are far more likely to be pre-destitute than they are to be pre-rich.
Rant brewing.
Oh fuck yes. Pre-destitute. That's fucking perfect.
"Why are you studying Bookbinding and ancient mime college Timmy?"
"Well I love reading and I'm aiming to be pre-destitute by my mid to late 30's and this seems like the surest way"
HERE IS A LIST OF RANDOM HAPPENINGS WHICH CAN CATAPULT YOU INTO POVERTY.
And here is a much smaller collection of random happenings which might bring you riches.
But yeah, the latter are probably going to happen.
"Million to one shots are a sure thing" - T. Pratchett, badly remembered.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 10:38:07 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
I almost died when a truck ran a red light and stopped six inches short of the bus, which it was about to T-bone right where I was sitting. OK, so maybe I wouldn't have died, but it would have hells of sucked.
You know, I try to tell my brother this shit. You can be on top of the world, like he is, smugly convinced that you put yourself there all on your lonesome, and an accident that you have NO control over can throw you right into the shitter.
In fact, it occurs to me that people are far more likely to be pre-destitute than they are to be pre-rich.
Rant brewing.
Absolutely! It's weird, because my thought as I watched this guy run the red light and come at the bus, which was still moving, in that moment before he realized that he was about to drive into the bus and as I realized that the trajectory of the intersection between the two moving objects was approximately me, was "but it's all been going so well". And then he hit the brakes. So it's all still going well, but it almost went to shit just then, in a way that had nothing to do with anything I should or shouldn't have done.
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 11:10:56 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 10:38:07 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
I almost died when a truck ran a red light and stopped six inches short of the bus, which it was about to T-bone right where I was sitting. OK, so maybe I wouldn't have died, but it would have hells of sucked.
You know, I try to tell my brother this shit. You can be on top of the world, like he is, smugly convinced that you put yourself there all on your lonesome, and an accident that you have NO control over can throw you right into the shitter.
In fact, it occurs to me that people are far more likely to be pre-destitute than they are to be pre-rich.
Rant brewing.
Absolutely! It's weird, because my thought as I watched this guy run the red light and come at the bus, which was still moving, in that moment before he realized that he was about to drive into the bus and as I realized that the trajectory of the intersection between the two moving objects was approximately me, was "but it's all been going so well". And then he hit the brakes. So it's all still going well, but it almost went to shit just then, in a way that had nothing to do with anything I should or shouldn't have done.
Yep. My brother, though, lives in a slightly different universe than you and I.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 11:14:06 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 11:10:56 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 22, 2014, 10:38:07 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
I almost died when a truck ran a red light and stopped six inches short of the bus, which it was about to T-bone right where I was sitting. OK, so maybe I wouldn't have died, but it would have hells of sucked.
You know, I try to tell my brother this shit. You can be on top of the world, like he is, smugly convinced that you put yourself there all on your lonesome, and an accident that you have NO control over can throw you right into the shitter.
In fact, it occurs to me that people are far more likely to be pre-destitute than they are to be pre-rich.
Rant brewing.
Absolutely! It's weird, because my thought as I watched this guy run the red light and come at the bus, which was still moving, in that moment before he realized that he was about to drive into the bus and as I realized that the trajectory of the intersection between the two moving objects was approximately me, was "but it's all been going so well". And then he hit the brakes. So it's all still going well, but it almost went to shit just then, in a way that had nothing to do with anything I should or shouldn't have done.
Yep. My brother, though, lives in a slightly different universe than you and I.
He will, until something bad happens to him.
People like that tend to use their conviction that the Universe is merit-based to reassure themselves that nothing bad can happen to them.
Well, it's been a fun hour. Back to school with me.
Leaving on my rail adventure tomorrow. I'll check in as signal and wifi coverage allows. These trains go through a lot of bumfuck. I solemnly swear not to East Coast the fuck out of the Midwest, no matter how much they deserve it.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
You are aware that Boston in general is, like, SUPER DUPER racist, right?
Awesome in the sauce -
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html?_r=1
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
I was an hour late for my geology quiz because I was working on my chemistry lab and for some reason I thought geology lab was at 1. The instructor did not give a single fuck, and I was done at the normal time so all's well that ends well.
Geologic time.No, I am not going to stop making these shit jokes. It's the closest thing I have to rocks ever since my career trajectory turned the -ology into -ography.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on April 22, 2014, 03:36:04 PM
Request for honest feedback: should I continue with my Colombia/Necronomicoin storyline, or is it losing steam?
I read the whole thing and then immediately poomped out a page of writing, and I know pretty well where I'm going for the next page.
So, it's still got mojo.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 22, 2014, 09:43:23 PM
So the thing on my back, that the doctor froze off some months ago, is back. And it brought friends. Anyone got a sharped melon baller I can borrow?
I hope it's all going to be good, CPD.
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 09:48:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
Oh my god. That's almost the most inane conversation imaginable.
I think I should try to get one of those started on Facebook about the MAX. YELLOW LINE ALL THE WAY, BITCHEZ!
I can totally understand what LMNO is talking about. And of course, I also live on the Orange Line, albeit on the other end of it. It's one of those odd things I never consider because I just take it all the time. I live on the Orange Line, in a fairly heavily South American neighborhood, and Villager lives near the Red Line in a largely middle class Irish American neighborhood that is otherwise considered inner city. And the Green Line does blow the most. It is actually the most heavily ridden subway line in the United States. At least it was as of 2012. I don't expect the stats would have changed much over 2 years.
Villager's parents were afraid for her when she moved to Dorchester. They're old white people. I like Dorchester. Granted, Villager's car did get broken into, but so did everyone else's. Stupid kids trying to get a quick buck on Christmas by breaking into every car on the block (and still missing the envelope in the glove compartment labeled "$90 for Kevin"). Never happened before, never happened since.
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on April 23, 2014, 03:15:24 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 22, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
I was an hour late for my geology quiz because I was working on my chemistry lab and for some reason I thought geology lab was at 1. The instructor did not give a single fuck, and I was done at the normal time so all's well that ends well.
Geologic time.
No, I am not going to stop making these shit jokes. It's the closest thing I have to rocks ever since my career trajectory turned the -ology into -ography.
It's a delightfully laid-back class, that's for sure. It's a far cry from the frenzied equations of Chemistry or the information overload of Biology.
I still love Biology best, though.
I just got home from my Chemistry lab. You know what? My professor lied when she said labs were going to ease up this term. She lied her lying ass off. And you know what's boring as fuck? Titrations. I really did not enjoy being in the lab doing titrations until nine-fifteen. And she argued with me about how I did my concentration calculation because I did it differently from how she does hers, I'm like, no, this is totally right, why do you suck at math? Only I didn't say that.
Sorry, now I'm just ranting. I fucking hate chemistry, though.
I really managed to fuck myself this term. I mean, I'm only taking 14 credits, yet somehow I'm in the classroom an average of 5 hours a day and in transit an average of 2 hours a day, meaning I'm supposed to do my job, take care of my kids, and do 40 hours of homework in the remaining 9 hours of awake time. Oh, and shower. Somehow I'm supposed to shower. I don't have time for grooming, I don't even know what I look like anymore.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on April 23, 2014, 02:42:37 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 22, 2014, 06:32:22 PM
Interesting conversation on FB about which subway line in Boston is "the best": Orange Line or Red Line. A lot of people are supporting the Red line. As I live on the orange line, I'm backing that one, but a lot of people are disparaging of it. However, I noticed something... Could be coincidental.
Red Line stops: Southie (traditionally white). Kendall (white). Harvard (duh). Somerville (white). Alewife (white).
Orange Line stops: Forest Hills (black), Jackson Square (black/Latino), Roxbury (black), Chinatown (duh, part 2).
Ok, there are outliers. The Orange Line does go through Charlestown (working class white) and into Malden (white), and the Red Line goes into Dorchester (black). Still, it did give me pause.
You are aware that Boston in general is, like, SUPER DUPER racist, right?
Despite the fact that we pride ourselves on liberalism and equal rights and all of that, yeah. We are, as a whole, secretly and disturbingly racist. Problem is that it is subtle. I think that part of the problem is that we DO pride ourselves on being liberal. It gives us a bit of wiggle room to be racist assholes.
Somehow, I cut my finger on a pizza box. I blame Richter.
Quote from: President Television on April 23, 2014, 06:43:33 AM
Somehow, I cut my finger on a pizza box. I blame Richter.
This is the logical course of reasoning. Make sure the pizza hasn't also been sharpened before you eat it.
Application for editorial intern sent. It's not a major magazine, that I'm applying for, but they're well known in certain circles. Describe their politics as "progressive"...hopefully not in the American sense, because I morally refuse to shill for Obama unless the pay package is increased.
Would also have to move, but Oxford isn't a bad city, it'd be over the summer and I would be earning enough to rent somewhere out.
I don't have all the facts. The plane whirled downward, however, bright to long and staggered thin. Insult to injury. Drama over tragedy. Generally, I do not deal in waste management but this one caught me slightly off balance. Meaning: someone purports to be a "nurse/caregiver", having every reason to preempt any concerns of negligence in that capacity, continually justifies the deteriorating health of her "patient" with salient disclosures of their sordid personal/private flaws. Point being that this nurse was actually driving a wedge into her patients recovery. Fuck it. I don't know the facts. Then, then, however, I come to understand that after sai patients' passing, said nurse stealthy chores an expensive personal effect of recently the deceased. It just makes me turn; the way that gross negligence would be a euphemism in this case. My new tenants will be awesome. Oar, I'm open to compassionate suggestions, really, I'm an advocate for advice.
Damn, that's beyond shitty.
Yea. Then time fire of deeds and such.
I was just watching the news and they said it was St George's day - who knew? - so Happy nah, Merry nah, Memorable St George's day to you all
Quote from: MMIX on April 23, 2014, 09:02:25 AM
I was just watching the news and they said it was St George's day - who knew? - so Happy nah, Merry nah, Memorable St George's day to you all
Cheers, to a world that's... free :horrormirth:
Well there aint much in the way of dragons kicking around these days so, yeah, good job St George!
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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 23, 2014, 09:47:21 AM
Well there aint much in the way of dragons kicking around these days so, yeah, good job St George!
Says you. I just got done playing around with some Skyrim mods, and I had a four-way, unleveled dragon gangbang occur. That was my last hour. Useless fecking guards stood in the open and got slaughtered. I would say "lol campers" except I got pinned down by two while hiding in cover.
Fuck yeah, Skyrim! Think I'll fire up the PS3 and give it another playthrough when I get home. Should keep me amused until I realise how shitty alchemy is compared to Oblivion :cry:
On the regional headed to DC. If anyone is terribly interested in this stupid adventure of mine, I'm attempting to live tweet or whatever you kids call it these days. My handle is ang_costello. Once I'm on the big trains between DC, Chicago, and KC, I won't have WiFi and signal will be limited.
Other than that, I'm not sure how well I'm going to sleep.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 23, 2014, 10:25:19 AM
Fuck yeah, Skyrim! Think I'll fire up the PS3 and give it another playthrough when I get home. Should keep me amused until I realise how shitty alchemy is compared to Oblivion :cry:
All the crafting in Skyrim is shitty and overpowered. Smithing, enchanting and alchemy are terrible...at least smithing allows you to make powerful weapons, and enchating allows you to add an extra layer of cheese. Alchemy is just...meh.
Once I've finished what I'm currently doing (which is trying to test the Civil War Overhaul mod's latest release), I'll be installing and uploading videos of me playing Skyrim Redone, which has a much improved alchemy tree. Among other things, it allows you to craft alchemical grenades, poisons for traps and non-elemental explosive bolts and arrows.
Fuck yeah - keep me in the loop. I really miss having a gaming PC when I think about skyrim mods :cry:
I'm 28 now. Went to Denny's wee hours for their free B-day meal with wife, and fabulous man. I said fuck it I'll have a blueberry milkshake. Find out its 1070 calories after I consumed it. So I get to spend a extra 50 mins at the gym. Afterwards I get to harass all my local joints for free Bday stuff. Free rectum exam,free cell phone, free laundry, free gas, free willy.
Thanks for all the Bday wishes so far. Thanks Burns for the gift card.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 23, 2014, 01:11:30 PM
Fuck yeah - keep me in the loop. I really miss having a gaming PC when I think about skyrim mods :cry:
If you want to make it worse, check out SkyRe's manual (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33995/?) and Requiem's manual (https://bitbucket.org/ogerboss/requiem-manual-and-documentation/wiki/Requiem-Manual.pdf). Both show how, with a little love and attention to detail, Skyrim could've been so much better. I considered doing a Requiem playthrough...but it's definitely a specialised taste, based on previous playthroughs. Very hardcore, in terms of roleplaying and actual combat. SkyRe's a bit more forgiving, and so hopefully less boring for the viewer.
LMNO, you'll be happy to hear I spent today working from a previous save to get up to the previous point in Dishonored. Well, sort of. I actually found my way into where that rune was (there was a hidden room all along), unlocked a power and then saved it. Despite not having had the opportunity to play for weeks, I seem to be doing pretty well still - caught all 4 guards by surprise when breaking into the doctor's offices. No bodies, no problem, as they say.
I should be recording tomorrow, assuming nothing else happens to throw my plans into disarray.
Do either of those mods fix the fundamental problem of all dungeon envrionments essentially being a very pretty tunnel? I picked up the PC version over christmas and blasted through it with a few random mods but it felt ridiculously light compared to morrowind. Hell, it felt light compared to oblivion.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 23, 2014, 09:54:19 AM
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Stunning. Slate has loyal readers.
So it's not a paywall, it's just that to access the full content of the page you have to have a paid membership.
But it's not a paywall.
Quote from: Cain on April 23, 2014, 08:06:32 AM
Application for editorial intern sent. It's not a major magazine, that I'm applying for, but they're well known in certain circles. Describe their politics as "progressive"...hopefully not in the American sense, because I morally refuse to shill for Obama unless the pay package is increased.
Would also have to move, but Oxford isn't a bad city, it'd be over the summer and I would be earning enough to rent somewhere out.
:lulz: That's my man. Pragmatic.
Quote from: All father, Bearman on April 23, 2014, 05:48:34 PM
I'm 28 now. Went to Denny's wee hours for their free B-day meal with wife, and fabulous man. I said fuck it I'll have a blueberry milkshake. Find out its 1070 calories after I consumed it. So I get to spend a extra 50 mins at the gym. Afterwards I get to harass all my local joints for free Bday stuff. Free rectum exam,free cell phone, free laundry, free gas, free willy.
Thanks for all the Bday wishes so far. Thanks Burns for the gift card.
Happy birthday! April babies abound.
Aaaaannnnnd divorced!
*pops champagne*
There's something really weird going on at work. Extremely strange "errors" and breakdowns that are now too frequent to pass off as coincidence, but would take a lot of theoretical knowledge AND practical, hands-on experience to deliberately engineer.
Right before a contract with one of the largest electronic companies in the world, and right before we transition out of an R&D mode into production.
This bears thinking about. And reading log books. Tons and tons of logbooks.
Trying to see if exceptions occur when certain people are on?
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 24, 2014, 03:16:41 AM
Trying to see if exceptions occur when certain people are on?
Something like that.
I have my suspicions.
I am going to watch this until I figure it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
Because it's fucking epic.
In :argh!: news I got moved near what had been teabag corner for a year. Only now the Illuminati conspiracy theorist got moved there as well along with the holy roller. It is now generic conspiracy corner and they won't shut up. They feed each other various stories from email forwards.
I'm trying to think of ways to turn this into better entertainment, but all I've got is to inform anti-muslim teabagger that the guy he sits 2 cubes from that can obviously hear his rants is a muslim.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 24, 2014, 03:31:04 AM
In :argh!: news I got moved near what had been teabag corner for a year. Only now the Illuminati conspiracy theorist got moved there as well along with the holy roller. It is now generic conspiracy corner and they won't shut up. They feed each other various stories from email forwards.
I'm trying to think of ways to turn this into better entertainment, but all I've got is to inform anti-muslim teabagger that the guy he sits 2 cubes from that can obviously hear his rants is a muslim.
Feed them new conspiracies.
Helpful tips forthcoming tomorrow.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 03:35:48 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 24, 2014, 03:31:04 AM
In :argh!: news I got moved near what had been teabag corner for a year. Only now the Illuminati conspiracy theorist got moved there as well along with the holy roller. It is now generic conspiracy corner and they won't shut up. They feed each other various stories from email forwards.
I'm trying to think of ways to turn this into better entertainment, but all I've got is to inform anti-muslim teabagger that the guy he sits 2 cubes from that can obviously hear his rants is a muslim.
Feed them new conspiracies.
Helpful tips forthcoming tomorrow.
That's a given, but my creativity died at some point in the winter. I look forward to your tips.
Quote from: Alty on April 23, 2014, 10:48:00 PM
Aaaaannnnnd divorced!
*pops champagne*
Congratulations!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 23, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
There's something really weird going on at work. Extremely strange "errors" and breakdowns that are now too frequent to pass off as coincidence, but would take a lot of theoretical knowledge AND practical, hands-on experience to deliberately engineer.
Right before a contract with one of the largest electronic companies in the world, and right before we transition out of an R&D mode into production.
This bears thinking about. And reading log books. Tons and tons of logbooks.
That is suspicious as hell, indeed.
Quote from: All father, Bearman on April 23, 2014, 05:48:34 PM
I'm 28 now. Went to Denny's wee hours for their free B-day meal with wife, and fabulous man. I said fuck it I'll have a blueberry milkshake. Find out its 1070 calories after I consumed it. So I get to spend a extra 50 mins at the gym. Afterwards I get to harass all my local joints for free Bday stuff. Free rectum exam,free cell phone, free laundry, free gas, free willy.
Thanks for all the Bday wishes so far. Thanks Burns for the gift card.
Happy Birthday, man. :)
Quote from: Alty on April 23, 2014, 10:48:00 PM
Aaaaannnnnd divorced!
*pops champagne*
Congrats, Alty. Although I feel like I should be offering condolences, instead.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 23, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
There's something really weird going on at work. Extremely strange "errors" and breakdowns that are now too frequent to pass off as coincidence, but would take a lot of theoretical knowledge AND practical, hands-on experience to deliberately engineer.
Right before a contract with one of the largest electronic companies in the world, and right before we transition out of an R&D mode into production.
This bears thinking about. And reading log books. Tons and tons of logbooks.
Wow. Yeah, that's not fishy at all. O.o
Quote from: Alty on April 23, 2014, 10:48:00 PM
Aaaaannnnnd divorced!
*pops champagne*
Congratulations!
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 24, 2014, 04:55:11 AM
Quote from: All father, Bearman on April 23, 2014, 05:48:34 PM
I'm 28 now. Went to Denny's wee hours for their free B-day meal with wife, and fabulous man. I said fuck it I'll have a blueberry milkshake. Find out its 1070 calories after I consumed it. So I get to spend a extra 50 mins at the gym. Afterwards I get to harass all my local joints for free Bday stuff. Free rectum exam,free cell phone, free laundry, free gas, free willy.
Thanks for all the Bday wishes so far. Thanks Burns for the gift card.
Happy Birthday, man. :)
Quote from: Nigel on April 23, 2014, 09:51:33 PM
Quote from: All father, Bearman on April 23, 2014, 05:48:34 PM
I'm 28 now. Went to Denny's wee hours for their free B-day meal with wife, and fabulous man. I said fuck it I'll have a blueberry milkshake. Find out its 1070 calories after I consumed it. So I get to spend a extra 50 mins at the gym. Afterwards I get to harass all my local joints for free Bday stuff. Free rectum exam,free cell phone, free laundry, free gas, free willy.
Thanks for all the Bday wishes so far. Thanks Burns for the gift card.
Happy birthday! April babies abound.
TY :pika:
Wow, PSU sure makes it almost impossible to take more than one class during summer term.
The good news is that all I'm taking is Psychology of Women, and Sex & the Family, plus a geology field trip. I figured out that if I take Gender & Human Sexuality for my Junior Cluster I can shoehorn two psychology classes into applying to both my University Studies and my second major, so I can graduate a term earlier.
Second major would be?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 23, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
There's something really weird going on at work. Extremely strange "errors" and breakdowns that are now too frequent to pass off as coincidence, but would take a lot of theoretical knowledge AND practical, hands-on experience to deliberately engineer.
Right before a contract with one of the largest electronic companies in the world, and right before we transition out of an R&D mode into production.
This bears thinking about. And reading log books. Tons and tons of logbooks.
I am intrigued. And possibly may be able to help, depending on the kind of gear. Throw me a PM if it needs to be kept on the QT.
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 06:22:41 AM
Wow, PSU sure makes it almost impossible to take more than one class during summer term.
The good news is that all I'm taking is Psychology of Women, and Sex & the Family, plus a geology field trip. I figured out that if I take Gender & Human Sexuality for my Junior Cluster I can shoehorn two psychology classes into applying to both my University Studies and my second major, so I can graduate a term earlier.
:spittake:
So it's defo not what my sick twisted mind thought but I'm intrigued. What actually is it?
Quote from: Nigel on April 23, 2014, 09:49:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 23, 2014, 08:06:32 AM
Application for editorial intern sent. It's not a major magazine, that I'm applying for, but they're well known in certain circles. Describe their politics as "progressive"...hopefully not in the American sense, because I morally refuse to shill for Obama unless the pay package is increased.
Would also have to move, but Oxford isn't a bad city, it'd be over the summer and I would be earning enough to rent somewhere out.
:lulz: That's my man. Pragmatic.
I prize my integrity highly. At least 50% of what would otherwise be my pay package at said place of employment.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 23, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
There's something really weird going on at work. Extremely strange "errors" and breakdowns that are now too frequent to pass off as coincidence, but would take a lot of theoretical knowledge AND practical, hands-on experience to deliberately engineer.
Right before a contract with one of the largest electronic companies in the world, and right before we transition out of an R&D mode into production.
This bears thinking about. And reading log books. Tons and tons of logbooks.
It's not beyond the bounds of possibility. Indeed, it's well within.
Once you have a suspect list, I expect you'll be looking at previous places of employment? I doubt they'd be that straightforward, but as a first step it seems nevertheless a sound one.
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 24, 2014, 03:39:10 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 03:35:48 AM
Quote from: UNREGISTERED SHARPIE USER on April 24, 2014, 03:31:04 AM
In :argh!: news I got moved near what had been teabag corner for a year. Only now the Illuminati conspiracy theorist got moved there as well along with the holy roller. It is now generic conspiracy corner and they won't shut up. They feed each other various stories from email forwards.
I'm trying to think of ways to turn this into better entertainment, but all I've got is to inform anti-muslim teabagger that the guy he sits 2 cubes from that can obviously hear his rants is a muslim.
Feed them new conspiracies.
Helpful tips forthcoming tomorrow.
That's a given, but my creativity died at some point in the winter. I look forward to your tips.
BUY New 1. panty hose 2: socks 3? Chartreuse Scarf
Happy belated, bearman!
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:28:52 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 23, 2014, 11:15:07 PM
There's something really weird going on at work. Extremely strange "errors" and breakdowns that are now too frequent to pass off as coincidence, but would take a lot of theoretical knowledge AND practical, hands-on experience to deliberately engineer.
Right before a contract with one of the largest electronic companies in the world, and right before we transition out of an R&D mode into production.
This bears thinking about. And reading log books. Tons and tons of logbooks.
That is suspicious as hell, indeed.
My boss has pronioa.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 24, 2014, 07:50:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 06:22:41 AM
Wow, PSU sure makes it almost impossible to take more than one class during summer term.
The good news is that all I'm taking is Psychology of Women, and Sex & the Family, plus a geology field trip. I figured out that if I take Gender & Human Sexuality for my Junior Cluster I can shoehorn two psychology classes into applying to both my University Studies and my second major, so I can graduate a term earlier.
:spittake:
So it's defo not what my sick twisted mind thought but I'm intrigued. What actually is it?
QuoteExplores how responses to sexuality are influenced by family and other social systems including culture, gender, economics, and religion. Family systems theory will be used to evaluate family relationships.
I decided to pass on the Psychology of Women next term because the professor is reputed to suck, and am taking Psychology Research Methods instead. Woot.
I have to talk to an advisor because for some reason Social Psychology did not transfer properly. Bleh. They better apply it.
Screw it. Nap time.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 21, 2014, 03:38:06 PM
Hello, I am back. I am feeling entirely too well to be at work, which is never a good sign. Mike the engineer was trying to explain something about maximum temperatures for confined space entry, and I was trying to explain to him that I wrote the procedure. This led Lilly to ask where I got my information because it's very inconvenient that we have to let things cool down for 96 hours, and a 150C shouldn't be TOO bad, if they laid cardboard down to crawl on.
Naturally, I refused. Mike was getting more and more agitated. People were getting information from people who weren't him. He started making a low keening noise, like a starving dog....It make us all look at him in horror. The poor bastard had reached crush depth, and it was only 7:45AM on a Monday. He had blood in his nose, and his eyes were rolling around and around and around, trying to look at everyone at once. Baby Engineer and I were trying to quietly make book on whether or not he was having a stroke, when he suddenly vomited all over the table, killing the PC projector, which shorted to death on his vomit without a single spark or pop. It just quietly died.
Mike began screaming about how nobody respects his knowledge and his PE stamp, with blood streaming out of his nose and vomit caked on his chin and shirt. Then he ran out the door and got into his truck, and roared out of the parking lot, howling all the way.
All of this made dealing with the residual brain flukes easier, let me tell you. I was just a paranoid asshole with a headache. Mike was doing a full-on nervous breakdown wobbler, old school. It's made me like him a little. Almost.
This needs to be in a graphic novel. :lulz:
NIGHTMARE FUEL
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/04/24/ronald-mcdonald-gets-hip-new-makeover/
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 24, 2014, 09:04:49 PM
NIGHTMARE FUEL
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/04/24/ronald-mcdonald-gets-hip-new-makeover/
That's supposed to be an updated look? Awful.
I've just gone through and cleared out over half my 'friends' list on FB. It surprisingly wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
Now to see how many, if any, of them send notice they've been unfriended and send me a message.
My newsfeed looks a lot better now too.
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:37:24 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 24, 2014, 07:50:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 06:22:41 AM
Wow, PSU sure makes it almost impossible to take more than one class during summer term.
The good news is that all I'm taking is Psychology of Women, and Sex & the Family, plus a geology field trip. I figured out that if I take Gender & Human Sexuality for my Junior Cluster I can shoehorn two psychology classes into applying to both my University Studies and my second major, so I can graduate a term earlier.
:spittake:
So it's defo not what my sick twisted mind thought but I'm intrigued. What actually is it?
QuoteExplores how responses to sexuality are influenced by family and other social systems including culture, gender, economics, and religion. Family systems theory will be used to evaluate family relationships.
I decided to pass on the Psychology of Women next term because the professor is reputed to suck, and am taking Psychology Research Methods instead. Woot.
"Family systems theory" has an awesome kind of ring to it - cheers for the new google string
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 24, 2014, 09:44:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 04:37:24 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 24, 2014, 07:50:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 24, 2014, 06:22:41 AM
Wow, PSU sure makes it almost impossible to take more than one class during summer term.
The good news is that all I'm taking is Psychology of Women, and Sex & the Family, plus a geology field trip. I figured out that if I take Gender & Human Sexuality for my Junior Cluster I can shoehorn two psychology classes into applying to both my University Studies and my second major, so I can graduate a term earlier.
:spittake:
So it's defo not what my sick twisted mind thought but I'm intrigued. What actually is it?
QuoteExplores how responses to sexuality are influenced by family and other social systems including culture, gender, economics, and religion. Family systems theory will be used to evaluate family relationships.
I decided to pass on the Psychology of Women next term because the professor is reputed to suck, and am taking Psychology Research Methods instead. Woot.
"Family systems theory" has an awesome kind of ring to it - cheers for the new google string
Have fun with it! :cheers:
Quote from: Sita on April 24, 2014, 09:40:05 PM
I've just gone through and cleared out over half my 'friends' list on FB. It surprisingly wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
Now to see how many, if any, of them send notice they've been unfriended and send me a message.
My newsfeed looks a lot better now too.
Oh dear God I really need to do that.
I applied to the Honors College. I honestly have no idea whether that was a good idea, or if I should review my summer class choices to prevent redundancy if I get in.
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:04:34 AM
I applied to the Honors College. I honestly have no idea whether that was a good idea, or if I should review my summer class choices to prevent redundancy if I get in.
Go for broke. You see to perform better at crush depth. And it's not forever.
So, tonight there was loud thumping music from somewhere. I thought it was coming from outside my room, from a car going by, but it remained constant. Then I thought it was one of my housemates. So I followed the sound. To the other side of the building. I went into the bathroom to see if it was from outside and then knocked on a housemate's door (he's next to the bathroom), and he was like, yeah, I was going to wait another 5 minutes before I said anything. We called the landlady, she was busy with her grandson, so he and I went out there, and he told me to let him do the talking, because they'd probably laugh at me (he's tall, I'm not), so we did, and he was like, "hey can you turn it down?" :indistinct because music was so loud: "Well, I'm politely asking you if you can turn it down. This guy over here can here it from the other side of the building." "I'll see what I can do." "What do you mean you'll see what you can do? If I keep hearing it, I'll have to call the police." "You can call the police if you want to." "Wait, what do you mean I can call the police? You don't want to turn it down?" "Ok." Fucking hell.
Does your building have master power switches for apartment power?
8)
Quote from: Pæs on April 25, 2014, 04:04:48 AM
Does your building have master power switches for apartment power?
Yes, but this went beyond the building and across the parking lot into a different residence. Apparently the landlady has been battling with them for a few years.
And apparently this has been an ongoing nice weather thing. It's just the first time that it's been so loud that I'VE heard it.
Juan Pablo, the landlady and I came to an agreement that we would post their address in the stairwell for the next time it happens. Next time we'll just all independently call the cops.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 25, 2014, 03:59:24 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 25, 2014, 01:04:34 AM
I applied to the Honors College. I honestly have no idea whether that was a good idea, or if I should review my summer class choices to prevent redundancy if I get in.
Go for broke. You see to perform better at crush depth. And it's not forever.
:lol: I don't know if I'd put it that strongly. More like my baseline is high enough that I continue to perform adequately even under the stress that is slowly killing me. But I looked it over (after applying, because that's smart) and it looks like the Honors College is more of what I'm already doing, research and more independent self-directed study, so it won't be more stressful, just structured differently.
But I did have to jiggy my summer schedule around a bit because if I get in, it would have made one of my classes redundant. I don't really want to add more unnecessary credits anywhere if I can help it. I'm still not 100% sure I want to do this, because my previous plan shaved a whole term off my graduation date, but maybe I can talk to an advisor and they can help me to make that happen, assuming I get in of course.
In Kansas City, also known as the city that eats its suburbs. It takes an hour to cross is most directions, so I'm gauging it's roughly the same area as Rhode Island. The train station was shot up by Pretty Boy Floyd, and we passed 2 Civil War battlefields just to get to my friend's place. I'll post some pics when I'm plugged in.
Also, the sky is going to try to kill me all weekend with the highest chance of death on Sunday night. I knew this was going to happen
It took me forever to notice, but if you look very closely at the bass drum in my avatar, you can tell that it's LMNO's kit. You can see the Scrid. This was the same night that Bearman and Jewcat came to visit.
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 26, 2014, 06:17:29 AM
It took me forever to notice, but if you look very closely at the bass drum in my avatar, you can tell that it's LMNO's kit. You can see the Scrid. This was the same night that Bearman and Jewcat came to visit.
If you look closely you see Jewcat slapping me silly.
I started a blog as part of a school project. http://girlmeetsslough.blogspot.com/
A weird side effect of working so hard this morning is that I can't seem to get un-hungry. I'm like 1600 calories behind.
I guess if I do this every week, that's a good way to lose weight for summer...
Yep, severe chance of tornadoes tomorrow.
Well then, I wanted to see the Midwest, therefore, I am getting exactly what I asked for. Though nobody seems terribly worried anything will touchdown in this area. When I asked them if there was a shot at seeing something bigger than an F-2, I got odd, horrified looks of, "Does this Yankee know wtf she's talking about?"
Oh yeah, the convention is going very well. I attended a talk on World War I military dress this afternoon that was actually pretty awesome. They had a table of weapons that have been banned by the Geneva Convention.
Think I need to develop a bot that follows people on Facebook and on the 10th anniversary of the first time they posted a "VIVA LA REVOLUTION, POST THIS TO CHANGE THE WORLD" type image, it asks them to evaluate how much their posts have changed.
Today a lady came in to my store wearing one flip-flop. She paid for her sandwich and chips by fishing nickels and dimes out of her cleavage, one at a time.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 27, 2014, 03:44:06 AM
Today a lady came in to my store wearing one flip-flop. She paid for her sandwich and chips by fishing nickels and dimes out of her cleavage, one at a time.
I hope you were polite. She was probably an ambassador from the next universe over or some shit.
Quote from: Pæs on April 27, 2014, 03:39:33 AM
Think I need to develop a bot that follows people on Facebook and on the 10th anniversary of the first time they posted a "VIVA LA REVOLUTION, POST THIS TO CHANGE THE WORLD" type image, it asks them to evaluate how much their posts have changed.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 27, 2014, 04:05:17 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 27, 2014, 03:44:06 AM
Today a lady came in to my store wearing one flip-flop. She paid for her sandwich and chips by fishing nickels and dimes out of her cleavage, one at a time.
I hope you were polite. She was probably an ambassador from the next universe over or some shit.
Of course. I am the soul of accommodation for anyone who doesn't have kids that they are allowing to trash my store.
Make overbroad, generalized point designed to inflame on FB.
People complain I make overbroad, generalized point.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Bush_mission_accomplished.jpg)
Also, working. Tonight, and again on Wednesday and Friday. And I have an essay to do. So I wont be around much.
So, Kansas City is actually a really cool, hip place. The food is awesome, the people are warm and friendly, the city is spread out and diverse...
...but the tornado watches leave little to be desired.
Other than that, great time. The conference wants me to come back next year. :)
I just looked at the calendar.
Panic time.
I mightn't be on much til mid May.
On the bright side, I might be complete with one class as of Tuesday.
Been busy all weekend, will be on and off tomorrow. Several disasters at work.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 03:11:14 AM
Been busy all weekend, will be on and off tomorrow. Several disasters at work.
Hope all is well. For given levels of Tucson, that is.
I communicated with one of my British cousins about getting dad's updated contact info through Facebook, and I was off it for a couple of days. Dear god, she got one hell of a nasty gash on her lower lip. Like, cringe worthy photo no doubt about facial scarring there sort of thing. I don't even know how that could have happened....
ETA- it was obviously an unrelated thing, but a hell of a thing to come back to.
Today an elderly couple pulled into my store's lot, popped the trunk, and slowly undressed only to redress in fancier clothes pulled from the trunk. They disappeared for a few hours, then reappeared later and did the same thing. Undressed in the parking lot and redressed in their original clothes, folding the fancy stuff away in the trunk.
I just heard my aunt had a heart attack and is recovering, soon after that my uncle had a stroke while driving, flipped the car over and ended up in the hospital. He is recovering quite well, it is 4 days later and he can interact with people for 40 minutes without spacing out. Now my niece and nephew are taking turns staying with my aunt to make sure she takes her medication because she forgets otherwise.
I hardly have any contact with most of my family but this still sucks.
Quote from: Regret on April 28, 2014, 04:39:25 AM
I just heard my aunt had a heart attack and is recovering, soon after that my uncle had a stroke while driving, flipped the car over and ended up in the hospital. He is recovering quite well, it is 4 days later and he can interact with people for 40 minutes without spacing out. Now my niece and nephew are taking turns staying with my aunt to make sure she takes her medication because she forgets otherwise.
I hardly have any contact with most of my family but this still sucks.
That does suck, Regret. :(
Quote from: Regret on April 28, 2014, 04:39:25 AM
I just heard my aunt had a heart attack and is recovering, soon after that my uncle had a stroke while driving, flipped the car over and ended up in the hospital. He is recovering quite well, it is 4 days later and he can interact with people for 40 minutes without spacing out. Now my niece and nephew are taking turns staying with my aunt to make sure she takes her medication because she forgets otherwise.
I hardly have any contact with most of my family but this still sucks.
They're in my thoughts. I hope all goes well.
Quote from: Regret on April 28, 2014, 04:39:25 AM
I just heard my aunt had a heart attack and is recovering, soon after that my uncle had a stroke while driving, flipped the car over and ended up in the hospital. He is recovering quite well, it is 4 days later and he can interact with people for 40 minutes without spacing out. Now my niece and nephew are taking turns staying with my aunt to make sure she takes her medication because she forgets otherwise.
I hardly have any contact with most of my family but this still sucks.
Sorry to hear that man. At least there's a decent support structure around them so that's a pretty big plus. Hope life improves.
In work, half an hour early, preparing for a meeting where the main point of conversation will be "Fuck you." I've been in better moods.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 28, 2014, 06:44:31 AM
In work, half an hour early, preparing for a meeting where the main point of conversation will be "Fuck you." I've been in better moods.
Sounds like it will be an awesome time. Kick some ass, Junkenstein.
I just boarded the train to Chicago, and my car is full of Amish folk, some of which are drinking Mountain Dew. I love America.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 28, 2014, 06:44:31 AM
In work, half an hour early, preparing for a meeting where the main point of conversation will be "Fuck you." I've been in better moods.
In 11 minutes, I will be in a meeting in which I will have to explain some very basic rules of physics to people who already understand them but would prefer to ignore them because it's inconvenient.
Good luck. Bring a big stick.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 02:17:36 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 28, 2014, 06:44:31 AM
In work, half an hour early, preparing for a meeting where the main point of conversation will be "Fuck you." I've been in better moods.
In 11 minutes, I will be in a meeting in which I will have to explain some very basic rules of physics to people who already understand them but would prefer to ignore them because it's inconvenient.
Did I ever tell you about the guy who thought he'd designed an infinite energy box by using LEDS and solar panels? No hint of jest, just a wild look in the eyes because he seriously thought he'd solved the worlds problems.
There are times when my clients scare the living shit out of me.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on April 28, 2014, 06:51:44 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 28, 2014, 06:44:31 AM
In work, half an hour early, preparing for a meeting where the main point of conversation will be "Fuck you." I've been in better moods.
Sounds like it will be an awesome time. Kick some ass, Junkenstein.
I have noticed a tendency to revert to the 1940's when delivering rage. There is something about addressing people as "Mr. XXX" which just adds to my delivery.
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 28, 2014, 02:37:59 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 02:17:36 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 28, 2014, 06:44:31 AM
In work, half an hour early, preparing for a meeting where the main point of conversation will be "Fuck you." I've been in better moods.
In 11 minutes, I will be in a meeting in which I will have to explain some very basic rules of physics to people who already understand them but would prefer to ignore them because it's inconvenient.
Did I ever tell you about the guy who thought he'd designed an infinite energy box by using LEDS and solar panels? No hint of jest, just a wild look in the eyes because he seriously thought he'd solved the worlds problems.
There are times when my clients scare the living shit out of me.
I know people that still think perpetual motion is a thing.
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Happy birthday, merry new hangover!
:baby:
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Congratulations, many more etc, etc.
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Happy Birthday!
In Chicago. Have beer. Have urge to tell everyone to just Fuck off all of a sudden after being so relaxed in the middle of bumfuck red state. I feel better when I'm chock full of hate.
Iced Earth, and Sabaton tonight!
Thanks to my lil butter! Best B-day gift ever!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 04:25:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Happy birthday, merry new hangover!
It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled my head out of my ass in the nick of time).
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 08:46:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 04:25:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Happy birthday, merry new hangover!
It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled my head out of my ass in the nick of time).
Baww :( I feel rejected now.
Quote from: All father, Bearman on April 28, 2014, 08:42:02 PM
Iced Earth, and Sabaton tonight!
Thanks to my lil butter! Best B-day gift ever!
Cool! Have fun with the Beer-metal!
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 08:46:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 28, 2014, 04:25:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 28, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Birthday.
I have a whole-weekend hangover.
Happy birthday, merry new hangover!
It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled my head out of my ass in the nick of time).
I never do that. Heads are for asses.
Coming into Albany where they cut the train to go to Boston and New York. Chatted for the last couple hours with a Navajo from New Mexico who knew all about Discord. It was quite awesome.
Dammit. Got suckered into a post on FBDS2014. I should know better.
Srsly. You're talking about a place that ragged on someone for asking if there were any Discordians in Israel. Like it was some kind of terrible social faux pas.