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#3256
Monoculture is the new counter culture
Cliche is the new truth
Pretentious shit-wits
will always be just that
And plentiful
#3257
Literate Chaotic / Re: Cyborg’s Quandary?
September 04, 2015, 01:36:07 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on September 04, 2015, 03:17:58 AM
Finally getting around to do all those recordings I said I was going to do...

https://soundcloud.com/ian-woolley-9/cyborgs-quandary

That was nifty and well performed!
Must look into this Soundcloud thing.
#3259
Quote from: Cain on September 04, 2015, 11:06:06 AM
Well, I've done something I've never done before today: I've called in sick.

I do actually feel a little shitty, but probably not enough to not justify coming in.  That said, I'm sick enough of this place to probably get signed off for stress related disorders for life.

Fight the power Cain!  :argh!:

I've agreed to cover a weekend shift on Labour Day weekend because nobody else would. In exchange im taking an extended weekend with Friday and Monday next week to visit family back home and look for better work here.

My sit-down after the contamination incident with my bosses went poorly as they tried to shift blame and 'reason' with me about how it wasn't a failure of this department but of the 'environmental assistants' that clear rooms. This is total bullshit and they knew it. Looked me right in the eyes and lied knowing that I knew they're speculating and that our job is to sort things and that meant that the process is broken. Told them so and that I'm looking for other employment.

What they don't know is that when I find it and give 2weeks notice or just maybe swap departments I'm giving a detailed report to Infectious Control complete with many compelling photos gathered over the last year or so, photos they've seen and heard accounting of from me already many times.

#3260
Oh BTW Dk. Howl I'm just biting into "Engines of Creation" past the point where The Bald Man exposits his "experiment" and I kind of want to stop in order to write some of my own stories out before they are forever influenced by your own fictional cosmic perspective. You have inspired me to write, but urge to keep reading is also VERY strong.

Think I'm just going to finish the reading first. I want you to know it's messing with elements of the "Wizard Tales" in my head. They approach cosmology from an "outsider" perspective, but touch upon the idea of a Heaven with nobody "at the wheel" because Lucifer smashed the Medatron 5000 coms device up pretty good on  his way out of God's "office" when he rage quit way "back in the Day".
#3261
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 04:55:31 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 03, 2015, 04:02:11 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 03:51:55 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 03, 2015, 03:42:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 03:37:13 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 03, 2015, 03:35:39 AM

:lulz:
Don't even have to do the dirty job of setting 'em up. Just KYFMS, fix your GRIN in place and look outraged and shocked, SHOCKED about the toilet problem and grateful about how fortunate you were to get a chance to go before "that bizarre incident" occurred.


We've been doing this a very long time.  I won't say precisely how long, because LMNO will have fits.

How about an XP level between 1 and 20? None of that "mythic" bs. 20 being as close to transcendent godhood as a mortal gets.

4th.  We got level-draining lice in 2007.

:sad:
The ST is clearly a dick,
and her name is Eris.


Way, WAY before I first got here it seems that there was a civil war @ pd I hear occasional reference to. What was the basic argument?

The board was run by the owner, Lauren, and a few of her pals.  They had a secret mod page (Cain spotted this when he realized that the sum of the sub-forum's posts didn't match up the board's total posts), and they used it to actively fuck with the non-pinealists.  One guy, Hugh, actually fished into the database to read people's PMs, and then rat them out to people with edited versions of what was actually said.

Somewhere along the line, I got banned for being "too chaotic".  A few members raised hell, and I was readmitted.

This went on for about two years, and the board shrank from 200 regular users to about 6, as we all bailed out (the subforum "Or Kill Me" was a ghetto for ranting in, so we wouldn't get in the way of the deep discussions about cookies & pie) except for harrassing the admins.  ECH hung around and schemed, and when Lauren finally had enough, she gave him the board.  Most of the regulars came back, and Hugh was exiled to a Pagan board, where he babbled the sort of nonsense he preached here, to about 6 people, before inadvertently marrying a Filippino post-op transgendered lady and then going nuts and being locked up when he found out (no shit, actually happened).

The other mods and Eldora (the less said about her, the better) went off to Eris Bar & Grill, where they suffocated in their own poop.

The board recovered until FB came along and drained all the members away. 

So we replaced an evil dicatatorship with a vile dictatorship.  Which is something.

Ok that's about what I pieced together from passing references here and there. Thanks for the clear summary!

So I get the FB drawing away members. It's like the dark side of the force: quicker, easier, more seductive.. unlimited sock puppets on one IP addy. I've been disenchanted with "FB Disco" for some time now. By comparison if this place is a glass of fresh squeezed OJ then that shit is like 5gal of cheap imitation Tang with just a little bit of actual shit floating in it.

Got more to say, but tempus fugit 'an stuff. Gotta get my ass in gear and go punch that clock.
#3262
Principia Discussion / Re: Discordians De Illuminati?
September 03, 2015, 04:04:31 AM
 :um:
Almost literally my physical reaction.
#3263
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 03:51:55 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 03, 2015, 03:42:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 03:37:13 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 03, 2015, 03:35:39 AM

:lulz:
Don't even have to do the dirty job of setting 'em up. Just KYFMS, fix your GRIN in place and look outraged and shocked, SHOCKED about the toilet problem and grateful about how fortunate you were to get a chance to go before "that bizarre incident" occurred.


We've been doing this a very long time.  I won't say precisely how long, because LMNO will have fits.

How about an XP level between 1 and 20? None of that "mythic" bs. 20 being as close to transcendent godhood as a mortal gets.

4th.  We got level-draining lice in 2007.

:sad:
The ST is clearly a dick,
and her name is Eris.


Way, WAY before I first got here it seems that there was a civil war @ pd I hear occasional reference to. What was the basic argument?
#3264
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 03:37:13 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 03, 2015, 03:35:39 AM

:lulz:
Don't even have to do the dirty job of setting 'em up. Just KYFMS, fix your GRIN in place and look outraged and shocked, SHOCKED about the toilet problem and grateful about how fortunate you were to get a chance to go before "that bizarre incident" occurred.


We've been doing this a very long time.  I won't say precisely how long, because LMNO will have fits.

How about an XP level between 1 and 20? None of that "mythic" bs. 20 being as close to transcendent godhood as a mortal gets.
#3265
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 02, 2015, 11:47:55 PM
Poppycock.


You, sir, need SATURDAY NIGHT.

More specifically, you need to find a GAY BAR.

More more specifically, you need a TEA DANCE.

More more more specifically, you need to find BEARS TEA.











Yaas, queen.

These got fuzzy for me at TEA DANCE.

I fear I have never truly understood the concept of THE GAY BAR either. I mean I can get down and have a good time at a gay bar, but I figure this means something more.  I just never took occasion to ask before.
#3266
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 03, 2015, 03:15:00 AM
Quote from: Meunster on September 03, 2015, 01:07:59 AM
in all honesty. Grey face has one. Everyone is so cerias now and days

But jokingly. If you're not wearing a silly hat. You're part of the problem.

While you're giggling and attracting all kinds of attention, us straight-faced doom & gloom types are fucking up every toilet in the building.  And you'll get blamed because we look normal.
:lulz:
Don't even have to do the dirty job of setting 'em up. Just KYFMS, fix your GRIN in place and look outraged and shocked, SHOCKED about the toilet problem and grateful about how fortunate you were to get a chance to go before "that bizarre incident" occurred.

Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 02, 2015, 09:46:11 PM
If you want a counterculture, you have to go make one.  It's really that simple.

Newsfeed, meme, whatever, this is too true to not be a thing of some sort!
#3267
Quote from: Cain on September 01, 2015, 08:44:46 PM
What did the SS soldier say to his mother as he pushed a political dissident off a cliff? "Look mother, no Hans!"

Why don't Jewish cannibals like eating Germans?  They give them gas.

What do you call an upset Nazi?  A sauerkraut.

What is Hitler's least favourite planet?  Jew-piter.

Why didn't Eva Braun give Hitler a blowjob?  He always left a Nazi taste in her mouth.

:nopunsplease: :hm:

I mean do you nazi the signage?
#3268
Or Kill Me / Re: I can't even...
August 30, 2015, 02:37:30 AM

My work day yesterday found me already at my limit and then pushed me just that little bit extra that makes all the difference between thinking things like,

"I have a difficult and sometimes literally shitty job that I find to be worth doing"

and,

"FUCK ALL OF YOU GODDAMN FOOLS, GIBBERING ARSES, AND INCOMPETENT JACKOFFS!!"

It's a very fine line that you often only really realize that you've crossed after you've crossed it. It's the sort of line you generally only cross once for a relatively simple labor job at modest pay, but mine has brought me past it and back more times than I care to recount. It surely got crossed again yesterday.  I'll get to the dirty deets in a bit.  Indulge me as I vent a bit here and try to explain where I'm coming from.

One might ask of me,
"If you're such a wise, self-styled "Wizard" then why would you continue on with such a foolish and seemingly unrewarding occupation Joe?"

Not long ago I'd have just smiled and mentioned in all earnestness that I like knowing that my toil ultimately helps people and that working for a hospital gives me a sense of purpose and pride in my efforts. I might even point to the pragmatic facts that it's a solid foot in the door of a "top 100" hospital system and a multitude of potential career paths and that I have also gained invaluable, if occasionally quite unpleasant, experiences and sharpened many practical skills. That would all be true and sufficiently The Truth as an answer to the sort of question above, but it would not be all of The Truth. For that you'd have to ask me why I'd RAGE-QUIT.

That one is easy. I'd do that because I HATE failure, and I HATE MORE seeing people I work with as they ignore the duties and practices that make hospitals "safe" if it makes things marginally easier for them personally. I REALLY, REALLY HATE seeing things willfully ignored by management in my department, and others.

My own bosses have learned that I'm a documenting, leveraging, resourceful sonofagun, but also that as long as they stay true to their end of things and accountable I can be their sonofagun. I maintain very good working relationships with my bosses and we have excellent rapport, even some genuine personal respect. It might not be enough to keep me after the day I just had.

I'll spare the descriptions, but the day had been extra difficult with yet more "sick" call-outs and actual, legit folks who just lost a family member to boot.. Things had been hairy all day, but that's just how it goes sometimes. What put me well over the line was horribly disgusting but can be mercifully summed up as the result of the sorting operators' failure to do their jobs correctly and contaminating a wash load that I was unloading on the clean side of a contamination barrier wall to dry and ready for transport.  I had the huge load half unloaded when I realized that the load was contaminated and that I was damn well coated in it from the unloading process. It was ALL my power of self control not to vomit. I do this shit for a living. It was that bad.
The pics I took really can't do it justice, but they'll have to do.

I backed away and phoned my supervisor at home, after bringing several coworkers over as witnesses. My boss and I figured out the plan of action for a bit and I went to clean up both myself and the situation. Then I parked all the wash and dry machines, left 2 hrs early, and took the most thorough shower ever when I got home.
  I WILL be having a meaningful chat or 2 come Monday. No amount of money is worth this and it would have been easily prevented if folks had followed procedure.

That's just one recent and horribly notable incident.
I won't really be able to go into all of the things I've seen and dealt with.
I can't even...
#3269
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 23, 2015, 06:22:07 PM
Little Orange 3 is up as Little Orange at the End of the World (under the name Roger Penrose), and the story is finally complete and published!

:banana:

You know the thread had me going for a moment when you were like "I just got a couple short stories in here" after the first plot despite being an 80 page thread. Now it's all like "2 more story arcs". I'm buying the books when I get a debit account up and running again, but reading the thread and observing the creative process has been invaluable and a real treat.