Quote from: Suu on September 17, 2013, 06:00:23 PM
On my way to school I almost got mugged in broad daylight. Cops were circling the area so they came before anything happened. I am fine, just shaken up and safe on the bus to class. The dude had a red ren faire tail on. I shit you not. I can post the full story when I'm at a computer and not on my phone.
shit. thirding the "glad you are safe"
And then I got back from the doctor's office and I was all ready for my PD party, but everyone left.
:sad:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 17, 2013, 07:14:36 PM
And then I got back from the doctor's office and I was all ready for my PD party, but everyone left.
:sad:
I needed some food.
I'll be back later, I guess.
I had to go have lunch with my PI. It turned out to be quite a pleasant lunch, actually, and I was able to chat with her a bit about my conversation with Dr. Winstock, as she's in public health communications and is interested in where his research leads.
I was cleaning more of all of the things.
I'm gonna be a radio person tonight! I don't think the lady knows I gave her a fakename! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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I feel like hell. SuuBF just came and brought me food before my class. I have no idea if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight.
Saw Dimo at school again, that fucker. We were discussing starting an on-campus Discordian Society consisting of...us. Or something. I dunno. Coffee.
Quote from: Cain on September 17, 2013, 10:13:22 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 17, 2013, 08:35:03 PM
I had to go have lunch with my PI. It turned out to be quite a pleasant lunch, actually, and I was able to chat with her a bit about my conversation with Dr. Winstock, as she's in public health communications and is interested in where his research leads.
You have a personal investigator who moonlights in public health communications?
:lulz: Principal Investigator, the boss researcher on a given project. The person whose name is on the grant applications.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on September 17, 2013, 10:12:13 PM
I'm gonna be a radio person tonight! I don't think the lady knows I gave her a fakename! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
:lulz: Nice.
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 17, 2013, 11:45:15 PM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on September 17, 2013, 10:12:13 PM
I'm gonna be a radio person tonight! I don't think the lady knows I gave her a fakename! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
:lulz: Nice.
I appear to have come down with a case of ALL THE NERVES.
Made dinner for everybody. Checking store inventory.
I learned something horrible tonight about Providence.
90% of our housing subsidies go to rich white people. Approximate age 25-35, who move here from New Hampshire and Vermont, that live downtown or on the West Side. They are often unemployed and living off of trust funds yet filing for aid.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's official. Hipsters are ruining the city. You bitch about "welfare queens" and such, and you don't bitch about the fact that the real "welfare queens" are the snooty rich trustafarian fucktards feigning poverty because they can. You don't bitch about subsidies we pay to oil or corn, but the minute the money goes anywhere near the rich white people, you don't care. What about us poor people? We get nothing. Because: Hipsters.
END THE HIPSTER.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:31:18 AM
I learned something horrible tonight about Providence.
90% of our housing subsidies go to rich white people. Approximate age 25-35, who move here from New Hampshire and Vermont, that live downtown or on the West Side. They are often unemployed and living off of trust funds yet filing for aid.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's official. Hipsters are ruining the city. You bitch about "welfare queens" and such, and you don't bitch about the fact that the real "welfare queens" are the snooty rich trustafarian fucktards feigning poverty because they can. You don't bitch about subsidies we pay to oil or corn, but the minute the money goes anywhere near the rich white people, you don't care. What about us poor people? We get nothing. Because: Hipsters.
END THE HIPSTER.
90% seems hard to believe! What's your source?
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 02:47:02 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:31:18 AM
I learned something horrible tonight about Providence.
90% of our housing subsidies go to rich white people. Approximate age 25-35, who move here from New Hampshire and Vermont, that live downtown or on the West Side. They are often unemployed and living off of trust funds yet filing for aid.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's official. Hipsters are ruining the city. You bitch about "welfare queens" and such, and you don't bitch about the fact that the real "welfare queens" are the snooty rich trustafarian fucktards feigning poverty because they can. You don't bitch about subsidies we pay to oil or corn, but the minute the money goes anywhere near the rich white people, you don't care. What about us poor people? We get nothing. Because: Hipsters.
END THE HIPSTER.
90% seems hard to believe! What's your source?
We had guest speakers tonight in class, 2 state politicians. One a former secretary of state, one a former deputy secretary of state. Both served on the general assembly and city council. This is par for the course around here, actually. I'm surprised it's not 90% "non allocated" which means that it's going into someone's pocket. Just like last year when they "lost" the film tax credits that were supposed to help cover the money that Curt Schilling stole from the state.
They do not fix anything in Providence or RI as a whole unless money goes into someone's pocket. The last person who did that was Buddy Cianci, and he went to jail for 3 years after turning this cesspit of a city into a glistening East Coast gem...and maybe took a little on the side. Then Cicilline took over, broke contracts with civil service, allowed Brown and RISD to buy empty buildings, sucking tax dollars from the city, and then re-allocated money to better suit what he wanted: upscale housing to "attract" Bostonians....At Bostonian prices. Bubble burst, Providence, the "Renaissance City" goes back into the Dark Ages. Universities buy MORE of these "upscale housing" buildings and turn them into dorms, and what's left of that money goes into the "gentrification" of the West Side. Basically, paying white people to move into brown areas. Which is prime real estate for those trustafarian grads from Ivy League schools looking to live the "starving artist" lifestyle in an "up and coming area."
Meanwhile, it appears that 10% leftover is going into some form of Section 8, and maybe the projects. Maybe, apparently nobody is sure.
Providence.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:56:52 AM
We had guest speakers tonight in class, 2 state politicians.
I think I see the problem.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:56:52 AM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 02:47:02 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:31:18 AM
I learned something horrible tonight about Providence.
90% of our housing subsidies go to rich white people. Approximate age 25-35, who move here from New Hampshire and Vermont, that live downtown or on the West Side. They are often unemployed and living off of trust funds yet filing for aid.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's official. Hipsters are ruining the city. You bitch about "welfare queens" and such, and you don't bitch about the fact that the real "welfare queens" are the snooty rich trustafarian fucktards feigning poverty because they can. You don't bitch about subsidies we pay to oil or corn, but the minute the money goes anywhere near the rich white people, you don't care. What about us poor people? We get nothing. Because: Hipsters.
END THE HIPSTER.
90% seems hard to believe! What's your source?
We had guest speakers tonight in class, 2 state politicians. One a former secretary of state, one a former deputy secretary of state. Both served on the general assembly and city council. This is par for the course around here, actually. I'm surprised it's not 90% "non allocated" which means that it's going into someone's pocket. Just like last year when they "lost" the film tax credits that were supposed to help cover the money that Curt Schilling stole from the state.
They do not fix anything in Providence or RI as a whole unless money goes into someone's pocket. The last person who did that was Buddy Cianci, and he went to jail for 3 years after turning this cesspit of a city into a glistening East Coast gem...and maybe took a little on the side. Then Cicilline took over, broke contracts with civil service, allowed Brown and RISD to buy empty buildings, sucking tax dollars from the city, and then re-allocated money to better suit what he wanted: upscale housing to "attract" Bostonians....At Bostonian prices. Bubble burst, Providence, the "Renaissance City" goes back into the Dark Ages. Universities buy MORE of these "upscale housing" buildings and turn them into dorms, and what's left of that money goes into the "gentrification" of the West Side. Basically, paying white people to move into brown areas. Which is prime real estate for those trustafarian grads from Ivy League schools looking to live the "starving artist" lifestyle in an "up and coming area."
Meanwhile, it appears that 10% leftover is going into some form of Section 8, and maybe the projects. Maybe, apparently nobody is sure.
Providence.
I love you Suu. Even if this is somewhat accurate. The description made my day.
Want to cut housing subsidies in liberal city.
Claim all the money is going to White hipsters/trustafarians.
Angry liberals are now on board.
At least I'm sure Arizona doesn't give IOU's for unemployment. (Though I'm sure there's some other win going on for you guys.)
Bottom line is, the money is going SOMEWHERE, but not where it SHOULD be going. Not that this should really surprise anyone in this city, but nobody seems to want to do anything to find it.
Oh, and 10 out of 11 of our high schools have failing grades, so they decided to cut gym and fill the swimming pools with cement. :banana: but that I knew from the news.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:10:45 AM
Bottom line is, the money is going SOMEWHERE, but not where it SHOULD be going.
Congratulations. Tea Party headquarters are somewhere on Federal Hill.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:13:57 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:10:45 AM
Bottom line is, the money is going SOMEWHERE, but not where it SHOULD be going.
Congratulations. Tea Party headquarters are somewhere on Federal Hill.
Probably the cigar shop on Atwells. It used to be the old illegal OTB place they shut down, then reopened down the street, then shut down again.
Seriously, all this guest lecture we had tonight did was make me fucking mad at first, and then I laughed. I laughed so fucking hard, Roger, because IT'S FUNNY. All of it. America, Rhode Island, Providence, Tucson. It's a big fucking joke.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:18:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:13:57 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:10:45 AM
Bottom line is, the money is going SOMEWHERE, but not where it SHOULD be going.
Congratulations. Tea Party headquarters are somewhere on Federal Hill.
Probably the cigar shop on Atwells. It used to be the old illegal OTB place they shut down, then reopened down the street, then shut down again.
Seriously, all this guest lecture we had tonight did was make me fucking mad at first, and then I laughed. I laughed so fucking hard, Roger, because IT'S FUNNY. All of it. America, Rhode Island, Providence, Tucson. It's a big fucking joke.
You're also accepting data from politicians, who almost never have an agenda.
You know what bothers me about this the most? Is that I knew all this. Of course I did. I didn't turn a blind eye to it, because well, you can't. Corruption is everywhere. Some say it's a part of our "charm." However, there's no reason why I almost laughed til I fell out of my seat in a 100 level class other than for whatever reason, it finally hit my funny bone. Talk about a delayed reaction.
but, I did also have a shitty day, so who knows.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:21:10 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:18:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:13:57 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:10:45 AM
Bottom line is, the money is going SOMEWHERE, but not where it SHOULD be going.
Congratulations. Tea Party headquarters are somewhere on Federal Hill.
Probably the cigar shop on Atwells. It used to be the old illegal OTB place they shut down, then reopened down the street, then shut down again.
Seriously, all this guest lecture we had tonight did was make me fucking mad at first, and then I laughed. I laughed so fucking hard, Roger, because IT'S FUNNY. All of it. America, Rhode Island, Providence, Tucson. It's a big fucking joke.
You're also accepting data from politicians, who almost never have an agenda.
One did actually ask for money for his non-profit and passed out cards. :kingmeh:
My professor was also former general assembly, but like he said last week, "I ran screaming from that shit 15 years ago and became a middle school teacher, because it's easier dealing with 12 year olds than 50 year old babies."
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:24:07 AM
You know what bothers me about this the most? Is that I knew all this. Of course I did. I didn't turn a blind eye to it, because well, you can't. Corruption is everywhere. Some say it's a part of our "charm." However, there's no reason why I almost laughed til I fell out of my seat in a 100 level class other than for whatever reason, it finally hit my funny bone. Talk about a delayed reaction.
but, I did also have a shitty day, so who knows.
You listened to politicians, and you still believe what they told you.
Which, of course, was the idea when they packaged the information in the first place.
There's no point slapping welfare folks around in Providence, so they just redirect it at trustafarians...With the same end in mind. You think they want to fix everything and give you the money? No. They want to cancel or cut back the program, and hand the filthy lucre to all the right people.
Have you verified this information? Have you gone to your state government's pages and LOOKED FOR YOURSELF?
Because this is EXACTLY Reagan's "Welfare Queens" thing in a funny dress. VERBATIM.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:26:42 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:24:07 AM
You know what bothers me about this the most? Is that I knew all this. Of course I did. I didn't turn a blind eye to it, because well, you can't. Corruption is everywhere. Some say it's a part of our "charm." However, there's no reason why I almost laughed til I fell out of my seat in a 100 level class other than for whatever reason, it finally hit my funny bone. Talk about a delayed reaction.
but, I did also have a shitty day, so who knows.
You listened to politicians, and you still believe what they told you.
I have no idea wtf to believe anymore. I knew taking political science was going to drive me up the wall more than my religion class. I need to sit down tomorrow after a real substantial subject, like Latin, and see if I can find more info about the housing issue.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:29:32 AM
Which, of course, was the idea when they packaged the information in the first place.
There's no point slapping welfare folks around in Providence, so they just redirect it at trustafarians...With the same end in mind. You think they want to fix everything and give you the money? No. They want to cancel or cut back the program, and hand the filthy lucre to all the right people.
Have you verified this information? Have you gone to your state government's pages and LOOKED FOR YOURSELF?
Because this is EXACTLY Reagan's "Welfare Queens" thing in a funny dress. VERBATIM.
Personally, I don't think they want people living in Providence anymore. Our buildings are crumbling, businesses are being driven out, and even the universities are cutting back. My guess is that they realized they can make more money razing it and making a huge parking lot for Boston.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:56:52 AM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 02:47:02 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 02:31:18 AM
I learned something horrible tonight about Providence.
90% of our housing subsidies go to rich white people. Approximate age 25-35, who move here from New Hampshire and Vermont, that live downtown or on the West Side. They are often unemployed and living off of trust funds yet filing for aid.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's official. Hipsters are ruining the city. You bitch about "welfare queens" and such, and you don't bitch about the fact that the real "welfare queens" are the snooty rich trustafarian fucktards feigning poverty because they can. You don't bitch about subsidies we pay to oil or corn, but the minute the money goes anywhere near the rich white people, you don't care. What about us poor people? We get nothing. Because: Hipsters.
END THE HIPSTER.
90% seems hard to believe! What's your source?
We had guest speakers tonight in class, 2 state politicians. One a former secretary of state, one a former deputy secretary of state. Both served on the general assembly and city council. This is par for the course around here, actually. I'm surprised it's not 90% "non allocated" which means that it's going into someone's pocket. Just like last year when they "lost" the film tax credits that were supposed to help cover the money that Curt Schilling stole from the state.
They do not fix anything in Providence or RI as a whole unless money goes into someone's pocket. The last person who did that was Buddy Cianci, and he went to jail for 3 years after turning this cesspit of a city into a glistening East Coast gem...and maybe took a little on the side. Then Cicilline took over, broke contracts with civil service, allowed Brown and RISD to buy empty buildings, sucking tax dollars from the city, and then re-allocated money to better suit what he wanted: upscale housing to "attract" Bostonians....At Bostonian prices. Bubble burst, Providence, the "Renaissance City" goes back into the Dark Ages. Universities buy MORE of these "upscale housing" buildings and turn them into dorms, and what's left of that money goes into the "gentrification" of the West Side. Basically, paying white people to move into brown areas. Which is prime real estate for those trustafarian grads from Ivy League schools looking to live the "starving artist" lifestyle in an "up and coming area."
Meanwhile, it appears that 10% leftover is going into some form of Section 8, and maybe the projects. Maybe, apparently nobody is sure.
Providence.
It still seems incredibly improbable. For one thing, it implies that rich white people applying for housing subsidies actually outnumber poor people applying for housing subsidies 9 to 1 in Providence. That doesn't seem statistically possible, so unless the rich people have found some incredible system hack, I think your politicians were lying, or at least badly misinterpreting. I'd contact their offices and ask for sources.
I'm going to do some research tomorrow, I'm feeling like ass tonight so I'm headed to bed.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:31:09 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:26:42 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:24:07 AM
You know what bothers me about this the most? Is that I knew all this. Of course I did. I didn't turn a blind eye to it, because well, you can't. Corruption is everywhere. Some say it's a part of our "charm." However, there's no reason why I almost laughed til I fell out of my seat in a 100 level class other than for whatever reason, it finally hit my funny bone. Talk about a delayed reaction.
but, I did also have a shitty day, so who knows.
You listened to politicians, and you still believe what they told you.
I have no idea wtf to believe anymore. I knew taking political science was going to drive me up the wall more than my religion class. I need to sit down tomorrow after a real substantial subject, like Latin, and see if I can find more info about the housing issue.
That's a crappy class, I gotta tell ya. Political science is about studying politics, not indoctrination.
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:41:03 AM
I'm feeling like ass tonight
This happens to me every day. :lulz:
It's just weird being on the other side of the Nigel. :lulz:
I can't deal
With the rest of
The info
But
This is important.
I RADIO'D GOOD! :digtbk:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:56:48 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:31:09 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:26:42 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:24:07 AM
You know what bothers me about this the most? Is that I knew all this. Of course I did. I didn't turn a blind eye to it, because well, you can't. Corruption is everywhere. Some say it's a part of our "charm." However, there's no reason why I almost laughed til I fell out of my seat in a 100 level class other than for whatever reason, it finally hit my funny bone. Talk about a delayed reaction.
but, I did also have a shitty day, so who knows.
You listened to politicians, and you still believe what they told you.
I have no idea wtf to believe anymore. I knew taking political science was going to drive me up the wall more than my religion class. I need to sit down tomorrow after a real substantial subject, like Latin, and see if I can find more info about the housing issue.
That's a crappy class, I gotta tell ya. Political science is about studying politics, not indoctrination.
Could be a deliberate mindfuck, and they're seeing who comes back with "bullshit, I want to see credible data backing that up".
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:57:26 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:41:03 AM
I'm feeling like ass tonight
This happens to me every day. :lulz:
It's just weird being on the other side of the Nigel. :lulz:
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO NIGEL?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 04:16:58 AM
I can't deal
With the rest of
The info
But
This is important.
Are you OK there, buddy?
I went on a "date" with an old flame from years ago. It was so so fantastic! Not in a romantic way, at all, because neither of us are looking for that right now, but he opened up and spilled all his insecurities and neuroses in a way he never did when we were dating, and I just LIKED him and had more fun with him, as a friend, than we ever did when we were sleeping together. I feel like I have a new buddy, a new "Oh my god I'm freaking out, come meet me for a drink" type of friend I can talk honestly with about weird shit, and that makes me happy. :)
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Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on September 18, 2013, 05:00:35 AM
I RADIO'D GOOD! :digtbk:
Details!
Quote from: Cain on September 18, 2013, 08:47:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 03:13:57 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 18, 2013, 03:10:45 AM
Bottom line is, the money is going SOMEWHERE, but not where it SHOULD be going.
Congratulations. Tea Party headquarters are somewhere on Federal Hill.
The truth is possibly even more hilarious than that.
I was doing some research on Bush-era funding scandals, and came across a doozy of one. An entire consortium's worth of front companies, all alleged to be involved in military and intelligence procurements, given no-bid contracts for data storage and a failed piece of software...and who heavily funded the Republicans.
You may remember the Cunningham Scandal, which formed part of this (though the rabbit hole went much deeper). Over $150 million in contracts were rewarded, the principal con artists were permitted to skim off the top, and then the rest of the money went back into Republican coffers. Great way to turn public funds into political ones.
Good thing cyberwarfare is a really real threat to the USA, unlike terrorism, and that all these private companies have no political ambitions or affiliations (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110211/11342913057/wikileaks-wasnt-only-operation-hbgary-federal-palantir-berico-planned-to-defraud.shtml), and only wish to help the great state of America prosper.
Details! The usual suspects or fresh players? Or fresh players backed by the usual suspects?
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Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 06:52:06 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 04:16:58 AM
I can't deal
With the rest of
The info
But
This is important.
Are you OK there, buddy?
It was our anniversary yesterday. Had amazing sushi and a bunch of sake. I honestly don't remember posting that.
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 06:55:54 AM
I went on a "date" with an old flame from years ago. It was so so fantastic! Not in a romantic way, at all, because neither of us are looking for that right now, but he opened up and spilled all his insecurities and neuroses in a way he never did when we were dating, and I just LIKED him and had more fun with him, as a friend, than we ever did when we were sleeping together. I feel like I have a new buddy, a new "Oh my god I'm freaking out, come meet me for a drink" type of friend I can talk honestly with about weird shit, and that makes me happy. :)
this sounds good.
Room cleaning objectives have been reached ahead of schedule. for today apart from more laundry. Need housemate to come home and get they bits out of the machine, so will probably start on the stuff already washed and putting shit away..
This isn't a whine post, but damn, this board is dead today.
I left :oops: myself logged in whilst cleaning...
I took all the naps. There were weird dream things that I might be able to turn into story bits later, but for now I should probably be responsible and clean :(
Oh, I don't check the logs-- functionally, someone logged in and not posting is the same as not being logged in, from a third-party view. I log in when I get to work and just leave the window open all day. So please don't feel like I'm guilting you into explaining why you haven't been posting. In the past, I've logged in and then not checked the page all damn day because of various fuckups at work.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 05:31:05 PM
This isn't a whine post, but damn, this board is dead today.
I posted earlier, and the echoes drove me away.
So I went to FG, where I'm about to be de-adminned for laughing at people for slut-shaming Pink (Sexyfish here).
:lulz:
THE LMNO PRINCIPLE ABOUT TO BE DEMONSTRATED.
Also, the P3nt thread had potential, and then it just sorta died.
Woot!
And slut shaming P!nk is like calling Henry Miller a slashfic author: if you own what you do, you can't be called out on it.
Also, a new Bitter Tea essay is up.
that's cool man. As I said in the last OB thread I've been hiding in my grey pit of destruction from housemates I hated for over a year, and it's time to ungrey it and make it a place I'm not ashamed of now I have a housemate I like.
today is day 2 and it's going pretty well. I have some before and after pics coming.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 02:24:03 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 06:52:06 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 04:16:58 AM
I can't deal
With the rest of
The info
But
This is important.
Are you OK there, buddy?
It was our anniversary yesterday. Had amazing sushi and a bunch of sake. I honestly don't remember posting that.
:lulz: Been there. Happy anniversary!
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Quote from: Cain on September 18, 2013, 06:23:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 05:31:05 PM
This isn't a whine post, but damn, this board is dead today.
Yeah. I noticed that myself. Inbetween my lecture and work, I don't have a huge amount of time for this place, though, and that doesn't help any.
And I got sick of trying to talk to people who were AFK or just viewing. I just didn't feel the need to say anything, anymore. Not MAD or anything, just alone in a big room. So I went somewhere else.
I slept in, and then I harassed Fizzy Grizzly for a while. One of their admins is on the verge of a temper tantrum, but then apparently he went and sat in the corner for a while to cool down.
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 06:28:34 PM
I slept in, and then I harassed Fizzy Grizzly for a while. One of their admins is on the verge of a temper tantrum, but then apparently he went and sat in the corner for a while to cool down.
We had him THIS close to total meltdown. :lol:
Isn't that a sign of bipedalism, though?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:32:00 PM
Isn't that a sign of bipedalism, though?
No, he wasn't walking away, he was shrieking, threatening, and then sulking.
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 06:39:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 06:47:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 06:39:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Still fucking moving. I'm sick of cardboard boxes. Luckily just a few weeks until we're settled in the new apartment.
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 06:54:22 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 06:47:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:44:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 18, 2013, 06:39:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
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Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
You make me sad inside. :(
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
You make me sad inside. :(
The thread was asking for it.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
You make me sad inside. :(
The thread was asking for it.
I started doing Sir Mix-A-Lot accountant rap and everything. :sad:
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
You make me sad inside. :(
The thread was asking for it.
I started doing Sir Mix-A-Lot accountant rap and everything. :sad:
Was that Sir Mix-A-Lot? It was pretty excellent.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
You make me sad inside. :(
The thread was asking for it.
I started doing Sir Mix-A-Lot accountant rap and everything. :sad:
Was that Sir Mix-A-Lot? It was pretty excellent.
Yep.
In any case, Tom is back on, looking over the devastation.
Well, I give up.
I'll come back tomorrow, I guess.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Ah. The way forward is obvious then.
RATCHET THAT SHIT UP.
You got it.
I am writing, in Word, The Apologia Grizzalia.
:lulz: This is gonna be good.
I like how he was all "and who are you?" and I pointed out that I am someone who has been there longer than he has. :lol:
Yeah, that was priceless.
You know, I don't normally have much truck with puns, but that "Help me" thread... :lol: :lol: :lol: Terrible, terrible.
You make me sad inside. :(
The thread was asking for it.
I started doing Sir Mix-A-Lot accountant rap and everything. :sad:
Was that Sir Mix-A-Lot? It was pretty excellent.
Yep.
In any case, Tom is back on, looking over the devastation.
:lulz: And Phil just got spanked by Tom. Victory!
Some masshole allegedly brought a rabid cat to RI. Because they're trying to contaminate us. Or something. This is headline news.
http://www.turnto10.com/story/23467105/dem-warns-of-possible-rabid-cat-from-mass-in-ri#.Ujn8Kpdd-bo.facebook
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I can't deal
With the rest of
The info
But
This is important.
Are you OK there, buddy?
It was our anniversary yesterday. Had amazing sushi and a bunch of sake. I honestly don't remember posting that.
Fiancee and I did Pho Ga last night. It was very tasty.
Will be working lots and lots. Off tomorrow, though. My one day off until I dunno. Got off work an hour ago. Heading to the county fair in a few. Haven't written shit in weeks, oops.
Dad's house sold! (Well, is selling. Paperwork and all that.)
Waiting for my certificate in the mail.
Parents don't know yet. (Going to surprise them)
It's not my A.A.S. (5 classes sort), but it's damn close.
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Waiting for my certificate in the mail.
Parents don't know yet. (Going to surprise them)
It's not my A.A.S. (5 classes sort), but it's damn close.
Well done.
Now go finish the AAS.
Congratulations, everyone!
I think FG is tapped out for the day, so I'm going to work out with my kettlebell (I can really feel it from yesterday's workout) and take my dog to the beach.
OK so I just did one round of kettlebell. Each round is nine minutes, and holy fuck I love this thing! It's the only exercise device other than roller skates and hula hoops I've even been enthusiastic about, and I can do it INSIDE, in my office, which is a huge plus especially in winter and during the school year.
My biceps are already visibly bigger and I can feel it in my abdomen and legs, plus it's low-impact so I don't have to stress about my joints. I can't wait to size up to a heavier kettlebell.
Fuck those lithe and lean yoga chicks. I'm a goddamn tank.
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 11:28:56 PM
Fuck those lithe and lean yoga chicks. I'm a goddamn tank.
FUck YEAAAAA
imma plisbury dough pix, but if I was inclined to do something from being unhappy with my chub (I'm fine with it, really, and only carrying a little bit extra) I'd train for strength and not teh skinnay.
Am considering capoiera as a form of exercise at the moment.
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 11:28:15 PM
OK so I just did one round of kettlebell. Each round is nine minutes, and holy fuck I love this thing! It's the only exercise device other than roller skates and hula hoops I've even been enthusiastic about, and I can do it INSIDE, in my office, which is a huge plus especially in winter and during the school year.
My biceps are already visibly bigger and I can feel it in my abdomen and legs, plus it's low-impact so I don't have to stress about my joints. I can't wait to size up to a heavier kettlebell.
Fuck yes. Kettlebell and sledgehammer is my new objects of worship. Can't wait to get the 16kg kettlebell I ordered.
This is my goal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1czA1lFqw
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Fuck those lithe and lean yoga chicks. I'm a goddamn tank.
That gave me the most frightened boner yet.
I have no drive to study for this quiz tomorrow.
Yep, I think I have burnout. I guess going balls to the wall for 3 years straight after a 10 year break from college did some damage. Fuck.
Gah one of my friends at work is now my boss :eek:
So there was this box of peanut butter and pumpkin cookies and, being midnight, I went for a midnight snack. I try one and it's by far the STALEST most tasteless cookie I'd ever eaten! I look at the box to see what horrible brand just insulted my taste buds and it was my dog's brand. :|
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Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 11:28:56 PM
Fuck those lithe and lean yoga chicks. I'm a goddamn tank.
FUck YEAAAAA
imma plisbury dough pix, but if I was inclined to do something from being unhappy with my chub (I'm fine with it, really, and only carrying a little bit extra) I'd train for strength and not teh skinnay.
Am considering capoiera as a form of exercise at the moment.
I have been skinny, but I have never NOT been muscular. I am just built to punch a motherfucker in the face, is all.
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Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 11:28:15 PM
OK so I just did one round of kettlebell. Each round is nine minutes, and holy fuck I love this thing! It's the only exercise device other than roller skates and hula hoops I've even been enthusiastic about, and I can do it INSIDE, in my office, which is a huge plus especially in winter and during the school year.
My biceps are already visibly bigger and I can feel it in my abdomen and legs, plus it's low-impact so I don't have to stress about my joints. I can't wait to size up to a heavier kettlebell.
Fuck yes. Kettlebell and sledgehammer is my new objects of worship. Can't wait to get the 16kg kettlebell I ordered.
This is my goal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1czA1lFqw
That's damn hardcore! I'm only at a 15lb kettlebell, but I just started and am starting light to make sure I don't tear my abdominals which were completely bisected last year. I am looking forward to working up to a 30#.
QuoteQuote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 11:28:56 PM
Fuck those lithe and lean yoga chicks. I'm a goddamn tank.
That gave me the most frightened boner yet.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on September 19, 2013, 07:02:26 AM
So there was this box of peanut butter and pumpkin cookies and, being midnight, I went for a midnight snack. I try one and it's by far the STALEST most tasteless cookie I'd ever eaten! I look at the box to see what horrible brand just insulted my taste buds and it was my dog's brand. :|
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
:ffs:
Quote from: Bu☆ns on September 19, 2013, 07:02:26 AM
So there was this box of peanut butter and pumpkin cookies and, being midnight, I went for a midnight snack. I try one and it's by far the STALEST most tasteless cookie I'd ever eaten! I look at the box to see what horrible brand just insulted my taste buds and it was my dog's brand. :|
:ffs:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Quote from: Pixie on September 18, 2013, 11:42:55 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 18, 2013, 11:28:56 PM
Fuck those lithe and lean yoga chicks. I'm a goddamn tank.
FUck YEAAAAA
imma plisbury dough pix, but if I was inclined to do something from being unhappy with my chub (I'm fine with it, really, and only carrying a little bit extra) I'd train for strength and not teh skinnay.
Am considering capoiera as a form of exercise at the moment.
I have been skinny, but I have never NOT been muscular. I am just built to punch a motherfucker in the face, is all.
hehe I was squishy even as a slim person. I've always had strong legs, though.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on September 19, 2013, 07:02:26 AM
So there was this box of peanut butter and pumpkin cookies and, being midnight, I went for a midnight snack. I try one and it's by far the STALEST most tasteless cookie I'd ever eaten! I look at the box to see what horrible brand just insulted my taste buds and it was my dog's brand. :|
TOTAL VICTORY
My son will be home on Sunday for 2 weeks!
:banana:
Yay!
You don't have to do any day-long drives to pick him up, do you?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:08:25 PM
Yay!
You don't have to do any day-long drives to pick him up, do you?
Just to Phoenix. The near side of Phoenix. 3 hour round trip, so nothing.
I have a rant percolating, but it's stuck.
And I have a 4 hour meeting in a little while. :sad:
I know just the thing to unstuck it.
Unfortunately, it's most likely blocked at work.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:24:38 PM
I know just the thing to unstuck it.
Unfortunately, it's most likely blocked at work.
Yeah, and Nuns Gone Wild has sort of gotten old, anyway.
WHY ARE YOU ALL BACKED UP, GUT? I HAVE DONE NOTHING TO YOU. NOTHING.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:24:38 PM
I know just the thing to unstuck it.
Unfortunately, it's most likely blocked at work.
Vindaloo?
Nope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtrWNhMpnM
Arr, I'll be wishin' ye a happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 19, 2013, 06:37:54 PM
Arr, I'll be wishin' ye a happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!
Oh no, is it that time of year again?? I have to go downtown today!
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 19, 2013, 06:37:54 PM
Arr, I'll be wishin' ye a happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!
I've decided to take a modern approach to this, and so I am trying to speak like Llyod Blankenfein.
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Arr, I'll be wishin' ye a happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!
I've decided to take a modern approach to this, and so I am trying to speak like Llyod Blankenfein.
You do strange things to my search history.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:35:43 PM
Nope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtrWNhMpnM
:lulz: Of course!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 19, 2013, 06:40:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:35:43 PM
Nope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtrWNhMpnM
WOOP WOOP
THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE.
All I know is that Portland takes this holiday way too seriously, and traffic is going to suck.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:35:43 PM
Nope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtrWNhMpnM
:lulz: Of course!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 19, 2013, 06:40:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:35:43 PM
Nope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtrWNhMpnM
WOOP WOOP
THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE.
(http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/198/280/198280826_640.jpg)
No, not YOUR people, Nigel:
(http://fierth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/skatt-brothers.jpg)
So a dude in lab today blew up a test tube of water by leaving it unattended in the block heater. Then i read ahead to next week. Were using the block heaters again after using sulfuric acid as a catalyst and using and removing a stopper. I can foresee a few things that might go wrong there.
Twid
Standing away from that dude
Quote from: Twigel on September 19, 2013, 06:52:12 PM
So a dude in lab today blew up a test tube of water by leaving it unattended in the block heater. Then i read ahead to next week. Were using the block heaters again after using sulfuric acid as a catalyst and using and removing a stopper. I can foresee a few things that might go wrong there.
Twid
Standing away from that dude
Yeeeahhhhh.
This is dangerously similar to a "Roger learns to cook" thread.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:58:12 PM
This is dangerously similar to a "Roger learns to cook" thread.
Except that I never do that kind of shit at work, annnnnd....
ANNNDDDDD...
I NEVER LEFT THE KITCHEN UNATTENDED! DAMMIT! WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THAT?
:walken:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2013, 06:58:12 PM
This is dangerously similar to a "Roger learns to cook" thread.
Oh man- what subforum is that under? I dont think ive seen it
TODAY
Has been particularly productive.
I went downtown to score some black market textbooks. The deal went down in a cafe on campus. Got to chatting with my dealer (actually my friend Kassiane) and it turns out she is on almost exactly the same academic track as I am, possibly even with the same graduation date, and going into neuroscience, so we agreed to keep in touch about what classes we're taking and what books we have to spare.
Then I had the great idea to start a textbook swap group on Facebook, which could stand to save me (and everyone else) a shit ton of money.
THEN, I came home and saw that the tattooed guy with hair was working on the church again, so I asked him what he was doing. Turns out he's the pastor, and he's totally renovating the space, which will have Sunday services, live music shows, a recording studio, and be rentable for events. And he is painting it black.
Yep. The hipster church is moving onto MY corner. :lol:
-
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2013, 10:45:43 PM
I need whiskey, and lots of it.
Amazingly, I found students who are even worse than the ones at the old place. Even better, none are older than 15. And by worse, I mean that literally. I can't discuss what I was told today, but if an allegation is true...well, even my old students drew the line at that.
I'm almost impressed. Are we talking crime against law or crime against nature?
Nigel that sounds kind of neat, actually!
Cain, at least you can DO things about stuff, if I read you right in the last OB, right?
-
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2013, 10:45:43 PM
I need whiskey, and lots of it.
Amazingly, I found students who are even worse than the ones at the old place. Even better, none are older than 15. And by worse, I mean that literally. I can't discuss what I was told today, but if an allegation is true...well, even my old students drew the line at that.
Um, considering what your old students
didn't draw the line at,
:horror:
Wonderful. Hope it works out well.
-
I am just about curious enough to ask, but not 100% certain I actually want to know. Because then I'll know. And you can't unknow.
My boss quit today, he's not being replaced.
Pro's: I'm now my own boss.
Cons: I'm now my own boss.
Quote from: Faust on September 20, 2013, 01:33:27 AM
My boss quit today, he's not being replaced.
Pro's: I'm now my own boss.
Cons: I'm now my own boss.
That does seem a bit of a mixed blessing. Good luck, and congrats.
Its not a promotion, its not a pay rise, its scary as hell.
I now have to prioritise and schedule the work I do as well as decide what I do. When before I was just told what to do.
I got drunk as hell tonight. Goodnight.
Quote from: Faust on September 20, 2013, 01:49:59 AM
Its not a promotion, its not a pay rise, its scary as hell.
I now have to prioritise and schedule the work I do as well as decide what I do. When before I was just told what to do.
I got drunk as hell tonight. Goodnight.
I can see how it would be. Sleep well.
Trolling burners again. hxxps://www.facebook.com/events/443936512385839/449722815140542/?comment_id=450223335090490¬if_t=like
They're delightful.
Quote from: Faust on September 20, 2013, 01:49:59 AM
Its not a promotion, its not a pay rise, its scary as hell.
I now have to prioritise and schedule the work I do as well as decide what I do. When before I was just told what to do.
I got drunk as hell tonight. Goodnight.
You can do it!
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 03:03:25 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 20, 2013, 05:36:41 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 03:09:10 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 03:03:25 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
The thought occurred to me was that the first time I heard The Doors and The Beatles was from dad, randomly singing their lyrics. They, for some reason, stuck with me (for the same reasons that the lyrics for Isn't It Grand Boys and Are You Ready For A War stuck with me). And by that I mean, they stuck out in my head as a kid, a very young kid, and I came across them later and went "Oh yeah!" or, conversely, I remembered a line randomly and googled "random line lyrics."
Honestly, I never would have known that dad liked The Doors if not for a random synapse firing and an urge to google.
The first time I ever heard The Doors was catching dad singing this song. I honestly thought it was some shit he just made up at the time. Never remember hearing them otherwise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUZf4Wz7gM
Well, "Alta Vista'ing" might be more accurate there.
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 05:53:35 AM
Well, "Alta Vista'ing" might be more accurate there.
Sorry, didn't mean to ignore you. I buggered off down to the politics board to laugh at the Nazi.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 20, 2013, 05:55:04 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 05:53:35 AM
Well, "Alta Vista'ing" might be more accurate there.
Sorry, didn't mean to ignore you. I buggered off down to the politics board to laugh at the Nazi.
I didn't think that you did. I'm simultaneously playing STO. :shrug:
I was merely pointing out that the verb googling was anachronistic in context for the time period.
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Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
My daughter listens to everything from Leslie Gore and Patsy Cline (paleolithic emo) to whatever bands are big these days (I've recently lost track, and even more recently stopped caring).
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
:lulz: Good point.
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Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 03:03:25 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
My daughter listens to everything from Leslie Gore and Patsy Cline (paleolithic emo) to whatever bands are big these days (I've recently lost track, and even more recently stopped caring).
Twidsister loves Pink and other things I'm unfamiliar with. I remembered we were trying, in her teens, mind you, to recapture that musical commonground (mostly impossible). I discovered that Soundgarden bored her, but she quite liked RATM. To the extent that I know she still has my copy of Battle of Los Angeles, deny it though she will. :lulz:
ETA: Jumping the gun. She's still in her teens. She's just senior year in high school.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
My daughter listens to everything from Leslie Gore and Patsy Cline (paleolithic emo) to whatever bands are big these days (I've recently lost track, and even more recently stopped caring).
Twidsister loves Pink and other things I'm unfamiliar with. I remembered we were trying, in her teens, mind you, to recapture that musical commonground (mostly impossible). I discovered that Soundgarden bored her, but she quite liked RATM. To the extent that I know she still has my copy of Battle of Los Angeles, deny it though she will. :lulz:
Soundgarden makes me want to punt hamsters into traffic.
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Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 03:03:25 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
My daughter listens to everything from Leslie Gore and Patsy Cline (paleolithic emo) to whatever bands are big these days (I've recently lost track, and even more recently stopped caring).
Twidsister loves Pink and other things I'm unfamiliar with. I remembered we were trying, in her teens, mind you, to recapture that musical commonground (mostly impossible). I discovered that Soundgarden bored her, but she quite liked RATM. To the extent that I know she still has my copy of Battle of Los Angeles, deny it though she will. :lulz:
Soundgarden makes me want to punt hamsters into traffic.
It's a born after 1980 thing.
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 06:20:13 AM
It's a born after 1980 thing.
SCIENCE TIME!
Playing Spoonman for TGG.
BRB.
Also, Black Hole Sun.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 20, 2013, 06:21:48 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 06:20:13 AM
It's a born after 1980 thing.
SCIENCE TIME!
Playing Spoonman for TGG.
BRB.
Wait. You're missing the control. When was TGG born?
Twidsister,
1996
This is the song I played for Twidsister, along with Black Hole Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7y6rM6zA
1st song half way done, and she HISSED AT ME.
2nd song beginning.
Okay, verdict is in.
It is NOT a "born after 1980 thing". It is a "born with the taste of a savage".
TGG's quote: "Are these fuckers Welsh or something?"
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 20, 2013, 06:26:40 AM
Okay, verdict is in.
It is NOT a "born after 1980 thing". It is a "born with the taste of a savage".
TGG's quote: "Are these fuckers Welsh or something?"
Seattle.
Though, the singer is Irish (observant) Catholic.
Dear God.
The music for Jesus Christ Pose is still cool, but the video is still boring as I viewed it with Twidsister.
I guess flashing crosses and sand throwing just don't have the same effect anymore.
Just gotta ask, since you've got about a decade on me, did the 90s look just as dreary to you then as they do to me now?
Also, I can offer up Welsh heavy metal, but no one wants to hear it.
I loathe Soundgarden.
The 90's were awesome and miserable, because I was young.
Quote from: Twigel on September 20, 2013, 06:33:45 AM
Just gotta ask, since you've got about a decade on me, did the 90s look just as dreary to you then as they do to me now?
They were bad, but not as bad as the 80s. The 80s was like being dragged across sandpaper with no pants on.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 06:39:32 AM
I loathe Soundgarden.
The 90's were awesome and miserable, because I was young.
I was broke as hell all through the 90s. Scraping noodles off the shelf broke. It was like trying to walk with concrete blocks strapped to my feet.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 06:39:32 AM
I loathe Soundgarden.
The 90's were awesome and miserable, because I was young.
Soft spot for me. That whole Seattle thing is what made me pick up a guitar in the first place. Then I became a metalhead. Then I became a metalhead cum whatever sounded good regardless of genre.
Our new Nazi-tard, Brother Nihil, is shaping up nicely.
I haven't laughed this much since VoT pissed off, way back in 2005.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 06:39:32 AM
I loathe Soundgarden.
The 90's were awesome and miserable, because I was young.
Chris Cornell still gives me pancefeels 18 years on. OMG the voice.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
My daughter listens to everything from Leslie Gore and Patsy Cline (paleolithic emo) to whatever bands are big these days (I've recently lost track, and even more recently stopped caring).
Twidsister loves Pink and other things I'm unfamiliar with. I remembered we were trying, in her teens, mind you, to recapture that musical commonground (mostly impossible). I discovered that Soundgarden bored her, but she quite liked RATM. To the extent that I know she still has my copy of Battle of Los Angeles, deny it though she will. :lulz:
Soundgarden makes me want to punt hamsters into traffic.
It's a born after 1980 thing.
That makes sense.
RWHN,
Born in 75
There are a couple of Soundgarden tunes I like, but as the "Seattle Sound" went, i thought they were one of the least interesting bands, maybe slightly more interesting than Pearl Jam.
I was more into the actual, raw, "grungey" bands like Mudhoney and of course Nirvana.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
If this happens i want tohear the results.
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I am just about curious enough to ask, but not 100% certain I actually want to know. Because then I'll know. And you can't unknow.
Yeah. It's not 100% certain that it is what I think it is, but the context and a particular word that is used are...suggestive.
On the plus side, it seems my worries were unfounded. Two suspensions today, just for last night's behaviour. The additional incident is being investigated and I may know more this afternoon. The two suspended are also implicated in the incident, and so it is very possible their suspensions will become permament.
I'm glad they don't slack on the discipline there, it means that perhaps after the first couple of months the students will have some sense of staying in line.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 02:58:04 AM
Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
If this happens i want tohear the results.
Damn straight!
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UGGGGGHHHHHHH
I'M KINDA SICK AND INCREDIBLY STUPID TODAY. MY BRAIN HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A MUCUS-SOAKED COTTON BALL THREE SIZES TOO LARGE.
And what happened, then? Well, in Spagville they say-- her spag brain grew three sizes that day... And then - the true meaning of Discordia came through, and the Spag found the strength of *three* Spags, plus two!
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on September 20, 2013, 06:34:27 PM
UGGGGGHHHHHHH
I'M KINDA SICK AND INCREDIBLY STUPID TODAY. MY BRAIN HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A MUCUS-SOAKED COTTON BALL THREE SIZES TOO LARGE.
Sick? Then you know what you must do.
Visit thy enemies. Nothing brings joy like inflicting a shitty cold/flu thing onto someone who's pissed you off.
Scrid! I need 100 beers please
In ascending order of "Why My Day Has Been Kinda Crap," from trivial whining to actual bad thing:
I have a crippling caffeine addiction, and I took too long to get to my first cup of coffee for the day. This means the whole day is plagued by an untreatable headache. I should probably do something about this problem of mine.
I think there's a dead mouse in the kitchen somewhere. I can't find it.
There was a large crash on a highway near me today. Schoolbus involved, looked like people had been injured.
So all I can say now is, these artichokes I'm cooking better turn out to be nice and tasty or Grumpy Cainad is gonna be REALLY grumpy. :mccain:
Hey my fin aid came through and im not fucked forever!
Quote from: Alty on September 20, 2013, 08:19:30 PM
Hey my fin aid came through and im not fucked forever!
:banana: Fuck yeah!
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In ascending order of "Why My Day Has Been Kinda Crap," from trivial whining to actual bad thing
I think you got that the wrong way around. Coffee is always top of the list.
Normally I would agree, but I feel at least slightly responsible for letting my withdrawal symptoms get to this level. I should probably schedule a few days for detox, during which time my brain will shrink to about the size of a chicken egg.
Good gods. I'm a grandmother. Damn but that sounds weird.
CONGRATS!
We get the keys to the front apartment tomorrow. Brand new floors and brand new windows. The entire roof is getting rubberized next month. The building is just too old and shingle roofs don't last through hurricanes and Nor'Easters like what we've been getting. Seriously half of my neighborhood is getting roofed right now. Something tells me we weren't the only ones that got beat up this last winter.
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CONGRATS!
Thanks.
I'm still wandering round bumping into things.
Never expected this
This is what happens when you let Anonymous into your political process: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/anonymous-nova-scotia-ndp/
Not. Even. Once.
My brother is visiting. My brother is a super-nerdy, autistic theater geek who is trying to pimp his Dr. Who screenplay at ComiCon.
He is also, like every other member of my mother's side of the family, unbearably needy and entitled. So I am lodging him for free, and also apparently driving him around and feeding him.
Nice last weekend of summer break. :x
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 10:30:32 PM
super-nerdy, autistic theater geek ... unbearably needy and entitled.
Sounds like every other Dr Who fan, to be honest
Oi!
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 20, 2013, 10:30:32 PM
super-nerdy, autistic theater geek ... unbearably needy and entitled.
Sounds like every other Dr Who fan, to be honest
Yeah, pretty much. :lol:
He just a few minutes ago made it abundantly clear that he intends to contribute nothing to his own upkeep this weekend. He isn't even here to visit me, he just asked for a place to crash for the con.
Classy.
This is a good reminder of why I have next to nothing to do with my mother's side of the family.
He asked if I have a color printer, because he wants to print a few posters.
I am not sure the "college student single mom" part of my reality has registered with him.
Kefir is so god damned delicious. Its also one of the few beverages that doesn't fuck my guts up.
The champagne of dairy! Says so on the bottle! Says so!
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Little Orange's reaction to the church renovation:
"It's about time someone painted it black".
:?
Stones fan?
I doubt she knows they exist...
This must be remedied.
She'll just get that damn song stuck in her head all the time like I do.
Parental revenge, ITT.
Twidsister used to love it when I would drive her around and play Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I suspect she would listen to it now for nostalgia purposes.
My daughter listens to everything from Leslie Gore and Patsy Cline (paleolithic emo) to whatever bands are big these days (I've recently lost track, and even more recently stopped caring).
Twidsister loves Pink and other things I'm unfamiliar with. I remembered we were trying, in her teens, mind you, to recapture that musical commonground (mostly impossible). I discovered that Soundgarden bored her, but she quite liked RATM. To the extent that I know she still has my copy of Battle of Los Angeles, deny it though she will. :lulz:
Soundgarden makes me want to punt hamsters into traffic.
It's a born after 1980 thing.
That makes sense.
RWHN,
Born in 75
There are a couple of Soundgarden tunes I like, but as the "Seattle Sound" went, i thought they were one of the least interesting bands, maybe slightly more interesting than Pearl Jam.
I was more into the actual, raw, "grungey" bands like Mudhoney and of course Nirvana.
I liked Pearl Jam for maybe the first several months after getting into music in general (believe it or not I didn't particularly care for it prior to hearing Nirvana. Probably because most of what I listened to up til that point was pop music that mom listened to and dad's AM radio Irish Folk. And nothing sounds good on AM radio). They quickly began to irritate me after that.
Quote from: Alty on September 21, 2013, 01:25:19 AM
Kefir is so god damned delicious. Its also one of the few beverages that doesn't fuck my guts up.
The champagne of dairy! Says so on the bottle! Says so!
I love that stuff. ALso just discovered that Oikos makes dip, which means that my raw veggies were extra tasty tonight.
Quote from: Twigel on September 21, 2013, 01:48:45 AM
[size=78%]I liked Pearl Jam for maybe the first several months after getting into music in general (believe it or not I didn't particularly care for it prior to hearing Nirvana. Probably because most of what I listened to up til that point was pop music that mom listened to and dad's AM radio Irish Folk. And nothing sounds good on AM radio). They quickly began to irritate me after that.[/size]
Ten was their best album. Vs and Vitalogy were good. They've been tepid crap ever since.
Though I think their two best tunes were State of Love and Trust from the Singles soundtrack and their cover of Sonic Reducer.
THE ARTIFACTS COMPETITION IS HERE.
I am going to drown in a bottle of pinot grigio now.
I have a nice bottle of shiraz, which I am allowing myself two glasses of, in honor of having stomped all up and down Alameda Ridge for the last two hours. My ass is sore.
I also made 200 beads. No slouching today. In the morning, it's off to the farms to stock up on squash.
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[size=78%]I liked Pearl Jam for maybe the first several months after getting into music in general (believe it or not I didn't particularly care for it prior to hearing Nirvana. Probably because most of what I listened to up til that point was pop music that mom listened to and dad's AM radio Irish Folk. And nothing sounds good on AM radio). They quickly began to irritate me after that.[/size]
Ten was their best album. Vs and Vitalogy were good. They've been tepid crap ever since.
Though I think their two best tunes were State of Love and Trust from the Singles soundtrack and their cover of Sonic Reducer.
I owned Ten and Vs. I got Vitalogy for Christmas, but I think I traded that one in. No... My cousin had Vitalogy, and I got Yield for Christmas one year. Think I still have it, but never listened to it.
:checks:
Yep. Still have it.
:looks at tracklist:
Do the Evolution was a decent song. The video was way better than the song.
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super-nerdy, autistic theater geek ... unbearably needy and entitled.
Sounds like every other Dr Who fan, to be honest
Oi!
You know I'm right. Just hit #drwho on Twitter and tumblr and see for yourself.
TBH, I never understood the fascination with the new series. The actors are fairly decent, but the writing is terrible, Moffat aside.
My brother is caught up in the midst of some Dr. Who screenplay he wrote, and yeah.
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Quote from: Twigel on September 21, 2013, 01:48:45 AM
[size=78%]I liked Pearl Jam for maybe the first several months after getting into music in general (believe it or not I didn't particularly care for it prior to hearing Nirvana. Probably because most of what I listened to up til that point was pop music that mom listened to and dad's AM radio Irish Folk. And nothing sounds good on AM radio). They quickly began to irritate me after that.[/size]
Ten was their best album. Vs and Vitalogy were good. They've been tepid crap ever since.
Though I think their two best tunes were State of Love and Trust from the Singles soundtrack and their cover of Sonic Reducer.
I owned Ten and Vs. I got Vitalogy for Christmas, but I think I traded that one in. No... My cousin had Vitalogy, and I got Yield for Christmas one year. Think I still have it, but never listened to it.
:checks:
Yep. Still have it.
:looks at tracklist:
Do the Evolution was a decent song. The video was way better than the song.
Ten is overrated. Vs, Vitalogy, Yield and Riot Act are usually my go-to Pearl Jam albums, Even the hated No Code is enjoyable for me. They are my favourite band since about 1994 though. Also, they are amazing live. I enjoy the later changes in style, you can't remake Ten for 22 years.
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super-nerdy, autistic theater geek ... unbearably needy and entitled.
Sounds like every other Dr Who fan, to be honest
Oi!
You know I'm right. Just hit #drwho on Twitter and tumblr and see for yourself.
TBH, I never understood the fascination with the new series. The actors are fairly decent, but the writing is terrible, Moffat aside.
My brother is caught up in the midst of some Dr. Who screenplay he wrote, and yeah.
Has he made demented threats/written love letters to the actor of the new doctor yet? If not, there may be some hope.
Not yet, as far as I know.
But he's on the other computer in my office looking at cosplay shit. And making me look at it even though I do not care at all. He's 52 years old.
:horrormirth:
God save me from my kin.
Jesus fucking christ bro, quit making a point of showing me insane contrasty bullshit fabric swatches that make my brain twitch.
My mother's side of the family are 100% self-absorbed assholes.
He sounds like a man-child.
Found the fucking dead mouse :crankey:
It had, of course, crawled into a nearly inaccessible spot in the underside of the refrigerator, right in front of the fan, and died. :vom: This, at least, explains why I had such a hard time pinpointing the smell.
I am attempting to devise effective ways to clean out the space, which is full of little machine-y parts that are all interconnected and has no room for hands.
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Found the fucking dead mouse :crankey:
It had, of course, crawled into a nearly inaccessible spot in the underside of the refrigerator, right in front of the fan, and died. :vom: This, at least, explains why I had such a hard time pinpointing the smell.
I am attempting to devise effective ways to clean out the space, which is full of little machine-y parts that are all interconnected and has no room for hands.
Ewwww
Oh that sucks.
What a bastard.
Getting used to my new Hisense pro 7 while posting. This thing destroys the Google nexus 7.
Everyone's off today. Fall weather is in. I get to see people wear snow boots in 75 degree weather...... Texas......
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super-nerdy, autistic theater geek ... unbearably needy and entitled.
Sounds like every other Dr Who fan, to be honest
Oi!
You know I'm right. Just hit #drwho on Twitter and tumblr and see for yourself.
TBH, I never understood the fascination with the new series. The actors are fairly decent, but the writing is terrible, Moffat aside.
My brother is caught up in the midst of some Dr. Who screenplay he wrote, and yeah.
Has he made demented threats/written love letters to the actor of the new doctor yet? If not, there may be some hope.
Not yet, as far as I know.
But he's on the other computer in my office looking at cosplay shit. And making me look at it even though I do not care at all. He's 52 years old.
:horrormirth:
God save me from my kin.
Just Nigel him. Upside the back of the head.
Then basement & lye.
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I am just about curious enough to ask, but not 100% certain I actually want to know. Because then I'll know. And you can't unknow.
Yeah. It's not 100% certain that it is what I think it is, but the context and a particular word that is used are...suggestive.
On the plus side, it seems my worries were unfounded. Two suspensions today, just for last night's behaviour. The additional incident is being investigated and I may know more this afternoon. The two suspended are also implicated in the incident, and so it is very possible their suspensions will become permament.
That's good to hear.
So, I had a couple days of reprieve from this anxiety attack, and then it started up again at 3 this morning.
HOW DO MAEK BRAIN SHUT UP.
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So, I had a couple days of reprieve from this anxiety attack, and then it started up again at 3 this morning.
HOW DO MAEK BRAIN SHUT UP.
GO OUTSIDE?
Tonight when it isn't turn-me-into-crispy-bacon hot, maybe.
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super-nerdy, autistic theater geek ... unbearably needy and entitled.
Sounds like every other Dr Who fan, to be honest
Oi!
You know I'm right. Just hit #drwho on Twitter and tumblr and see for yourself.
TBH, I never understood the fascination with the new series. The actors are fairly decent, but the writing is terrible, Moffat aside.
My brother is caught up in the midst of some Dr. Who screenplay he wrote, and yeah.
Has he made demented threats/written love letters to the actor of the new doctor yet? If not, there may be some hope.
Not yet, as far as I know.
But he's on the other computer in my office looking at cosplay shit. And making me look at it even though I do not care at all. He's 52 years old.
:horrormirth:
God save me from my kin.
Just Nigel him. Upside the back of the head.
Then basement & lye.
:lol:
Today has been crazy productive, again. Went to the farm this morning and bought an ungodly amount of produce, including a dozen winter squashes and 20 lbs of pickling cucumbers. Went and met a friend and took the dogs to the island, ran 'em sore for hours while hiking up the beach. Got canning jars on my way home. Fixin' to make a raft of pickles.
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So, I had a couple days of reprieve from this anxiety attack, and then it started up again at 3 this morning.
HOW DO MAEK BRAIN SHUT UP.
EAT A BANANA. STOP ANXIETY LOOPING ON ITSELF.
Brother called me from ComiCon at 11:30 last night and didn't leave a message. Dollars to doughnuts he was calling to ask for a ride. FFS my 13-year-old son is more self-sufficient.
25 lbs of pickling cucumbers is a lot of pickling cucumbers. I have 16 quarts of pickles so far, and 8 more to go. Trying to decide whether the last 8 should be vinegar or lactic acid, leaning toward lactic acid.
Nigel, you are so very Portland right now.
Cleaning adventures are finally bearing some fruit. On Tuesday the junk removal service is showing up and all the donate and bulky trash things are going away. Also, I designed what I believe to be a relatively original monster this morning (not for games, just my own amusement).
Portland does have a proud pickling heritage, including Mrs. Neusihin's and Steinfeld's. There were once dozens of small pickling companies here. I grew up on Grandpa's pickles. I don't know why it's a thing, but it's a thing.
Surgery on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to that being over.
Not looking forward to being awake while they poke around in my back.
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Surgery on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to that being over.
Not looking forward to being awake while they poke around in my back.
Good luck!
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Surgery on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to that being over.
Not looking forward to being awake while they poke around in my back.
Cyborg adventures!
Morning, Spags. I am on today, as I am at work (on account of FA being to stupid to be trusted with payroll), but then I will mostly be absent until a week from today, as I have my son back for a time.
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Morning, Spags. I am on today, as I am at work (on account of FA being to stupid to be trusted with payroll), but then I will mostly be absent until a week from today, as I have my son back for a time.
Have fun with the boy!
First day of school. Internet's being janky. My schedule's funky, I have class through lunchtime most days. :|
Tuesdays, I have to say, are gonna kind of suck this term.
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Morning, Spags. I am on today, as I am at work (on account of FA being to stupid to be trusted with payroll), but then I will mostly be absent until a week from today, as I have my son back for a time.
Have fun with the boy!
Plan to.
He's now about 240 pounds, at 6'5". Eats 4000 calories a day. :eek:
Not a spare ounce on him. :argh!:
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First day of school. Internet's being janky. My schedule's funky, I have class through lunchtime most days. :|
Tuesdays, I have to say, are gonna kind of suck this term.
:(
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Morning, Spags. I am on today, as I am at work (on account of FA being to stupid to be trusted with payroll), but then I will mostly be absent until a week from today, as I have my son back for a time.
Have fun with the boy!
Plan to.
He's now about 240 pounds, at 6'5". Eats 4000 calories a day. :eek:
Not a spare ounce on him. :argh!:
Ah, youth! Meanwhile I'm starving my ass off to lose 15 lbs. :lol: Although I recently researched a study on that, that said the innate changes in metabolism due to aging are negligible, our slowed metabolism is almost entirely due to becoming less active with age.
So my ass is fat because I'm old AND LAZY, not just because I'm old. :horrormirth:
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First day of school. Internet's being janky. My schedule's funky, I have class through lunchtime most days. :|
Tuesdays, I have to say, are gonna kind of suck this term.
:(
Yeah Tuesdays I have class something like noon to six. The rest of the days are much more reasonable.
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Morning, Spags. I am on today, as I am at work (on account of FA being to stupid to be trusted with payroll), but then I will mostly be absent until a week from today, as I have my son back for a time.
Have fun with the boy!
Plan to.
He's now about 240 pounds, at 6'5". Eats 4000 calories a day. :eek:
Not a spare ounce on him. :argh!:
Enjoy the visit. :) Tell him we said hi. :P
So someone on the "science" forum actually unironically said "I think instinct is learned, not inborn".
Sure, if you just disregard the definition of instinct and make up a new one.
Yeah, so, snow, on the ground, all over the garden.
Not cool.
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Morning, Spags. I am on today, as I am at work (on account of FA being to stupid to be trusted with payroll), but then I will mostly be absent until a week from today, as I have my son back for a time.
Have fun with the boy!
Plan to.
He's now about 240 pounds, at 6'5". Eats 4000 calories a day. :eek:
Not a spare ounce on him. :argh!:
Ah, youth! Meanwhile I'm starving my ass off to lose 15 lbs. :lol: Although I recently researched a study on that, that said the innate changes in metabolism due to aging are negligible, our slowed metabolism is almost entirely due to becoming less active with age.
So my ass is fat because I'm old AND LAZY, not just because I'm old. :horrormirth:
In my case, when I was young, my metabolism was at full blast all the time. Now, if I get off my ass, I start losing weight, just like I would have as a kid.
Speaking of which, I need to punch new holes in my belt again! :banana:
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Yeah, so, snow, on the ground, all over the garden.
Not cool.
60F here this morning. :?
Almost ready to get back on LDW. Got the next chapter - which is critical, if I fuck up, it will be now - percolating in my head. It's just not ready yet. After that, the dam should burst.
Awesome!
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Awesome!
Yeah, I have a GREAT scene for WWII zombies, Alex, and the spags all on their way to the camp, but it's the way in which to write it that hasn't gelled yet.
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Yeah, so, snow, on the ground, all over the garden.
Not cool.
Snow's falling here, too.
Not this far down yet, but you can see it, spreading down the mountains. A slow, inevitable advance, that man nor beast can hope to thwart. The only choices are to flee, or bunker in with thick clothes and hot chocolate.
A fellow Newfie pal of mine here in Tucson had just made a trip back to the rock, and was SNOWED IN trying to return over the weekend.
In September.
It's been raining cats here. No flooding yet, knock on wood.
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It's been raining cats here. No flooding yet, knock on wood.
I had this weird sensation on the way out to the car this morning. I was not only insufficiently overheated, I was actually underheated enough to be very mildy uncomfortable.
Strange days.
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It's been raining cats here. No flooding yet, knock on wood.
I had this weird sensation on the way out to the car this morning. I was not only insufficiently overheated, I was actually underheated enough to be very mildy uncomfortable.
Strange days.
Yeah, I suspect we're safe only until the ground becomes saturated. Then we're fucked.
And I have NO INTERNET other than PD.
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And I have NO INTERNET other than PD.
Then check out the Greek Fascism thread. I wanted to bring up some things about fascism, instead of The Brother Nihil Hour O Power (though he is involved).
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It's been raining cats here. No flooding yet, knock on wood.
I had this weird sensation on the way out to the car this morning. I was not only insufficiently overheated, I was actually underheated enough to be very mildy uncomfortable.
Strange days.
Yeah, I suspect we're safe only until the ground becomes saturated. Then we're fucked.
We're all going to freeze to death. Well, we can finally observe water attain solid form outside of a lab, I suppose.
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It's been raining cats here. No flooding yet, knock on wood.
I had this weird sensation on the way out to the car this morning. I was not only insufficiently overheated, I was actually underheated enough to be very mildy uncomfortable.
Strange days.
Yeah, I suspect we're safe only until the ground becomes saturated. Then we're fucked.
We're all going to freeze to death. Well, we can finally observe water attain solid form outside of a lab, I suppose.
:lulz:
Switched to an e-cig today. It seems to work, but everything is strange. I keep thinking I need to have a smoke, because I have smokes at the same times every day, but when I go to get up, I realize I don't want one.
Now my brain is all confused and that part that fears the leopard is all agitated.
One of my renters went to some newage conference and invited some snake oil salesmen to use the office. So, here they are, not removing their shoes, talking at non-therapeutic levels, and, if my guess is correct, using keys to come and go as they please.
When i put on my best awkward Alty face on and asked then who the hell they were and what the hell they were doing the assistent, or whatever, gave me A Look.
What fun.
"What kind of work do you do?" I ask.
"Past life regression, something i call crystal light therapy." He says.
:tgrr:
Oh, so "nothing", then. Expensive nothing.
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One of my renters went to some newage conference and invited some snake oil salesmen to use the office. So, here they are, not removing their shoes, talking at non-therapeutic levels, and, if my guess is correct, using keys to come and go as they please.
When i put on my best awkward Alty face on and asked then who the hell they were and what the hell they were doing the assistent, or whatever, gave me A Look.
What fun.
"What kind of work do you do?" I ask.
"Past life regression, something i call crystal light therapy." He says.
:tgrr:
Oh, so "nothing", then. Expensive nothing.
:bob: APPROVED.
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
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Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
A what now?
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Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
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Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
But what is it?
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lawl, reading PD while in my lecture.
We're all up in ur educative process.
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Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
But what is it?
It's just a bowl. Think wine glasses, when you rub the rim. Like that.
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We're discussing the definition of terrorism. Halp, plz...
When Americans feel scared, its terrorism.
Nyaaaargh.
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Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
But what is it?
It's just a bowl. Think wine glasses, when you rub the rim. Like that.
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We're discussing the definition of terrorism. Halp, plz...
:lulz: I'm sorry.
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Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
But what is it?
It's just a bowl. Think wine glasses, when you rub the rim. Like that.
:lulz: or :tgrr:
As God is my witness, I cannot decide.
It's cultural appropriation, like those fucking tulpas. Tulpas. Even if you believe in that sort of thing, which I don't, the Tibetian monks claim it takes YEARS AND YEARS to achieve an actual tulpa. On the other hand, if you're a fatass 20-something Pagan from Scottsdale, it takes, what, 15 minutes.
ON THE OTHER HAND......These assclowns are taking money from suckers, and as Canada Bill Jones said, "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money" (He was also the guy that said "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.").
Note: He wasn't from Canada, and had never even been to Canada. Professional gamblers are weird.
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:02:53 PM
We're discussing the definition of terrorism. Halp, plz...
EASY.
The use of terror to achieve a goal.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS THAT?
Oh, right, that includes the tactics of EVERY GOVERNMENT EVER, except maybe Canada. Wait, no, they did that shit too.
So you have to find a definition that is more politically acceptable. Like so:
The use of terror
by brown people to achieve a goal.
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Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
But what is it?
It's just a bowl. Think wine glasses, when you rub the rim. Like that.
:lulz: or :tgrr:
As God is my witness, I cannot decide.
It's cultural appropriation, like those fucking tulpas. Tulpas. Even if you believe in that sort of thing, which I don't, the Tibetian monks claim it takes YEARS AND YEARS to achieve an actual tulpa. On the other hand, if you're a fatass 20-something Pagan from Scottsdale, it takes, what, 15 minutes.
ON THE OTHER HAND...
...These assclowns are taking money from suckers, and as Canada Bill Jones said, "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money" (He was also the guy that said "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.").
Note: He wasn't from Canada, and had never even been to Canada. Professional gamblers are weird.
For me, :tgrr: because THEY BELIEVE THEY'RE WORK IS ACTUAL MAGIC.
I mean, cold readers are one thing, but they buy AND sell their own bullshit.
If i started applying maximum reason to them they would cry.
They're like.professional pagans.
And they have my keys.
MY keys.
I WILL KILL KILL KILL.
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And they have my keys.
MY keys.
I WILL KILL KILL KILL.
Examine lease.
Dish out hell.
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For me, :tgrr: because THEY BELIEVE THEY'RE WORK IS ACTUAL MAGIC.
I mean, cold readers are one thing, but they buy AND sell their own bullshit.
If i started applying maximum reason to them they would cry.
They're like.professional pagans.
You sure about that? The most hardcore Pagans I know - ie, the ones SELLING the shit - don't believe a fucking word of it. They are fleecing people and they know it.
Go to any Pagan board that has an online store run by the site owners.
My favorite example is TCC, which is owned by a hardcore Christian lady, whose dead (Pagan) husband started the site. The store is the only reason for the site's existence, and the forum is there to attract customers.
Another good example is the old MysticWicks, as run by Mol. Or Pagan Place, hell, that one is HILARIOUS.
Nah, these are my people of old. I know them. I was one of them.
They want to believe it.
If you weren't businessing, Alty, I would say troll the fuck out of them.
As it is, perhaps applying a dose of critical thinking and rationality is in order.
They're reverends. Apparently.
Looks like they need a dose of HOLY™.
THEY JUST REFERRED TO THEIR CLIENT AS A PATIENT.
Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 09:17:18 PM
They're reverends. Apparently.
Looks like they need a dose of HOLY™.
THEY JUST REFERRED TO THEIR CLIENT AS A PATIENT.
Oh, to be in Alaska right now. :lol:
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Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 09:17:18 PM
They're reverends. Apparently.
Looks like they need a dose of HOLY™.
THEY JUST REFERRED TO THEIR CLIENT AS A PATIENT.
Point one: "REVERENDS DON'T HAVE PATIENTS." Already, a learning opportunity for them! :)
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Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:02:53 PM
We're discussing the definition of terrorism. Halp, plz...
EASY.
The use of terror to achieve a goal.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS THAT?
Oh, right, that includes the tactics of EVERY GOVERNMENT EVER, except maybe Canada. Wait, no, they did that shit too.
So you have to find a definition that is more politically acceptable. Like so:
The use of terror by brown people to achieve a goal.
Well, yes. Fortunately, my lecturer does not seem to be a complete fool, and has acknowledged states can and do use terrorism, and that the difference between a gang, terrorists and some states is merely one of degree, not categorical.
She obviously doesn't know who funds her research.
Neat, someone who doesn't preach the hysteria!
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:23:17 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 09:08:26 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:02:53 PM
We're discussing the definition of terrorism. Halp, plz...
EASY.
The use of terror to achieve a goal.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS THAT?
Oh, right, that includes the tactics of EVERY GOVERNMENT EVER, except maybe Canada. Wait, no, they did that shit too.
So you have to find a definition that is more politically acceptable. Like so:
The use of terror by brown people to achieve a goal.
Well, yes. Fortunately, my lecturer does not seem to be a complete fool, and has acknowledged states can and do use terrorism, and that the difference between a gang, terrorists and some states is merely one of degree, not categorical.
She obviously doesn't know who funds her research.
Best not to tell her, then, eh?
:lulz:
Just shit on their parade.
They're gonna be here for three days.
GUESS WHO JUST GOT UNREASONABLY GRUMPY AND AWAKWARD?
Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 09:39:05 PM
:lulz:
Just shit on their parade.
They're gonna be here for three days.
GUESS WHO JUST GOT UNREASONABLY GRUMPY AND AWAKWARD?
Whee!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 06:22:40 PM
Switched to an e-cig today. It seems to work, but everything is strange. I keep thinking I need to have a smoke, because I have smokes at the same times every day, but when I go to get up, I realize I don't want one.
Now my brain is all confused and that part that fears the leopard is all agitated.
I know that feeling. It's weird. The thing about an e-cigarette is that it TECHNICALLY satisfies the desire for nicotine, but it's missing something. Maybe it's missing the burning sensation of death.
Anyway, I bought one and used it for a while but I just gradually didn't really want it and then I forgot about it.
I bought cigarettes last week, smoked one and then felt kind of grossed out. Now there's an almost-full pack on my bedroom table that I don't know what to do with. Maybe I'll put it away, and I'll have it. Forever.
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So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
Comcast? It looks like theres been a problem the last 3-6 hours.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:47:53 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 06:22:40 PM
Switched to an e-cig today. It seems to work, but everything is strange. I keep thinking I need to have a smoke, because I have smokes at the same times every day, but when I go to get up, I realize I don't want one.
Now my brain is all confused and that part that fears the leopard is all agitated.
I know that feeling. It's weird. The thing about an e-cigarette is that it TECHNICALLY satisfies the desire for nicotine, but it's missing something. Maybe it's missing the burning sensation of death.
Anyway, I bought one and used it for a while but I just gradually didn't really want it and then I forgot about it.
I bought cigarettes last week, smoked one and then felt kind of grossed out. Now there's an almost-full pack on my bedroom table that I don't know what to do with. Maybe I'll put it away, and I'll have it. Forever.
For SCIENCE, I just had a regular smoke.
Jesus fuck, did I feel like this ALL THE TIME?
My presence here will be intermittent over the next couple of weeks. I still have to feel out my new schedule. Basically I have in person classes on Monday and Thursday morning, after which I either go to work or home (coin toss, currently home), but because bio is a bit of a fusion class, with deadlines around Sunday and Monday for online homework assignments, and my algebra class, which is online, is spread across the week for deadlines, and I'm over at Villager's on Saturday and Sunday, it's possible that until December my presence will be significantly scaled down.
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 10:03:33 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:47:53 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 06:22:40 PM
Switched to an e-cig today. It seems to work, but everything is strange. I keep thinking I need to have a smoke, because I have smokes at the same times every day, but when I go to get up, I realize I don't want one.
Now my brain is all confused and that part that fears the leopard is all agitated.
I know that feeling. It's weird. The thing about an e-cigarette is that it TECHNICALLY satisfies the desire for nicotine, but it's missing something. Maybe it's missing the burning sensation of death.
Anyway, I bought one and used it for a while but I just gradually didn't really want it and then I forgot about it.
I bought cigarettes last week, smoked one and then felt kind of grossed out. Now there's an almost-full pack on my bedroom table that I don't know what to do with. Maybe I'll put it away, and I'll have it. Forever.
For SCIENCE, I just had a regular smoke.
Jesus fuck, did I feel like this ALL THE TIME?
Yes, you did.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 09:06:21 PM
Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 09:02:30 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 08:59:55 PM
Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:59:28 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 23, 2013, 08:55:15 PM
Quote from: Alty on September 23, 2013, 08:54:57 PM
Some days I truly wonder why I work so hard.
It's like an hour of isometrics at a time, when instead I could just, you know, take the trolly to the imaginary kingdom and think about fiction while they assume....
Oh God, the dude uses a singing bowl. I can hear it.
I hate these people.
HATE.
Singing bowl?
Sometimes cystal, sometimes metal, tibetan singing bowls are used, like tuning forkes, to bring a persons "energy" in harmony with the bowl's virbations.
"There's a nice vibration here."
But what is it?
It's just a bowl. Think wine glasses, when you rub the rim. Like that.
:lulz: or :tgrr:
As God is my witness, I cannot decide.
It's cultural appropriation, like those fucking tulpas. Tulpas. Even if you believe in that sort of thing, which I don't, the Tibetian monks claim it takes YEARS AND YEARS to achieve an actual tulpa. On the other hand, if you're a fatass 20-something Pagan from Scottsdale, it takes, what, 15 minutes.
ON THE OTHER HAND...
...These assclowns are taking money from suckers, and as Canada Bill Jones said, "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money" (He was also the guy that said "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.").
Note: He wasn't from Canada, and had never even been to Canada. Professional gamblers are weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpw53tN6h8E
singing bowls
Can anybody check to see whether there's a known Comcast outage in Portland? Pretty please? I can't get online to do my chemistry review and they're doing a quiz tomorrow to basically screen out everybody who shouldn't be in the class, I'm stressing a little bit.
Did that a bit upthread, yes, comcast appears to be fucked in Portland.
I missed it! Probably one of the times it timed out on me. Thank you Alty, you are the greatest!
Math homework:
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-1_zps9d3f8303.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-2_zps7eb929cc.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-3_zps557a3ab3.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-4_zps0a4a7cdf.jpg)
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 24, 2013, 12:36:58 AM
I missed it! Probably one of the times it timed out on me. Thank you Alty, you are the greatest!
Is no problem, comrade.
Quote from: Twigel on September 24, 2013, 12:47:25 AM
Math homework:
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-1_zps9d3f8303.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-2_zps7eb929cc.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-3_zps557a3ab3.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-4_zps0a4a7cdf.jpg)
:lulz:
:thanks:
Hopefully she has a sense of humor.
I like the screaming Twid at the bottom!
Cookie clicker keeps distracting me from things. Tomorrow junk people show up and significant amounts of stuff leave my house, maybe I can get some things down after that.
:lulz: That image finally loaded for me, I like it!
I am sitting in my house which is suddenly very quiet because all the children have left, listening to the rain and almost halfway through my biology homework.
I am scared of this term. I was assigned 144 pages of reading on the first day.
I am now an anthropology major. Also, I didn't forget as much math as I expected. The placement test says I just need one college-level course rather than that plus two remedial courses like I thought.
I wish I were recording the epic level of bullshit going on in the next room.
It's like bullshit on ice.
And now the Lord's Prayer.
Removing entities. Christlike conciousness. Healing angels with ruby rays of healing light. I ask the angels of light to remove these entities that are here against free will, never to find its way back into this being of light.
CLANG
CLANG
CLANG
OH GOD I HATE THRN, I HATE THEM SO MUCH.
I WANT TO FILL THAT ROOM WITH AMONIA.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 24, 2013, 02:16:29 AM
:lulz: That image finally loaded for me, I like it!
I am sitting in my house which is suddenly very quiet because all the children have left, listening to the rain and almost halfway through my biology homework.
I am scared of this term. I was assigned 144 pages of reading on the first day.
Did you catch the earlier comments? :lulz:
the quiet can be pretty strange, but combination of no one around and rain can be fertile ground for ideas.
Quote from: Alty on September 24, 2013, 02:32:46 AM
I wish I were recording the epic level of bullshit going on in the next room.
It's like bullshit on ice.
And now the Lord's Prayer.
Removing entities. Christlike conciousness. Healing angels with ruby rays of healing light. I ask the angels of light to remove these entities that are here against free will, never to find its way back into this being of light.
CLANG
CLANG
CLANG
OH GOD I HATE THRN, I HATE THEM SO MUCH.
I WANT TO FILL THAT ROOM WITH AMONIA.
As a religious man, I gotta say,
Wait, whut?
Twid,
feels Alty's pain, and not in a pseudo-empath way.
Quote from: Alty on September 24, 2013, 02:32:46 AM
I wish I were recording the epic level of bullshit going on in the next room.
It's like bullshit on ice.
And now the Lord's Prayer.
Removing entities. Christlike conciousness. Healing angels with ruby rays of healing light. I ask the angels of light to remove these entities that are here against free will, never to find its way back into this being of light.
CLANG
CLANG
CLANG
OH GOD I HATE THRN, I HATE THEM SO MUCH.
I WANT TO FILL THAT ROOM WITH AMONIA.
WAIT NO.
LATIN (OR ARAMAIC) OR GTFO.
Pater Noster qui es in caelis, sancitificetur Nomen Tuum, adveniat Regnum Tuum....
SAY THE MAGIC WORDS RIGHT.
Roger called it. These people know exactly what they're doing.
Quote from: Alty on September 24, 2013, 04:34:26 AM
Roger called it. These people know exactly what they're doing.
Did you overhear the cackling after their "patient" left?
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on September 24, 2013, 04:40:34 AM
Quote from: Alty on September 24, 2013, 04:34:26 AM
Roger called it. These people know exactly what they're doing.
Did you overhear the cackling after their "patient" left?
They is:
A dude with a beard who blabs.
A manager, whose wife is
The assistent.
They were talking about heading off potential lawsuits.
They are basically building an Ascended Master, planning a book.
And this guy has some minor skill. He's been thrown a couple curveballs. He's talked with dead people (relatives), angels.
He "enters your body and looks into your past. You've been a pharaoh in egypt."
He's doing a séance on wednesday.
"There may be a seat available."
Quote from: Alty on September 24, 2013, 04:34:26 AM
Roger called it. These people know exactly what they're doing.
I am, after all, an Industry Professional.
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Yeah, I've been having some throttling issues as of late.
And by that, I mean I want to throttle everyone at Comcast.
I know not everyone is in areas where fios is set up, but sweet merciful fuck if you have the choice switch.
Just made all the bad things vanish, the junk removal guys took all of ten minutes and were super nice, and it was less expensive than I was expecting. Also, they were happy everything was properly staged and ready to go. Everyone has a good morning!
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What in the hells is being inflicted upon you?
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Oh.
Oh.
You poor soul.
Got an email back from my math professor.
She was in fact amused and said that she's already enjoying me being her student. I'll have to keep the spaggotry up.
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:41:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
I wouldn't be so mad if this little factoid wasn't completely hidden from me. Like, I was REALLY ready to take trig last winter, and I only didn't do it because it wasn't required and I'm out of elective credits toward my degree.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:50:40 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:41:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
I wouldn't be so mad if this little factoid wasn't completely hidden from me. Like, I was REALLY ready to take trig last winter, and I only didn't do it because it wasn't required and I'm out of elective credits toward my degree.
I hear you on that. I have to take MAT-099 this semester, even though I've already taken 100 level algebra classes. I ultimately decided to just go with it, since I need the refresher anyway, but it sets me back too. My summer will likely be dedicated solely to math classes paid out of pocket, just so I can take more science classes in fall of 2014.
Halfway into the new place and sleeping over here tonight. Fortunately my wifi kicks enough ass that we can get it from next door. Getting used to the idea that there are street lights now at the front of the house. C'est la vie. No leaking roof.
Also: Faux bay windows.
Also also: New floors, new paint, and a nice big room for a studio that both of us can fit our stuff in.
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:54:26 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:50:40 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:41:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
I wouldn't be so mad if this little factoid wasn't completely hidden from me. Like, I was REALLY ready to take trig last winter, and I only didn't do it because it wasn't required and I'm out of elective credits toward my degree.
I hear you on that. I have to take MAT-099 this semester, even though I've already taken 100 level algebra classes. I ultimately decided to just go with it, since I need the refresher anyway, but it sets me back too. My summer will likely be dedicated solely to math classes paid out of pocket, just so I can take more science classes in fall of 2014.
Math surprises! We love them!
I sent an email to my chemistry instructor and am awaiting word, but in the meantime I am resigned to needing tutoring to catch up to where I already WAS last winter.
But, GOOD NEWS! I met a neuroscientist tonight who offered me a job in her lab. I am both stoked and freaked out. She's also an adcom. This is basically the chance of a lifetime, I take this and if I blow it I'm fucked forever, if I do well I'm in. Just in. Just like that.
I have never blown anything before (unless I'm having sex with it) so I don't see why I would start now.
but still. OH HOLY FUCK.
Oh and she advised me to go for organismal rather than molecular. I can do that. Yep, I can definitely do that.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 07:23:32 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:54:26 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:50:40 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:41:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
I wouldn't be so mad if this little factoid wasn't completely hidden from me. Like, I was REALLY ready to take trig last winter, and I only didn't do it because it wasn't required and I'm out of elective credits toward my degree.
I hear you on that. I have to take MAT-099 this semester, even though I've already taken 100 level algebra classes. I ultimately decided to just go with it, since I need the refresher anyway, but it sets me back too. My summer will likely be dedicated solely to math classes paid out of pocket, just so I can take more science classes in fall of 2014.
Math surprises! We love them!
I sent an email to my chemistry instructor and am awaiting word, but in the meantime I am resigned to needing tutoring to catch up to where I already WAS last winter.
But, GOOD NEWS! I met a neuroscientist tonight who offered me a job in her lab. I am both stoked and freaked out. She's also an adcom. This is basically the chance of a lifetime, I take this and if I blow it I'm fucked forever, if I do well I'm in. Just in. Just like that.
I have never blown anything before (unless I'm having sex with it) so I don't see why I would start now.
but still. OH HOLY FUCK.
Oh and she advised me to go for organismal rather than molecular. I can do that. Yep, I can definitely do that.
High five!
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
I wouldn't be so mad if this little factoid wasn't completely hidden from me. Like, I was REALLY ready to take trig last winter, and I only didn't do it because it wasn't required and I'm out of elective credits toward my degree.
I hear you on that. I have to take MAT-099 this semester, even though I've already taken 100 level algebra classes. I ultimately decided to just go with it, since I need the refresher anyway, but it sets me back too. My summer will likely be dedicated solely to math classes paid out of pocket, just so I can take more science classes in fall of 2014.
Math surprises! We love them!
I sent an email to my chemistry instructor and am awaiting word, but in the meantime I am resigned to needing tutoring to catch up to where I already WAS last winter.
But, GOOD NEWS! I met a neuroscientist tonight who offered me a job in her lab. I am both stoked and freaked out. She's also an adcom. This is basically the chance of a lifetime, I take this and if I blow it I'm fucked forever, if I do well I'm in. Just in. Just like that.
I have never blown anything before (unless I'm having sex with it) so I don't see why I would start now.
but still. OH HOLY FUCK.
Oh and she advised me to go for organismal rather than molecular. I can do that. Yep, I can definitely do that.
High five!
Thank you!
I am FREAKING OUT. Quietly at home. But still OMG.
It is kinda funny though.
My math prereqs were just fine to take astronomy last semester (loved that class), I tested out of 0 level classes when I first signed up there, took algebra, stats, and intro to bio to fill out my general requirements and now it's like "Your math skills are week and historian-like! We know you can understand negative numbers and simple adding and subtracting, but now you must go back to the beginning. THE BEGINNING!!!! :evil laughter:"
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 07:28:46 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 07:27:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 07:23:32 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:54:26 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:50:40 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 02:41:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 02:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 24, 2013, 06:12:55 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2013, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 23, 2013, 09:55:30 PM
So my internet is still fucky. Would someone mind checking the internet to see if there are known outages in Portland? The thing that really sucks about this is that I have an online class that starts today and I need to log on, which means that I guess I'm going back to campus to do that.
You with Comcast?
Yes.
Sorry, fell asleep. Yes, problem with Comcast in Portland.
Hell, problems with Comcast generally. They are blatantly ignoring web neutrality already, prioritising preferred clients over...other websites. I have a friend in Texas who does livestreaming, and because his site is not on Comcast's special people list, he frequently gets fucked over...especially if some kind of computer nerd convention is happening at the same time.
Funny, how that always turns out to be the case. Sadly, Comcast are the only people who provide fast enough internet without him having a server in his basement, so...
Thank you! That's fucked. And my internet is STILL fucked, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's awesome, given that one of my classes is entirely online and the other two have lots of online homework.
In other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
It's always the math classes.
I wouldn't be so mad if this little factoid wasn't completely hidden from me. Like, I was REALLY ready to take trig last winter, and I only didn't do it because it wasn't required and I'm out of elective credits toward my degree.
I hear you on that. I have to take MAT-099 this semester, even though I've already taken 100 level algebra classes. I ultimately decided to just go with it, since I need the refresher anyway, but it sets me back too. My summer will likely be dedicated solely to math classes paid out of pocket, just so I can take more science classes in fall of 2014.
Math surprises! We love them!
I sent an email to my chemistry instructor and am awaiting word, but in the meantime I am resigned to needing tutoring to catch up to where I already WAS last winter.
But, GOOD NEWS! I met a neuroscientist tonight who offered me a job in her lab. I am both stoked and freaked out. She's also an adcom. This is basically the chance of a lifetime, I take this and if I blow it I'm fucked forever, if I do well I'm in. Just in. Just like that.
I have never blown anything before (unless I'm having sex with it) so I don't see why I would start now.
but still. OH HOLY FUCK.
Oh and she advised me to go for organismal rather than molecular. I can do that. Yep, I can definitely do that.
High five!
Thank you!
I am FREAKING OUT. Quietly at home. But still OMG.
You'll be fine. If there's anything you excel at, it's kicking ass.
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 07:33:10 AM
It is kinda funny though.
My math prereqs were just fine to take astronomy last semester (loved that class), I tested out of 0 level classes when I first signed up there, took algebra, stats, and intro to bio to fill out my general requirements and now it's like "Your math skills are week and historian-like! We know you can understand negative numbers and simple adding and subtracting, but now you must go back to the beginning. THE BEGINNING!!!! :evil laughter:"
Yeah that's fucked. And also a little bit how I feel about finding out almost a year later that ACTUALLY, I do have to take calculus. Which I LUSTED after a year ago, right? But was basically told "Oh you don't need that, stats will be much more useful".
But my new mentor was like "Stats, whatever, you can always find a stats grad student to do those for you".
:?
And now I'm super rusty on shit I need to know to succeed. Khan Academy, here I come.
Oh and also with the shift from Molecular to Organismal, I have to take the single most dreaded series of all time, A&P.
:horrormirth:
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 07:33:57 AM
You'll be fine. If there's anything you excel at, it's kicking ass.
Awww thank you, I needed to hear that. :D
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 25, 2013, 07:38:37 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 25, 2013, 07:33:10 AM
It is kinda funny though.
My math prereqs were just fine to take astronomy last semester (loved that class), I tested out of 0 level classes when I first signed up there, took algebra, stats, and intro to bio to fill out my general requirements and now it's like "Your math skills are week and historian-like! We know you can understand negative numbers and simple adding and subtracting, but now you must go back to the beginning. THE BEGINNING!!!! :evil laughter:"
Yeah that's fucked. And also a little bit how I feel about finding out almost a year later that ACTUALLY, I do have to take calculus. Which I LUSTED after a year ago, right? But was basically told "Oh you don't need that, stats will be much more useful".
But my new mentor was like "Stats, whatever, you can always find a stats grad student to do those for you".
:?
And now I'm super rusty on shit I need to know to succeed. Khan Academy, here I come.
Oh and also with the shift from Molecular to Organismal, I have to take the single most dreaded series of all time, A&P.
:horrormirth:
Hey, stats is what what SAS and those two people even nerdier than us are for anyway, amirite?
I have to take calc at some point too (that's where my summer is going down the drain), which I wanted to do in spring. Really I just want to get the math over with and get on to the science. On the bright side it gives me time to decide what specific field of biology to go into (I'm leaning towards biomedical engineering atm, but we'll see once I take an engineering class. Which requires calculus. Dammit future, won't you hurry the hell up?!?!)
QuoteIn other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
WELL THIS ALL SOUNDS AWFULLY FUCKING FAMILIAR
CAN'T THINK WHY THOUGH
HAHAHAHA WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERSONNEL HAD THEIR NARDS HOOKED UP TO TAZERS
NO REASON AT ALL, I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY
Cainad,
not twitching at all what are you talking about
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on September 25, 2013, 02:49:20 PM
QuoteIn other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
WELL THIS ALL SOUNDS AWFULLY FUCKING FAMILIAR
CAN'T THINK WHY THOUGH
HAHAHAHA WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERSONNEL HAD THEIR NARDS HOOKED UP TO TAZERS
NO REASON AT ALL, I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY
Cainad,
not twitching at all what are you talking about
:lulz:
Quote from: Suu on September 25, 2013, 03:27:25 AM
Halfway into the new place and sleeping over here tonight. Fortunately my wifi kicks enough ass that we can get it from next door. Getting used to the idea that there are street lights now at the front of the house. C'est la vie. No leaking roof.
Also: Faux bay windows.
Also also: New floors, new paint, and a nice big room for a studio that both of us can fit our stuff in.
Yay Suuhouse!
So, our old Mayor, "Mumbles" Menino, decided not to run this year.
There were 12 candidates in the primary, made up of one black woman, a few old white irish guys, some young white guys, a latino guy, and a handful of black guys.
Primary Elections were last night, to choose two potential candidates.
The next mayor of Boston will be an old white Irish guy.
:spag:
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on September 25, 2013, 02:49:20 PM
QuoteIn other news, today I was told that although the prerequisite for Chem 221 is math 111, and the prerequisite for Chem 222 is Chem 221, and the prerequisite for Chem 223 is Chem 222, and NOWHERE in my degree requirements does it say I need Calculus, IN FACT it specifically says Calculus OR Statistics so I took Statistics because I know that's required for graduate school, today, TODAY I was informed that I need to take trig and calc for my next two chemistry classes.
WHY DOES THIS PISS ME OFF?
Well, because if I'd known I needed them I would have taken them IN SEQUENCE AFTER ALGEBRA instead of taking Stats, because now it's been nine months since I finished algebra and that means, naturally, that I've forgotten most of it. Stats I could have taken at any time, it doesn't really flow naturally from algebra like trig does.
It also borks my projected graduation date. Oh the fuck well. I guess I'm back to double majoring, then. Fuck it.
WELL THIS ALL SOUNDS AWFULLY FUCKING FAMILIAR
CAN'T THINK WHY THOUGH
HAHAHAHA WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERSONNEL HAD THEIR NARDS HOOKED UP TO TAZERS
NO REASON AT ALL, I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY
Cainad,
not twitching at all what are you talking about
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 25, 2013, 04:08:01 PM
So, our old Mayor, "Mumbles" Menino, decided not to run this year.
There were 12 candidates in the primary, made up of one black woman, a few old white irish guys, some young white guys, a latino guy, and a handful of black guys.
Primary Elections were last night, to choose two potential candidates.
The next mayor of Boston will be an old white Irish guy.
:spag:
I lived a couple of doors down from donnelly growing up. Nice guy. Definitely old white irish dude. But is that much of a surprise? I seem to remember that menino was a bit of a surprise because he wasnt irish.
surgery done. at me mum's house. I can walk properly again!!!
also, trying to get used to the iPad keyboard i bought a couple of days ago.
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
:sad:
Quote from: Waffleman on September 25, 2013, 08:05:41 PM
surgery done. at me mum's house. I can walk properly again!!!
also, trying to get used to the iPad keyboard i bought a couple of days ago.
Yay Wafflydude!
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 25, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
hallway painted in the flat, needs a gloss touch up and another coat of the aqua. Lounge is definitely getting there, needs a second coat of yellow and for the grey above the picture rail to be done, as well as the gloss... the hideous school green is all gone!
My room next...
I've hardly been online all week because of the decorating. Will try and find a non-crappy camera for pics.
Whoo, Nigel!
Also, I feel your pain on the prereqs. I just found out that switching my major means I need three semesters of the same foreign language. I took two semesters of Latin. That was thirteen years ago. I'll likely have to audit Latin 1, then re-take Latin 2 (since I got a C the first time).
On the upside, the anthropology department is way more active than the school of social welfare was. They have a whole forensic anthropology lab, chock full of bones for me to classify (in a few semesters).
Tonight's homework is- helping my sister figure out what she needs to claim her Irish citizenship. It will be a good refresher for when mine expires in 2 years.
Quote from: Pixie on September 26, 2013, 12:30:49 AM
hallway painted in the flat, needs a gloss touch up and another coat of the aqua. Lounge is definitely getting there, needs a second coat of yellow and for the grey above the picture rail to be done, as well as the gloss... the hideous school green is all gone!
My room next...
I've hardly been online all week because of the decorating. Will try and find a non-crappy camera for pics.
It sounds lovely!
I would love to paint in here, perhaps someday I will. One room at a time.
My homework is apparently "being really fucking tired for no reason really".
I suspect I may be fighting off one of the many viruses the children have been spewing about lately, which is not really OK right now. I have 101 pages of "Understanding Architecture" to read by tomorrow night, and a chemistry class to prep for.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 01:34:57 AM
My homework is apparently "being really fucking tired for no reason really".
I suspect I may be fighting off one of the many viruses the children have been spewing about lately, which is not really OK right now. I have 101 pages of "Understanding Architecture" to read by tomorrow night, and a chemistry class to prep for.
Ugh on all accounts.
Looks like Twidsister is going to have to wait a year. She's still a minor and needs both parents to sign off. Unless Nick counts on account of stepfather. Hmmm.
Just checking in.
Having a good time with my son. He's fucked off with his friends for the evening, but I now have an abundance of dogs.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 26, 2013, 02:02:58 AM
Just checking in.
Having a good time with my son. He's fucked off with his friends for the evening, but I now have an abundance of dogs.
How long is he on leave?
Quote from: Twigel on September 26, 2013, 02:04:00 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 26, 2013, 02:02:58 AM
Just checking in.
Having a good time with my son. He's fucked off with his friends for the evening, but I now have an abundance of dogs.
How long is he on leave?
I take him back to the airport on the 4th.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 26, 2013, 02:07:22 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 26, 2013, 02:04:00 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 26, 2013, 02:02:58 AM
Just checking in.
Having a good time with my son. He's fucked off with his friends for the evening, but I now have an abundance of dogs.
How long is he on leave?
I take him back to the airport on the 4th.
That's a nice bit of time. :)
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 12:00:58 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 25, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have
something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 02:14:07 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 12:00:58 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 25, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
It's quite possible, but hopefully it isn't.
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 02:14:07 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 12:00:58 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 25, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Not sure that you should go along with that. The school wants to evaluate him?
Side note to helping Twidsister. It actually makes sense for her to claim her citizenship (as opposed to me where there is no clear benefit other than never actually having to leave Ireland at any point)- Grandpa basically said that when he dies, she's inheriting the house. It was a heavy conversation, and later as an aside I told her that when it seems like the time is approaching we may want to look into hiring an Irish lawyer to figure out exactly what would be expected of her at that point.
Grandpa's also been trying to convince her to move there and go to college there.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 26, 2013, 02:18:08 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 02:14:07 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 12:00:58 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 25, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Not sure that you should go along with that. The school wants to evaluate him?
Something needs to happen. This is the second time he's been sent to the assistant principal and we're not even out of September yet. All the demons in my ear are singing their BAD MOMMY songs.
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 02:54:17 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 26, 2013, 02:18:08 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 02:14:07 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 12:00:58 AM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 25, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Not sure that you should go along with that. The school wants to evaluate him?
Something needs to happen. This is the second time he's been sent to the assistant principal and we're not even out of September yet. All the demons in my ear are singing their BAD MOMMY songs.
How old is he? My son was a fucking TERROR through 3rd grade...They tried to tell me he was hyperactive or whatever the hell you call it, and informed me that I HAD to go get him on Ritalin. I was kind of curious as to where they got their medical degrees, you know? By which I mean, I showed them who the real terror was in the family.
Years later, he's just fine, and without any stigma around his neck to prevent him from doing what he wanted to do, ie, the USMC.
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Just checking in.
Having a good time with my son. He's fucked off with his friends for the evening, but I now have an abundance of dogs.
I'm glad you're having a good time!
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Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Not sure that you should go along with that. The school wants to evaluate him?
Something needs to happen. This is the second time he's been sent to the assistant principal and we're not even out of September yet. All the demons in my ear are singing their BAD MOMMY songs.
How old is he? My son was a fucking TERROR through 3rd grade...They tried to tell me he was hyperactive or whatever the hell you call it, and informed me that I HAD to go get him on Ritalin. I was kind of curious as to where they got their medical degrees, you know? By which I mean, I showed them who the real terror was in the family.
Years later, he's just fine, and without any stigma around his neck to prevent him from doing what he wanted to do, ie, the USMC.
Children will be children. Sometimes I think that part of the problem is that people forgot how rambunctious and energetic they were. Really if you think about it, it's a natural progression of human aging. When you're a kid, you're just full of everything and want to do stuff all the time and eat all the sugar.
When you're an adolescent, you're a miserable shit who wants to bonk everyone else and have volatile emotions mixed in with sudden realization of self and OMG what are other people thinking of/expecting of me? You will get angry or cry at the drop of a hat.
Then you're a young adult and know everything. Kinda like when you're an adolescent, except you REALLY TOTALLY know it now.
Then you get past your 20s and you just laugh at all of that. And then, as I gather, you start realizing the aging process and guys like Roger laugh at you and tell you to get used to it because it gets hysterical from here on out.
Did I miss anything?
Twid,
32
ETA: sounds weird to say I'm 32.
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Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Not sure that you should go along with that. The school wants to evaluate him?
Something needs to happen. This is the second time he's been sent to the assistant principal and we're not even out of September yet. All the demons in my ear are singing their BAD MOMMY songs.
How old is he? My son was a fucking TERROR through 3rd grade...They tried to tell me he was hyperactive or whatever the hell you call it, and informed me that I HAD to go get him on Ritalin. I was kind of curious as to where they got their medical degrees, you know? By which I mean, I showed them who the real terror was in the family.
Years later, he's just fine, and without any stigma around his neck to prevent him from doing what he wanted to do, ie, the USMC.
He's six. I've already explained to the other parents that if the school plays the MEDICATION OR ELSE card I'm pulling him out and home schooling him, but other than that I just feel really small in front of this mess.
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He's six. I've already explained to the other parents that if the school plays the MEDICATION OR ELSE card I'm pulling him out and home schooling him, but other than that I just feel really small in front of this mess.
Yeah, that's kind of intentional.
If they play the MEDICATE OR ELSE card, call their bluff. That's what it is. Ask them how their insurance carrier feels about them making medical decisions. They LOVE that shit.
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Had to take the younger kidlet out of school today, he hit the teacher and is generally being an ass. They want to evaluate him for the adhds. I feel like seven butts.
Aw. :( How old is he? As long as you're at it, see if you can get him IQ tested, they wanted us to have the son evaluated for ADHD (reasonable enough, because I have it) and it turned out that he was just a genius.
The assistant principal is 100% on board with the idea that the kid's smart as fuck (he was explaining PEMDAS in the office), but I agree he may have something going on that would make an IEP worthwhile, at least short term. I don't really know how to write the letter requesting an evaluation, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who's already had to jump some of these hoops for her own kid. He's got a strong family history of depression on both sides, and I'm concerned that all the acting up and being flightly may be related to that.
Not sure that you should go along with that. The school wants to evaluate him?
Something needs to happen. This is the second time he's been sent to the assistant principal and we're not even out of September yet. All the demons in my ear are singing their BAD MOMMY songs.
How old is he? My son was a fucking TERROR through 3rd grade...They tried to tell me he was hyperactive or whatever the hell you call it, and informed me that I HAD to go get him on Ritalin. I was kind of curious as to where they got their medical degrees, you know? By which I mean, I showed them who the real terror was in the family.
Years later, he's just fine, and without any stigma around his neck to prevent him from doing what he wanted to do, ie, the USMC.
He's six. I've already explained to the other parents that if the school plays the MEDICATION OR ELSE card I'm pulling him out and home schooling him, but other than that I just feel really small in front of this mess.
SIX??
FUCK THEM.
Seriously, six is too young to assess for ADHD, let alone medicate. IMO.
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He's six. I've already explained to the other parents that if the school plays the MEDICATION OR ELSE card I'm pulling him out and home schooling him, but other than that I just feel really small in front of this mess.
Yeah, that's kind of intentional.
If they play the MEDICATE OR ELSE card, call their bluff. That's what it is. Ask them how their insurance carrier feels about them making medical decisions. They LOVE that shit.
If the time comes to dig heels in and screech, well, the little man got it from somewhere. :evil:
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He's six. I've already explained to the other parents that if the school plays the MEDICATION OR ELSE card I'm pulling him out and home schooling him, but other than that I just feel really small in front of this mess.
Yeah, that's kind of intentional.
If they play the MEDICATE OR ELSE card, call their bluff. That's what it is. Ask them how their insurance carrier feels about them making medical decisions. They LOVE that shit.
If the time comes to dig heels in and screech, well, the little man got it from somewhere. :evil:
Seriously, just say these words:
"So, how does the school district's insurance carrier view administrative personnel issuing medical orders? Why don't we find out?"
Then get out of the way, because he/she is gonna shit all over him/herself. Even if they try to keep up a stern appearance.
MEANWHILE, IN CANADA:
http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/2013/09/24/politician-proposes-a-new-charter-that-would-require-all-quebecers-wear-the-same-pants/index.html
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 03:43:07 AM
SIX??
FUCK THEM.
Seriously, six is too young to assess for ADHD, let alone medicate. IMO.
I dunno, it's too young for a lot of things, but at the same time he needs some kind of extra attention. The way things are right now is unacceptable. The school handbook is pretty nicey-nice about IEPs and Student Support Teams and stuff, and the assistant principal is a nice guy, so maybe it'll be useful things and not all
IT'S A TRAP!
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 03:43:07 AM
SIX??
FUCK THEM.
Seriously, six is too young to assess for ADHD, let alone medicate. IMO.
I dunno, it's too young for a lot of things, but at the same time he needs some kind of extra attention. The way things are right now is unacceptable. The school handbook is pretty nicey-nice about IEPs and Student Support Teams and stuff, and the assistant principal is a nice guy, so maybe it'll be useful things and not all IT'S A TRAP!
Hey, you know, he's a SIX YEAR OLD. Of course he needs extra attention. At that age, they're trying to kill everyone, even - especially - themselves.
You don't beat Darwin just because you reproduced. You have to keep them from killing themselves, and you yourself have to keep from killing them.
You beat Darwin when you have grandchildren, who are someone else's problem.
But this DOESN'T mean the assistant principal has an MD. Nor does it mean PILLS.
Yeah. We're gonna start here with adding some structure (because we let things be a little chaotic around the house), and introducing the idea of behaving as a subversive act. Basically, kid's complaining that a lot of the stuff is too easy, and we explained that if he doesn't follow the rules enough to prove he's not dumb, he'll never get interesting work or the fun toys. Behaving is "phase one" of our nefarious scheme.
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He's six. I've already explained to the other parents that if the school plays the MEDICATION OR ELSE card I'm pulling him out and home schooling him, but other than that I just feel really small in front of this mess.
Yeah, that's kind of intentional.
If they play the MEDICATE OR ELSE card, call their bluff. That's what it is. Ask them how their insurance carrier feels about them making medical decisions. They LOVE that shit.
If the time comes to dig heels in and screech, well, the little man got it from somewhere. :evil:
Seriously, just say these words:
"So, how does the school district's insurance carrier view administrative personnel issuing medical orders? Why don't we find out?"
Then get out of the way, because he/she is gonna shit all over him/herself. Even if they try to keep up a stern appearance.
MEANWHILE, IN CANADA:
http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/2013/09/24/politician-proposes-a-new-charter-that-would-require-all-quebecers-wear-the-same-pants/index.html
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: That site is awesome.
A colleague just came to me saying "You really need a vacation." He is not usually that concise and comprehensible. I am kinda worried now.
Hello...I took off until I could figure out why I kept being an ass to people here...and this turned out to be me losing my marbles again.
I have always hoped I'd be able to fix my crazy.
I've been trying to fix it since I was 16.
I think there IS no fixing it
However I was an asshole on here, and I AM responsible for not checking myself.
I ought to have realized that the lack of focus I've been exhibiting here and in RL meant I was having problems.
Apologies.
Besides that I was both feeling guilty and scared for having pissed off Nigel.
I wasn't sure I could stand a full Nigeling whilst going bonkers.
I like her mostly, admire her a lot, think she's bloody brilliant.
But I'm pretty sure she looks down at me for being a nut.
...FWIW, I hate being crazy.
I REALLY want to just be quietly sane, instead of loudly mentally ill.
...Anyway, I was suicidal to the point that I've figured out how to make a self-operated one-person head lopper now.
(I have a whole collection of really creative suicide plans. Which is really stupid, all I have to do is ask my brother to give me my pistol back. Except I have him keeping my pistol for me because it makes it harder to off myself...)
I caved, asked for an antipsychotic.
I've been trying to avoid going to the AP's, the side effects are worse.
...But I went from planning suicide to morbidly cheerful in a matter of a week, this shit WORKS.
Anyway, will do my very best to not be an obnoxious ass when here...but need to get a second job, so anticipate less 'net time anyway.
First job isn't paying the bills anymore and it's time for me to pull up my underoos and deal with that.
I hope y'all are doing well.
Incidentally, I have no idea how long I've been off of here...It feels like I've been away half a year, but I know I was mentally okay 6 months ago...
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 04:57:53 AM
Yeah. We're gonna start here with adding some structure (because we let things be a little chaotic around the house), and introducing the idea of behaving as a subversive act. Basically, kid's complaining that a lot of the stuff is too easy, and we explained that if he doesn't follow the rules enough to prove he's not dumb, he'll never get interesting work or the fun toys. Behaving is "phase one" of our nefarious scheme.
Bored and frustrated.
Plus if he's not ACTUALLY ADHD, the drugs are basically speed.
...Getting him into meditation would be drug free...
The catch being you have to sit around chanting with your kid b/c he won't do it otherwise.
Martial arts classes might help. Exercise would probably help.
Is there any way to get him into a "gifted" program? Maybe he'd be less bored.
Oh, BTW, how I know you are a good mom? Shitty parents never question themselves like this.
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 04:57:53 AM
Yeah. We're gonna start here with adding some structure (because we let things be a little chaotic around the house), and introducing the idea of behaving as a subversive act. Basically, kid's complaining that a lot of the stuff is too easy, and we explained that if he doesn't follow the rules enough to prove he's not dumb, he'll never get interesting work or the fun toys. Behaving is "phase one" of our nefarious scheme.
In the second grade, I was put in the special education program for a brief period of time because I was unruly and a general pain in the ass (rarely physical, but I apparently already had a pretty smart mouth and a pocket full of sass by that point). My mom told them to give me
more challenging schoolwork, not less, and the funny thing is I mostly have fond memories of second grade now. :lol:
He pulled the I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL thing again this morning on the school yard and his teacher had to go back and take him by the hand to get him into the school, scowling all the way. I'm expecting a phone call any minute to come deal with his stubborn ass.
On the way to school, I talked with the kids about anarchists, and how they are constantly letting their philosophy get in the way of their goals. I directly related this back to his behavior, how what he's doing now makes it more difficult for him to have fun. We talked about choosing battles and making compromises and moderation. And he still pulls this. Not even one fucking day of pretending to be good. I would so be day-drinking right now if the odds weren't in favor of me ending up in the assistant principal's office again.
EDITED TO ADD: Teacher just called me to say he's doing fine now. She saw I was super upset as they were going in.
Hi Hylie! Glad you're back, no hard feelings. I'm not good at keeping track of grudges, it's more work than it's worth.
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He pulled the I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL thing again this morning on the school yard and his teacher had to go back and take him by the hand to get him into the school, scowling all the way. I'm expecting a phone call any minute to come deal with his stubborn ass.
On the way to school, I talked with the kids about anarchists, and how they are constantly letting their philosophy get in the way of their goals. I directly related this back to his behavior, how what he's doing now makes it more difficult for him to have fun. We talked about choosing battles and making compromises and moderation. And he still pulls this. Not even one fucking day of pretending to be good. I would so be day-drinking right now if the odds weren't in favor of me ending up in the assistant principal's office again. And being condescending, contradictory assholes.
EDITED TO ADD: Teacher just called me to say he's doing fine now. She saw I was super upset as they were going in.
What both Hylie and Cainad said; see if you can get the teacher to give him harder work.
And just realize, he's six. Six and seven were challenging ages for my kids. No control, emotional meltdowns, combined with trying on new personalities and trying to outsmart me all the time.
Thanks a bunch, everybody. Seriously.
I woke up this morning at my fiancee's house to find a flat tire on my van.
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade and then throw it in life's eyes and tell it to fuck off!
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I woke up this morning at my fiancee's house to find a flat tire on my van.
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade and then throw it in life's eyes and tell it to fuck off!
Or just call AAA and make with the sexytimes until they arrive.
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I woke up this morning at my fiancee's house to find a flat tire on my van.
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade and then throw it in life's eyes and tell it to fuck off!
Or just call AAA and make with the sexytimes until they arrive.
That was a no go due to her daughter being in the bed.
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we have been painting since Sunday and still have 2 rooms to do. My room seems to have paint and bits of plaster flaking off the walls, and filling the indents seems to be an uphill battle. Subsequently after realising this I had a mini anxiety meltdown and then read the Tigger Warning Drugs thread. I also need a decent trowel or something to do this with any hope of it looking not like a complete fucking mess.
the fucking yellow in the lounge has only just started to not show green from the old paint through it. What has been done looks pretty fucking sweet though. I have learned the following:
lemon yellow paint is a fucker on any colour that isn't white.
A week is not long enough to repaint 3 rooms and a hallway, and that deadlines that aren't essential for survival are not something to get stressed about, and i'm just going to call my dad once the preparations have been done and have him help.
it is apparent that decorating makes me swear like a navvy.
Did you use a primer coat?
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Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 01:50:19 PM
On the way to school, I talked with the kids about anarchists, and how they are constantly letting their philosophy get in the way of their goals. I directly related this back to his behavior, how what he's doing now makes it more difficult for him to have fun. We talked about choosing battles and making compromises and moderation. And he still pulls this. Not even one fucking day of pretending to be good.
In my experience, you cannot reason with a six year old in an abstract way. You can only change the incentives in regards to their behaviour, and maybe introduce very simple concepts of action and consequence.
The most important thing about human behavior that most of us in Puritan-derived punishment-fetishistic American culture completely do not get is that to get people to succeed, you must start by changing the conditions they are in until they are conditions that are conducive for success. Americans tend to think in the exact opposite manner; "I will leave you with the conditions of failure until you succeed, at which time I will improve your conditions".
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Quote from: Sad Sack on September 26, 2013, 01:50:19 PM
On the way to school, I talked with the kids about anarchists, and how they are constantly letting their philosophy get in the way of their goals. I directly related this back to his behavior, how what he's doing now makes it more difficult for him to have fun. We talked about choosing battles and making compromises and moderation. And he still pulls this. Not even one fucking day of pretending to be good.
In my experience, you cannot reason with a six year old in an abstract way. You can only change the incentives in regards to their behaviour, and maybe introduce very simple concepts of action and consequence.
I got spoiled by the first kid. The little man's got emotions ALL OVER THE FUCK PLACE and I'm used to the kid that's more rational than the adults.
And as Cain said, with a six-year-old, abstract future reward is ineffective. A better approach is really "we are going to try this (desirable condition) today. If you do well with (desirable condition) then we will keep doing it." Then you base your next steps on the outcome, rather than on speculation.
For example, giving him more complex and interesting learning material. If he does well with it, then you can say "this is working" and keep going with it. If he doesn't do well with it, you can say "this isn't working and clearly the complexity of the learning material is not the problem" and try something else.
I have found earplugs that don't hurt my delicate ear meats, that and the hammock have made me a very well rested human being.
Yay!
More info on earplugs, plz. I wear them at least three times a week, and am just using generics right now.
I found them randomly in rhe house, left by my mom, maybe?
They are: Howard Leight by Honeywell, Leight Sleepers.
I'll look into it. Thanks!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 26, 2013, 05:19:18 PM
Did you use a primer coat?
yes, but it obviously needed 2 coats of white before rather than just one.
Damn. That's a bold green.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 26, 2013, 07:07:34 PM
Damn. That's a bold green.
yea it was silk emulsion previously in a pale but somehow stubborn as fuck and we are using matt emulsion paint to go over it.
My room is going to be quite a bold teal, so when we leave here I'm leaving a nightmare for some other poor fuck. I did splash out on a more expensive paint with a primer mixed in for it, so it'll go over the battleship grey quite well.
I did find that using a brush over the parts that didn't take well was a winning plan, however, and it's almost there.
I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.
Quote from: Pixie on September 26, 2013, 07:23:43 PM
I did find that using a brush over the parts that didn't take well was a winning plan, however, and it's almost there.
Yay for winning plans and improving skills and rooms!
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 07:26:52 PM
I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.
:eek:
That is not how I remember maths. Note that in the UK they hit us with them in plural. Maybe that's why I found they had a tendency to scamper around the inside of my head rattling pots and pans and flipping me the bird when I tried to catch them. Maybe the american method of tackling them one at a time might have been easier?
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I think i may start taking school days off of work.
I want to go to bed. Unfortunately i have to go to band practice first.
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I think i may start taking school days off of work.
I want to start taking work days off of work.
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I think i may start taking school days off of work.
I want to start taking work days off of work.
Lol yeah fair enough
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 07:26:52 PM
I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.
:eek:
That is not how I remember maths. Note that in the UK they hit us with them in plural. Maybe that's why I found they had a tendency to scamper around the inside of my head rattling pots and pans and flipping me the bird when I tried to catch them. Maybe the american method of tackling them one at a time might have been easier?
:lulz: Quite possibly.
I just like it because it has order, and form, and consistency, and if you understand the logic everything makes sense, and there are no exceptions; math is ALWAYS logical, and it ALWAYS follows the same system. If I have a wrong answer, it is because I made a mistake, and all I need to do is go back and figure out where that mistake is.
Quote from: Cain on September 26, 2013, 09:42:39 PM
Haha. Two days after being informed of "goings on", we managed to catch students ordering in kebabs.
Like, 100 francs worth of kebabs (thats about $100 worth, more or less).
So....I think I know what's for lunch tomorrow.
Want.
The older I get, the more realistic I become.
Example: I lie more often when I know it will make my life easier. Little lies I had before refused to indulge in. Especially when it's business related.
Quote from: Alty on September 27, 2013, 01:44:51 AM
The older I get, the more realistic I become.
Example: I lie more often when I know it will make my life easier. Little lies I had before refused to indulge in. Especially when it's business related.
I'm having the opposite experience, but it's OK because I'm getting more diplomatic.
Stop looking at me that way, this IS more diplomatic.
Ah, that WOMP was a mistake then. You're not Ms Atomic Bomb, 2013. You're Ms. Diplomacy 2013.
:lulz:
But I can see what you mean, jokes aside.
So my uncle had unexpected short-notice brain surgery yesterday to remove a couple tumors. He posted right after surgery that it went well.
Just got on Facebook, and got an IM from my aunt saying that she thought I should talk to him.
DO NOT LIKE OMINOUS MESSAGES ACK. Almost every time someone has said that they thought I should talk to a relative it's been because they were about to die. Now I'm nervously awaiting his reply to my IM.
I had the rather selfish thought that I hope he isn't going to try to apologize for being an abrasive dick. I LIKE him that way. I hope removing the tumors doesn't change his personality, because his personality is awesome.
Hope everything turns out right for him.
I am home, and tired and wired from band practice. I was fucking around with unused riffs again, and unless I misinterpreted him completely, I think Pete wants to drum for any side project I get going with them (since it seems unlikely that Anarchangel will be writing again within the next few months even if we are off hiatus.
So, I think I'm there, finally, back in that place where I actually want to play guitar again without external prompting.
Hope it isn't bad news, Nigel.
Hooray for wanting to play again, Twigel!
Tried a new knitting technique to make a baby hat for BFF's oldest child's first spawn. Everything fell off the needles after a seventy-two stitch long-tail cast on. FUCK YOU, CIRCULARS!
WOMPed instead.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Hooray for wanting to play again, Twigel!
I wasted my summer in a haze of alcohol and STO. It was dumb, especially where it was clear that to everyone but me that it was having a negative effect on my mood. Maybe a chicken and the egg sort of thing but chickens will lay eggs and those eggs will become more chickens that will go on to lay eggs. During that whole time, I couldn't even bring myself to play for more than 5 minutes. The mood just wasn't there, and I've been resistant to band practice even after we got together, but I always feel good after it, and want to do more. In retrospect, I could have spent that whole time coming up with new songs and making demos to get the ideas down. And all it took was forcing me to play for more than 15 minutes to get those ideas flowing again. Hell, I started coming up with fresh ideas for those old unused riffs tonight.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Tried a new knitting technique to make a baby hat for BFF's oldest child's first spawn. Everything fell off the needles after a seventy-two stitch long-tail cast on. FUCK YOU, CIRCULARS!
WOMPed instead.
WOMPs are always good- should probably get back to that myself.
Especially with Adventures of Waffle Iron.
Gotta get back to those Rontarans, too.
Quote from: Twigel on September 27, 2013, 04:55:22 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Hooray for wanting to play again, Twigel!
I wasted my summer in a haze of alcohol and STO. It was dumb, especially where it was clear that to everyone but me that it was having a negative effect on my mood. Maybe a chicken and the egg sort of thing but chickens will lay eggs and those eggs will become more chickens that will go on to lay eggs. During that whole time, I couldn't even bring myself to play for more than 5 minutes. The mood just wasn't there, and I've been resistant to band practice even after we got together, but I always feel good after it, and want to do more. In retrospect, I could have spent that whole time coming up with new songs and making demos to get the ideas down. And all it took was forcing me to play for more than 15 minutes to get those ideas flowing again. Hell, I started coming up with fresh ideas for those old unused riffs tonight.
I have issues like this with my writing. Can relate. Now that the ideas are flowing . . . perhaps you'll find some HOLY
TM and some SLACK as well. :D
Quote from: Twigel on September 27, 2013, 04:58:17 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Tried a new knitting technique to make a baby hat for BFF's oldest child's first spawn. Everything fell off the needles after a seventy-two stitch long-tail cast on. FUCK YOU, CIRCULARS!
WOMPed instead.
WOMPs are always good- should probably get back to that myself.
Especially with Adventures of Waffle Iron.
Gotta get back to those Rontarans, too.
That reminds me . . . I had a dream awhile ago that Waffle was a comic character that played a ukelele made from struedel and cinnamon rolls. You were the cartoonist and wore a black beret all the time. Your comic finally got turned into a tv cartoon and Nigel is the producer only things catch on fire and Waffle runs away on the walls and escapes the building, taking up a life as a wall mural in NYC.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 05:03:25 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 27, 2013, 04:55:22 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Hooray for wanting to play again, Twigel!
I wasted my summer in a haze of alcohol and STO. It was dumb, especially where it was clear that to everyone but me that it was having a negative effect on my mood. Maybe a chicken and the egg sort of thing but chickens will lay eggs and those eggs will become more chickens that will go on to lay eggs. During that whole time, I couldn't even bring myself to play for more than 5 minutes. The mood just wasn't there, and I've been resistant to band practice even after we got together, but I always feel good after it, and want to do more. In retrospect, I could have spent that whole time coming up with new songs and making demos to get the ideas down. And all it took was forcing me to play for more than 15 minutes to get those ideas flowing again. Hell, I started coming up with fresh ideas for those old unused riffs tonight.
I have issues like this with my writing. Can relate. Now that the ideas are flowing . . . perhaps you'll find some HOLYTM and some SLACK as well. :D
I'm hoping so.
Hopefully my rut won't have been a complete waste and I can draw inspiration. In fact, the riffs that I'm most eager about that I was running over in my head and writing new parts for is about drowning your sorrows to your detriment. I was angling for that sort of thing previously but couldn't get the lyrics working. It previously had the working title of Waters of the Lethe, but I'm renaming it Drowning Again. It will still draw on the imagery of the river in Hades that makes you forget, but I have new lines for it now.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 05:06:24 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 27, 2013, 04:58:17 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Tried a new knitting technique to make a baby hat for BFF's oldest child's first spawn. Everything fell off the needles after a seventy-two stitch long-tail cast on. FUCK YOU, CIRCULARS!
WOMPed instead.
WOMPs are always good- should probably get back to that myself.
Especially with Adventures of Waffle Iron.
Gotta get back to those Rontarans, too.
That reminds me . . . I had a dream awhile ago that Waffle was a comic character that played a ukelele made from struedel and cinnamon rolls. You were the cartoonist and wore a black beret all the time. Your comic finally got turned into a tv cartoon and Nigel is the producer only things catch on fire and Waffle runs away on the walls and escapes the building, taking up a life as a wall mural in NYC.
:lulz:
I actually have a black flat cap floating around that I got in high school that my classmates likened to a beret. IRC, an ambiguously sexual budding writer said I looked like a gay French director.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 05:06:24 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 27, 2013, 04:58:17 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 27, 2013, 04:42:26 AM
Tried a new knitting technique to make a baby hat for BFF's oldest child's first spawn. Everything fell off the needles after a seventy-two stitch long-tail cast on. FUCK YOU, CIRCULARS!
WOMPed instead.
WOMPs are always good- should probably get back to that myself.
Especially with Adventures of Waffle Iron.
Gotta get back to those Rontarans, too.
That reminds me . . . I had a dream awhile ago that Waffle was a comic character that played a ukelele made from struedel and cinnamon rolls. You were the cartoonist and wore a black beret all the time. Your comic finally got turned into a tv cartoon and Nigel is the producer only things catch on fire and Waffle runs away on the walls and escapes the building, taking up a life as a wall mural in NYC.
Also, I'm going to work all of this into the story. BRB.
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Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 12:25:14 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 26, 2013, 09:09:31 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 07:26:52 PM
I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.
:eek:
That is not how I remember maths. Note that in the UK they hit us with them in plural. Maybe that's why I found they had a tendency to scamper around the inside of my head rattling pots and pans and flipping me the bird when I tried to catch them. Maybe the american method of tackling them one at a time might have been easier?
:lulz: Quite possibly.
I just like it because it has order, and form, and consistency, and if you understand the logic everything makes sense, and there are no exceptions; math is ALWAYS logical, and it ALWAYS follows the same system. If I have a wrong answer, it is because I made a mistake, and all I need to do is go back and figure out where that mistake is.
:lulz:
That's exactly why I DON'T like it. It doesn't leave me any wiggle room.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on September 27, 2013, 10:13:47 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 12:25:14 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 26, 2013, 09:09:31 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 07:26:52 PM
I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.
:eek:
That is not how I remember maths. Note that in the UK they hit us with them in plural. Maybe that's why I found they had a tendency to scamper around the inside of my head rattling pots and pans and flipping me the bird when I tried to catch them. Maybe the american method of tackling them one at a time might have been easier?
:lulz: Quite possibly.
I just like it because it has order, and form, and consistency, and if you understand the logic everything makes sense, and there are no exceptions; math is ALWAYS logical, and it ALWAYS follows the same system. If I have a wrong answer, it is because I made a mistake, and all I need to do is go back and figure out where that mistake is.
:lulz:
That's exactly why I DON'T like it. It doesn't leave me any wiggle room.
I'm with Nigel.
With math you always know who to blame if bad things happen. With everything else there is plausible deniability. The clarity math gives allows for absolute responses, no wishy-washy "let's give only 1/10th of a punishment because i might be wrong" bullshit, just "wrong? ok. KILL ALL EVERYTHING!"
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2013, 06:09:02 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 12:25:36 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 26, 2013, 09:42:39 PM
Haha. Two days after being informed of "goings on", we managed to catch students ordering in kebabs.
Like, 100 francs worth of kebabs (thats about $100 worth, more or less).
So....I think I know what's for lunch tomorrow.
Want.
Me too. They've been stored in my bathroom overnight, so that's pretty much the only thing I can smell right now.
Be sure to reveal their storage location when about halfway through the meal.
Alright, who came by to beat the shit out of me while sleeping?
I feel like a tenderizing van has repeatedly run over me.
I skipped school today to get utilities on, because National Grid didn't show up yesterday. So we call them today, and 3 supervisors later they still absolutely refused to come out today, so we have to wait until Monday to get hot water and cooking gas. However, they were more than happy to keep my service on across the hall after I called them back after they hung up on the boyfriend (who took the phone away from me because I was about to pop.) So I went after them on Facebook, and they RESPONDED TO MY FRIEND instead of me.
https://www.facebook.com/NationalGridRI/posts/539308606137524?comment_id=4336696&reply_comment_id=4336872&offset=0&total_comments=3¬if_t=feed_comment
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2013, 06:09:02 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 12:25:36 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 26, 2013, 09:42:39 PM
Haha. Two days after being informed of "goings on", we managed to catch students ordering in kebabs.
Like, 100 francs worth of kebabs (thats about $100 worth, more or less).
So....I think I know what's for lunch tomorrow.
Want.
Me too. They've been stored in my bathroom overnight, so that's pretty much the only thing I can smell right now.
NOM NOM NOM! That sounds so good right now.
Quote from: :regret: on September 27, 2013, 02:11:28 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on September 27, 2013, 10:13:47 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 12:25:14 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 26, 2013, 09:09:31 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 26, 2013, 07:26:52 PM
I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.
:eek:
That is not how I remember maths. Note that in the UK they hit us with them in plural. Maybe that's why I found they had a tendency to scamper around the inside of my head rattling pots and pans and flipping me the bird when I tried to catch them. Maybe the american method of tackling them one at a time might have been easier?
:lulz: Quite possibly.
I just like it because it has order, and form, and consistency, and if you understand the logic everything makes sense, and there are no exceptions; math is ALWAYS logical, and it ALWAYS follows the same system. If I have a wrong answer, it is because I made a mistake, and all I need to do is go back and figure out where that mistake is.
:lulz:
That's exactly why I DON'T like it. It doesn't leave me any wiggle room.
I'm with Nigel.
With math you always know who to blame if bad things happen. With everything else there is plausible deniability. The clarity math gives allows for absolute responses, no wishy-washy "let's give only 1/10th of a punishment because i might be wrong" bullshit, just "wrong? ok. KILL ALL EVERYTHING!"
But if you show all your work and got the steps right and just messed up with signing or an exponent or something, you still get credit. Everybody wins!
"When is a good time to call you?"
"WHEN IS A GOOD TIME TO CALL YOU?"
YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST TELL ME YOU'RE DYING, YOU BASTARD. YOU BASICALLY JUST DID. There is absolutely no reason my telephone-loathing uncle would want to TALK TO ME ON THE PHONE if he isn't dying.
This sucks. He's only in his mid-50's. I need to figure out a time to go up there and visit him.
That sucks nigel. Sorry to hear it.
Quote from: Twigel on September 27, 2013, 05:22:10 PM
That sucks nigel. Sorry to hear it.
Thank you. It does suck. I have accepted that I have entered the age range when my friends and family will start dying regularly (I lost several few to the AIDS epidemic when I was young, but that leveled off) but it still sucks, and is extra lame because I am close to almost no one on my mom's side of the family.
I agree. This sucks. I hope the news is not as grim as the context implies.
Sorry to hear that, Nigel. :sad:
I just talked to him and he is doing OK, his left side is paralyzed right now because they just removed one of the tumors in his brain but he's regaining sensation already. He found out day before yesterday, and had surgery yesterday. They also found cancer in his lymph node and lung, which means it's metastasized, which pretty much means it's a matter of how long, not if. My only hope right now is that he recovers enough to spend some time with his grandnieces and nephews, and to take some more of the beautiful photographs he loves so much. He's young, not even 60 yet. He is my most cantankerous, opinionated, and at times abrasive uncle. Also my only surviving uncle. He's kind of like if I had been a guy born in the 1950's.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 11:57:21 PM
I just talked to him and he is doing OK, his left side is paralyzed right now because they just removed one of the tumors in his brain but he's regaining sensation already. He found out day before yesterday, and had surgery yesterday. They also found cancer in his lymph node and lung, which means it's metastasized, which pretty much means it's a matter of how long, not if. My only hope right now is that he recovers enough to spend some time with his grandnieces and nephews, and to take some more of the beautiful photographs he loves so much. He's young, not even 60 yet. He is my most cantankerous, opinionated, and at times abrasive uncle. Also my only surviving uncle. He's kind of like if I had been a guy born in the 1950's.
I'm so sorry Nigel. But at least he still has some time left, whatever the amount may be.
Quote from: Twigel on September 28, 2013, 01:13:44 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 27, 2013, 11:57:21 PM
I just talked to him and he is doing OK, his left side is paralyzed right now because they just removed one of the tumors in his brain but he's regaining sensation already. He found out day before yesterday, and had surgery yesterday. They also found cancer in his lymph node and lung, which means it's metastasized, which pretty much means it's a matter of how long, not if. My only hope right now is that he recovers enough to spend some time with his grandnieces and nephews, and to take some more of the beautiful photographs he loves so much. He's young, not even 60 yet. He is my most cantankerous, opinionated, and at times abrasive uncle. Also my only surviving uncle. He's kind of like if I had been a guy born in the 1950's.
I'm so sorry Nigel. But at least he still has some time left, whatever the amount may be.
Yeah. Crossing my fingers.
PIGGING OUT ON DRAGONFRUIT IT WAS ON SALE FOR $2.99/LB NOMNOMNOMNOM It's a superfood for your heart!
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on September 28, 2013, 05:36:26 AM
PIGGING OUT ON DRAGONFRUIT IT WAS ON SALE FOR $2.99/LB NOMNOMNOMNOM It's a superfood for your heart!
YOU KNOW WHY THEY CALL IT NATURE'S CANDY? IT METABOLIZES INTO
SUGAR!!!!I'm more of a savory-bitter guy, myself. Tend to avoid fruit. Sucker for dark chocolate though.
It's like the perfect berry. It's taste like a cactus apple. I can't stop eating them!
So, this e-cig thing. Haven't had any actual tobacco since Monday.
Pros:
Cheaper (by FAR)
My lungs don't feel like someone's shat in them.
I don't smell like a house fire.
Cons:
I have a sense of smell again, and the world smells like ASS.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 28, 2013, 07:44:20 AM
So, this e-cig thing. Haven't had any actual tobacco since Monday.
Pros:
Cheaper (by FAR)
My lungs don't feel like someone's shat in them.
I don't smell like a house fire.
Cons:
I have a sense of smell again, and the world smells like ASS.
Silver lining-
It's almost October. I don't know what the ambient temp in Tucson is, but I can tell you that Boston smells the most.... interesting... in July-August.
I for one, prefer spring and autumn, and not just because of my love-hate relationship with the amount of sunlight going into my eyes.
Twid,
Going to get sunglasses in 2014, just like he was supposed to every year prior.
Quote from: Twigel on September 28, 2013, 08:14:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 28, 2013, 07:44:20 AM
So, this e-cig thing. Haven't had any actual tobacco since Monday.
Pros:
Cheaper (by FAR)
My lungs don't feel like someone's shat in them.
I don't smell like a house fire.
Cons:
I have a sense of smell again, and the world smells like ASS.
Silver lining-
It's almost October. I don't know what the ambient temp in Tucson is, but I can tell you that Boston smells the most.... interesting... in July-August.
I for one, prefer spring and autumn, and not just because of my love-hate relationship with the amount of sunlight going into my eyes.
Twid,
Going to get sunglasses in 2014, just like he was supposed to every year prior.
It's a breezy 90F or so.
And we don't need sunglasses. Our eyeballs burned out YEARS ago.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 28, 2013, 08:18:19 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 28, 2013, 08:14:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 28, 2013, 07:44:20 AM
So, this e-cig thing. Haven't had any actual tobacco since Monday.
Pros:
Cheaper (by FAR)
My lungs don't feel like someone's shat in them.
I don't smell like a house fire.
Cons:
I have a sense of smell again, and the world smells like ASS.
Silver lining-
It's almost October. I don't know what the ambient temp in Tucson is, but I can tell you that Boston smells the most.... interesting... in July-August.
I for one, prefer spring and autumn, and not just because of my love-hate relationship with the amount of sunlight going into my eyes.
Twid,
Going to get sunglasses in 2014, just like he was supposed to every year prior.
It's a breezy 90F or so.
And we don't need sunglasses. Our eyeballs burned out YEARS ago.
You need more trees, boss.
Granted, that won't help you in winter, but I reckon you don't have a lot of water, let alone solid reflective water.
Right now in Boston, it's 55F (12.78C) and the high today was 71F (21.67). Heaven.
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I feel like I've been crying for three days solid. I know I haven't been, but this shit is crushing me. All the normal warning signs that accompany a 2 week depression cycle. Gonna to what I can to disrupt it, maybe baking is in order.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 28, 2013, 07:44:20 AM
So, this e-cig thing. Haven't had any actual tobacco since Monday.
Pros:
Cheaper (by FAR)
My lungs don't feel like someone's shat in them.
I don't smell like a house fire.
Cons:
I have a sense of smell again, and the world smells like ASS.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 28, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
I feel like I've been crying for three days solid. I know I haven't been, but this shit is crushing me. All the normal warning signs that accompany a 2 week depression cycle. Gonna to what I can to disrupt it, maybe baking is in order.
being aware of warning signs and having insight is half the battle. the rest of it still sucks ass but seeing it coming and preparing coping mechanisms is winning, I'd say.
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 28, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
I feel like I've been crying for three days solid. I know I haven't been, but this shit is crushing me. All the normal warning signs that accompany a 2 week depression cycle. Gonna to what I can to disrupt it, maybe baking is in order.
Does the change in seasons get to you?
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 28, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
I feel like I've been crying for three days solid. I know I haven't been, but this shit is crushing me. All the normal warning signs that accompany a 2 week depression cycle. Gonna to what I can to disrupt it, maybe baking is in order.
Your baking is ALWAYS in order.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 28, 2013, 04:04:31 PM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 28, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
I feel like I've been crying for three days solid. I know I haven't been, but this shit is crushing me. All the normal warning signs that accompany a 2 week depression cycle. Gonna to what I can to disrupt it, maybe baking is in order.
Does the change in seasons get to you?
Sometimes, but I think this year there's a whole lot of confounding factors involved. Kids having trouble, Dad moving, anniversary of Mom's death coming up, financial stress, still bouncing back from kicking a fucker out. I'm probably allowed a two week pout.
I was serious about the cookies, though. Should I start a thread for who wants in? If I time this right, I could try to ship out Big Words at the same time, too.
No dancing last night, just a headache. Slept for 12 hours solid. Feel like I've made all the right choices yesterday.
Thank you all.
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 28, 2013, 05:16:37 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on September 28, 2013, 04:04:31 PM
Quote from: Sad Sack on September 28, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
I feel like I've been crying for three days solid. I know I haven't been, but this shit is crushing me. All the normal warning signs that accompany a 2 week depression cycle. Gonna to what I can to disrupt it, maybe baking is in order.
Does the change in seasons get to you?
Sometimes, but I think this year there's a whole lot of confounding factors involved. Kids having trouble, Dad moving, anniversary of Mom's death coming up, financial stress, still bouncing back from kicking a fucker out. I'm probably allowed a two week pout.
I was serious about the cookies, though. Should I start a thread for who wants in? If I time this right, I could try to ship out Big Words at the same time, too.
I would like the hell out of some of your cookies!
Quote from: Alty on September 28, 2013, 05:43:16 PM
No dancing last night, just a headache. Slept for 12 hours solid. Feel like I've made all the right choices yesterday.
Thank you all.
:kiss:
Quote from: Alty on September 28, 2013, 05:43:16 PM
No dancing last night, just a headache. Slept for 12 hours solid. Feel like I've made all the right choices yesterday.
Thank you all.
I wish you well. I think you are doing the right thing.
We love you alty. Best of luck.
Gogira- lets do lunch in two weeks when i have unbudgeted money again. Its a bit of time from now but it would be good to see you again.
Went to optometrist today. My new glasses are going to be memory metal. I love the goddamn future. Never seen memory metal in action in person before. Dude bent the glasses flat and they were fine. He was equally impressed with my ability to put in contact lenses without the use of a mirror. I told him with my vision a mirror is useless. He laughed and said yeah this is quite the prescription. I was like so i can beat the shit of these right? And he said oh yeah. You can break them but you really have to try to make that happen.
Hey what do you know, my stomach pain and sleeplessness have lessened.
Quote from: Alty on September 29, 2013, 01:11:27 AM
Hey what do you know, my stomach pain and sleeplessness have lessened.
I hope that continues, that you sleep better and hurt less.
Quote from: Alty on September 29, 2013, 01:11:27 AM
Hey what do you know, my stomach pain and sleeplessness have lessened.
GOOD.
I'm going to be around a little.less while I get my head together.
I know you aren't a huge fan of mine, but wishing you well just the same. Having gone through that relationship wringer myself, I know how fucked things can get quickly. Arm yourself with yourself, you'll make it.
Good luck good sir.
Quote from: Alty on September 29, 2013, 07:58:15 AM
I'm going to be around a little.less while I get my head together.
Good luck, Alty. It WILL get better, it just takes time.
I'm back. And someone had a nuclear war while I was gone.
Fortunately, I have a million things to catch up on, or I'd toss the bunch of you in the llama pit.
I will be on and off today, while I do essential, critical paperwork that will be filed forever and forgotten.
That is all.
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone, and spent 5 hours in the ER last night trying to quell the pain. After a CT Scan, 2 urinalyses, blood work, 2 bags of fluid and a shot a morphine in an IV, I can say I still feel like ass. It's almost out, otherwise they would have had to go in and push it back into my kidney. I learned my fucking lesson about dehydration. It's also possible that I am eating too much calcium and protein on my diet.
I don't wish this on anyone. Ever. I couldn't function yesterday I was in so much pain, and Vicodin wouldn't cut it. The morphine wouldn't cut it either, but it successfully knocked me out so I could relax and take in the fluids. They gave me Zofran (holy fucking expensive generic, Batman!) Ibuprofen and Percocet. So far I haven't had to touch the percs today, let's hope it stays that way. Good thing I won a cash prize this weekend at the Street Painting Festival, because I just shelled out A LOT of money on drugs. :horrormirth:
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 04:03:26 PM
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone,
I myself am in the process of expelling my horribly intelligent syphilis worms. Fucking things are the size of your little finger, and chew holes in your DNA. I'm down to 18 sets of chromosomes, for fuck's sake.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 04:51:27 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 04:03:26 PM
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone,
I myself am in the process of expelling my horribly intelligent syphilis worms. Fucking things are the size of your little finger, and chew holes in your DNA. I'm down to 18 sets of chromosomes, for fuck's sake.
:lulz:
I have nothing to report about any of my biological systems. Hold on, let me check...
...nope.
Possible rhinovirus here.
Kidney stones suck though. Most painful thing I've ever felt. That and bloody urine is a bit unsettling.
What did I tell you guys?
"Dudes, trust me, it's worth paying a little extra for the upgraded body."
That's what I said. But none of you listened, you all wanted to skimp a little so you could spend the extra on having interesting personalities and look where THAT'S gotten you.
Also, I know one of you bastards stole my perfectly good shoulder while I was sleeping and replaced it with this barely-held-together piece of junk. I don't appreciate it and I hope you enjoy being blamed by everyone else for the fact that I will no longer be giving out these fine government-subsidized replacement buttholes.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on September 30, 2013, 07:16:04 PM
What did I tell you guys?
"Dudes, trust me, it's worth paying a little extra for the upgraded body."
That's what I said. But none of you listened, you all wanted to skimp a little so you could spend the extra on having interesting personalities and look where THAT'S gotten you.
Also, I know one of you bastards stole my perfectly good shoulder while I was sleeping and replaced it with this barely-held-together piece of junk. I don't appreciate it and I hope you enjoy being blamed by everyone else for the fact that I will no longer be giving out these fine government-subsidized replacement buttholes.
:lulz:
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on September 30, 2013, 07:16:04 PM
What did I tell you guys?
"Dudes, trust me, it's worth paying a little extra for the upgraded body."
That's what I said. But none of you listened, you all wanted to skimp a little so you could spend the extra on having interesting personalities and look where THAT'S gotten you.
Also, I know one of you bastards stole my perfectly good shoulder while I was sleeping and replaced it with this barely-held-together piece of junk. I don't appreciate it and I hope you enjoy being blamed by everyone else for the fact that I will no longer be giving out these fine government-subsidized replacement buttholes.
I do not know a single professional cook without some form of arm injury. And i know quite a lot of cooks. Well except for one kid, he is 17. He still has a chance to get out before the pain starts.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on September 30, 2013, 07:16:04 PM
What did I tell you guys?
"Dudes, trust me, it's worth paying a little extra for the upgraded body."
That's what I said. But none of you listened, you all wanted to skimp a little so you could spend the extra on having interesting personalities and look where THAT'S gotten you.
Married a million times?
Well, I am all caught up on paperwork. That means I can fuck off and write on PD tomorrow. :banana:
Just got off work. It was fun. My shoe fell apart so I put it back together with masking tape. Worked well enough except for the slippy. Ran out of everything. Card reader died. I laughed a lot.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 04:51:27 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 04:03:26 PM
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone,
I myself am in the process of expelling my horribly intelligent syphilis worms. Fucking things are the size of your little finger, and chew holes in your DNA. I'm down to 18 sets of chromosomes, for fuck's sake.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I knew I'd get a cackle if I posted here. You guises are good for fixin' what ails ya.
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 10:55:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 04:51:27 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 04:03:26 PM
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone,
I myself am in the process of expelling my horribly intelligent syphilis worms. Fucking things are the size of your little finger, and chew holes in your DNA. I'm down to 18 sets of chromosomes, for fuck's sake.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I knew I'd get a cackle if I posted here. You guises are good for fixin' what ails ya.
Own that shit, Suu. Expel those stones with KILLING FORCE. Your neighbors are all dicks anyway.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on September 30, 2013, 07:16:04 PM
What did I tell you guys?
"Dudes, trust me, it's worth paying a little extra for the upgraded body."
That's what I said. But none of you listened, you all wanted to skimp a little so you could spend the extra on having interesting personalities and look where THAT'S gotten you.
Also, I know one of you bastards stole my perfectly good shoulder while I was sleeping and replaced it with this barely-held-together piece of junk. I don't appreciate it and I hope you enjoy being blamed by everyone else for the fact that I will no longer be giving out these fine government-subsidized replacement buttholes.
:lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 11:00:46 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 10:55:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 04:51:27 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 04:03:26 PM
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone,
I myself am in the process of expelling my horribly intelligent syphilis worms. Fucking things are the size of your little finger, and chew holes in your DNA. I'm down to 18 sets of chromosomes, for fuck's sake.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I knew I'd get a cackle if I posted here. You guises are good for fixin' what ails ya.
Own that shit, Suu. Expel those stones with KILLING FORCE. Your neighbors are all dicks anyway.
:lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 11:00:46 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 10:55:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 30, 2013, 04:51:27 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 30, 2013, 04:03:26 PM
I am in the middle of experiencing my first kidney stone,
I myself am in the process of expelling my horribly intelligent syphilis worms. Fucking things are the size of your little finger, and chew holes in your DNA. I'm down to 18 sets of chromosomes, for fuck's sake.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I knew I'd get a cackle if I posted here. You guises are good for fixin' what ails ya.
Own that shit, Suu. Expel those stones with KILLING FORCE. Your neighbors are all dicks anyway.
I will post a full report once Barney Rubble decides to take a left turn at the bladder and find his fucking way out.
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
See, with guys, it's the other way around.
TGRR,
Wearing 28" briefs, "the boys" smashed up into my abdominal cavity, feeling goooooooood.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 01:47:52 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
See, with guys, it's the other way around.
TGRR,
Wearing 28" briefs, "the boys" smashed up into my abdominal cavity, feeling goooooooood.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
It occurs to me, of course, that this is probably the beginning of the sad decline. See, the whole sad empty wallet thing? That's more of a skinny old white lady thing. That's what I've been expecting, in a sense, because my mom is a skinny old white lady.
But then, I realized. That not being white thing... oh shit. There are a couple ways this can go. One of the ways is the black way, with enormous pendulous grandma boobs that hang to my waist, and a big ass. The other way... oh lord help me... the other way is the indian lady way. You've seen them, Mexican women age the same way as long as they have enough native in them. The best way to describe it is a potato on toothpicks, with fabulous cleavage. Mass from the legs and ass, essentially, migrate upwards until you have a perfect sphere balanced precariously atop skinny little legs.
Yeah, getting old is going to be a BLAST. :argh!: I never thought I would find myself hoping the genetic lottery would give me a skinny old white lady body.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 02:38:23 AM
It occurs to me, of course, that this is probably the beginning of the sad decline. See, the whole sad empty wallet thing? That's more of a skinny old white lady thing. That's what I've been expecting, in a sense, because my mom is a skinny old white lady.
But then, I realized. That not being white thing... oh shit. There are a couple ways this can go. One of the ways is the black way, with enormous pendulous grandma boobs that hang to my waist, and a big ass. The other way... oh lord help me... the other way is the indian lady way. You've seen them, Mexican women age the same way as long as they have enough native in them. The best way to describe it is a potato on toothpicks, with fabulous cleavage. Mass from the legs and ass, essentially, migrate upwards until you have a perfect sphere balanced precariously atop skinny little legs.
Yeah, getting old is going to be a BLAST. :argh!: I never thought I would find myself hoping the genetic lottery would give me a skinny old white lady body.
I just plan on getting all saggy and pasty.
Then I'm gonna start wearing shorts. All the time.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
Quote from: Suu on October 01, 2013, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
Amen to that.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 02:41:28 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 02:38:23 AM
It occurs to me, of course, that this is probably the beginning of the sad decline. See, the whole sad empty wallet thing? That's more of a skinny old white lady thing. That's what I've been expecting, in a sense, because my mom is a skinny old white lady.
But then, I realized. That not being white thing... oh shit. There are a couple ways this can go. One of the ways is the black way, with enormous pendulous grandma boobs that hang to my waist, and a big ass. The other way... oh lord help me... the other way is the indian lady way. You've seen them, Mexican women age the same way as long as they have enough native in them. The best way to describe it is a potato on toothpicks, with fabulous cleavage. Mass from the legs and ass, essentially, migrate upwards until you have a perfect sphere balanced precariously atop skinny little legs.
Yeah, getting old is going to be a BLAST. :argh!: I never thought I would find myself hoping the genetic lottery would give me a skinny old white lady body.
I just plan on getting all saggy and pasty.
Then I'm gonna start wearing shorts. All the time.
I am going to end up with pendulous bewbs and a massive ass and gut if my mum is anything to go by. My aunts have gone the way of skinny white lady with less bewbs in one case, and kind of somewhere in between with the other two. I strongly resemble my mum in many ways (we have the doppleganger in old pics thing going for us), and I got my giant rack from her. Luckily my mum's underactive thyroid + psoriatic arthritis aren't hereditary, but I already have mental health meds working against me in the size stakes. Apart from Betty, women in my family are all bewbs and ass.
There was a tornado in pierce County somewhere today. it threw a gazebo at a house.
fuck this weather.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:41:52 AM
it threw a gazebo at a house.
FUCK! A GAZEBO?
FIREBALL COMING ON LINE, HERE!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 03:42:50 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:41:52 AM
it threw a gazebo at a house.
FUCK! A GAZEBO?
FIREBALL COMING ON LINE, HERE!
let's send in that torchbearer we juat hired first. maybe it can be negotiated with, pr at least bought off.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:48:45 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 03:42:50 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:41:52 AM
it threw a gazebo at a house.
FUCK! A GAZEBO?
FIREBALL COMING ON LINE, HERE!
let's send in that torchbearer we juat hired first. maybe it can be negotiated with, pr at least bought off.
I nudge him forward with my sword. At 5 CP/day, this bastard is DEFINITELY earning his pay.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 03:51:25 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:48:45 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 03:42:50 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:41:52 AM
it threw a gazebo at a house.
FUCK! A GAZEBO?
FIREBALL COMING ON LINE, HERE!
let's send in that torchbearer we juat hired first. maybe it can be negotiated with, pr at least bought off.
I nudge him forward with my sword. At 5 CP/day, this bastard is DEFINITELY earning his pay.
inflation in Pathfinder. .. the fuck?
Also beer.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 04:18:09 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 03:51:25 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:48:45 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 03:42:50 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:41:52 AM
it threw a gazebo at a house.
FUCK! A GAZEBO?
FIREBALL COMING ON LINE, HERE!
let's send in that torchbearer we juat hired first. maybe it can be negotiated with, pr at least bought off.
I nudge him forward with my sword. At 5 CP/day, this bastard is DEFINITELY earning his pay.
inflation in Pathfinder. .. the fuck?
Also beer.
Torchbearers are getting in short supply. :lulz:
AND ROGER CAN'T HAVE NO FUCKING BEER! :tgrr:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 02:41:28 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 02:38:23 AM
It occurs to me, of course, that this is probably the beginning of the sad decline. See, the whole sad empty wallet thing? That's more of a skinny old white lady thing. That's what I've been expecting, in a sense, because my mom is a skinny old white lady.
But then, I realized. That not being white thing... oh shit. There are a couple ways this can go. One of the ways is the black way, with enormous pendulous grandma boobs that hang to my waist, and a big ass. The other way... oh lord help me... the other way is the indian lady way. You've seen them, Mexican women age the same way as long as they have enough native in them. The best way to describe it is a potato on toothpicks, with fabulous cleavage. Mass from the legs and ass, essentially, migrate upwards until you have a perfect sphere balanced precariously atop skinny little legs.
Yeah, getting old is going to be a BLAST. :argh!: I never thought I would find myself hoping the genetic lottery would give me a skinny old white lady body.
I just plan on getting all saggy and pasty.
Then I'm gonna start wearing shorts. All the time.
Shorts are truly the way to go, if you have a saggy pasty old man body. Shorts, and white socks with loafers.
Quote from: Suu on October 01, 2013, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
For years, that fitting was 36B. Dainty and perky. I had to wear special foundational garments to have any hint of cleavage. Now, I have actual cleavage, for real, without any special bras.
I held two of my friends' babies tonight, and the babies were clear on the fact that they found my new, plush boobahs pleasing. One of them, two-and-a-half months old, actually
put her face in my cleavage and motorboated.Babies are so honest.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 01, 2013, 03:41:52 AM
There was a tornado in pierce County somewhere today. it threw a gazebo at a house.
fuck this weather.
Shit's getting weird, here.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 08:21:39 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 01, 2013, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
For years, that fitting was 36B. Dainty and perky. I had to wear special foundational garments to have any hint of cleavage. Now, I have actual cleavage, for real, without any special bras.
I held two of my friends' babies tonight, and the babies were clear on the fact that they found my new, plush boobahs pleasing. One of them, two-and-a-half months old, actually put her face in my cleavage and motorboated.
Babies are so honest.
babies like me. they always seem content when I hold them. it's the bewbs.
I am way too close to flipping out and just destroying random objects. Though the first one won't be random, oh no. I have something special in mind for the phone.
Quote from: :regret: on October 01, 2013, 12:05:37 PM
I am way too close to flipping out and just destroying random objects. Though the first one won't be random, oh no. I have something special in mind for the phone.
Oh how I understand... Lock it in the basement. Turn off the lights. Prepare the woodwinds and lick that reed to an invocation of Pan. Then where will that phone lie? :lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 01:47:52 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
See, with guys, it's the other way around.
TGRR,
Wearing 28" briefs, "the boys" smashed up into my abdominal cavity, feeling goooooooood.
Says you.
Twid,
plaid underwear, all the time. It's like freeballing, but you don't fart directly into your jeans.
I am going to attempt school today.
Quote from: Twigel on October 01, 2013, 03:48:39 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 01:47:52 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
See, with guys, it's the other way around.
TGRR,
Wearing 28" briefs, "the boys" smashed up into my abdominal cavity, feeling goooooooood.
Says you.
Twid,
plaid underwear, all the time. It's like freeballing, but you don't fart directly into your jeans.
See if you're still saying that when you're 45.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 04:52:59 PM
Quote from: Twigel on October 01, 2013, 03:48:39 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 01:47:52 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
See, with guys, it's the other way around.
TGRR,
Wearing 28" briefs, "the boys" smashed up into my abdominal cavity, feeling goooooooood.
Says you.
Twid,
plaid underwear, all the time. It's like freeballing, but you don't fart directly into your jeans.
See if you're still saying that when you're 45.
GRAVITY. IT HAPPENS.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 04:52:59 PM
Quote from: Twigel on October 01, 2013, 03:48:39 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 01, 2013, 01:47:52 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
See, with guys, it's the other way around.
TGRR,
Wearing 28" briefs, "the boys" smashed up into my abdominal cavity, feeling goooooooood.
Says you.
Twid,
plaid underwear, all the time. It's like freeballing, but you don't fart directly into your jeans.
See if you're still saying that when you're 45.
Probably still will be wearing them. I dislike everything about briefs, including for aesthetic reasons.
I am fond of boxer briefs (the tighter boxer shorts) on dudes for the aesthetic (mmmmm butts). Also if I steal someone's underpance for my own wearings, these are very comfy. I keep meaning to buy some for myself for when I'm wearing skirts and no tights, as my thighs have always chafed in the heat.
The only acceptable underwear is slick leather on the inside, fur on the outside, and tight enough to trap all heat for later use.
Boxer briefs brah. My balls thank me each night.
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
really seals in the flavor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOHraf3LEk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOHraf3LEk)
EMERGENCY: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO COOK FOR DINNER!
I have chicken and pork tenderloin in the fridge, there's instant mashed potatoes, pasta, green beans, sweet peppers, apples and leafy green things for sides. HALP!
Quote from: Sad Sack on October 01, 2013, 11:45:00 PM
EMERGENCY: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO COOK FOR DINNER!
I have chicken and pork tenderloin in the fridge, there's instant mashed potatoes, pasta, green beans, sweet peppers, apples and leafy green things for sides. HALP!
What kind of chicken?
Quote from: Twigel on October 01, 2013, 11:48:26 PM
Quote from: Sad Sack on October 01, 2013, 11:45:00 PM
EMERGENCY: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO COOK FOR DINNER!
I have chicken and pork tenderloin in the fridge, there's instant mashed potatoes, pasta, green beans, sweet peppers, apples and leafy green things for sides. HALP!
What kind of chicken?
No bones no skins chicken breasts
Quote from: Sad Sack on October 01, 2013, 11:53:21 PM
Quote from: Twigel on October 01, 2013, 11:48:26 PM
Quote from: Sad Sack on October 01, 2013, 11:45:00 PM
EMERGENCY: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO COOK FOR DINNER!
I have chicken and pork tenderloin in the fridge, there's instant mashed potatoes, pasta, green beans, sweet peppers, apples and leafy green things for sides. HALP!
What kind of chicken?
No bones no skins chicken breasts
I would probably combine that with pasta, sweet peppers, and leafy, or the pork with potatoes, green beans and apples. Though chicken with potato would be good too.
finely dice the apples and sweet peppers and make an agro dolce out of them to use as a sauce for the pan-roasted tenderloin, with mashed and green beans on the side.
Mince the tenderloin finely and combine with onions. Core and peel two thirds of the way into the apples and stuff the pork mixture into the apples. Top with apple stem like a little cap. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 second intervals for 3600 seconds, rotating each apple ten degrees each interval.
Meanwhile, wrap whole unpeeled potatoes in leafy greens. Tie off with miscellaneous ligaments. Refrigerate for 2 hours, then place in boiling water until evaporated. Season with salt and pepper, serve in slices with sriracha.
Create simple syrup from sugar and water. Drizzle over trimmed raw green beans for dessert.
Quote from: Sad Sack on October 01, 2013, 11:45:00 PM
EMERGENCY: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO COOK FOR DINNER!
I have chicken and pork tenderloin in the fridge, there's instant mashed potatoes, pasta, green beans, sweet peppers, apples and leafy green things for sides. HALP!
Get out the phone book, order pizza!
Finally got my business name on the door and that thing, like a mini church sign. Room 203 :fnord:
Quote from: Alty on October 02, 2013, 02:22:48 AM
Finally got my business name on the door and that thing, like a mini church sign. Room 203 :fnord:
Yay!
Quote from: Alty on October 02, 2013, 02:22:48 AM
Finally got my business name on the door and that thing, like a mini church sign. Room 203 :fnord:
Congrats!
GET IT? 203?!?!1
DIDN'T EVEN PLAN IT.
I also didn't plan my brochure's layout to read:
It's easy to get high <br>
quality massage<br>
with blah blah blah
But thats the way it reads anyway.
CUZ IT'S THE Lo5s?!?!?1
Did you intend to make your business name a dig at anti-immigration policies as well as a therapeutic sounding name??
Quote from: Pixie on October 02, 2013, 02:45:44 AM
Did you intend to make your business name a dig at anti-immigration policies as well as a therapeutic sounding name??
No, it just seemed better than:
Manssage, P-Touch, or Aye, There's The Rub.
Plus, I like freedom. Also, it does pertains directly to the type of massage I offer.
Guys?
Today I discovered a band called FARTBARF.
And they are pretty good.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on October 02, 2013, 05:43:46 AM
Guys?
Today I discovered a band called FARTBARF.
And they are pretty good.
:lulz:
Did they scare off the furries?
Quote from: Twigel on October 02, 2013, 05:44:14 AM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on October 02, 2013, 05:43:46 AM
Guys?
Today I discovered a band called FARTBARF.
And they are pretty good.
:lulz:
Did they scare off the furries?
No, thankfully I don't have to work too many Tuesday nights though.
I was down with a sinus headache yesterday, which is why there was no LDW. I plan to rectify that this morning. I am capable of writing with a headache, but I stayed home with Jenn, and my brain doesn't function properly around her. I get all dizzy & confused, and everything I meant to say turns into grunts and whistles, and I just sort of stand there like a stunned puppy.
So, sorry for the delay, I am away from the vixen this morning, will get some writing done.
9 years ago to the day I joined this forum. 2-Oct-2004.
Quote from: Kai on October 02, 2013, 05:16:09 PM
9 years ago to the day I joined this forum. 2-Oct-2004.
Wow. Time flies.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I wear briefs, on account of lifting steel around. I like the boys right where they are.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I'm not sure why any old man in their right mind would want to wear underwear that smashed their balls all up into their abdomen.
(TMI) And I feel qualified to speak on this subject since I already have a pair that would make most 80 year olds jealous.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 05:35:36 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I wear briefs, on account of lifting steel around. I like the boys right where they are.
I don't mind briefs, but I prefer the colored ones. Especially if I ever have to do a dude's laundry.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 02, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I'm not sure why any old man in their right mind would want to wear underwear that smashed their balls all up into their abdomen.
(TMI) And I feel qualified to speak on this subject since I already have a pair that would make most 80 year olds jealous.
I don't know, man, I'm just an observer.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:52:34 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 02, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I'm not sure why any old man in their right mind would want to wear underwear that smashed their balls all up into their abdomen.
(TMI) And I feel qualified to speak on this subject since I already have a pair that would make most 80 year olds jealous.
I don't know, man, I'm just an observer.
an observer of butts?
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:51:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 05:35:36 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I wear briefs, on account of lifting steel around. I like the boys right where they are.
I don't mind briefs, but I prefer the colored ones. Especially if I ever have to do a dude's laundry.
Given the right diet, ALL briefs are "colored".
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 06:15:00 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:51:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 05:35:36 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I wear briefs, on account of lifting steel around. I like the boys right where they are.
I don't mind briefs, but I prefer the colored ones. Especially if I ever have to do a dude's laundry.
Given the right diet, ALL briefs are "colored".
:spittake:
Quote from: Pixie on October 02, 2013, 05:56:44 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:52:34 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 02, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I'm not sure why any old man in their right mind would want to wear underwear that smashed their balls all up into their abdomen.
(TMI) And I feel qualified to speak on this subject since I already have a pair that would make most 80 year olds jealous.
I don't know, man, I'm just an observer.
an observer of butts?
Yes. Oh yes.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 06:15:00 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:51:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 05:35:36 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I wear briefs, on account of lifting steel around. I like the boys right where they are.
I don't mind briefs, but I prefer the colored ones. Especially if I ever have to do a dude's laundry.
Given the right diet, ALL briefs are "colored".
EXACTLY.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 06:18:34 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 02, 2013, 05:56:44 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:52:34 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 02, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I'm not sure why any old man in their right mind would want to wear underwear that smashed their balls all up into their abdomen.
(TMI) And I feel qualified to speak on this subject since I already have a pair that would make most 80 year olds jealous.
I don't know, man, I'm just an observer.
an observer of butts?
Yes. Oh yes.
So's Jenn.
I feel like an object.
But, you know, I'm okay with that.
Happy anniversary, Kai!
Thanks, Cain, for responding to one of my threads.
I don't feel like I'm bombing quite so badly, now.
-
Quote from: Cain on October 02, 2013, 07:30:52 PM
:thanks:
Unfortunately, my time is so limited at the moment, I still haven't read half the new posts. This new job is too much work. Way too much.
Yeah, well, I'm in a mood now. 18 views/0 responses makes TGRR feel like he's lost his mojo.
I think I'll fuck off for a while.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 06:20:00 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 06:18:34 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 02, 2013, 05:56:44 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:52:34 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 02, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 02, 2013, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 01, 2013, 09:43:45 PM
I feel like nobody over the age of about 13 should ever wear briefs. It's like the underwear equivalent of velcro sneakers.
Old men, dude. I'm telling you. Although even old men seem to be making a migration toward boxer briefs, which are definitely much better than plaid flannel shorts, to which I have an aversion. A number of 30-something and 40-something men with disposable income seem to be gravitating toward fancy handmade underpants. I approve.
My son has worn boxer briefs ever since he outgrew his Spiderman underpants. I just figure I'll get him off to a good start.
I just realized I have no idea what kind of underwear my accountant wears, I'll have to check next time.
I'm not sure why any old man in their right mind would want to wear underwear that smashed their balls all up into their abdomen.
(TMI) And I feel qualified to speak on this subject since I already have a pair that would make most 80 year olds jealous.
I don't know, man, I'm just an observer.
an observer of butts?
Yes. Oh yes.
So's Jenn.
I feel like an object.
But, you know, I'm okay with that.
Payne walked into my room in his black slim fit t-shirt and his black boxer briefs with the hot pink piping this morning and floppy hair. I was all DAMN BABY YUO LOOKING FINE!
Recognizing depression in myself, which is very uncommon for me.
Something must be done about this.
Poop onna golfcourse?
The funny part is, of course, that I have nothing to be depressed ABOUT.
Not that that's necessary, of course.
I am sorry to hear it, Roger. We really ought to party soon.
Quote from: Alty on October 02, 2013, 09:00:43 PM
I am sorry to hear it, Roger. We really ought to party soon.
Tucson is waiting.
I'm trying to get to PDX and/or Houston, but things keep getting in the way.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 09:00:10 PM
The funny part is, of course, that I have nothing to be depressed ABOUT.
Not that that's necessary, of course.
It's often that way, cruelly.
Doing a gig on Friday. Wrote two songs today with the new band member. Writing lyrics for the entire show tomorrow.
I'm stoked as fuck!
Moving to the new place next week, too!
ever had a headache ao bad you want to shove a knife through your eye? I also spent part of yesterday debating dropping all my classes and curling up in a ball.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 02, 2013, 09:16:02 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 09:00:10 PM
The funny part is, of course, that I have nothing to be depressed ABOUT.
Not that that's necessary, of course.
It's often that way, cruelly.
Indeed.
HOLY SHIT MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ CAME OUT AS BISEXUAL :fap: http://www.autostraddle.com/michelle-rodriguez-coming-out-bisexual-is-a-big-deal-198811/
she is damn fine....
Quote from: Pixie on October 02, 2013, 11:13:19 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 02, 2013, 09:16:02 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 09:00:10 PM
The funny part is, of course, that I have nothing to be depressed ABOUT.
Not that that's necessary, of course.
It's often that way, cruelly.
Indeed.
HOLY SHIT MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ CAME OUT AS BISEXUAL :fap: http://www.autostraddle.com/michelle-rodriguez-coming-out-bisexual-is-a-big-deal-198811/
she is damn fine....
BRB FAPPING
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 08:58:58 PM
Recognizing depression in myself, which is very uncommon for me.
Something must be done about this.
Uh-oh.
Look out, Tucson!
I have a fuckton of homework. I don't even know where to start.
PROTIP: If you're not cranking wankers, don't advertise massage for men on CL. Just. Don't.
Duh.
:horrormirth:
I thought:
LOOK AT THIS REPRESSED, CLOSETED CITY. I'LL BET THERE'S A GAP IN THE MARKET I COULD FILL NICELY. OPEN, WELCOMING, NON JUDGEMENTAL.
:horrormirth: is right.
My body has finally caught up with the stress and kidney stone issue, and IBS has decided to join in on the fun. Needless to say, I am on my laptop in the bathroom right now, testing the limits of the new apartment's toilet. It doesn't seem to be the destroyer of worlds like the last one, unfortunately.
I need to take one from Roger here and try my best Carmina Burana. It's going to be a looooooooooooong night.
I did the impossible today...
I chipped my tooth on a salad.
HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?! :argh!:
Was it iceberg lettuce?
Quote from: Alty on October 03, 2013, 12:11:06 AM
PROTIP: If you're not cranking wankers, don't advertise massage for men on CL. Just. Don't.
:horrormirth:
A large bruise has appeared suddenly on the back of my hand. I have no idea when or where I got it, but it has to have been within the last 15 minutes.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 02, 2013, 08:58:58 PM
Recognizing depression in myself, which is very uncommon for me.
Something must be done about this.
Sorry to hear it. I've been trying to fight between PD time and school time/work time.
Quote from: Waffleman on October 02, 2013, 10:14:08 PM
Doing a gig on Friday. Wrote two songs today with the new band member. Writing lyrics for the entire show tomorrow.
I'm stoked as fuck!
Moving to the new place next week, too!
How do you fully rehearse that in time, or is it more of an improv jam session?
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 03, 2013, 02:18:26 AM
A large bruise has appeared suddenly on the back of my hand. I have no idea when or where I got it, but it has to have been within the last 15 minutes.
Hands take a lot of to bruise too, so that must freaking hurt.
Quote from: Suu on October 03, 2013, 04:09:20 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 03, 2013, 02:18:26 AM
A large bruise has appeared suddenly on the back of my hand. I have no idea when or where I got it, but it has to have been within the last 15 minutes.
Hands take a lot of to bruise too, so that must freaking hurt.
It doesn't hurt that much. It is, however, freaking me out. Partially because I have a random and unpredictable bleeding problem.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 03, 2013, 03:40:35 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on October 02, 2013, 10:14:08 PM
Doing a gig on Friday. Wrote two songs today with the new band member. Writing lyrics for the entire show tomorrow.
I'm stoked as fuck!
Moving to the new place next week, too!
How do you fully rehearse that in time, or is it more of an improv jam session?
More of a jam session, plus a lot of tracks on tape. :)
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 03, 2013, 06:48:54 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 03, 2013, 04:09:20 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 03, 2013, 02:18:26 AM
A large bruise has appeared suddenly on the back of my hand. I have no idea when or where I got it, but it has to have been within the last 15 minutes.
Hands take a lot of to bruise too, so that must freaking hurt.
It doesn't hurt that much. It is, however, freaking me out. Partially because I have a random and unpredictable bleeding problem.
You are not on bloodthinners are you?
Relocation mainly complete.
Moving is a fucking ballache.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2013, 01:23:15 PM
Relocation mainly complete.
Moving is a fucking ballache.
I just moved across the hall and I hated it more than moving into a totally new place.
Quote from: Suu on October 03, 2013, 01:31:36 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2013, 01:23:15 PM
Relocation mainly complete.
Moving is a fucking ballache.
I just moved across the hall and I hated it more than moving into a totally new place.
That seems like an exceptional pain in the arse.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2013, 01:23:15 PM
Relocation mainly complete.
Moving is a fucking ballache.
In my head, that sounded like "Ball-ah-chey" which really confused me for a second.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2013, 01:51:18 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 03, 2013, 01:31:36 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2013, 01:23:15 PM
Relocation mainly complete.
Moving is a fucking ballache.
I just moved across the hall and I hated it more than moving into a totally new place.
That seems like an exceptional pain in the arse.
You'd think it would be better, and as far as lifting up and down stairs usually goes, it does. But it eliminated the great purging of crap you usually do when you pack to move, so, since I was at school, the boyfriend moved all the furniture around the crap first and then we had to go in and sort shit out afterwards. The kitchen STILL isn't over fully yet, because our utility company is an monopolizing asshole, and it took us longer to get the shit switched over than it took us to move. We're almost all set though. I like not having a hole in my bedroom ceiling.
How the hell do I inventory all of this cider I don't even know?!?!
Get rid of the evidence. Drink the ones you don't know.
Quote from: :regret: on October 03, 2013, 12:15:38 PM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 03, 2013, 06:48:54 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 03, 2013, 04:09:20 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 03, 2013, 02:18:26 AM
A large bruise has appeared suddenly on the back of my hand. I have no idea when or where I got it, but it has to have been within the last 15 minutes.
Hands take a lot of to bruise too, so that must freaking hurt.
It doesn't hurt that much. It is, however, freaking me out. Partially because I have a random and unpredictable bleeding problem.
You are not on bloodthinners are you?
Nope. It's a mystery bleeding problem that shows up at random. Usually very scary when it does, blood absolutely everywhere. Probably related to why I had a hemophilic seroma after my surgery. I clearly have some kind of bleeding issue but nobody knows what it is and it's not consistent. When I have health insurance again I will ask to be tested for the more common genetic bleeding disorders.
(https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1379425_10151736179019069_1464277593_n.jpg)
That's Jesus. I can see the profile clearly.
Off to calibrate the nuclear densitometer.
If I grow any extra bits, I'll be auctioning them off tomorrow.
So, I've decided to raise my rates, substantially.
This means I have to vacuum the floor and make, blech, pretty.
I've always left a thin layer of dust, oil, and passive indignation in my office that serves to seperate the wheat from the obnoxious wheat. Vacuuming is like a slow, not torture exactly...
We ought to just grow grass indoors. Lawns become gardens, carpets become lawns.
It's just natural, man.
/
:hippie:
My name is Sad Sack and I'm addicted to fonts. :oops:
I needed some things for the reprint on Holy Nonsense and now there's a huge pile of fonts waiting to be installed and wah. I need help.
Or a better computer.
Highlights of today:
-Supervisor comes up to me, shows me a letter from a nurse saying that she's sorry she couldn't get back to us sooner, we tried to scam her and as a result she changed all of her credit card numbers. Keep up the good work and yes, she authorizes us to use her SSN to link her Medicare data with ours. Um... wait, did you forget midletter what you were telling us?
-Got to use bovine enzymes to to turn hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen, bubbles, and play with water. Also, I really like my lab partners.
Downsides of today:
-Late on some school work.
-We originally screwed up the experiment and added another half hour onto our time.
-Fall fever, with the realization that I'm too old for that.
You're never too old to enjoy Autumn.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 04, 2013, 02:47:56 AM
You're never too old to enjoy Autumn.
No, but you may be too old to enjoy the appearances of the returning students.
Never too old to look :p
Quote from: Sad Sack on October 04, 2013, 03:10:38 AM
Never too old to look :p
Eh, true but it I feel creepy
for them if they were born after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Oh, other highlight:
-Finding tub of hummus in the conference room fridge with the words "You can use it" written on it.
Quote from: Alty on October 03, 2013, 10:37:28 PM
So, I've decided to raise my rates, substantially.
This means I have to vacuum the floor and make, blech, pretty.
I've always left a thin layer of dust, oil, and passive indignation in my office that serves to seperate the wheat from the obnoxious wheat. Vacuuming is like a slow, not torture exactly...
We ought to just grow grass indoors. Lawns become gardens, carpets become lawns.
It's just natural, man.
/
:hippie:
Make it beautiful, make it expensive, and you will also attract fewer pain-in-the-ass clients! It will be awesome!
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 04, 2013, 03:33:18 AM
Oh, other highlight:
-Finding tub of hummus in the conference room fridge with the words "You can use it" written on it.
:lulz: I don't know why this made me laugh, but it did.
Another kid dropped chemistry today.
At the end of the class, the instructor started being really nice. I get the impression that he freaked out enough people into dropping, now he's happy, and can start treating the rest of us like his Chosen Ones.
I seriously hate that dynamic.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 04, 2013, 03:51:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 04, 2013, 03:33:18 AM
Oh, other highlight:
-Finding tub of hummus in the conference room fridge with the words "You can use it" written on it.
:lulz: I don't know why this made me laugh, but it did.
It made me laugh, too. I think that it's non-obvious awkward use of English. It's correct, but that's not what someone would write, normally, which would be "free to use" or "up for grabs." It's less awkward than "make sex" but just as funny.
ETA: I also had my own near moldy bread on my desk, so I definitely can use it.
On my first day of middle school, for which I was not prepared in any way whatsoever, PE was the first class of the day.
I cant remember what we were doing, but we were standing well apart from one another, but there was this girl behind me. The second i saw her I realized she was the most beautiful thinf I had seen in my life up to that point.
She said, "What are you looking at?" In a way that conveyed the thought "You are a disgusting little toad and your eyeballs make me want to puke."
This etched itself into my brain something FIERCE.
Anyhow, I saw her today, she's a teller at my bank.
"Did you go to Mears middle school?" I say.
"Yeah," she said.
"I remember you. We had gym together."
"You say that like I was mean to you."
"You were, but it's okay. Kids are mean. It's not easy for girls in our culture, there's no support. It's easy to use hostility as a defense."
"I'm sorry" she said.
It's been a weird week.
Quote from: Alty on October 04, 2013, 04:26:17 AM
On my first day of middle school, for which I was not prepared in any way whatsoever, PE was the first class of the day.
I cant remember what we were doing, but we were standing well apart from one another, but there was this girl behind me. The second i saw her I realized she was the most beautiful thinf I had seen in my life up to that point.
She said, "What are you looking at?" In a way that conveyed the thought "You are a disgusting little toad and your eyeballs make me want to puke."
This etched itself into my brain something FIERCE.
Anyhow, I saw her today, she's a teller at my bank.
"Did you go to Mears middle school?" I say.
"Yeah," she said.
"I remember you. We had gym together."
"You say that like I was mean to you."
"You were, but it's okay. Kids are mean. It's not easy for girls in our culture, there's no support. It's easy to use hostility as a defense."
"I'm sorry" she said.
It's been a weird week.
You probably made her feel really weird.
Quote from: Suu on October 04, 2013, 05:11:20 AM
Quote from: Alty on October 04, 2013, 04:26:17 AM
On my first day of middle school, for which I was not prepared in any way whatsoever, PE was the first class of the day.
I cant remember what we were doing, but we were standing well apart from one another, but there was this girl behind me. The second i saw her I realized she was the most beautiful thinf I had seen in my life up to that point.
She said, "What are you looking at?" In a way that conveyed the thought "You are a disgusting little toad and your eyeballs make me want to puke."
This etched itself into my brain something FIERCE.
Anyhow, I saw her today, she's a teller at my bank.
"Did you go to Mears middle school?" I say.
"Yeah," she said.
"I remember you. We had gym together."
"You say that like I was mean to you."
"You were, but it's okay. Kids are mean. It's not easy for girls in our culture, there's no support. It's easy to use hostility as a defense."
"I'm sorry" she said.
It's been a weird week.
You probably made her feel really weird.
Thank fuck.
Quote from: Alty on October 04, 2013, 04:26:17 AM
On my first day of middle school, for which I was not prepared in any way whatsoever, PE was the first class of the day.
I cant remember what we were doing, but we were standing well apart from one another, but there was this girl behind me. The second i saw her I realized she was the most beautiful thinf I had seen in my life up to that point.
She said, "What are you looking at?" In a way that conveyed the thought "You are a disgusting little toad and your eyeballs make me want to puke."
This etched itself into my brain something FIERCE.
Anyhow, I saw her today, she's a teller at my bank.
"Did you go to Mears middle school?" I say.
"Yeah," she said.
"I remember you. We had gym together."
"You say that like I was mean to you."
"You were, but it's okay. Kids are mean. It's not easy for girls in our culture, there's no support. It's easy to use hostility as a defense."
"I'm sorry" she said.
It's been a weird week.
Very weird!
I also said, "it's okay, I'm pretty mean now."
She said, "Oh I was mean to you then and made you mean now."
I said, "it's all right."
I didn't say, "You were one of many that contributed to the horror show of spite, aggression, bitterness, and subtle cruelty that is now my terrible.personality as seen by the average jerkoff."
Because i have tact and shit.
Quote from: Alty on October 04, 2013, 05:41:28 AM
I also said, "it's okay, I'm pretty mean now."
She said, "Oh I was mean to you then and made you mean now."
I said, "it's all right."
I didn't say, "You were one of many that contributed to the horror show of spite, aggression, bitterness, and subtle cruelty that is now my terrible.personality as seen by the average jerkoff."
Because i have tact and shit.
Alty, I have a hug here for you.
It's in Boston, but... you know.
Quote from: Alty on October 04, 2013, 05:41:28 AM
I also said, "it's okay, I'm pretty mean now."
She said, "Oh I was mean to you then and made you mean now."
I said, "it's all right."
I didn't say, "You were one of many that contributed to the horror show of spite, aggression, bitterness, and subtle cruelty that is now my terrible.personality as seen by the average jerkoff."
Because i have tact and shit.
"You were one of the many who taught me that hostility is an easy way of defense" might have put some perspective into it.
I applaud you for your tact.
Got some good sleep last night, but I'm still paying for the rest of the week.
SO TIRED.
I can't seem to get enough sleep. I might be anemic.
Which seems counter-intuitive, since I no longer bleed every month.
Observation- libertarians talk and exaggerate a lot.
Observation- communists talk and exaggerate a lot.
Observation- telling a libertarian that theyre just as bad as communists when it comes to hyperbole and longwindedness seems to effectively silence them. More data needed.
Oh holy crap. It's Friday. Why isn't it end of day yet?
Because you know what's happening tonight. That's right.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 04, 2013, 07:40:25 PM
Oh holy crap. It's Friday. Why isn't it end of day yet?
Because you know what's happening tonight. That's right.
(https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/935022_431242743638795_2143972683_n.jpg)
What I love about that picture is that almost none of the people in it "look Gay" (by society's stereotypes).
Oh holy god, they are all so gay. Even if a few of them don't suck cock.
Really gay.
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Ohai peedee I am get married today.
Quote from: Pæs on October 04, 2013, 10:02:43 PM
Ohai peedee I am get married today.
That's awesome! Congratulations! You and your lovely bride are a beautiful couple.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 24, 2013, 12:52:26 AM
Quote from: Twigel on September 24, 2013, 12:47:25 AM
Math homework:
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(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-2_zps7eb929cc.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-3_zps557a3ab3.jpg)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/SancinitoActivity1-4_zps0a4a7cdf.jpg)
:lulz:
Oh my god. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: This is the best way to do math homework.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2013, 01:37:44 PM
Yeah, I've been having some throttling issues as of late.
And by that, I mean I want to throttle everyone at Comcast.
I think everyone wants to do that.
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 08:21:39 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 01, 2013, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
For years, that fitting was 36B. Dainty and perky. I had to wear special foundational garments to have any hint of cleavage. Now, I have actual cleavage, for real, without any special bras.
I held two of my friends' babies tonight, and the babies were clear on the fact that they found my new, plush boobahs pleasing. One of them, two-and-a-half months old, actually put her face in my cleavage and motorboated.
Babies are so honest.
That is so adorable. :lulz:
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 08:21:39 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 01, 2013, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
For years, that fitting was 36B. Dainty and perky. I had to wear special foundational garments to have any hint of cleavage. Now, I have actual cleavage, for real, without any special bras.
I held two of my friends' babies tonight, and the babies were clear on the fact that they found my new, plush boobahs pleasing. One of them, two-and-a-half months old, actually put her face in my cleavage and motorboated.
Babies are so honest.
By THAT standard, I'm George Goddamn Washington. :lulz:
Quote from: Pæs on October 04, 2013, 10:02:43 PM
Ohai peedee I am get married today.
Congratulations!
Still having difficulty in not flipping the hell out with anxiety attacks. Working (still just volunteering at the game store, nothing has changed there) helps, but RinCon is today and the binders I was going to look through and pick cards out of to post on the Ebays are there and not here, so I have nothing to distract me.
Maybe I'll build some Ork warbikes out of sprue, or paint my Boyz or something.
It occurs to me that the Tunguska event was just an atomic bomb set off in a slightly different universe, specifically to see if they could penetrate the gap between universes just to PISS US OFF (hey, I'd do it). Looking at history since, I'm reasonably certain it worked.
So we have to find a way to these other universes, and kick the mortal shit out of them. All of them.
ALL THE ASSES. ALL THE UNIVERSES.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on October 05, 2013, 12:15:13 AM
ALL THE ASSES. ALL THE UNIVERSES.
Well, we'd have no idea WHICH universe did it, and it's not like the guilty parties would ADMIT to it.
So there's no choice, really.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 05, 2013, 12:15:53 AM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on October 05, 2013, 12:15:13 AM
ALL THE ASSES. ALL THE UNIVERSES.
Well, we'd have no idea WHICH universe did it, and it's not like the guilty parties would ADMIT to it.
So there's no choice, really.
Even if they didn't, they
would, too.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 05, 2013, 12:05:40 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 08:21:39 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 01, 2013, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Mean Mister Nigel on October 01, 2013, 01:40:18 AM
[TMI]I finally conceded the battle to my breasts. They have grown, I have no say in this matter. Two of my new bras came in the mail today. It is AMAZING how much more comfortable a correctly-fitted bra is. [/TMI]
A properly fitted bra is the SHIT.
For years, that fitting was 36B. Dainty and perky. I had to wear special foundational garments to have any hint of cleavage. Now, I have actual cleavage, for real, without any special bras.
I held two of my friends' babies tonight, and the babies were clear on the fact that they found my new, plush boobahs pleasing. One of them, two-and-a-half months old, actually put her face in my cleavage and motorboated.
Babies are so honest.
By THAT standard, I'm George Goddamn Washington. :lulz:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on October 04, 2013, 09:24:28 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 04, 2013, 07:00:17 PM
Observation- libertarians talk and exaggerate a lot.
Observation- communists talk and exaggerate a lot.
Observation- telling a libertarian that theyre just as bad as communists when it comes to hyperbole and longwindedness seems to effectively silence them. More data needed.
You can always also point out that libertarianism has done more harm to the USA than Marxism ever did.
Marxism in America produced annoying identity politics students in the 80s, whose descendents now populate tumblr.
Libertarianism in America produced the Chicago Boys, who ran Chile into the ground while supporting a quasi-fascist dictatorship, and whose descendents inflicted financial nuttery on the USA.
Seems I got a bit of reading to do. Thanks, Cain!
Incidentally, the guy did eventually respond, in a wordy fashion of course about how laissez-faire works and all of that, and asked how was he being hyperbolic. I responded that equating insurance with slavery was pretty damn hyperbolic, and seemed to take serious my pointing out that having a driver's license is coercive regulation by his logic.
I think I need to science libertarians more.
Congrats Paes!
Quote from: Pæs on October 04, 2013, 10:02:43 PM
Ohai peedee I am get married today.
Awesome and welcome to the club.
So I found the binders I am supposed to work out of. They were nowhere near where they were supposed to be (i.e., five feet away and behind me, buried under stuff :oops: ). I feel better for having done a shit ton of work today, with immediately visible results.
NOW I may do some painting, or maybe some modeling. Not really sure. Maybe Borderlands 2 if the Xbox is not in use.
Tonight was the annual International Wine Festival in New Bedford, apparently one of the largest wine festivals in the state. The tickets are $65 and neither my own nor my girlfriend's broke asses could pay for that shit. Last year I was invited by my father, who got free tickets through his work at the newspaper. My girlfriend asked around on facebook and found a couple with two extra tickets that they got from work.
Turns out, they were the tickets my father WOULD have received had he won them in the drawing they had at the newspaper. :lulz:
I spent the whole night drinking free booze with a bunch of my dad's co-workers. They're all afraid of him, in spite of him being a 60 year old six and a half foot puppy, and don't want him to know they gave the tickets away. But I DEFINITELY want him to know that they passed the tickets on to ME.
I suppose I won't tell him, because it's against their wishes. But man, that conversation would be hilarious.
ETA - I can't actually tell if this post makes sense or not. I will return to it when off the combination of wine, beer, sake, absinthe (?), and whiskey.
something about our own wine festivals using our boozes against us
or :?
Usually I work 8-6 every other saturday covering another area of the store until midday.
Boss asked me to start early in my proper job today. 10-6. Okay. Little annoyed to lose the extra hours but whatever.
I check the roster. Definitely says 10.
Woken up by frantic call from ither section manager wondering where I am. Boss hasn't actually spoken with them. This is, apparently, my fault.
Woo communication.
I have a wife now. It's pretty neat. More later, with pics.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 05, 2013, 12:14:28 AM
It occurs to me that the Tunguska event was just an atomic bomb set off in a slightly different universe, specifically to see if they could penetrate the gap between universes just to PISS US OFF (hey, I'd do it). Looking at history since, I'm reasonably certain it worked.
So we have to find a way to these other universes, and kick the mortal shit out of them. All of them.
I cannot describe how much I am in love with this, and I'm going to treat it as documented fact from now on.
Also, congrats, Pæs!
I'm in a shitty mood and it's starting to feed on itself.
When I grow up I am going to the Fun Police Academy. You fuckers have all had your fill and it's time for the long, boring arm of the law to bring down the hammer of *YAAAAAAWN*.
Wheeelp, no trip of any kind for me. I'll be taking a week off in two weeks, and that'll have to do it. Almost all of my regular clients are gone and I have to rebuild. Learn new marketing techniques FAST.
So, today, instead, I am going to buy myself a bicycle, a cruiser. It's going to be pretty OR ELSE. Maybe a motor as well.
Imagine me, on a gas bicycle, all winter. I can't wait.
Aw man. :( I hope you find new clients very very soon.
Quote from: Alty on October 05, 2013, 07:09:52 PM
Wheeelp, no trip of any kind for me. I'll be taking a week off in two weeks, and that'll have to do it. Almost all of my regular clients are gone and I have to rebuild. Learn new marketing techniques FAST.
So, today, instead, I am going to buy myself a bicycle, a cruiser. It's going to be pretty OR ELSE. Maybe a motor as well.
Imagine me, on a gas bicycle, all winter. I can't wait.
That sucks. Well, except for the part about the cruiser.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 05, 2013, 06:42:33 PM
I'm in a shitty mood and it's starting to feed on itself.
(http://i.imgur.com/4GZfAC7.jpg)
So my dear friend Jake presented a speech at the art museum a few weeks ago, and he has it up on his website. I wanted to share it with you guys because he's a remarkable person, I'm proud of him, and he also has many pictures of my posse, the people who are my chosen family.
http://codex.bluemooncamera.com/2013/09/30/jakes-speech-at-the-portland-art-museum-the-decisive-morning/
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A libertarian is an anarchist that decided they wanted to be an adult and have a view of politics. The only way to do this is by using the most juvenile temper tantrums as possible.
Ha aha, aha. So this guy I know, he just moved to Portland. I just saw him on this gay dating app. He didn't use it here because he knows everybody, in the biblical sense. He's HIV + and never, ever tells anybody. He's a scumbag and I'm sorry Portland has him now.
Quote from: Alty on October 06, 2013, 10:20:56 PM
Ha aha, aha. So this guy I know, he just moved to Portland. I just saw him on this gay dating app. He didn't use it here because he knows everybody, in the biblical sense. He's HIV + and never, ever tells anybody. He's a scumbag and I'm sorry Portland has him now.
Wow, that's incredibly scummy! Also, incredibly illegal, if he infects anyone in Oregon that's a felony charge.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 06, 2013, 10:29:25 PM
Quote from: Alty on October 06, 2013, 10:20:56 PM
Ha aha, aha. So this guy I know, he just moved to Portland. I just saw him on this gay dating app. He didn't use it here because he knows everybody, in the biblical sense. He's HIV + and never, ever tells anybody. He's a scumbag and I'm sorry Portland has him now.
Wow, that's incredibly scummy! Also, incredibly illegal, if he infects anyone in Oregon that's a felony charge.
I'm glad that it is, sad it's got a high chance of happening.
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's a shame, Roger, but yeah. Fuck those people.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 04:41:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
I'm exhausted. But it's been a good day. Got up, did homework, canned my pickles (they turned out perfectly)
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then went to Sauvie with Br to walk on the beach
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and pick up a cabbage for sauerkraut.
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Then home to ditch the giant cabbage
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and back to the beach with Z to hunt for picklestones and run the dogs. I'm rich with picklestones!
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 04:43:55 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 04:41:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
Wow WTF?
DOUR that sucks. A lot.
Nigel...what the fuck is a picklestone?
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 07, 2013, 06:00:10 AM
DOUR that sucks. A lot.
Nigel...what the fuck is a picklestone?
It's a stone with the right texture to be used in picklestoning which is where you fill a jar with a coloured oil and put small stones in it. The result is that the jar appears to contain pickles (any shape issues with the stones used is negated by the distorted image of the stones behind oil and curved glass). Then these "pickle jars" can be swapped out for real pickle jars leaving the elderly pickler (or more recently supermarket) out of pickles and very confused when they get people returning the items.
I'm guessing they're for keeping the cabbage submerged.
But swapping out oily rocks for pickles at the supermarket sounds like a BLAST. :lol:
Quote from: Pæs on October 07, 2013, 06:08:36 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 07, 2013, 06:00:10 AM
DOUR that sucks. A lot.
Nigel...what the fuck is a picklestone?
It's a stone with the right texture to be used in picklestoning which is where you fill a jar with a coloured oil and put small stones in it. The result is that the jar appears to contain pickles (any shape issues with the stones used is negated by the distorted image of the stones behind oil and curved glass). Then these "pickle jars" can be swapped out for real pickle jars leaving the elderly pickler (or more recently supermarket) out of pickles and very confused when they get people returning the items.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
They're what Stella said. But I like your version better.
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Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 05:28:41 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 04:43:55 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 04:41:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
Wow WTF?
We had a thing on Sundays. Gaming stuff. I tell her at her Birthday party (two weeks ago) that the Sunday group is moving from the shop up to my house.
She either didn't listen or forgot, and showed up at the shop, which is about a 10 minute drive from her place. We weren't there. She goes home, gets on FB, and tells me that because I have spoken disrespectfully to/about her guy (years ago, literally, before he matured a bit and went to school and got a steady job...We get along fine now), and because I blew her off (didn't), and because of "odds and ends" (???), she's done.
And I suppose she's right about the being done part, because apparently I don't know her, hell, never MET her, because the person I knew wouldn't drop a 7 year friendship over a misunderstanding, with no prior conversation. Nor would she say anything that hurtful just to vent.
In any case, nothing lasts forever, everything eventually ends.
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Is it really that hard?
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:00:12 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 05:28:41 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 04:43:55 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 04:41:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
Wow WTF?
We had a thing on Sundays. Gaming stuff. I tell her at her Birthday party (two weeks ago) that the Sunday group is moving from the shop up to my house.
She either didn't listen or forgot, and showed up at the shop, which is about a 10 minute drive from her place. We weren't there. She goes home, gets on FB, and tells me that because I have spoken disrespectfully to/about her guy (years ago, literally, before he matured a bit and went to school and got a steady job...We get along fine now), and because I blew her off (didn't), and because of "odds and ends" (???), she's done.
And I suppose she's right about the being done part, because apparently I don't know her, hell, never MET her, because the person I knew wouldn't drop a 7 year friendship over a misunderstanding, with no prior conversation. Nor would she say anything that hurtful just to vent.
In any case, nothing lasts forever, everything eventually ends.
Is there any underlying things that might cause SG to flip the fuck out like that?
Quote from: Pixie on October 07, 2013, 02:33:46 PM
Is there any underlying things that might cause SG to flip the fuck out like that?
Not to my knowledge. She's in a great relationship, their financial situation is improving nicely, etc.
So I'm kind of at sea, here.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 07, 2013, 02:31:56 PM
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Is it really that hard?
Apparently.
That really is just bizarre.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:36:28 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 07, 2013, 02:33:46 PM
Is there any underlying things that might cause SG to flip the fuck out like that?
Not to my knowledge. She's in a great relationship, their financial situation is improving nicely, etc.
So I'm kind of at sea, here.
Ok. That's something I always consider as a factor though.
The husband is helping these people today: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/don-t-snoop-me-bro-tunnel
May get exciting once it gets noticed.
Quote from: Pixie on October 07, 2013, 03:02:40 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:36:28 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 07, 2013, 02:33:46 PM
Is there any underlying things that might cause SG to flip the fuck out like that?
Not to my knowledge. She's in a great relationship, their financial situation is improving nicely, etc.
So I'm kind of at sea, here.
Ok. That's something I always consider as a factor though.
Well, me too. I am waiting to see if there's any response on FB tonight when I get home.
If there isn't, then block + walk away.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 07, 2013, 04:15:25 PM
The husband is helping these people today: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/don-t-snoop-me-bro-tunnel
May get exciting once it gets noticed.
Blocked. Will check out at home.
Our newest member is "Norton II".
:facepalm:
Here we go again.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 06:09:49 PM
Our newest member is "Norton II".
:facepalm:
Here we go again.
Oh yeah, this is bound to be good.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 06:19:06 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 06:09:49 PM
Our newest member is "Norton II".
:facepalm:
Here we go again.
Oh yeah, this is bound to be good.
Well, *I* have never heard any of these 50+ year old jokes, and I can certainly say that biting on Norton's bit or naming yourself after a RAW character is a sure indicator of original thinking and creative style.
I wonder if this guy is in the original shrink wrap? He could be worth something on ebay if that's so.
Norton = Mr. Vanilla at work?
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:23:34 PM
Norton = Mr. Vanilla at work?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
You're gonna LOVE this.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Nortonplaque3-01.png/492px-Nortonplaque3-01.png)
HOLY SHIT MR SATURDAY NIGHT HIMSELF!
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:33:08 PM
HOLY SHIT MR SATURDAY NIGHT HIMSELF!
He basically went mad, and San Francisco decided to go with him.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 06:34:02 PM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:33:08 PM
HOLY SHIT MR SATURDAY NIGHT HIMSELF!
He basically went mad, and San Francisco decided to go with him.
So he wasn't leading HIS people to the promised land?
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:36:00 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 06:34:02 PM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:33:08 PM
HOLY SHIT MR SATURDAY NIGHT HIMSELF!
He basically went mad, and San Francisco decided to go with him.
So he wasn't leading HIS people to the promised land?
No, mostly he just stopped race riots, and shamed the city council into acting like humans.
He was actually a really interesting guy, and an example of how "crazy" doesn't always mean "bad".
" Norton initially made a living as a businessman, but he lost his fortune investing in Peruvian rice" --- Llamas.
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:44:37 PM
" Norton initially made a living as a businessman, but he lost his fortune investing in Peruvian rice" --- Llamas.
Good catch. I hadn't noticed their perfidious presence in this particular tale.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 06:38:48 PM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:36:00 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 06:34:02 PM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 07, 2013, 06:33:08 PM
HOLY SHIT MR SATURDAY NIGHT HIMSELF!
He basically went mad, and San Francisco decided to go with him.
So he wasn't leading HIS people to the promised land?
No, mostly he just stopped race riots, and shamed the city council into acting like humans.
He was actually a really interesting guy, and an example of how "crazy" doesn't always mean "bad".
Yep. A bit of a personal hero of mine. Much in the same way that I find Monty Python humorous. But you'd never hear me shouting "Ni!!!" or showing any patience for anyone who did over the age of 13.
Is there a filter for names where Norton gets rendered as Penisnose or something like that? That might be kinda fun.
We have a band here called Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band. Pretty much does what it says. They dress up as marching band and stay on stage. Quite entertaining actually. They did a marching band cover of NIN's "Wish." Took me a good while to place what I was listening to. I posted the word fnord on their FB page and one of the members liked it.
I'm at home because I feel like ass. I'm not sure if it's cold or allergies but I'm staying put for now. Took a bio exam today. I also for math activity have to interview someone in the field I want to go into so I gave the professor that to work on while I was taking his test. Turns out the guy was a postdoctoral fellow where I work a couple of years ago. I thought his name looked familiar. I might ask him who his PI was on Thursday.
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Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 06:54:29 PM
I just had to explain how to combat terrorism to a 14 year old girl, for whom English is a third language. And by "combat terrorism", I mean comforting lies about international cooperation and poverty and stuff.
So, you left the part with the small room and the blowtorch/pliers thing out of it?
Dolly Parton is looking more beautiful than ever, thanks to cosmetic surgery.
Before: After:
(http://www.celebessence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Dolly-Parton.jpg)
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Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 07:20:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 07:07:14 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 06:54:29 PM
I just had to explain how to combat terrorism to a 14 year old girl, for whom English is a third language. And by "combat terrorism", I mean comforting lies about international cooperation and poverty and stuff.
So, you left the part with the small room and the blowtorch/pliers thing out of it?
Yeah. Or the part where democracy tends to actually make things worse. Or the bit about poverty not making a difference.
See, the democracy thing sells in America, because all Americans think everyone else wants to be America, and they expect that "democracy" will turn Afghanistan into Ohio. It's just that they're held down by some weird cabal of bad guys, you see.
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Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 07:25:38 PM
Yeah. Unfortunately the feel-good liberalism that the UN, and its imitators (like the Model UN, which is what this girl is doing this paper for) will never admit that, mostly because it's crackpot Wilsonianism with a dash of Thomas Friedman. i.e.; retarded.
Representative government doesn't work HERE, for Chrissakes, and we're the dumbfucks pushing it.
Funny thing is, BOTH "sides" will state flatly that it has failed. Then watch the fun when you say we shouldn't introduce it in the Middle & Far East.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 07:29:11 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 07:25:38 PM
Yeah. Unfortunately the feel-good liberalism that the UN, and its imitators (like the Model UN, which is what this girl is doing this paper for) will never admit that, mostly because it's crackpot Wilsonianism with a dash of Thomas Friedman. i.e.; retarded.
Representative government doesn't work HERE, for Chrissakes, and we're the dumbfucks pushing it.
Funny thing is, BOTH "sides" will state flatly that it has failed. Then watch the fun when you say we shouldn't introduce it in the Middle & Far East.
Science, here.
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Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 07:55:47 PM
Speaking of depressing things and democracy, I am becoming intensely annoyed at my students. Given the chance to have the weekend to stay in Zermatt, their reaction is, aside from three "don't care, want to go clubbing in Geneva".
What sort of complete and utter boring fucks are the next generation going to be?
You aren't really looking at a representative sample, though.
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Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 07:20:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 07:07:14 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 06:54:29 PM
I just had to explain how to combat terrorism to a 14 year old girl, for whom English is a third language. And by "combat terrorism", I mean comforting lies about international cooperation and poverty and stuff.
So, you left the part with the small room and the blowtorch/pliers thing out of it?
Yeah. Or the part where democracy tends to actually make things worse. Or the bit about poverty not making a difference.
:? I thought poverty made all the differences?
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Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 08:15:34 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 07, 2013, 08:13:34 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 07:20:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 07:07:14 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 06:54:29 PM
I just had to explain how to combat terrorism to a 14 year old girl, for whom English is a third language. And by "combat terrorism", I mean comforting lies about international cooperation and poverty and stuff.
So, you left the part with the small room and the blowtorch/pliers thing out of it?
Yeah. Or the part where democracy tends to actually make things worse. Or the bit about poverty not making a difference.
:? I thought poverty made all the differences?
Not really. Relative deprivation is correlated with terrorism, but most terrorists are middle class, usually University educated (with a preference for hard sciences). Which is not exactly common in, say, Egypt or Saudi Arabia.
The impression that I got was that you have college educated guys who cannot get reasonable jobs that are typically on the organizing end, and hopelessly impoverished folks doing the bulk of the getting blown up.
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Okay, so if I'm understanding this correctly economic injustice can be a CauseTM that middle class, educated men latch on to as a justification for terrorist acts? Or, more appropriately, seeing economic injustice reinforces existing prejudices and is used as an internal excuse to head down an more violent path?
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 08:51:08 PM
People get into terrorism because of small group dynamics and reinforcing belief systems, not because of poverty.
You could see that quite clearly in the IRA, and in the hilarious Basque movement.
Or better yet, the Red Brigade.
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As far as I know, the kidney stone, aka "Barney Rubble" has not passed yet. However, I am no longer in the throws of uncontrollable pain and went to bed last night without the aid of narcotics. I'm still feeling twinges of 'THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKING SHARP MOVING IN THE VICINITY OF MY BLADDER." But there's nothing I can do about it but keep chugging water. On Saturday, I drank a record breaking 5 liters of water which had me at the bathroom approximately every 7 minutes from 9am to midnight. I feel very clean inside...sans Barney. Talked to RN friend, she said there is no way to know when it's finally going to flush, but to just keep drinking water til it does. This sucks.
In other news though, I dropped another 2lbs and I'm now 2 sizes smaller than I was in May. However, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I've basically just given my entire body the cleanse of a lifetime with all this water for a week.
Quote from: Suu on October 07, 2013, 09:50:45 PM
As far as I know, the kidney stone, aka "Barney Rubble" has not passed yet. However, I am no longer in the throws of uncontrollable pain and went to bed last night without the aid of narcotics. I'm still feeling twinges of 'THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKING SHARP MOVING IN THE VICINITY OF MY BLADDER." But there's nothing I can do about it but keep chugging water. On Saturday, I drank a record breaking 5 liters of water which had me at the bathroom approximately every 7 minutes from 9am to midnight. I feel very clean inside...sans Barney. Talked to RN friend, she said there is no way to know when it's finally going to flush, but to just keep drinking water til it does. This sucks.
In other news though, I dropped another 2lbs and I'm now 2 sizes smaller than I was in May. However, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I've basically just given my entire body the cleanse of a lifetime with all this water for a week.
Did I ever tell you about the time I ate vindaloo and drank Guiness at the same time?
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 07, 2013, 09:50:45 PM
As far as I know, the kidney stone, aka "Barney Rubble" has not passed yet. However, I am no longer in the throws of uncontrollable pain and went to bed last night without the aid of narcotics. I'm still feeling twinges of 'THERE IS SOMETHING FUCKING SHARP MOVING IN THE VICINITY OF MY BLADDER." But there's nothing I can do about it but keep chugging water. On Saturday, I drank a record breaking 5 liters of water which had me at the bathroom approximately every 7 minutes from 9am to midnight. I feel very clean inside...sans Barney. Talked to RN friend, she said there is no way to know when it's finally going to flush, but to just keep drinking water til it does. This sucks.
In other news though, I dropped another 2lbs and I'm now 2 sizes smaller than I was in May. However, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I've basically just given my entire body the cleanse of a lifetime with all this water for a week.
Did I ever tell you about the time I ate vindaloo and drank Guiness at the same time?
How much did you lose? 30lbs and your entire lower intestine?
TO WERRRRRK with me.
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One of my Biology teammates is realllllly slow. She's a very sweet girl but OMG. Today she was trying to apply sig figs to statistical calculations and I was like, um, you can't do that. She was like, "why not"?
Also having a really difficult time grasping why the ph number decreases when free hydrogen ions increase.
I think this is going to be a difficult term for her. And possibly for me, by association.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/amid-debt-default-worries-investors-should-keep-calm-carry-8C11350019
:remaincalm:
Stay calm, yeah, right. This is a time to PANIC and RUN AROUND LIKE RATS IN A FIRESTORM.
Keep calm, indeed. Fuckers. I am ready to eat congressmen in the fucking ruins.
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 10:33:44 PM
Quote from: Alty on October 07, 2013, 10:20:46 PM
TWERRRRRK with me.
That's cultural appropriation, you racist.
:horrormirth:
I was only trying to have a good time.
Is "The Mashed Potato" ok?
There will come a moment in the near future when the client i rode ON MY NEW BIKE for is going to stop, look around and think, "Something, I was supposed to do something today."
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 10:43:20 PM
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/amid-debt-default-worries-investors-should-keep-calm-carry-8C11350019
:remaincalm:
Stay calm, yeah, right. This is a time to PANIC and RUN AROUND LIKE RATS IN A FIRESTORM.
Keep calm, indeed. Fuckers. I am ready to eat congressmen in the fucking ruins.
Yeah, well, who's worried, amirite? There's plenty land and longpig to live on. I look forward to the future.
Quote from: Alty on October 07, 2013, 11:12:04 PM
There will come a moment in the near future when the client i rode ON MY NEW BIKE for is going to stop, look around and think, "Something, I was supposed to do something today."
Cancellation fee. Get a credit card # with booking, get them to verbally agree to a $40 charge if they cancel same-day. That way, you get paid AND you get a day off.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 10:39:27 PM
One of my Biology teammates is realllllly slow. She's a very sweet girl but OMG. Today she was trying to apply sig figs to statistical calculations and I was like, um, you can't do that. She was like, "why not"?
Also having a really difficult time grasping why the ph number decreases when free hydrogen ions increase.
I think this is going to be a difficult term for her. And possibly for me, by association.
Negative exponents. The pH is the amount of hydrogen ions per liter or something like that. I'll have to look it up again but we went over it like last week or the week before. HCl would have 10-2 M of hydrogen ions, pure water would have 10-7, etc. That's also why 1 number of pH is stronger than the previous by a factor of 10.ETA: You mean her. I need some food, I think.
Epic convention cosplay planned for November. :lulz:
My friends and I are going to be the cast of Hogan's Heroes, I'm Frau Helga. :lulz:
Is anyone getting sound from Youtube?
Updated flash, no luck.
I just tried. No issue here.
Restarted computer, checked sound settings, etc.
Windows sounds work. Still no luck with youtube.
Going to try some other sound sources.
Onboard sound works.
Video games normal.
NO external audio to ANYTHING.
That's... kinda creepy and weird.
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on October 08, 2013, 03:00:16 AM
That's... kinda creepy and weird.
All 3 laptops in the house are doing this.
(http://www.evolveinc.com/modules/evolvecms/upload/9cef162d_history-channel-alien-guy-meme-generator-aliens-98f63b.jpeg)
I have sound for ads on random websites, apparently. :crankey:
Just not anything else.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 08, 2013, 03:43:58 AM
I have sound for ads on random websites, apparently. :crankey:
Just not anything else.
That's pretty damn weird.
That's a wee weird, man.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 10:43:20 PM
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/amid-debt-default-worries-investors-should-keep-calm-carry-8C11350019
:remaincalm:
Stay calm, yeah, right. This is a time to PANIC and RUN AROUND LIKE RATS IN A FIRESTORM.
Keep calm, indeed. Fuckers. I am ready to eat congressmen in the fucking ruins.
Core message there is "PLEASE OH PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T DUMP YOUR STOCKS"
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 08, 2013, 01:34:43 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 10:39:27 PM
One of my Biology teammates is realllllly slow. She's a very sweet girl but OMG. Today she was trying to apply sig figs to statistical calculations and I was like, um, you can't do that. She was like, "why not"?
Also having a really difficult time grasping why the ph number decreases when free hydrogen ions increase.
I think this is going to be a difficult term for her. And possibly for me, by association.
Negative exponents. The pH is the amount of hydrogen ions per liter or something like that. I'll have to look it up again but we went over it like last week or the week before. HCl would have 10-2 M of hydrogen ions, pure water would have 10-7, etc. That's also why 1 number of pH is stronger than the previous by a factor of 10.
ETA: You mean her. I need some food, I think.
Yeah, it's not a complicated concept, more H+ is more acidic, molar 10x^-7 H+ is ph 7, molar 10x^-6 is ph 6, and so on. But she super duper doesn't get it and is also having a hard time understanding why statistical measures of difference aren't subject to significant figures.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 08, 2013, 02:59:23 AM
Onboard sound works.
Video games normal.
NO external audio to ANYTHING.
That's weird as hell.
I can't sleep because of congestion, so I'm eating assorted condiments with a lot of scovilles in them in an attempt to unblock a bit. And blue cheese dressing to take the edge off. And water.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 08, 2013, 07:36:05 AM
I can't sleep because of congestion, so I'm eating assorted condiments with a lot of scovilles in them in an attempt to unblock a bit. And blue cheese dressing to take the edge off. And water.
High-Scoville condiments are a good strategy.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 08, 2013, 08:48:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 08, 2013, 07:36:05 AM
I can't sleep because of congestion, so I'm eating assorted condiments with a lot of scovilles in them in an attempt to unblock a bit. And blue cheese dressing to take the edge off. And water.
High-Scoville condiments are a good strategy.
Seems to be working at this point. I just gotta bring gravity into the mix.
Twid,
Hangin' his head.
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 09:21:39 PM
I'm also somewhat surprised that no-one has clicked on the What The Fox Say video yet.
Though it's possible they clawed their own eyes out, then bit off their fingers. That does make typing harder.
I just did and it was amazing and hilarious and then I chewed my face off.
Can't tell if serious. If so, there is a bit of sadness mixed in with the hilarity.
Check out What's the Meaning of Stonehenge.
Quote from: Mome Papess Trivial on October 08, 2013, 05:46:30 PM
Check out What's the Meaning of Stonehenge.
I love that one even more than What The Fox Say.
Further, I had to watch an actual serious video about Stonehenge for school, and it made me laugh through the whole thing.
Writing the promised music rant right now.
Woohoo!
I'm fixing to do my pre-labs and head to school, I'll plan on reading it when I get home.
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Today I catch up on school work and hang out on the PD.
'Cause I can!
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It sounds like this new gig of yours is a lot of work!
Those industrious Swetiche Duuuutch.
If it helps, I did 8 straight hours of Quickbooks on Sunday.
Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6, all in before midnight. 20 till midnight.
:whack:
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This week is the "learning to write lab reports and biology papers" week.
Bleagh.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 02:49:08 AM
This week is the "learning to write lab reports and biology papers" week.
Bleagh.
I'm not a science writer, but I'm sure it's far more technical than history writing with it's own special form of citation you need to memorize.
Quote from: Suu on October 09, 2013, 04:00:05 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 02:49:08 AM
This week is the "learning to write lab reports and biology papers" week.
Bleagh.
I'm not a science writer, but I'm sure it's far more technical than history writing with it's own special form of citation you need to memorize.
It's pretty technical, yes. Not difficult, just technical. Citation, for this class, is whatever we want as long as it's consistent. Different journals prefer different citation styles. I'll probably stick with AMA.
The lab report should be fun. Ish. Lots of statistical stuff. I am amazed at how many times I've been told I don't need statistics for chemistry, considering... I'm like, yeah, I guess if I don't need to understand my own results, I don't...
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 09, 2013, 04:17:14 AM
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
Color me intrigued.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
Makes sense. Legalized marijuana could pose competition, especially if it's safer than ethanol consumption.
ETA: I say could, because I don't think that will actually be the case. What pothead hasn't also had a beer from time to time?
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 09, 2013, 04:17:14 AM
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
I think you are on to something.
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Quote from: Alty on October 07, 2013, 10:58:19 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 10:33:44 PM
Quote from: Alty on October 07, 2013, 10:20:46 PM
TWERRRRRK with me.
That's cultural appropriation, you racist.
:horrormirth:
I was only trying to have a good time.
Is "The Mashed Potato" ok?
Do you hate the Irish?
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 09, 2013, 04:17:14 AM
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
I agree. And decent examples of just about any genre are quite rare. Dubstep just excels in that particular field :)
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 11:22:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:42:07 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
Makes sense. Legalized marijuana could pose competition, especially if it's safer than ethanol consumption.
ETA: I say could, because I don't think that will actually be the case. What pothead hasn't also had a beer from time to time?
They aren't worried about competition, they just want someone to SHUT UP the legalization folks and their angle of talking about how alcohol is so much worse and unsafe compared to marijuana.
Yes, I can see how the truth would bother these people. Best to keep convincing people that booze is safe despite any evening or night in nearly any western A+E department being filled with alcohol related injury/illness.
I know a lot of young people who are into dubstep.
And my daughter has taken to listening to something that I can hardly recognize as music, and she seems to enjoy it. I take this as evidence that I am getting old, rather than as evidence that kids these days are listening to crap. When adults don't like, understand, or even recognize as "music" the crap kids are listening to, most likely that's a sign of progress and doin' it right.
Keep on listening to your weird sounds, kids.
Hey speaking of weird sounds, you know who has stood the test of time well? Cyndi Lauper. I still listen to her all the fucking time, and the kids dig her.
Quote from: Mome Papess Trivial on October 08, 2013, 05:46:30 PM
Check out What's the Meaning of Stonehenge.
:lulz:
That was spectacular. I love it
Quote from: Cain on October 08, 2013, 07:01:08 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on October 08, 2013, 05:20:45 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 07, 2013, 09:21:39 PM
I'm also somewhat surprised that no-one has clicked on the What The Fox Say video yet.
Though it's possible they clawed their own eyes out, then bit off their fingers. That does make typing harder.
I just did and it was amazing and hilarious and then I chewed my face off.
Can't tell if serious. If so, there is a bit of sadness mixed in with the hilarity.
It is, to be fair, a parody of the Swedish dance scene as things currently stand.
However, as far as I can tell, the kids here do not have a great appreciation for irony (which many of them consider to be a dull metal)>
:lol:
I figured that was the case (though maybe not Swedish specifically). But I did have the sneaking suspicion that that may have been lost on many people (which appears to be true).
But, but both videos brought great joy to my day(s)
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 02:04:13 PM
I know a lot of young people who are into dubstep.
And my daughter has taken to listening to something that I can hardly recognize as music, and she seems to enjoy it. I take this as evidence that I am getting old, rather than as evidence that kids these days are listening to crap. When adults don't like, understand, or even recognize as "music" the crap kids are listening to, most likely that's a sign of progress and doin' it right.
Keep on listening to your weird sounds, kids.
Hey speaking of weird sounds, you know who has stood the test of time well? Cyndi Lauper. I still listen to her all the fucking time, and the kids dig her.
I am intrigued!
Also, fuck yeah Cyndi Lauper!
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 11:22:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:42:07 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
Makes sense. Legalized marijuana could pose competition, especially if it's safer than ethanol consumption.
ETA: I say could, because I don't think that will actually be the case. What pothead hasn't also had a beer from time to time?
They aren't worried about competition, they just want someone to SHUT UP the legalization folks and their angle of talking about how alcohol is so much worse and unsafe compared to marijuana.
And why would that bother them. You know, unless it was true.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 09, 2013, 04:17:14 AM
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
This is an excellent insight into dubstep. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kod1q39ddE)
WARNING: Possible seizure -- jump-cutty light flashy in certain bits.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
That's just made my entire month :lulz:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 09, 2013, 03:04:19 PM
That's just made my entire month :lulz:
Sure, given that booze is directly marketed to kids.
PREVENTIONISM: NOT JUST A SHILL FOR THE LIQUOR COMPANIES. HONEST. NO, REALLY.
DID SOMEONE SAY MARKETING ALCOHOL TO CHILDREN?
(http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/01/82/00/00/0001820000595_500X500.jpg)
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 11:22:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:42:07 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
Makes sense. Legalized marijuana could pose competition, especially if it's safer than ethanol consumption.
ETA: I say could, because I don't think that will actually be the case. What pothead hasn't also had a beer from time to time?
They aren't worried about competition, they just want someone to SHUT UP the legalization folks and their angle of talking about how alcohol is so much worse and unsafe compared to marijuana.
Yea, I know, all those stories where people smoke too much weed at once and get marijuana poisoning, vomit everywhere and need to have their stomach pumped. Scary, man
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
Out of curiosity, when (and we all know that's a when, not an if) prohibition is gone, are you guys going to have to switch your tactic to responsible marijuana use, much like that of alcohol?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 02:59:14 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 09, 2013, 04:17:14 AM
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
This is an excellent insight into dubstep. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kod1q39ddE)
WARNING: Possible seizure -- jump-cutty light flashy in certain bits.
Thanks for the heads-up! :)
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
:eek:
Quote from: Waffleman on October 09, 2013, 02:38:39 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 02:04:13 PM
I know a lot of young people who are into dubstep.
And my daughter has taken to listening to something that I can hardly recognize as music, and she seems to enjoy it. I take this as evidence that I am getting old, rather than as evidence that kids these days are listening to crap. When adults don't like, understand, or even recognize as "music" the crap kids are listening to, most likely that's a sign of progress and doin' it right.
Keep on listening to your weird sounds, kids.
Hey speaking of weird sounds, you know who has stood the test of time well? Cyndi Lauper. I still listen to her all the fucking time, and the kids dig her.
I am intrigued!
Also, fuck yeah Cyndi Lauper!
Next time she is listening to those sounds, I will ask her what it is, and pass along the information.
It sounds a little like video game music mixed with jazz on speed. Sometimes there are vocals, in some other language, possibly Japanese.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 03:39:29 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
:eek:
Newsflash: RWHN is a sketchy, weasley, lying-sack-of-shit nazi control freak.
Quel surprise :kingmeh:
That fake bug walking around on your screen in the newsfeed finally tricked me.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
Bolded the relevant part of the initial post.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 03:39:29 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
:eek:
Ain't it awesome? :lulz:
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 03:41:47 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on October 09, 2013, 02:38:39 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 02:04:13 PM
I know a lot of young people who are into dubstep.
And my daughter has taken to listening to something that I can hardly recognize as music, and she seems to enjoy it. I take this as evidence that I am getting old, rather than as evidence that kids these days are listening to crap. When adults don't like, understand, or even recognize as "music" the crap kids are listening to, most likely that's a sign of progress and doin' it right.
Keep on listening to your weird sounds, kids.
Hey speaking of weird sounds, you know who has stood the test of time well? Cyndi Lauper. I still listen to her all the fucking time, and the kids dig her.
I am intrigued!
Also, fuck yeah Cyndi Lauper!
Next time she is listening to those sounds, I will ask her what it is, and pass along the information.
It sounds a little like video game music mixed with jazz on speed. Sometimes there are vocals, in some other language, possibly Japanese.
This has intrigued me.
It doesn't sound like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOlPiMwcdc), does it?
-
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 04:29:12 PM
It doesn't sound like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOlPiMwcdc), does it?
Wow, I've never heard anything quite like this before.
I'm digging it! Thanks, LMNO!
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 02:59:14 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 09, 2013, 04:17:14 AM
I just had an epiphany.
Dubstep isn't intrinsically awful. It's just always being used incorrectly.
I need to ruminate on this some more before I try to explain myself. And by "ruminate" I mean "drink gin".
This is an excellent insight into dubstep. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kod1q39ddE)
WARNING: Possible seizure -- jump-cutty light flashy in certain bits.
Would you consider this (http://blog.holist.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/vanegy.mp3) dubstep? Or not quite?
Quote from: Cain on October 09, 2013, 04:36:27 PM
My position is being advertised for by the school.
Or at least the position with the same job title and role as mine. It seems they are looking for another Houseparent, to start maybe next term.
I am suspicious, since we already agreed that one of the Assistant HPs would be promoted for this year. They're also advertising for another Assistant HP. Hmmm....
There is only one option.
Applications. Many, many applications from crazy people.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 04:29:12 PM
It doesn't sound like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOlPiMwcdc), does it?
Nope!
Quote from: Cain on October 09, 2013, 04:36:27 PM
My position is being advertised for by the school.
Or at least the position with the same job title and role as mine. It seems they are looking for another Houseparent, to start maybe next term.
I am suspicious, since we already agreed that one of the Assistant HPs would be promoted for this year. They're also advertising for another Assistant HP. Hmmm....
There could be something in their rulebook about advertising open positions even if they intend to fill them internally. That's not uncommon.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 04:29:12 PM
It doesn't sound like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOlPiMwcdc), does it?
Nope!
Glitchcore came to mind.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BaWdmuZzD14
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 05:13:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 03:34:36 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
Out of curiosity, when (and we all know that's a when, not an if) prohibition is gone, are you guys going to have to switch your tactic to responsible marijuana use, much like that of alcohol?
I won't, no, because my responsibility is youth, not adults, and it will still be illegal for youth to use, as it is with alcohol and tobacco.
Ok, that makes sense as to why you can't publicly accept the alcohol industry's support.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 05:24:48 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 05:13:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 03:34:36 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:29:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 03:52:00 AM
So I took a public jab at the folks at MPP and gained an interesting new ally. The liquor industry. They are fucking pissed at the pro-legalization folks because of their "pot is safer than alcohol" talking points. Talk about interesting bedfellows.
You are allied with the liquor industry.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
No. That's what they want but I explained to them how that isn't possible, at least not publicly.
Out of curiosity, when (and we all know that's a when, not an if) prohibition is gone, are you guys going to have to switch your tactic to responsible marijuana use, much like that of alcohol?
I won't, no, because my responsibility is youth, not adults, and it will still be illegal for youth to use, as it is with alcohol and tobacco.
Ok, that makes sense as to why you can't publicly accept the alcohol industry's support.
Nope, not
publicly.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
Winter will arrive any day, but for now fall biking is RAD.
Since fall is only about a month here you miss it easily in a car. But I caught all the smells and sights of changing leaves this season. That never happens!
UGH, ALTY, WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR ANTI-CAR CRUSADE IN BIKE THREADS? WE DON'T NEED YOU SHITTING UP THE OPEN BAR WITH UPDATES ON YOUR FUCKING CAUSE.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 09, 2013, 06:54:19 PM
UGH, ALTY, WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR ANTI-CAR CRUSADE IN BIKE THREADS? WE DON'T NEED YOU SHITTING UP THE OPEN BAR WITH UPDATES ON YOUR FUCKING CAUSE.
:spittake:
Uh, I mean,WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, WHY DO YOU HATE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH?
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Hey, it was YOU that said "allies".
And "publicly".
Now you're "facilitating".
My shoes have decided to finally bite the dust. I'm left with a pair of flip-flops and a pair of sandals.
There is supposed to be a cold front coming. I shall now be the person wearing sandals with socks (because unless you have those toe socks it's not possible to do with flips).
Man, I used to love coming to this bar.
Then they just started blasting pop country all the time with the teevee cranked up as well.
SOMEBODY OUGHT TO WALK IN HERE WITH A BIG RUSTY PIPE AND BRING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
After thinking about various ways to expand my marketing, I have decided to emphasize the fact that I don't read auras, use crystals, or do anything spiritual.
I had a snippet of that on my site and people frequently mentioned it as their number one deciding factor, so I cranked it up.
I thought of advertising as a male therapist, but that seems...silly? Weird? Unnecessary?
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:40:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:10:06 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Hey, it was YOU that said "allies".
And "publicly".
Now you're "facilitating".
Yes, ally in the sense that we are on the same side of the issue (though for very different reasons).
So, when the international cocaine cartels show up at the door trash-talking marijuana, you will give them covert assistance as well?
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:44:41 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:42:04 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:40:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:10:06 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Hey, it was YOU that said "allies".
And "publicly".
Now you're "facilitating".
Yes, ally in the sense that we are on the same side of the issue (though for very different reasons).
So, when the international cocaine cartels show up at the door trash-talking marijuana, you will give them covert assistance as well?
No.
Why not?
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You know that moment when a gossipy voice from the distant past, whose been smearing your name all over this small town a decade ago and since then, turns out to be the new neighbour you've been friendly wth?*
I'd be happy if my history would stay where it is, but this is like a time capsule of awkwardness and I plan on enjoying it.
ETA:*And you also banged. Previously, not now.
Quote from: Cain on October 09, 2013, 08:19:30 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:23:33 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 09, 2013, 04:36:27 PM
My position is being advertised for by the school.
Or at least the position with the same job title and role as mine. It seems they are looking for another Houseparent, to start maybe next term.
I am suspicious, since we already agreed that one of the Assistant HPs would be promoted for this year. They're also advertising for another Assistant HP. Hmmm....
There could be something in their rulebook about advertising open positions even if they intend to fill them internally. That's not uncommon.
Maybe. I'm not up on Swiss law in regards to employment though (my understanding is, however, that it's pretty terrible for the employee. Shit, I've been on duty 7 nights straight now, which is entirely illegal under UK law).
Still, it can't hurt to plan ahead. I'm not entirely enamoured of this job anyway...the degree takes precedence, and this job is making it rather difficult. It might be that I voluntarily leave before my contract locks me in, and go back to the UK and find something part time, just enough to keep my head above water (say, 30 hours a week) and focus on the study.
Do you suppose it may change once things are settled, or is it just an environmental thing?
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Quote from: Waffleman on October 09, 2013, 05:24:14 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 04:29:12 PM
It doesn't sound like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOlPiMwcdc), does it?
Nope!
Glitchcore came to mind.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BaWdmuZzD14
No, that's not it. Next time she's listening to it I'll ask her a band name.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
He does appear to be stunningly, completely morally bankrupt.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 11:03:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
He does appear to be stunningly, completely morally bankrupt.
Well i wouldnt say its morally bankrupt. Im looking for another word. Illogical is the best i can come up with now. The worst of my cold seems to have passed but after being at work for a few hours while still recovering has left me a bit hazy.
Blight
Has another hour to go but all the free tea he can have.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 11:03:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
He does appear to be stunningly, completely morally bankrupt.
It must be his lack of suit suitability.
Waffles,
Is up to date on the latest WHN moronity.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
It must be liberating to be.......oh....no, I won't.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 11:22:42 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
It must be liberating to be.......oh....no, I won't.
Oh, go right ahead. Grab your g'nads and speak your mind.
I think this is going to be my last post of the night. Im feeling pretty fuzzed out right now mentally.
Remember what Richard Marx said.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 12:09:56 AM
Remember what Richard Marx said.
"It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line"?
Of what possible relevance is that?
I was talking to Twid actually.
Who is richard marx? Legit question.
Kenny Loggins without a beard
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmNTLxclXE
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 12:34:50 AM
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmNTLxclXE
I'll probably get it later. I seem to have gotten pretty dumb pretty fast in the past two hours.
There's nothing to get. You said you were making a last post for the night. The word "night" reminded me of that cheesy song.
It's been a long day on my end as well.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 01:14:57 AM
There's nothing to get. You said you were making a last post for the night. The word "night" reminded me of that cheesy song.
It's been a long day on my end as well.
Gotcha. :)
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 12:16:13 AM
I was talking to Twid actually.
Sorry. Thought you were finding your nads.
I'm apparently still posting. I guess I've gotten a second wind.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 02:38:06 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 12:16:13 AM
I was talking to Twid actually.
Sorry. Thought you were finding your nads.
It's sweet that you are concerned about my anatomical health, but at the same time it is a bit creepy.
Please stop.
Thank You.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 02:47:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 02:38:06 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 12:16:13 AM
I was talking to Twid actually.
Sorry. Thought you were finding your nads.
It's sweet that you are concerned about my anatomical health, but at the same time it is a bit creepy.
Please stop.
Thank You.
Naw, go fuck yourself. You were going to say something, then lost your nads. I'm not concerned about YOU, but it may cause a slipping hazard for people with very small feet.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:00:12 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 05:28:41 AM
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
Wow WTF?
We had a thing on Sundays. Gaming stuff. I tell her at her Birthday party (two weeks ago) that the Sunday group is moving from the shop up to my house.
She either didn't listen or forgot, and showed up at the shop, which is about a 10 minute drive from her place. We weren't there. She goes home, gets on FB, and tells me that because I have spoken disrespectfully to/about her guy (years ago, literally, before he matured a bit and went to school and got a steady job...We get along fine now), and because I blew her off (didn't), and because of "odds and ends" (???), she's done.
And I suppose she's right about the being done part, because apparently I don't know her, hell, never MET her, because the person I knew wouldn't drop a 7 year friendship over a misunderstanding, with no prior conversation. Nor would she say anything that hurtful just to vent.
In any case, nothing lasts forever, everything eventually ends.
:x :x :x
I've always heard that if people are going to show their ass, they usually do it about 6 months after you start hanging around with them.
I've also heard that it takes 5 years to "really get to know a person". After 5 years, you theoretically know "everything".
Both are total bullshit.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 08, 2013, 06:09:50 PM
Quote from: Mome Papess Trivial on October 08, 2013, 05:46:30 PM
Check out What's the Meaning of Stonehenge.
I love that one even more than What The Fox Say.
Further, I had to watch an actual serious video about Stonehenge for school, and it made me laugh through the whole thing.
"How could they raise the stones so high,
Completely without the technolog-eye?"
:lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 03:05:31 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 09, 2013, 03:04:19 PM
That's just made my entire month :lulz:
Sure, given that booze is directly marketed to kids.
PREVENTIONISM: NOT JUST A SHILL FOR THE LIQUOR COMPANIES. HONEST. NO, REALLY.
:potd: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Sita on October 09, 2013, 07:13:23 PM
My shoes have decided to finally bite the dust. I'm left with a pair of flip-flops and a pair of sandals.
There is supposed to be a cold front coming. I shall now be the person wearing sandals with socks (because unless you have those toe socks it's not possible to do with flips).
Sure it is. Push the socks between your big toe and second toe.
Better to just buy shoes, though. :lol:
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 11:17:37 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 11:03:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 07:39:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 09, 2013, 06:29:44 PM
I can't take their support at all. But I can hook them up with people who can.
Youse and us, ehhhhh, youse know, we can't be seen together. It would raise too many questions. But I know a guy. I'll let 'im know to help youse out.
More or less.
It must be liberating to have no principles at all.
He does appear to be stunningly, completely morally bankrupt.
Well i wouldnt say its morally bankrupt. Im looking for another word. Illogical is the best i can come up with now. The worst of my cold seems to have passed but after being at work for a few hours while still recovering has left me a bit hazy.
Blight
Has another hour to go but all the free tea he can have.
Nah. He's morally bankrupt. Completely and utterly.
I'd be like radical feminists collaborating with fundies on anti-porn stuff... Just... NO.
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 04:48:18 AM
I'd be like radical feminists collaborating with fundies on anti-porn stuff... Just... NO.
That's actually a really good analogy.
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:02:03 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
For the most part I agree. But RWHN is an occasional customer of the liquor industry. Granted he doesn't pump nearly as much money into it as I or others do, but he still supports the industry. I dunno. Seems like his position is that kids should have neither porn, nor sex toys, but adults should be able to occasionally indulge in porn, but sex toys should remain illegal, because sex toys being legal would increase a kid's accessibility to them. I'm still looking for the word, but I think illogical is sufficient.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:08:21 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:02:03 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
For the most part I agree. But RWHN is an occasional customer of the liquor industry. Granted he doesn't pump nearly as much money into it as I or others do, but he still supports the industry. I dunno. Seems like his position is that kids should have neither porn, nor sex toys, but adults should be able to occasionally indulge in porn, but sex toys should remain illegal, because sex toys being legal would increase a kid's accessibility to them. I'm still looking for the word, but I think illogical is sufficient.
Privileged ?
well, yea, but i think the aNALOGY IS GETTING STRETCHED LOL.
I'm more of a educate about porn and consent femininja, and stop that abstinence only excuse for sex ed shit.
My housemate was a volunteer for Scarleteen (a sex and relationship ed forum/site) and they are pretty horrified by the results of "just keep it in your pants forever"
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 10, 2013, 05:12:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:08:21 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:02:03 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
For the most part I agree. But RWHN is an occasional customer of the liquor industry. Granted he doesn't pump nearly as much money into it as I or others do, but he still supports the industry. I dunno. Seems like his position is that kids should have neither porn, nor sex toys, but adults should be able to occasionally indulge in porn, but sex toys should remain illegal, because sex toys being legal would increase a kid's accessibility to them. I'm still looking for the word, but I think illogical is sufficient.
Privileged ?
Wut?
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:14:24 AM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 10, 2013, 05:12:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:08:21 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:02:03 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
For the most part I agree. But RWHN is an occasional customer of the liquor industry. Granted he doesn't pump nearly as much money into it as I or others do, but he still supports the industry. I dunno. Seems like his position is that kids should have neither porn, nor sex toys, but adults should be able to occasionally indulge in porn, but sex toys should remain illegal, because sex toys being legal would increase a kid's accessibility to them. I'm still looking for the word, but I think illogical is sufficient.
Privileged ?
Wut?
The RWHNs of the world are the only ones capable of using sex toys responsibly.
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 10, 2013, 05:18:49 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:14:24 AM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 10, 2013, 05:12:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:08:21 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:02:03 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
For the most part I agree. But RWHN is an occasional customer of the liquor industry. Granted he doesn't pump nearly as much money into it as I or others do, but he still supports the industry. I dunno. Seems like his position is that kids should have neither porn, nor sex toys, but adults should be able to occasionally indulge in porn, but sex toys should remain illegal, because sex toys being legal would increase a kid's accessibility to them. I'm still looking for the word, but I think illogical is sufficient.
Privileged ?
Wut?
The RWHNs of the world are the only ones capable of using sex toys responsibly.
His kids would never sex toy. They're too smart for that. They're not even interested in any sort of wank. Other kids though....
I'm going to stop there though, because this is rehashing old arguments.
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 10, 2013, 05:18:49 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:14:24 AM
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 10, 2013, 05:12:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:08:21 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:02:03 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 04:57:31 AM
However, if we're considering RWHN's situation, it would be like the fundie not being able to work with the radical feminist or vice versa, due to cred damage, so one points the other in the direction of mysterious third group. I dunno, the clothing industry?
Probably a parenting lobby in that case.
it's still working against your own integrity and interests in the long run.
For the most part I agree. But RWHN is an occasional customer of the liquor industry. Granted he doesn't pump nearly as much money into it as I or others do, but he still supports the industry. I dunno. Seems like his position is that kids should have neither porn, nor sex toys, but adults should be able to occasionally indulge in porn, but sex toys should remain illegal, because sex toys being legal would increase a kid's accessibility to them. I'm still looking for the word, but I think illogical is sufficient.
Privileged ?
Wut?
The RWHNs of the world are the only ones capable of using sex toys responsibly.
HAHA, PROBABLY DOESN'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT PTHALATES THO
OR LUBE WITH GLYCERIN IN.
(BOTH ARE BAD, BTW)
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:24:23 AM
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
Better than talking about drugs. :)
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:28:07 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:24:23 AM
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
Better than talking about drugs. :)
glass and metal are also non-porous and better, generally than cheep weird smelling stuff from china and whatever.
Eve would know more about that.
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:30:21 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:28:07 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:24:23 AM
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
Better than talking about drugs. :)
glass and metal are also non-porous and better, generally than cheep weird smelling stuff from china and whatever.
Eve would know more about that.
Your Cookie Monster gif makes this post kinda hilarious
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:33:44 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:30:21 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 05:28:07 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:24:23 AM
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
Better than talking about drugs. :)
glass and metal are also non-porous and better, generally than cheep weird smelling stuff from china and whatever.
Eve would know more about that.
Your Cookie Monster gif makes this post kinda hilarious
:lulz:
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Quote from: stelz on October 10, 2013, 03:34:26 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 09, 2013, 07:13:23 PM
My shoes have decided to finally bite the dust. I'm left with a pair of flip-flops and a pair of sandals.
There is supposed to be a cold front coming. I shall now be the person wearing sandals with socks (because unless you have those toe socks it's not possible to do with flips).
Sure it is. Push the socks between your big toe and second toe.
Better to just buy shoes, though. :lol:
:lol: True. Sadly shoes for me are low on the priority list. Until tax time. Lack of money sucks.
Quote from: Cain on October 10, 2013, 07:17:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 12:24:28 AM
Who is richard marx? Legit question.
Karl Marx's lesser known younger brother.
"Maybe the proletariat and the bourgeouisie can come to some sort of mutually beneficial agreement where..."
"Shut the fuck up, Richard!"
Quote from: Cain on October 10, 2013, 07:17:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 12:24:28 AM
Who is richard marx? Legit question.
Karl Marx's lesser known younger brother.
Known for espousing the radical belief that "workers should control, like,
most of the means of production, I guess? Also, share more of your stuff."
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:24:23 AM
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
I always put condoms on my dildoes, but it's not to save my ladyparts. I don't know where these assholes have been.
What is "organic lube"? :?
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 04:31:40 PM
What is "organic lube"? :?
Less silicon. No quartz powder. That sort of thing.
wait
WAIT
WAIT!NIGEL! ORGANIC
GASOLINE! WE'RE GONNA BE RICH LIKE FUCKING PHAROAHS!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 04:40:28 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 04:31:40 PM
What is "organic lube"? :?
Less silicon. No quartz powder. That sort of thing.
wait
WAIT
WAIT!
NIGEL! ORGANIC GASOLINE! WE'RE GONNA BE RICH LIKE FUCKING PHAROAHS!
OMG :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Fuck this Shutdown crap! Fuck it in the ear!
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
Fuck this Shutdown crap! Fuck it in the ear!
This is one of those times that I am glad to be a corporate whore.
We're doomed, too, but it takes longer.
My job is fine, but all of the people I report to, or from whom I get technical and grant support, are all on furlough. It just mucks up the gears something wicked.
oh no it's just so fucking inconvenient for you.
but me? I don't know if I'm going to be able to make rent this quarter because my benefits are through the VA and pretty much onlt active duty is guaranteed to get paid. so I may or may not be going to drill to maybe get paid, never mind that all those DA civilians that are furloughed that are kind of fucking important to maintaining day to day operations on military bases. or that they aren't getting paid and have bills to pay too.
but no stop the fucking presses a real fucking issue had cropped up. the nation's most important drug preventionist has been fucking inconvenienced.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
Fuck this Shutdown crap! Fuck it in the ear!
You realize with all the contrarian bullshit you've been throwing around the last couple days I'm now enthusiastic about the shutdown just because it inconveniences you.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 10, 2013, 06:19:37 PM
oh no it's just so fucking inconvenient for you.
but me? I don't know if I'm going to be able to make rent this quarter because my benefits are through the VA and pretty much onlt active duty is guaranteed to get paid. so I may or may not be going to drill to maybe get paid, never mind that all those DA civilians that are furloughed that are kind of fucking important to maintaining day to day operations on military bases. or that they aren't getting paid and have bills to pay too.
but no stop the fucking presses a real fucking issue had cropped up. the nation's most important drug preventionist has been fucking inconvenienced.
I have a job, for now. If a default occurs, having a job may not mean all that much. Nor will it be a permanent state of affairs.
Worry worry worry worry
oh, and
hate hate hate hate
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 10, 2013, 06:20:44 PM
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
Fuck this Shutdown crap! Fuck it in the ear!
You realize with all the contrarian bullshit you've been throwing around the last couple days I'm now enthusiastic about the shutdown just because it inconveniences you.
Too bad it's actually FUCKING everyone else we know.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 10, 2013, 06:19:37 PM
oh no it's just so fucking inconvenient for you.
but me? I don't know if I'm going to be able to make rent this quarter because my benefits are through the VA and pretty much onlt active duty is guaranteed to get paid. so I may or may not be going to drill to maybe get paid, never mind that all those DA civilians that are furloughed that are kind of fucking important to maintaining day to day operations on military bases. or that they aren't getting paid and have bills to pay too.
but no stop the fucking presses a real fucking issue had cropped up. the nation's most important drug preventionist has been fucking inconvenienced.
I manage a project that entails providing support to veterans and their family members so I'm aware of how fucked those issues are. Sorry I didn't rattle off an exhaustive laundry list of all of the shit affected by the shutdown.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 10, 2013, 06:20:44 PM
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
Fuck this Shutdown crap! Fuck it in the ear!
You realize with all the contrarian bullshit you've been throwing around the last couple days I'm now enthusiastic about the shutdown just because it inconveniences you.
Uh, okay. Whatever floats your boat commander.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 06:21:30 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 10, 2013, 06:19:37 PM
oh no it's just so fucking inconvenient for you.
but me? I don't know if I'm going to be able to make rent this quarter because my benefits are through the VA and pretty much onlt active duty is guaranteed to get paid. so I may or may not be going to drill to maybe get paid, never mind that all those DA civilians that are furloughed that are kind of fucking important to maintaining day to day operations on military bases. or that they aren't getting paid and have bills to pay too.
but no stop the fucking presses a real fucking issue had cropped up. the nation's most important drug preventionist has been fucking inconvenienced.
I have a job, for now. If a default occurs, having a job may not mean all that much. Nor will it be a permanent state of affairs.
Worry worry worry worry
oh, and
hate hate hate hate
losing sleep over this shit.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 06:33:27 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 10, 2013, 06:20:44 PM
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 06:04:00 PM
Fuck this Shutdown crap! Fuck it in the ear!
You realize with all the contrarian bullshit you've been throwing around the last couple days I'm now enthusiastic about the shutdown just because it inconveniences you.
Uh, okay. Whatever floats your boat commander Your Majesty.
I have to confess something very bad, which is that there is a small (and wrong) part of me that kind of wants the government to default because I'm curious to see what happens then.
Probably what happens then is I have to give up all my dreams and my children's dreams, but that part of me is still curious.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 06:45:39 PM
I have to confess something very bad, which is that there is a small (and wrong) part of me that kind of wants the government to default because I'm curious to see what happens then.
I get that same giddy, slap-happy feeling when the guys are heating up a ceramic-lined vessel. You sort of WANT there to be an imperfection, because boom. Boom is exciting. So is watching great big shit falling down. But then there's a mess.
So, yesterday, we had stat training at work, because some of our lab people were having trouble with standard deviation.
The guy who came in to teach it is a long-time consultant, with whom many of us have interacted with in a positive fashion...BUT.
BUT.
BUT.
Yesterday, he spends a few minutes ranting about "liberals". Tom and I just smile and ask him could he please be professional for 2 seconds. The boss is humiliated by the whole thing and gets really, really mad at the consultant. Lilly is conservative (as is Jim), but is professional enough to glare at the consultant. Ernie doesn't get it, goes along with it. Boss gets madder.
End result, consultant looking for work, Ernie is in the doghouse (though not in any actual danger of losing his job) and has no idea why.
Politics at work: Are you a retard?
3 minutes ago.
Ernie: Hey, I need X and Y.
Roger: You can have X OR Y, I don't have enough people to do (important project) and both X and Y.
Ernie: Well, okay. But I need X and Y.
Roger: Pick one.
Ernie: I need them both.
Roger: You can't have them both.
Ernie: ...
Roger: ...
Ernie: I need them both.
Roger: *hangs up phone*
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 04:30:33 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 05:24:23 AM
I am not sure why I went into PSA mode about sex toys and lube.
but the basics are that the jelly toys are likely to rot and are bad for your ladyparts, and glycerin and parabens might give you thrush.
Silicone for all your dildo needs! Also nice organic lube is awesome.
I always put condoms on my dildoes, but it's not to save my ladyparts. I don't know where these assholes have been.
:lulz:
I said this in a different thread, but organic lube is aloe based
I just heard, from the shop, all the way into my office, a great disturbance in the force. As if a giant piece of ceramic suddenly shattered.
BRB.
:omg:
Quote from: Pixie on October 10, 2013, 07:31:13 PM
I said this in a different thread, but organic lube is aloe based
So it's basically polysaccharides.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 07:32:34 PM
I just heard, from the shop, all the way into my office, a great disturbance in the force. As if a giant piece of ceramic suddenly shattered.
BRB.
uh oh.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 08:13:00 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 07:32:34 PM
I just heard, from the shop, all the way into my office, a great disturbance in the force. As if a giant piece of ceramic suddenly shattered.
BRB.
uh oh.
Yeeeeah.
There's $37K we'll never see again.
Well, off to the money pit.
I don't know whether to :lulz: or :horrormirth: at the fact that your plant accidentally more money in any given month than I am likely to make in the next 5 years.
(http://i.imgur.com/GmWAyG6.jpg)
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Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on October 10, 2013, 09:04:44 PM
I don't know whether to :lulz: or :horrormirth: at the fact that your plant accidentally more money in any given month than I am likely to make in the next 5 years.
This is why I love hearing libertarians claim that corporations are so much more efficient than governments.
:lulz:
I efficiently waste more money before 9AM than most people will in their lives.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 09:08:56 PM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on October 10, 2013, 09:04:44 PM
I don't know whether to :lulz: or :horrormirth: at the fact that your plant accidentally more money in any given month than I am likely to make in the next 5 years.
This is why I love hearing libertarians claim that corporations are so much more efficient than governments.
:lulz:
I efficiently waste more money before 9AM than most people will in their lives.
:lulz:
I just saw something truly bizarre: An objectivist with a girlfriend.
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on October 10, 2013, 10:02:17 PM
I just saw something truly bizarre: An objectivist with a girlfriend.
WAT?
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 06:46:58 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 06:45:39 PM
I have to confess something very bad, which is that there is a small (and wrong) part of me that kind of wants the government to default because I'm curious to see what happens then.
I get that same giddy, slap-happy feeling when the guys are heating up a ceramic-lined vessel. You sort of WANT there to be an imperfection, because boom. Boom is exciting. So is watching great big shit falling down. But then there's a mess.
And people crying.
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on October 10, 2013, 10:02:17 PM
I just saw something truly bizarre: An objectivist with a girlfriend.
NO WAY.
GAH STUPID WORK DAY JUST FAHKIN END SO I CAN GET MY GLASSES AND GO HOME. FIFTY MINUTES.
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on October 10, 2013, 10:02:17 PM
I just saw something truly bizarre: An objectivist with a girlfriend.
IMPOSSIBLE.
You know, for being something so many people make such a big deal out of, chanterelles are kind of disgusting.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 11:30:24 PM
You know, for being something so many people make such a big deal out of, chanterelles are kind of disgusting.
They an be really delicious but, like anything else, there are alot of people out there who are more enthusiastic than they are knowledgeable about the preparation of chanterelles. And yeah, if they're not prepared properly and/or not used in a manner that highlights their attributes they can be kind of bleh.
Soooo . . . knitting is strictly the purview of women over forty-five / fifty. Bet you didn't know that. And crochet is a second-class / third world craft that the yarn in my local yarn store is too good for. So I shouldn't be in there. Trying to give them my money.
Waaaaaaaaaaay bigger insult and tragedy than Syria, the furlough, and Miley Cyrus. I've offended a bevy of blue-haired ladies to the core with my wild antics and multi-crafty abilities. I am what is wrong with America.
I shit you not.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 11, 2013, 12:23:49 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 11:30:24 PM
You know, for being something so many people make such a big deal out of, chanterelles are kind of disgusting.
They an be really delicious but, like anything else, there are alot of people out there who are more enthusiastic than they are knowledgeable about the preparation of chanterelles. And yeah, if they're not prepared properly and/or not used in a manner that highlights their attributes they can be kind of bleh.
On this, my approximately 40th year in a row of eating them, I have yet to actually meet a preparation in which they were better than "meh".
I once had them in some ramen, and they were OK.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 11, 2013, 04:49:07 AM
Soooo . . . knitting is strictly the purview of women over forty-five / fifty. Bet you didn't know that. And crochet is a second-class / third world craft that the yarn in my local yarn store is too good for. So I shouldn't be in there. Trying to give them my money.
Waaaaaaaaaaay bigger insult and tragedy than Syria, the furlough, and Miley Cyrus. I've offended a bevy of blue-haired ladies to the core with my wild antics and multi-crafty abilities. I am what is wrong with America.
I shit you not.
What a pack of dicks.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 06:29:49 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 11, 2013, 04:49:07 AM
Soooo . . . knitting is strictly the purview of women over forty-five / fifty. Bet you didn't know that. And crochet is a second-class / third world craft that the yarn in my local yarn store is too good for. So I shouldn't be in there. Trying to give them my money.
Waaaaaaaaaaay bigger insult and tragedy than Syria, the furlough, and Miley Cyrus. I've offended a bevy of blue-haired ladies to the core with my wild antics and multi-crafty abilities. I am what is wrong with America.
I shit you not.
What a pack of dicks.
My gast was flabbered. I was laughing too hard to hear the whole rant but I thanked them for the entertainment anyway. Holy shit, man.
I think that I might just be really passionate about literature.
sooo... i just got a job offer making $1000 bux more a month doing basically the same thing I'm already doing but with more variability. :thanks:
Nice!
I am inexplicably popular in my Chemistry class. Everyone wants to sit next to/talk to/hang out with me. :?
I'm about to get offered a job at a BBQ joint in Seattle. Doubt it pays much but it's interesting enough to listen to the pitch anyway.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
I am inexplicably popular in my Chemistry class. Everyone wants to sit next to/talk to/hang out with me. :?
Well, you're awesome, why wouldn't they?
My lab partner told me today that I would make a good biology teacher.
The whole point of going into science was so that I wouldn't be cursed with the fate of becoming a history teacher.
Dammit.
Blight,
Busily scratching runes off of some big ass ash tree.
I always suspected that tattoo artists were getting Kanji/Chinese characters off of takeout menus, or flat out trolling. "Mad Diarrhea" in Chinese would be kind of an awesome tattoo to have, though. http://tokyodesu.com/2013/08/09/pictures-terrible-kanji-tattoos-with-their-english-translations/
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
I am inexplicably popular in my Chemistry class. Everyone wants to sit next to/talk to/hang out with me. :?
they can smell the smart.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
I am inexplicably popular in my Chemistry class. Everyone wants to sit next to/talk to/hang out with me. :?
If you didn't bring enough pheremones for the whole class, put them away.
:lulz:
I'm not the smartest kid in class. I don't even have all the conversion factors memorized. It is possible that I'm the most approachable smart kid in class, though.
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on October 11, 2013, 07:56:51 AM
I'm about to get offered a job at a BBQ joint in Seattle. Doubt it pays much but it's interesting enough to listen to the pitch anyway.
Mmmmm, BBQ sounds fun.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 08:00:24 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
I am inexplicably popular in my Chemistry class. Everyone wants to sit next to/talk to/hang out with me. :?
Well, you're awesome, why wouldn't they?
My lab partner told me today that I would make a good biology teacher.
The whole point of going into science was so that I wouldn't be cursed with the fate of becoming a history teacher.
Dammit.
Blight,
Busily scratching runes off of some big ass ash tree.
I don't think I could deal with teaching, not because I don't like teaching but because what gets me excited is learning new things, not teaching other people new things.
It's the research life for me!
I've got a million things to do today, and they're all short, but they're one right after the other.
So I can't get started on shit, rant-wise. :argh!:
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 03:40:06 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 08:00:24 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 07:05:48 AM
I am inexplicably popular in my Chemistry class. Everyone wants to sit next to/talk to/hang out with me. :?
Well, you're awesome, why wouldn't they?
My lab partner told me today that I would make a good biology teacher.
The whole point of going into science was so that I wouldn't be cursed with the fate of becoming a history teacher.
Dammit.
Blight,
Busily scratching runes off of some big ass ash tree.
I don't think I could deal with teaching, not because I don't like teaching but because what gets me excited is learning new things, not teaching other people new things.
It's the research life for me!
I feel kinda the same. I could see teaching a class or two in addition but if i were only teaching i wouldnt feel like i was doing science.
Learn to write grant applications or die, then.
In precisely 3 weeks, I will be 45 years old. That's 2.2% as old as Jesus.
My prostate just fell right out on the floor, so don't any of you fuckers tell me that "you're only as old as you feel."
In 17 days I'll be 38.
And I still have all of my hair.
Life is good.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 11, 2013, 04:55:09 PM
In 17 days I'll be 38.
And I still have all of my hair.
Life is good.
I have all of mine, and all of the neighbor's as well. Hacking it off my head is like deburring steel. But other systems are not functioning quite as well as that particular department.
Of course, I wouldn't expect RWHN to write anything about anything without trying to get a shot off.
:lulz:
38 you say? Sounds like you got 7 years there boyo.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 05:08:48 PM
38 you say? Sounds like you got 7 years there boyo.
Hush, he's trying to tell us how virile he is.
My sister is volunteering for the Katherine Clark campaign. I recently found out that Clark has been supporting all kinds of nasty shit I want no part of, including the state wiretapping bill. When I asked my sister about this, she had no idea. She just volunteered for Clark because that campaign contacted her first and had an office in walking distance.
I'm 28 and all my organs are in the same place they started and last weekend one of Dad's former classmates asked me if I was driving yet! Aren't I precious! I ARE NEVER GET OLD!
:argh!:
In other news, the jet mill we've been working on all week went BANG. Defective bottom plate.
Thanks, factory geeks. Thanks a lot.
I've been keeping score, and I don't think you have any equipment left.
In fact, you may now be breaking things that don't even exist yet.
Got my flu shot. Take that viruses. You know what that sore arm means? Bouncers bitch.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 11, 2013, 06:29:04 PM
I've been keeping score, and I don't think you have any equipment left.
In fact, you may now be breaking things that don't even exist yet.
TUCSON: BREAKING YOUR POTENTIALS.
TUCSON: Fuckers of chicken futures.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 05:09:13 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 05:08:48 PM
38 you say? Sounds like you got 7 years there boyo.
Hush, he's trying to tell us how virile he is.
Not even 38 and he's already an old fuddy duddy in an ill fitting suit trying to throw a monkey wrench in other peoples' parties. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
It's Columbus Day weekend in Providence.
I am going to go blow my diet on Italian food in the name of guy who sailed for Spain and is glorified needlessly by American Mythology. I'm pretty sure Richter already high tailed it out of town for the weekend, because he hates people. So does my boyfriend, but his love of pastry supersedes claustrophobia.
In celebration of Columbus Day, I will be hiking a mountain many others have hiked before, but upon reaching the summit, shall declare myself the first to discover it.
But first I will be seeing NIN tonight
My llama died
I will be doing NOT A DAMN THING OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR COLUMBUS DAY except perusing the annual "Why the fuck are we celebrating genocide?" macros on facebook.
I hope the mail runs tomorrow. I'm expecting a sweater.
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on October 11, 2013, 07:05:22 PM
In celebration of Columbus Day, I will be hiking a mountain many others have hiked before, but upon reaching the summit, shall declare myself the first to discover it.
But first I will be seeing NIN tonight
I will be the first to discover a sausage and pepper sandwich and some sangria!
Columbus Day will be spent like any other day. With the addition of a conference with my son's teachers.
Hell I didn't even realize it was coming up. I better prepare myself for the inevitable of people trying to burn the place down (ie BBQing where they aren't supposed to and possible fireworks).
Quote from: stelz on October 11, 2013, 06:50:51 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 05:09:13 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 05:08:48 PM
38 you say? Sounds like you got 7 years there boyo.
Hush, he's trying to tell us how virile he is.
Not even 38 and he's already an old fuddy duddy in an ill fitting suit trying to throw a monkey wrench in other peoples' parties. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now he's dragging his butthurt all over the shutdown thread in the politics section.
Quote from: Suu on October 11, 2013, 06:57:05 PM
It's Columbus Day weekend in Providence.
What the hell is that?
Quote from: Suu on October 11, 2013, 07:23:18 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on October 11, 2013, 07:05:22 PM
In celebration of Columbus Day, I will be hiking a mountain many others have hiked before, but upon reaching the summit, shall declare myself the first to discover it.
But first I will be seeing NIN tonight
I will be the first to discover a sausage and pepper sandwich and some sangria!
:lol: Hey, sounds like a worthwhile discovery to me.
Much of my free time this summer was spent at concerts and festivals, so a trip up a mountain before it gets too cold (for my tastes) seems to be in order.
As far as I'm concerned, if I don't get a paid day off for it, IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Therefore, the following people are NOT historical figures:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln.
Jesus (the second time around, I mean, after the "being dead" part).
Anyone in World War I.
Anyone in any other war.
Christopher Columbus.
In ten minutes, I have to go to a lunch for the 25 year mark for our sales guy, who is universally acknowledged to be The Worst Guy On Earth. He's a sales geek, drives a Porshe, has perfect teeth and hair, and believes that no day is complete without humiliating an underling.
Fucker tried that shit on me, once, and I turned his AC in his office off for a week. Then I did it again two weeks later, just to make sure the point was driven home. I hated this guy from "hello".
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 07:43:08 PM
As far as I'm concerned, if I don't get a paid day off for it, IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Therefore, the following people are NOT historical figures:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln.
Jesus (the second time around, I mean, after the "being dead" part).
Anyone in World War I.
Anyone in any other war.
Christopher Columbus.
Everything I ever learned about history is a lie! :cry:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 07:43:08 PM
As far as I'm concerned, if I don't get a paid day off for it, IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Therefore, the following people are NOT historical figures:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln.
Jesus (the second time around, I mean, after the "being dead" part).
Anyone in World War I.
Anyone in any other war.
Christopher Columbus.
Last "regular" job I had included ALL OF THOSE, plus all the rest except the birth of Jebus.
There was no history except that. :x
ETA: Oh wait - "
paid day off"?
Then nothing happened. Ever. THERE IS NO HISTORY.
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on October 11, 2013, 06:12:23 PM
I'm 28 and all my organs are in the same place they started and last weekend one of Dad's former classmates asked me if I was driving yet! Aren't I precious! I ARE NEVER GET OLD!
:crankey:
Well, I guess that's it for the day.
Fucking hate Fridays.
Quote from: stelz on October 11, 2013, 07:14:20 PM
I will be doing NOT A DAMN THING OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR COLUMBUS DAY except perusing the annual "Why the fuck are we celebrating genocide?" macros on facebook.
I hope the mail runs tomorrow. I'm expecting a sweater.
TEXAS REN-FAIR!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 07:52:05 PM
In ten minutes, I have to go to a lunch for the 25 year mark for our sales guy, who is universally acknowledged to be The Worst Guy On Earth. He's a sales geek, drives a Porshe, has perfect teeth and hair, and believes that no day is complete without humiliating an underling.
Fucker tried that shit on me, once, and I turned his AC in his office off for a week. Then I did it again two weeks later, just to make sure the point was driven home. I hated this guy from "hello".
SHIT IN HIS MOUTH ROGER SHIT IN HIS MOUTH! DO IT FOR LITTLE BINKS!
Todays has been haircut incase I have drill next week.
And smashing my head into differential equations.
Totally dropping my math minor after this quarter. Math has ceased to be fun or easy. If had been one or the other I'd stick with it, but all I can forsee happening if I keep taking math classes is my GPA sinking even further.
You know what I get for Columbus Day?
A biology midterm.
So. Fucking. Bored. I dont even smoke cloves anymore when sober so i cant even do that shit. If i hadnt been home sick monday and tuesday id be getting the fuck out of here right now.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 09:56:34 PM
You know what I get for Columbus Day?
A biology midterm.
My, those terms do fly by.
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on October 11, 2013, 09:21:25 PM
Quote from: stelz on October 11, 2013, 07:14:20 PM
I will be doing NOT A DAMN THING OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR COLUMBUS DAY except perusing the annual "Why the fuck are we celebrating genocide?" macros on facebook.
I hope the mail runs tomorrow. I'm expecting a sweater.
TEXAS REN-FAIR!
:spittake:
For Columbus Day, I will be at work.
Dealing with the Jet Mill, which exploded again. Talked to the manufacturer, and they say "Yes, we've been having a little trouble with the epoxy". THANKS FOR TELLING US, ASSHOLE. YOU EAT THE $50K IN PARTS WE JUST LOST. AND MAYBE YOU COULD CALL OUR CUSTOMER AND EXPLAIN TO THEM WHY WE WON'T BE SHIPPING ON TIME.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 10:00:32 PM
For Columbus Day, I will be at work.
Dealing with the Jet Mill, which exploded again. Talked to the manufacturer, and they say "Yes, we've been having a little trouble with the epoxy". THANKS FOR TELLING US, ASSHOLE. YOU EAT THE $50K IN PARTS WE JUST LOST. AND MAYBE YOU COULD CALL OUR CUSTOMER AND EXPLAIN TO THEM WHY WE WON'T BE SHIPPING ON TIME.
Epoxy?
I use that shit to fix KNICK KNACKS.
Also I'm 42.5 and I still have all my hair.
Quote from: stelz on October 11, 2013, 10:02:06 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 10:00:32 PM
For Columbus Day, I will be at work.
Dealing with the Jet Mill, which exploded again. Talked to the manufacturer, and they say "Yes, we've been having a little trouble with the epoxy". THANKS FOR TELLING US, ASSHOLE. YOU EAT THE $50K IN PARTS WE JUST LOST. AND MAYBE YOU COULD CALL OUR CUSTOMER AND EXPLAIN TO THEM WHY WE WON'T BE SHIPPING ON TIME.
Epoxy?
I use that shit to fix KNICK KNACKS.
We use it to stick ceramic plates to steel plates. Badly.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 09:57:51 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 09:56:34 PM
You know what I get for Columbus Day?
A biology midterm.
My, those terms do fly by.
It is inexplicably almost three weeks ahead of my other midterms, which I think they do on purpose so we don't have Chem and Bio midterms the same week.
I'm almost 29 and my fucking facial hair still grows in patchy as fuck everywhere but my chin and mustache. Meanwhile the bulk of my important joints like to serenade me with a cacophony of snaps, crackles and pops.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 11, 2013, 10:05:58 PM
I'm almost 29 and my fucking facial hair still grows in patchy as fuck everywhere but my chin and mustache. Meanwhile the bulk of my important joints like to serenade me with a cacophony of snaps, crackles and pops.
But RHWN has a full head of hair.
This is important shit; take notes.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 10:03:41 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 09:57:51 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 09:56:34 PM
You know what I get for Columbus Day?
A biology midterm.
My, those terms do fly by.
It is inexplicably almost three weeks ahead of my other midterms, which I think they do on purpose so we don't have Chem and Bio midterms the same week.
I was wondering.
Im 32 and have more testosterone than rwhn as evidenced by me losing my hair.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 10:22:13 PM
Im 32 and have more testosterone than rwhn as evidenced by me losing my hair.
But have you forged an alliance with big alcohol? :lulz:
I'm torn between reading The Quest of the Holy Grail or roughing out a paper on Beowulf.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 11, 2013, 10:25:08 PM
I'm torn between reading The Quest of the Holy Grail or roughing out a paper on Beowulf.
Beowulf. Way cooler.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 10:23:44 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 11, 2013, 10:22:13 PM
Im 32 and have more testosterone than rwhn as evidenced by me losing my hair.
But have you forged an alliance with big alcohol? :lulz:
In a manner of speaking. They make it i drink it.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 10:25:30 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 11, 2013, 10:25:08 PM
I'm torn between reading The Quest of the Holy Grail or roughing out a paper on Beowulf.
Beowulf. Way cooler.
It's less of an "either or" situation and more of "which do I want to do now" with the knowledge that both need to be done.
And Beowulf is fucking awesome. It has fucking layers of layers of fucking awesome. It's got that awesome that shoves itself in your face. It's also got layers of "hey fucker guess what. You know some shit about how shit is written and what shit means so hold on to your fucking pants, double up on depends, do your PCCs and wear the fucking PPE because shit is about to fucking blow your mind every fucking time you start thinking about how fucking awesome this shit is."
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 11, 2013, 10:32:12 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 11, 2013, 10:25:30 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 11, 2013, 10:25:08 PM
I'm torn between reading The Quest of the Holy Grail or roughing out a paper on Beowulf.
Beowulf. Way cooler.
It's less of an "either or" situation and more of "which do I want to do now" with the knowledge that both need to be done.
And Beowulf is fucking awesome. It has fucking layers of layers of fucking awesome. It's got that awesome that shoves itself in your face. It's also got layers of "hey fucker guess what. You know some shit about how shit is written and what shit means so hold on to your fucking pants, double up on depends, do your PCCs and wear the fucking PPE because shit is about to fucking blow your mind every fucking time you start thinking about how fucking awesome this shit is."
shit yeah
Beowulf is rad, it's true. I'm not even a lit geek and I like it.
I am procrastinating my architecture homework. I need to do that, complete an end-of-chapter quiz, write a lab report, and memorize a shit ton of bio shit by Monday.
I can do this. My body is ready.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 11:06:48 PM
Beowulf is rad, it's true. I'm not even a lit geek and I like it.
I am procrastinating my architecture homework. I need to do that, complete an end-of-chapter quiz, write a lab report, and memorize a shit ton of bio shit by Monday.
I can do this. My body is ready.
I think that is one of the most radi-fucking-cal about it. It's fucking awesome to read as a thing to just fucking read.
And then I decided to tease apart the kennings, and then my mind just get getting blown. This is probably the first time I won't have to struggle so hard to come up with a thesis that is both good as a thesis and that I fucking love and want to talk about.
BTW
Kennings are fucking awesome.
And so is ripping a monster's arm off with your bare hands.
I want there to be a tv series about Beowulf who wanders the lands getting into adventures, and fighting dudes and monsters. It would be like Herculues:the Legendary Journeys, only with more vikings and mead and vikings.
And I know exactly who would be a perfect person to play the part of Beowulf.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 12, 2013, 01:25:27 AM
I want there to be a tv series about Beowulf who wanders the lands getting into adventures, and fighting dudes and monsters. It would be like Herculues:the Legendary Journeys, only with more vikings and mead and vikings.
And I know exactly who would be a perfect person to play the part of Beowulf.
Waffles?
ETA: With Lenin McCarthy as his trusty comedic relief sidekick?
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 01:26:27 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 12, 2013, 01:25:27 AM
I want there to be a tv series about Beowulf who wanders the lands getting into adventures, and fighting dudes and monsters. It would be like Herculues:the Legendary Journeys, only with more vikings and mead and vikings.
And I know exactly who would be a perfect person to play the part of Beowulf.
Waffles?
ETA: With Lenin McCarthy as his trusty comedic relief sidekick?
I didn't even think about Lenin McCarthy.
BUT FUCK YES TO THAT!!!!
Fuck.
I might have to make a wompcomic.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 12, 2013, 01:29:23 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 01:26:27 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 12, 2013, 01:25:27 AM
I want there to be a tv series about Beowulf who wanders the lands getting into adventures, and fighting dudes and monsters. It would be like Herculues:the Legendary Journeys, only with more vikings and mead and vikings.
And I know exactly who would be a perfect person to play the part of Beowulf.
Waffles?
ETA: With Lenin McCarthy as his trusty comedic relief sidekick?
I didn't even think about Lenin McCarthy.
BUT FUCK YES TO THAT!!!!
Fuck.
I might have to make a wompcomic.
And I have to continue with mine. Waffles sent me the requested pics a while ago, but it might take some digging since their in PM here.
There are five teenage boys in my kitchen re-enacting Epic Mealtime, and I really want a drink but I need to be learning about architecture.
:horrormirth:
I have a headache.
So my kidney stone "Barney Rubble" is still stuck. I'm drinking doses of lemon juice and olive oil. It has completely removed my appetite. :/ However, the "pinching" feeling I've been having is starting to subside, so I think it's working to break down the stone. I really hope so. This is incredibly uncomfortable. I figured it would have passed by now with the amount of water I've been slamming back.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/Norwegules_zps8936fe7b.jpg)
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 10:02:14 PM
Also I'm 42.5 and I still have all my hair.
Nigel has a SURPLUS of THICK, AWESOME HAIR THAT ANSWERS TO NO ONE.
My own is lank, passive...but I CAN SIT ON THE SHIT. EVEN MY HAIR MAKES RWHN'S CRY LIKE A LITTLE BITCH.
RWHN's hair kind of sits on his head like a little turd. :lulz:
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 01:48:15 AM
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/Norwegules_zps8936fe7b.jpg)
:lulz:
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:07:25 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 11, 2013, 10:02:14 PM
Also I'm 42.5 and I still have all my hair.
Nigel has a SURPLUS of THICK, AWESOME HAIR THAT ANSWERS TO NO ONE.
My own is lank, passive...but I CAN SIT ON THE SHIT. EVEN MY HAIR MAKES RWHN'S CRY LIKE A LITTLE BITCH.
RWHN's hair kind of sits on his head like a little turd. :lulz:
I would KILL to have Nigel's gorgeous hairs!
I keep mine cut short for a reason, damnit. I USED to be able to sit on it, but it's so fucking thick and evil it would turn it's own dreadlocks if I didn't have my mom brush it thoroughly, because it was too long and hardcore for me to do it by myself. It was the hardpance of hair. The epitome of shit that could have been braided into a rope to use on the largest sailing vessels. Shit, Rapunzel would have had plait envy. RWHN has hair envy too. Of all of us, because our hair is collectively greater than his mange.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 01:48:15 AM
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/Norwegules_zps8936fe7b.jpg)
yes
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Clean Head is A THING and WAY cooler than a turd sitting up there.
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:17:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
No kidding. Never mind the goddamn maintenance.
I don't know how Waffles makes his look so awesome. If enough of my follicles were still functioning, I'd ask him for his secret.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:24:38 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:17:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
No kidding. Never mind the goddamn maintenance.
I don't know how Waffles makes his look so awesome. If enough of my follicles were still functioning, I'd ask him for his secret.
Secret Viking shit and Amanda Fucking Palmer.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:24:38 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:17:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
No kidding. Never mind the goddamn maintenance.
I don't know how Waffles makes his look so awesome. If enough of my follicles were still functioning, I'd ask him for his secret.
I was considering it this last winter, because I missed a couple of haircuts. So I figured I could do it...yeah no. It got to a point where I was like, 'GET THIS SHIT OFF MY NECK.'
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:22:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Clean Head is A THING and WAY cooler than a turd sitting up there.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/HairYesterday_zps02de7f21.jpg)
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:28:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:24:38 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:17:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
No kidding. Never mind the goddamn maintenance.
I don't know how Waffles makes his look so awesome. If enough of my follicles were still functioning, I'd ask him for his secret.
I was considering it this last winter, because I missed a couple of haircuts. So I figured I could do it...yeah no. It got to a point where I was like, 'GET THIS SHIT OFF MY NECK.'
The last thing I grew out was bangs.
They did not wave back fetchingly and flatter my face. Fuck no.
They did not even wave seductively over one eye
a la Veronica Lake.
They went FORWARD. When they were too short to hook behind my ears, always straight forward.
Clips? Fuck no, wouldn't stay. My hair slides out of that shit before I get out of the front door. It's more slippery than EELS FUCKING. IN A BARREL OF SNOT.
I endured it. Now - NO MORE CUTTING.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:33:41 AM
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:22:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Clean Head is A THING and WAY cooler than a turd sitting up there.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/HairYesterday_zps02de7f21.jpg)
Either way, that's ROCK N ROLL, bitches. :D
The end of me having long hair was Villager's predecessor's predecessor. Happened around the time I was 23 or 24 (my, them relationships last longer these days, don't they?) She flat out told me that she hated the fact that I had long hair but that she would cut my split ends. Then after a certain point she said "One of these days I'm just going to cut the whole thing short. You know that right?" "Yep."
Well, sure enough, one day it actually happened.
She was trimming my ends, and went to measure, and then went way up, cut, and said, "Oops. Well, now I have to even it out." "I know." "Are you mad at me." "Of course." "You know you're going to be bald by 30 right?" "Yeah. I just wanted to enjoy it while I could." "Well, any requests?" "Caesar-ish."
Probably the calmest argument in a relationship I've ever had. :lulz:
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:39:41 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:33:41 AM
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:22:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Clean Head is A THING and WAY cooler than a turd sitting up there.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/HairYesterday_zps02de7f21.jpg)
Either way, that's ROCK N ROLL, bitches. :D
Aww, thanks Stelz. :)
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:44:47 AM
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:39:41 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:33:41 AM
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 02:22:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Clean Head is A THING and WAY cooler than a turd sitting up there.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/HairYesterday_zps02de7f21.jpg)
Either way, that's ROCK N ROLL, bitches. :D
Aww, thanks Stelz. :)
Ages on these, incidentally, left to right, top to bottom:
32, 30, 29, 17, 21, 18
So, yeah. Just thread split a drug thread, which is sort of like one of the labors of Heracles.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 02:56:03 AM
So, yeah. Just thread split a drug thread, which is sort of like one of the labors of Heracles.
Ah, the life of a mod!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 02:56:03 AM
So, yeah. Just thread split a drug thread, which is sort of like one of the labors of Heracles.
Apologies for my part.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:58:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 02:56:03 AM
So, yeah. Just thread split a drug thread, which is sort of like one of the labors of Heracles.
Apologies for my part.
No worries. It was going to happen. In fact, I can guarantee that it will happen at LEAST one more time, on account of RWHN being a skeevy, unprincipled shitstick that will attempt to derail nonstop, given that his one remaining thing in his life, his crusade, is a failure.
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:00:46 AM
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
You may have, here and there.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:00:46 AM
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
Oh, but I LOVE you Rog. Mwa! ;-)
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 12, 2013, 03:03:47 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:00:46 AM
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
Oh, but I LOVE you Rog. Mwa! ;-)
:lulz: <--- not laughing
with you, jerky.
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
Why the fuck would a 14-year-old think it was OK to pour a pan full of grease down the sink? Seriously WTF.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:12 AM
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
Murder. Bloody horrible murder.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:00:46 AM
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe him manhood. Doesn't that imply ethics and maturity and things like that?
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:12 AM
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
What exactly are they attempting?
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:55 AM
Why the fuck would a 14-year-old think it was OK to pour a pan full of grease down the sink? Seriously WTF.
:| <--- :lulz:
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 03:08:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:00:46 AM
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe him manhood. Doesn't that imply ethics and maturity and things like that?
Not technically, no.
DAWN AND HOT WATER STAT.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 03:08:27 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:12 AM
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
What exactly are they attempting?
A small-scale version of Epic Mealtime. Something that involves three pounds of bacon and everyone eating beans and rice for the rest of the month because I blew most of the food budget on this for his birthday.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:08:12 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:12 AM
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
Murder. Bloody horrible murder.
I did some screaming and it only made my headache worse.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:08:38 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:55 AM
Why the fuck would a 14-year-old think it was OK to pour a pan full of grease down the sink? Seriously WTF.
:| <--- :lulz:
Sinks are for WATER. I actually now have zero idea what to do with this mess. Industrial detergent, maybe. You're welcome, environment!
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:12:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:08:38 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:55 AM
Why the fuck would a 14-year-old think it was OK to pour a pan full of grease down the sink? Seriously WTF.
:| <--- :lulz:
Sinks are for WATER. I actually now have zero idea what to do with this mess. Industrial detergent, maybe. You're welcome, environment!
Degreaser. Dish detergent ought to do it.
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 03:08:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:00:46 AM
Have I mentioned that I don't particularly care for the man? :lulz:
I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe him manhood. Doesn't that imply ethics and maturity and things like that?
Maturity and ethics have little to do with actual age.
The more I think about it the less I like the idea of "manhood." It's kind of a silly concept.
"You're not a man, you're a ...."
The target of course, is the ego by way of whether or not reproductive organs and gender norms are fully formed and adopted. Of course RWHN is a man. He's past pubescence.
That has nothing to do with anything. Manhood has nothing to do with honor, integrity, strength, etc. Manhood is what it is. Male sexual maturity on a physiological level.
Stella beat me to it.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:10:22 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 03:08:27 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:12 AM
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
What exactly are they attempting?
A small-scale version of Epic Mealtime. Something that involves three pounds of bacon and everyone eating beans and rice for the rest of the month because I blew most of the food budget on this for his birthday.
Might want to prep the toilet too.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 03:13:23 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:10:22 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 03:08:27 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:07:12 AM
Four teenage boys are destroying my kitchen and I have a throbbing headache.
What exactly are they attempting?
A small-scale version of Epic Mealtime. Something that involves three pounds of bacon and everyone eating beans and rice for the rest of the month because I blew most of the food budget on this for his birthday.
Might want to prep the toilet too.
:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth:
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
Yes, SO MUCH THIS.
Why can't I find crystal Drano anymore, BTW?
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 03:17:42 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
Yes, SO MUCH THIS.
Why can't I find crystal Drano anymore, BTW?
I can think of three reasons.
It's basically a great way to FUCK UP everything downriver of your town.
It's a fantastic way to fuck your sanitary district UP.
It's a great way to poison someone you really, really don't like (victim goes off like a volcano. It's kinda gross.)
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
It's done.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:41:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
It's done.
Good. The ruination of my beautiful car today was bad enough. I'd hate to think of your sink's trap turning into a hockey puck.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:42:39 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:41:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
It's done.
Good. The ruination of my beautiful car today was bad enough. I'd hate to think of your sink's trap turning into a hockey puck.
All the boys have gone, leaving behind a hideous mess. My headache is fading. I am going to listen to the architecture lecture and try to ad-hoc a short lecture about something I do not give even a single weak fuck about.
After I take off my bra, this thing is a fucking torture device. Breasts should NEVER get bigger than B-cup, it's inhumane.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:23:56 AM
Quote from: stelz on October 12, 2013, 03:17:42 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
Yes, SO MUCH THIS.
Why can't I find crystal Drano anymore, BTW?
I can think of three reasons.
It's basically a great way to FUCK UP everything downriver of your town.
It's a fantastic way to fuck your sanitary district UP.
It's a great way to poison :x someone you really, really don't like (victim goes off like a volcano. It's kinda gross.)
Yeah, but I never fed it to anybody. (There's people walking around I SHOULD have fed it to years ago, but I'm a pushover that way :x ) I just liked it for clogs, it worked.
As far as what's downriver of central Texas, yeah, I get that. Hometown river turned to crap in my own little lifetime.
But Liquid Plumbr BLOWS GOATS.
Oh also, this is immediately after my very first Maiden concert, coming back from the Orpheum in Downtown Boston, pretty damn close to where I met Roger in person. Bruce Dickinson had just rejoined the band (Ed Huntour, 1999). Other long hair next to me is my best friend in high school. Interestingly, if you render my last name and his back into Irish, they are identical. They just got anglicized differently.
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/531047_10151498269630252_2096338951_n.jpg)
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 05:53:26 AM
Oh also, this is immediately after my very first Maiden concert, coming back from the Orpheum in Downtown Boston, pretty damn close to where I met Roger in person. Bruce Dickinson had just rejoined the band (Ed Huntour, 1999). Other long hair next to me is my best friend in high school. Interestingly, if you render my last name and his back into Irish, they are identical. They just got anglicized differently.
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/531047_10151498269630252_2096338951_n.jpg)
And yes, those are two Irish boys, both carrying the Union Flag.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:46:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:42:39 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:41:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
It's done.
Good. The ruination of my beautiful car today was bad enough. I'd hate to think of your sink's trap turning into a hockey puck.
All the boys have gone, leaving behind a hideous mess. My headache is fading. I am going to listen to the architecture lecture and try to ad-hoc a short lecture about something I do not give even a single weak fuck about.
After I take off my bra, this thing is a fucking torture device. Breasts should NEVER get bigger than B-cup, it's inhumane.
man I had those feels once I bypassed the E cup stage. Getting the Correct Support is a nightmare. an uncomfy, expensive nightmare.
Quote from: Pixie on October 12, 2013, 05:59:27 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:46:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:42:39 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 03:41:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 12, 2013, 03:15:56 AM
By the way, that detergent and hot water thing? Now, not later. If that grease hardens in the pipe, you're fucked.
It's done.
Good. The ruination of my beautiful car today was bad enough. I'd hate to think of your sink's trap turning into a hockey puck.
All the boys have gone, leaving behind a hideous mess. My headache is fading. I am going to listen to the architecture lecture and try to ad-hoc a short lecture about something I do not give even a single weak fuck about.
After I take off my bra, this thing is a fucking torture device. Breasts should NEVER get bigger than B-cup, it's inhumane.
man I had those feels once I bypassed the E cup stage. Getting the Correct Support is a nightmare. an uncomfy, expensive nightmare.
Boobs are the worst fucking idea.
"Here, ladies, why don't you have some giant floppy useless lumps of fat on your fronts?"
FUCK YOU EVOLUTION.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:12:28 AM
"Here, ladies, why don't you have some giant floppy useless lumps of fat on your fronts?"
FUCK YOU EVOLUTION.
Human sexual dimorphism is really weird for primates. Everything is big. Our tits are big. Our hips are big. Our hourglass figures are curvy as fuck. Our chests are hairy. Our arms are lumpy. Our dicks are big. Everything is big and exaggerated. (No joking, human dongs are the largest of all primate species, both proportionately and in absolute value).
I like big butts and I can not lie.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 06:34:35 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:12:28 AM
"Here, ladies, why don't you have some giant floppy useless lumps of fat on your fronts?"
FUCK YOU EVOLUTION.
Human sexual dimorphism is really weird for primates. Everything is big. Our tits are big. Our hips are big. Our hourglass figures are curvy as fuck. Our chests are hairy. Our arms are lumpy. Our dicks are big. Everything is big and exaggerated. (No joking, human dongs are the largest of all primate species, both proportionately and in absolute value).
Thank you biased engineering god.
IIRC, Homo erectus females had wide vaginas, but that's not really a selling point so much as a "this kid better not kill me" sort of thing. Unless H. erectus males were even better hung than us. And well, with a name like Homo erectus, if not them, then who?
No such thing as small dicks only big vaginas.
So tonight I found out that this girl I've known for like two years and hung out with last Friday is actually a famous restauranteur. I learned this when she invited me to her cookbook release party.
BOY IS MY FACE RED. :lulz: I thought she just made really good pickles and was fun to hang out with.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:57:43 AM
So tonight I found out that this girl I've known for like two years and hung out with last Friday is actually a famous restauranteur. I learned this when she invited me to her cookbook release party.
BOY IS MY FACE RED. :lulz: I thought she just made really good pickles and was fun to hang out with.
Cookbook link?
Quote from: Mr. Bear on October 12, 2013, 07:00:20 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:57:43 AM
So tonight I found out that this girl I've known for like two years and hung out with last Friday is actually a famous restauranteur. I learned this when she invited me to her cookbook release party.
BOY IS MY FACE RED. :lulz: I thought she just made really good pickles and was fun to hang out with.
Cookbook link?
http://www.amazon.com/Toro-Bravo-Stories-Recipes-Bull/dp/1938073576
Thank Mr. Nigel.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:12:28 AM
"Here, ladies, why don't you have some giant floppy useless lumps of fat on your fronts?"
FUCK YOU EVOLUTION.
man I am dreading mammograms with this rack.
A C-cup sounds like some kind of heaven to me, tbh, Nigel!
Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
Quote from: Pixie on October 12, 2013, 08:15:44 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:12:28 AM
"Here, ladies, why don't you have some giant floppy useless lumps of fat on your fronts?"
FUCK YOU EVOLUTION.
man I am dreading mammograms with this rack.
A C-cup sounds like some kind of heaven to me, tbh, Nigel!
Oh my God, this. Fuck you, H-cup.
<-- will graciously accept any extraneous boob material, ladies.
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:28:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:24:38 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:17:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
No kidding. Never mind the goddamn maintenance.
I don't know how Waffles makes his look so awesome. If enough of my follicles were still functioning, I'd ask him for his secret.
I was considering it this last winter, because I missed a couple of haircuts. So I figured I could do it...yeah no. It got to a point where I was like, 'GET THIS SHIT OFF MY NECK.'
This is why I keep my hair in a bun all the time. HATE having hair on my neck. Wish i could cut it shorter by myself.
Quote from: Sita on October 12, 2013, 01:47:29 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:28:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:24:38 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 12, 2013, 02:17:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 12, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
I'm always going to miss having long hair, but if I am to be completely honest with myself, shaved head/close buzz looks way way better on me.
Me too.
But growing that shit out is FUCKING WORK.
No kidding. Never mind the goddamn maintenance.
I don't know how Waffles makes his look so awesome. If enough of my follicles were still functioning, I'd ask him for his secret.
I was considering it this last winter, because I missed a couple of haircuts. So I figured I could do it...yeah no. It got to a point where I was like, 'GET THIS SHIT OFF MY NECK.'
This is why I keep my hair in a bun all the time. HATE having hair on my neck. Wish i could cut it shorter by myself.
You totally can! The last 4 times I lopped hair off I did it in the bathroom with a pair of scissors and the ponytail trick.
Quote from: Signora Pæsior on October 12, 2013, 12:24:07 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 12, 2013, 08:15:44 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 06:12:28 AM
"Here, ladies, why don't you have some giant floppy useless lumps of fat on your fronts?"
FUCK YOU EVOLUTION.
man I am dreading mammograms with this rack.
A C-cup sounds like some kind of heaven to me, tbh, Nigel!
Oh my God, this. Fuck you, H-cup.
:high five:
32H here, IDK if that makes us boob twins what with sizing being different in the UK, US and down under!
I have a boob twin, we enjoy bitching about it.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 12, 2013, 12:49:59 PM
<-- will graciously accept any extraneous boob material, ladies.
haha always wanted some sort of machine that would do that without surgery, like some freaky science device.
Not to get in the way of EPIC BOOBS, but the new Frost Heaves EP, "We Have Killed the Sunset", has been posted to Bandcamp.
http://frostheaves.bandcamp.com/album/we-have-killed-the-sunset-ep
Woohoo, good job LMNO!
If anyone was wondering how my lactic acid pickles turned out, I blogged about them, a large cabbage, and buying from farm stores: http://tightkitchen.blogspot.com/
Quote from: Pæs on October 12, 2013, 11:33:44 AM
Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
This is fucking brilliant. I shall include this in
my irc twitterbot irc feed.
Also, please to include pics of this setup....
-
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 06:14:57 PM
They think they've found The Answer, and that Answer is Managerial Rationalism. Apply metrics to ALL THE THINGS!
That has not been tried before, who are these go-getting wizzkids with their snazzy new ideas? We need to give these people raises!
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Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 08:19:30 PM
That answer was in totally the wrong thread. Not sure how that happened...
I don't know, but my efforts at understanding it in the context of the previous post were pretty Herculean.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 06:14:57 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on October 12, 2013, 05:36:03 PM
Quote from: Pæs on October 12, 2013, 11:33:44 AM
Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
This is fucking brilliant. I shall include this in my irc twitterbot irc feed.
Also, please to include pics of this setup....
They think they've found The Answer, and that Answer is Managerial Rationalism. Apply metrics to ALL THE THINGS!
It ALMOST works, but it doesn't actually make any sense, but I about broke my brain trying to figure it out. :lol:
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 09:46:24 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 06:14:57 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on October 12, 2013, 05:36:03 PM
Quote from: Pæs on October 12, 2013, 11:33:44 AM
Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
This is fucking brilliant. I shall include this in my irc twitterbot irc feed.
Also, please to include pics of this setup....
They think they've found The Answer, and that Answer is Managerial Rationalism. Apply metrics to ALL THE THINGS!
It ALMOST works, but it doesn't actually make any sense, but I about broke my brain trying to figure it out. :lol:
Heh, I just assumed he was talking about something at his job. For some reason i thought this was Open Bar.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 09:44:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 08:19:30 PM
That answer was in totally the wrong thread. Not sure how that happened...
I don't know, but my efforts at understanding it in the context of the previous post were pretty Herculean.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Weird thing I didn't even notice it was in the wrong thread.
Quote from: :regret: on October 12, 2013, 11:44:40 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 09:46:24 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 06:14:57 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on October 12, 2013, 05:36:03 PM
Quote from: Pæs on October 12, 2013, 11:33:44 AM
Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
This is fucking brilliant. I shall include this in my irc twitterbot irc feed.
Also, please to include pics of this setup....
They think they've found The Answer, and that Answer is Managerial Rationalism. Apply metrics to ALL THE THINGS!
It ALMOST works, but it doesn't actually make any sense, but I about broke my brain trying to figure it out. :lol:
Heh, I just assumed he was talking about something at his job. For some reason i thought this was Open Bar.
It IS Open Bar.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 11:58:10 PM
Quote from: :regret: on October 12, 2013, 11:44:40 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 12, 2013, 09:46:24 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2013, 06:14:57 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on October 12, 2013, 05:36:03 PM
Quote from: Pæs on October 12, 2013, 11:33:44 AM
Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
This is fucking brilliant. I shall include this in my irc twitterbot irc feed.
Also, please to include pics of this setup....
They think they've found The Answer, and that Answer is Managerial Rationalism. Apply metrics to ALL THE THINGS!
It ALMOST works, but it doesn't actually make any sense, but I about broke my brain trying to figure it out. :lol:
Heh, I just assumed he was talking about something at his job. For some reason i thought this was Open Bar.
It IS Open Bar.
:lol: So it is! Hah, colour me confused.
THREADS ARE MERGING AND SPLITTING ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
HIRLY0 DIVIDED BY HIMSELF
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Apparently the Internet of Things is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network, and where the physical objects can become active participants in business processes. Services are available to interact with these 'smart objects' over the Internet, query and change their state and any information associated with them, taking into account security and privacy issues.
But the Twitterbot I just wrote in Ruby to connect anything I like to the internet is most likely to be attached to a switch beneath the flusher for my toilet so every time someone uses it the toilet tweets variations on "MASSES OF TURD COMING YOUR WAY, @PLUMBINGSYSTEM"
This is fucking brilliant. I shall include this in my irc twitterbot irc feed.
Also, please to include pics of this setup....
They think they've found The Answer, and that Answer is Managerial Rationalism. Apply metrics to ALL THE THINGS!
It ALMOST works, but it doesn't actually make any sense, but I about broke my brain trying to figure it out. :lol:
Heh, I just assumed he was talking about something at his job. For some reason i thought this was Open Bar.
It IS Open Bar.
:lol: So it is! Hah, colour me confused.
You're not alone! At the very least, Cain and I have both also been confused by this thread today.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2013, 01:16:04 AM
HIRLY0 DIVIDED BY HIMSELF
:ohnotache:
WE ARE APPROACHING TOTAL SEMANTIC APOCALYPSE :omg: :nuke2:
I've gotten a text a piece from Stelz and Nigel via twitter. Messages that make me think at least you two have had your twitter accounts hacked.
I had an email from twitter this morning telling me to reset my password.
Thanks. Going to see WTF they put there...
I've been invited to a convention on historical costuming in Kansas City this coming spring. That's a place I've never been. It's all midwest and stuff out there. With no ocean.
Which Kansas City? There are two of them, and they are NOT created equal.
Quote from: stelz on October 13, 2013, 06:30:37 PM
I had an email from twitter this morning telling me to reset my password.
Thanks. Going to see WTF they put there...
lol yeah i sent you a msg also from HagbotCeline (the #discord irc chat bot) because my phone was telling me that you were telling me about this fantastic way to lose weight :P
Quote from: stelz on October 13, 2013, 06:30:37 PM
I had an email from twitter this morning telling me to reset my password.
Thanks. Going to see WTF they put there...
I had the same thing, which is really interesting considering that I never use that account, which means that the hack most likely came from a security problem within Twitter.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 13, 2013, 06:26:57 PM
I've gotten a text a piece from Stelz and Nigel via twitter. Messages that make me think at least you two have had your twitter accounts hacked.
I changed my password and am still unable to log in, which makes me think the problem lies pretty deep.
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Reminds me: One single MP voted against the law that enabled forced sterilization of Norwegian minorities in the 30s. He was not a liberal or a communist or a conservative. He belonged to a small party whose ideology was a weird sort of Christian eco-pacifist-psychoanalysis-corporativism. So it was basically only the crazies who thought shitting on minorities was insane.
Also, I have a girlfriend now. It's weird.
Meeting with the boy's teachers was as expected. He is failing spectacularly due mostly to not trying. If he doesn't get the right answer immediately he just gives up.
Would rather rush and get stuff, like tests, over with instead of actually making sure the answers are right. He got a 46% on an open book, 10 question test that he had a whole hour to do for freakin' sakes!
So now on the search for free educational games that are of a way he might actually learn without realizing it. Are there any math/reading/science/social studies games that are fighting based? Or racing?
I wish I knew how to teach stuff.
Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 02:48:58 PM
Meeting with the boy's teachers was as expected. He is failing spectacularly due mostly to not trying. If he doesn't get the right answer immediately he just gives up.
Would rather rush and get stuff, like tests, over with instead of actually making sure the answers are right. He got a 46% on an open book, 10 question test that he had a whole hour to do for freakin' sakes!
So now on the search for free educational games that are of a way he might actually learn without realizing it. Are there any math/reading/science/social studies games that are fighting based? Or racing?
I wish I knew how to teach stuff.
Does he do well with video? Kahn Academy is free and my kids dig it pretty hard.
It sounds to me that he needs to understand that giving up and rushing are not GOOD THINGS. Rather than finding a game that makes him learn, find something else that makes him work on his patience and let him know that taking his time and asking questions during class is okay. Perhaps making up your own flashcard game in which he is required to get so many answers right before he's allow to go play outside or play a game. Or have dessert even. He's allowed to ask questions, and allowed to look at books. Remind him that he's not allowed to leave or give up until YOU say so.
Quote from: Suu on October 14, 2013, 03:04:58 PM
It sounds to me that he needs to understand that giving up and rushing are not GOOD THINGS. Rather than finding a game that makes him learn, find something else that makes him work on his patience and let him know that taking his time and asking questions during class is okay. Perhaps making up your own flashcard game in which he is required to get so many answers right before he's allow to go play outside or play a game. Or have dessert even. He's allowed to ask questions, and allowed to look at books. Remind him that he's not allowed to leave or give up until YOU say so.
We've been trying to get him to understand this for years. He's already been held back once (he had to take 3rd grade twice) and is at risk of it again if things don't change.
We know he is capable of doing it. He just would rather be off building or shooting zombies or whatever that has more action and play than sitting and studying.
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Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 02:48:58 PM
Meeting with the boy's teachers was as expected. He is failing spectacularly due mostly to not trying. If he doesn't get the right answer immediately he just gives up.
Would rather rush and get stuff, like tests, over with instead of actually making sure the answers are right. He got a 46% on an open book, 10 question test that he had a whole hour to do for freakin' sakes!
So now on the search for free educational games that are of a way he might actually learn without realizing it. Are there any math/reading/science/social studies games that are fighting based? Or racing?
I wish I knew how to teach stuff.
Does he do well with video? Kahn Academy is free and my kids dig it pretty hard.
Have tried that. He either gets bored with all the talking or it just makes him more confused.
It doesn't help that I'm at a complete loss of how to help him to learn. I was one of those kids that caught on to everything quickly and never had to study :(
Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 03:29:01 PM
It doesn't help that I'm at a complete loss of how to help him to learn. I was one of those kids that caught on to everything quickly and never had to study :(
Crack open his text books and work books, and sit him down while you go through what the books want to be covered.
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Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 03:25:35 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 14, 2013, 03:04:58 PM
It sounds to me that he needs to understand that giving up and rushing are not GOOD THINGS. Rather than finding a game that makes him learn, find something else that makes him work on his patience and let him know that taking his time and asking questions during class is okay. Perhaps making up your own flashcard game in which he is required to get so many answers right before he's allow to go play outside or play a game. Or have dessert even. He's allowed to ask questions, and allowed to look at books. Remind him that he's not allowed to leave or give up until YOU say so.
We've been trying to get him to understand this for years. He's already been held back once (he had to take 3rd grade twice) and is at risk of it again if things don't change.
We know he is capable of doing it. He just would rather be off building or shooting zombies or whatever that has more action and play than sitting and studying.
Get him in advanced classes. He's getting bored.
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 03:34:07 PM
I think I have to quit this job.
Doing my degree is almost impossible right now, let alone doing my dissertation next year.
Fuck it, I'll work in a supermarket part time, if I have to. If I can find one hiring.
I can't even imagine trying to work on a graduate degree while working full-time. I'm having a hard enough time with my undergrad and working part-time.
First midterm today. I have that nervous-excited thing going on, like a first date.
Also, I did exactly what I expressly told myself I was under no circumstances going to do last night, which is went to the Hoot for drinkin' and dancin'. Now I'm hung over.
Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 02:48:58 PM
Meeting with the boy's teachers was as expected. He is failing spectacularly due mostly to not trying. If he doesn't get the right answer immediately he just gives up.
Would rather rush and get stuff, like tests, over with instead of actually making sure the answers are right. He got a 46% on an open book, 10 question test that he had a whole hour to do for freakin' sakes!
So now on the search for free educational games that are of a way he might actually learn without realizing it. Are there any math/reading/science/social studies games that are fighting based? Or racing?
I wish I knew how to teach stuff.
This is especially a boy thing. It's typical in classrooms for the boy mentality to be achievement focussed. So getting the test DONE is the aim, not necessarily RIGHT.
My training was High School Japanese, so not so very relevant but what I could do with kids was to break down the work into little 'miniachievements'. When I get back to you I need you to have done THIS paragraph, which needs to included THIS, THIS and THIS.
One thing that may help depending on what his problems are, is to practice reading the question; in math especially (and again, in boys especially) a typical problem is browsing the question and writing the first thing that pops into their head. 'How many apples does James have is he takes 100 and Mary takes half and gives 5 back.' Pleanty of kids will just browse and say 'oh mary took half (50) and gave back 5 (45). Never mind that the question is asking about JAMES. Reading and comprehending the question witohut rushing into an answer is one thing that may be worth looking at.
Of course, none of these are universal rules, it all depends on him and what works, and sometimes you try a lot of thingsa before finding something that does.
Typing of the Dead combines zombies and spelling. I seem to remember it being pretty fun when I was a kid... though it might be a little dated now I guess?
That's the only one that comes to mind. A quick google search also threw up this webpage which looks like it might have some things which aren't horrible? http://www.zurinstitute.com/onlinegaming.html but some of them also aren't free...
Quote from: Suu on October 14, 2013, 03:57:48 PM
Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 03:25:35 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 14, 2013, 03:04:58 PM
It sounds to me that he needs to understand that giving up and rushing are not GOOD THINGS. Rather than finding a game that makes him learn, find something else that makes him work on his patience and let him know that taking his time and asking questions during class is okay. Perhaps making up your own flashcard game in which he is required to get so many answers right before he's allow to go play outside or play a game. Or have dessert even. He's allowed to ask questions, and allowed to look at books. Remind him that he's not allowed to leave or give up until YOU say so.
We've been trying to get him to understand this for years. He's already been held back once (he had to take 3rd grade twice) and is at risk of it again if things don't change.
We know he is capable of doing it. He just would rather be off building or shooting zombies or whatever that has more action and play than sitting and studying.
Get him in advanced classes. He's getting bored.
He's not an advanced kid. It's true that he's getting bored, but he gets bored anytime he isn't actively doing something.
That's one reason I'm trying to find some games for him. I think if it were possible to teach him while playing basketball or shooting at a target with his nerf guns.....hey that gives me an idea. Won't help for school but at home it's possible... *goes to find things to print up*
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Quote from: Sita on October 14, 2013, 02:48:58 PM
Meeting with the boy's teachers was as expected. He is failing spectacularly due mostly to not trying. If he doesn't get the right answer immediately he just gives up.
Would rather rush and get stuff, like tests, over with instead of actually making sure the answers are right. He got a 46% on an open book, 10 question test that he had a whole hour to do for freakin' sakes!
So now on the search for free educational games that are of a way he might actually learn without realizing it. Are there any math/reading/science/social studies games that are fighting based? Or racing?
I wish I knew how to teach stuff.
This is especially a boy thing. It's typical in classrooms for the boy mentality to be achievement focussed. So getting the test DONE is the aim, not necessarily RIGHT.
My training was High School Japanese, so not so very relevant but what I could do with kids was to break down the work into little 'miniachievements'. When I get back to you I need you to have done THIS paragraph, which needs to included THIS, THIS and THIS.
One thing that may help depending on what his problems are, is to practice reading the question; in math especially (and again, in boys especially) a typical problem is browsing the question and writing the first thing that pops into their head. 'How many apples does James have is he takes 100 and Mary takes half and gives 5 back.' Pleanty of kids will just browse and say 'oh mary took half (50) and gave back 5 (45). Never mind that the question is asking about JAMES. Reading and comprehending the question witohut rushing into an answer is one thing that may be worth looking at.
Of course, none of these are universal rules, it all depends on him and what works, and sometimes you try a lot of thingsa before finding something that does.
This is so much like my son. It's exactly what he does with both homework and tests.
Reading comprehension is another of the things that needs work. We hear that from his teachers every year.
Quote from: Demolition Squid on October 14, 2013, 04:12:32 PM
Typing of the Dead combines zombies and spelling. I seem to remember it being pretty fun when I was a kid... though it might be a little dated now I guess?
Would love to get that eventually. Would help with my typing too.
Have found a couple sites with online games. Some are even multiplayer so there is that competitive aspect he loves as well.
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Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
You sure you ok?
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
You sure you ok?
Yes. I am made of tungsten and carbon steel.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:57:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
You sure you ok?
Yes. I am made of tungsten and carbon steel.
Well the hell if your dog made of then?
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Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:58:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:57:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
You sure you ok?
Yes. I am made of tungsten and carbon steel.
Well the hell if your dog made of then?
Whatever it is, it's smart enough to ride the human to the bottom.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:59:07 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:58:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:57:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
You sure you ok?
Yes. I am made of tungsten and carbon steel.
Well the hell if your dog made of then?
Whatever it is, it's smart enough to ride the human to the bottom.
Further proof that dogs are superior mammals.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:59:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:59:07 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:58:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:57:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 14, 2013, 04:56:15 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
You sure you ok?
Yes. I am made of tungsten and carbon steel.
Well the hell if your dog made of then?
Whatever it is, it's smart enough to ride the human to the bottom.
Further proof that dogs are superior mammals.
Of course they are. That's how they fooled us into taking care of them long after we needed them to keep critters out of the cave.
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 04:38:51 PM
Crippled up on my left side.
Tripped over the dog, and slid down the stairs on my left collar bone and upper arm. Made the 180 at the landing, kept going. Nothing is busted, but my neck is stiff and my right arm has limited mobility (well, it has all the mobility, but with a hint of agony added in if I lift my elbow away from my ribs).
But don't worry; the fucking dog is fine. He surfed me down the stairs, then stepped on my head getting off my back, then looked at me like I was weird, all laying on the floor in a heap like that.
Sweet merciful fuck! :horrormirth:
Hope you heal up fast, Roger.
Cain, that sounds both interesting and incredibly dull, at the same time.
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 05:02:43 PM
Been invited to go to Jordan and the West Bank to meet Syrian refugees and listen to Israeli and Palestinian activitists talk past each other on the one-state/two-state solution.
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You should do that. Cain-Style.
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 04:24:23 PM
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Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 03:34:07 PM
I think I have to quit this job.
Doing my degree is almost impossible right now, let alone doing my dissertation next year.
Fuck it, I'll work in a supermarket part time, if I have to. If I can find one hiring.
I can't even imagine trying to work on a graduate degree while working full-time. I'm having a hard enough time with my undergrad and working part-time.
It might work with a normal full time job. I'm on call 17 hours a day at the moment, with almost all my free time clustered at the end of a two week period. So I spent all this weekend, for example, studying, because I cannot do it during the week time. Only, by the end of that two week period, I'm so exhausted I feel like sleeping all day.
Hell, I'm exhausted now, and I've only just come back on. If I was doing a full two week period, instead of having half-term from Saturday, I wouldn't be able to face it.
A nice little 25 hour a week job would suit me just fine. I'd even move back in with my parents, if necessary.
Some schools here, at least the grad programs I've looked at (URI, UConn) do not allow full time graduate students to hold jobs unless they have permission from the school. Assistantships don't count.
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Also, WTF Roger?! Shit, I guess if you're gonna fall...
My accountant is working full-time while also working on his grad degree part-time, but it's a special program designed for that specific arrangement.
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 05:13:09 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 14, 2013, 05:11:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 04:24:23 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 04:05:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 03:34:07 PM
I think I have to quit this job.
Doing my degree is almost impossible right now, let alone doing my dissertation next year.
Fuck it, I'll work in a supermarket part time, if I have to. If I can find one hiring.
I can't even imagine trying to work on a graduate degree while working full-time. I'm having a hard enough time with my undergrad and working part-time.
It might work with a normal full time job. I'm on call 17 hours a day at the moment, with almost all my free time clustered at the end of a two week period. So I spent all this weekend, for example, studying, because I cannot do it during the week time. Only, by the end of that two week period, I'm so exhausted I feel like sleeping all day.
Hell, I'm exhausted now, and I've only just come back on. If I was doing a full two week period, instead of having half-term from Saturday, I wouldn't be able to face it.
A nice little 25 hour a week job would suit me just fine. I'd even move back in with my parents, if necessary.
Some schools here, at least the grad programs I've looked at (URI, UConn) do not allow full time graduate students to hold jobs unless they have permission from the school. Assistantships don't count.
I'm part-time, it's only the job that is full time.
For a full time grad course, I'd be surprised if anyone could hold down a job in addition.
I was going to say...
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Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
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:lulz:
That's fucking AWESOME.
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
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Yeah, well, I just had this image of a yiff-tard sitting at home saying "How can I be MORE otherkin than that bastard Jim? I can't afford a full suit like he has, and my standing among my peers has been significantly lowered. My mating prospects are at stake, here. WAIT! I HAVE IT!"
And then he shits on the carpet.
Damn, it's too bad that places isn't working out, at least you got out of the other place though.
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:16:43 PM
In other news, I'm handing in my notice this Thursday, though I plan to work here until the Xmas holidays.
Life is too short to work at a job you don't like.
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Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:18:48 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:17:34 PM
Yeah, well, I just had this image of a yiff-tard sitting at home saying "How can I be MORE otherkin than that bastard Jim? I can't afford a full suit like he has, and my standing among my peers has been significantly lowered. My mating prospects are at stake, here. WAIT! I HAVE IT!"
And then he shits on the carpet.
Sounds perfectly plausible to me. Dragonkin are pretty common. Unhouse-trained dragonkin, on the other hand....well, you're onto a winner there.
He is a proud and noble beast, who does his business where he pleases.
I imagine this guy is beating the women off with a stick.
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:20:08 PM
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In other news, I'm handing in my notice this Thursday, though I plan to work here until the Xmas holidays.
Life is too short to work at a job you don't like.
Absolutely.
And worst comes to worst, I have savings. I'll make it through to next year no problem (uh, 2015, I mean). I may be broke by the time I'm done with this course, but I'll be broke with much better prospects. You can't go up from Housemaster...not without teaching qualifications, anyway.
And if you're too busy being housemaster, you can't do anything to get out of it.
Ballsy move, Cain. Well done.
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Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:21:41 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:20:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:18:48 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:17:34 PM
Yeah, well, I just had this image of a yiff-tard sitting at home saying "How can I be MORE otherkin than that bastard Jim? I can't afford a full suit like he has, and my standing among my peers has been significantly lowered. My mating prospects are at stake, here. WAIT! I HAVE IT!"
And then he shits on the carpet.
Sounds perfectly plausible to me. Dragonkin are pretty common. Unhouse-trained dragonkin, on the other hand....well, you're onto a winner there.
He is a proud and noble beast, who does his business where he pleases.
I imagine this guy is beating the women off with a stick.
A sticky brown stick?
Depends. Is he Spanky-sized? If so, then yes.
From now on, if I post a serious thread and Holist shows up, I will be asking for a thread split immediately. If one isn't possible, I'll just abandon the thread.
Most likely for the best. Existential windbags are not usually welcome. At parties or other places in human society.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2013, 09:09:43 PM
Most likely for the best. Existential windbags are not usually welcome. At parties or other places in human society.
Yeah, well, anything he touches turns into Holist declaiming his own virtues and splitting hairs until he isn't wrong.
Why the fuck put any effort into anything if he's just going to make it all about him?
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
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Wha hahahahahaha! Please oh please oh please let that be a troll!
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:27:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 14, 2013, 07:02:29 PM
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Wha hahahahahaha! Please oh please oh please let that be a troll!
If it's a troll I don't want to live in America anymore.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:10:51 PM
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
Is your brain occupied with other things? I find that my ability to write really declines at the start of a term or when I'm taking an introductory course and I'm assimilating a lot of new vocab/info.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:48:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:10:51 PM
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
Is your brain occupied with other things? I find that my ability to write really declines at the start of a term or when I'm taking an introductory course and I'm assimilating a lot of new vocab/info.
No, I think it's that my brain is occupied with the transition from real smokes to e-cigs, which has left me a little spaced and irritable.
Also, my general stress level is in decline.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:48:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:10:51 PM
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
Is your brain occupied with other things? I find that my ability to write really declines at the start of a term or when I'm taking an introductory course and I'm assimilating a lot of new vocab/info.
No, I think it's that my brain is occupied with the transition from real smokes to e-cigs, which has left me a little spaced and irritable.
Also, my general stress level is in decline.
In that case, my advice is to enjoy it while it lasts.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:50:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:48:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:10:51 PM
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
Is your brain occupied with other things? I find that my ability to write really declines at the start of a term or when I'm taking an introductory course and I'm assimilating a lot of new vocab/info.
No, I think it's that my brain is occupied with the transition from real smokes to e-cigs, which has left me a little spaced and irritable.
Also, my general stress level is in decline.
In that case, my advice is to enjoy it while it lasts.
Can't remember how. :lol:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 09:52:32 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:50:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:48:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:10:51 PM
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
Is your brain occupied with other things? I find that my ability to write really declines at the start of a term or when I'm taking an introductory course and I'm assimilating a lot of new vocab/info.
No, I think it's that my brain is occupied with the transition from real smokes to e-cigs, which has left me a little spaced and irritable.
Also, my general stress level is in decline.
In that case, my advice is to enjoy it while it lasts.
Can't remember how. :lol:
That might be a skill you should look at re-learning, then. :lol:
the Hills in tacoma stuck ass when biking. it shouldn't be gadget to walk up the hill than it is biking.
Quote from: Bu☆ns on October 13, 2013, 10:49:51 PM
Quote from: stelz on October 13, 2013, 06:30:37 PM
I had an email from twitter this morning telling me to reset my password.
Thanks. Going to see WTF they put there...
lol yeah i sent you a msg also from HagbotCeline (the #discord irc chat bot) because my phone was telling me that you were telling me about this fantastic way to lose weight :P
Got it, thanks.
Seems to be OK...for now anyway. I seldom use twitter either, other clicking the "tweet this" button at other sites.
I clicked over to Pininterest for something or other later on, and it said I was in "read only" mode and I needed to reset my password there, too.
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Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 10:19:57 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 09:52:32 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:50:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 14, 2013, 09:48:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 14, 2013, 07:10:51 PM
I haven't had a dry spell, writing-wise, like this in ages.
I wish to write, but there's nothing there.
Is your brain occupied with other things? I find that my ability to write really declines at the start of a term or when I'm taking an introductory course and I'm assimilating a lot of new vocab/info.
No, I think it's that my brain is occupied with the transition from real smokes to e-cigs, which has left me a little spaced and irritable.
Also, my general stress level is in decline.
In that case, my advice is to enjoy it while it lasts.
Can't remember how. :lol:
That might be a skill you should look at re-learning, then. :lol:
I think there might be link to recursion here, somehow :lulz:
Roger, please don't die. I need to blame someone for all my unfinished novels!
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 15, 2013, 01:58:29 PM
Roger, please don't die. I need to blame someone for all my unfinished novels!
Of course not. I prefer to be a horrible and disgusting constant in your lives.
That's why I quit tobacco and lost 60 pounds.
Speaking of which, when I stand up straight and look down, I can now clearly see my belt buckle.
:banana:
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Well, if everyone's fucked off for the day, I guess I'll lock my office and take a nap. See you spags in a few hours.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 15, 2013, 04:54:24 PM
Speaking of which, when I stand up straight and look down, I can now clearly see my belt buckle.
:banana:
Woohoo!
I can't see my belly anymore when I stand up straight and look down. But I can't tell if that's because my belly shrank, or my boobs are in the way.
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Next quarter is my senior year. I am filled with dread for some reason. Probably because I don't really know what I'll do when I get out of college. I'm still thinking about pursuing a graduate degree, but in what? I've already decided that I'm essentially done with mathematics after this quarter. I have no educational background in the hard sciences, or the soft sciences. I'm not interested in the Classics, nor in learning Greek or Latin. For that matter, I am terrible at learning languages when I take into account the fact that I spent three years studying German before realizing that I had no real grasp of the language at all. I mean sure German in parts does make sense to me, and by extension bits of Old English. Sure I'd like to get some proficiency with modern German so I can gain some proficiency with the medieval Germanic languages.
Don't mind me. Must be time for my periodic freakout.
I took a nap. It was the best.
ALSO: I met a nice lady at the makerspace in Somerville and we're gonna be best friends and make things with computer parts and it will be wonderful forever!
I ate a sandwich.
It was delicious.
Last year I went through a lot of extreme dental pain because I was dumb enough to use an NHS dentist. They fucked up some fillings I needed, I bled a lot, couldn't sleep because of the pain, and my teeth continued to rot from the inside out for several weeks before I managed to get someone to listen to me, and confirm there was indeed still a problem. I managed to go to a private dentist who was soothing, awesome, and sorted me out in one visit. He did warn that because one of the fillings they put in was so close to the nerve, a problem might develop in future.
I started getting niggling pain today. It has been going on and off. I don't have the money to go back to the private guy. I desperately don't want to go back to the NHS.
I am praying this just goes away by itself. Teeth are the worst things ever.
If they abscess the pain tends to not be where the problem is. At least for me. I had two bottom teeth go, and the pain was in the roof of my mouth. The only thing that relieved it was ice cold water.
It's the worst pain ever. Now, the other problem is I had to go to docs and dentists before they figured out what was up. The key though was only cold relieved it. Because they were molars I needed an endodontist, who took yet another xray and identified which tooth somehow.
He said it isn't perfect, sometimes he has to drill to see what's the bad one. I imagine that would be pricier.
Oh it's also dangerous to let that go though, can make you very sick if you don't get it treated.
Sorry for the doom and gloom, and yes teeth are the worst.
Dimo and I are going to start working on the layout for BIP this week. Really, I think this is going to be an excuse to troll the Student Coffeehouse.
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 02:43:39 AM
Dimo and I are going to start working on the layout for BIP this week. Really, I think this is going to be an excuse to troll the Student Coffeehouse.
Awesome!
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 15, 2013, 09:53:31 PM
Next quarter is my senior year. I am filled with dread for some reason. Probably because I don't really know what I'll do when I get out of college. I'm still thinking about pursuing a graduate degree, but in what? I've already decided that I'm essentially done with mathematics after this quarter. I have no educational background in the hard sciences, or the soft sciences. I'm not interested in the Classics, nor in learning Greek or Latin. For that matter, I am terrible at learning languages when I take into account the fact that I spent three years studying German before realizing that I had no real grasp of the language at all. I mean sure German in parts does make sense to me, and by extension bits of Old English. Sure I'd like to get some proficiency with modern German so I can gain some proficiency with the medieval Germanic languages.
Don't mind me. Must be time for my periodic freakout.
How far did you go in math?
You surely must have some science requirements before you can graduate, right? Maybe you should consider also taking psychology, sociology, and one of the other soft sciences so you can get a taste of what they're like. One thing I don't really regret doing even though it leaves me with a surfeit of elective credits is taking a scattershot approach to classes my first term. I ended up taking the philosophy of science, intro to anthropology, and social problems which led to a full year of sociology... Now I know I don't like anthropology, the sociology gave me a great basis for my interest in social psychology and ultimately social neuroscience, and it was in the philosophy class that I was introduced to the Bridges program which gave my my internships.
I have decided that I'm really simply not fond of chemistry. Maybe it's just the class. I did, however, get complimented by the lab instructor, who told me that I'm really good in the lab and she doesn't need to check my lab notebook because she trusts me. :D
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 15, 2013, 09:53:31 PM
Next quarter is my senior year. I am filled with dread for some reason. Probably because I don't really know what I'll do when I get out of college. I'm still thinking about pursuing a graduate degree, but in what? I've already decided that I'm essentially done with mathematics after this quarter. I have no educational background in the hard sciences, or the soft sciences. I'm not interested in the Classics, nor in learning Greek or Latin. For that matter, I am terrible at learning languages when I take into account the fact that I spent three years studying German before realizing that I had no real grasp of the language at all. I mean sure German in parts does make sense to me, and by extension bits of Old English. Sure I'd like to get some proficiency with modern German so I can gain some proficiency with the medieval Germanic languages.
Don't mind me. Must be time for my periodic freakout.
Have you tried Rosetta Stone? it DOES help.
Also, two friends and I are submitting our passports for renewal tomorrow at 3 different locations: Post office, AAA, and an embassy. All snail mail, non-expedited. We didn't plan on this to happen, but the idea that we're going to race to see how long it takes each of us to get ours in while submitting during a government shutdown is lulzworthy. :lulz:
Yes, they are still accepting them, we checked.
can't sleep. house-spiders will get me.
I have acquired a lab coat.
Quote from: Pixie on October 16, 2013, 04:08:51 AM
can't sleep. house-spiders will get me.
Uh-oh. OCD? Or anxiety?
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 16, 2013, 04:10:56 AM
I have acquired a lab coat.
(http://blog.cleves.co.uk/curriculumcrew/files/2012/11/Science-Image.jpg)
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 04:24:08 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 16, 2013, 04:10:56 AM
I have acquired a lab coat.
(http://blog.cleves.co.uk/curriculumcrew/files/2012/11/Science-Image.jpg)
That's largely why I have it- going to be mad scientist for Halloween.
Fortunately Congress is shut down so I can shout a lot about how my grant funding's not coming through.
Took a nap to ditch the excessive angst and headache. Mission unaccomplished. Did dream about being in a funk and picking my nose, though.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 02:59:31 AM
How far did you go in math?
You surely must have some science requirements before you can graduate, right? Maybe you should consider also taking psychology, sociology, and one of the other soft sciences so you can get a taste of what they're like. One thing I don't really regret doing even though it leaves me with a surfeit of elective credits is taking a scattershot approach to classes my first term. I ended up taking the philosophy of science, intro to anthropology, and social problems which led to a full year of sociology... Now I know I don't like anthropology, the sociology gave me a great basis for my interest in social psychology and ultimately social neuroscience, and it was in the philosophy class that I was introduced to the Bridges program which gave my my internships.
As far as math, I'm currently taking Intro to Differential Equations, and it basically showed me that despite certain aspects of mathematics being instinctive for me, something about parts of calculus I just don't get.
Could I get good or even great at mathematics past now? Sure, but I don't think it is going to be worth my time anymore. I'm sticking out Diff Equations, and then washing my hands of mathematics.
As far as sciences, I am good with that too. I transferred in an intro chem course for that. So I have ONE physical/natural science course. Don't need anything else. And then I feel bad that I don't want to study the sciences.
I have a few anthropology courses that will fulfill some of my major requirements, thing is only a few of them are interesting and those ones aren't projected for the next quarter. I took a single sociology course, and I did not overly enjoy it. And to be honest, I don't want to take any pysch courses at all, just learning about psychoanalytical theory as a method of literary criticism is almost too much. I guess my courses on the globalization of media and on the Enlightenment might also count in there somehow, but I enjoyed them, but not that much.
What I meant by my having no background in the hard or soft sciences is I have the barest minimum, which everyone has to take, so I just sort of disregarded that as having a real background in them.
It's just I know I'll have GI Bill benefits left-over when I complete my bachelors degree, so basically everyone in know said get your masters, but a masters in what? And then what I am I going to do? I was originally planning on going into mathematics because up until this and last quarter, I had only a little bit of trouble with math. What the crap am I going to do with a bloody comparative arts BA? I could go with the literature track, but it is still the same fucking degree at my college. I feel terrible because I essentially have an obligation to use ALL these benefits I earned with the risk of personal harm. I'm obligated to myself, because if I don't up getting a job significantly better than what I could in the Army, I just pissed away all this time.
And I feel so stupid because math is slowly making less sense to me, but yet I can tear apart literature almost like second nature now, and I sit down and want to write poetry, I can write poetry.
I feel like my value to society is less because I have been pursuing an arts degree.
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 03:35:02 AM
Have you tried Rosetta Stone? it DOES help.
I'm probably going to hit up Rosetta Stone, for reals this time, over the summer and learn a moderately useful language like German.
You have more than enough math for almost anything you might want to pursue other than a math degree.
I am surprised you don't need more science to graduate, but everywhere's different. I would definitely recommend taking more than just one "hard" science if you can though, because they really aren't all created equal.
That said, why not a grad degree in poetry? If you love it?
Go where your passion lies. Fuck whether society considers it valuable.
I done got invited to go to Nashville next month to present my poster.:)
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:33:09 AM
I done got invited to go to Nashville next month to present my poster.:)
Congrats!! That sounds exciting. Don't forget your cowboy hat. :D
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 16, 2013, 07:37:08 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:33:09 AM
I done got invited to go to Nashville next month to present my poster.:)
Congrats!! That sounds exciting. Don't forget your cowboy hat. :D
I'll bring my boots... the hat that fits over my hair hasn't been invented. :D
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:23:58 AM
You have more than enough math for almost anything you might want to pursue other than a math degree.
I am surprised you don't need more science to graduate, but everywhere's different. I would definitely recommend taking more than just one "hard" science if you can though, because they really aren't all created equal.
That said, why not a grad degree in poetry? If you love it?
I looked at the masters offered at the two other UW campuses, and both have a MFA in Creative Writing, one of them is Creative Writing AND POETICS. And I looked at the actual programs and what is required, and fuck it. That shit looks like something I might want to do.
Thanks Nigel.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:24:30 AM
Go where your passion lies. Fuck whether society considers it valuable.
I've been telling myself that since I went back to college, but it's been sounding kind of flat to me this past month.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:39:51 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:23:58 AM
You have more than enough math for almost anything you might want to pursue other than a math degree.
I am surprised you don't need more science to graduate, but everywhere's different. I would definitely recommend taking more than just one "hard" science if you can though, because they really aren't all created equal.
That said, why not a grad degree in poetry? If you love it?
I looked at the masters offered at the two other UW campuses, and both have a MFA in Creative Writing, one of them is Creative Writing AND POETICS. And I looked at the actual programs and what is required, and fuck it. That shit looks like something I might want to do.
Thanks Nigel.
FUCK YES! Yay! You're welcome.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:41:07 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:24:30 AM
Go where your passion lies. Fuck whether society considers it valuable.
I've been telling myself that since I went back to college, but it's been sounding kind of flat to me this past month.
That might be burnout, a little bit. Don't let it get to you, revisit what you love during your next break.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:39:51 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:23:58 AM
You have more than enough math for almost anything you might want to pursue other than a math degree.
I am surprised you don't need more science to graduate, but everywhere's different. I would definitely recommend taking more than just one "hard" science if you can though, because they really aren't all created equal.
That said, why not a grad degree in poetry? If you love it?
I looked at the masters offered at the two other UW campuses, and both have a MFA in Creative Writing, one of them is Creative Writing AND POETICS. And I looked at the actual programs and what is required, and fuck it. That shit looks like something I might want to do.
Thanks Nigel.
That sounds like a good plan.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:39:51 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:23:58 AM
You have more than enough math for almost anything you might want to pursue other than a math degree.
I am surprised you don't need more science to graduate, but everywhere's different. I would definitely recommend taking more than just one "hard" science if you can though, because they really aren't all created equal.
That said, why not a grad degree in poetry? If you love it?
I looked at the masters offered at the two other UW campuses, and both have a MFA in Creative Writing, one of them is Creative Writing AND POETICS. And I looked at the actual programs and what is required, and fuck it. That shit looks like something I might want to do.
Thanks Nigel.
Good for you.
Honestly, it's best to really do what YOU WANT to do. Not what society says will get you the best paying job. Money and stress doesn't buy you happiness. Trust me.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 08:05:04 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:41:07 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:24:30 AM
Go where your passion lies. Fuck whether society considers it valuable.
I've been telling myself that since I went back to college, but it's been sounding kind of flat to me this past month.
That might be burnout, a little bit. Don't let it get to you, revisit what you love during your next break.
I had a bad case of this last semester. It fixed itself over the summer and I was seriously dying to go back to classes.
I had awful burnout at the end of my Master's studies. Had to really force myself across the finish line.
People have asked me when I'm going to go get the PhD.
I punch then in the face and then laugh at them hysterically.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 16, 2013, 01:24:23 PM
I had awful burnout at the end of my Master's studies. Had to really force myself across the finish line.
People have asked me when I'm going to go get the PhD.
I punch then in the face and then laugh at them hysterically.
What do they do when they find out you punched them?
Drink heavily? I don't know, not my problem.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 16, 2013, 01:27:36 PM
Drink heavily? I don't know, not my problem.
Because, you know, I've seen your pic, and being punched by Beaker from
The Muppet Show may not be something people
notice unless someone tells them about it later.
A 45 year old man slinging high school insults is a rather depressing thing to behold. Seriously dude, join the adult world.
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 12:39:27 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:39:51 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:23:58 AM
You have more than enough math for almost anything you might want to pursue other than a math degree.
I am surprised you don't need more science to graduate, but everywhere's different. I would definitely recommend taking more than just one "hard" science if you can though, because they really aren't all created equal.
That said, why not a grad degree in poetry? If you love it?
I looked at the masters offered at the two other UW campuses, and both have a MFA in Creative Writing, one of them is Creative Writing AND POETICS. And I looked at the actual programs and what is required, and fuck it. That shit looks like something I might want to do.
Thanks Nigel.
Good for you.
Honestly, it's best to really do what YOU WANT to do. Not what society says will get you the best paying job. Money and stress doesn't buy you happiness. Trust me.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 08:05:04 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 16, 2013, 07:41:07 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:24:30 AM
Go where your passion lies. Fuck whether society considers it valuable.
I've been telling myself that since I went back to college, but it's been sounding kind of flat to me this past month.
That might be burnout, a little bit. Don't let it get to you, revisit what you love during your next break.
I had a bad case of this last semester. It fixed itself over the summer and I was seriously dying to go back to classes.
I was feeling burnout lay quarter, and I thought I was good, but it feels like I started this quarter burntout even age a break for summer.
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Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 16, 2013, 01:50:29 PM
A 45 year old man slinging high school insults is a rather depressing thing to behold.
:lulz:
Watch me not care.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 16, 2013, 01:50:29 PM
Seriously dude, join the adult world.
Now, THAT - coming from you - is TOTALLY FUCKING HILARIOUS.
"I'LL BE 38 AND I STILL HAVE A FULL HEAD OF HAIR. LIFE IS GOOD."
\
:joshua:
:lol:
You stupid little shitstain.
Quote from: Cain on October 16, 2013, 02:18:41 PM
:lulz:
RWHN complaining about others acting like teenagers
:lulz:
HE STILL HAS A FULL HEAD OF HAIR, YOU KNOW.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 07:24:30 AM
Go where your passion lies. Fuck whether society considers it valuable.
THIS
Our friends from Halifax are in town this week. One of the Tuesday regulars decided that last night was dressups, so she and I got all fancy medieval-ish clothes and looked like idiots. When the canadians showed up, we supplied the female half of the couple with a dress and corset, because we are nice people, and then her boyfriend complained he was feeling left out, so I grabbed some of my mom's old garb for him. There was drinking and I trolled him into telling the dog shit story (which apparently I was sworn to secrecy about at some point, so I'll have to convince him to sign up here and tell it himself), and the cops were called because everyone was happy-drunk talking over each other.
It was a good night.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 06:03:34 PM
Our friends from Halifax are in town this week. One of the Tuesday regulars decided that last night was dressups, so she and I got all fancy medieval-ish clothes and looked like idiots. When the canadians showed up, we supplied the female half of the couple with a dress and corset, because we are nice people, and then her boyfriend complained he was feeling left out, so I grabbed some of my mom's old garb for him. There was drinking and I trolled him into telling the dog shit story (which apparently I was sworn to secrecy about at some point, so I'll have to convince him to sign up here and tell it himself), and the cops were called because everyone was happy-drunk talking over each other.
It was a good night.
Glad to hear it. Also glad to hear you're safe. Those Nova Scotians are nothing to fuck with.
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
This is the first time in my life that I have regretted not living in Phoenix.
Because there are doorsteps that desperately need to be shat on.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
EITHER
Unsolicited advice that implies you're soft in the head: DRINK MOAR WATER, HUURRR
OR
Good luck between available bathrooms.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 06:10:29 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
EITHER
Unsolicited advice that implies you're soft in the head: DRINK MOAR WATER, HUURRR
OR
Good luck between available bathrooms.
:lulz: That reminds me of a great image on Liartown USA. I have to be off but I'll find it when I get back.
I drink enough water than if it were anyone else I'd have an electrolyte imbalance... not sure why I'm still alive, but it seems to work for me.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:19:17 PM
I drink enough water than if it were anyone else I'd have an electrolyte imbalance... not sure why I'm still alive, but it seems to work for me.
It is because you are tiny but powerful, and thus are a much more concentrated type of being, so there are more electrolytes in you.
News in head...
Apparently the lady running the show is named Katharine...
Katharine has decided we are going to integrate.
I'm apparently not being allowed to be alarmed about it, so other people in my head are feeling alarmed for me.
In short, I expect to be batshit for a while, and not in a really cool Hirley0 way...In a very messy, moodswingy sort of way, and thus off the board.
Y'all be cool, ok?
*salutes, heads off to support forums.*
It's your life, but maybe you should talk to someone about that?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 16, 2013, 07:50:11 PM
It's your life, but maybe you should talk to someone about that?
Yeah, another victim of MPP. The strange sort of MPP that never seems to hit the medical journals. The ones where the personalities talk about shit with each other.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
When did this turn into poop forums?
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
I do not want any of these things :eek:
Also, I think you may have Nova Scotians confusied with Nufies. Nova Scotia is just Massachusetts with more water and a less silly accent.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:23:57 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
I do not want any of these things :eek:
Also, I think you may have Nova Scotians confusied with Nufies. Nova Scotia is just Massachusetts with more water and a less silly accent.
Oh, I agree.
Newfies are horrible people, and they should be wiped out. Just burn the joint right down to bedrock. Like anyone would notice.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
My dear Roger,
Your ability to shit without interruption is unparallelled anywhere on this forum or in the goddamn universe. You're well aware of that, I presume.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
Is true. Hell, that was like when you were visiting and we had the vindaloo.
Roger: "The spirit moves within!"
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:51:38 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
My dear Roger,
Your ability to shit without interruption is unparallelled anywhere on this forum or in the goddamn universe. You're well aware of that, I presume.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
Is true. Hell, that was like when you were visiting and we had the vindaloo.
Roger: "The spirit moves within!"
IIRC, it was moving within Dimo, who spent an hour on the shitter, howling out to an uncaring universe.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:52:17 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:51:38 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
My dear Roger,
Your ability to shit without interruption is unparallelled anywhere on this forum or in the goddamn universe. You're well aware of that, I presume.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
Is true. Hell, that was like when you were visiting and we had the vindaloo.
Roger: "The spirit moves within!"
IIRC, it was moving within Dimo, who spent an hour on the shitter, howling out to an uncaring universe.
Yes.
That shit was lethal.
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 09:10:14 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:52:17 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:51:38 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
My dear Roger,
Your ability to shit without interruption is unparallelled anywhere on this forum or in the goddamn universe. You're well aware of that, I presume.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
Is true. Hell, that was like when you were visiting and we had the vindaloo.
Roger: "The spirit moves within!"
IIRC, it was moving within Dimo, who spent an hour on the shitter, howling out to an uncaring universe.
Yes.
That shit was lethal.
That was Freaky's ghost chili vindaloo.
I tried to warn him, but his testosterone got in the way.
(http://i.imgur.com/TfKyzXJ.jpg)
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:19:17 PM
I drink enough water than if it were anyone else I'd have an electrolyte imbalance... not sure why I'm still alive, but it seems to work for me.
HOMOEOPATHY.
Went to a doctor and paid an outrageous price for *TMI*
As he prepared to slice away at my back he noticed I have a mole that failed A-D, but E is still not, well, Elevated. And it's small, but still, biopsy. I wonder how much a biopsy costs. Also, where in the fuck is my Obamacare?
Kinda freaked out, in a calm, floating sort of way.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
http://www.poopreport.com/phpBB/index.php
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:25:15 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:23:57 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:10:21 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 16, 2013, 08:09:25 PM
When did this turn into poop forums?
Bodily functions are a fine PD tradition. I know more about Suu's guts than I know about my own, and that's saying something.
I do not want any of these things :eek:
Also, I think you may have Nova Scotians confusied with Nufies. Nova Scotia is just Massachusetts with more water and a less silly accent.
Oh, I agree.
Newfies are horrible people, and they should be wiped out. Just burn the joint right down to bedrock. Like anyone would notice.
:lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
STOP MAKING MORE TEXAS.
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on October 17, 2013, 12:12:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
STOP MAKING MORE TEXAS.
Can't help it. It just shows up.
Quote from: Alty on October 16, 2013, 11:47:25 PM
Went to a doctor and paid an outrageous price for *TMI*
As he prepared to slice away at my back he noticed I have a mole that failed A-D, but E is still not, well, Elevated. And it's small, but still, biopsy. I wonder how much a biopsy costs. Also, where in the fuck is my Obamacare?
Kinda freaked out, in a calm, floating sort of way.
Hope everything's alright, man.
John Boehner's facebook page is kinda fun right now.
Quote from: Detroit TigersHey there, Boston. You seem to have dropped your ass on our lawn. Here you go.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:09:24 AM
Quote from: Detroit TigersHey there, Boston. You seem to have dropped your ass on our lawn. Here you go.
SCHADENFREUDE!
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:13:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:09:24 AM
Quote from: Detroit TigersHey there, Boston. You seem to have dropped your ass on our lawn. Here you go.
SCHADENFREUDE!
Enjoy. I won't.
Fucking 5-0. And that's just from the bottom of the second. Top of the fourth right now.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:17:27 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:13:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:09:24 AM
Quote from: Detroit TigersHey there, Boston. You seem to have dropped your ass on our lawn. Here you go.
SCHADENFREUDE!
Enjoy. I won't.
They still have to come back to Boston for last licks. But you do understand that I will not be able to contain my glee if Detroit manages to beat Boston at Fenway.
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:21:17 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:17:27 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:13:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:09:24 AM
Quote from: Detroit TigersHey there, Boston. You seem to have dropped your ass on our lawn. Here you go.
SCHADENFREUDE!
Enjoy. I won't.
They still have to come back to Boston for last licks. But you do understand that I will not be able to contain my glee if Detroit manages to beat Boston at Fenway.
I do understand, and don't begrudge you.
I did get to see the Sox win the World Series twice in my life, which is two times more than I would have expected already. Three times would be nice, but I'll take the two, especially since the first one was in-fucking-credible.
Blight,
At least isn't a Cubs fan.
I should also note that baseball is the only sport I support Boston in, and honestly I'm surprised that I like baseball to begin with but it's that sort of situation where you heard that band you otherwise would be meh about play the right song at the right time. I find American football insufferably boring so fuck the Patriots, don't give a shit about the Celtics, and the Bruins is basically soccer with sticks and ice. Speaking of soccer, no one gives a shit about the Revolution. So, Red Sox it is, and who cares about the rest.
From what I understand, the only people who give a shit about the Rev are skinheads.
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:35:43 AM
From what I understand, the only people who give a shit about the Rev are skinheads.
Shit, really?
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:36:50 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:35:43 AM
From what I understand, the only people who give a shit about the Rev are skinheads.
Shit, really?
And the Hispanic population. Which is to be expected since they're more apt to enjoy real futbol. But the one game I went to, our entire section were fucking skins. There's another team in Boston also, I think it's a different league though.
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:40:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:36:50 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:35:43 AM
From what I understand, the only people who give a shit about the Rev are skinheads.
Shit, really?
And the Hispanic population. Which is to be expected since they're more apt to enjoy real futbol. But the one game I went to, our entire section were fucking skins. There's another team in Boston also, I think it's a different league though.
The Latinos make sense. Skins I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. But that must make home games really fucking awkward.
This fall, being outside, feeling the seasons change, smelling the sweetness of the decaying leaves, it give me a real appreciation for my never ending supply of rage.
This winter is gonna be a good'un.
Quote from: Alty on October 17, 2013, 02:44:45 AM
This fall, being outside, feeling the seasons change, smelling the sweetness of the decaying leaves, it give me a real appreciation for my never ending supply of rage.
This winter is gonna be a good'un.
I realized, to my amusement, that half my life ago on this day I converted to Paganism. I didn't realize it at first until I realized that crisp autumn air and a waxing moon does funny shit to my head. Hell, it's doing even weirder shit to me now. I'm a Catholic Jew who suddenly wants to light a fire and worship the moon.
ETA: which makes me chuckle at myself
Papi's up next. Let's hope he hits a homer, because we know the bastard can't run for shit.
Apparently I am staying at a place called the "Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center", which sounds utterly made-up.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 03:07:01 AM
Apparently I am staying at a place called the "Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center", which sounds utterly made-up.
:lulz:
Yeah it does.
I have just realized that my entire love life, for my entire life, has been a Ludo video.
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 03:11:08 AM
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
Not bad. Not exactly my taste, but I wouldn't change the station.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 03:18:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 03:11:08 AM
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
Not bad. Not exactly my taste, but I wouldn't change the station.
Neither would I. :lulz:
DOUR,
Got no brain, got no sense.
:facepalm:
You know, the Sox do just fine when I'm not looking.
Blight,
click, click
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 03:04:35 AM
Papi's up next. Let's hope he hits a homer, because we know the bastard can't run for shit.
Donkey Kong.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 03:23:19 AM
:facepalm:
You know, the Sox do just fine when I'm not looking.
Blight,
click, click
They aren't doing fine. Tigers are up 7-2.
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 03:59:22 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 03:23:19 AM
:facepalm:
You know, the Sox do just fine when I'm not looking.
Blight,
click, click
They aren't doing fine. Tigers are up 7-2.
WEll, at least its not 7-0 like last time I looked.
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 03:56:19 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 03:04:35 AM
Papi's up next. Let's hope he hits a homer, because we know the bastard can't run for shit.
Donkey Kong.
He's fine as long as the ball doesn't land anywhere in the park.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/john-boehner-facebook-shutdown_n_4111191.html
Oops.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
-Suu
Just watched. Honest.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 03:11:08 AM
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
:lulz: That was amazing!
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 04:52:39 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 03:11:08 AM
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
:lulz: That was amazing!
Ludo is good stuff. :)
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 04:32:14 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/john-boehner-facebook-shutdown_n_4111191.html
Oops.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
-Suu
Just watched. Honest.
Now NOBODY likes him. Poor, poor Boner.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 12:25:35 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on October 17, 2013, 12:12:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 16, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 16, 2013, 06:09:10 PM
I haven't had a proper shit in days. I took some psyllium husk powder yesterday, and nothing, so I took some more this morning and now I'm feeling rumblings.
I have to walk to class in 7 minutes. Wish me luck.
You know what?
Me neither. And I've been pounding back a shit ton of water for the stone and taking a home remedy that involves olive oil, and I am NOT. SHITTING. I have IBS for christ's sake. Maybe it's time for Richter's cooking.
Richter's cooking should Nigel the fuck out of my intestines and get things moving again.
I'm shitting.
I just created a mini-Texas an hour ago, as a matter of fact. Sounded like howitzers at the beginning of the Battle of Ypres. You could just imagine tiny soldiers cowering in their trenches, praying that the horrible noise wasn't aimed at them. Poor little guys. It's aimed at everyone.
STOP MAKING MORE TEXAS.
Can't help it. It just shows up.
FLUSH IT BEFORE IT LAYS YAHOO EGGS
And I have just picked out my classes for next quarter.
A 300 level class on Shakespeare.
A 300 level class on RAP MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
And a 400 level class on childrens and YA fiction. This is up for change.
After that quarter I will done with major requirements and only need 2 credits of an upper divisional class, so I could take all lower division courses my last two quarters, but that probably won't be as fun.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 17, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
And I have just picked out my classes for next quarter.
A 300 level class on Shakespeare.
A 300 level class on RAP MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
And a 400 level class on childrens and YA fiction. This is up for change.
After that quarter I will done with major requirements and only need 2 credits of an upper divisional class, so I could take all lower division courses my last two quarters, but that probably won't be as fun.
I look forward to hearing about these classes. They sound relevant to my interests.
November 1st 4:00 P.M. I'll be playing football all over your precious baseball stadiums.
You've been warned!
Tickets have been bought prepare your anus Boston.
-
Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 09:29:53 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 17, 2013, 12:28:42 AM
Quote from: Alty on October 16, 2013, 11:47:25 PM
Went to a doctor and paid an outrageous price for *TMI*
As he prepared to slice away at my back he noticed I have a mole that failed A-D, but E is still not, well, Elevated. And it's small, but still, biopsy. I wonder how much a biopsy costs. Also, where in the fuck is my Obamacare?
Kinda freaked out, in a calm, floating sort of way.
Hope everything's alright, man.
Ditto.
Handed in my notice today. Bosses made some parting shots about not dressing correctly (because apparently polo-neck t-shirts and chinos are not smart casual, merely casual) and a comment which strongly suggested that even when I am off duty, they expect me to spend all my time brainstorming ideas. Because, y'know, my free time isn't actually free or anything.
So I figure I'm better off out of it.
Still have to work until December break, or until a replacement is found (whichever comes first), so I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. But I can't say that attitude made me want to reconsider my choice at all.
Shit, I've clearly missed something. What the fuck?
-
Well, nothing ventured and so on.
Kudos for the self restraint. I suspect I'd have used enough sarcasm to get me sacked with comments like that.
In other news, unpacked, settling in, tendering all the things.
-
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 17, 2013, 08:11:06 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 17, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
And I have just picked out my classes for next quarter.
A 300 level class on Shakespeare.
A 300 level class on RAP MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
And a 400 level class on childrens and YA fiction. This is up for change.
After that quarter I will done with major requirements and only need 2 credits of an upper divisional class, so I could take all lower division courses my last two quarters, but that probably won't be as fun.
I look forward to hearing about these classes. They sound relevant to my interests.
Yeah, I'd love it if you dish about the hip hop class.
Cain, you might as well just learn all the things. It's time for you to accidentally a country or three.
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Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:43:02 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:40:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:36:50 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:35:43 AM
From what I understand, the only people who give a shit about the Rev are skinheads.
Shit, really?
And the Hispanic population. Which is to be expected since they're more apt to enjoy real futbol. But the one game I went to, our entire section were fucking skins. There's another team in Boston also, I think it's a different league though.
The Latinos make sense. Skins I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. But that must make home games really fucking awkward.
In Europe it's common for neo-nazi "firms" to congregate around football... Interestingly there's also a lot of antifascists in the stands too.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 17, 2013, 08:11:06 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 17, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
And I have just picked out my classes for next quarter.
A 300 level class on Shakespeare.
A 300 level class on RAP MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
And a 400 level class on childrens and YA fiction. This is up for change.
After that quarter I will done with major requirements and only need 2 credits of an upper divisional class, so I could take all lower division courses my last two quarters, but that probably won't be as fun.
I look forward to hearing about these classes. They sound relevant to my interests.
these all sound like classes i would take.
I also, look forward to hearing about them.
I am leaving the house for the first time in 11 days. I need to get a haircut and Payne's 30th birthday gift.
Quote from: Pixie on October 17, 2013, 11:44:01 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 17, 2013, 02:43:02 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:40:45 AM
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Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:35:43 AM
From what I understand, the only people who give a shit about the Rev are skinheads.
Shit, really?
And the Hispanic population. Which is to be expected since they're more apt to enjoy real futbol. But the one game I went to, our entire section were fucking skins. There's another team in Boston also, I think it's a different league though.
The Latinos make sense. Skins I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. But that must make home games really fucking awkward.
In Europe it's common for neo-nazi "firms" to congregate around football... Interestingly there's also a lot of antifascists in the stands too.
Yeah, but, Murrica. I mean, soccer's a game that can reasonably end in a tie score of 0-0. Murrikins hate shit like that. Baseball has 9 innings. You know, unless there's a tie score. That shit will go into the 16th inning if that's what it takes for one team to win and one team to lose.
Quote from: Pixie on October 17, 2013, 11:47:35 AM
I am leaving the house for the first time in 11 days. I need to get a haircut and Payne's 30th birthday gift.
Please wish upon the Holy Messiah our undoubted love and affection upon the anniversary of his birth.
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Quote from: Don Coyote on October 17, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
And I have just picked out my classes for next quarter.
A 300 level class on Shakespeare.
A 300 level class on RAP MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
And a 400 level class on childrens and YA fiction. This is up for change.
After that quarter I will done with major requirements and only need 2 credits of an upper divisional class, so I could take all lower division courses my last two quarters, but that probably won't be as fun.
I look forward to hearing about these classes. They sound relevant to my interests.
Yeah, I'd love it if you dish about the hip hop class.
oh gods the pressure. I usually only bitch about terrible stuff. but I'll try to share cool stuff. Hopefully there will be enough cool stuff to share.
I'm also hoping that before I graduate UWT schedules the 400 level history of jazz class and/or the Harlem Renaissance.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 04:52:39 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 03:11:08 AM
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
:lulz: That was amazing!
The part that's my head? When everyone's crowded around the podium going "LA DA DA DA DA DA!"
The rest of the video is clearly what's in my wife's head.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 17, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
And I have just picked out my classes for next quarter.
A 300 level class on Shakespeare.
A 300 level class on RAP MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
And a 400 level class on childrens and YA fiction. This is up for change.
After that quarter I will done with major requirements and only need 2 credits of an upper divisional class, so I could take all lower division courses my last two quarters, but that probably won't be as fun.
These sound fun!
Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 09:29:53 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 17, 2013, 12:28:42 AM
Quote from: Alty on October 16, 2013, 11:47:25 PM
Went to a doctor and paid an outrageous price for *TMI*
As he prepared to slice away at my back he noticed I have a mole that failed A-D, but E is still not, well, Elevated. And it's small, but still, biopsy. I wonder how much a biopsy costs. Also, where in the fuck is my Obamacare?
Kinda freaked out, in a calm, floating sort of way.
Hope everything's alright, man.
Ditto.
Handed in my notice today. Bosses made some parting shots about not dressing correctly (because apparently polo-neck t-shirts and chinos are not smart casual, merely casual) and a comment which strongly suggested that even when I am off duty, they expect me to spend all my time brainstorming ideas. Because, y'know, my free time isn't actually free or anything.
So I figure I'm better off out of it.
Still have to work until December break, or until a replacement is found (whichever comes first), so I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. But I can't say that attitude made me want to reconsider my choice at all.
Congratulations on doing it, it might make the next two years broker but I bet you'll be a lot happier.
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I keep feeling like I'm doing something wrong in my chemistry class. So far my grades are fine, but I keep having anxiety dreams. Last night, the dream was that we had the midterm and it was mostly questions based on things he mentioned in passing in class, none of which we had homework for.
Everything we actually DO is easy. It's issues like giving us quizzes on concepts we haven't covered yet, and when I asked him whether everything on the midterm would be stuff we've had homework on, he laughed and said no.
Seriously? You're going to test us on things we haven't had homework on?
I seriously hate this class.
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Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 06:58:23 PM
Thanks.
In other news, I must still be working in Switzerland, because I'm off to the airport tomorrow to escort a child. Stupid Swiss laws mean children of a certain age (set by the airline they are flying with) must be accompanied up to the departure lounge.
Which means I'll be doing a whole lot of expensive coffee drinking tomorrow evening, for about 6 hours.
Edit: I'm also considering leaving as soon as my stuff is in transit. I'll think about it more once I'm packed, but it seems a rather attractive idea, and there are no really compelling reasons to hang around. Even contracturally, I only have to give a week's notice.
I like it. Because fuck those guys.
Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 07:00:25 PM
Sounds like this school's economics teacher.
And people wondered why most students flunked the first test of the year.
I feel like he's expecting that if we really want to learn, we'll figure out what and how to study on our own. Which is amusing given that we're paying a significant sum of money and time in order to be TAUGHT. He's a terrible lecturer, he just sort of mumble-drones and glosses over shit from our textbook, and spends more time telling us how easy we should find it than actually explaining it. His overall attitude seems to be that teaching is a waste of his time, and I feel like his teaching really IS a waste of time; both his and mine.
I don't think I can take this one pass/fail, either, so I'm pretty nervous. A B would absolutely suck.
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Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 07:13:30 PM
If it makes you feel better, in our case, the students with some wits about them, who put in the work, still did well. Not as well as they could have done, in a perfect world, but B grades, which is pretty good for first year econ.
Have you considered perhaps appealing to the course director/head of chemistry?
I may do that. I may even seek to retake the course next term, which would put me a term behind where I want to be but still be doable. We'll see what happens with the first midterm though, if I take that and do well I'll stop stressing so much. I'm good at self-study, but he's giving us so little to go on, and I know that other students who should be doing well are really struggling from the lack of direction.
Meanwhile, some fucking construction machinery up the street beeps incessantly from 8am to noon.
Quote from: Suu on October 17, 2013, 02:19:53 PM
Quote from: Pixie on October 17, 2013, 11:47:35 AM
I am leaving the house for the first time in 11 days. I need to get a haircut and Payne's 30th birthday gift.
Please wish upon the Holy Messiah our undoubted love and affection upon the anniversary of his birth.
I can hear the "3 more years! then I'll beat Jesus' high score!"
Apparently we are going to the pub at lunchtime, on Saturday. I am assured that as it is a day-long session that there will be food in the offing at our local gastropub.
then there will be a Tour of the Pubs, finishing up in the divey part of town but not going to the divey-est pub because the booze selection is pretty decent, the clientele are all about 25+ and the DJ is a local legend of indie rock.
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Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 08:23:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 07:22:03 PM
Meanwhile, some fucking construction machinery up the street beeps incessantly from 8am to noon.
Could be worse. It could play "What does the Fox say?"
KI KI KI KI-KI-KI-KI-KI KI KI!
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 02:39:55 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 04:52:39 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 03:11:08 AM
Yep, found the one I was thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI
:lulz: That was amazing!
The part that's my head? When everyone's crowded around the podium going "LA DA DA DA DA DA!"
The rest of the video is clearly what's in my wife's head.
Speaking of which, I am reasonably certain that the preacher at the podium during that sequence is actually LMNO.
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
It's that time of year again, when Adult and Family Services threatens to take away SNAP unless I prove I'm still poor. I thought they were going to network this shit so I don't have to gather together all the documents the state already has so I can show them to the state.
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?" and the answer is, I'm only on the fucking things because I'm in college, and jumping through unnecessary hoops takes away time I would otherwise spend studying. They KNOW how much child support I receive, they KNOW I'm in school full time, they KNOW how much my tax return is; having to spend an afternoon or two gathering documents and going down there to interview in person is purely punitive, to make sure I'm properly chastised for being poor.
Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2013, 08:23:42 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 07:22:03 PM
Meanwhile, some fucking construction machinery up the street beeps incessantly from 8am to noon.
Could be worse. It could play "What does the Fox say?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 11:14:06 PM
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?"
But I don't, because I've seen the system, and it is designed to punish you for not being rich.
Usually, it's the rules handed to the GAO department that monitors the programs, as a sop to the GOP who feel that poor people need to be reminded that they're on sufferance.
Which is part & parcel with what's wrong with our entire culture.
From the end of your post, it's quite clear that you see this, of course, not sure how you could miss it, but I hear all the time from otherwise intelligent people about how "those people with their smart phones and their diet of lobster and filet mignon" are "abusing the system".
Fuckers should try being dirt-ass poor for a bit.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 11:14:06 PM
It's that time of year again, when Adult and Family Services threatens to take away SNAP unless I prove I'm still poor. I thought they were going to network this shit so I don't have to gather together all the documents the state already has so I can show them to the state.
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?" and the answer is, I'm only on the fucking things because I'm in college, and jumping through unnecessary hoops takes away time I would otherwise spend studying. They KNOW how much child support I receive, they KNOW I'm in school full time, they KNOW how much my tax return is; having to spend an afternoon or two gathering documents and going down there to interview in person is purely punitive, to make sure I'm properly chastised for being poor.
Exactly.
I can imagine their "job training": "All these people are crackheads and slugs trying to freeload, your job is to MAKE THEM WORK. Don't let them get COMFORTABLE."
Really, I'd like to see the fucking training manuals. I'd probably have some kind of rage aneurysm, but I'd like to see them anyway.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 11:25:45 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 11:14:06 PM
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?"
But I don't, because I've seen the system, and it is designed to punish you for not being rich.
Usually, it's the rules handed to the GAO department that monitors the programs, as a sop to the GOP who feel that poor people need to be reminded that they're on sufferance.
Which is part & parcel with what's wrong with our entire culture.
From the end of your post, it's quite clear that you see this, of course, not sure how you could miss it, but I hear all the time from otherwise intelligent people about how "those people with their smart phones and their diet of lobster and filet mignon" are "abusing the system".
Fuckers should try being dirt-ass poor for a bit.
Very well said. Thank you.
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on October 17, 2013, 11:29:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 11:25:45 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 11:14:06 PM
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?"
But I don't, because I've seen the system, and it is designed to punish you for not being rich.
Usually, it's the rules handed to the GAO department that monitors the programs, as a sop to the GOP who feel that poor people need to be reminded that they're on sufferance.
Which is part & parcel with what's wrong with our entire culture.
From the end of your post, it's quite clear that you see this, of course, not sure how you could miss it, but I hear all the time from otherwise intelligent people about how "those people with their smart phones and their diet of lobster and filet mignon" are "abusing the system".
Fuckers should try being dirt-ass poor for a bit.
Very well said. Thank you.
Been there, done that, back in the 90s, when the kids were still tiny.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 11:25:45 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 11:14:06 PM
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?"
But I don't, because I've seen the system, and it is designed to punish you for not being rich.
Usually, it's the rules handed to the GAO department that monitors the programs, as a sop to the GOP who feel that poor people need to be reminded that they're on sufferance.
Which is part & parcel with what's wrong with our entire culture.
From the end of your post, it's quite clear that you see this, of course, not sure how you could miss it, but I hear all the time from otherwise intelligent people about how "those people with their smart phones and their diet of lobster and filet mignon" are "abusing the system".
Fuckers should try being dirt-ass poor for a bit.
Yeah, all the apocryphal stories of people "abusing the system". I'm 99% sure that most of them are MADE UP; you know, the kind of bullshit stories that people with an agenda use to illustrate the point they WANT to make. I have bought steak on SNAP: sometimes steak is on sale. Sometimes it's a kid's birthday. Sometimes I just want to eat something NICE instead of an unremitting diet of beans, rice, and cabbage. Bottom line, though, is that if I do splurge I have to be careful, because it's a fixed amount and if I run out before the end of the month, it's back to rice and beans. Which are fine for keeping costs down, but not fine EVERY GODDAMN DAY.
The fraud rate with SNAP is under 1%. It's so low that it costs more to investigate than it would save in preventing some asshole from trading benefits for cigarettes. And I am not selling all the nice things I bought when I had money for $20 on eBay just so the douche in line behind me won't judge me for paying with food stamps while I'm carrying a Coach bag, checking my iPhone, and wearing Frye's. All nice things that will help me make a positive impression when meeting with future colleagues and prospective employers.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 18, 2013, 01:16:49 AM
Yeah, all the apocryphal stories of people "abusing the system". I'm 99% sure that most of them are MADE UP; you know, the kind of bullshit stories that people with an agenda use to illustrate the point they WANT to make. I have bought steak on SNAP: sometimes steak is on sale. Sometimes it's a kid's birthday. Sometimes I just want to eat something NICE instead of an unremitting diet of beans, rice, and cabbage. Bottom line, though, is that if I do splurge I have to be careful, because it's a fixed amount and if I run out before the end of the month, it's back to rice and beans. Which are fine for keeping costs down, but not fine EVERY GODDAMN DAY.
The fraud rate with SNAP is under 1%. It's so low that it costs more to investigate than it would save in preventing some asshole from trading benefits for cigarettes. And I am not selling all the nice things I bought when I had money for $20 on eBay just so the douche in line behind me won't judge me for paying with food stamps while I'm carrying a Coach bag, checking my iPhone, and wearing Frye's. All nice things that will help me make a positive impression when meeting with future colleagues and prospective employers.
This all goes back to Reagan's "welfare queen" comment, which he later admitted he made up.
But it's a great meme for dragging the teabuckers around with. It isn't aimed at anyone with any skill in, or desire for, critical thinking.
It's a creation of The Other, using the usual targets...Those that have little or no voice or means to fight back.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 18, 2013, 01:16:49 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 17, 2013, 11:25:45 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 17, 2013, 11:14:06 PM
You may ask, "what is the big deal, it's free money, what's a few hours of your time?"
But I don't, because I've seen the system, and it is designed to punish you for not being rich.
Usually, it's the rules handed to the GAO department that monitors the programs, as a sop to the GOP who feel that poor people need to be reminded that they're on sufferance.
Which is part & parcel with what's wrong with our entire culture.
From the end of your post, it's quite clear that you see this, of course, not sure how you could miss it, but I hear all the time from otherwise intelligent people about how "those people with their smart phones and their diet of lobster and filet mignon" are "abusing the system".
Fuckers should try being dirt-ass poor for a bit.
Yeah, all the apocryphal stories of people "abusing the system". I'm 99% sure that most of them are MADE UP; you know, the kind of bullshit stories that people with an agenda use to illustrate the point they WANT to make. I have bought steak on SNAP: sometimes steak is on sale. Sometimes it's a kid's birthday. Sometimes I just want to eat something NICE instead of an unremitting diet of beans, rice, and cabbage. Bottom line, though, is that if I do splurge I have to be careful, because it's a fixed amount and if I run out before the end of the month, it's back to rice and beans. Which are fine for keeping costs down, but not fine EVERY GODDAMN DAY.
The fraud rate with SNAP is under 1%. It's so low that it costs more to investigate than it would save in preventing some asshole from trading benefits for cigarettes. And I am not selling all the nice things I bought when I had money for $20 on eBay just so the douche in line behind me won't judge me for paying with food stamps while I'm carrying a Coach bag, checking my iPhone, and wearing Frye's. All nice things that will help me make a positive impression when meeting with future colleagues and prospective employers.
Exactly this. They want everybody to get to work and get off benefits, but they want them to do it in rags, or at best a ten dollar pair of new jeans. Try getting an office gig in that.
On another note, I am damn fucking proud of myself right now because with no other info besides a periodic table I just solved for the identity of M where M is a mystery metal in MF_6 and a 15.327-gram sample is found to contain 10.363 grams of M.
I know it's basic but I'm still proud.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 18, 2013, 02:40:16 AM
On another note, I am damn fucking proud of myself right now because with no other info besides a periodic table I just solved for the identity of M where M is a mystery metal in MF_6 and a 15.327-gram sample is found to contain 10.363 grams of M.
I know it's basic but I'm still proud.
I can't remember any of that shit, so it's not so basic.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 02:51:35 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 18, 2013, 02:40:16 AM
On another note, I am damn fucking proud of myself right now because with no other info besides a periodic table I just solved for the identity of M where M is a mystery metal in MF_6 and a 15.327-gram sample is found to contain 10.363 grams of M.
I know it's basic but I'm still proud.
I can't remember any of that shit, so it's not so basic.
She had to isolate the atomic weights to satisfy M by figuring out how much six F molecules weigh. Or something. Maybe.
Quote from: Suu on October 18, 2013, 02:58:58 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 02:51:35 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 18, 2013, 02:40:16 AM
On another note, I am damn fucking proud of myself right now because with no other info besides a periodic table I just solved for the identity of M where M is a mystery metal in MF_6 and a 15.327-gram sample is found to contain 10.363 grams of M.
I know it's basic but I'm still proud.
I can't remember any of that shit, so it's not so basic.
She had to isolate the atomic weights to satisfy M by figuring out how much six F molecules weigh. Or something. Maybe.
Sort of. I had to convert F from grams to moles, and then from moles to atoms, then divide by six to find out how many atoms of M I had, then convert to moles and divide mass by moles to get the atomic weight. The reason I'm proud is because I didn't have instructions or conversion units, I just relied on memory for unit conversions and muddling things out for the logic, and it worked! Yay!
I was also proud earlier today because I figured out the length of one side of a cube of ice in feet knowing only that the cube contained 4.45x10^23 atoms and that the density of ice at 15 degrees is 918.7kg/m^3. I worked out the formula in my head on the walk home and lo and behold, when I got home and tried it, success!
It isn't complicated algebra, it just has a lot of steps and conversion units.
So an Irish Jew walks into an Ethiopian bar and gets tanked with a bunch of Somalian Muslims....
And asks himself, wut....
Twid,
gave Abdul his phone number.
Also apparently Somalian Muslims have deep respect for Irish Catholics.
Never thought I would be saying Salaam Alikum in equal measure with Slainte, and with equal glee.
You broke up with gf Twid?
Quote from: Mr. Bear on October 18, 2013, 06:54:47 AM
You broke up with gf Twid?
Never. Matter of fact, before the Muslims broke my train of thought I was thinking of how I would talk to gramps about her, and have them meet.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 18, 2013, 07:02:03 AM
Quote from: Mr. Bear on October 18, 2013, 06:54:47 AM
You broke up with gf Twid?
Never. Matter of fact, before the Muslims broke my train of thought I was thinking of how I would talk to gramps about her, and have them meet.
It's a sticky thing. Gramps is, well, wicked fucking Catholic, and disapproving as a personal... quirk.
Gramps met one gf. He managed to twist the info into her being devil woman. Granted, she and I make better friends, but I think he will approve of Villager, and if he doesn't, well. I still love him but fuck him and his rhubarb.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 18, 2013, 07:05:11 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 18, 2013, 07:02:03 AM
Quote from: Mr. Bear on October 18, 2013, 06:54:47 AM
You broke up with gf Twid?
Never. Matter of fact, before the Muslims broke my train of thought I was thinking of how I would talk to gramps about her, and have them meet.
It's a sticky thing. Gramps is, well, wicked fucking Catholic, and disapproving as a personal... quirk.
Gramps met one gf. He managed to twist the info into her being devil woman. Granted, she and I make better friends, but I think he will approve of Villager, and if he doesn't, well. I still love him but fuck him and his rhubarb.
:lulz:
Actually, when I sober up I was thinking of talking to my cousin Evelyn and asking her the best way to go about it. Villager and I broke up for like, a month and a half, due to me being a lazy ass who won't go back to college (Hey, I'm back in college) and get a real job (this coming from my bassist) but, you know. Apparently gramps likes and respects me. Not that he would ever tell me. I have to hear that through channels. But I like and respect him too. It would be a bonus to me if my future wife were able to meet him before he died, whether he approves of her or not. It's purely selfish. I don't care what Villager and Twidgramps think of each other. I just want them to meet. I want Twidgramps to see where his name is going. Preferably it would be more interaction than what is mandated by culture. And I'd like to get a thumbs up from him before his thumbs become immovable.
Redacted. Mainly because unimportant.
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Hah, that does sound like it could be fun. I'd vote!
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Quote from: Mr. Bear on October 18, 2013, 06:54:47 AM
You broke up with gf Twid?
Ah, I think I get the confusion.
No, Abdul's not my type anyway. I'm just a friendly drunk. You think I'm a pacifist hippie when I'm sober.... well, you can find out at the end of October.
Actually, sometimes I'm a violent pacifist which is the weirdest thing ever, but only happens if I see a fight about to break out. Then I step in and start shouting a lot, sometimes threateningly. I'm actually amazed I still have all my teeth.
I'm a bear who likes to have a good time.
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More children's prison guard work?
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Good on ya, then.
Plus, now we'll be able to hear tales of you dealing with grownups who act like children.
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Morning meeting time in 10 minutes.
:tgrr:
Quote from: Cain on October 18, 2013, 07:52:51 AM
I'm considering, once I'm free of this place and have the time (so, like maybe from May onwards) doing a Dragon Age: Origins/Dragon Age II (and, when it comes out, Inquisition) single gameplay, with in-game choices driven by votes.
It's a total rip-off of what Xcal has done for Mass Effect, but it would be done with this community and IRC (initially). Does that strike anyone's fancy? Everything from difficulty and class to who lives and who dies would be driven by The People.
I reckon it could be fun at least. And I could upload them to Youtube, with commentary, for a bit of extra cash.
I'd be down. I think it'd be a good bit of fun. Pretty excited a third one is coming out - even if it's still a way off.
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I'm down. Beats sitting around watching people talk about Nirvana all fucking day. :lulz:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:02:55 PM
I'm down. Beats sitting around watching people talk about Nirvana all fucking day. :lulz:
But they CHANGED EVERYTHING Roger!! Dontcha know nuffin about culture??
Quote from: Hoopla on October 18, 2013, 04:04:22 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:02:55 PM
I'm down. Beats sitting around watching people talk about Nirvana all fucking day. :lulz:
But they CHANGED EVERYTHING Roger!! Dontcha know nuffin about culture??
I am a brute that doesn't even know which fork is for the salad. My definition of "music" involves looped recordings of trainwrecks and TB wards. I am unable to converse about such lofty things.
And I'm certainly not going to do it in this thread.
So instead, I'm going to vote the Mayhem Ticket in Cain's game, when he gets around to it.
In the meantime, though, I'm going to log off for a while. Maybe take a nap.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:07:26 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on October 18, 2013, 04:04:22 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:02:55 PM
I'm down. Beats sitting around watching people talk about Nirvana all fucking day. :lulz:
But they CHANGED EVERYTHING Roger!! Dontcha know nuffin about culture??
I am a brute that doesn't even know which fork is for the salad. My definition of "music" involves looped recordings of trainwrecks and TB wards. I am unable to converse about such lofty things.
And I'm certainly not going to do it in this thread.
So instead, I'm going to vote the Mayhem Ticket in Cain's game, when he gets around to it.
NO NO NO! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT KRIST NOVOSELIC DONATED TO RON PAUL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist_Novoselic#Political_and_social_activism)?
HE CAN SAVE YOUR SOUL.
Quote from: Cain on October 18, 2013, 03:51:43 PM
Awesome. And yes, the third looks good - going by the PAX demo, at least. I'm quite happy that EA put the release date back a year - it's allowed for a ton more content, and after DA2, it's pretty clear Bioware do their best work when they're allowed to polish and finesse the product. No more mercenaries jumping out of thin air plz.
Also, the Frostbite 3 engine is amazing. Destructible landscape fixtures? Force mages just became at least 20 times more awesome, and they were pretty awesome to start with. Shatter all the load-bearing structures.
Oh yea, I'm not complaining - would rather have quality than an early release date. Just excited that it's happening. Besides I'm in the middle of Fallout 3 right now (played New Vegas then went back and bought 3, which by now came with all the expansion packs too), then if I ever finish that might give GTA 5 a whirl, so not in any rush.
Just recently re-obtained internet at home so I have access to DLC now. Are any/all of the DA expansion packs worth it? According to the xbox site they appear to be at $5 each right now.
And yea, just watched a demo of 3 and it does look quite awesome. Hadn't seen much about it until looking it up now, but the gameplay looks great and destructible landscape does add a whole new level.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:02:55 PM
I'm down. Beats sitting around watching people talk about Nirvana all fucking day. :lulz:
Especially some prat from Maine who wasn't even through puberty when they went mainstream, never saw them live, and learned everything he knows about them from fanboi magazines.
:lulz:
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 18, 2013, 05:18:04 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:02:55 PM
I'm down. Beats sitting around watching people talk about Nirvana all fucking day. :lulz:
Especially some prat from Maine who wasn't even through puberty when they went mainstream, never saw them live, and learned everything he knows about them from fanboi magazines.
:lulz:
His whole argument has been regurgitated fanboi blurb, true. :lulz:
About half way done with getting the BIP together to print. I just put a first draft together, so Dimo and I are going to review what needs to be fixed (fortunately it looks like we can get a full bleed).
Well, this has become even less exciting than doing my job, so I guess I'll log off and fill out TPS reports.
See you guys next week, I guess.
Nope. Not gonna do that report.
Back to F5.
Hey, getting near the end of the day.
You know what's gonna happen?
Well, DO YA?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 18, 2013, 08:20:25 PM
Hey, getting near the end of the day.
You know what's gonna happen?
Well, DO YA?
I'm guessing you're off to the GAY BAR.
Where everyone will sit and look at each other, but never, ever speak. :lulz:
DOUR,
Asshole on the march.
We'll be too busy DANCING and BEING FABULOUS.
Don't be hatin', hater.
Ah. I should be more clear.
Don't be hatin' on ME, girlfriend. I will CUT A BITCH.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 18, 2013, 08:25:30 PM
Ah. I should be more clear.
Don't be hatin' on ME, girlfriend. I will CUT A BITCH.
Oh, okay. I'll just hate on the brits some more.
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Quote from: Cain on October 18, 2013, 10:15:23 PM
Also, I'm back from the airport. Yay. I babysat a Russian for 4 hours and got sexually molested by airport security and payed $9 for a sandwich and accidentally walked into France and it was fucking awful.
Dear God.
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They're French. They are obligated to be as obnoxious as possible in everything they do, or they have their onion privileges revoked.
Hey guise, I have a post on my Facebook that has apparently been infiltrated by birthers on my friend's list I didn't even know WERE birthers. Before I unfriend the fuckers, feel free to go have a little bit of fun if you're friends with me.
Oh, apparently they were "just joking." :roll:
Quote from: Suu on October 18, 2013, 10:55:06 PM
Oh, apparently they were "just joking." :roll:
Isn't it just precious when that happens?
Quote from: Cain on October 18, 2013, 10:15:23 PM
Also, I'm back from the airport. Yay. I babysat a Russian for 4 hours and got sexually molested by airport security and payed $9 for a sandwich and accidentally walked into France and it was fucking awful.
:eek: Are you OK?
I basically forgot that I had a scholarship awards reception this afternoon so my short easy day that was supposed to be the day I pickled Ray and got a ton of homework done turned into the ass-long day of mingling and traffic jams.
My benefactor wasn't even there, which actually really bummed me out. No fewer than FOUR of my cohort were there, though, and I met a cool engineering student, so it all works out. Also I ate a LOT of salad rolls.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 18, 2013, 04:07:26 PM
I am a brute that doesn't even know which fork is for the salad. My definition of "music" involves looped recordings of trainwrecks and TB wards. I am unable to converse about such lofty things.
I am a sick person, but it occurs to me that both are so rare that if you combined them, it would actually be art.
I'm joining Phi Theta Kappa. They've been emailing me for over a year, I figure it will look good on my resume or scholarship opportunities or something.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 19, 2013, 05:08:55 AM
I'm joining Phi Theta Kappa. They've been emailing me for over a year, I figure it will look good on my resume or scholarship opportunities or something.
Congrats! Honor societies do look good. I just shelled over $70 for ODK myself. (4 year leadership society.) Keep taking them as they give them to you. From what I hear some of them also have career services offered to their members.
I'm just going to be nauseously proud of myself for a minute here because I started programming in Ruby less than a month ago and tonight, while solving puzzles in a test environment built by coding ninjas, I hacked my way out of the test environment and toggled "victory" to "true", without actually solving the puzzle.
Quote from: Pæs on October 19, 2013, 04:28:31 PM
I'm just going to be nauseously proud of myself for a minute here because I started programming in Ruby less than a month ago and tonight, while solving puzzles in a test environment built by coding ninjas, I hacked my way out of the test environment and toggled "victory" to "true", without actually solving the puzzle.
WOOHOO!
For anyone who reads Ruby, this is the code I wrote to copy the locked test environment, delete it, and recreate it so I could inject my own data into it. [redacted]
Quote from: Suu on October 19, 2013, 02:38:04 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 19, 2013, 05:08:55 AM
I'm joining Phi Theta Kappa. They've been emailing me for over a year, I figure it will look good on my resume or scholarship opportunities or something.
Congrats! Honor societies do look good. I just shelled over $70 for ODK myself. (4 year leadership society.) Keep taking them as they give them to you. From what I hear some of them also have career services offered to their members.
Guess I should have joined the honor societies when they were blowing up my inbox instead of marking them as spam......
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 19, 2013, 05:07:29 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 19, 2013, 02:38:04 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 19, 2013, 05:08:55 AM
I'm joining Phi Theta Kappa. They've been emailing me for over a year, I figure it will look good on my resume or scholarship opportunities or something.
Congrats! Honor societies do look good. I just shelled over $70 for ODK myself. (4 year leadership society.) Keep taking them as they give them to you. From what I hear some of them also have career services offered to their members.
Guess I should have joined the honor societies when they were blowing up my inbox instead of marking them as spam......
It really depends on which ones, a lot of them really ARE spam.
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I'm trying to get Totchos recognized as Oregon's state dish. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Totchos-Oregons-Signature-Dish/1430604100500430
So far it seems to be working.
I don't know if it's like this elsewhere, but here just about every bar and restaurant has tots and most have some version of totchos.
Richter, Leln, SuuBF and I just played Cards Against Humanity and learned that we are all horrid people.
Quote from: Suu on October 19, 2013, 11:27:08 PM
Richter, Leln, SuuBF and I just played Cards Against Humanity and learned that we are all horrid people.
:lulz: I love that game.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 19, 2013, 11:43:34 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 19, 2013, 11:27:08 PM
Richter, Leln, SuuBF and I just played Cards Against Humanity and learned that we are all horrid people.
:lulz: I love that game.
My wife keeps looking for it at the local game shop. Evidently she can't buy it from the interwebs.
But I know what she is getting for xmas.
Friends from Halifax are on their way home. We had a fancy dress dinner party and sleepover at her parents' house, naturally featuring the Canadian monstrosity that is "kraft dinner." The kids were the only ones who got any sleep, the rest of us were too busy drinking and talking politics and plotting to get the Boston - Halifax ferry to be a thing, because three years is too long to go between visits. Exhausted and happy.
NIGEL! THIS IS FOR YOU! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOAWus3rO4k
Oh hell yes that's a good one!
I have reached the conclusion that kennings, and other metaphorical tropes, were used precisely so people did not have to take a thousand words to explain what something means.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 20, 2013, 06:43:50 AM
I have reached the conclusion that kennings, and other metaphorical tropes, were used precisely so people did not have to take a thousand words to explain what something means.
I don't know what you're talking about, literary man, but I will tell you that as a person who is usually more confused than elucidated by metaphor, I have always assumed that metaphor is for people who don't understand the literal explanation.
Although the cookbook metaphor for DNA works pretty well.
I don't know that it works any better than the literal explanation, though.
So a kenning is a poetic device in which, usually, two words, usually nouns, are used to directly replace a noun. Some times it's a genitive or possessive phrase.
Things like "whale-road" is "sea" or "ocean", "battle-torch" is "sword", "heaven's candle" is the sun.
So kennings are a very important poetic device in Norse, Old-English, and older Germanic languages, partly because they highly valued poetry and the artistry of words, but I realized that because they are metaphors, and metaphors can have meanings beyond the literal, AND particularly in Norse kennings can end up being layered, so a kenning can contain a kenning can contain a kenning can contain a kenning.
So as metaphor that is more than literal the words that are replacing the original noun can be telling something particular that noun in that moment in time, with the intent to invoke a particular group of ideas.
Calling a king a "ring-giver" differs from using "Helm of his people". Both are kingly kennings, but emphasis different things that are important to kingship.
In essence, by taking two or so words to replace the noun, you just saved yourself hundreds of words explaining something.
They are sort of short-hand definitions of the word.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 20, 2013, 07:06:58 AM
So a kenning is a poetic device in which, usually, two words, usually nouns, are used to directly replace a noun. Some times it's a genitive or possessive phrase.
Things like "whale-road" is "sea" or "ocean", "battle-torch" is "sword", "heaven's candle" is the sun.
So kennings are a very important poetic device in Norse, Old-English, and older Germanic languages, partly because they highly valued poetry and the artistry of words, but I realized that because they are metaphors, and metaphors can have meanings beyond the literal, AND particularly in Norse kennings can end up being layered, so a kenning can contain a kenning can contain a kenning can contain a kenning.
So as metaphor that is more than literal the words that are replacing the original noun can be telling something particular that noun in that moment in time, with the intent to invoke a particular group of ideas.
Calling a king a "ring-giver" differs from using "Helm of his people". Both are kingly kennings, but emphasis different things that are important to kingship.
In essence, by taking two or so words to replace the noun, you just saved yourself hundreds of words explaining something.
They are sort of short-hand definitions of the word.
They are also profoundly culturally-dependent, which is one of the fascinating things about them.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 20, 2013, 07:12:33 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 20, 2013, 07:06:58 AM
So a kenning is a poetic device in which, usually, two words, usually nouns, are used to directly replace a noun. Some times it's a genitive or possessive phrase.
Things like "whale-road" is "sea" or "ocean", "battle-torch" is "sword", "heaven's candle" is the sun.
So kennings are a very important poetic device in Norse, Old-English, and older Germanic languages, partly because they highly valued poetry and the artistry of words, but I realized that because they are metaphors, and metaphors can have meanings beyond the literal, AND particularly in Norse kennings can end up being layered, so a kenning can contain a kenning can contain a kenning can contain a kenning.
So as metaphor that is more than literal the words that are replacing the original noun can be telling something particular that noun in that moment in time, with the intent to invoke a particular group of ideas.
Calling a king a "ring-giver" differs from using "Helm of his people". Both are kingly kennings, but emphasis different things that are important to kingship.
In essence, by taking two or so words to replace the noun, you just saved yourself hundreds of words explaining something.
They are sort of short-hand definitions of the word.
They are also profoundly culturally-dependent, which is one of the fascinating things about them.
Yes
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 20, 2013, 06:42:32 AM
Oh hell yes that's a good one!
I may have been very drunk and in charge of a computer.
Trying to explain to a conservative the difference between National Socialism and Fascism, and then proving to them that they are right wing and not left is absolutely painful. No matter what I post, including primary sources from Mussolini, he's not buying it. There's no use arguing anymore.
Quote from: Suu on October 20, 2013, 08:44:06 PM
Trying to explain to a conservative the difference between National Socialism and Fascism, and then proving to them that they are right wing and not left is absolutely painful. No matter what I post, including primary sources from Mussolini, he's not buying it. There's no use arguing anymore.
There's never any point in arguing with a True Believer.
Quote from: Suu on October 20, 2013, 08:44:06 PM
Trying to explain to a conservative the difference between National Socialism and Fascism, and then proving to them that they are right wing and not left is absolutely painful. No matter what I post, including primary sources from Mussolini, he's not buying it. There's no use arguing anymore.
Mention FDR.
Quote from: Mr. Bear on October 20, 2013, 11:27:44 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 20, 2013, 08:44:06 PM
Trying to explain to a conservative the difference between National Socialism and Fascism, and then proving to them that they are right wing and not left is absolutely painful. No matter what I post, including primary sources from Mussolini, he's not buying it. There's no use arguing anymore.
Mention FDR.
I did. And they told me that the US under FDR was fascist because of his economic policies. To which, I simply replied, "Meanwhile, in REAL FASCIST EUROPE..."
I'm trying to make Ray into sauerkraut without slicing my fingers off. This is a whole lot of cabbage to chop.
I am now training for the Pacific Crest Trail.
(http://www.rikaandolislongasswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yogis_Handbook.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
It turns out Lady Gaga is excellent music for making sauerkraut. I'm halfway through shredding Ray and I think I'll season the last batch with crushed chilis and garlic. Just sharpened my knife, haven't nicked myself once. :)
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:24:12 AM
I'm trying to make Ray into sauerkraut without slicing my fingers off. This is a whole lot of cabbage to chop.
I am now training for the Pacific Crest Trail.
(http://www.rikaandolislongasswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yogis_Handbook.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
O.O What are you going to do to it?
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 21, 2013, 05:32:02 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:24:12 AM
I'm trying to make Ray into sauerkraut without slicing my fingers off. This is a whole lot of cabbage to chop.
I am now training for the Pacific Crest Trail.
(http://www.rikaandolislongasswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yogis_Handbook.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
O.O What are you going to do to it?
The whole thing.
Nice! Knowing the mountains out here versus here, I'm sure it's at least a billionty more challenging than the Appalachian Trail. When are you planning on doing it?
The saga of Barney Rubble is apparently not over.
I've joined a support group for kidney stones on Facebook, because I couldn't find any damn answers to what I wanted to know on the rest of the internet aside from, "Call your urologist." I did start passing pieces of the fucker, and I'm taking some pretty volatile herbals which are pretty potent, but when I piss, I get PISS LIKE BURNING. Like the fire of 1000 red hot needles are inside of my urethra at the same time. I tested myself for a UTI, because I used to be prone to them, and there is no sign of infection. Apparently, after speaking with some folks on the Facebook page, this is what happens when your stone GETS STUCK IN YOUR BLADDER, BECAUSE THEY ARE SHARP AND EVIL.
I was told to basically drink all the waters, all the coffees, all the whatever, and hold my piss for as long as possible and then push it all out like I'm a goddamn piss rocket, or something.
And then, I remembered challenge pissing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sEwYmsZf8
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 06:11:33 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 21, 2013, 05:32:02 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:24:12 AM
I'm trying to make Ray into sauerkraut without slicing my fingers off. This is a whole lot of cabbage to chop.
I am now training for the Pacific Crest Trail.
(http://www.rikaandolislongasswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yogis_Handbook.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
O.O What are you going to do to it?
The whole thing.
When you get done, let us know and we'll pick you up at the end.
Unless the mountain lions and the bears get you. In which case we'll bail you out. Pervert.
Meetings all day.
Someone kill me. It's not so much to ask.
Quote from: Cain on October 18, 2013, 10:06:19 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on October 18, 2013, 04:57:17 PM
Just recently re-obtained internet at home so I have access to DLC now. Are any/all of the DA expansion packs worth it? According to the xbox site they appear to be at $5 each right now.
For Origins? Awakening for sure, The Stone Prisoner, Golems of Amgarrak, and maybe Return to Ostagar, Witch Hunt and Leliana's Song as well. I don't like the way Return to Ostagar tries to retcon Cailan into being a tragic figure who was deeply cared about. Witch Hunt is probably good for fans of Morrigan (and no doubt will figure into her role in Inquisition) and Leliana's Song is in much the same position for her character.
*snip*
I wouldn't worry about any that do not interest you - with the introduction of Dragon Keep, you can pick an outcome for those DLC without ever playing them (probably). So you shouldn't miss out on Inquisition content due to not paying for earlier DLC.
Wow, that was a very informative (and entertaining) breakdown of everything. Thanks a bunch! Based on the recommendation I'll probably end up trying Awakening, perhaps Witch Hunt, since Morrigan's involvement does interest me. The Black Emporium in 2 is tempting for the Mabari alone, but we'll see. I'll ponder this over more when I'm not supposed to be working. Really, thanks though. It's good to know, because I'd like to try out some of them, but don't really feel like spending my money on ALL the things.
Just looked up the Dragon Keep too. Really neat. I had really liked the fact that choices from the first game (or the preset choices they had) could affect parts of the gameplay/interactions in the 2nd. And it sounds like Dragon Keep is an expansion upon that. Really neat.
ETA: Reading a bit more, obviously it's not out yet, but it sounds like its going to be an internet-based service? Needing to be connected to the internet to use (or only just to download a particular scenario)? I do have the internet home now, but I'll have to read more, again, when I have more time to focus. Still, interesting.
Quote from: Suu on October 21, 2013, 01:16:19 PM
Nice! Knowing the mountains out here versus here, I'm sure it's at least a billionty more challenging than the Appalachian Trail. When are you planning on doing it?
After graduation, so in like 7 years.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 03:10:59 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 06:11:33 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 21, 2013, 05:32:02 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:24:12 AM
I'm trying to make Ray into sauerkraut without slicing my fingers off. This is a whole lot of cabbage to chop.
I am now training for the Pacific Crest Trail.
(http://www.rikaandolislongasswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yogis_Handbook.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
O.O What are you going to do to it?
The whole thing.
When you get done, let us know and we'll pick you up at the end.
Unless the mountain lions and the bears get you. In which case we'll bail you out. Pervert.
:lulz: Awesome!
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Quote from: Cain on October 19, 2013, 10:18:39 PM
Got bored doing nothing at work all day today (makes a nice change), so I made this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SC2r-4mqC8) as a little preview of what may await in regards to my proposed gameplay. Nightmare gameplay, of course, level 8 for the first and level 10 for the second. No commentary, because my headphone/mic are back in the UK, so you get some music instead. Best viewed at 480p, because I used cheap free editing software.
Nice. I have yet to play either game on Nightmare but that would probably be good to try out for a little (or a lot) extra challenge. I imagine those are some of the DLC weapons and armor you had referenced? Cool that the mabari is more of a NPC rather than taking up a slot in your party. Mainly because often in the first game, there were times I wanted to experiment with other combinations of characters but didn't have the heart to take the mabari out of the party (that and the fact that besides me, the mabari seemed to be the strongest and most competent).
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 04:05:57 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 05:13:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 04:05:57 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Nice. 8 miles is a good training route.
PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important. I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 05:22:59 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 05:13:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 04:05:57 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Nice. 8 miles is a good training route.
PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important. I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).
:? Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".
We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.
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We're gonna do this one with packs: http://web.oregon.com/hiking/eaglecreek.cfm
(http://web.oregon.com/hiking/EagleCreekMap.jpg)
I've done it without packs, it's a bitch of an elevation gain. But so so beautiful!
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 05:48:28 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 05:22:59 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 05:13:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 04:05:57 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Nice. 8 miles is a good training route.
PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important. I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).
:? Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".
We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.
That's interesting. I must have read the link wrong. :?
And if 8 miles in half-kit is a morning stroll, the infantry needs to start hiring tiny angry women.
:lulz:
Our qualification marches were 12 miles in half-kit. Our field training marches ranged from 4 miles to 30 miles in full kit, and the longer (20 miles plus) forced marches would put us on the ropes for days.
What an average hiker would carry for an overnight trek is roughly the same as half-kit.
So, I was hanging out with Knuckles this weekend. He hasn't changed, not a bit.
I think I can see my days of boredom ending quite shortly.
I have something waiting for me at the post office from Canada.
I did not order anything that I know off from Canada. :?
...And not just any part of Canada...Quebec. :eek:
Well guys, they finally found me. The Quebecois are about to passively aggressively eliminate me by ways of parcel post.
Nobody Expects the French-Canadian Requisition
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I am getting a barrage of pictures of the parents' new kitten, Ace. This is good, since SuuBF is being taken back by the Navy tomorrow for a year and a half. I get to see him on weekends he doesn't have section duty, at least. :sad: The kicker is that he's only going to be 2 hours away at a different base. But that 2 hours involves finding a way around Boston, so it may as well be across the country.
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The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Nice. 8 miles is a good training route.
PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important. I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).
:? Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".
We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.
That's interesting. I must have read the link wrong. :?
The park is 8 miles long, but the trail is 30.2 miles long because you can't just walk straight through. It's all hills and ravines and creeks and stuff. It looks like this:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZLdorNJJLo/TpjRUOj4C6I/AAAAAAAAHwc/5pfZWTnl3KM/s1600/Wildwood+Trail+Trial+Ortho+02.jpg)
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Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Nice. 8 miles is a good training route.
PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important. I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).
:? Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".
We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.
That's interesting. I must have read the link wrong. :?
The park is 8 miles long, but the trail is 30.2 miles long because you can't just walk straight through. It's all hills and ravines and creeks and stuff. It looks like this:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZLdorNJJLo/TpjRUOj4C6I/AAAAAAAAHwc/5pfZWTnl3KM/s1600/Wildwood+Trail+Trial+Ortho+02.jpg)
I can now see the entire article. I had page compatibility problems on account of our latest "upgrade".
Sorry about that.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 06:31:32 PM
And if 8 miles in half-kit is a morning stroll, the infantry needs to start hiring tiny angry women.
:lulz:
Our qualification marches were 12 miles in half-kit. Our field training marches ranged from 4 miles to 30 miles in full kit, and the longer (20 miles plus) forced marches would put us on the ropes for days.
What an average hiker would carry for an overnight trek is roughly the same as half-kit.
We're just wearing day packs at this point, but we do about 6-8 miles Sunday mornings, and then I come home and do homework. But, I also walk 4 miles a day with my books, which are about 20 lbs. It's going to take a bit to get up to 30 miles with a full pack, though, but we need to be ready to do about 30 miles a day.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 06:33:46 PM
So, I was hanging out with Knuckles this weekend. He hasn't changed, not a bit.
I think I can see my days of boredom ending quite shortly.
Oooh storytimes are coming!
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Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 04:02:52 PM
The plan is to start training with weekly hikes and gradually go longer and at higher elevations, then start adding pack weight and overnights, then week-long hikes, while gradually refining our plan and squirrelling money away for it. It takes about 3 months, so we will embark from the Canadian border mid-June 2020 and hope to reach Mexico mid-September. I should already have a job lined up for my return. My hiking buddy, Breezy, is thinking about getting her degree in Home and Consumer Economics so that she can be the rock star that brings Home Ec back to Portland Public Schools, and if that works out we'll both have the summer off and it will be awesome.
Mid-September is good.
Yeah, we were figuring heading south as we move into cooler weather would work out nicely. It's a long way off but I have a feeling it will sneak up on us! One of the training hikes we want to do is this one: http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19327-summer_guide_2012_baby_it%E2%80%99s_a_wild_wood.html
Nice. 8 miles is a good training route.
PPE for the South end of the big hike is pretty important. I can give you a list if you need one (though you probably don't).
:? Wildwood Trail is 30.2 miles. 8 miles isn't "training" so much as a "morning stroll".
We're planning based on the info at http://www.pcta.org/ and some of the books that are out about hiking the trail; they are pretty comprehensive.
That's interesting. I must have read the link wrong. :?
The park is 8 miles long, but the trail is 30.2 miles long because you can't just walk straight through. It's all hills and ravines and creeks and stuff. It looks like this:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZLdorNJJLo/TpjRUOj4C6I/AAAAAAAAHwc/5pfZWTnl3KM/s1600/Wildwood+Trail+Trial+Ortho+02.jpg)
I can now see the entire article. I had page compatibility problems on account of our latest "upgrade".
Sorry about that.
No worries! I was confused at first but then I realized where the 8 miles was coming from and figured you'd just missed the trail length.
Out of curiosity, what is the average elevation of the trail?
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 06:31:32 PM
And if 8 miles in half-kit is a morning stroll, the infantry needs to start hiring tiny angry women.
:lulz:
Our qualification marches were 12 miles in half-kit. Our field training marches ranged from 4 miles to 30 miles in full kit, and the longer (20 miles plus) forced marches would put us on the ropes for days.
What an average hiker would carry for an overnight trek is roughly the same as half-kit.
We're just wearing day packs at this point, but we do about 6-8 miles Sunday mornings, and then I come home and do homework. But, I also walk 4 miles a day with my books, which are about 20 lbs. It's going to take a bit to get up to 30 miles with a full pack, though, but we need to be ready to do about 30 miles a day.
30 miles a day - sustained, mind you - is a ragged bitch for professional foot soldiers, on even terrain.
In mountains? No way, not sustained. On a clearly marked trail, 20 if you are only afraid of kryptonite, and 15 for lowly mortals.
One thing worth mentioning is that the payoff for forced marches in kit is permanent ankle, knee, and back injuries.
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 06:33:46 PM
So, I was hanging out with Knuckles this weekend. He hasn't changed, not a bit.
I think I can see my days of boredom ending quite shortly.
Oooh storytimes are coming!
That's the plan. I have been entirely too sedentary these days.
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I'm trying to make Ray into sauerkraut without slicing my fingers off. This is a whole lot of cabbage to chop.
I am now training for the Pacific Crest Trail.
(http://www.rikaandolislongasswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yogis_Handbook.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
I've wished a million times that I had one of those deli slicers.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 10:23:52 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 10:19:27 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 06:31:32 PM
And if 8 miles in half-kit is a morning stroll, the infantry needs to start hiring tiny angry women.
:lulz:
Our qualification marches were 12 miles in half-kit. Our field training marches ranged from 4 miles to 30 miles in full kit, and the longer (20 miles plus) forced marches would put us on the ropes for days.
What an average hiker would carry for an overnight trek is roughly the same as half-kit.
We're just wearing day packs at this point, but we do about 6-8 miles Sunday mornings, and then I come home and do homework. But, I also walk 4 miles a day with my books, which are about 20 lbs. It's going to take a bit to get up to 30 miles with a full pack, though, but we need to be ready to do about 30 miles a day.
30 miles a day - sustained, mind you - is a ragged bitch for professional foot soldiers, on even terrain.
In mountains? No way, not sustained. On a clearly marked trail, 20 if you are only afraid of kryptonite, and 15 for lowly mortals.
One thing worth mentioning is that the payoff for forced marches in kit is permanent ankle, knee, and back injuries.
Feet.
I used to walk tons. 20 miles wasn't unusual, and it was the feet that got totaled.
Pavement probably had a lot to do with it, though.
Quote from: Suu on October 21, 2013, 10:22:20 PM
Out of curiosity, what is the average elevation of the trail?
The Pacific Crest, or Forest Park?
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 10:23:52 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 10:19:27 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 21, 2013, 06:31:32 PM
And if 8 miles in half-kit is a morning stroll, the infantry needs to start hiring tiny angry women.
:lulz:
Our qualification marches were 12 miles in half-kit. Our field training marches ranged from 4 miles to 30 miles in full kit, and the longer (20 miles plus) forced marches would put us on the ropes for days.
What an average hiker would carry for an overnight trek is roughly the same as half-kit.
We're just wearing day packs at this point, but we do about 6-8 miles Sunday mornings, and then I come home and do homework. But, I also walk 4 miles a day with my books, which are about 20 lbs. It's going to take a bit to get up to 30 miles with a full pack, though, but we need to be ready to do about 30 miles a day.
30 miles a day - sustained, mind you - is a ragged bitch for professional foot soldiers, on even terrain.
In mountains? No way, not sustained. On a clearly marked trail, 20 if you are only afraid of kryptonite, and 15 for lowly mortals.
One thing worth mentioning is that the payoff for forced marches in kit is permanent ankle, knee, and back injuries.
Based on accounts from people who have completed the trail, and from what I've seen of the portions I've been on, a seasoned hiker should be able to average 30 miles a day. A newbie hiker could expect to cover about 20 miles a day. Giving ourselves 7 years to prepare, we should be fairly seasoned by the time we actually do it, especially since the trail itself is highly accessible from here so we can long hike stretches of it as we train. You might be envisioning something much more rustic than the trail actually is... it's not rough terrain by any means. More like this in most places:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Ritter_Range_Pacific_Crest_Trail.jpg/768px-Ritter_Range_Pacific_Crest_Trail.jpg)
It's a horse-passable trail.
The weight of the packs we'll be carrying will vary depending on distance between towns, but we can anticipate the lightest to be about 12 lbs and the heaviest, for the longest stretch, should be about 30 lbs. Thousands of people have done this, there are tons of resources about it. 90 days might be pushing it, but it's not unreasonable.
I was envisioning something a little rougher, and more weight in the pack. :lol:
Half-kit is 52 pounds, everything included.
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I was envisioning something a little rougher, and more weight in the pack. :lol:
Half-kit is 52 pounds, everything included.
Oh, fuck no! It's ultralight all the way, with food and supplies replenished as we pass through towns. There's actually a whole support system in place for this hike, with mail stations and food boxes and everything. The worst part I'm anticipating is Forester Pass:
(http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/513/medium/stanford0030.JPG)
and mostly I'm only worried about that because of the elevation, because I was born and raised at about 300 feet and it's at 13,000+ feet. But by the time we get there I should be plenty acclimated. The trail itself is like butter, Eagle Creek is way rougher.
By comparison, Eagle Creek, which I traipse up and down all summer long:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/3747855247_077e881853.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NuVy2rtqBDE/UNvIIVdhnhI/AAAAAAAAG-k/b6bzo7xRDIw/s1600/DPP_1040a.jpg)
(http://sayslife.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/img_4808.jpg)
(http://jaysjourneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4108625400_d4948cdb85_z.jpg)
That's leaving out all the more vertical parts, I think people don't want to get their cameras out while they're on those.
That is really beautiful.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 21, 2013, 11:49:09 PM
That is really beautiful.
It's one of my favorite places. I am regularly reminded of how lucky I am to live here; it's a sort of paradise.
A paradise where we all suffer from vitamin D deficiency and are neurotic and often anemic and suicidal, but still.
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Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 21, 2013, 11:49:09 PM
That is really beautiful.
It's one of my favorite places. I am regularly reminded of how lucky I am to live here; it's a sort of paradise.
A paradise where we all suffer from vitamin D deficiency and are neurotic and often anemic and suicidal, but still.
Haha, I feel the same way about home. As much as I love some of the dramatic, rocky shores and mottled skies, I wish I could go for a decent hike without having to drive a few hours to do it.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 22, 2013, 12:09:09 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 11:59:02 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 21, 2013, 11:49:09 PM
That is really beautiful.
It's one of my favorite places. I am regularly reminded of how lucky I am to live here; it's a sort of paradise.
A paradise where we all suffer from vitamin D deficiency and are neurotic and often anemic and suicidal, but still.
Haha, I feel the same way about home. As much as I love some of the dramatic, rocky shores and mottled skies, I wish I could go for a decent hike without having to drive a few hours to do it.
That's one thing nice about here. Eagle Creek is 40 minutes East, and most of the other hikes I go on regularly are within the city limits.
Hubby out of the blue asked me where I'd like to go for a few days to a week in state.
But not the typical touristy places (ie Orlando is out. So is the beach sadly.)
Anyone know of places to go in Florida that are relatively inexpensive that would be cool for a mini vacation?
Fernandina Beach is nice and not all that touristy (at least last time I was there).
And really, if you're not going to a beach what's the point of Florida?
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
Leave him at home or a hotel or a strip club. Just make sure he only has cash, no plastic.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 21, 2013, 11:02:57 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 21, 2013, 10:22:20 PM
Out of curiosity, what is the average elevation of the trail?
The Pacific Crest, or Forest Park?
The Crest, though that's a pretty awesome looking park.
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
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Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
The trick is, you get the oxygen bottle in the shark's mouth, then you shoot it.
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Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
The trick is, you get the oxygen bottle in the shark's mouth, then you shoot it.
My brother has wanted to try this for years. True story. Though his rig involved a harpoon gun.
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:59:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 22, 2013, 03:52:12 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
The trick is, you get the oxygen bottle in the shark's mouth, then you shoot it.
My brother has wanted to try this for years. True story. Though his rig involved a harpoon gun.
A harpoon ain't puncturing a pressure vessel, no matter how fast you shoot it.
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
I've lived in Florida my whole life. Been to the beach 3 times at most. I've grown to accept that the beach is just something for me to daydream of.
He doesn't like the idea of swimming with any fish around. Doesn't matter if that fish is a shark, ray or minnow.
And of course he's defective, he married me :lol:
Besides the whole idea of a vacation is destined to just be a what if thing because I seriously doubt we will have the money after everything gets payed off at tax time. Despite what he thinks.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 22, 2013, 04:01:32 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:59:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 22, 2013, 03:52:12 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
The trick is, you get the oxygen bottle in the shark's mouth, then you shoot it.
My brother has wanted to try this for years. True story. Though his rig involved a harpoon gun.
A harpoon ain't puncturing a pressure vessel, no matter how fast you shoot it.
I never said he was smart. He has some insane delusions of grandeur.
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 04:19:06 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
I've lived in Florida my whole life. Been to the beach 3 times at most. I've grown to accept that the beach is just something for me to daydream of.
He doesn't like the idea of swimming with any fish around. Doesn't matter if that fish is a shark, ray or minnow.
And of course he's defective, he married me :lol:
What the fuck is this whimpering?
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 04:19:06 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Quote from: Sita on October 22, 2013, 01:49:57 AM
I'd love to go but husband hates the beach. He doesn't like how the sand gets in everything and refuses to swim in the ocean.
You live in Florida.
Trade that man in and get another one, because he's clearly defective. Or just get him polarized sunglasses. They at least show you where the bull sharks are off the sandbar.
-Suu
Stung by stingray, brushed by a nurse shark (they're like kitties!), chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Weedon Island, caught and ate her own blacktip shark, sat on a cownose ray (don't ask), still goes in the Gulf of Mexico, but not the North Atlantic, because of the jellyfish and Portuguese Men-o-war. Fuck those things.
I've lived in Florida my whole life. Been to the beach 3 times at most. I've grown to accept that the beach is just something for me to daydream of.
He doesn't like the idea of swimming with any fish around. Doesn't matter if that fish is a shark, ray or minnow.
And of course he's defective, he married me :lol:
Leave him at home. I'll call my sister in for the rescue. You're running out of time...
THEY are coming.
Mad scientist costume-
Lab coat acquired
Erlenmeyer flask ordered
test tubes ordered
calculator acquired in high school
hair buzzer at ready
Work ID scanned and ready for improving
Google calendar set to text me about how: IRB has rejected my proposal; government shut down has delayed my grant renewal; travel plans to scientific conference have been rescheduled; new law passed to say intended research unethical.
Clipboard
Am I forgetting anything?
Oh, and Villager dressed as genetic experiment gone wrong (her idea not mine. She wanted to match me.)
He's packing the car.
I'm a mess right now.
Fuck this.
-
And he's gone. Last thing he carried out of the house was his SCA kite shield so be could go to practices near the new base. So, aptly, I told him, "Come back with your shield, or on it."
The idea that 150 other women and families are dealing with this right now kinda helps, but it sure as hell sucks. So now I'm on my way to class with swollen eyes and controlling sobs. C'est la vie. Go Navy.
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 05:44:54 PM
And he's gone. Last thing he carried out of the house was his SCA kite shield so be could go to practices near the new base. So, aptly, I told him, "Come back with your shield, or on it."
The idea that 150 other women and families are dealing with this right now kinda helps, but it sure as hell sucks. So now I'm on my way to class with swollen eyes and controlling sobs. C'est la vie. Go Navy.
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Suu hugs :(
:sad: Suu.
On the bright side, he's not that far away, just far enough to be annoying. Which I think is worse than a deployment, because it's a fucking tease. He will be home on weekends he doesn't have section duty, but I can't stay in the barracks with him so I can't really go up there. A fucking tease.
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Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 06:06:17 PM
On the bright side, he's not that far away, just far enough to be annoying. Which I think is worse than a deployment, because it's a fucking tease. He will be home on weekends he doesn't have section duty, but I can't stay in the barracks with him so I can't really go up there. A fucking tease.
How long will he be there?
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 22, 2013, 07:03:08 PM
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2013, 06:06:17 PM
On the bright side, he's not that far away, just far enough to be annoying. Which I think is worse than a deployment, because it's a fucking tease. He will be home on weekends he doesn't have section duty, but I can't stay in the barracks with him so I can't really go up there. A fucking tease.
How long will he be there?
A year and a half. Then after that, a series of underways to make sure the submarine works, then a six month deployment. Total sea duty is 3 years on this tour since he served a year in Kuwait. There's also talks of the boat being reassigned to Pearl Harbor, but that's unlikely.
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Quote from: Cain on October 22, 2013, 08:40:01 PM
lawl. We're doing complexity theory, complex adaptive systems and insurgent ecosystems in my current class.
I kinda might have looked into this in 2005, when John Robb were writing about it.
On the plus side, I do feel confident that the reading I'm not able to do due to work is not negatively impacting my education thus far.
I love when that happens. I've passed a few courses with no text, entry level business courses, but still.
Today is day 4 of Staycation 2013. I took my son in 4 days ago, though it was not mine with him, cause his mom got sick. So, while not wild and reckless, I have enjoyed a malaise haze of Assassins Creed 3, the first of which I've played and the first game I've played at all in some time.
Feels good.
Things at home are good. It's been nearly a month and my wife's been meditating, seeing someone weekly so far, doing yoga and generally trying to manage her shit. Got a job and all. My anger and bitterness have subsided, which took about...until today. Still watchful, especially now. But hopeful. Thanks for all your words before, spags. It helped me.
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Glad to hear it, Alty.
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Quote from: Cain on October 22, 2013, 09:18:35 PM
AC3? AC3???
You need to pick up AC2 and its expansion packs. Connor is a crybaby mcshiteater, Enzio is like Haytham Kenway on speed, and with a bad Italian accent.
Ah, I had no idea. Steam had it, and I grabbed it on impulse. I will do that though, I've got a huge empty space where gaming once was.
Conner is kind of a pansy. Do I still get to kill animals?
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CIV5/BNW is feeling glitcy tonight. Economy is shit, no matter what. NO military, all cities have monuments and market places (only), fishing boats, caravans in place, economy at -11. Then 2nd great prophet shows up, and I hit "convert city" instead of "expand religion", because for no apparent reason, BNW has the commands rearranged. Ragequit, laptop is on notice: Fuck with me again, and DIE.
I never got into Civ games. I felt like if I did, I'd be addicted and never get any work done.
Quote from: Suu on October 23, 2013, 01:58:37 AM
I never got into Civ games. I felt like if I did, I'd be addicted and never get any work done.
No, you just jump up and down and make monkey noises, and then use your laptop as an anvil for a while.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 23, 2013, 02:00:17 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 23, 2013, 01:58:37 AM
I never got into Civ games. I felt like if I did, I'd be addicted and never get any work done.
No, you just jump up and down and make monkey noises, and then use your laptop as an anvil for a while.
Does this happen when you make progress?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0
Quote from: Alty on October 22, 2013, 09:14:07 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 22, 2013, 08:40:01 PM
lawl. We're doing complexity theory, complex adaptive systems and insurgent ecosystems in my current class.
I kinda might have looked into this in 2005, when John Robb were writing about it.
On the plus side, I do feel confident that the reading I'm not able to do due to work is not negatively impacting my education thus far.
I love when that happens. I've passed a few courses with no text, entry level business courses, but still.
Today is day 4 of Staycation 2013. I took my son in 4 days ago, though it was not mine with him, cause his mom got sick. So, while not wild and reckless, I have enjoyed a malaise haze of Assassins Creed 3, the first of which I've played and the first game I've played at all in some time.
Feels good.
Things at home are good. It's been nearly a month and my wife's been meditating, seeing someone weekly so far, doing yoga and generally trying to manage her shit. Got a job and all. My anger and bitterness have subsided, which took about...until today. Still watchful, especially now. But hopeful. Thanks for all your words before, spags. It helped me.
I'm really glad to hear that things are going better, Alty!
We had 2 drive-bys today in Rhode Island. One in Providence, and then one in Cranston. Not sure if they were related, but the Cranston one was 2 cars.
This is not fucking normal for us. We have occasional shootings, we have occasional stabbings, we have daily white collar crime like mayors that embezzle millions and state workers "losing" tax credit money, and normal urban crimes, but we do not have drive-by shootings rolling from the ghetto of Upper South Providence (which Roger referred to as Tucson) into suburban Cranston full of families and women with big hair. Even when I lived in SoPro between 2 of the worst damn streets we only had the one shooting on my street corner in the hair salon, which was considered pretty damn out of the ordinary. (This also made me get the fuck out of there.)
Between this new upswing in violent crime, and the creeper who bothered me walking to school a few weeks ago, I'm starting to think I need to get the fuck out of here, or renew my concealed carry and get my 9mm back from Florida. I am seriously unnerved by this. I've lived in Providence since 2005, and I felt safer living in Manhattan back in 2002.
This kind of stuff isn't normal on Federal Hill, at least. We've been having a lot of B&Es lately though. My neighbor on the 1st floor got broken into 2 weeks ago. Through a window in the back in broad daylight. :/
There's obvious reasons for this. The economy in this city is nonexistent. We have the largest unoccupied building in New England, and no interested tenants for it. The state's population is dropping so fast we'll be down to one congressional rep pretty soon. If it wasn't for our arts community and college students, we'd pretty much have nothing. Our mayor wants to run for governor after one term, during which he fired every teacher in the city.
We're Tucson. With Nature.
Welcome to poverty nation.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 23, 2013, 03:32:27 AM
Welcome to poverty nation.
I can't say I'm surprised. The recession took Rhode Island and fucked her six ways from sideways dry. We had a shitty mayor after Cianci was thrown in jail that did nothing, which immediately qualified him to become a congressman. Then the new mayor filled the swimming pools with concrete and fired the teachers. He'll be our next governor.
Our only hope right now rests on if Cianci wants to come back as mayor in his 70s, because the state legislation amended the constitution to allow felons to vote and run for office JUST FOR HIM TO DO SO.
In Seguin, the local paper never referred to them as "drive bys". There'd be some short blurb buried on a back page saying that "a firearm was discharged" at such-and-such address. Because SMALL TOWNS ARE FRIENDLY AND WHOLESOME AND A GREAT PLACE TO RAISE YOUR KIDS.
Just tripped across the footage of the Reagan assassination attempt. I remember watching that on TV when it happened.
In the background, you can see the "man with the football" running like hell (which was kind of his job at that point).
Quote from: Pixie on October 07, 2013, 02:33:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:00:12 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 05:28:41 AM
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Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
Wow WTF?
We had a thing on Sundays. Gaming stuff. I tell her at her Birthday party (two weeks ago) that the Sunday group is moving from the shop up to my house.
She either didn't listen or forgot, and showed up at the shop, which is about a 10 minute drive from her place. We weren't there. She goes home, gets on FB, and tells me that because I have spoken disrespectfully to/about her guy (years ago, literally, before he matured a bit and went to school and got a steady job...We get along fine now), and because I blew her off (didn't), and because of "odds and ends" (???), she's done.
And I suppose she's right about the being done part, because apparently I don't know her, hell, never MET her, because the person I knew wouldn't drop a 7 year friendship over a misunderstanding, with no prior conversation. Nor would she say anything that hurtful just to vent.
In any case, nothing lasts forever, everything eventually ends.
Is there any underlying things that might cause SG to flip the fuck out like that?
Her man likes to lie about shit and people to turn people against each other. A lot. I know this because I've been the one lied about lots of times, and it's cost me some friendships from people who couldn't be bothered to tell me what the fuck was being said about me.
Sorry about the super duper way the fuck back quoting, but I knew the answer to this one.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on October 23, 2013, 03:50:14 AM
Quote from: Pixie on October 07, 2013, 02:33:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:00:12 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 05:28:41 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 04:43:55 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 07, 2013, 04:41:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 07, 2013, 02:56:34 AM
So, yeah, a person who has been a friend of mine for more than 7 years just decided to walk away from that friendship because she apparently wasn't listening when I told her about a change of plans. She wound up where we were supposed to meet, I wasn't there (as I had told her I wouldn't be). She blew the hell up on FB and told me we were through, without bothering to, you know, ask what happened.
It occurs to me, though, that someone who would dump a 7 year friendship over something like that isn't really someone I want to be friends with, anyway.
That's incredibly lame.
Surprise? It was Sister Gothique, of all people. There's some very special irony in this, but it's a long story and I'm up past bedtime. Will post tomorrow.
Wow WTF?
We had a thing on Sundays. Gaming stuff. I tell her at her Birthday party (two weeks ago) that the Sunday group is moving from the shop up to my house.
She either didn't listen or forgot, and showed up at the shop, which is about a 10 minute drive from her place. We weren't there. She goes home, gets on FB, and tells me that because I have spoken disrespectfully to/about her guy (years ago, literally, before he matured a bit and went to school and got a steady job...We get along fine now), and because I blew her off (didn't), and because of "odds and ends" (???), she's done.
And I suppose she's right about the being done part, because apparently I don't know her, hell, never MET her, because the person I knew wouldn't drop a 7 year friendship over a misunderstanding, with no prior conversation. Nor would she say anything that hurtful just to vent.
In any case, nothing lasts forever, everything eventually ends.
Is there any underlying things that might cause SG to flip the fuck out like that?
Her man likes to lie about shit. A lot. I know this because I've been the one lied about lots of times, and it's cost me some friendships from people who couldn't be bothered to tell me what the fuck was being said about me.
Sorry about the super duper way the fuck back quoting, but I knew the answer to this one.
Not the case.
She and I have mended fences, and it turns out she misunderstood what I was saying concerning the change of location for the game.
Not getting involved in whatever other issues are out there.
Quote from: Suu on October 23, 2013, 01:58:37 AM
I never got into Civ games. I felt like if I did, I'd be addicted and never get any work done.
I have to make a conscious decision to play Civ.
And by that I mean that I will start playing Civ when I wake up and continue to do so until I realize that the sun is coming up, pausing to pee when my bladder is about to explode, and eating when my hands start shaking. Also, combine Civ with smoking, and you're going to go through 2 packs, easily, and not even notice.
Quote from: Suu on October 23, 2013, 03:39:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 23, 2013, 03:32:27 AM
Welcome to poverty nation.
I can't say I'm surprised. The recession took Rhode Island and fucked her six ways from sideways dry. We had a shitty mayor after Cianci was thrown in jail that did nothing, which immediately qualified him to become a congressman. Then the new mayor filled the swimming pools with concrete and fired the teachers. He'll be our next governor.
Our only hope right now rests on if Cianci wants to come back as mayor in his 70s, because the state legislation amended the constitution to allow felons to vote and run for office JUST FOR HIM TO DO SO.
My understanding is that Rhode Island functions pretty much on the basis of graft. When there is less money in the pot for bribes, nothing gets done properly and the whole thing goes sideways.
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Quote from: Cain on October 23, 2013, 09:48:45 AM
Quote from: Suu on October 23, 2013, 03:39:08 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 23, 2013, 03:32:27 AM
Welcome to poverty nation.
I can't say I'm surprised. The recession took Rhode Island and fucked her six ways from sideways dry. We had a shitty mayor after Cianci was thrown in jail that did nothing, which immediately qualified him to become a congressman. Then the new mayor filled the swimming pools with concrete and fired the teachers. He'll be our next governor.
Our only hope right now rests on if Cianci wants to come back as mayor in his 70s, because the state legislation amended the constitution to allow felons to vote and run for office JUST FOR HIM TO DO SO.
My understanding is that Rhode Island functions pretty much on the basis of graft. When there is less money in the pot for bribes, nothing gets done properly and the whole thing goes sideways.
Exactly. Or, when people actually try to be good politicians and do things
right.
I mean, we amended our state constitution so that one man who was convicted of embezzlement and sent to federal prison for 3 years can return and get his job back. This is how we roll.
In other entirely unrelated to anything news, I had a dream last night that Roger had a technicolor Fu Manshu moustache that would change color on command. Clearly, we need this technology.
Quote from: Cain on October 23, 2013, 09:50:58 AM
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Quote from: Suu on October 23, 2013, 01:58:37 AM
I never got into Civ games. I felt like if I did, I'd be addicted and never get any work done.
I have to make a conscious decision to play Civ.
And by that I mean that I will start playing Civ when I wake up and continue to do so until I realize that the sun is coming up, pausing to pee when my bladder is about to explode, and eating when my hands start shaking. Also, combine Civ with smoking, and you're going to go through 2 packs, easily, and not even notice.
It was pretty easy to hit the gunpowder revolution in a couple of hours with Civ II. Also takes up virtually no space on the HD.
Of course, by the time you hit railroads, the AI decides it will fuck with you by moving every single unit across its entire territory twice, for no discernable reason, but until that point, it clips along at a decent speed.
I've only played I and III. Also, pollution in III is a pain in the fucking ass. Only way to deal with it is severely controlling the food supply.
Snow this morning. SNOW. It's all gone now, but this definitely marks the end to the field season. I feel bad for the entomology students who are going out aquatic collecting today. Doing aquatic collecting in cold weather is one of my least favorite things. I am happy to be inside and warm, entering data.
Logging off for a nap in my office. May as well.
See you spags later.