Topic: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 773837 times)

pwhodges · « **Reply #2350 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 13:35 »

If you say so - but I'd rather go to Norway myself!

nobo · « **Reply #2351 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:06 »

Quote from: PantsFTW on 14 Apr 2009, 09:28

At least at college you get to see other people every day.

Not if you're an engineering student.

Emaline · « **Reply #2352 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:09 »

Alton Towers? Like Alton, IL? Like Tallest Man, Broadest Shoulders, Alton, IL?

Gemmwah · « **Reply #2353 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:12 »

Alton Towerssssssssssssssssss!

Drill King · « **Reply #2354 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:41 »

It's my birthday!

Nothing has gone right

I have basically spent all afternoon trying to get zelda ringtones on my LG rumor phone with bluetooth

I still haven't figured it out. If anyone has any hints, pleaaasee

It's my birthday, I totally deserve to at least have the ringtone I want on my phone!

Emaline · « **Reply #2355 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:42 »

Confuzzled.

nobo · « **Reply #2356 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 14:52 »

Do you have the USB cable that came with your phone? cause you can use that to connect to your computer and go through the phone's folders until you get to the ringtones and just copy paste your mp3 or wav files there. or, i have a program that just text messages you a link that you can use to download the ringtone onto your computer, however, I would need the ringtone file and your phone number to do that

Inlander · « **Reply #2357 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:03 »

Quote from: Drill King on 14 Apr 2009, 14:41

It's my birthday!

Nothing has gone right

I have basically spent all afternoon trying to get zelda ringtones on my LG rumor phone with bluetooth

I still haven't figured it out. If anyone has any hints, pleaaasee

It's my birthday, I totally deserve to at least have the ringtone I want on my phone!

Not to sound harsh, but maybe if you didn't spend all afternoon fiddling around with your phone you might be having a better birthday?

redglasscurls · « **Reply #2358 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:10 »

Happy birthday andy! I've found really the easiest way to get a ringtone on the stupid LG phones is just to break down and pay for it through the get-it-now thing. Is the tone you want not available that way?
You used to be able to send tones to your phone by texting via an email address but they realized it and disabled it.

pwhodges · « **Reply #2359 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:11 »

Quote from: nobo on 14 Apr 2009, 14:06

Not if you're an engineering student.

Why? Has engineering changed since I studied it (sooo long ago... over 40 years)? Apart from lectures I had collaborative practicals, class trips out (Didcot Power Station being built - wowee!), and such, and the whole uni life for the taking. There were even a couple of girls on the course I took, though that was deemed quite unusual.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #2360 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:15 »

When I went to Virginia Tech, the Engineering department basically told the students to not expect to have much of a social life. I knew a guy in his fifth year doing Discrete Math during a bowl game, which is unheard of considering how rabid the football fans there are.

Lines · « **Reply #2361 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:45 »

Today has been a good day, blog thread. I felt super cute today, found out that the boy was not ignoring me but just didn't have phone service this weekend, danced to 80s music at work, and decided to sing Hot Blooded for the drag show I will be in next month. Yes, it was a good day.

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #2362 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:53 »

Just got back home from work.

We had the Prodigy playing there today, Dizzee Rascal opened for him.

It was a better night than I was expecting it to be.

I smell like sweat now though.

Mmm...

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2363 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 15:57 »

it's been a good week for leaks: first BMSR's new cd leaked and now i am listening to the new A Hawk and a Hacksaw (totally awesome, by the way).

i am hyped

Patrick · « **Reply #2364 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 17:14 »

Quote from: Avec on 14 Apr 2009, 12:04

What is this shit that you speak of?

Jens gave the best answer, but the real answer is 50kg of guitar equipment. My rig is pretty minimal in and of itself (amp, Tonebone pedal in the loop), but factor in an extension cord and a power transformer (my amp is American and uses 120v, 60 cycle current, so without it my amp would blow up), which is really fucking heavy for a 7" by 7" by 5" box (it weighs about half what my amp weighs, and the amp is half the total load). Cables and extension cords and the like took up the rest of it (I carry spares).

The good thing is that my voter ranking is number 11, which sucks 'cause it's down from where I had been riding high at number 5, but at least I'm above the "if they nominate you, you're fucked" cutoff, which is at 16. So next week, I am rocking the fuck out with this thing, and it will all be worth it.

Slick · « **Reply #2365 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 17:54 »

Patrick are you performing solo or with a backing band of scandinavians? Because how were you planning on doing hoppipola?

MrBlu · « **Reply #2366 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 18:08 »

Quote from: Drill King on 14 Apr 2009, 14:41

It's my birthday!

Nothing has gone right

I have basically spent all afternoon trying to get zelda ringtones on my LG rumor phone with bluetooth

I still haven't figured it out. If anyone has any hints, pleaaasee

It's my birthday, I totally deserve to at least have the ringtone I want on my phone!

~~~HAPPY BIRTHDAY~~~

I can't help you!

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #2367 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 19:52 »

Guys there is an artist named Adam Rex (I know about him because he does art for Magic: the Gathering cards) and he lives in my neighborhood and the local card shop has a bunch of his original artwork up for sale. Among the fantasy artwork, there is this gem:

It is titled "Abraham Superlincoln: The Signal," it is about the size of the average trade paperback book, and it is $400. I am seriously tempted to buy it, even though it is really really expensive and honestly kind of small.

What would you do in my situation, and what ideas do you have for how I can obtain this piece of art, compensate the artist fairly, and not break my bank account into several pieces?

Reed · « **Reply #2368 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 19:56 »

Blog thread,

So I think my lady friend has become tired of me, which is sad. She has not been so responsive to phone calls and texts. I'm drinking my sadness away (I would be stoning my sadness away, but I don't have any good drugses). On the other hand I have gotten my 50 year old Russian immigrant roommate into both Kyuss and Boris, which is kinda awesome.

On my third freakish hand I am working far too hard in lab because my PI has pretty much said that I get to determine the future direction of our lab (which is way too much responsibility for me, but there's no one else to take it). I'm thinking Rhodobacter, but he wants an alpha-proteobacterium that performs photosynthesis in aerobic conditions and has a relatively fully sequenced genome (which pretty much eliminates all of my options)

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #2369 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 20:02 »

Ask the shop if that's the price he set and if they get a percentage of it. If it's not or they do, you could maybe try getting a hold of him directly to see if he has any other pieces more within your price range. I'm not quite sure on the idea of haggling, I personally wouldn't do it, but something like "I really love your art, especially the Abraham Superlincoln but it's a little out of my price range. Do you have anything else for sale that's around $$$$?" could maybe get you something awesome?

Kylos · « **Reply #2370 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 20:04 »

Quote from: Thomas Edison on 14 Apr 2009, 15:53

Just got back home from work.

We had the Prodigy playing there today, Dizzee Rascal opened for him...

My favourite DJ from the place I work went to that gig tonight. Small world.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #2371 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 20:07 »

Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 14 Apr 2009, 20:02

Ask the shop if that's the price he set and if they get a percentage of it. If it's not or they do, you could maybe try getting a hold of him directly to see if he has any other pieces more within your price range. I'm not quite sure on the idea of haggling, I personally wouldn't do it, but something like "I really love your art, especially the Abraham Superlincoln but it's a little out of my price range. Do you have anything else for sale that's around $$$$?" could maybe get you something awesome?

The thing is that the owners of the shop itself are good friends of mine and I don't want to cut them out if they're set up to benefit (which I think they deserve). On the other hand, I think the pieces that he's showing in the shop are well outside the price range of just about anyone who enters the place, so at this point I think they're likely to just be semi-permanent decoration.

Maybe I can just tell every friend I have in the city to kick in and get it for me for my birthday or something.

Lines · « **Reply #2372 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 20:18 »

That or ask if you can pay in installments.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #2373 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 20:34 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 14 Apr 2009, 20:07

The thing is that the owners of the shop itself are good friends of mine and I don't want to cut them out if they're set up to benefit (which I think they deserve). On the other hand, I think the pieces that he's showing in the shop are well outside the price range of just about anyone who enters the place, so at this point I think they're likely to just be semi-permanent decoration.

Maybe I can just tell every friend I have in the city to kick in and get it for me for my birthday or something.

Some artists sell prints of their original paintings. Maybe contact the artist directly and ask about this?

sean · « **Reply #2374 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 20:50 »

Quote from: redglasscurls on 13 Apr 2009, 13:51

I live a 2 minute walk from the DC/MD line in PG county

hey i could get to your house then by metro probably.

uh i vote mandas house quick somebody get planet earth.

Darkbluerabbit · « **Reply #2375 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 22:16 »

Quote from: Drill King on 14 Apr 2009, 14:41

I have basically spent all afternoon trying to get zelda ringtones on my LG rumor phone with bluetooth

I have the same phone through a different carrier, and I'm guessing they're identical except for colors and programming. I bought a MicroSD card, which have gotten even cheaper since I bought one, and moved stuff from my computer onto the card, then put the card in my phone. Then you go into the phone and move the songs you want as ringtones from card memory to phone memory. They need to be in mp3 format, but that's not hard to find/convert to. Audacity is a free program you can use to clip the part of the song you want, if you like. You'll need a microSD card reader, of course, and some older ones don't recognize the new "high capacity" SD format. Many laptops have built in card readers. Mine does, but it's older so I had to pick up a converter, which I don't mind because I like techy stuff.

Come to think of it, maybe it isn't as easy as I remember. I am a bit of a nerd who will go to any length to create custom ringtones for free.

While I'm here: Dear Tlog Bread,
I had a casual date with a girl I met on the internet, and she is even cuter in person and we talked almost nonstop for over an hour. Eeeee.

Emaline · « **Reply #2376 on:** 14 Apr 2009, 22:28 »

My stalker met my friend Coyote. It was weirddddd.

I had terrifying dreams, all about dating people. Which maybe has something to do with people coming to me for relationship advice, when even I realize that is a terrible idea. Because I obviously know how to deal with relationships so well. In both dreams, I cheated on my spouse/partner. In one dream, I was married and had kids and had sex with some dude to get ice cream for my kids because it was so hot and they were dying. And in the other, I cheated on my girlfriend with a man, and tried to rationalize that it didn't count because it was a man and not a woman and thus I was only doing it for the sex, and not any sort of attraction, or anything.

All my friends are coupling up, which means less time for me, which means I am going to be even more bitter and alone. And no, I don't want to date someone because I don't think that is a good idea. And I am selfish.

And I spent all day today in bed because I am very sick!

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #2377 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 00:25 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 14 Apr 2009, 19:52

Guys there is an artist named Adam Rex [...] and he lives in my neighborhood and the local card shop has a bunch of his original artwork up for sale. Among the fantasy artwork, there is this gem:

[...]

It is titled "Abraham Superlincoln: The Signal," it is about the size of the average trade paperback book, and it is $400. I am seriously tempted to buy it, even though it is really really expensive and honestly kind of small.

What would you do in my situation, and what ideas do you have for how I can obtain this piece of art, compensate the artist fairly, and not break my bank account into several pieces?

Just buy it. It looks great, that's a first and if you have a real connection with it it's worth eating cup-a-soup for a month.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2378 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 03:34 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 14 Apr 2009, 15:15

When I went to Virginia Tech, the Engineering department basically told the students to not expect to have much of a social life. I knew a guy in his fifth year doing Discrete Math during a bowl game, which is unheard of considering how rabid the football fans there are.

I've known a disproportionate amount of engineering students and as far as I can tell they are the hardest drinking of all the university creatures. The common refrain is "bring out the beers, here come the engineers."

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2379 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 03:35 »

Quote from: Jeans on 14 Apr 2009, 18:13

Quote from: Slick on 14 Apr 2009, 17:54
Patrick are you performing solo or with a backing band of scandinavians? Because how were you planning on doing hoppipola?

Scandinavia, you foreigner you

I think he meant cos Sigur Ros are Icelandic?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2380 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:13 »

I am in Scotland.

About the only thing that can be said in the favour of this situation is that we are leaving tomorrow.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2381 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:14 »

I heard in Scotland they call chips "Glasgow salad"

Seems like my kind of place

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #2382 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:18 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 15 Apr 2009, 04:13

I am in Scotland.

About the only thing that can be said in the favour of this situation is that we are leaving tomorrow.

You have heard about whiskey, right? I hear they have that in Scotland. Like, a lot.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2383 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:21 »

I am teetotal, although I'm beginning to reassess the wisdom of this decision.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #2384 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:28 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 15 Apr 2009, 04:21

I am teetotal, although I'm beginning to reassess the wisdom of this decision.

Well, if you stay teetotal I can imagine that 50% of possible reasons to go there do not apply to you.

The extra letter · « **Reply #2385 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:38 »

Dear blog thread: Last Thursday, I saw a guy wearing a Bomb the Blogosphere t-shirt.

I also bought a totally awesome leather blazer thingy. Probably not anybody's cup of tea here, but I'm quite enamoured with it.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #2386 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:52 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 15 Apr 2009, 04:14

I heard in Scotland they call chips "Glasgow salad"

Seems like my kind of place

I've never heard that before but I can't say it really surprises me.

Come on Barymoo, at least enjoy the weather

Spluff · « **Reply #2387 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 04:54 »

Scotland will be a great place to live once they implement the sun.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #2388 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:00 »

They carry out the beta testing in July. Unfortunately it leaks memory too much and always crashes after three days.

ledhendrix · « **Reply #2389 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:12 »

I'm sitting about in shorts and T-Shirt at the moment. Sun seems to be working fine for Scotland at the moment.

Spluff · « **Reply #2390 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:15 »

Quote from: BlahBlah on 15 Apr 2009, 05:00

They carry out the beta testing in July. Unfortunately it leaks memory too much and always crashes after three days.

That's a decent amount of uptime for the sun - over here it tends to crash every day. I hear they've got it running almost crash free in antarctica, however.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #2391 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:48 »

Man I just had so many Americans in my house. It was like one of those movies or something.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2392 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:48 »

Quote from: ledhendrix on 15 Apr 2009, 05:12

I'm sitting about in shorts and T-Shirt at the moment. Sun seems to be working fine for Scotland at the moment.

For serious? Here I can't see the other side of the street because of mist.

ledhendrix · « **Reply #2393 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:55 »

Get to the countryside man. You on the east coast at the moment? West coasts where its at.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #2394 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 05:59 »

True.

I always go to the west coast for summer. No har there.

Patrick · « **Reply #2395 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 06:17 »

Quote from: Slick on 14 Apr 2009, 17:54

Patrick are you performing solo or with a backing band of scandinavians? Because how were you planning on doing hoppipola?

Just me and my guitar, man. I would love to have somebody on the piano to do the intro, but that's not an option.

dEAR BLOG THREAD,

That poor girl Desi on the show must be going through a mindfuck of things running through her head. For one, she thinks she's going to be outperformed by her competitor tonight. For two, she kindof likes to start play-fights with me. A lot. And man I really can't help but play-fight back. But I think it is giving her the wrong idea, and so I'm really hoping she wins tonight just so I don't have to feel bad about possibly contributing to her defeat. I'm not so arrogant as to think about it with any certainty, but not so naive/falsely modest as to deny the possibility.

Also guys why the fuck didn't I think of covering later-era Beatles songs for this show. I could totally do "Oh! Darling" and destroy whoever I sing against just 'cause my range is perfect for it.

Love,
Me!

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2396 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 06:35 »

Quote from: ledhendrix on 15 Apr 2009, 05:55

Get to the countryside man. You on the east coast at the moment? West coasts where its at.

Seriously? Always heard the opposite.

Alright. I'm going to be spending more time on the west side.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #2397 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 06:37 »

The gulf stream and all that, y'know. There are palm trees growing in Plockton!

ledhendrix · « **Reply #2398 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 06:49 »

It's generally colder on the east coast, but you will get a lot more sunny days. I definitely notice the difference when I come home from Dundee to Oban (east to west). Can't beat the west coast in the summer though, much nicer countryside with all the hills, no way as built up. and the sea is a lot nicer.

There's a huge palm tree on the Dundee University campus that I only noticed for the first time a couple of weeks back.

MrBlu · « **Reply #2399 on:** 15 Apr 2009, 06:52 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 15 Apr 2009, 04:14

I heard in Scotland they call chips "Glasgow salad"

Seems like my kind of place

I like anything in general that includes the word "Glasgow" in it's nomenclature. Just not on MY face.

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