Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 243143 times)

valley_parade · « **Reply #500 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 10:15 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 14 Apr 2011, 10:05

My wife grew up on a farm in Missouri. They were only allowed to name their animals after food.

Cmere, Hot Fudge Sundae! Good chicken.

JD · « **Reply #501 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 10:24 »

Good lord I am incredibly tired and I don't even know why.

squawk · « **Reply #502 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 11:29 »

Quote from: Jeans on 14 Apr 2011, 10:06

Quote from: squawk on 14 Apr 2011, 06:37
FUCK YES

I know I'm kind of late to point this out but this is quite possibly the most amazing av/post synergy I have seen to date.

oh my fucking god i cannot stop laughing

Johnny C · « **Reply #503 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 11:41 »

Quote from: Katherine on 14 Apr 2011, 09:35

I can't fathom eating something that I named, but if he can do it then more power to him. I would imagine it takes a strong person to be able to separate the backyard chicken from the chicken on the plate.

(For the record, I don't eat animals I haven't named either. I've been veg for almost 20 years)

there's a bit on this in good meat, i'll find it and type it out later

squawk · « **Reply #504 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 12:24 »

OUTSIDE LANDS IS OFFICIAL! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I've never been to a music festival before!!!
And I'm going with my sister and her bf and my best friend and my old best friend and my friend who I hate half the time but is actually a very good friend and ahhhhh!

I should probably register for summer school soon if not like, now?

nekowafer · « **Reply #505 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 12:36 »

Holy crap, more responsibility = more work. Much, much more. WHY. Just because I do an awesome job doesn't mean they should then dump every project in the department on me.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #506 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 12:49 »

Gah my flatmate bought new knives and they are so motherfucking sharp i just cut a giant hole into my thumb and OH GOD NOW ITS ALL OVER MY SPACEBAR

tania · « **Reply #507 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 13:35 »

here's what's happening outside my office, right now:

it is april why it snow

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #508 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 13:44 »

'cause CANADA

Rizzo · « **Reply #509 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 15:15 »

Omg omg omg omg. Going to get the keys to the new apartment today and moving stuff in tonight and tomorrow. Last night sleeping in the lounge! Huzzzah!

New job starts Monday. I'm still excited.

JD · « **Reply #510 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 15:52 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 14 Apr 2011, 12:49

Gah my flatmate bought new knives and they are so motherfucking sharp i just cut a giant hole into my thumb and OH GOD NOW ITS ALL OVER MY SPACEBAR

Now it's gonna get all sticky

tania · « **Reply #511 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 16:29 »

IT'S GETTING WORSE

WHAT DO

Liz · « **Reply #512 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 16:30 »

Tania we are supposed to get snow tonight too, after I go to sleep.

If I wake up to a winter wonderland there will be murder.

Johnny C · « **Reply #513 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 16:32 »

tania why don't you google "saskatchewan flooding" right now

Eris · « **Reply #514 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 16:37 »

did you know that it is autumn here?

the weather really sucks now. Can't wait until spring!

tania · « **Reply #515 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 16:41 »

everything is bullshit

Lunchbox · « **Reply #516 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 16:44 »

As much as I hate the cold I am kinda appreciating the cool Autumn mornings. Not the wind tunnels that are created in the city when I'm walking from Town Hall to work, though. They're no good.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #517 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 17:24 »

Yeah, we don't have many deciduous trees. That doesn't mean there's no season between Summer and Winter.

Inlander · « **Reply #518 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 19:31 »

Cities in Australia tend to have extensive planting of European trees, which lend some colour to Autumn. This is particularly true of Canberra, the older parts of which have an abundance of pin oaks, Liquidambars, poplars, and plane trees. Almost all Australian native trees are evergreen, but a notable exception is Nothofagus gunnii, a species of deciduous beech endemic to Tasmania.

Joseph · « **Reply #519 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 20:23 »

My god, this one conservative blogger from the worst student blog on the internet came to the AGM for QPIRG McGill, the raddest organization on campus. And wrote the silliest article about it. Worth so many laughs: http://princearthurherald.com/archives/4702

Patrick · « **Reply #520 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 21:53 »

Why the fuck did my phone decide to shit out 9 texts from the last week it's been unable to send/receive them. This thing's such a fat piece of shit that I want to just throw it under a fucking lawnmower.

Also, I am now moved into my new place. It is not my place at all, it's actually a spare room in my friend Biff's house that he and his wife have been kind enough to let me live in for a while. God I fucking hate myself for this. I am homeless, just luckier than most homeless people. But like. Being lucky enough to have friends as kind as the ones I've got doesn't make me feel any fucking better about basically being a quite hygienic tramp living in the home of a couple where one is retired and the other is not far behind. I honestly would rather be on the streets than taking charity from these people.

Oh, and I called Target and they already filled my old position, so it's two months before I can reapply for the bloody company. Which basically makes my situation all the more retarded.

Whatever. I've been up at my best friend's ranch since Tuesday, working for him and his family so I can get rid of stress before going into the real-life job market. I've been applying for work online, but nothing's come to fruition yet. I figure I'll hit the same places in person when I'm back, but applying online has proven to be little more than me flying in a holding pattern.

I love being alive, it's pretty fucking great. But lately I really fuckin' hate my life.

sean · « **Reply #521 on:** 14 Apr 2011, 22:42 »

hey guys, its spring.

i wore short shorts today.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #522 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 00:16 »

Quote from: tania on 14 Apr 2011, 16:29

IT'S GETTING BETTER

img...

SO HAPPY

Fixed

KharBevNor · « **Reply #523 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 06:04 »

Quote from: Joseph on 14 Apr 2011, 20:23

My god, this one conservative blogger from the worst student blog on the internet came to the AGM for QPIRG McGill, the raddest organization on campus. And wrote the silliest article about it. Worth so many laughs: http://princearthurherald.com/archives/4702

"Straight white male studying at prestigious university is positive that privilege is a false idea"

Edith · « **Reply #524 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 06:32 »

I'm cold and hungry because the carpet cleaner man came early and I didn't think I should hang around inside on the wet carpet so I'm sitting on the porch with a stiff neck and had no breakfast and oh good god why am I so bad at being a grownup?

Also does it seem fishy to you that this carpet guy is $40 cheaper than the big companies, and only accepts cash? Because it seems fishy to me but I am trying to save money so I hired him.

öde · « **Reply #525 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 06:39 »

Is he self-employed? Doesn't seem strange to me at all.

Katherine · « **Reply #526 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 07:27 »

It is probably fishy in the sense that he likely doesn't claim it as income so that he doesn't have to pay taxes on it.

Joseph · « **Reply #527 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 07:43 »

Quote from: tuathal on 15 Apr 2011, 06:27

While the article is stupid and the writer is too, he's right in a way. I admit that not knowing anything about the organisation he's criticising probably skews my perspective somewhat, but there is a fair degree of self-marginalisation in these groups which they cynically use to garner more support from more gullible members of society.
Of course, the other side of the political/social spectrum does this too.

This is why I can't take student groups/associations/whatever you want to call them seriously when they have any ideologic statement to make. It's like politics on a national scale, only less well practiced.

If you actually want to know anything about anything I can school you on that later (right now I have to get to campus), but just so you know, at this point you have no clue what you're talking about. Like, you just made yourself look like an absolute fool.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #528 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 09:52 »

Quote from: tuathal on 15 Apr 2011, 09:42

(I still have no idea what QPIRG McGill is, by the way. People should just stop using stupidly nondescriptive acronyms)

It's right there in the first sentence, Bromar Little

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #529 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 09:53 »

Quote from: Edith on 15 Apr 2011, 06:32

Also does it seem fishy to you that this carpet guy is $40 cheaper than the big companies, and only accepts cash? Because it seems fishy to me but I am trying to save money so I hired him.

Quote from: Katherine on 15 Apr 2011, 07:27

It is probably fishy in the sense that he likely doesn't claim it as income so that he doesn't have to pay taxes on it.

The more likely answer is that, being a small independant trader, he prefers not to be paid in cheque or electronically because then he'll incur bank charges that will eat into his profit margin. That doesn't account for all of the $40, but as a small trader he probably relies on long standing repeat business, small margins and benefits from low overheads and a limited area of operation. If he does a good job and gives a credible looking receipt, use him again and support your local economy.

Liz · « **Reply #530 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 10:03 »

Tania here is what is going on outside my window right now.

tania · « **Reply #531 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 17:39 »

fffffff

Liz · « **Reply #532 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 17:52 »

Oh and it has started snowing again so we will have even more by tomorrow morning.

yay fargo

Dazed · « **Reply #533 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 18:34 »

It was cool and sunny today in Boston. A nice spring breeze by the water, lovely contrast to the howling winds from hell we got all winter.

Radical AC · « **Reply #534 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 18:41 »

My best friend growing up lives in Fargo with my next door neighbor that he decided to marry. And, I'm kinda confused why people keep rebuilding by the Red River. It's like rebuilding in New Orleans, but you get that lovely weather that goes along with the northern midwest. I once rode home from Fargo to International Falls (HA) during a blizzard and there were at least two dozen cars in the ditch we passed. I love MN but I do not miss the weather.

So it is going to be one of those weekends where I spend the entire thing writing papers. A lot of short ones, though. Want my degree bad, and it is so close.

Anyway, I am procrastinating by watching the youtube coachella live stream.

JD · « **Reply #535 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 19:03 »

I learned today that the study of beards is called pogonology. I find the wiki page for beard pretty amusing.

tania · « **Reply #536 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 19:48 »

i love getting emails from students asking me to bump up their grades, absent of any reason or merit, so much

hey, you know what's the best way to bump up your mark? by being smart and doing your work! the all natural way

Papersatan · « **Reply #537 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 19:51 »

Dear Tania,

Right now my cumulative GPA is a 3.498 if you could raise my mark in your class by one, or even two marks that would be great. You gave me a 'B' but you you could change that to a 'B+' or an 'A-' it would help me push my GPA to over a 3.5. As I am sure you know having a higher GPA will help me to get into better Graduate schools.
Thanks so Much,
Kat

P.S. You are the COOLEST TA ever. Seriously.

tania · « **Reply #538 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 19:55 »

to be fair, i do bump student's grades pretty often when i know the student is smart and it's going to make a difference in what letter grade they get (from an 89 to a 90 for example), but unfortunately "hey could you bump up my participation mark because i really want to get a good grade for this course thanks" really isn't enough to sell me

tania · « **Reply #539 on:** 15 Apr 2011, 20:03 »

man i should really stop bitching about my students, i actually like teaching a lot and it's getting pretty predictable. sorry, forum! i'll find some new material this summer

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #540 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 00:05 »

I might end up without a girlfriend before the night's over. More news on this to come.

- Christien

Inlander · « **Reply #541 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 01:18 »

Quote from: tania on 15 Apr 2011, 19:48

i love getting emails from students asking me to bump up their grades, absent of any reason or merit, so much

hey, you know what's the best way to bump up your mark? by being smart and doing your work! the all natural way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8Vh76vy0w

Edith · « **Reply #542 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 06:06 »

Something is blocking part of my field of vision. It looks like a ceiling fan would look in my peripheral vision, only it's a half circle across the center of everywhere I look. It has been happening for 15 minites or so. Is this what a migraine looks like?

<edit> I called my Dad because I know he gets visual migraines. He confirmed that that was what I was having. It's gone now. Weird! </edit>

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #543 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 12:15 »

I still have a girlfriend! The story of success goes thusly:

For a while, me an my girlfriend have sort of been drifting away because we simply haven't been trying. She'd been choosing her friends' company over mine pretty consistently (about four times a week), and when she didn't prance off to go watch movies that I didn't really want to watch, she stayed in my dorm room and we never really talked or had conversations or even boned. We both made jokes about breaking up with each other which follow along with our sense of humour, but it was starting to get a bit more honest. She had been restricting me from doing acid for a while, which really bothered me because we had smoked weed, tripped out on shrooms, and got sleazy together on tequila habitually during our relationship. As a result of all these small problems, we'd been getting into huge fights and started to get spiteful with each other. I started to be derisive and mean to her, and we both just sort of stopped listening when the other talked. So last night, she tells me that we need to talk, because she was worried that we were pretty much at the end of our rope, so we go into the Student Union Building and get into an elevator and talked it out, calmly explaining every little problem we had with each other. Turns out, we just hadn't been talking enough, because we had a really good conversation and figured that we still loved each other way too much to end all of it due to a few minor mistakes. Result: I'm doing acid, just not around her. She's paying more attention to me. I'm being less of a sardonic shithead towards her. We are going to listen to each other. I am so happy, I can barely contain it.

- Christien

Quote from: Sam on 16 Apr 2011, 00:34

Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 16 Apr 2011, 00:05
I might end up without a girlfriend before the night's over. More news on this to come.

- me

fuck everything

What's up with that, if you don't mind sharing?

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #544 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 12:25 »

öde · « **Reply #545 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 16:44 »

Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 16 Apr 2011, 12:15

I still have a girlfriend! The story of success goes thusly:

For the relationship thread 3 perhaps we should just post this and lock the thread.

jodizzle · « **Reply #546 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 16:53 »

HEY GUYS HOLY CRAP! So we hosted the first ever roller derby bout in Toowoomba last nigth! WOAH! like and I mean WOAH! We were expecting maybe 500-750 people... we got over 1,200!! And they got really into it! We sold all of our merch (made over $1,000) and sold $6,000 worth of booze and made a HELL of a lot of new fans. Strangers came up to me and wanted their photo with me. Oh yeaaaaah, I am going to be roller derby famous like I always dreamed. haha We lost, 181-101 and it was a DIRTY game. the other teams were head blocking, skates to the face, one of our girls copped a serious elbow to the ribs which floored her. The medics had to come to our bench abotu 5 times (the first one was me! First jam out they smashed me in the collar bone HARD - I am soooore but fine probably!) and the head ref almost forfeited the game because he was worried about our safety. But the crowd just went CRAZY everytime our team did ANYTHING and I think at least 90% of those people will be back next time.

I have spent the last few months putting all my spare time into organising this bout, and there were some major problems on the day (sound and lighting dude isnt getting paid contract breaking cunty mc cunt, OH HEY ABOUT THAT PROJECTOR AND SCREEN I WAS BRINGING FOR THE SCOREBOARD...AHHHH SUCH AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE BOUT!!!!) but I am so proud of how it turned otu. Now the horror of organisning another one for end of may/early June. WAAAAHHH

At least we know the people of Toowoomba LOVE roller derby!

Prepare yourself for a million derby photos in the photo thread over the next week!

tania · « **Reply #547 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 16:55 »

Quote from: öde on 16 Apr 2011, 16:44

For the relationship thread 3 perhaps we should just post this and lock the thread.

that thread is practically my other job! it's like you want to get rid of me

öde · « **Reply #548 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 17:01 »

Not at all! In fact, you've been promoted! Your new office is in the basement!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #549 on:** 16 Apr 2011, 18:34 »

Hey all of my Northern Hemisphere friends who are bitching about the long winter, Banff is scheduled to get about a foot of snow over the weekend and that is fucking rad. I love snowwwww, suuuuuckkk iiiiiiitttt

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