Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 248440 times)

Welu · « **Reply #3350 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 08:29 »

Tripped on some stairs and sprained my ankle.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3351 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 08:44 »

Edith · « **Reply #3352 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 11:55 »

I have another phone interview tomorrow for the same job. I hope they either offer it or turn me down quickly, so I can either start packing or get back to work. I'm getting very little done around here!

Lines · « **Reply #3353 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 12:19 »

So you've made a decision then?

Edith · « **Reply #3354 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 13:32 »

Not completely. I mean, I haven't ever even been to Omaha! But I priced trucks today just in case. I really do like the sound of the job, and while apartments downtown are crazy-expensive, there's a lot of adorable housing, too. The job seems pretty great.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3355 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 14:05 »

I just signed up for mint. Apparently my net worth is $-168.

That's actually really heartening. I was worried I was going to be several thousand dollars in the hole at least. Turns out I can fuck over my life WAY more than I thought I could!

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #3356 on:** 18 Oct 2012, 19:16 »

I just signed up too. I was super shocked when I saw a 6 digit net worth but then I realized most of that is based on our house. When you take that out of consideration it's $356 which is actually better than I expected. I want to see if I can get my husband's stuff on here. Maybe then he'd believe me that I spend my money on groceries while he spends his on toys.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3357 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 05:42 »

I'm so excited about Christmas - I have found all kinds of things to do! I'm considering trying to go to the Nine Lessons and Carols service at King's, but it suggests starting queueing at 8am for the service which is at 3pm and it is distinctly possible that Jens will not want to do that.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3358 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 10:11 »

Go to halloween party. Find that the baseball mitt for my costume makes an excellent beer can holder. Maybe too good. Drink far too many tallboys. Some shots agave.

Start chatting up a girl at the party. No clue what she was dressed as, but it was in all white. As there were other girls there dressed as Power Rangers, my friends started referring to her as "White Ranger".

Start hopping between the party and the bar down the street, where a bunch of my other friends are. Drink a pitcher. Go back to the party. Talk to White Ranger some more. Tell her I find her ridiculously cute. She has a boyfrann.

Continue bouncing back and forth between bar and party. Have managed to run out of beer. Suck at beer pong. Roommate has my change of clothes and my keys in his backpack. Manages to lose the backpack. Close out the first bar, head to the second bar. Roommate heads home, finds backpack in friend's car. Go to get pizza, get home just in time to find roommate throwing up in bathroom.

I was genuinely pissed for a second over the dumbest thing, the t-shirt I'd packed was printed up by my favorite record label and I got the last one of the five they'd made. Like, fuck my jeans, fuck my keys, that's my damn t-shirt! Ugh.

Patrick · « **Reply #3359 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 00:27 »

I had a lot of jello shots and a couple beers and then some sex last night.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3360 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 00:29 »

I had sex once. It was pretty tops.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3361 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 00:34 »

I had a hearing test this morning which is basically to me like forcing a paraplegic to stumble around, grabbing things to prevent the fall, tear down draperies and inevitably fall flat on their face. Did you ever take a hearing test? Did you know that the sinus tones they use to test the hearing sounds exactly like tinnitus? I feel so tragic doing that stuff it's funny. I feel so exhausted now I will probably sleep for the rest of the day.

Fuck mondays, by the way. Bwahaha.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3362 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 00:36 »

Oh god. I had a friend whose computer emitted a high-pitched note that was perfectly in tune with my tinnitus. I couldn't hear a thing when I was at her house because that sound overrode everything else.

Patrick · « **Reply #3363 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 13:51 »

I am the most hearing-impaired guy at my work. People will call for me 2 or 3 times over the walkie to have me do a stock check for them, and one time my least favorite manager threatened to have me sacked for not paying attention. When she came back into the stockroom bitching and moaning at me that day, I got super offended and was like "LOOK, I've been playing drums for twelve years, loud-ass guitars for nine. When I was 13 years old I had a severe ear infection in my left ear, and my eardrum burst, and I lost a ton of my hearing then too. Now, do you have anything else you'd like to say while you're still in lip-reading range? Wouldn't want to miss it."

I take no shit.

Papersatan · « **Reply #3364 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 15:03 »

I have a paper due tomorrow reviewing a reading. We signed up for readings at the beginning of the semester based loosely on our interests, but with no chance to review the readings in question first. This is pretty standard.
The assignment sheet instructs us to write a two page paper which analyzes the key claims, arguments and/or findings and asses their strengths and limitations and to offer evidence from other readings if possible. Also, standard enough.

It seems I have drawn a short straw. My reading is not an article, it is an online tutorial introducing the concepts of digital preservation. It offers no argument or findings other that those widely accepted as true (e.g. digitally stored data are subject to obsolescence of data carrier type and file format, or having a preservation plan can mitigate the risk of data loss) but it offers dozens of those. It sprawls across more than 100 pages and has some broken navigation, and just doesn't seem to fit well into they structure for analysis that the professor has laid out in the assignment.

I'm sure I can fill two pages, no problem, it just is going to be unsatisfying for me. What this site needs is a 5 page usability assessment.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3365 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 15:17 »

Quote from: Patrick on 22 Oct 2012, 13:51

I take no shit.

Get a hearing aid or some other kind of help instead dude. They can't help if your hearing is bad.

nekowafer · « **Reply #3366 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 15:55 »

Papersatan: Maybe write that usability assessment for your own peace of mind, and turn it in? Teachers often like when students do more than strictly required.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #3367 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 18:14 »

So, apparently I am a magnet for stray kittens. Was leaving for work, and saw a little black and white ball of fluff on the line on the edge of the road in front of my house. And then it moved. Oh god, oh god, it's gonna get hit! So back to my driveway I went, and retrieved the poor little bugger. Due to her grubbiness, size/age (I estimate between 5 and 8 weeks), and the fact that she smells like a repair garage, I'd say that she had a ride in someone's engine compartment before managing to escape at the two-way stop (I live on the corner of a busy road, and a not-so-busy one). She's an extremely fluffy black-and-white, so she'll be a longhair, and has a somewhat scrunched face - not ridiculously so, but enough that she has a short little nose. She's a cutie!

The kitten is fine, and Mom is taking it in to work with her tomorrow to see if the resident cat man would like to take her in - he had upwards of 40 cats at some time, and takes excellent care of all of his animals. If he or the lady in the office doesn't want her, she has an appointment with the vet on Wednesday for her FIV/Leukemia tests and initial treatment.

Lines · « **Reply #3368 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 18:26 »

FLUFFY KITTY! I wish I lived near you, I'd take her...

Omega Entity · « **Reply #3369 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 18:30 »

I forget, where are you at again?

Lines · « **Reply #3370 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 18:36 »

Cincinnati, OH. You're in...Michigan? But she needs someone who can be around most of the day and I think my cat would get mad at me if I brought another kitten home. (He sort of...tolerated...the kitten I watched over the summer.)

Redball · « **Reply #3371 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 19:04 »

I have friends, a couple in Newport MI I sing with, trying to get rid of a couple of kittens living under their house. They bug me so often about it I've started asking friends. I adore the couple, so I'd drive a cat or two on a half-day journey to a new home.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3372 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 19:30 »

There's a cat where I'm staying named Reynolds. I call him Captain but no one gets it.

Papersatan · « **Reply #3373 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 20:39 »

awwwww yeah. The paper in question is due next week not this week. My error is because my excel sheet in by week number, and since we had off from school last Tuesday this professor didn't count last week when he was numbering the weeks. I discovered this before staying up too late working on it. It means I have it half done for next week, and I have time to ask him about how I should approach it.

Lines · « **Reply #3374 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 20:43 »

I love it when that happens. Or more like I WOULD love it if it ever happened, but it never seems to, no matter how much I want it to...

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3375 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 05:14 »

I'm going to Lisbon this thursday with the girlfriend. This was a sudden and welcome decision. WOO!

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3376 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 05:36 »

I'm hanging out in a chemistry room at a school surrounded by my paintings. Hoping to impress people with my stencil prowess ...

Carl-E · « **Reply #3377 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 06:02 »

Nice!

Training begins for the online teaching job... oh, yesterday. Well, it's asynchronous, so I'll start today.

LTK · « **Reply #3378 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 07:40 »

Exams done. Essays done. Now I have exactly three and a half hours with no time-limited obligations on my schedule, after which it starts all over again.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3379 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 08:42 »

Well done!

Akima · « **Reply #3380 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:24 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 22 Oct 2012, 19:30

There's a cat where I'm staying named Reynolds. I call him Captain but no one gets it.

If that means that Firefly is officially "over", that can only be a good thing.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3381 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:29 »

I still like it (a lot), even if it's pretty fucking whitewashed.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3382 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:39 »

Still touchy about that, hm?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3383 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:59 »

I think you can say it's a good show without denying the pretty blatant racism inherent in its casting/creation. Saying 'who gives a shit?' because it doesn't have bearing on your life is kind of dismissive of legitimate struggles that people face.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #3384 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 17:17 »

I can certainly give a shit about the unfortunate implications of social matters involved in a TV show, book or movie while still enjoying it. To be quite frank, if someone acknowledge the rather obvious racism of Lovecraft, or the tonally inconsistent depiction of "Barney in How I Met Your Mother", or for that matter the incredible amounts of sexism in Robert Heinlein novels (despite them being rather progressive for the time) they're just simply recognizing problems with the works, not stating if they are unwatchable/readable for themselves, though you can certainly and happily declare them both.

Edit: Also to be frank, it's also perfectly acceptable to say "x is -ist" and refuse to give it your support in any way.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3385 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 20:41 »

Quote from: ackblom12 on 23 Oct 2012, 17:17

Edit: Also to be frank, it's also perfectly acceptable to say "x is -ist" and refuse to give it your support in any way.

So long as you don't rip into people who say, "yes, but it's still good story..."

ackblom12 · « **Reply #3386 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 21:34 »

I'd say it depends on whether or not they're actually acknowledging the problems within it. There is a pretty fair line that a lot of people who enjoy problematic things don't seem to comprehend, and that is not defending the problematic nature of the things they like.

The problem is common in all walks of life, but really seems to come up in nerd/geek culture a whooooole lot, especially in relation to sexist and racist tropes being used. Fantasy art, whitewashing (Firefly and Dark Knight Rises being good examples), female super heros especially. It's rarely the person who thinks it's problematic that pushes the situation into an argument in these cases.

Patrick · « **Reply #3387 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 02:35 »

Quote from: idontunderstand on 22 Oct 2012, 15:17

Quote from: Patrick on 22 Oct 2012, 13:51
I take no shit.

Get a hearing aid or some other kind of help instead dude. They can't help if your hearing is bad.

It ain't the "catching shit for being hard of hearing" that bugs me, I catch that from friends and bandmates all the time. It's the "assuming I'm ignoring them and them threatening to sack me from my job for a condition I can't afford to treat without health insurance/income" that pisses me right off. Especially since every single other person in the store has been nothing but wonderful to me, even on days I've screwed something up and made things that much harder for everyone.

This is just one item on a laundry list of reasons I hate this manager anyway, and I am well past the point of putting things gently. I've already made formal complaints about her, once for impeding my workflow with a bunch of arbitrary bullshit, twice for speaking to me disrespectfully in front of a customer. She's never given me the benefit of the doubt in the whole two months I've spent kissing the asses of her and every other one of the people I work with, and frankly I'm tired of biting my tongue til it bleeds just trying not to yell at her outright.

I will do my job, and I'll do as much as I can of what is asked of me. But when somebody threatens me for no legitimate reason, I absolutely will not put up with that shit. Taking your advice, I've brought it up with my store manager that we need to have another talk about this horrible person making things personal.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3388 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 09:32 »

Let's all hope she gets promoted to general manager....

....of a different store.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3389 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 11:02 »

Oh ok, well hope she falls into a tiger pit then!

Edit: Tomorrow I'm off to Portugal! Jag ska dansa med vindarna och sjunga valsång med Lissabonjäntorna. See ya in a week.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3390 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 12:02 »

idontunderstand

snalin · « **Reply #3391 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 15:14 »

"I'll dance with the winds and sing whale songs with the Lisbon girls"

Swedes...

Omega Entity · « **Reply #3392 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 16:51 »

Portugal is a fantastic place - I went there with my friend and sister about ten years ago. Lots to see and do, especially if you like old forts and the like. The people are also extremely friendly. I did get the impression in many of the small family-owned shops, it's pretty well expected of you to haggle over prices - one older gentleman in an second-hand shop seemed disappointed when I asked how much some small ceramics were and tried to pay him the price he stated.

If you get a chance, Porto is a fantastic hillside city, and I found the food is much better there than in Lisbon. And oh god, the food! We ate custard pastries every morning for breakfast while we were there, and amazingly nothing upset my stomach, which is an accomplishment in and of itself; my stomach is extremely finicky.

Lupercal · « **Reply #3393 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 14:08 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 23 Oct 2012, 16:59

I think you can say it's a good show without denying the pretty blatant racism inherent in its casting/creation. Saying 'who gives a shit?' because it doesn't have bearing on your life is kind of dismissive of legitimate struggles that people face.

Its got women and a black guy in it jeez

In all seriousness, please divulge. As a fan of the show, and of all this crap behind TV/Movies in general, I'd like to explore this viewpoint. I don't know if this is the right place to do it but you know.

Lines · « **Reply #3394 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 14:47 »

Mostly what I see from casting is the lack of diversity? I mean, Inara is Brazilian, Zoe is black, Book is black, and everybody else is white. Various other characters in the show are predominantly white and then sometimes black, but rarely do you see Asians, Hispanics, or other people groups. And really, if the universe is so blended (as seen through language) there would be FAR less white people.

But honestly I see more of a problem with the language than I do casting. Using bad Chinese to swear is racist. 1) They should have gotten the language right and 2) it shouldn't have been just to swear, it should have been incorporated more fully (which is understandable, English and Chinese [Mandarin?] are the two most widely used languages) or not at all. Sci-fi often involves the blending of languages, they could have done so much better with that.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3395 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 00:21 »

Oh sup blawg thredd. I've got a date this weekend.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3396 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 01:07 »

I went to a bar tonight and they were playing Kyuss loudly there.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3397 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 03:03 »

Two bacteria walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve bacteria here." And the bacteria says, "But we work here. We're staph."

I had nowhere else to place this joke, sorry. I just read it in a status update. Which is slightly bloggy, so there.

VonKleist · « **Reply #3398 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 04:18 »

Hmpf, I was gonna go out.. I wanted to go out last weekend but my buddies went on friday and I work saturdays at the moment so I couldn't go. Now there´s an aquaintances birthday party but she moved it from saturday to friday so I can't really go either.. I could go but I have to get up at 6pm. Tomorrow my sister and a friend are selling stuff at a night-flea market with live music and stuff so maybe I´ll go there. But with no one to go with it´ll be stupid too.
Ugh, all I wann do is complain and whine $:-\$

Also why don't they make Vans Authentics from slightly thicker canvas so I can wear them when it´s really cold?
Yes, I know there are the leather ones but I want canvas.

Also: stay away from the train tracks on weekday nights, people. If you are going to commit suicide or be very very stupid, do it somewhere else without inconveniencing hundreds of people. I had to take a cab and I won't get my money back.
Being stuck in some provincial ghost-town is not how I imagined my thursday night.

dr. nervioso · « **Reply #3399 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 06:13 »

So this weekend should be pretty awesome, big event on saturday night.

And the, first official band practice on Sunday

That's right guys I formed a band. Speaking of that I need to find a place to practice.

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