Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 268177 times)

tania · « **Reply #3000 on:** 26 Jan 2011, 21:40 »

Quote from: Drill King on 26 Jan 2011, 08:20

during the years leading up to that point I hated people commenting on it, because it was my business. Um this is probably not making a lot of sense because it's a close issue and I just woke up oops.

i don't want to come off as assumptive at all about any of this stuff because i know there are people here who have more experience with eating disorders than i do, so by all means correct me if i am wrong, but i had some training when i was counseling on how to talk to people who had eating disorders and the one thing that was always stressed to me was that people who suffer from them tend to in some way or another be looking for some sort of sense of control in their lives - in that context, this response does make a lot of sense because commenting on an anorexic individual's weight loss in a manner that can be easily read by them as judgmental, accusatory or humiliating in any way can be easily seen as a way of trying to control that aspect of their their life, thus taking control away from them. with this in mind, the advice that allison and andy gave on the importance of providing support and compassion and understanding is really, really key. do NOT ever do anything that can be interpreted by someone suffering from an eating disorder as an attempt to take control over their own lives away from them, it will very likely make it worse.

Rizzo · « **Reply #3001 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 01:00 »

Yeah, I got the same thing as Tania when I was studying psychology. Support is the most important step in recovery.

Oh fuuuuuuuck dudes, I got a phone interview tomorrow with Google. I attempted to reply to Joe and... that other person who I forget but the forum wouldn't let me. I'm so fucking nervous. I really want this job. So so so badly. I reckon I'd potentially be set once I got in the doors at google. FFFFFFFFFFUUUUU.

SO NERVOUS.

Graphite · « **Reply #3002 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 01:09 »

I have a 4.5 hr 100% law exam tomorrow. This is the second one of these I've had this week. Bluuuuh, at least they're over after tomorrow.

Rizzo · « **Reply #3003 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 01:22 »

Quote from: Graphite on 27 Jan 2011, 01:09

I have a 4.5 hr 100% law exam tomorrow. This is the second one of these I've had this week. Bluuuuh, at least they're over after tomorrow.

High five! We both have incredibly stressful, potentially life changing things happening tomorrow!

Graphite · « **Reply #3004 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 01:24 »

o/ good luck!

(though since I have about two of those every semester the life-changing element is something I try not to focus on too much!)

valley_parade · « **Reply #3005 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 07:50 »

Quote from: Sam on 27 Jan 2011, 07:09

it started with "i know you always think i'm joking when i'm asking you out or flirting with you, but i'm not. I long to..."

New blog thread game: FINISH THAT SENTANCE

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3006 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 07:57 »

... feed your terrapins whilst wearing a Barney suit over a meat helmet and have you sing Muse songs to me in the style of Burt Bacharach.

pwhodges · « **Reply #3007 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 09:28 »

I just got approval to place an order for servers to replace nearly my whole setup at work - about £15,000 worth.

There will be two Dell servers with 8 cores and 32GB of memory each, a 10TB RAID-6 storage array, and odd switches for the iSCSI links. These will run my database server, Exchange Server, and various small-time things like file storage, Active Directory, VPN connections, printers, web site, etc, as virtual servers running on Hyper-V.

My present VMware ESX server (which has 2TB of disks) will become a backup staging machine. Upgrading ESX to do what I wanted would have cost an addition £12,000 in software, whereas the MS equivalent can give me the same functionality for nothing - guess why I'm changing?

I will keep the old firewall (running OpenBSD) as there's simply no need to change it, and the best of my other old machines will run Active Directory and DHCP so that these can be brought up before all the other servers - and so that the Hyper-V hosts can be joined to the domain.

I will be upgrading the Windows Servers from WS2003 32-bit to WS2008 64-bit, database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 (not 2008 at this stage - there's a reason for that), and Exchange from 2003 to 2010.

And I get an assistant on Monday week (shared with the DB development guy, but still...).

Woo!

valley_parade · « **Reply #3008 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 09:36 »

I'm gonna pretend I know what that means and be happy for you. Hells yeah, Paul!

I got a new (old) guitar today! Spent a fraction of what you're spending on those things.

JD · « **Reply #3009 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 09:38 »

Quote from: Graphite on 27 Jan 2011, 01:09

I have a 4.5 hr 100% law exam tomorrow. This is the second one of these I've had this week. Bluuuuh, at least they're over after tomorrow.

Oh hey so do I. They only give us 3 hours though.

squawk · « **Reply #3010 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 09:47 »

i just had the most restless sleep of my life i dont understand. i just want to do nothing for a while but my body aches so bad and god i wish i had someone to take care of me i wish i had ice cream and juice and soup. i can't even call my parents 'cause they're in the philippines and i don't want to go to my three hour lab whyyyyyyyyyy

nekowafer · « **Reply #3011 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 10:33 »

It snowed a TON yesterday. I made the mistake of staying late at work to try to make up some time. Usually, it takes about 5 minutes to drive home - and about 20 minutes to walk.

After 3 and a half hours in traffic, we were only half way home. Thankfully we were able to get into a parking space and we abandoned the car to walk home. That took about a half hour. I had a fun little panic attack during all of this. And I had to go on a snowy adventure to find a bathroom or place where I could squat without everyone seeing my ass.

And yet, I still love snow. And I have off work today. Yay!

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #3012 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 17:25 »

I wimped out on work today and yesterday. I feel kinda bad, but it would've been pretty hellish I think, even just getting out of my neighborhood to the bus station. And the buses didn't even start until 10am today. Apparently the GW Parkway (aprox. 15 miles, 2 lanes each way) had a 13 hour delay last night! This is what we ended up with:

Alex C · « **Reply #3013 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 18:39 »

Quote from: tania on 26 Jan 2011, 21:40

in that context, this response does make a lot of sense because commenting on an anorexic individual's weight loss in a manner that can be easily read by them as judgmental, accusatory or humiliating in any way can be easily seen as a way of trying to control that aspect of their their life, thus taking control away from them.

Makes sense. There's roughly a million programs covering hoarding behavior on television now and they used the same rationale to explain why the counselors who walk the people through the process come across as so passive.

Joseph · « **Reply #3014 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 19:22 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 25 Jan 2011, 04:15

I think I just committed myself to going to Critical Mass on Friday!

Ever done one before?

sean · « **Reply #3015 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 19:22 »

my mom just told me about the gw parkway delay! that is insane!

people in dc really need to learn that driving in very inclement weather conditions is a terrible idea.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #3016 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 19:23 »

Quote from: Joseph on 27 Jan 2011, 19:22

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 25 Jan 2011, 04:15
I think I just committed myself to going to Critical Mass on Friday!

Ever done one before?

No I haven't, but I've seen the one here in Edinburgh a few times, it's not that large, so it should be interesting (like in general it doesn't take up more space than like two or three cars).

Papersatan · « **Reply #3017 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 19:50 »

The cutest thing? My 2.5 year old niece playing Katamari Damacy on my couch! My brother came by to drop off our Christmas present (a nicely framed copy of this) and brought his daughter. He and Steve talked table top games while I gave her a tour of the house and let her play Katamari. Apparently she plays it at home too. It is called the robot game. She is not great at it, but I am impressed for her age. She knows how to go forward and backwards and to rotate when she is stuck. This makes me want to have adorable gaming toddlers of my own.

nekowafer · « **Reply #3018 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 19:53 »

Apparently I-83 was backed up for 9 hours. People only got through because they started pushing aside abandoned cars - no one came to help. Crazy. There are still abandoned cars near the area where we got stuck.

allison · « **Reply #3019 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 19:54 »

kaaaaaaaat what about adopting me

greenMonkey · « **Reply #3020 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 20:50 »

Feeling immensely insecure about a potential relationship that I feel like I may have fucked up, sitting alone in my room self-medicating with a beer and Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. This music (and this incredibly frustrating relationship bullshit) reminds me of high school just a little too much.

Johnny C · « **Reply #3021 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:06 »

literally nobody on this fucking forum knows more about snowfall than me

Johnny C · « **Reply #3022 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:07 »

1.2 metres of accumulated snowfall

Johnny C · « **Reply #3023 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:08 »

for those of you who've met me, i'm a little over 1.7 metres tall

Dimmukane · « **Reply #3024 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:21 »

I haven't met you, but I've seen pictures.

Goddamn.

I wonder what commute was like in your area? A bunch of my coworkers had 8-10 hour commutes over a distance of less than 15 miles (yep, I-83), one guy got his car out on the highway a mile or so and then walked 2 miles back to the studio to spend the night because he sat in the same place for 3 hours.

Johnny C · « **Reply #3025 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:22 »

actually jussi & probably jens and kris understand the snowfall i'm talking about, since they're from where winter was born

Alex C · « **Reply #3026 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:51 »

Hey. Hey.

Back in '94 a town in Minnesota got 119 centimeters worth of snow in 2 days. We're pretty familiar with snow.

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #3027 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:55 »

Highs have been in the mid-seventies (F, so that is 22 - 25 degrees C) all week here. Just like they were six months ago. Just like they will be six months from now.

I love the California coast.

Alex C · « **Reply #3028 on:** 27 Jan 2011, 21:59 »

I wouldn't actually want to live anywhere without snow. My class used to build a fort every year. By senior year we were getting pretty elaborate.

jodizzle · « **Reply #3029 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 03:19 »

Guys I am watching this movie from the 80s on tv and it is called Ice Pirates and I only needed to see half of it before I bought it on ebay and Morticia Adams is in it and she kicks ass and there is space herpes which is seriously just a creepy penis with a face and teeth that crawls around the ship and noms on people and at one point burst from a roast chicken.

IT IS THE BEST NOT EVEN KIDDING

There are also the CUTEST baby donkeys and pigs I have EVER SEEN in it.

Every time I think it can't get better it does

Papersatan · « **Reply #3030 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 06:01 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 27 Jan 2011, 21:06

literally nobody on this fucking forum knows more about snowfall than me

pffft.
Upstate New York has a contest. This season so far we have had 75 inches, that is 190 cm. This is normal.

Slick · « **Reply #3031 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 06:51 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 27 Jan 2011, 21:22

actually jussi & probably jens and kris understand the snowfall i'm talking about, since they're from where winter was born

hey hey Hey so where I am from I share some of the flaura and fauna as these kids also I am partially descendant of nomadic arctic people also we had over 150cm in a single continuous snowfall one weekend.

Quote from: Papersatan on 28 Jan 2011, 06:01

Upstate New York has a contest. This season so far we have had 75 inches, that is 190 cm. This is normal.

I don't want to alarm anybody but a golden snowball is a snowball with pee in it (typically dog).

Papersatan · « **Reply #3032 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 06:59 »

It is also a prize no one really wants. I think it is appropriate.

Papersatan · « **Reply #3033 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 07:03 »

On different note: Facebook works in China now?

I have not seen any reports anywhere, but my good friend in Hunan started commenting on my Facebook today and updated her status with things like " Haha.... I can log in my Facebook in China now~~~" and "Chinese people can play? Try try!" I am super psyched about this and I hope it continues and is not just a glitch in the great wall.

Johnny C · « **Reply #3034 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 09:19 »

the thing about having band practices where you work really hard and feel good about it at the end is sometimes you don't know what the result is going to be and sometimes that result is a conversation that ends in a .jpg and that .jpg is below

Ã¶de · « **Reply #3035 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 10:16 »

So according to the police, it's ok for people to steal my stuff as long as they say they'll give it back. Hooray!

Liz · « **Reply #3036 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 10:51 »

Johnny I can't believe you forgot about me.

Hate you.

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #3037 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 13:18 »

Guys, I got my first acceptance email from doctoral programs this morning--Michigan Tech University! They want to fly me out for a visit in two and a half weeks; if I can get off work, then I'm planning to go.

The Wikipedia page about the city has this gem:

Quote

Houghton has a humid continental climate but the (typically) long and snowy (due to lake-effect snow, with an average of 208 inches (528 cm))[25] winters occasion much humor. It is sometimes said that Houghton has "two seasons: winter's here and winter's coming."

That is 3.4 times as tall as I am in snow. I may have to expand my wardrobe beyond jeans, shorts, and sundresses.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3038 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 14:00 »

Actually Dan that's kind of true, for it to be legally theft it has to be an intention to permanently deprive - which is why we have an offence of TWOCing in the UK (taking without owner's consent) for cars, too many joyriders getting away with it on a loophole.

Lines · « **Reply #3039 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 14:53 »

I got to observe the class I'm going to be student teaching with this quarter and oh my god they are a bunch of the cutest kids ever. (My group got assigned to a first grade class.) And they were so happy to have us there, it made me smile. Though one of my group members kept getting the comment that he looked like Justin Beiber (though several said Justin Beaver), to which his response was, "I'm getting a haircut today..."

Also nothing makes you feel more like a giant than a pack of little kids.

Johnny C · « **Reply #3040 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 17:09 »

Quote from: Liz on 28 Jan 2011, 10:51

Johnny I can't believe you forgot about me.

Hate you.

because of snowfall? just cause fargo is a snowy movie don't mean you folk are the be-all end-all of frozen precipitation experts, nahmean?

nekowafer · « **Reply #3041 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 17:31 »

I need to find a lawyer to sue Yaz for making me almost die but I have no idea how to go about getting something close to a decent lawyer.

Hopefully they can get me lots of money though. Which will all go to medical bills most likely. But hey, money.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #3042 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 17:49 »

Maybe there's some kind of class-action thing already in action... Isn't Yaz the one that had to redo their commercials because the FDA thought it wasn't clear enough?

nekowafer · « **Reply #3043 on:** 28 Jan 2011, 17:57 »

Yep. Something to do with the difference between PMS and PMD.

The only big lawsuit I've found so far is in Seattle and I am in Baltimore. I dunno how this works exactly but my guess is I need to live somewhere close.

I can't seem to find any in Maryland, though, and I don't drive so I can't exactly go far.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3044 on:** 29 Jan 2011, 07:41 »

Yo, bloggard thread.

I must tell you of my slight adventures last night. There's a girl at work that I kind of dig, and we've been paired up together for the company's fitness challenge (along with two dudes in QA). One of my friend's sisters does spinning classes at the YMCA, and offered us a free class.

Now see, I figured that I'd go, have a good time, and well, not to sound like an asshole, oggle her butt in some tiny gym shorts. But HOLY FUCK that shit was intense. Intenns. I managed to soldier through it, barely. And am paying with a pair of very sore legs today. How the hell do these dudes like Lance Armstrong and Andy Schleck ride like that for 5 hours a day for two weeks straight? I barely made an hour.

After this, she decided (since she gave me a ride, I was obliged to) go over to some food coop, and told me that coconut water was awesome recovery, having way more electrolytes than say, Gatorade. So I bought into it, and it tastes like fucking sour milk.

tl;dr I like a girl that's a bit of a hippie, spinning is INTENSE, coconut water, blech.

Liz · « **Reply #3045 on:** 29 Jan 2011, 07:50 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 28 Jan 2011, 17:09

because of snowfall? just cause fargo is a snowy movie don't mean you folk are the be-all end-all of frozen precipitation experts, nahmean?

I still hate you a little.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #3046 on:** 29 Jan 2011, 09:07 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 29 Jan 2011, 07:41

How the hell do these dudes like Lance Armstrong and Andy Schleck ride like that for 5 hours a day for two weeks straight?

drugsssssssss

Johnny C · « **Reply #3047 on:** 29 Jan 2011, 10:00 »

so like the really hilarious thing about today is that i might have to explain to my folks why there is no bandage & cotton swab on my arm and that reason is that i had casual sex recently and besides agreeing to use protection i wouldn't say i "know [her] sexual history" so i can't give blood for another six months

Papersatan · « **Reply #3048 on:** 29 Jan 2011, 10:06 »

just tell them you weren't feeling well. You are not supposed to give blood if you feel ill.

Johnny C · « **Reply #3049 on:** 29 Jan 2011, 10:12 »

perfect

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