Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 251051 times)

JD · « **Reply #1050 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 11:49 »

Man I would totally get an MRI scan for 60 pounds. Which is probably 100 in Canadian dollars.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1051 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 11:59 »

I wouldn't; I've got a bit of metal in my heart.

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Gosh - I made three successive posts with italics in - is this a new disease?

squawk · « **Reply #1052 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 12:15 »

it is the best disease

blog thread i am sick and i hate life and time to do work YAY COLLEGE

Gemmwah · « **Reply #1053 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 12:20 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 12 Oct 2010, 11:33

Quote from: Linds on 12 Oct 2010, 09:15
If it makes you feel better I have to get a TB test tomorrow. I get to have a shot that gives me an itchy red bump and then go back and they'll tell me if I'm sick or not.

When I was at school, all schoolchildren were required to have the BCG test (I remember them lining up for it). Except in the unlikely event that, like me, they had already had TB.

I had to have that when I was 14/15? It went all red and really enflamed, and even though they decided that I was already immune to TB they GAVE ME THE JAB ANYWAY THE FUCKS

Metope · « **Reply #1054 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 12:37 »

Guys, I am sick AGAIN! I got a cold right after I arrived in Glasgow 5 weeks ago, and today I woke up with a soar throat, aching head, not being able to breathe through my nose at all. I just recovered from my previous cold a week ago! This can't be normal.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1055 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 13:14 »

You're allergic to Scotland, Kris.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1056 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 13:23 »

It's pretty normal. Scotland is full of ill.

I got my TB jab when I was about 14 too, and I've still got the scar. I remember a bunch of people got hysterical about it and had to be put in the staff room to calm down.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #1057 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 13:26 »

That's because it was seriously painful. It burned and everything it was horrible, my arm was dead for about two days. And the woman giving me the jab told me to grow up and not be such a baby because I had lots of ear piercings. Bitch.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1058 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 13:28 »

Oh, yeah it was pretty painful but these girls were hysterical BEFOREHAND, and they had to be taken away before they caused a riot.

snalin · « **Reply #1059 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 13:39 »

So I figured that since I'm a bit behind in Maths, I should ~~read more~~ download an emulator to play FF7, since I haven't played it before.

Alex C · « **Reply #1060 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 14:37 »

I love looking at Cloud's li'l popeye forearms and thinking about how pleased everyone was with Playstation graphics at the time.

Lines · « **Reply #1061 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 14:40 »

Quote from: Gemmwah on 12 Oct 2010, 13:26

That's because it was seriously painful. It burned and everything it was horrible, my arm was dead for about two days. And the woman giving me the jab told me to grow up and not be such a baby because I had lots of ear piercings. Bitch.

That sounds like how my tetanus shot felt. I would rather get more holes in my ears than have a stupid shot. Even giving blood isn't as bad as some of these things.

Eris · « **Reply #1062 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 14:47 »

the second time i got my tetanus shot didn't hurt nearly as much as the first. that might have been because I had taken some nice strong pain killers because I was at the hospital after burning my hand. The Meningococal vaccination we got hurt like a mutherfucker, I will admit.

jmrz · « **Reply #1063 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 15:36 »

I had trouble with the Gardasil (sp?) one. Each of the three times I was supposed to be jabbed, I had a cold, but they decided that seeing as I didn't have a fever, they'd stab me with it anyway. Each time my arm got all red and sore and I had to sit there with them for 20minutes to make sure I wasn't going to have an allergic reaction and go into anaphylactic shock. Woo. The meningococal one was a bitch too, that hurt.

Aside from that, the worst thing I've had injected into my is the B12 shots. Seeing as I was way too deficient for tablets to work, they had to inject me with it. It was like having maple syrup injected into your arm. Hurt like a bitch, but made you feel SUPER GREAT.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1064 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 16:42 »

So my Internet has broken half a dozen times in the last 24 hours - BT's fault, I think, but it has spurred me to put the new ADSL router I bought several months ago into service. I was rewarded with a 10% speed increase in both directions.

I shall see in due course whether it has anything to do with the stability of the line (as I said, I doubt it).

Now I can theoretically set up that the house phones use my ISP's VOIP service by default. Just needs a bit of extra wiring to where the fax machine is...

Lines · « **Reply #1065 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 16:57 »

There is a creepy old man in my lab. I wish the creepy people would go to the main lab instead of my small lab.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #1066 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 17:05 »

While skipping A&P I decided to go to my local comic shop to kill time and put Batman Beyond on my pull list. Turns out the owner still runs card tournaments, on a smaller scale, so I saw a few kids and adults battling it out with Yu Gi Oh cards. I'm thinking of trying it one week, but my sister pawned most of the good cards in my deck (the shiny ones), plus I haven't bought a pack since I was a sophmore in high school

Eh, maybe I'll give it a try, call my deck, "Blast from the past," or something like that.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #1067 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 17:51 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 11 Oct 2010, 23:45

Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 11 Oct 2010, 21:32
1. check facebook to make sure no friends died

The future, boys and girls.

hey man, everyone was posting that they were alright and all that -- it is the fastest way to get information like that out to as many people as possible in one go. now there's already a facebook page where people are organizing things like people providing basic needs and temporary housing for pets. i've got two homeless kitties here right now even! champ and ellie.

jhocking · « **Reply #1068 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 18:27 »

god fucking dammit

I left work at 5:30, had to take some stupid rambling waste of time phone call

then the trains are running fucked up

now I'm standing on a platform waiting for another train, no idea when it's coming, and I still have a 45 minute trip home

It is now 8:30

I was planning to work on some other projects tonight

also I have not eaten dinner yet

god fucking dammit

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #1069 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 20:47 »

Quote from: lots of people

tb test horror stories

I had TB tests a couple of times as a child. I'm pretty sure they always did them with butterfly needles (so I'd barely feel it), and then the pediatrician would draw a little happy face or cat face in Sharpie, with the needle-stick mark as the nose, so they could find it again in a week. Then I got a piece of candy.

I always wondered why other children were so afraid of getting shots... I guess I was just lucky.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1070 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 20:50 »

Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 12 Oct 2010, 17:51

Quote from: David_Dovey on 11 Oct 2010, 23:45
Quote from: BrittanyMarie on 11 Oct 2010, 21:32
1. check facebook to make sure no friends died

The future, boys and girls.

hey man, everyone was posting that they were alright and all that -- it is the fastest way to get information like that out to as many people as possible in one go. now there's already a facebook page where people are organizing things like people providing basic needs and temporary housing for pets. i've got two homeless kitties here right now even! champ and ellie.

I actually did mean it in the sense that it was pretty cool. Why would I not be enamoured of the future? It is the future!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1071 on:** 12 Oct 2010, 20:51 »

And I am a Dork

pwhodges · « **Reply #1072 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 00:37 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 12 Oct 2010, 20:50

It is the future!

With Jetpacks?

Gemmwah · « **Reply #1073 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 00:38 »

Somebody stole my debit card details and spent all my money.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #1074 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 00:51 »

Now that is the future.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #1075 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 03:16 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Oct 2010, 00:37

Quote from: David_Dovey on 12 Oct 2010, 20:50
It is the future!

With Jetpacks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZhBAylbN4

Fun fact: the bass player from that band broke my bike when we drunkenly biked through Edinburgh on it. He paid for the fixing it though, so it's all cool.

jhocking · « **Reply #1076 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 05:07 »

Quote from: Gemmwah on 13 Oct 2010, 00:38

Somebody stole my debit card details and spent all my money.

Ouch, that really sucks. Are we talking like you lost rent money, or significant savings? And that is why I never use my debit card, even though I charge pretty much everything. People tell me debit cards are more protected from fraud than they used to be, but the protections are not as good as credit cards.

Lines · « **Reply #1077 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 05:30 »

If banks in England have similar policies on card theft, she should get all that money back, but it's going to take a while. I think it took about 2 weeks to get mine back when my card was stolen, because I had to wait for everything to officially post before I could go to the bank and tell them which transactions were me and which weren't, then they filed a theft report, and THEN I got my money back. And I think I had to completely change accounts because my check book was in my purse and that was a whole other box of problems.

I'm sorry, Gemm. That shit sucks.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #1078 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 09:37 »

I don't have significant savings, but they managed to spend all of my student loan maintenance money, which is supposed to last until Christmas, and my work pay in two deliciously large transactions. Luckily I got the money back this morning so it's not that much of an inconvenience, but apparently the police won't investigate because it's online and there is a very slim chance that they'll be able to trace the bugger. They sent me a new debit card which arrived this afternoon, so I should be all done now, it was just so upsetting, especially considering how careful I am about my bank details.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1079 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 10:17 »

I just remembered another dress which I think was in the bag that has been stolen. That brings it up to a total of three irreplacable dresses (two no longer on sale in the shops or on eBay and one from a boutique). I think I would have preferred it if they had taken the bag containing my purse, phone and lecture notes, although actually it also would have meant I lost my production notebook. And my keys. But it would have been easier to replace all of those things.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. I didn't even get to do the identification thing today because the officer wasn't there.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1080 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 15:18 »

Hey, Melbourne people! I just discovered that my son has crossed the world to play for you in the Melbourne Festival. On Friday; he's performing a curious piano concerto with film background. It was commissioned jointly by the South Bank in London and the Disney Hall, and I went to the first performance in London; I noted that some of the film used water effects as seen from the Festival Hall when looking over the Thames, and I understand that other images come from the Disney Hall.

Inlander · « **Reply #1081 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 15:20 »

Damn, I really wish I could afford A$70 right now to go and hear that.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1082 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 15:28 »

It's not the first thing Nic's done with images. A few years ago he performed a series of piano pieces by Georges Antheil called La Femme 100 Têtes (there's a pun there between cent/sans) which were associated with a book of etchings with the same name by Max Ernst. There is no apparent connection between the music and the pictures (the number of pieces doesn't even match) so the Tate Modern (where he performed it) came up with the idea of simply projecting the images over the time it takes to perform the music, and letting Nic find and react to relationships as they came out of the fortuitous matching; it worked quite well, really.

But frankly, I find that images and music don't really gel for me (apart from opera - but that's different!).

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For a time, a video of this performance could be viewed - but not at present, apparently. However, another evening event at the Tate Modern can be viewed, which includes a couple of performances by Nic, of music from the 1940s by Stefan Wolpe.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1083 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 16:12 »

I wonder what Nicolas would do if, say, I came up and said 'Hey that was awesome! My name's Lunchy, and I'm friends with your dad.'
Sadly I won't be going to Melbourne again for a long time.

Hairy Joe Bob · « **Reply #1084 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 16:23 »

I left Facebook and it was a brilliant decision which has freed up some time. Unfortunately my twitter use has now increased tenfold and I'm back on here. So the extra 45 minutes a day has gone into something else unproductive.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1085 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 16:27 »

It was Facebook that told me that my son is in Melbourne.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1086 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 17:13 »

The Australian dollar is once again almost at parity with the US dollar. I just went to Modcloth for the start of a spending spree but then realised that I have no idea what my measurements are. Usually when I buy clothes off the internet I just buy them and hope they fit, but the last two things I have bought were far too small so I need to fix this.
How do I get my measurements without having someone help me?

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #1087 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 18:02 »

90p sirloin steak for breakfast, every morning.

Tesco's Reduced to Clear Isle makes university even grander.

Inlander · « **Reply #1088 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 19:38 »

Obviously when you move into a house that's been a rental propery for a long time, you get a lot of mail for people who used to live in the house.

I just got a letter addressed to Y Ono.

Lines · « **Reply #1089 on:** 13 Oct 2010, 19:47 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 13 Oct 2010, 17:13

The Australian dollar is once again almost at parity with the US dollar. I just went to Modcloth for the start of a spending spree but then realised that I have no idea what my measurements are. Usually when I buy clothes off the internet I just buy them and hope they fit, but the last two things I have bought were far too small so I need to fix this.
How do I get my measurements without having someone help me?

I think Modcloth does measurements by the piece of clothing lying flat, so take a ruler and a dress or shirt and skirt that fits you best and measure them. Otherwise go to a craft/sewing store and get a flexible tape measurer (they're made of cloth or plastic) and measure yourself. Bust, natural waist, fullest part of your hips, and your inseam will pretty be all you need I think.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1090 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 01:34 »

Ah yes. I have a tape measure, and I am at home, and I have lots of clothes that need to be put away. I should do this now.

But instead I will sit here and read every thread and check Meebo and Facebook for a bit longer.

Lines · « **Reply #1091 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 08:41 »

Your Blogginess,

I went out to dinner with the other first year Art Ed grad students last night and it was fun! I got to get to know a few who I hadn't really talked to better, so that was cool.

I have a lot of stuff to do: today I have a critique for ceramics, Saturday is going to be my first day teaching, and I have a paper due Monday on a book I have yet to read. Also Saturday I'm going to the Ren Fest again to find a costume and Sunday I'm shopping with my mom so I can buy boots and pants, as I seem to only have two pairs that aren't dress pants. And I need to do laundry and make glazes for ceramics at some point. I have too much stuff to do in the next 4 days...

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #1092 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 13:33 »

Dear Blog Thread:

The Gorillaz concert last night was phenomenal, cept apparently people from Detroit will cheer for anything. Throughout the songs they interjected the word Detroit and every time the crowd would scream with applause.

Also we got bumped up to better seats for some reason. The funny thing was that we were sitting in front of people angry that they heard people were getting their seats bumped up, talking about how much they had to pay for tickets.

scarred · « **Reply #1093 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 14:02 »

seats at a gorillaz concert?

....why?

Jace · « **Reply #1094 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 14:58 »

....why?

....why?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #1095 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 15:27 »

I accidentally got seats at a Rammstein concert once, but I managed to get down into the main bit with SNEAKING.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #1096 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 17:34 »

fuck those guys, I am jealous of you being at a gorillaz concert, actually sounds like one of the best times (you didn't even describe it and yeah...)

FUCK YOU GUYS THE GORILLAZ ARE AWESOME AND I WOULD SEE A FAKE BAND PERFORM THEIR SHIZZLE.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #1097 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 17:46 »

Quote from: scarred on 14 Oct 2010, 14:02

seats at a gorillaz concert?

....why?

The seats were more of a formality since we stood the entire time.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1098 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 18:28 »

I saw the Demon Days concert on DVD. Shit was good.

ETA: So my father is pretty useless when he's stoned. Downside is, he's stoned all the time. He dropped me off at Wal-mart so I could buy him cat food, and then he texted me 'catfud' and went home, forgetting about me until half an hour later. I also picked up my last paycheck, which is offering an extra $150 buffer that is going to help immensely.

I also betrayed the Geneforge to the Shapers today, because I am a terrible rebel.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #1099 on:** 14 Oct 2010, 19:11 »

i think they mean, why didn't you go general admission? THE PIT! THE PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!

ps i never go to gigs with seats, it's weird to me since all the shows i go to are like thirty people in a half circle watching awesome shit (this is the upside of fargo; when i saw calvin johnson and mt eerie, there were maybe a dozen people there [okay granted that was a secret show but still])

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