This would require a certain amount of restraint and creative composure from everyone in order to work but I believe it could work and it would be a welcome addition to our little community. A blog thread would have to refrain from being self-indulgent or boring for it to be an acceptable entity. People would have to only post in it when they have something genuinely interesting that happened to them on a personal level. The focus would have to be on each post being an exercise in creative writing. Amusing, enlightening or informative posts would be welcome. Repetitive, self-serving and ultimately attention-seeking posts would not. This would require restraint on the parts of those who do not like the idea of a blog thread but as per usual they would have the opportunity to ignore it.
This has come to my attention after two weeks fraught with interest and having to re-tell the same story about ten times and wishing I could just post it somewhere and people could take an interest or not. A regular blog does not appeal to me and I notice that the other three forums that I frequent all have a blog thread without inspiring feelings of dread. It does work elsewhere, so I don't see why it couldn't work here.
i am excited about the new job though! since i got laid off a few weeks ago i was really worried that i wouldn't find another job soon enough and i would have another summer of unemployment like last year. i still have so much debt to pay off from those few months, and it was such a depressing time for me... i was so scared i'd have to repeat that!
So what's the new job? I hope it's something cool!
How the fuck aren't every single one of you way fatter?
How the fuck aren't every single one of you way fatter?
This thread was a terrible idea.
What's wrong with you people? Don't you all got blogs?
This thread was a terrible idea.
What's wrong with you people? Don't you all got blogs?
i have a blog. it is for knitting and crocheting and other yarn endeavors. it is not a place for lamenting bad haircuts and worrying about my childish boyfriend's nutrition.
How the fuck aren't every single one of you way fatter? I mean let's not get into jokey "hurr hurr all Americans are fat and lazy and stupid" jokes, I'm really being serious.
Quote from: OzymandiasThe rich would rather use the poor's money to kill the poor in other countries rather than give other poor people healthcare.
No, that's what Linds said.
I think Tommy pulled what is commonly referred to as "FYP."
America needs a slave underclass to support their weight.
Ralph's Corner Bar in Moorhead was killed off by the City of Moorhead because of Eminent Domain. (Fuck you, Moorhead, and fuck you, eminent domain [fucking condos])
THIS IS MY BLOG POST
Guys, this week I've read every single Wigu and nearly all of Overcompensating.
I feel like Mr. Jeffery Rowland owes me something. Something intangible, but valuable.
THIS WAS MY BLOG POST.
I would gladly move to the City of Motorhead.
I could live with that.
How about making a little 'Bang my GF Free' card? Think outside the box
So basically what you are saying is that Tommy has shipped himself to you in a cardboard box, purporting to be delicates?
I currently have a uterus, it is lame.
Blog thread, I am getting an eye test tomorrow. It may seem weird but I kind of hope I "fail." I like glasses.
Also, haircut maybe soon?
Jon I just noticed your sig, and I can't help but wonder why Darryl wants to dres sup as me.
I graduated from high school yesterday!
I have been researching. The Internet needs to give me more free stuff.
i don't know of anyone using twitter except you, jeph...
...calibrating the steam wand...The slight screech...as the full cream foamed.
He bit his lip and smiled a sideways smile as he sauntered out of the shop
The cute beardy guy squinted as he handed over the money for his coffee. "Hey," he said slowly. "I know you. Don't you have a Flickr?"
I am a big fan of a recording studio in Evanston, IL called Electrical Audio (http://www.electrical.com/).
I could not enjoy the Swervedriver show because of a girlI saw them last month at the Marquis. It was amazing, especially since there were not a lot of people. I could actually see the band which is rare at most concerts because I'm so short. My boyfriend is a sucker for pictures of foot pedals and feet, but somebody yelled at him for having a camera which was weird because it was allowed. Everyone else was so mellow and unlike the other places where I've been to concerts, the place wasn't totally trashed afterwards.
why do i even try
Sorry I worded that all wrong.Hey, who's your dentist? I kind of need one in this town.
Guys, I have periodontitis and I'm not even 30 yet. Not only do I have to be extra vigilant for the rest of my life to make sure my teeth don't fall out, I've been hemhorraging cash on all the dentist's visits. And this is after the ton I owed in taxes, not to mention an extremely costly visit to the emergency room. Man, it's a damn good thing I just picked up another freelance job to help pay for all this.
I am a big fan of a recording studio in Evanston, IL called Electrical Audio (http://www.electrical.com/).
Speaking of smoking...
Three of my friends have bought (well, they're renting) a house for the summer. All of them have jobs, so they'll be spending a lot of their time doing that. But they're all pretty big ganj smokers, which is fine, but they've only had the place for 3 days, and every time I go over there to chill with them at night, I'm greeted by this cloud of smoke when I open the door. I don't smoke with them much, but just being in that house gives you a pretty massive contact high. My buddy Seth was using a fork as a roach clip, and when it was just about out, he Wu-tanged it--just shoved it in his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it.
Ironically, it's actually a really nice house. They've got cable, 5 bedrooms, and about 4 different TVs. No intranets though, which sucks for them.
By the end of the summer it's going to be a dump.
Chances are everyone hates everything you hold dear and they won't refrain from telling you at the drop of a hat.
Dennis, there is no way you can be thirty.You're right, Tommy. I won't be thirty for a few days yet.
There is just no goddamn way.
small townThat's the underachievers you're thinking of.
I explained to her both Occam's Razor and Russell's Teapot*, none of which seemed to make them understand why I don't believe in ghosts. Finally, I got so annoyed I found a Lord of the Rings clip on youtube and said "Look! Hobbits! They are real!". They answered "but that's fake!", I said "prove they're not real then!" and she said "prove they are!". I asked her if she understood this was exactly the same situation as with her ghosts - and she said, "hobbits and ghosts aren't the same you idiot".
People sometimes make me mad with their sheer stupidity.
Heh, I guess I come across as equally stupid seeing as I refuse to believe in ghosts, but as long as the evidence shown to me consists of youtube videos only, I feel my case is justified. Show me a ghost, or hard, scientific proof that there's the slightest chance they may exist, and I'll start doubting.
Happy birthday to me, I guess.
Dear Blog Thread (and May):
She said Maybe. She has plans this week(her birthday) and maybe next, but we are shooting for next.
Happy birthday to me, I guess.
Man. I thought we were tight, JC.
I'm not sure it's cool that your birthday is six days before mine. Everyone should be mentally preparing themselves for the day of worship that falls on June 12th and now they might be momentarily distracted by you completing another twelve month cycle. Not cool man.
How lame does it make me that on the way to the rehearsal, I was listening to "School's Out" By this man?
it's over 30 degrees outside
summer
I think I've started to worry about my weight a lot lately
i keep having dreams about the zombie apocalypse.
yay for shane! please blog all about it tomorrow. or at least tell us in gabbly. ^_^
Wait, the under 25 rule isn't standard everywhere?
(Soon to be Pro Photographer)
Depressing post time!
My dog's name is Kit.
Speaking of Internet T-shirts, did you all see what rstevens did? (http://www.teeshirtparty.com/)
the Universal Backlot.
Scarychips, how old are you?
I was hanging out with some friends who have clearly never been to that bar on a Saturday night and have no idea how to order drinks, what to do on the dance floor, etc., which meant i was semi-babysitting.
Good lord this place has gotten feral.
Ruyi's post (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,20223.msg664576.html#msg664576) on this page was really good.
Ruyi's post (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,20223.msg664576.html#msg664576) on this page was really good.
At any rate, I need active, constructive people around me or I forget my own projects
blah blah blah a fantastic little trip for myself in September, blah.
Real life sucks. I want to go back to school and stay there forever. (No, I don't, but I keep saying that because I am scared shitless.)
Holy crap, blog thread, I just applied for 3 jobs online, none of which have anything to do with my major and none of which I particularly want to do. I am just desperate for a job. I need to stop worrying and sack the fuck up, but it's hard. Real life sucks. I want to go back to school and stay there forever. (No, I don't, but I keep saying that because I am scared shitless.)
blah blah blah a fantastic little trip for myself in September, blah.
When in September? The internets want to know.
Out of all the fucked up dreams I've had, I've never had a zombie dream. If I do down the road, I blame you guys.
I also have my driving theory test except it's on Thursday. I also haven't done any sort of revision. So instead of learning theory, I'm browsing the internet with my theory test book beside me sitting there making me feel all guilty.
I think we're veering a little off topic here.
I think we're veering a little off topic here.
...and I am baking tasty buns...
anybody ever have anything similar?
Edith I would never have picked you as the sort that played Eve.
We need more roundabouts in the states, those things are a ridiculous good time.
We need more roundabouts in the states, those things are a ridiculous good time.
Well, good news for you, Liz (You are the one going to Mt. Holyoke, right?).
I'm on the forefront of Arctic ice research.
Anyways, there was the worst flooding I've ever seen personally today. I could've canoed down my streetYeah, WI's pretty ridiculous right now. FEMA might be coming in I hear, and I dunno how that'll go for us. Their track record isn't the best these days. Madison is at least in a relatively safe drainage area so the likelihood of flooding here is pretty slim, but the neverending storming and rain is a bitch.
"Traffic circles" and "sandals" are proper vocabulary for those objects, and I'm not Canadian.
I'd like to back up onewheelwizard and say that "Traffic circles" and "sandals" are indeed proper terms for the articles in question.
Sandals and thongs are completely different things!
completely unrelated! (http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4141/1202thongbv9.jpg) sandal (http://www.reef-sandals-online.com/images/reef_convertible_sandal.jpg) thong (http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7572/pat0074oq6.jpg)
Thong sandals are flip flops. Thongs are just underwear.dingdingding
I made out with a girl! She hates me now for some reason and I got mono from her (ugh I feel like shit) but it was awesome while makeouts were happening!
Yeah, WI's pretty ridiculous right now. FEMA might be coming in I hear, and I dunno how that'll go for us. Their track record isn't the best these days. Madison is at least in a relatively safe drainage area so the likelihood of flooding here is pretty slim, but the neverending storming and rain is a bitch.
fan-fucking-tastic. I'm going camping in WI this weekend; had to reserve the campsite already. Do you have any idea if the crazy conditions you describe apply to Buckhorn State Park, about an hour north of Madison?
fan-fucking-tastic. I'm going camping in WI this weekend; had to reserve the campsite already. Do you have any idea if the crazy conditions you describe apply to Buckhorn State Park, about an hour north of Madison?
Dear Blog Thread:
Pete. Oh, Pete. Why? How could you? Moron.
I am the angel of death.
So not worth it. You're the only guy I speak to who can sound enthusiastic about mono because it means he got to make out with a girl that doesn't even like him.
She didn't want me to hang out with my friends anymore
She didn't want me to hang out with my friends anymore, because we play VTM and Werewolf: The Apocalypse and other shit, and "that's just too nerdy".
Ignoring the specifics of why she felt that way, this alone is reason to dump her.
I meant to leave off that ending part because it was extraneous to my point. I am unsure how putting it back in improves my post.
So I was riding home from breakfast this morning, all giddy with glee because I had in my bag brand-new albums by the Silver Jews, Wolf Parade, and Tilly & the Wall, when what should happen as I rode past some parked cars? Why, I got doored, of course.
"OW! JESUS!" [sound of me almost falling of my bike as it ricocheted into the back of the car in front of me]
Actually, I'm all right, and the guy who doored me was very apologetic and insisted that he'd checked in his mirror before opening his door and hadn't seen me, in which case whatever, accidents happen I guess. Fortunately I was going pretty slowly due to trying to navigate through a knot of traffic backed up at some lights so I wasn't hurt too badly. However, now my left ankle hurts rather a lot (it took the brunt of the impact with the car door), which when put together with recent injuries to my right wrist (tendinitis) and my left wrist (got accidentally knocked over when playing touch football; tried to brace my fall with my hand; failed to execute said brace adequately) makes me fear that in a month I'll be hopping everywhere on my right food and performing all feats of manual dexterity with my mouth.
We'll see, we'll see.
That's just really stupid, there appear to be a whole lot of roads that could be utilised instead of just sticking to the highways.
Just my 2 cents, I don't drive in America nor do I drive in Australia anyway.
This whole part of the country is swampland right now.
This whole part of the country is swampland right now.
That is simultaneously awesome, nuts and annoying.
So I was riding home from breakfast this morning, all giddy with glee because I had in my bag brand-new albums by the Silver Jews, Wolf Parade, and Tilly & the Wall, when what should happen as I rode past some parked cars? Why, I got doored, of course.How are the albums?!
You make me feel young again.
95? I'm pretty sure it joins up with 85 in Nashville or some shit, doesn't it? I do know that 85 to 285 is one of my favourite freeway drives. Nothing but gorgeous Georgia pine forest the whole way until you hit Columbus, and by that point I'm just waiting to see the sign for exit 6 because that was the exit for my house when I lived there.I95 runs north along the eastern seaboard from FL, through GA, SC, NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, ME, and ends at the Canadian border. It never goes through any landlocked states, like TN.
I walk my cat. Not on a lead obviously, that's just fucking weird. She follows me.That's adorable, Tommy.
I've walked her since she was a kitten. She loves going on adventures. I seriously think that people should walk their cats at least twice a week.
OK, bad stuff first. In the past two weeks I have managed to break my perfect life streak of never losing anything particularly important by proceeding to lose my wallet (about a week ago) and my phone (today). This is especially inconvenient given the timing, as I'm going to Amurka on Wednesday, and I have neither a credit card nor a bank card that can let me take out money over there. Also, I had a dream this morning about a girl I have had... feelings for for far too long which a) made me very happy until I realised it wasn't real, b) confused me, and c) made me sad for a while. Also, I realised how much I am gonna miss my folks when I am over there. Today is the last time I will see my whole family for three months. I think it's going to be even worse when I say goodbye to my housemates.
Of course, there is good news. Namely that, in three days time I will be in a hostel in Chicago. I only go to sleep one more time in Ireland. Understandably, I am rather excited. I am going to America WOOOOOOO. Of course, I would be even more excited if my original plans had worked and I was able to go to Tronnocon too, but fuck it. America! I shall yhave adventures! I will eat steak and lassoo cattle from horseback and other stereotypes. YAY!
I know that as of last night they've closed a couple of the southbound lanes of 90-94 near Mauston, which is just a little bit south of there. Dunno how the park itself is doing.
Wait, why aren't you coming to tronnocon? You can join the carload if you can get yourself to Fort Wayne on the Thursday am bus that Liz is riding in from Fargo via Chicago. Just sayin'.
Now to go to the drugstore to pickup lotion to soothe the itching...
So now that I have a place to stay that night (thanks!) I just have to figure out the best way to get from the train station to your place and then from your place to the bus station. Meh.
95? I'm pretty sure it joins up with 85 in Nashville or some shit, doesn't it? blah blah blah also goes through Georgia and I like that bit, blah blah blah penis
I95 runs north along the eastern seaboard from FL, through GA, SC, NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, ME, and ends at the Canadian border. It never goes through any landlocked states, like TN.
Also, the camp was absolutely swarming with mosquitos. I mean, I've worked at camps and have never seen anything even near that bad; the air was literally darkened by the clouds of mosquitos. I sprayed on tons of bug spray and still got eaten alive.
I95 runs north along the eastern seaboard from FL, through GA, SC, NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, ME, and ends at the Canadian border. It never goes through any landlocked states, like TN.
One of them told me her name and I ignored her and told her that I only had vaccines against TWO types of Hepatitis.
Actually, some UW Madison scientists are predicting that all this flood water will flow south and carry a lot of mosquito eggs with it. So Wisconsin should have a decent summer as far as mosquitos. Illinois, on the other hand...
The waterline has more holes in it than all of the plot holes in movies this year.
I just got back from playing Civ 4 all night
"I want to puke and shit at the same time."
second of all: we call that "shuking" and it's surprisingly hard to do.
Joe, the bus station is at 630 W Harrison St. pretty close to the University of Illinois, and the train station is right on the north side of Millennium Park. I was thinking about the city bus to save money but I don't really want to be taking my luggage on a bus. Also it is going to be after ten when I get into Chicago, blah.
Are cabs as disgustingly expensive as I think they will be?
it's your life, and their business.
I've often felt bad about leaving a job
it's even more fun if you use those same shitty translators to translate it back to the original language then back again. it should be even worse...or if you really want you could translate it to a completely different language then back again.
hours of fun.
Would you mind posting the original version? I'd like to see where those bastardizations came from.
I have a Chinese exam today for which I am fucked;
Truly, utterly and completely fucked!
Just my hotel and flights is about $2000.Yeah. The $500 is an especially good deal considering it's this weekend and includes a not-awful hotel. Regular flights alone cost $1000 at this short notice.
I zürne you not.
Face-splitting?
I have a Chinese exam today for which I am fucked;
Truly, utterly and completely fucked!
I'll be staying home from work tomorrow because of the child, and I think it's great and awful timing at the same time. I have so much to do at work and I've been working on a special project for like a month now that comes to its peak tomorrow and I won't be there to see it fly. It's kind of disappointing. At the same time, I'll be home to get some laundry done and get things ready for my camping trip this weekend.
Bakery's and whatnot around here are not legally allowed to give their excess food to charities or the homeless
In Norway, people spend a lot of money unnecessarily - the gas station I work at is 50 feet away from a grocery store, but people still come in here to buy cigarettes, fizzy drinks and candy even though everything here is twice as expensive. Though I guess people are not that daft in the states.
I used to marvel at gas stations across the street from each other charging different prices.
Wow! Candy will a full days serving of FDA outlawed Acid Red 18 food coloring!The FDA banned it because giving 24.5g per kg per day to rats caused half of them to develop tumors in one study out of 6 or 7 that showed no carcinogenic effect.
Tiger Balm has always fascinated me for some reason. I've always wanted some, but I imagine you can't buy it in the states.You can buy it in most asian groceries. It's basically mentholatum that comes in an infinitely cooler jar. It's not made from tigers or anything.
I keep telling people if they'd put there trash in the dumpsters and not on the ground or on top of the dumpsters we wouldn't have a fucking problem.
Simple Solution: Shoot the people leaving trash on or near the dumpsters, and leave the raccoons be.
What is it that happens in Sep/Oct to make people get their baby-making on? I swear half the planet has their birthday in June or July.it is because it is gloomy and yucky outside and what else are you going to do?
I wandered into the general discussion forum today. I now need to have my eyes purged by sulfuric acid. Thankfully my job provides this.
What I want to know is why jeph would inflict that crap upon himself. Seriously, when I saw the comic today my first thought was to wonder why jeph hates himself.
I spend most of my free time standing in front of a mirror sheating and unsheathing it in dramatic fashion.
Oh shit oh shit the possibility of a humiliating sig quote is so high but I really can't be bothered.
tl:dr I deserve much higher grades than I actually got, fuck you teachers and steel-rigid schooling system, thank god I attend school to learn stuff not to get good grades.
She's still pretty cool, and rather cute..but she's got a kid now.
I am pretty intrigued as to what a human-computer interaction exam would entail... Though I figure it's just some terminology I'm not used to, it still sounds bizarre and kind of cool. Like, 'How often do you talk to your computer?', 'Do you guys hang out often enough?' sort of questions.
I can only assume that some drunken idiot fell over the buck, smashed the shit out of the back wheel, then felt bad and stood the bike up again against the rail to try to make it better
Holy crap that's terrible. So essentially a doctor's incompetence nearly killed your father. I really really hope he recovers fully....and sues the face off that doctor.
Beer Glog Bed,
OH FUCK OH SHIT OH GOD SO MANY ASSIGNMENTS I AM GOING TO FAIL SO HARD OH NOOOOO
SILLY MAN
Patrick, do you spend your whole time there looking at ladies?
Oh dear. I tried to picture her getting out the little sushi thingies, the little thing of soy sauce, the little chopsticks, while everyone else in her group stared at her.
"Juicy Juice" looks pretty good, but why is that apple an orange?
Caleb, did you stretch? Stretching always helps
I also had an epic indoor picnic .
Then it's on to Tiree for a week. Where I will float about in one of these
Man, I may be the minority, but when I suddenly feel vertigo and keel over literally crying, I go take a handful of pain pills...
I'm not sure I want to move back to New York.
dilemma
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, because it truly is ridiculous and somewhat laughable, but oh, so frustrating.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ER31EVY7L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
This just in, Jon says that Dana Delany is ugly.She's over 50 and she's still hot. :-o
Jon maintains that he does not like westerns. Or Sergio Leone.
Jon is something less than a god, yet more than a man.
Jon is a man who hides his inadequate penis size by being an ass on the internets.
OW! Are you plotting their death? No? You should be.
You should definitely give it your best shot. That sort of incompetence deserves strict retribution, although maybe you should try weeing in his tea first, as a trial run of sorts...
You should definitely give it your best shot. That sort of incompetence deserves strict retribution, although maybe you should try weeing in his tea first, as a trial run of sorts...
Also, I am concerned that having a walking stick, or any other such mobilty aid, will rather drastically interfere with my ability to pull.
Also, I am concerned that having a walking stick, or any other such mobilty aid, will rather drastically interfere with my ability to pull. This is definitely not good.
Why are we talking about chavs again?
because it's a thread about or vaguely related to england, on the internet
it's the new godwin's law
i wasted too many CD-Rs and too much money.
also knowing my luck i will probably not get any kisses etc. for like 2 more yearsWorse things have happened, but you're a good looking guy, a more proactive approach wouldn't hurt if you want to make out with somebody. Remember, there's no such thing as luck.
ugh
a relationship takes time and effort, and occasionally putting the other person ahead of you or your friends/interests [all of which i did all the time]
i was a test subject, and the next relationship she has will be all awesome
screw that guy
my spine ain't good
Dear blog thread,
Today I learnt that stamps are Necessary if I wish to enjoy the services of Royal Mail.
no it isn't, on mario kart they're just dicks who laugh at you when you get five lightning clouds in one motherfucking raceJust like real friends!
Right, but you can't punch the computer
Dude we were playing Requiem ages ago. Way to be behind the times.
got thoroughly drunk and had private/confidential conversations on my front porch while drinking the world's best bourbon straight from the bottle.
I need to change my band-aids 'cause the blood is soaking straight through onto the torn knee of my jeans. :(
LOVE AND TMI,
Patrick!
fuck you man that game is awesome
smarter than many rocks
I'm in Canada. What the hell.
I heard a guy use the word 'chill' a) as a synonym for 'relax' b) in a completely non-ironic way. I have kind of adopted it. It is a pretty fantastic word.
My friend Nathan here in town is homeless. His fiancee broke up with him and left him with nowhere to stay.
man how the hell is this dogswimming date/notdate,justhangingoutwithareallycutefunnyawesomegirl? going to go
woo. it is kind of sad that the trip next summer is the only thing i have in my life to look forward to.
So you're bumming, too? How's that working out?
Got my economic stimulus today! Woooo!!!
Rachel, are you coming for Comic-Con?
The patient was told not to get in any more knife fights
It is not so safe when the other guy almost cuts off your earlobe with his knife! That is one badass injury to have after a knife fight.
6 year olds are like the cutest shit!
6 year olds are like the cutest shit!
6 year olds are like the cutest shit!
6 year olds are like the cutest shit!
Hi Dear,
Your profile is really great...Well my name is Gabriel Alex.I want to make friends with people thats why i message you..Can we know ourselves better now if you don't mind...Kindly get back to me soonest...If you have a yahoo im id..i guess that will be great then..My id is [email protected] online with me and lets chat now...I'm online now..Thanks.
Hope to read from you soonest...........
I'll like to meet someone who is very honest and trust worthy and caring in life to be with me and ready to have children for me..I don't care any marrital status you fall into okay...chat with me at [email protected] and identify urself..Hope to chat with new friends here..Thanks
You don't need studio time! or time at all to record a band! You can have it done in an afternoon. Just get one of these:
I didn't have any proper undershorts to wear yesterday so I had to wear my g-string all day.
I had to wear my g-string all day.
my g-string
Hello smog bread,
My coworker is watching In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
Someone please shootmethem in the fucking head.
Dear Blog Thread
Johnny's post about robins is the best post of all time. I love you Johnny
nature is making me nervous!DAMN NATURE. YOU SCARY!
nature is making me nervous!
nature is making me nervous!
then steer clear of my house. a very mean-spirited owl just moved into a nearby tree and now all it can do is hiss violently at us. sometimes it even perches on our deck and hisses whilst ruining our potted plants by tromping all over them.
Bitch frog is not dead he forgave Magus and then they fucking saved all of time.
Kjære bloggtråd,
I keep reading everywhere that a good help for reaching a goal is to publicize it. This will have to be public enough: I will lose 35 more pounds by April 30th. If I never mention it again it is probably because I've failed, but I do not plan on failing. (Okay, I hope I won't.)
Seriously, IRS. Why are you so dumb?
don't do it! it's a trap!
as soon as you step over the border, the lumberjack mounties riding grizzly bears will tear you to shreds with razor-sharp hockey sticks while spitting venomous maple syrup into your eyes!
my stubble can shred skin+require the use of a band-aid, apparently
i don't know if i should feel bad or awesome about this
Danger gets chicks hot. Now you can say 'hey baby want to make out it'll cut your face'.
Really dude.
Danger gets chicks hot.
sunburned out the ass
sunburned out the ass
What
I need people who like to go to art galleries for long periods and also give me space!
That one. Seriously. All my friends in town think art is hell of lames.
dream post
Jeph then proceeds to teach us to make the "Best Reuben you'll ever eat."
There's worse things in life than being mistaken for Jackie Chan.
In this thread:
Patrick pimps his "wares" at the McDonald's drive through.
We gots our own radio show
we are also pretty similar
Also, damn this German keyboard with its deficit of apostrophes.
Italian trains are never on time (somewhat ironic, since Mussolini's whole thing was making the trains running on time)
I know it makes me sound like a pretty terrible person but the idea of me being pregnant really is the most terrifying thing in the world to me, like this really normal everyday thing can get me so freaked out i wake up shaking and can't really do anything for the next hour or so.Nah, pregnancy is honestly pretty terrifying when you think about it (and when you, uh, don't want it)
i'm pretty sure it was in that corner so it could hide from the mean-spirited owl who recently moved into the area.
Blag Tread:
Steely Dan.
This Saturday.
I won a pair of tickets.
Now I need a date. apparantly it is a 21 and over show.
i'm pretty sure it was in that corner so it could hide from the mean-spirited owl who recently moved into the area.I have a shirt for you. (http://store.theonion.com/owls-are-assholes-p-171.html)
Aw, that sucks.8?? Dude, that's freakish. What breed is she? I would take her to a vet personally, if they get unwell they can starve to death slowly and that pretty much sucks :-(
I suspect my rabbit is dying. She does nothing but sit in her cage all day, she barely eats, and she is losing a lot of fur very quickly. It's terrible! She is nearly eight years old though, so it's not really that odd - an average lifespan for her race is about five years, so she has held up exceptionally well.
Blag Tread:
Steely Dan.
This Saturday.
I won a pair of tickets.
Now I need a date. apparantly it is a 21 and over show.
Where are you
http://www.mediafire.com/?t112vgxbxzv
the first half is really good and the second half sucks a lot.
the first half is really good and the second half sucks a lot.
I've been noticing that a lot lately. I think that's the new trend in movies.
I had a QC-related dream the other night. It was the first dream in a while that I can remember with some decency.
I am siting in my computer class, the teacher leaves the room, and Jeph comes in, behind a cart of food stuffs. Jeph then proceeds to teach us to make the "Best Reuben you'll ever eat." After we make our sammiches, Jeph walks around inspecting out work. He then proceeds to ask me to help some of the people who haven't quite gotten how to make the sammich. I go around, and help J0n, Tommy, Tania, Yelley, and several non-forum members. On my rounds, I saw lots of other forumites, then sat down. Once I took my seat, Jeph informs us that he is now going to test us on how well we made the Rubens. He gives us a plate of ingredients, and says we have 20 mins to make the sammich. Who ever makes the best one, gets an 'A.' I make the sammich, then wake up.
I think the dream is a combination of sorts, firs, I've been a little stressed about the computer class test I had to take (took it yesterday), and apparantly, QC is on the mind...
Blog blog bloooh blooh,Could be both. Depression can work that way. You feel like shit so you do something that makes you feel worse so you do it again and so on. If you can, try changing your routine for awhile and see if it's of any help.
Not having a life right now (ie wanting to do nothing except watch TV online...and haunt about here, too, I suppose) - is it a cause or a symptom of this depression I'm feeling? Any way I look at it right now, I ain't doing much for anybody, which makes me feel just a bit worthless.
One girl said she might be moving (they all live in a group of apartment buildings that are owned by five area churches to give med. term housing to people who need it) to a house with stairs. She was excited that her new house might have stairs. That certainly is something that I've taken for granted.
But that is awesome to know in case I ever have Tommy as an avatar or something.
Okay I am actually pretty glad to be home
Dear You Guys,
i saw A Hawk and a Hacksaw last night and holy shit was it amazing. hands down, the best show i've ever been to. couple of things to address: i did not realize the girl (whatever her name is) was so pretty, and also....the accordion looks really fucking hard to play.
I saw the Hold Steady the other night! It was rockin and wonderful until the bouncer grabbed me by the neck and threw me backwards. I guess he thought I had something to do with some guy running up on stage like a moron.
Rachel wants her next body art to be done in oils but the artist didn't really think that was a good idea. We'll have to see.
In other news last night I had a dream that Sam was in a band called 'Wombs in Crisis'.
Please start this band Sam.
Amsterdam was amazing as well. We stayed in a nice enough hostel, pretty much in the centre of town (Bobs Hostel). Basically did the touristy thing, wandered about the city and got stoned. It's amazing how easy it is to wander into the red light district. We were just trying to find our way about the place and suddenly it was like "hey hookers". It was odd. The cannabis however was excellent. Best part of the trip though was hanging about with a really cool Russian girl, that we met in the hostel, for a couple of days. We ended up taking mushrooms together which was awesome. We rented some bikes out and cycled around the city, which was pretty fun. The surrealist thing happened when we weant to the Melkweg club one night and took some poppers. The security guards were all like "No Poppers" and searched us and stuff. They asked us if we had anything else, and i was like " just this weed" which they just gave back to us. Surreal experience.That actually reminds me of a cool clip that I couldn't find on youtube, but is in this article, second one down. (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_new_cult_canon_the_rules_of)
On the way back two of us took mushrooms just before we went to the airport, had a pint, smoked a joint and took some poppers. We got on a train that we weren't sure went to the airport or not which was pretty freaky, but once we got to the airport it was one of the weirdest funnest things ever. The two of us high on mushrooms with our one more sober friend, wheeling ourselves about on the luggage trolleys and just lying about the place. AWESOME.
[Cute girl mentioned earlier's name] is no longer listed as "single."
Black Angus. (Those are cows, you city chilluns.)
Now I'm imagining Braveheart, but with Afros.
And funk.
arrghhh fucking this was a really stupid pretty thing to write about
Did I mention the first job brews their own beer on site?!?
And this morning they announced a round of layoffs which will wipe out my department and most of my division.
This is the third round of layoffs since I started. [/i]
*Sigh*
(http://mlb.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_120903.jpg)
*Weeps* Manny, you turned into an absolute douche the last couple months, but I'm still gonna miss ya.
One of them is at a specialty beer tavern that sells some of the best beers available commercially in this country
Did I mention the first job brews their own beer on site?!?
THE BREW HOUSE? ARE YOU WORKING AT THE BREW HOUSE?
Or somewhere awesomer?
Jim and I just packed up forty-two copies of Polymaths' EP.
Coming soon to uh somewhere I hope
Eating meat is one thing, killing an animal that hasn't done shit is quite another.
This work is pure electronic music, there are no acoustic instruments.There are 24 melodic (pitch and rhythm) loops, comprising from 1 to 24 pitches, in 24 different registers. These loops rotate at 24 different speeds around eight loudspeakers. The loops are successively layered together from low to high and from the slowest to the fastest tempo. Stockhausen composed 241 different trajectories in space, and he wrote "I do not yet know if it is possible to hear everything..."The answer is, no it isn't. And although the basic sound is pleasant, it varies hardly at all during the 35 minutes of its performance - in short it is tedious, and completely lacks the sonic interest of his first experiment in spacial movement of sound, Gesang der Jünglinge. Although Stockhausen spent 50 years working on spacial aspects of sound, he never considered the technology (ambisonics) which might have made an experiment like this latest piece work, or at least work a bit better then it did (I won't go into the deficiencies of last night's sound projection in detail).
Queer Dog Head,
I went to a ballgame with my friend last night. While waiting for the game to start (hour and a half rain delay), he'd mentioned his face had been feeling numb for the past few days. The right side of his face looked a little screwed up. He decided to head across the street to the hospital and get it checked out. Two hours later (and a 3 run lead BLOWN), he comes back with the diagnosis of Bell's Palsy. =/
Huh? As if the animals people eat aren't 'innocent'?
Fucking Bell's Palsy man.
WHERE DID THE HEAT DISSIPATE TO
oh i get it
Fuck Vista.
Unless you did it barefoot you are not holy.
sleep madness
One of these days I'm going to move in with Jodie and then I'm going to make her move to a more reasonable part of Australia and then you will have her around and then you don't need other friends because she is hot. Also, I am going to tag along.
Kai.. where have you been?
I actually saw three dudes doing it
Can you please draw Vladmir Putin and Tommy as seals making love and send that to her please?
i am eating a BACON SANDWICH
I am having bacon in all three meals I eat today.
the day i had this epiphany with pancakes i was so happy i might have peed a bit.
Dissy, there had better be a picture of you grabbing someone's ass.
Used joke is used.
i don't! but now sometimes i make pancakes for dinner and oh man, it is the best thing ever cos so many people don't realize it is a thing you can actually do.
pancake dinners.
She claims Americans are way nicer than Australians.
Life is sweet sometimes, as well as being unnecessarily difficult and complicated.
and internet friends aren't the same as real life ones, but we are all here for you <3
Sigh.
Times like these I realise what actual, real live friends are for.
OH SHIT FINALS ARE HERE WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN, I GUESS THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF I NEED TO KNOW
I am really not making fun of you but I really like the phrase Big Bag Rebels.
Dear Blog Thread,
how am i gonna throw a party with a headache! it is going away now i think, actually. excellent. we got some DJs. we got some provisions. we got an empty house.
we have all the excellent party things
also i am still not over my old girlfriend completely which sort of sucks and is a bad thing on my part because i kind of want to give my current girlfriend the attention and all and it is dumb that i am not over the old one so i am just gonna go listen to SYR8 really loud. wait, my headache. i can't even listen to music loud! bluh.
Dear Blog Thread,
how am i gonna throw a party with a headache! it is going away now i think, actually. excellent. we got some DJs. we got some provisions. we got an empty house.
we have all the excellent party things
also i am still not over my old girlfriend completely which sort of sucks and is a bad thing on my part because i kind of want to give my current girlfriend the attention and all and it is dumb that i am not over the old one so i am just gonna go listen to SYR8 really loud. wait, my headache. i can't even listen to music loud! bluh.
gaaaaaay
gaaaaaay
Gay is not when you still like your ex. Gay a word to describe happiness, or a sexual attraction to somebody of the same sex. If you are going to use that word, please use it properly. Thank you!
gaaaaaay
Gay is not when you still like your ex. Gay a word to describe happiness, or a sexual attraction to somebody of the same sex. If you are going to use that word, please use it properly. Thank you!
In Australia, "gay" can also mean: stupid, uncool, annoying and /or "wack".
Dear blog thread,
I just realized I think of crushes the way people talk about relationships. "Good, lasted for x months", "still not completely over it, left me moping for ages" etc etc.
Fuuuuuuuck.
I just got another job interview for this afternoon but it is in Sydney and I am not in Sydney yet and I can't make it dammit
I just ate an entire packet of bacon.
gaaaaaay
Gay is not when you still like your ex. Gay a word to describe happiness, or a sexual attraction to somebody of the same sex. If you are going to use that word, please use it properly. Thank you!
God I am being a postwhore today.Sorry Lunchy I totally have you licked.
I guess it'd depend on the intent behind giving you the clothes and if you want them.
Guess what day it is, motherfuckers.
Motherfucking Scotch Egg day, motherfuckers.
Yeah.
Hey Jho! I'm going for the interview on Monday instead! Hooray!
The Wire is like crack. I should never have started watching it.
Season One is so, so good.
It doesn't quite have the gritty realism of 24 but I guess it's the second best expose of crime-fighting in America.
No way man, 24 was painstakingly realistic.
There really are 24 hours in the day, they didn't just make that up.
I'm well pissed off. My rather new (4-5 month old) monitor has birthed 20-30 dead pixels overnight. It's quite an eyesore.
Fuck. Inconveniences.
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4403/goddamnitbi5.jpg)
The two batches of dead pixels seem to be identical, pattern-wise. I don't know what to make of this. But it angries up my blood.
On the plus side, I snagged a demo disc for the first time in years today (I used to be all about nicking PC demo discs from the local supermarket. I've still got my hard copy of the Starcraft demo) but this one, being a shiny DVD, contains the entirety of Sid Meier's Colonization. Fucking Sid Meier's Colonization. Fucking awesome.
We are fucked so bad no matter what we do! If it's not global fucking warming then it's antibiotic-resistant viruses or nuclear war or fucking meteorites or the sun burning out or fuck you all I don't want to live in fear of dying at any given moment
Patrick, that's terrible. Your supervisor/manager/whatever should have asked him to leave right away the second he touched you. You should not have to put up with that. :(
I have something I kind of want to post, but every time I do I think "why the fuck am I posting this on the internet?" and I delete it. I guess I'm not very good at this whole blog thing.
Linds, that is terrible. Keep your old number, mkay? You need to carpool with me & Cerny & maybe Adam to Boston in Jan.
Will the community service last longer than the military service? I know it does in Germany.
P.S; In the interest of disclosure I'd like to mention I am blogging from the bath
And by disclosure I mean exhibitionism
I'm naked
'Bicycle Day'
I ptwill... I ptlan to...
Fuck
Ptolemmydski?
Ptolemommydski?
He'll be at the center of your universe, baby.
I'm told that exercise will help your sore back. Someone care to back this up? This is a zero personal experience area for me.
People who wear caps without breaking in the rim deserve to be trampled by mad elephants.
Seriously, people: bend the brim and put your fucking hats on straight. You all look like assholes.
oh hello again blog thread,
i am listening to the new girl talk album
oh dang john lithgow diedwhat? really?
oh dang john lithgow died
It's just weird to be on the threshold of a completely new stage of my life, and with absolutely no idea what to do or how to go about it.
Whaaat race walking is an olympic sport? Surely mine eyes deceive me.
You know who's unusually sexy when you're running a high fever?
Bob Hoskins. What a sexy beast.
I'm still stressed out about that thing I was talking about two posts ago, but now I own another album with the word "Fuck" in the title. So I'm a little better. E-hugs still appreciated, however.
college rant
The thing is though that verbal activity counts as a plus on the final term grade, so I have to... Shit, give wrong answers? I dunno.
KFK
so I have to... Shit, give wrong answers? I dunno.
a "dot" (a pretty terrible translation)
I'm trying to decide if I still want to go to see Lewis Black tonight. I'm still very sick and my coughing gets worse at night. I'm leaning towards going.
reassurance
This real weird tension always builds when we are alone just the two of us and it's really awkward and we both smile a lot and stare at our feet.
Me on the other hand, am going to a party next weekend
Quote from: this threadreassurance
Thanks guys.
Dearest Bloggles,
Is photobucket taking absolutely fucking forever to upload shit, or is it just doing that for me? Also if I try to cancel an upload it crashes Firefox. Screw you photobucket.
This isn't something you can solve with half measures. You're going to have to commit to something which will leave him no choice but to stop it.
You shed all of your clothes right now and you stand in his room and scream in his face. If he's sat down grab both sides of his head between your palms like a pair of blinkers and force him to face down your flaccid penis. Keep screaming. Make sure he knows this is an accurate representation of how his music makes you feel. Maybe next time he'll think twice. If not, repeat until he does.
llady that I used to be mad crushin' on for the longest damn time and who is now legal drinkin' age
True story: Vince D'Onofrio sued Madonna because he originally came up with the concept for Swept Away and was uncredited for it.
He couldn't put roofies in her drink when she was still too young to drink. I think.
I did this! (not quite, but I got my point across.) So he doesn't listen to that anymore. He now listens to Avenged Sevenfold. WHAAAT. I feel like I can't/shouldn't say anything this time because then I'll just be an ass who's like "hey, fuck you, you cannot play music you enjoy," but, god, it's such shitty music.
College life is absolutely wonderful so far. Wonderful.
It was, but Vince and Esther were at a party discussing old films they'd want to remake, or something to that effect, and Vince brought up Swept Away. Thus, lawsuit over the movie that swept away the razzies.True story: Vince D'Onofrio sued Madonna because he originally came up with the concept for Swept Away and was uncredited for it.
What? I thought Swept Away was based on this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073817/) Italian film from the 70s.
Hey KvP, a while ago you mentioned Iggy Pop's Lust for Life album. I gave it a listen and it's pretty excellent. I think the best thing about it is that I had absolutely no idea what to expect (the only thing that I know I've heard that he's done was 'Kick It' with Peaches) and I found myself listening to something that didn't sound like it was trying to be clever for once. It's refreshing.
llady that I used to be mad crushin' on for the longest damn time and who is now legal drinkin' age
Wait, are these actually supposed to be connected?
P.S. Dan, If I may call you as such, I accept usage of the terms caucasoid, negroid and mongoloid because they are used in anthropology to descrbe or denote the three major, i.e. larger, racial classifications for humans. If you start to define someones actions and attempt to use race an excuse to limit another person's options in society then you should reallly look back and learn the Woodrow Wilson was not a hero but a racist who invaded Nicaragua and Haiti countless times and is inadvertently responsible for some of the crap that's gone on there in the past 70 years or so. Don't be Woodrow Wilson.
even though Jimmy is much more than 6ft.)
"One day I will have a room of my own! Hooray!
PS If the heroine is called martha then good god, that is the first Martha I have ever seen I have been attracted to. And my god she is hot.
Plus I don't think she looks terribly attractive in that picture.
KvP health watch, day 5 -
Damn, I lost 10 pounds this week! Maybe I should be stricken with illness more often.
Seriously though dude in what scenario would you consider being able to reload rifle cartridges to be useful?
Does anyone have any ideas for some good skills to have?
SEM gained 3 skill points!
Nah, I just ate what amounted to a very light meal every day for four days, and a regular meal on the fifth (I didn't really have an appetite for that time). That doesn't really account for the weight loss on its own, but I'm pretty sure my sickness was the cause. I guess sweating out a fever burns a lot of calories.KvP health watch, day 5 -
Damn, I lost 10 pounds this week! Maybe I should be stricken with illness more often.
you trying to lose weight? or are you just sick and can't keep anything down?
...I have no idea what it is about me that makes people say this stuff about me ...
God damn it all, I just found out that my best friend is a Loose Change nut. It's like finding out your best friend is addicted to crack.
Heh, my friend has a degree in orbital mechanics and thus can dangle the whole "I know engineering and steel doesn't melt blah blah blah" thing over my head. But I suppose it just comes down to personal preference. Some people, like me, look at a terrorist attack ostensibly committed by young arab men and figure that it's probably blowback, the result of several decades' worth of seriously fucked up foreign policy in the Middle East. Others, like my friend, look at it and see a planned, mind-bogglingly elaborate controlled exercise committed by the cigarette smoking man and / or David Icke's reptilians (including but not limited to Kris Kristofferson), for a nebulous reason, that is nearly flawless in its execution except that it can be divined by a slim few open-minded people who just happen to own copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.God damn it all, I just found out that my best friend is a Loose Change nut. It's like finding out your best friend is addicted to crack.
I found out that my temp-drummer/full-time friend is a Loose Change fan as well (along with various other conspiracy theory Internet films). I had a lengthy debate with him about it on Saturday and basically tried to tactfully have a discussion with him. It ended well, actually.
Could be worse. On my 12th birthday the cops showed up for my dad. Because all of the cocaine. Kind of ruined things just a little.
You share a birthday with Tania then.
Never forget!
I smoked Hookah for the first time ever yesterday. We got like, 3 bongs and 3 flavors for ten dollars because my friend's cousin was working, so we saved about $50. So that was cool. It was pretty cool but even though they showed me how to take the hits right and stuff I didn't get the hit I normally do from tobacco, which wasn't really the point, I guess. Anyways, it was pretty chill, just smoking hookah for an hour or two, talking.God. The first time I smoked shisha, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to inhale and I spent the next few hours green and lying on the floor hoping the earth would blow up.
Both, dude. You can totally do both.
Gonzo journalism.
I smoked Hookah for the first time ever yesterday. We got like, 3 bongs and 3 flavors for ten dollars because my friend's cousin was working, so we saved about $50. So that was cool. It was pretty cool but even though they showed me how to take the hits right and stuff I didn't get the hit I normally do from tobacco, which wasn't really the point, I guess. Anyways, it was pretty chill, just smoking hookah for an hour or two, talking.God. The first time I smoked shisha, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to inhale and I spent the next few hours green and lying on the floor hoping the earth would blow up.
Gonzo journalism.
(They are not my puppies I just wanted to stop talking about horrible shit that happened to people on their birthday)
(Talk about some cheery shit please)
Hookah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah).
It's easy if you try!
On my fiancee's birthday earlier this month, she came down with Bell's Palsy; half her face was paralyzed. She's only just now regaining facial movement.
This was just an extremely complicated excuse for why she didn't smile when you gave her presents.
So boys are easier to understand? I think I prefer hanging out with women simply because I can't relate to them. Certainly more fun than the whole bro routine.
And certainly, the forms I filled out in the sterile waiting room were all about being "discreet." There was almost a full page of questions like, "If we leave a message at the number you've listed, can we say that Planned Parenthood called? If not, can we say that your doctor called? If not, is there a code word we can use to let you know that we need to get in contact with you? List code word here: ___________."
I know I am not what most people find attractive.
dah fuck is shisha?
blog thread,
i bought tickets to germany in november :) going to visit berlin, prague, and poland with a good buddy of mine. haven't been to europe in 8 years so I am super excited.
If anyone has ever been to berlin or prague and knows some sights that i should visit, let me know
A guy came in to my library yesterday, and I grabbed the CDs he had reserved from behind the desk without his telling me his name.
"Oh, no! You know me by name!" he said.
- three cafes (though one doesn't really count - they mainly know me because my housemate works there)
- my local pub
- a local bar/pizzeria
- my local organic green-grocer
- my local cinema
- my local record store.
I tried going through Express Personnel and they got me nothing.
They were at the (rather lame) job fair I was at today. I did not bother talking to them, though.
A couple of weeks ago I played this gig with my band. It was a battle of the bands kind of thing and the results got emailed to us today.
The sex is fine. Meeting the parents is sick and wrong.
Dear blog thread,
So um. My first time ever, and we got walked in on. I am both mortified (can only imagine how she feels) and in absolute testicular agony. And the humiliation isn't over, because of course her parents are going to harrass us mercilessly (I'm still going over there to man it out, at least then she doesn't have to suffer alone).
venture bros. for halloween
1) I stopped smoking
2) I stopped drinking (as in never drinking again)
(1) One week in July - stayed with my elder bro in his retirement house on the edge of Dartmoor.
...
Dartmoor (of course, this is only a bit of it):
(http://cassland.org/images/Dartmoor1.jpg)
2) I stopped drinking (as in never drinking again)
Both nights I had a few drinks because I was curious about the cocktail menu or because you have to have champagne for the toast, and then I said "enough" and drank Coke for the rest of the night. I'd never been able to do that before, and it was a great relief. Hey, you may even one day want to be drunk, and that's cool too, because hopefully you'll have learned your lesson and you'll know your limits
it was growing impossible to be in love with someone who is just such an emotionless robot.
I am now, officially, on paper, housemates with Jimmy The Squid.
Moving day is Saturday! Oh my god!
So I fell asleep and I was having a nice nap dream and I think I was about to eat some sweet-ass five cheese pizza from, like, fuckin', Naples, ITALY, aka "city where i was served the best pizza i have ever eaten my life so far", and I guess I realized that "oh shit i'm asleep that's so nice but i think i might miss something" [band] so I snapped into wakingness rather abruptly; now it would be an understatement to say I am slightly perturbed that I am now here, awake, staring at a computer in Bakersfield instead of preparing to feast on deliciously authentically awesome food.
All of you ladies. I'll take you out! I have very few friends right now, and it would do me some good to get out and have some interaction that doesn't involve D&D.
The place down the road makes a five cheese pizza. It is so good.
Dear Blog thread,
EXHAUSTED. CAN YOU DIG IT
Fargo is calling you, Robbie. Bring your sweater vests and we will have epic hangouts.
During the 1980s, cyberpunk novels like William Gibson's Neuromancer and films like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner utilized Tokyo as a model of future urban society. Suggest an explanation for the choice of Tokyo over other cities.
This sounds like so much fun, Liz! Give me a few months to get a job and save up some money and I will be there.
Man, yesterday it was like 95 degrees outside. Today it is like 60. This state is so messed up.
guys i just did this thing?
it is this thing
where you pour a little maple syrup on a waffles and then tilt the waffle around so the maple syrup fills all the square indentations
then you put the waffle in a toaster oven
then you take it out
the syrup permeates the waffle and it rules, basically.
also there are like, probably 50 dead yellowjackets in my bathroom.
fuuuuuuuuck.
Actually, I was thinking about it. I just went to activities night or whatever and was thinking about checking out the big music fraternity on campus, see if I like it. Who knows?
February is a good month, as the famous (infamous?) JohnnyC may or may not be here doing a show.
Assess the cultural impact of the American Occupation of Japan on the basis of Akira Kurosawa's film Nora Inu. (yesssssss)
During the 1980s, cyberpunk novels like William Gibson's Neuromancer and films like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner utilized Tokyo as a model of future urban society. Suggest an explanation for the choice of Tokyo over other cities.
So, I think I am bad at making friends.
I mean, I have met people, but there's nobody that I really 'hang out' with. I like my classes enough, and certainly have enough fun stuff to do there, but I'm afraid that I'll be a friendless loser (who gets good grades, but a friendless nerd nonetheless). I have signed up for clubs and stuff, and hopefully I'll meet people there, but I guess I'm just finding self-doubt now that things are going alright.
Eh, if all else fails, I can just become a hermit.
join a fraternity, its already full of friends for you :)
Actually, I was thinking about it. I just went to activities night or whatever and was thinking about checking out the big music fraternity on campus, see if I like it. Who knows?
music fraternity? is it phi mu alpha?
March is worse, actually. Everyone should experience a few ridiculously cold days in their life so they can appreciate the warm ones more.
Fargo has enough cold days for everyone. Come share them with me!
Actually, I was thinking about it. I just went to activities night or whatever and was thinking about checking out the big music fraternity on campus, see if I like it. Who knows?
music fraternity? is it phi mu alpha?
Yeah, it is. I mean, they seemed like good dudes and they said that if it's not for me, they wouldn't hold it against me, so it couldn't hurt to give it a shot, right?
join a fraternity, its already full of friends for you :)
Y'know, I would've laughed while I was an undergrad. Or even three weeks ago.
So basically joining a fraternity to make friends maybe doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
Yeah, see, that was the problem. Someone did and now you have to clean up the mess.
Heh, my friend just got mono from this chick, it was pretty funny, cause he slept with her without a condom and so we were all worrying that he had gotten something crazy ass scary, but it was just mono. So no he is even more like a teddy bear than usual, hardly able to stay awake, ever.
Mono would have nothing to do with condom use and it's nothing to laugh off. Mono is a condition that will stay with you for life. Seven years later and I still sometimes feel it. It's a fucking pain in the ass.
/Obvious joke about Liz keeping me warm in winter.
yes. apparently theatre is dangerous.
I am completely okay with this.
We are totally going to be bffs, or something.
Then we have people like this lady who asks to put a crumbling document from 1911 in our well used copier to make a copy.Oh, just thinking about that makes me cringe terribly. Seriously.
I give her special cotton gloves to wear and when I come back I see that she is holding the book open with her sweaty forearm.
Oh, just thinking about that makes me cringe terribly. Seriously.
I'm not a libratorr, but just the idea of actually touching an old book with bare skin makes me wince.
Or they blog about stuff people really don't care about, like music and video games.
Or they blog about stuff people really don't care about, like music and video games.
guys, Bangkok Dangerous is awesome
"You like titties?!"
it's kind of funny. who the hell would write "slambulance" seriously
low-quality chinese prostitutes
low-quality chinese prostitutes
Wait, how could you tell?
it's kind of funny. who the hell would write "slambulance" seriously
You're right. It does.Quote from: est"You like titties?!"
God, this is going to sound so terribly racist, but why is it always Africans who try to rope you in to a place or sell you trinkets? I mean, I can understand European countries, considering the whole colonialism thing and the general proximity, but fucking Japan? C'mon.
I'm pretty sure Lunchy's cat doesn't like me which, while making me a little sad, is probably for the best because I am so allergic to it.
So. I just got hired for my part time night job at a great local coffee shop (Heine Bros.) that will work perfectly with my day job at the deli and allow me to actually save some money for once in my life (as opposed to just delegating the checks towards: rent, bills, booze, food, and occasionally ganja). This is an exciting moment in my life because I have always worked at locally owned coffee shops (that is if always can actually mean eight years of my life ....) and have yet to really plant roots here in Louisville, so this will help me become more at home here. It looks as if I may actually be staying in one place for a while now, since everything seems to be falling perfectly in place and the neighborhood I live in freakin' rocks: long live the Highlands of Louisville!
Smile!
Adios.
Aw, dude! Come back safe soon. You are way cool.
DEAR BLOG THREADUrgh, I've had that problem lately because of the damnable cold I've had for the last 6 to 8 weeks. Whenever it seems like it's clearing up I'll come down with another one. My left ear's felt like it's been packed with cotton wool for a while now. It's finally clearing up again, thank god. Hopefully this time it'll last.
I'M SHOUTING BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY EARS AND I CAN'T HEAR VERY WELL, PARTICULARLY OUT OF MY RIGHT. THIS ISN'T A GOOD THING AT ALL, PARTICULARLY IF YOU'RE (LIKE ME) DOING LIVE SOUND FOR A BAND ON SUNDAY NIGHT
We got a new gabbly is what's up! It's pretty rad.
mostly i am kind of bummed that i can no longer justify having no idea what to do with my life by saying "it's okay, i'm still so young!" because dang, 21 feels too old to be as confused as i am.Man, don't make me feel old. I just turned 22.
i can no longer justify having no idea what to do with my life by saying "it's okay, i'm still so young!" because dang, 21 feels too old to be as confused as i am.
i can no longer justify having no idea what to do with my life by saying "it's okay, i'm still so young!" because dang, 21 feels too old to be as confused as i am.
god you are so slow, I had my everything figured out before graduating high school
On the train home today I had an interesting encounter. Some random dude comes up and asks me if I believe in God (I hedge and say I'm not very religious,) followed by if I believe in the Big Bang (yes,) and then when he asks "So you think we're an accident?" I just explain that I'm not comfortable with the conversation.
How would you react?
On the train home today I had an interesting encounter. Some random dude comes up and asks me if I believe in God (I hedge and say I'm not very religious,) followed by if I believe in the Big Bang (yes,) and then when he asks "So you think we're an accident?" I just explain that I'm not comfortable with the conversation.
How would you react?
i would use every piece of information in my head to try to make him understand what i believe and why. i can't help myself when it comes to conversations like that and apparently i can be pretty convincing: a religious friend of mine once tried to get me to see how religion is right and god is real etc. but by the end of the conversation he no longer believed in God, or the soul and said "i can't believe how stupid i've been."
it was a proud moment...i guess? it wasn't really my intention to convert anybody but whatever.
I have no problem with religion as long as people keep it to themselves.
I don't mind gay people as long as they don't try to make me gay.
I like being a more liberal Christian(tattoos, metal, etc.).
Wouldn't call that liberal. Nope, not in a million years. You want "liberal Christian" take a gander at Quakers or some who contact my late grandfather. A theologian and co-founder of the Centre for Thomistic Studies.
Well, a Liberal Christian can have tattoos and listen to metal. It's just not required, nor sufficient in itself to make one a liberal Christian.
Also, not all Quakers are Liberal Christians and some of those who are theologically liberal are no longer willing to call themselves Christian. My roommate is a good example of this. He won't call himself a Christian because he feels that too many Christian Quakers are too dogmatic in their approach and he doesn't want to be associated with them.
But I think I ended up inheriting some stuff from the Centre for Thomistic Studies (probably from a Quaker professor of mine) at one point. It was pretty cool. I'll have to see if I can dig it out.
I think I saw a certain Mr. Dovey in a Subway last night, wearing a reddy-brown jacket.
Haha, yep, that was me. Didn't notice you man (sorry!). Were you actually in the Subway or just passing by?
The power at my house is going to be out for three or four days due to Ike (even though I live up in PA, we're still getting hurricane repercussions).
Guys, my meteorology textbook smells like gasoline.
I don't know what to do about this.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH A FUCKING DEGREE! FUCK!
Do what ever you want to do! I love photography so I take photographs! First thing to get when making electronic music on a pc is probably a midi usb keyboard. Also some software, which can be expensive depending on where you get it from (woo torrents). I've only really tried Reason 3&4 which I think is the hottest shit, Darryl can give you a bit more advice if he's not too busy on his music production course. Go do things!I think I have a copy of Reason, or maybe ACID, lying around on a hard drive somewhere. Guess I'd better save up and get a MIDI keyboard. To Newegg...
Don't start with things you already have doubts about; try to find something totally new to you, so that you don't set yourself up for failure. And to counter the charge of internalising, make it a task that involves interacting with people, rather than something that you can shut yourself away to do (like music or writing).I used to work for Habitat for Humanity, but that doesn't seem like a short notice sort of thing. I don't know, of any soup kitchens or the like around, although I'm sure I could ask about. Hmmm, if I were at an actual university there would certainly be groups and such that I could get involved with.
Are there any charitable projects accessible to you that you could offer to help with? They could fit my suggestions and provide you with a supportive environment as well.
But its an applied physics degree. and like, geographical physics applied to human biological lifeforms or some bullshit like that. Its a very fucking specific degree.HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH A FUCKING DEGREE! FUCK!
I don't! It's pretty easy, actually. I mean, fucking easy.
Do like my ex girlfriend is going to. Join the Peace Corps so that taxpayers have to pay for a degree that you never intend to use.Man, that's not really fair. One IS actually WORKING when one is in the Peace Corps. Would you say that about people who take advantage of the GI Bill or state run schools?
Do like my ex girlfriend is going to. Join the Peace Corps so that taxpayers have to pay for a degree that you never intend to use.Man, that's not really fair. One IS actually WORKING when one is in the Peace Corps. Would you say that about people who take advantage of the GI Bill or state run schools?
Also, a lot of people are lost when they graduate college. Doing study in any particular field can be very disillusioning.
But its an applied physics degree. and like, geographical physics applied to human biological lifeforms or some bullshit like that. Its a very fucking specific degree.
Why even get the degree?
Why even get the degree?
Because learning is fun?
Jeez Patrick, you are such a slut. Gross.
Clearly, she doesn't really plan on being a vagrant. She could start being a vagrant right now.Do like my ex girlfriend is going to. Join the Peace Corps so that taxpayers have to pay for a degree that you never intend to use.Man, that's not really fair. One IS actually WORKING when one is in the Peace Corps. Would you say that about people who take advantage of the GI Bill or state run schools?
Also, a lot of people are lost when they graduate college. Doing study in any particular field can be very disillusioning.
I'd say the same thing if they don't intend to do anything with their degrees. If she was going to be like "yeah, I want to get my degree and then go and work for the government to help create habitats for endangered animals" I'd be fine. But no, she said she plans to get her degree then be a vagrant. Why even get the degree?
i will be completely honest and say that describes my feelings exactly toward people who are taking out loans or having their parents pay for their philosophy degrees (sorry philosophy majors, i just think it's kind of a silly major), but mostly i ignore it cos i mean like some other forumites said, at least they're learning right? there's better things to complain about. or worse things i guess.>:( boo
And Mr. KvP, I like Paul's suggestion of volunteering, but there's so much more than soup kitchens, though those are very very worthwhile. You can use your talents! Around here there's a huge new American population in need of English and job skills. You could help a refugee make a resume on the computer. Show her or him how to use the internet! Read a book with one! There's a hospital here where you can volunteer to read to little kids in the waiting area while their parent(s) are visiting with a doctor. Even just going forth and putting forth the effort into talking with an agency is a step forward.Those are good ideas, actually! I work at a junior college / library, I'm sure I could help people learn using the internet, or use Word, it's pretty much what I do for money anyway.
Do you have any experience in libraries besides, uh, using them(which I would assume you have)?
If not, go volunteer or something.
I finally sent in my "letter of acceptance of admission" for library school. I was going to wait a year and save enough money so I wouldn't have to take out any loans (my savings will pay for almost 75% of it, I am good at saving money), but screw it. I'm tired of working desk jobs that have nothing to do with my English major working with people who are barely literate and a supervisor that called me into her office when I was taking too long in the bathroom (sometimes you just have to go! I can't help it!). Government work sucks. Now the only thing I have to worry about is not getting a library job once I graduate. Any librarians here who can give me some advice?
I'll probably be able to get a part-time workstudy job in a library while I go to school, which is important. It will be so strange to be a full-time student again.
Wednesday I was in the dentist's chair for two hours and Thursday there was a power outage so my alarm didn't go off. I woke up at 1:00 after class had already started.
I finally sent in my "letter of acceptance of admission" for library school. I was going to wait a year and save enough money so I wouldn't have to take out any loans (my savings will pay for almost 75% of it, I am good at saving money), but screw it. I'm tired of working desk jobs that have nothing to do with my English major working with people who are barely literate and a supervisor that called me into her office when I was taking too long in the bathroom (sometimes you just have to go! I can't help it!). Government work sucks. Now the only thing I have to worry about is not getting a library job once I graduate. Any librarians here who can give me some advice?
I'll probably be able to get a part-time workstudy job in a library while I go to school, which is important. It will be so strange to be a full-time student again.
(Why Oregon?)
is it sean?
Also, people with stupid names tend to be pretty stupid people because they usually decided at one point to go around telling people "Call me Foxtrot", "Call me Jetboy", "Call me Prime Time" etc.Man, don't fuckin' sit there and even suggest to me that you would not be down with a man who calls himself Prime Time.
in St. Louis... After that we headed to CBGB's
Also I'm going to buy me a MIDI controller (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823143016)! Get my midlife crisis out of the way 20 years early.
Dude is playing a bit slower than you like so he's in danger of missing another shot?
Yeesh, tough crowd.
I'm planning to see him again this weekend. Hopefully things will sizzle a bit more, otherwise it is unlikely that there will be a third date.
Well, as I can't recall us actually swimming, my dream appears to have been quite accurate!
i haven't ice skated in a while but i would love to remember and maybe teach people who've never done it before.
Should I just tell Rae all of this?
I hate ice skating. I don't remember why exactly, because I haven't been ice skating in years, but I just know that I do.
It's definitely not the cold, as I love skiing.
dammit, I can't remember.
Not in public.
I wish I could have dreams where I am not murdered.
KvP: I would just tell her the truth, but be open to hearing what she has to say. I think she'll appreciate honesty here. If she's trying to get you to push your boundaries, you recognizing your boundaries is a good first step.Right, I think I'm just going to buy the tickets and let Rae know what it is I'm thinking here, because she deserves to know and fuck, I anticipate too much.
All my friends take corners in 3D.
Did she say Yes?
I can see my future at university going down the drain, which fucking terrifies me, but I honestly have no idea how to stay in school.
Who wants to take me to a zoo?
The zoo in Chicago is free and there is a totally awesome monkey who only has one arm but still flies around the place as if he had both. The zoo is worth it for this monkey alone.
Dear blogthread,
My friend just cornered me about a post I made in my LJ not-so-secretly saying that I had a wicked crush on her. We talked about it for a few minutes and decided being friends is still a pretty cool idea.
Oh wells.
On the other hand, the polar bears just swam in exactly the same patterns over and over while we were watching, which was more than a little depressing.
Also, as far as high school goes, what high school does (at least in America) is teach you that if you can conform and not make waves, you'll be fine.
the American public schooling system is not about learning, but rather how to jump through hoops.
Who wants to take me to a zoo?
Chicago! We will most definitely go to a zoo and it will be so great.
Taylor, just tell them you are going with a few friends from college and meeting a bunch of their friends in Chicago.
This is what I did.
It was a success.
so uh i guess i'm seeing sloan next wednesday. with the golden dogs.EXCELLENT. Both of them. Excellent.
I realize this is the ultimate in "nobody cares,"
so uh i guess i'm seeing sloan next wednesday.
SLOOOOOAAAAAAAAN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3tLtF8kyOQ).
so uh i guess i'm seeing sloan next wednesday. with the golden dogs.Man what is up with the Golden Dogs. I'd never heard of them and all of a sudden they're touring with everyone. They opened for Feist (missed that set) and then they were playing with Electric Six and now they're up in Sloan what the hell guys.
Yes.
Well, I'm 18. So she is 16. And that makes it a little bit illegal, I guess, if anyone ever actually cared about shit like that anymore. But I don't know when her birthday is exactly. I just know that I turn 19 in about a month and a week.
I have never thought 2 years to be much of a difference, I have a 4 year dating window personally (2 years younger or 2 years older). Its just that some people look at a guy who is out of highschool dating a junior as kind of weird. I think those people are ridiculous. But I seriously don't know what to do when girls are interested in me.
Getting in where? Did you get the tickets after all?
emaline, you sound like you need a hug or somethin.
dear blog thread,
i think i'm having an identity crisis.
love,
anna
i find it hard to believe that we are internet married sometimes cause you barely know meeee.
(...please tell me you remember that gabbly conversation or else i am going to feel super awkward here.)
are you calling me old? or saying that my guitar is not kickass?
Mostly it is because they want to gloat. Adult students are horrid.
Adult students are horrid.
BARONESS
HEAVY FUCKING METAL
Suddenly having a wakeup call of learning the shit you spent $100,000 on is not the shit you want to do AFTER spending the $100,000 is not what I'd call appealing.
My cell phone drowned the other day, and the screen stopped working, so I've bought a new one. But right now, when I tried turning it on (without a SIM or memory card) after leaving it to dry for a couple of days, the most amazing thing happened. The screen is still black, but the buttons light up and it starts playing a weird, somewhat distorted polyphonic ringtone-version of the intro to Jackson Five's I Want You Back on repeat (a song I, by the way, have never transferred to my cell phone). That is all it does! I can pause and start it again (not even with the button that used to mean "Play"), but that's it.
Adult students are sometimes ok, but mostly I find that they just aren't smart. Sorry adult students, but I have not had a good run with any of you being the slightest bit brilliant.
Fortunately there was a Verizon store on the way back home from our camping trip (pictures to come I suppose)
Guys I haven't slept in 2 days.
I've had to write a 15 page paper on Turkish nationalism, which I was up doing last night; the night before I was just out with friends. But Im' not sure if I'm going to get much sleep tonight either. I have to write a paper, due tomorrow, on specific ways in which European colonialists "dominated" African natives, making particular mention of the Native Land Husbandry Act and, and other boring shit like that. I'm honestly beginning to hallucinate. I haven't even had a cat-nap, nothing, in nearly 48 hours.
And, öde, I am so doing it. I fucking love my bike. And New Life. New Life makes me want to go vandalize things, and write anti war messages on the sides of buildings, and then hopefully not really get arrested.
Fucking old people man.
Would you have liked my post better if I asked if they liked kung fu?
very pretty lady
Do anarchists vote?
You probably give off a gay vibe.
Well at least hang out and decide where you want to go from there. Relationships are awesome!
A very very very good friend of mine, who currently goes to school in Chicago, just found out that Justice will be playing there on December 31st. This is totally our anniversary! Should I try to take impossible days off of work, pay ridiculous train fare, and possibly ridiculous hostel fare, just to dance my butt of with a guy who is quite possibly my bestest friend ever on our anniversary?
A very very very good friend of mine, who currently goes to school in Chicago, just found out that Justice will be playing there on December 31st. This is totally our anniversary! Should I try to take impossible days off of work, pay ridiculous train fare, and possibly ridiculous hostel fare, just to dance my butt of with a guy who is quite possibly my bestest friend ever on our anniversary?
Bonus points: I'll have my own place next year and she'll be staying over. Lots.
I have pictures! A couple, at least. It is hard to bring an slr in addition to a shotgun and a rifle into the woods. Math question! Yesterday i moved 1km horizontally and 500 metres vertically on the first part of my route. How steep was the incline?
Oh hey Gemm, I had one on Thursday and one on Friday and another one on Tuesday! Must be the season for death shifts.
Anyway, dear blog thread,
Loxley rang last night and asked if we could get back together/start dating again yet. It was really awful and sad and I felt really bad for having to say no because I don't want to date him again yet (if ever. I don't think I ever will). He cried and it was so awful and I worry about him because he just wants to be with me and I don't even miss him! I think I am a bad person!
:(
(thermite)
He cried and it was so awful and I worry about him because he just wants to be with me and I don't even miss him!
Isn't there are law about that kind of thing? I know there is here in Australia.
(He can quote achewood!)
Out of context sig quotes are so great.
So I've decided to push harder into this whole MIDI deal. I've got a Reason copy in the pipeline, should be available within 24 hours.
I plan to be a spin doctor when I grow up.
AYYYAAYAH, DE DOO BA DIP! DA DIP DIP BA DIP, BA DIP DA DI BE DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA
if you really wanna get a stew goin'
v:?vSo I've decided to push harder into this whole MIDI deal. I've got a Reason copy in the pipeline, should be available within 24 hours.
Raaaddd. Have you used Reason before? I've gotta warn you, to get the most oit of it, you've gotta have a pretty fair knowledge of the technical side of audio stuff (namely signal flow, as the entire thing is based around an approximation of an analog patchbay). You can get pretty far just playing around, and hopefully the books will help you out, but it's worth having a basic idea about how the hardware versions of the synths in Reason operate if you really wanna get a stew goin'
Quoteif you really wanna get a stew goin'
I'm fully in favour of this phrase coming into further everyday usage.
AYYYAAYAH, DE DOO BA DIP! DA DIP DIP BA DIP, BA DIP DA DI BE DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA DO BA
Dear blog thread
today i found out that i could throw a hammer about 200 feet.
v:?v
Nope, I've had about as little experience with any of this stuff as you can have, outside of constantly listening to synth music. I don't know, there's gotta be a way to learn. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, I suppose. There are going to be definite disadvantages to just jumping into this stuff cold, but I figure as long as I'm determined I'll make it work for me. I might not have talent, but I can make it a skill, you know?
Vs.
PatrickNeverFunny.jpg
*pounds wall*
BASEBAAAAAAAAAAALLARRRRRGHHHHHWOOOOOOOOOO YEAH
Dude from Surrey is a dick
For whatever reason, the law is that cyclists belong on the road. That is maybe a raw deal but I figure there are probably some good reasons for it.
I am sort of bummed we did not post in the right order so I could make a Tom, Dick and Harry joke.
My personal statement is still not finished.
They haven't completely ruled out leukemia, but they don't think it is that.
Only one solution: Making mopetronica/ ten hours a day on GabblyDone and done.
I want to be an ass. I have had a shitty day, and all my compassion is used up for the while. I can be an ass to people who are asses to me, right? Grrrr I want to hulk out.
Hey Emaline you are a doo-doo head
*braces*
Blog thread the espresso machine at work makes coffee so fast. Two sets of quadruple espressos in ten minutes. I am slightly wired.
Your name is now Alex.
We have to alter reality to get you laid.
Blog thread the espresso machine at work makes coffee so fast. Two sets of quadruple espressos in ten minutes. I am slightly wired.
Dude, that is not a healthy amount of caffeine. Seriously, I hope that is not a regular habit because damn.
I was thinking about just letting it slide.
People drink 4 cups of coffee all the time. And espresso has less caffeine in it than coffee, so he should be okay.Blog thread the espresso machine at work makes coffee so fast. Two sets of quadruple espressos in ten minutes. I am slightly wired.
Dude, that is not a healthy amount of caffeine. Seriously, I hope that is not a regular habit because damn.
Guys, I bought gas today for $2.69! I filled up my tank for $25. Is it sad that this is one of the best things to happen to me in a while?
Is that legal? I'm pretty sure just saying "don't bother coming in tomorrow" isn't legal around here.
Petrol is an average of 149.8 Australian cents per liter here in Perth
This converts to US$3.77 per gallon.
Alyssa is in Arizona for 6 days. I miss her already, and I feel like a pathetic high-school boy for it. :|
Maybe I just need to attend a different school.
public schools vary a lot, and ours is being particularly terrible this year.
I got stung by a bee for the first time today.
Dear Blog Thread,
I won two tickets to Deerhoof (on 10/14) and two tickets to TV on the Radio (on 10/21), both in Minneapolis.
I have nobody to go with.
:(
Liz
I got stung by a bee for the first time today. She stealthily landed onto my back and took offense when I went to take a seat. I'm disappointed because I had hoped to make a go of never being stung by a bee or wasp, but at least now I know I'm not allergic or anything. I now find people who act like maniacs upon a bee sighting even more hilarious than I did before the incident since it's hardly all that painful.
It was still strange and unpleasant.
@KickThat
Well my rear is sore from the six inch needle, but yes, thank you.
Also, I was mostly kidding about the commenting thing. I am only a slightly self-absorbed asshole.
What you have are two completely brilliant chat-up lines.
So after the most undignified shot I have ever had, I am going to be a-ok.
JERKS.
(Hodges: Pants is the staff)
<insert joke about "completely legal, normal, non-sexual services">
Damn it Jens! Now who is going to go to Deerhoof with me?
umumumumum (seriously how many times was that necessary in that one post? Good job, self) So sure, why not. Coming back that night, I take it?
On the plus side, with the help of my awesome sister and her knowledge about renaissance art and architecture I absolutely nailed a class presentation in class today. A+!
renaissance
A+!
i love organs
i love organs
Have a recording involving lots of noisy organ music: here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,19792.msg718302.html#msg718302).
oh yeah that's what happens when I drink espresso at work too.
"Hi! Can I have a-"
"HIHOWAREYOUDOYOUNEEDANYTHINGMAYBEYOUWANTANORANGEJUICEORMAYBESOMETHINGELSE?"
"just a coffee, tha-"
"ONECOFFEECOMINGUPNOPROBLEMHAOKAYHOWAREYOUDAY?OHMEI'MFINETHANKYOU."
"...okay. bye now."
Is it really that hard?
words.
Dear blog thread... I hate humanity.
I work in the copy center at the local courthouse, of which most of the time means copying boring legal briefs... occasionally, we would need to copy full color glossy crime scene photos from the State Attorney's Office. Today was one of those days, and I had the misfortune for it to be images of someone extremely dead.
It's one thing to see crap like this on TV, but entirely different to see it and know that this is real, and that this happened locally.
I am very grateful that there is a Blog Thread I can drop this weight. I know that as far as personal problems go, this isn't exactly huge, but some things just hurt you right in the soul.
Somebody is dead today, and I need to get very drunk. I've got a quart of Kentucky Gentleman, and I am going to soak in it.
I am very grateful that there is a Blog Thread I can drop this weight.
pants, quit your job and get a better one.
If anybody wants to tinker with it and make it actually good, I can provide the source file for Reason.
So basically was I wrong for bitching him out? Should I call him tomorrow and apologize?
I fucking hate when people cancel on me. It is the quickest way to make me your enemy.
So basically was I wrong for bitching him out? Should I call him tomorrow and apologize?
I was gonna write something, but... fuck it.
I am linking this so I can download it (http://ia311321.us.archive.org/3/items/ErolAlkanErolAlkanPresentsDisco3000/ErolAlkanPresentsDisco3000.mp3)
Your friend is kind of dumb.
Don't you mean how she wanted it cooked?
You guys went to Applebees? Was it full of drunk Raiders fans? We went to some steakhouse near the hotel and there were two or three groups that were flat-out harassing our table because the baseball game was on and we were rooting for Boston.
That is because Oakland fans are trash, Shane.
I am classy as fuck and I am a diehard Oakland fan. As Shane told me yesterday, "Opinions are like assholes. Yours is WRONG."
GAH MY FUCKING NECK
And I take it Shane's statement was directed at your opinion that the Athletics are an okay franchise to root for?
I am classy as fuck and I am a diehard Oakland fan. As Shane told me yesterday, "Opinions are like assholes. Yours is WRONG."
And I take it Shane's statement was directed at your opinion that the Athletics are an okay franchise to root for? Shane isn't usually wrong in these situations.
GOOD NEWS BLOG THREAD
Taylor has woken up and is going to be fine! There is no lasting damage and although she will be in alot of pain for awhile it is better than anyone even dared to hope. I am so so so glad.
My dad's Intro to Chemistry class at UCLA was taught by a Nobel Laureate, and he told me it was the worst class he'd ever taken.
The U.S. released several detainees to Albania. After a few weeks in Albania, the detainees said they preferred captivity in Guantanamo Bay to freedom in Albania.
Dear blog thread,
I think I'm moving to California. It's SNOWING IN OCTOBER.
Shiveringly yours,
Shane
But Shaaane that girl does not live in California. Stay where you are!
Yeah, I've never met anyone who pronounces "Amurka" like that. Not even in the deep south.
Besides I am pretty sure that people only go to Berkeley because having a degree from such a reputable school is pretty damn impressive to, well, the world.
PIES THE SIZE OF A CAT
PIES THE SIZE OF A REALLY BIG CAT.i could go for one of these. om nom nom nom. (however i would not eat a pie made of cats.)
Deardiaryblog thread,
Cloning stuff is nowhere near as interesting as it sounds.
One of the best feelings in life:
Getting back a paper that says "A+ Thank you for the great read."
YES IT IS. Look beyond the dense and dull terminology and what you have is very awesome.
Emaline you are rad and you should do rad things. Have you tried doing arty things? Any kind of creative process might make you feel better.
Deardiaryblog thread,
Cloning stuff is nowhere near as interesting as it sounds.
YES IT IS. Look beyond the dense and dull terminology and what you have is very awesome.
One of the best feelings in life:
Getting back a paper that says "A+ Thank you for the great read."
...I don't think this has ever happened to me. :(
Emaline you are rad and you should do rad things. Have you tried doing arty things? Any kind of creative process might make you feel better.
I think this actually sorta sparked my depression. For the past few days at work, I have been working strictly on our Halloween display, and that is it. This means carving things out of scrap cardboard, and spray painting a lot. I realize I'm at my best doing these things, I am playful, and friendly, and socialible, and everyone really likes me in general when I am doing creative things. I am pretty stress free when I do those things.
What has me down is I know it won't last. I can't work on displays forever. I can't do arty things all the time at work, and that makes me miserible. For awhile I used to make postcards for money. This was when I first moved back home, and I had some money saved to pay my one bill, so I made art for going out money. I don't even have time for that now. I don't have time to sit down and draw. And god it frustrates me. I want to quit my job and just focus on art. But I have $200 in bills to pay every month, which will triple soon. And I can't make $600 a month on art alone.
By enjoying winter immensely.
or someone you've known your whole life and would take a bullet for, that seems like overstepping one's bounds to me.
picture of terrifyingly backwards wisdom teeth
Did you wear the big suit too?
Don't answer: In my mind you did.
My bottom two wisdom teeth grew sideways like that Kristin. My top two were retarded too, just not as retarded. I got them all out at once, but I got to be unconscious. Also no doctors/dentists were excited about my teeth.
Man I was awake for the entirety of the dentist removing my wisdom teeth. It was agonizingly awful. My bottom two were impacted and wrapped somehow around themselves or something, so each one took 20 minutes of drilling and piecemeal removal to get the things out. It was awful.
hey, i had a wisdom tooth that looked like that too. i'll be honest, the surgery itself was pretty fucking terrible but i made it through alright and they actually didn't hurt at all after the initial couple of days. it'll be over before you know it.
I've had a cavity drilled without novicane. Twice, in fact! I was actually very proud of myself, but it hurts like hell. Though, not in a "normal" way. It's like something extremely cold is being poured with great force directly into your tooth.
Tuna, contact your local bar association. Ask if there's anyone who deals withyour type of complaint who can work pro bono. Lots of lawyers just really enjoy suing people and seeing wrongs made right.
blog thread!i am still very busy and stressed out with school and despite the fact that i have worked harder than i have ever worked in my life, my grades continue to be terrible which terrifies me because i am supposed to graduate this year or something. i have three exams in the next three days and one involves memorizing a three inch pile of articles on women's health and psychology which is a fucking impossible amount of information and i am trying to rationalize this by going "it's okay, it's an impossible amount of information and my professor will be reasonable" only i already had an exam involving memorizing an equally massive pile of articles on community mental health and prevention strategies which i stayed up all night for and ended up completely failing anyway because it was fucking insane hard.oh goodness gracious what am i going to do
I bought American Gods (By Neil Gaiman).
I bought American Gods (By Neil Gaiman).
This is a really good book.
I never hung out with that girl. Ker-sigh.
I bought an excellent Christmas present, though I am not sure who is getting it (and I can't say what it is because of certain people on the forum who may or may not be subject to the present-receiving in question).
I'm not moving out west just to seek out a girl I've not even had a date with.
The third test starts tomorrow. That is all that's been getting me through the week, as dismal as the second was.
[edit]Oh and it looks like channel 10's going to be setting up a 24hr sports channel. They own the rights to show the IPL, as well as Major League baseball and the NBA. Unfortunately it looks like the Super 14's is still stuck on Foxtel and the NFL looks to remain unavailable in general.
Not having heat in winter is better than not having air conditioning in summer, in my opinion. I mean, at least without heat, you can sleep in sweaters and stuff. In the summer you are just fucked. There are only so many layers you can remove.
Not having heating is not terrible.
There is a chain craft store here. Do you think they'd hire my with my facial piercings and my tattoos?
Anna prolonging a relationship you're not into is never really good for either party. Well, that's a lie, sometimes it's good for the other person in the short term, but if you're really not into and think so consistently, drop that shit. If there is no interesting or stimulating conversation, it should probably be over.
Just leave a box of Valtrex layin' around.
Just leave a box of Valtrex layin' around.
Em, isn't that illegal to not be heated this time of year? Don't you have a rental board to go to or something?
I just went walking the dogs. Snow? in southern England in October? I need to find my gloves!
Was he carrying the liquid nitrogen in his bum-bag?
i have come to the conclusion that i absolutely cannot stand living with girls, even nice girls that let me eat their food and invite me to go places with them.
Don't feel bad for him, don't stick with him to just avoid being alone, don't stick with him because he's familiar or comfortable.
i have come to the conclusion that i absolutely cannot stand living with girls, even nice girls that let me eat their food and invite me to go places with them.
This is the most true statement ever. I will never, ever live with more than one girl again. They are nuts. My roommate now is a dude and it is a lovely arrangement.
i have come to the conclusion that i absolutely cannot stand living with girls, even nice girls that let me eat their food and invite me to go places with them.
This is the most true statement ever
for some reason that has nothing to do with lingering feelings i can't break up with my boyfriend even though i am not happy with the relationship and think it's pretty much beyond repair at this point.
I find the idea of someone looking at a packet of paper that covers everything I've done for the last three and a half years utterly terrifying.
i have come to the conclusion that i absolutely cannot stand living with girls, even nice girls that let me eat their food and invite me to go places with them.
This is the most true statement ever. I will never, ever live with more than one girl again. They are nuts. My roommate now is a dude and it is a lovely arrangement.
I don't know if it's so much an issue of living with girls (or with boys), as it is an issue of living in a single-gender house. My two basic guidelines for sharehouse living:
1) Have at least three people (actually, precisely three is optimal as far as I'm concerned, but definitely more than two is ideal);
2) Have at least one person of each gender.
Anna, I am ashamed that you have apparently lost your entrepreneurial spirit.
Start to charge him money for the time you spend together.
Dude, she charges like woah.
My girlfriend started charging me for sex. She said she had to think of her future, and anyway her friends did it so why shouldn't she? I didn't mind too much because her basic rates were very reasonable, although she always expected tips for extras. Once, as she was holding the banknotes I'd given her up to the light to make sure they were real, I asked her if she ever went with anyone else for money. She was furious, and asked what kind of girl I thought she was. I said one with laughing eyes, and lovely long dark hair.
Moving swiftly on - Roll next person talking about how much they want to kill themselves please!
EDIT: Ok, so this is really weird. I just pulled the curtains aside, and... what the fuck? Snow? Not just a little either, it's covering the ground, road, trees, everything, and it keeps on coming. It's only October!
I went and played playstation, it was a lot more sexually gratifying than her.
Hey, Patrick. I've been off since February.
Dear Blog ThreadMy friends,
I actually woke up more or less on time today! I am so proud of myself.
Liz
It has to be adjusted a bit first:Dear Blog ThreadMy friends,
I actually woke up more or less on time today! I am so proud of myself.
Liz
3) Never ever ever get romantically or sexually involved with a housemate
3) Never ever ever get romantically or sexually involved with a housemate
IF I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERY SINGLE FRIEND I HAVE HAD TO TELL THIS TO. this is why i refuse to live with people who share my sexual orientation.
I just had awesome sex.
Fuck you, sad ass whiny ass blog thread.
I love the fact that I live in a flat where I can be sitting in my living room with my flat mates, look up from my book and exclaim, "Oh shit! The floor is water and it's full of sharks!" and then spend the next half an hour leaping across furniture and climbing along walls with three of my best friends as we desperately try to avoid being eaten while making our way around the flat.
I do not love the fact that one day I will have to grow up.
I love the fact that I live in a flat where I can be sitting in my living room with my flat mates, look up from my book and exclaim, "Oh shit! The floor is water and it's full of sharks!" and then spend the next half an hour leaping across furniture and climbing along walls with three of my best friends as we desperately try to avoid being eaten while making our way around the flat.
I do not love the fact that one day I will have to grow up.
That is pretty great.
Don't grow up.
I just opened up the box of Lorna Doone cookies I bought earlier. The box advertises "Now better tasting!" Well it's definitely different tasting, I'll give them that. Kind of a "New Coke" thing they've done only, y'know, fewer people care about Lorna Doone cookies.
I love the fact that I live in a flat where I can be sitting in my living room with my flat mates, look up from my book and exclaim, "Oh shit! The floor is water and it's full of sharks!" and then spend the next half an hour leaping across furniture and climbing along walls with three of my best friends as we desperately try to avoid being eaten while making our way around the flat.
I do not love the fact that one day I will have to grow up.
Whereas when I see the phrase "Lorna Doone cookies" I just think they've misspelled Laura Dern.
Whereas when I see the phrase "Lorna Doone cookies" I just think they've misspelled Laura Dern.
Pft. I read it and think someone's misspelled Lorna Dane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna_Dane).
Patrick if you mention Aviator Cap Girl I will honest to god or whoever the fuck you do or don't believe in FLY TO ALBANIA, PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE AND SMASH YOUR JAGUAR.
And steal his iPod. And give it to Lindsey.
Patrick if you mention Aviator Cap Girl I will honest to god or whoever the fuck you do or don't believe in FLY TO ALBANIA, PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE AND SMASH YOUR JAGUAR.
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to fly to California and try to find Aviator Cap Girl?
Patrick if you mention Aviator Cap Girl I will honest to god or whoever the fuck you do or don't believe in FLY TO ALBANIA, PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE AND SMASH YOUR JAGUAR.
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to fly to California and try to find Aviator Cap Girl?
I think I can come up with a few, actually...
(oh and be advised, I know where we keep all the knives...)
Stab in the dark: the utensil drawer?
jailbait friend
alcohol + night swimming
Albanian Idol.
I normally absolutely hate idol shows, but I hope you do well. When there are some people on there that don't just whore bad top 40 songs, the show is kinda interesting.
What do you win, a goat and a poorly secured munitions dump?
Also, blog thread, I nearly dropped 50 kg on my face today whilst working out. I'm kind of spooked and am currently looking at power racks to prevent that kind of thing happening again.
You know, Patrick, he can always wait outside for you and you wouldn't even know he's there. Or if you did know, he could perform a seige. THERE'S NO ESCAPE.
If that's a reference to the Gerdec explosion, I tip my hat to you, man, because damned if that isn't beautifully played
Also, blog thread, I nearly dropped 50 kg on my face today whilst working out. I'm kind of spooked and am currently looking at power racks to prevent that kind of thing happening again.
Are you working out at the gym? and were you doing bench press? You should really use a spotter.
3. I fucked my thumb pretty bad at work, it's now swollen like a mutha and looks like a small swollen penis instead.
tommydski: go to a doctor kiddo
Astaldo: don't
this is a comedy goldmine
I should clarify. I'm not upset at all. I just can't figure out how to get my head around the fact that he decided to do that all of a sudden. Apparently it was to impress the girl he was talking to on the phone at the time, which makes me even more bewildered. He's not jeapordizing his relationship with any of his friends, he's just jeapordizing himself in a way somewhat more jeapordizing than swordfighting without armor, which is what he likes to do for fun. I find myself less worried about him and more worried about the fact that it was to impress a girl, whom none of us know.
Emaline! I had Nos today.
It is not good. I thought I was having a heart attack. I hated the feeling so much that I had to take one of my old pills for when I used to get panic attacks (muscle relaxants.)
*Paging Joe Hocking to this thread. Give me some good Chicago art schools that I can attend and go for printmaking.
As for whether or not you should move to Chicago, um well I know nothing about your life situation. The main thing I want to point out is if your friend thinks having his own apartment is cheaper than living in a dorm, he is almost certainly mistaken. Probably not worth bringing up with your friend, because if he is set on getting his own place then all you'd accomplish is getting in an argument, just fyi.He is not mistaken. It actually is cheaper to get an apartment than live in the dorms at Columbia. I had a roommate while he was at Columbia and it was cheaper for him to share our 4 bedroom apt than it was for him to live in the dorms. If you move to Pilsen or further south, rent is even cheaper. Just don't move to Joe's neighborhood.
Emaline! I had Nos today.
It is not good. I thought I was having a heart attack. I hated the feeling so much that I had to take one of my old pills for when I used to get panic attacks (muscle relaxants.)
As for whether or not you should move to Chicago, um well I know nothing about your life situation. The main thing I want to point out is if your friend thinks having his own apartment is cheaper than living in a dorm, he is almost certainly mistaken. Probably not worth bringing up with your friend, because if he is set on getting his own place then all you'd accomplish is getting in an argument, just fyi.He is not mistaken. It actually is cheaper to get an apartment than live in the dorms at Columbia. I had a roommate while he was at Columbia and it was cheaper for him to share our 4 bedroom apt than it was for him to live in the dorms. If you move to Pilsen or further south, rent is even cheaper. Just don't move to Joe's neighborhood.
Dearest Blog Thread,
I just got done with work (it is one in the morning) and as I pull up to my apartment there are at least eight police cars outside. I pull into my space and notice that there are people standing outside watching the building. So I start heading to the door and a police officer with an assault rifle greets me at the door and asks me what floor I am going to. I tell him second and ask what is going on.
Apparently there is a dude on the fifth floor that spent the night throwing things out his window and onto parked cars. When the police tried to go into his apartment they found it barricaded from the inside and the man told them that he had guns.
Oh boy.
This is basically it. He is looking at Belmont area places, which I have no clue where that is, but rent for a three bedroom 2 bathroom is like $1,000 something. Which would then be split amongst three people, at least, so is would be pretty cheap.
He is not mistaken. It actually is cheaper to get an apartment than live in the dorms at Columbia. I had a roommate while he was at Columbia and it was cheaper for him to share our 4 bedroom apt than it was for him to live in the dorms. If you move to Pilsen or further south, rent is even cheaper. Just don't move to Joe's neighborhood.
He is looking at Belmont area places, which I have no clue where that is, but rent for a three bedroom 2 bathroom is like $1,000 something. Which would then be split amongst three people, at least, so is would be pretty cheap.
UPDATE: News story! http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=220669§ion=news&freebie_check&CFID=112413741&CFTOKEN=82616713&jsessionid=88304a805bfc5e496345
When I got my own apartment, my costs were slashed in half, because I didn't have to buy a meal plan.
every so often two of my closest friends get into these fights where each tries to gross each other out more than the other one
Hey Joe I am living in a two bedroom/two bathroom apartment. Rent is $460 a month including heat/air and water.
bwah.
Friends want me to do track with them. I'm scared of the evil dykes that do nothing but exercise. They're scary. For real. If it wasn't for them, I'd do it but I dunno. I think I'll run a bit at home first maybe.
I really want to get in shape.
Gosh, the Internet has anonymous invective! Just like eighteenth century pamphlets, then.
Are we playing Rank! ?
If so, please rank the following -
Jesus
Tommy
Silkworm
Dames
I really can't stand long distance.
Dear blog thread,
I didn't get to have a very satisfying conversation with my girlfriend this morning due to the fact that my phone, which runs through an internet service, was garbled as fuck for most of the entire conversation. Considering that talking to her is the one thing I will without fail wake up for each morning, I am having a really goddamn shitty morning.
I really can't stand long distance. It is the single most agonizing experience of my entire life. I haven't eaten (and have already lost something like 15lbs of the weight I gained this summer), I barely sleep, I don't play my guitar much anymore, I don't even go outside even though the weather has been over 75 degrees and sunny every day. I'm a fucking wreck and it's just plain unhealthy.
:(,
me
Don't be a pussy.
told her to give me a call and she'd already put my number on her wrist
mondays
There's a difference between missing your girlfriend, who is something like 9,000 miles away, and being a whiny bitch about it like I am.
I feel overcome with the frustration that comes with my disorganization, shortsightedness, and disjointedness.
I didn't ever think I'd say this, but I think I need a hug.
I sucked all 30 of George Washington's goddamn dicks
I wish I were talented enough to suck even three of George Washington's thirty dicks.
Blog thread,
It seems I need about 7 classes to graduate in the spring. The problem is that a) there is NO way I could handle 7 classes in one semester, and b) all of the classes I need to take are pretty much at the same time, so I can't take half of them. Errrrrrgh.
hey blog thread, in an attempt to make myself feel better about my plunge into academic ruin and also make my ear-holes look respectable to society, i ordered these labradorite stone plugs a couple of weeks ago -
[img]http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/2997/singlelabradoriteee7.jpg[img]
they arrived today and they are so lovely. it is impossible to tell from the photo but they are very reflective and colourful and almost iridescent. in a lot of ways it was probably a stupid pointless thing to do since i really shouldn't be spending any money at all but YAAAAY PRETTY THINGS
Why would your student's radio station not allow you to cover the election? That's bizarre.
Good luck with with this one dude!
WHINE ME AND MY LADY ARE GOING TO SEE JAMES BOND TONIGHT WHINE
WE REALLY ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY WHINE
WHINE WHINE WE WILL PROBABLY HAVE A GIGGLE OVER SOMETHING INANE IN A BAR AFTERWARDS WHINE
Ahahahahahahahahaahahhahahauehgfiuewhrghahahahahaha no you aren't.
Dear Blog Thread,WHAT
Michael Crichton died of cancer today.
I AM SO SAD
Liz :(
WHAT
Damn it. Uh.
WHINE I AM GETTING MY BONE ON?
Fuck.
And that's no good.
The unlock button on my Zune is broken, and it is set to "lock".You have a zune? I'm sorry.
That means no mp3 music for at least a week. I'll have to get an mp3 CD player to tide me over.
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
things
Were you maybe blocking the air vents at the bottom of the laptop when you were watching it in bed?
word of advice to future college/university students: do not, under any circumstances, take economics if it isn't a required course because you think it'll be "interesting". no, it doesn't matter how hard you try. no, you are not that one person who is going to be different from everyone else and really, truly enjoy it. this might come off as harsh but i feel like this is so important for people to know. economics fucking sucks so bad. trust me on this.
"How to help developing countries" sounds interesting.
wut :?
word of advice to future college/university students: do not, under any circumstances, take economics if it isn't a required course because you think it'll be "interesting". no, it doesn't matter how hard you try. no, you are not that one person who is going to be different from everyone else and really, truly enjoy it. this might come off as harsh but i feel like this is so important for people to know. economics fucking sucks so bad. trust me on this.I don't understand you people.
"How to help developing countries" sounds interesting.Quotaaaaaaaas
Right. You're only fuckin' 18.
So basically he said, he didn't know if he was going to see me tonight because pleasing his friends is more important then seeing me
ThePQ4 - I know what your problem (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpKjmNaJpQ) is.
Also what Paul said. Because Paul is Right (is that a weight off your shoulders or what, Tommy?). And what Tania said.
More econ debating
Right. You're only fuckin' 18.
So basically he said, he didn't know if he was going to see me tonight because pleasing his friends is more important then seeing me
Calm down - lots of people see 18 as a big deal, and it only happens once - he may even be disappointed that you can't join them because you're doing something else that you don't want to skip for him. In any relationship it is important that each of you respects the other's interests and wishes; getting like you want to own each other is a bad sign. Understanding is good; talk is good; only that way can you see if there's a real problem that needs sorting out.
it's the fact that, while economics in general might be interesting and all, the courses involve
a) being tested
b) all the time
c) on a fucking impossible amount of information
who gives a shit
ThePQ4 - I know what your problem (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpKjmNaJpQ) is.
Hey guys, when I started my new computer it didn't ask me to name it. How do I name a computer in Vista? This is Important Information!
That is a punne, or play on words.
the computer repair guy managed to salvage Black Pete's hard drive (yay!) and turn it, in effect, into an external hard-drive for Handsome Nick, so I shall call it "Black Pete's Ghost".
I don't care if I do well or not, as long as a learn something and have a good time.
I name all of my hard drives after lyrics from David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
My main hard drive is called Ground Control, My external is Major Tom, my thumb drive is Protein Pill (it's actually shaped like a pill as well!) and my work partition is called Tin Can.
Dear Economics Thread,i snickered at this.
duck hunt which is a bit hard when you're not entirely sober to begin with and then continue drinking while you play. i so kicked his ass though. and don't ask me why there was a nintendo there in the first place.
Dear blog thread,
There's a bouncy castle in my backyard. It is Saturday.
Guys, I'm pregnant and on meth. Also I think I just accidentally sold my best friend to the mafia.
Blog blog blog (kinduv in response to Anna),
I used to love dancing. Simple enough, you feel the music, and move your body accordingly. Then someone wrote in my yearbook that they'd "never seen a more... uh... unique dancer". And someone else said she liked dancing with me that one time because I obviously didn't care how goofy I looked; I was having fun and that was the whole point. Actually, I had no idea that I looked goofy, although in retrospect, yeah, I probably did.
So now I don't dance in public because, sadly, I do care if I look goofy doing it. I know I shouldn't give a shit what other people think, but I do.
I guess that's kinduva bummer, isn't it? Sorry. If it's any consolation, I still dance my ass off when no one's home and I can crank up my tunes.
Why are kids such dicks?
When my step-son was five (in 1971), he went to the local school, that happened to be a Church-of-England school in southern England. One day he came home crying, and said: "We were playing Catholics and Protestants, and they made me be a Catholic!"
No because then I would not be able to hit on him anymore. No fun!
Jordan what I am saying is that I would like you to keep your penis to yourself. Please do not share it.
Dicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicks
And Jodie, on some computers (less these days, but you never know), not all the USB ports are the same speed - perhaps you made an unfortunate choice of port? On USB2, my player takes about 8 hours to do 60GB.
to be fair, kids that young haven't fully developed the cognitive capabilities needed to make moral judgments and understand that comments like that are inappropriate. they focus more on concrete physical characteristics of people and apparently will still tend to notice and comment when some kids visibly look different from others, regardless of whether or not their parents or teachers are even racist at all. the best thing that can be done in this situation is to maybe talk to teachers at that school and make sure they make it clear to kids that comments like that are not okay and hope their their parents do the same, so the problem doesn't escalate from noticing physical differences to full-blown discrimination as they get older.
I am current working on an outline for a text involving time travel and warring between factions of baroque (religious zealots, moralists) and renaissance (scientists, utilitarians). Spouts of neoclassism and romaticism will also be included. I haven't got any details yet but I am thinking probably a machinery (Steam-propelled helicopters and such) versus some sort of magic, divine assistance or religious technology (church organ artillery guns etc).
Is the idea a bit too silly? I don't know.
Deare Blogge Threadde,
I am current working on an outline for a text involving time travel and warring between factions of baroque (religious zealots, moralists) and renaissance (scientists, utilitarians). Spouts of neoclassism and romaticism will also be included. I haven't got any details yet but I am thinking probably a machinery (Steam-propelled helicopters and such) versus some sort of magic, divine assistance or religious technology (church organ artillery guns etc).
Is the idea a bit too silly? I don't know.
edit: (Kristin, in case you are really terrible at reading between the lines, this means I will borrow all your exphil books)
edit: (Kristin, in case you are really terrible at reading between the lines, this means I will borrow all your exphil books)
God, ex.phil. I'm so extremely glad I got through that debacle with minimal effort. I'm hoping my future employer won't not hire me because of a D in exphil, but honestly, I doubt I'd want to work somewhere where ex.phil matters anyways. My crappy grades in other subjects might be a problem, though..
Man I still don't read achewood.This is strong boarding.
Also my legs ache so I'm not sure if you'd want to stay here because I'm grumpy as fuck right now.i'd try to stay out of your way then. i might semi-jokingly tell you to make me dinner, but i think that's the only thing i would do that might piss you off. also, if you're just weirded out by the idea of living with a random internet lady, i can tell you, it wouldn't be a matter of me actually moving in with you, more of an attempt to preserve what is left of my sanity by crashing there when i need peace and quiet. soooo, what do you say?
also anyone who lives near me, aka james: can i pleeeeeease stay at your house? i am so fed up with my current place and its current stream of unwanted vistors. IT IS NEVER QUIET HERE. NOT EVEN ON A GODDAMN SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN NOTHING EXCITING IS HAPPENING. I'M GONNA GO CRAZY. tonight, when i came "home" there were two girls i've never spoken to before in our kitchen making cupcakes and they gave me this look like "uh, what are you doing here?" uh i live here, you cunts. also, my dad who was with me helping me carry some stuff said hi to them, and they fucking ignored him.
Deare Blogge Threadde,
I am current working on an outline for a text involving time travel and warring between factions of baroque (religious zealots, moralists) and renaissance (scientists, utilitarians). Spouts of neoclassism and romaticism will also be included. I haven't got any details yet but I am thinking probably a machinery (Steam-propelled helicopters and such) versus some sort of magic, divine assistance or religious technology (church organ artillery guns etc).
Is the idea a bit too silly? I don't know.
edit: (Kristin, in case you are really terrible at reading between the lines, this means I will borrow all your exphil books)
This is strong boarding.
I've seen a few episodes and it's pretty damn good. I just need to find someone who has the dvds so I can borrow them.
Jefferson was like "Oh shit, brah. You are fuckin' rad."
watch seasons 1 and 2 of Torchwood (at watchtorchwood.com)
I'd hit anything.
I'd hit anything with a penis.
I'd hit anything with a stiff extremity.(http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/unbranded/f/unbranded-frying-pan.jpg)
*sigh*
we'll go to all kinds of Really American Places like Wal*Mart and Panera Bread and PetSmart.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrlog
My furnace is broken, and so far it is the coldest day of the year. Right now it is 15oC in my house. That is 60o for people who live life in fahrenheit.
Anyone want to donate some blankets?
Are you out of state for the next two weeks? I'm sure if there were a family emergency, the program you're with (whatever it is) would be really understanding, especially if they're a volunteer program.
I killed.
I have been tasked with installing the new Adobe CS4 suite on every computer in the college I work at. It takes forty minutes to uninstall the old suite and a good hour or more to install the new one.Get thee to a ghosting program vendor!
Ergo: I will probably be posting a lot from work over the next few weeks.
Blag Fred-
I have got to stop goddamn crying every time someone mistreats me. I was at work, trying to lift a table off a cart, and dropped it. Now these tables are 8 feet in diameter rounds, built out of left over soviet ammunitions or something, and weigh a goddamn ton. So I'm lifting the table, and it slips out of my hands. It skids sideways and lands flat, which makes a huge bang and promptly sweeps my feet out from under me and I fall on top with ANOTHER giant bang.
I'm sitting there in the center of the hallway taking stock of my various just-bruised body parts and a fucking guy comes out of the room across the hall, surveys the situation, and proceeds to yell at me. For falling.
SORRY MISTER I'LL TRY NOT TO DISTURB YOUR DISCUSSION NEXT TIME I ACCIDENTALLY DROP A HUGE TABLE AND FALL ON MY ASS. WOAH.
But instead if yelling at him, I nodded said sorry, and proceeded to sob in the ladies room for 20 minutes. Then start crying again when I went back to the office and people asked if I was ok. Fuck this.
I want to get a zipper over the length of the scar on my back (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Lapuz/me/back.jpg) (from between my shoulder blades to about my hips), from my scoliosis operation.
My wife had a seizure, and spent a few days in the hospital, with none the tests showing any reason for it. The final diagnosis was syncope, which is essentially caused by low blood pressure and low blood volume (dehydration).
I want to get a zipper over the length of the scar on my back (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Lapuz/me/back.jpg) (from between my shoulder blades to about my hips), from my scoliosis operation.
1) Consider the following quotation by Frederick Cooper: “The ensuing “Congo Crisis” that began in 1960 at virtually the moment of independence would reveal that decolonization was more complicated than tearing down the flag of an oppressor and raising the flag of a new nation (p. 83).”
Write an essay discussing the complications of decolonization in the Congo and Zimbabwe. Your essay should include at least three examples of such complications (in total, not three for each country) containing specific references to important events and people/political parties. In the case of the Congo what do you think has been the most enduring complication or what complication has had the most far-reaching impact?
Is it common to have to write 3 papers all in the same week?
Please tell me they still do All-Star Batman & Robin
PLEASE TELL ME THEY STILL DO ALLSTAR BATMAN AND ROBIN
"WHOA! You look terrible! Man, what a virus. I'm surprised you're fighting it off so well!"
Okay so I just found out the girl was just fucking with me, along with two of her friends who is also in my class.
I go to the chiropractor for my jaw
why is it that every guy thinks that they're a nice guy? and that when they don't have success with girls that its because they're a nice guy and girls like guys that treat them like shit? this sounds incredibly self absorbed.
Funnily enough, we've had a zombie topic before.
It was probably the best thread.
I can be confident without being a jerk.
Stuff.
One of my coworkers (my old manager actually) read the book The Game, he thought it was a great way to pick up women. But when it didn't work for him, he didn't realize it was because he can be a genuinely nice guy
I believe there is also a set of girls who will use a Nice Guy as an emotional punching bag, because a lot of guys will try to sit and listen to a girls problems if they think it'll help them have a relationship (because communication is key, you see). But then in the long run, it doesn't help at all.
people will come from the world over to see the Two Dudes Making Out statue
This "mystery method" makes me think of dudes putting on big black capes and swinging around the city on ropes
Also I've been looking for a new job that is a little bit more secure than what I'm doing now and one of the places I applied to, the place that HOUSEMATE X works at, called me yesterday and they want me to come in for an interview on tuesday. I'm a little worried about my Novembeard scruff but I'm fairly certain they will think it is "awesome" and "hip" and "out-there" (which is what the company purports itself to be) if I explain it in terms of the Movember charity thing.
I'm sure I will get the bug and want to go out and rave again soon (I am being abandoned by The Girl tonight and the Bang Gang Deejays (http://www.banggang.com.au/) are having a party so maybe tonight?).
Psssssssssssssssssssh. No one watches basketball. There's only about a minute and a half of worthwhile entertainment
Psssssssssssssssssssh. No one watches sports. There's no real entertainment.
Hi! That's not what I meant.bwah.
Friends want me to do track with them. I'm scared of the evil dykes that do nothing but exercise. They're scary. For real. If it wasn't for them, I'd do it but I dunno. I think I'll run a bit at home first maybe.
I really want to get in shape.
Hi! If you're referring to people who're genuinely lesbians who exercise a lot and take pleasure in the pain of others, then please continue. Otherwise, please take your homophobic insults elsewhere. Thanks!
the manly, non-lesbians, straight girls who have bigger muscles than their boyfriends and run faster
Hi! That's not what I meant.
I mean the manly, non-lesbians, straight girls who have bigger muscles than their boyfriends and run faster. They enjoy picking on out of shape people such as myself.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks!
A widely accepted gender-neutral pronoun would be super.
Ewww, Tommy has a bloody Hitler-stache.
Ewww, Tommy has a bloody Hitler-stache.
I'd still hit it
To spell it out, the problem with using dyke like that is that it is often used as an extremely negative term for lesbians. When it shows up as in the phrase 'evil dykes' people are offended because it conveys a certain attitude towards homosexuals which most of us here think is entirely inappropriate.
issue #1: my ex-boyfriend is clingy, obsessive, mood swingy as fuck and just not understanding that i am not ever going to take him back
issue #2: i have this new acquaintance that i am kinda maybe interested in something or other with
he would probably be all OH I LOST THE BEST THING IN MY LIFE SO I MIGHT AS WELL KILL MYSELF NOW. then what?
Okay, and I'll use the n-word only to refer to evil black people. A black person that is also evil, I'm not saying all black people are evil.
Solution to issue #1: Make sure you run into him while in the company of issue #2. Said encounter will be hella awkward for your ex, but that is the point. Hopefully boy #2 won't find the encounter awkward, but if he does, well, maybe he wasn't such a great catch after all.
Nobody likes your smelly genitals.
Of course I am shooting for a mac so it might be a good while indeed. We'll see.
I miss you already, QC.
My guess is guys who are packing serious heat almost never check out early.
because they want one or because they think they want one
I had a sex nightmare last night about an old school friend who I hadn't seen in 2 years and when I woke up this morning she had contacted me on Facebook and is interested in meeting!
Also, I need advice, specifically in how to talk to total strangers. How do you do it? What is a reliable way to start a conversation with someone you don't know?
kvp: in my opinion, the best way to talk to a stranger is to have something to say. I'd be much more comfortable talking to a stranger to ask him for directions then to ask how the weather is. Find something you have in common and make it worth responding to.
Work on the assumption that there's a very good chance you have similar taste in music
Hmmm, yeah, that's good advice. But it doesn't seem very proper to just walk up to someone and ask them about their life. It's the starting of the conversation that's my problem, I think. Ice-breakers and the like.
At concerts you have an advantage: you're both at the same concert. Talk about the show. Introduce yourself and then ask them what they think of the band, or whether they've ever seen the band play before.
Take up smoking, kids.
Seriously though, I wish I smoked sometimes. It gives you a guaranteed opportunity to talk to complete strangers, especially at clubs and gigs where the inside is too loud.
Just tell them you quit. Smokers love talking about quitting. Rueful grins and sheepish smiles abound!
they are just more reliable and much harder to fuck up than regular laptops.
I breathe a sigh of relief when people in my company buy a Mac. It makes my job a little bit simpler somewhere down the line.
I had a sex nightmare
:-o
Snidely Whiplash
Ask them to say hi to David for you.
details plz kthx
f) I really hate Vista
I finally got to order the underwear I have been telling Gabbly about for the longest time: http://www.splitreason.com/product/456
I am getting a mac for many reasons!
This is the second image that you get when you google image search "absinthe party".
e) I primarily use my computer for Photoshopping and listening to music and these are things Macs tend to do well
Birfday stuff
SUGGESTIONS.
I don't understand this. I really like Vista! particularly how it re-did Office. Things in Powerpoint and Word are so much simpler now! And as a college student, that's what I use computers for, generally...
I mean, it's got problems, and I'll change once the new Windows comes out (which looks to be soon, actually) but it's a very good system, all things considered.
I got the job.
The only real 'problem' with Vista is people loading it onto computers that obviously cannot handle it.
And Emaline, the solution to your problem is to wait six months, find ONE friend you know you can count on and ask them as a personal birthday request to plan it for you.
Guys, I applied for a new job yesterday. I am fed up with working alone all the time. Its so hard to go into work knowing you'll have no one to help you out at all for the entire 8.5 hour shift. So, I'll stop bitching about my job if I get this new one. If not I'll try to cut back on the bitching.
I'd like to think I don't suck that bad at web design sort of things and I could start some sort of website making thing.
I farking love Vista. The only real 'problem' with Vista is people loading it onto computers that obviously cannot handle it. The biggest problem with this is PC manufacturers, who consistently put it into machines that clearly can't handle it by the already pretty liberal system requirements. Basically, don't put Vista on your PC unless you have a two ghz dual core and two gigs of RAM. If you top that, you're golden.
It's ok Liz, he said he was applying to another hotel down the street, we still get his Hotel Wizardry!
I'd like to think I don't suck that bad at web design sort of things and I could start some sort of website making thing.You and a hundred thousand others. You won't be able to start charging until you have good examples of your work, and even then paid work will be hard to come by.
Does this mean you're funding my chicken party?
Birthdays!
Also, man, Amanda, thanks for your oodles and oodles of help!
Sweet. They come through here like yearly, usually on or near my birthday. This is the second time I'll be going to see them for my birthday, incidentally. I've probably seen them three or four times at least. Tickets are $20 this time, though, which makes me unhappy.
By the way, is there now or have their ever been forumpeoples from anywhere in Ontario besides Toronto, Waterloo, or Guelph?
Ontario
I'm in Ottawa. Formerly London, I just moved here for school.
he and I would drink and play board/video games all night.
Blog thread,
A guy in my class today asked me to hang out with him and his roomies sometime in the next few weeks. This is kind of freaking me out. I've sat next to this guy for the last few months, and all I know about him is (a) He's a democrat, or at least, he's an Obama supporter (b) He does charity work sometimes, although it could be community service or the like and (c) He drives a truck. He's very clean cut, athletic, probably student government in high school. For whatever reason I'm suspecting he's a christian, an FCA type. He might think me a potential convert (I don't know why I think this, but it seems plausible to me) I don't know what to do. The guy seems nice enough, he doesn't seem like a bro, although the possibility is still there. But I'm being asked to jump into a social situation with a group of strangers. I'm pretty stiff when I'm out with my best friends. I have a feeling of impending doom. Something about this guy is sending off all sorts of red flags in the back of my mind.
geez, or maybe you should just not make blatant judgments on people and just get to know them first
were all the other traits supposed to be indicative of a fundamentalist Christian, or were they just being listed for no apparent reasonThe traits listed are not related to the presumption of christianity. The traits suggest he's at least a proactive sort of person. The assumption, well, it's based mostly on all the people I used to know, and that could very easily turn out to be very wrong.
he and I would drink and play board/video games all night.
Buy Cranium and convince four other people to join you. Cranium is the best drunk board game that exists in this world, closely followed by Trivial Pursuit.
I'm always wanting to buy my friend's art. It hangs up in a coffee shop.
I am worse than you.
Kristin, if I ever have enough money to spend on art I will buy something from you.
So you better make it good.
I'd prefer to see some nasty, really painful, messy football.
Be acidicly nice to them. Like, to the point where they feel absolutely ashamed at how miserable their lives must really be to complain about shit like this.
Oh man. Why are so many people dicks when it comes to retail? Unfortunately, you will get used to it. The vast majority of the jerks are people who know they're doing something wrong, it's just them being defensive. Not two weeks ago this lady with gray hair was trying to rent movies on this account for a 22 year old woman. This was not the right person so I asked to see her ID and she said the worst excuse ever "No, I have my sister's ID but not my own WHY" and she was getting increasingly rude so I was finally like "WELL YOU SEE HER MOTHER IN LAW KEEPS TRYING TO RENT ON THIS ACCOUNT." She eventually grabbed my computer -twice- to twist it toward her so I said I'm not renting to you no matter what now, so you need to leave. I wasn't going to rent to her anyway considering that I guess would be a form of identity theft to us also she had her own account where she was banned from the store for being a jerky mcasshole. I told my boss about all the "fuck you!" and "fuck this store!" and how it's "just me and that other lady [the manager is the other lady, I've been there three years] who give [her] fucking problems". Now I have permission to call the police if she ever steps foot into my store again! So yay!
one good thing i will admit about working in retail is that it really makes you appreciate the people who work those jobs. unless you really don't care at all or something, it's just about impossible to be an asshole to someone who's only getting paid minimum wage to deal with shit all day if it's something you've experienced yourself. it might be self-inflating but i really am kind of proud of the fact that i am always nice to people working in sales.I'm the same way, with waitstaff as well. But my experienced waiter friends always scoff and admonish me when I leave tips in excess of 25%. I'm juss tryin to be nice! They think I'm being walked on. But I'm not going to tip well if the waiter is going out of his way to be an asshat, which has happened.
Unfortunately the conclusion is nothing quite that exciting. I thought it might be clear from my previous post that the point I was hacking at is that even when I'm in a foul mood I maintain my philosophy of being as nice to people as possible at all times. Sorry if my implications were not clear enough.
Be acidicly nice to them. Like, to the point where they feel absolutely ashamed at how miserable their lives must really be to complain about shit like this.
It's a magical time of year when people get drunk on high-class booze to try to make themselves forget about the crippling heat.
@Eli: Do restaurants/coffee shops not reserve the right to refuse service to rude customers? Exercise that right!
What exactly is gin & tonic season?
I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life.
It's were you drink gin & tonics like a fancy dude.
How old are you again, homes?
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
You cannot drink gin & tonic in winter. It's just not done.
Man, there's all sorts of shit you can jack. Carjackings. Hijackings. Jack Jackings.
I'm about to get a new Mac tooAnd one of you could buy me one and call it the Wonder Triplets. It would be wonderful. But only if you buy it for me.
Jodizzle: which Toowoomba supermarket are you working at? I spent my last few years of school in T-ba. Glad to be out of there, I have to say.
SomalisPo-tay-to
Who actually says po-tah-to?
Nobody. The expression is Tomayto-Tomahto.
Who actually says Tomayto?
Who actually says Tomayto?
north americans! unless maybe it differs depending on where exactly you are.
Maybe he has jsut very bad eyesight? I had a teacher once who couldn't read shit without his nose touching the paper.
Maine says Tomayto, so it's down to Hawaii. Anybody?
tomayto.I say potahtah.
I've been craving a bike trip for the past few days, unfortunately my bike got stolen this summer and I haven't the funds for a new one.
Wait, this is actually a chance for me to use my degree for once, isn't it? Okay, let's run this one up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it.
(a lot of really interesting stuff)
deep down i have a feeling what i have is some kind of major depression but i haven't seen a professional either on account i am terrified of medication and/or an official diagnosis, so mostly i just deny it and tell myself to try harder. i was in therapy for a couple of years when i was a lot younger due to being crazy and self-destructive and kind of suicidal and the thing with that whole ordeal being terrible might have something to do with my avoidance of professional help as well. the irony is that i currently volunteer as a counselor to other students! so they come in all distressed and i listen to their problems and tell them how to manage their depression and anxiety and give them advice on how to keep their lives together. it is so absurd that sometimes i really can't do anything except laugh. i am probably the worst candidate ever for this.Perhaps I'm overstepping my (quite limited, as I don't know you at all) bounds here, but are you sure that professional help is exactly what you need? I suffer from some pretty heavy depression as well but I've seen a therapist every 2 weeks for 14 years now (that's 728 sessions, if my count is correct, which is 546 hours) and I'd probably say that the benefit I've gotten from my medication and from the visits themselves has frankly been rather marginal. I'm sure that you'll probably have better results than I did, as seeing the same therapist from 8 to 22 can make your therapist sort of intimidating and hard to talk to, but... do you have people that you can talk to who aren't professionals, just people who will listen? I was at about the lowest I'd ever been a few months back and what brought me back from the brink wasn't an emergency call to the good Doctor so much as the care and comfort of my best friends.
deep down i have a feeling what i have is some kind of major depression but i haven't seen a professional either on account i am terrified of medication and/or an official diagnosis, so mostly i just deny it and tell myself to try harder. i was in therapy for a couple of years when i was a lot younger due to being crazy and self-destructive and kind of suicidal and the thing with that whole ordeal being terrible might have something to do with my avoidance of professional help as well. the irony is that i currently volunteer as a counselor to other students! so they come in all distressed and i listen to their problems and tell them how to manage their depression and anxiety and give them advice on how to keep their lives together. it is so absurd that sometimes i really can't do anything except laugh. i am probably the worst candidate ever for this.Perhaps I'm overstepping my (quite limited, as I don't know you at all) bounds here, but are you sure that professional help is exactly what you need? I suffer from some pretty heavy depression as well but I've seen a therapist every 2 weeks for 14 years now (that's 728 sessions, if my count is correct, which is 546 hours) and I'd probably say that the benefit I've gotten from my medication and from the visits themselves has frankly been rather marginal. I'm sure that you'll probably have better results than I did, as seeing the same therapist from 8 to 22 can make your therapist sort of intimidating and hard to talk to, but... do you have people that you can talk to who aren't professionals, just people who will listen? I was at about the lowest I'd ever been a few months back and what brought me back from the brink wasn't an emergency call to the good Doctor so much as the care and comfort of my best friends.
Emaline, I still haven't figured that situation out. My boy is the same and refuses to let me spend crazy amounts of money on him at Christmas time because it is our first Christmas together and he is just excited to wake up next to me and spend the day with me. What I wanted to buy him would have cost me $300AU for the present and shipping and he said not to get it. So now I have to figure out something as equally as awesome because he knows what it is now.
I have to get him SOMETHING but he hasn't asked for anything and refuses to let me spend heaps of money on him (which I'll probably end up doing anyway).
I am still struggling to get over the fact that there is an entire continent where it's normal to have a shrink. We don't even have therapists in the UK, we just drink our worries away.
But the idea of having a therapist at the age of eight - I mean, what are parents for? How can they be so blind to what are surely (in nearly all cases) simply their failings?
I can't get the original thing I wanted now anyway because he knows what it is. So I think I might just get a bunch of awesome stuff and wrap it all up in a big box and he'll have lots of things to investigate/play with on Christmas Day.
I dunno, I just love buying the perfect presents for people and seeing how happy they are with it.
For reference: I was going to buy him this: http://www.gadgetizer.com/2005/09/27/homestar-planetarium/
A good hard look might reveal that they (the parents) could do with the therapy to help enable them to handle their responsibilities in bringing up children. Children are not just a lifestyle choice.
encouraging children to be open about their feelings and challenges
I mean, what are parents for? How can they be so blind to what are surely (in nearly all cases) simply their failings?
But the idea of having a therapist at the age of eight - I mean, what are parents for? How can they be so blind to what are surely (in nearly all cases) simply their failings?Now I'm not going to come out and say my parentals are all that great at parenting, they haven't been awful, they've never really been abusive, but they have always been and continue to be very remote. There is no great amount of communication, in fact in the cases where things should really be said there hasn't been anything said. It goes both ways but I'm the kid, damn it, it shouldn't be up to me. I remember a few times where we should have had a dialogue and my mom would say "talk to Dr. Siegel about it" or "talk to your father". She knows damn well I'm not going to talk to my father about anything. I don't know if it's because I'm afraid of talking or because he's afraid of listening but we just don't talk. It's only become apparent in the last few years how eerily similar my dad and I are, and it's no more apparent than in our general unwillingness to confront things.
their lack of control.
their lack of control.
The socialisation aspect of growing up and the associated parenting is about setting limits. It is important for parents to understand that from toddler to teenager, the child is deliberately (or better, naturally ) testing the limits, and it is the parents' place and responsibility to set those limits - not control exactly, but drawing a line and keeping to it. The idea that children are small adults, to be consulted and reasoned with in all matters has IMO caused a great deal of damage. Which is not to say that they shouldn't be taught to think and reason independantly, of course!
I totally harbor some ill-feelings towards my stepfather, but frankly, he earned it. Anyways.
Dearest grog sled,
I really hate Rachel Ray. You see, I couldn't get to sleep and went to watch some tv. Nothing much was on, but my brother had recorded some food network thanksgiving thingy which apparently heavily featured Alton Brown. Unfortunately, that stupid harpy was also on the show, and you won't fucking believe this, but she used extra virgin olive oil while making gravy. What the hell people? I know she's turned her stupid "EVOO" thing into an Emeril level gimmick, but holy shit. Does she not realize what a waste that is? Doesn't she realize the whole point of "extra virgin" is in large part due to the amount of heat the stuff is exposed to? Graaah!
baked mashed potatoes?
And the whole point of gravy is to use the juices from the joint anyway.
Not that I've heard of Rachel Ray...
Cool. Is it an orchestra type concert or more of a rock show type dealy? I'm thinking of going to the NIN/Boris show tomorrow, but my friends are being really douchey about it.
if you are trying to have a conversation during a gig shut up I'm trying to watch a band you fuck.
And I go so often that I made friends there; show buddies you just chat with for a bit between bands and maybe dance with during.
Dear Blog Thread,
Brief reader, first-time caller. I'm currently applying to my school's Education Abroad Program (as noted in the Study A Broad thread I posted a few mos. ago) to study in Scotland for a semester (either Glasgow or Edinburgh), but I have no idea what I should write as far as my Personal Statement goes. I think that the people reading my application will frown upon "I really like your country's music and things stuck in a deep-fryer, please let me study in you". How should I begin attacking this thing?
Best,
Christopher
cylindrical revolving door
He gets it.
Its always about winning with you isn't it Liz?
Whatever happened to the spirit of it? You didn't used to be about such fierce competition Liz. Not in the few months I've known you have you been this adamant about always winning.
Fourth, I have a new boooooyfriend (I think) and he is lovely. He has a beard!
also do any of you know anything about hacking?
Buying your own little gifts and wrapping them up would be like filling your own stocking. Laaaaaame. And sad.
Buying your own little gifts and wrapping them up would be like filling your own stocking. Laaaaaame. And sad.
Assassin's Creed
HEY FREUD
FFFFFFFFFFUCK YOU
Shane that is a terrible picture of Ole Gunnar.
My name is not Bryce. Why does the senor sales manager call me Bryce? Does she care what my name is? This is something I felt that I needed to blog about so that you people get the sorts of things that a raptor will say to you.
Bryce is barely close to what my name is.
Blog thread,
disappointment. I was going to Oslo with Kristin (Metope) to buy boots, but then she and mum thought it would be a better idea to go to a shitty mall with fifty million billion cloned shoe stores and cafés that looked fancy and smelled terrible, so we went to shitty Jessheim instead. No boots for me. I did get some pretty cool shoes, admittedly - but they are not boots! Boo.
Also I got a pair of pants out of spite of Kristin.
No, no! Enjoy, instead.
Leonard Cohen (http://www.leonardcohen.com/)
Jens, Oslo may be better, but you have to think tactical. The two of us shopping = we pay. Us shopping with mom = free stuff!
Apparently I'm not allowed to fall asleep whilst working.
Wait, do you mean Woman (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=16509643),
Okay
Here is the breakdown
She was going to give me 2000 kr to shop for in Oslo, in cool stores
in Jessheim I got 1600 to shop with in shitty stores
Do you see the conflict here
Wait, do you mean Woman (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=16509643), WOMEN (http://www.myspace.com/womenmusic) or women (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women)?
I am a big fan of all three.
The forumite Aztex (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?action=profile;u=8970)'s name is Arthur Lee. I assume he knows the pedigree behind this name!
Ahahaha we are all in for a big surprise if, when we die, it turns out that God was just dicking with us by doing shit that didn't make sense.
(protip: the god is an astronaut album is not that good)
(protip: the god is an astronaut album is not that good)
(protip: the god is an astronaut album is not that good)
shit, i really need a job... fuck you economic financial crisis. you're a real asshole
dear blog thread,
asksfkdsgjsfgjk fuck procrastination. i don't think i'm physically capable of writing a ten page paper before midnight. for the record, i am NOT one of those people that leaves things until the last minute but then goes into super-focused mode and magically completes everything by the deadline. fuck. also my roommates are expecting me to be present at this christmas potluck dinner thingy they're organizing (which is tonight) and i said i would be there, since we haven't been spending much time together lately and it would not be cool to be like "fuck you guys i am barricading myself in my room and writing this paper" all of a sudden. :|
argh,
anna
I did that with my English term paper and honestly I'm just handing it in late. Less stress and even if I lose marks it'll be a much better paper.
my roommates are expecting me to be present at this christmas potluck dinner thingy they're organizing (which is tonight) and i said i would be there, since we haven't been spending much time together lately and it would not be cool to be like "fuck you guys i am barricading myself in my room and writing this paper" all of a sudden.
my roommates are expecting me to be present at this christmas potluck dinner thingy they're organizing (which is tonight) and i said i would be there, since we haven't been spending much time together lately and it would not be cool to be like "fuck you guys i am barricading myself in my room and writing this paper" all of a sudden.
I think that's totally reasonable grounds for ditching a potluck.
Cat Power, (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wXWvjkX446A)
admittedly i like a few songs by cat power but honestly, i do not get what everyone sees in her. to me she is just not all that attractive or talented.I'm with this canadian.
sorry, cat power thread.
I spent too much money on records.
Responsibility
And Chan Marshall is still goddamn hot
Also, get thee to gabbly.
with pineapple
However, one of them works as an audio engineer. Consequently he's able to save the band large amounts of money any time they record by doing the engineer work himself, and getting free studio time at the place he works. He also meets large amounts of other bands, managers and various people involved in the music scene on a daily basis, which makes getting gigs a whole lot easier.
when it gets to the point of "If your music doesn't work out, you're fucked" that doesn't exactly provide me with much encouragement to do anything. That's roughly equal to saying "Well, I have no faith in your music. And since you're not going to college, when your music inevitably fails, you're fucked."
I will punch them.
First person to link an article complaining about a recession within Second Life wins a trip to intensive care.
The downturn of the economy is affecting Americans all over the country. Skyrocketing gas and food prices has lead many Americans to stay in and "party" in virtual worlds, such as Red Light Center, that let you date, socialize and partake in risqué activities without even leaving your house. Red Light Center has seen a 400% percent traffic increase since last year, with users totaling more than 2 million.
105%
Also, making 'good' music doesn't always equal $$$.
In fact, it only equals $$$ for an absolute minority of people.
Also workers came and woke me up at 7am by walking around on our roof removing asbestos. The upside was I looked out the door and was surprised to see about 6 cute shirtless guys milling around the front yard. AWESOME.
THERE IS A CRICKET PLAGUE
well YEAH Harry, if you want to look at it THAT way.
Spoilsport.
Jimmy and I found horrible porn on my hard drive that I did not put there at all! It was horrible. So bad.
an horrific
I was in the filming of Australia last year when there was a moth plague.THERE IS A CRICKET PLAGUE
What the shit? And you're still trying to convince me Australia's a lovely place!? You have plagues! That shit is medieval!
The worst part is that I know it's correct with your accent.
Someone please hold me I don't think I can take more classes today
I think an Australian would pronounce it 'orrible rather than horrible? I'm not sure.
Today the power company came and cut off our power! They just showed up at our door and were all oh hi, we are cutting off your power now! My housemates and i were all...wait..what? WHY? They shoved a piece of paper at us and said: THIS SHOULD EXPLAIN IT, then stole our power and left.
So we apparently have an unpaid bill we never ever recieved, and we got no notices about it or had any idea we had an outstanding bill at all! But we did have no power today! We had to go pay $200 cash for this bill of an undisclosed amount (which we still have not seen) to get the power switched back on today. We are lucky I keep a good stash of backup money in case of emergencies or we would be sitting around in the dark right now.
I think an Australian would pronounce it 'orrible rather than horrible? I'm not sure.
That is what I meant, and if that isn't true then I simply don't understand saying "an horrific" because H is a consonant.
Incidentally, the main word where I see people do that is "hotel" (ie. people writing "an hotel.") I'm not sure why, other than I guess "hotel" is probably the most common H word in typical modern day conversation.
That is what I meant, and if that isn't true then I simply don't understand saying "an horrific" because H is a consonant.
Incidentally, the main word where I see people do that is "hotel" (ie. people writing "an hotel.") I'm not sure why, other than I guess "hotel" is probably the most common H word in typical modern day conversation.
I hear it most often with historic. I'm not grammatically perfect, by any means, but it's one of those things that drives me absolutely batshit.
Yeah, the rule is based on sound, not spelling (ie. what matters is whether the word is pronounced with a vowel first, not whether it is spelled with a vowel first; an example in the other direction is "unicorn" because that is pronounced with a consonant Y first) and that's why I assumed it had to do with different accents.
As for the 3 syllables thing, that sound pretty fishy to me.
It is pretty fishy. It's not a rule or anything. I think it's just an habit people have adopted to sound sophisticated.
It is pretty fishy. It's not a rule or anything. I think it's just an habit people have adopted to sound sophisticated.
(I'm sorry)
Mouse Trap is easily one of the five worst mainstream board games ever. Anything that requires fifteen minutes of bullshit setup before you even roll the fucking dice should'[ve been shitcanned before it got out of the planning stage. Mouse Trap and Grape Escape can kindly go fuck themselves.
The slogan on the front of the Rap Rat box states: "For kids who just want to have fun!" Well that pretty much describes any kid.
out comes the much anticipated protagonist — a puppet rat with an annoying voice and a misguided confidence in his own charisma and rapping ability.
In the subject of GREAT board games like Scrabble and Monopoly, Cranium is one of the best things ever, especially when drinking.
It was an assignment that contained a predictive aspect to it. We were to predict the number of electoral college votes / number of states that were to go to each candidate in the election, as well as the results of the house and senate races. Extra credit was assigned for correct predictions. I was a little bit off on my presidential and house predictions but exactly right with my senate predictions. Hence, 5% extra credit. For practical purposes it adds 5% to some other assignment that isn't A+ material.105%
This is not possible. Explain yourself.
I am all for the classics but powergrid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Grid_(board_game)) is really, really rad.
An was frequent before a consonant to the end of the 13th century, before sounded h until the 18th century. In standard English an is ow used before a vowel sound (including h mute), e.g. an egg, an honour, and a is used before a a consonant (including sounded h) . . . In the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries an was commonly retained before an unstressed h (as in an historian and an hotel), because the initial h was often not pronounced.
On a more serious note: either it's a mistake or, no offense, you have no one to blame but yourself or your housemates. Bills come monthly and shit gets lost in the mail a lot. If you're living on your own, you need to keep track of these things and not rely on this shit getting to you in any reasonable fashion. If it's been two months since you paid your electric bill and you haven't seen a notice, you should probably call the power company or check your online statement.
Anyone who thinks ear troubles are the worst troubles has never really seen the horrors committed in the name of podiatry.Actually, I take it back. The worst troubles are kidney stone troubles. Specifically urethral stint troubles.
I used to have tubes in my ears too. The last time something like what Harry described happened to me, the doc told me to tilt my head sideways, pour peroxide in my ear, wait thirty or so seconds, and then pour it out over a sink or something. It is disgusting, but it works.
I had to have my ears syringed when I was very little. I did not handle it well.
I always feel like I'm the only person in the world who saw the third live-action movie, where they go back in time to feudal Japan for no apparent reason.
Anyone who thinks ear troubles are the worst troubles has never really seen the horrors committed in the name of podiatry.
I had to have my ears syringed when I was very little. I did not handle it well.
While we're talking about children's medical stories:
When I was not knee-high to a horse, I fought off a trio of doctors with a sword. They were trying to operate on my eyes, the bastards! I'd have none of that shit, however, and gallantly entered mortal combat, outnumbered and trapped. Thankfully, the virtuous nurse came to my rescue and I dunno what happened after that, I was pretty fucking stoned from the anesthetic.
I've had pretty bad ear troubles my whole life. When I was little (like, 2 or 3) it became apparent that I couldn't hear very well and so needed to have grommets put in my ears (though I don't really understand why and have never took the time to find out).
I always feel like I'm the only person in the world who saw the third live-action movie, where they go back in time to feudal Japan for no apparent reason.
No, wax build-up. The doctor gets a huge metal syringe (like the ones you see in horror movies that are meant to symbolise "BIG EVIL FUCKING CRAZY SYRINGE MAN"), only instead of being pointy it's pretty large-bore. The doctor fills the syringe up with water, gets you to hold a small surgical basin under your ear, sticks the syringe in your ear and basically squirts all the water in there. The water builds up pressure against your ear-drum, which forces the wax out. Then the doctor give you a tissue and tells you to tip the water out of your ear.
It feels rather like having a high-pressure hose blasted directly into your ear. Because I guess that's basically what it is.
It was because of an ancient magical lantern that they were all touching which caused them to switch places with actual samurai who were also holding it in feudal Japan.
Pay attention.
No, wax build-up. The doctor gets a huge metal syringe (like the ones you see in horror movies that are meant to symbolise "BIG EVIL FUCKING CRAZY SYRINGE MAN"), only instead of being pointy it's pretty large-bore. The doctor fills the syringe up with water, gets you to hold a small surgical basin under your ear, sticks the syringe in your ear and basically squirts all the water in there. The water builds up pressure against your ear-drum, which forces the wax out. Then the doctor give you a tissue and tells you to tip the water out of your ear.
It feels rather like having a high-pressure hose blasted directly into your ear. Because I guess that's basically what it is.
Oh man, I've had this done so many times because this has happened a bunch of times in my left ear. It is actually kindof fun, and being the curious, disgusting person I am, I like to see what kinds of obscenely large pieces of waxy debris like to build up in such orifices.
One time, I had a plug the size of my whole goddamn pinky up in that shit. No joke.
I've had pretty bad ear troubles my whole life. When I was little (like, 2 or 3) it became apparent that I couldn't hear very well and so needed to have grommets put in my ears (though I don't really understand why and have never took the time to find out). When I was about 12 my brother was dunking me in the pool and my earplugs (which I had to wear while swimming) fell out, the pressure of the water against my ears puncturing my left eardrum. I woke up that night in terrible pain and with blood leaking copiously from my ear. Eventually I got a skin graft to patch up the hole as it didn't heal itself but that didn't take as the skin graft ended up creating yet another hole that was eventually fixed up with another skin graft. As a result of all this, my left ear doesn't hear that well, especially high pitched noises, also it throws my directional hearing off by about 50% (it was tested in a biopsychology class I took in first year) though I guess it isn't helped by me being in a small room once a week while three other people around me play extremely loud music for about 2 hours straight.
It's not insomnia, but I don't see how getting 8 hours of sleep is lazy.
i'm not as lazy as i sound in some of my posts really.
Man you know what's great about insomnia?
Yeah neither do I. : \