I second that! Though I'd perhaps replace "or" with "and".
The old blog thread has got scarily long, and I've decided I'll be more comfortable retiring it in favour of this nice new one.Was 255 or 256 a barrier?
Jace proposes petition to change original thread title to Blog Thread IV: Live Free or Blog Hard.
Jace proposes petition to change original thread title to Blog Thread IV: Live Free or Blog Hard.
that was my idea
just so everyone knows
jace
Probably a good rule just to prevent long cluttered threads and to stop people like me who compulsively (attempt at least to) read every page of a thread before participating.
Good luck getting anyone to listen on fetlife. You'll more or less get ignored while 'WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TRUE DOMINANT' or "submission (is/is not) a gift!" takes its place on k&p.
(I kind of hate fetlife but I still use it. same thing with facebook.)
@Blue: Happy happy joy joy-style soundtracks? Or just 'I'm zooming down Neon-night Tokyo highway, too cool for road rage' soundtracks? :3
So wait, before I try to jump into this one, how does this thread work?
edit - when I posted this, I got the following error message: "Wrong value type sent to the database. Array of integers expected. (quoteids)". Anyone seen this before?
The logs show me that this is caused by an error in the Tapatalk forum plugin; I'm hoping for a fix soon. It doesn't appear to cause anything else to go wrong. I haven't determined what triggers it, either.
Good luck getting anyone to listen on fetlife. You'll more or less get ignored while 'WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TRUE DOMINANT' or "submission (is/is not) a gift!" takes its place on k&p.
(I kind of hate fetlife but I still use it. same thing with facebook.)
I cut my hair.
Was going for shorter sides and back and I sort of ended up with a popular 1930s do.
Good luck getting anyone to listen on fetlife. You'll more or less get ignored while 'WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TRUE DOMINANT' or "submission (is/is not) a gift!" takes its place on k&p.
(I kind of hate fetlife but I still use it. same thing with facebook.)
Dear lord yes. It's a great resource, but it's filled with an awful lot of terrible. It's like Reddit in the sense that if you wade through the terrible you can find great and non-terrible stuff, but I absolutely couldn't blame you for not wanting to bother in the first place.
The High Line is gorgeous! I loved the High Line zoo. There's a nice little Italian restaurant a few streets away from the end of it (in the ... Meatpacking district? I don't remember) with painted walls.
Hah...I am now known as Señor Wingman...awesome. ;D^ This is the reason I always have the Clannad Soundtrack on every music device I own. The BGMs are there for an entirely different reason though (For when you just want to visualize yourself punching a bear.)
In other news...I'm kicking into a binge of anime soundtracks while I drive during work. It seems to be improving my mood; instead of trying to run people off the road when they cut me off, I just wave and smile. Seriously.
I can't help but think that would be a really bad idea...
I just know getting yelled at is better than potentially getting fired and fined thousands of pounds.
I also once refused to sell a computer game certificated 18 to a man who was quite clearly buying it for his primary-school aged son.
Oh look, a concert (http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/1/21/0730/PM/Nicolas-Hodges/) today.
I always IDed anyone who looked under 35, even if I knew they were over 18 - even if they were my best friend and I had been at their 18th birthday party.I don't know if it is the law, or just a booze-industry standard, but bottle-shops here have signs up saying in effect "ID required if you look under 25; take it as a compliment". I'm not sure why people get bent out of shape about this. If you don't have a driver's licence, you buy a Photo Card*, and keep it in your wallet alongside the money or credit-card you use to pay for the grog.
That's an excellent review! When you first posted about the concert I looked at the website hoping it might be in London and entertaining unrealistic ideas about going to it (I wouldn't be able to afford it even if I had time). Does he play in the UK often?
That's a great review! And I need to hear some of that music.
Wow...impressive. You're related, I assume? :psyduck:Oh look, a concert (http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/1/21/0730/PM/Nicolas-Hodges/) today.
Oh look, a review (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/arts/music/nicolas-hodges-pianist-at-zankel-hall.html?_r=0) as well. ;D
Yesssss, got my first dental exam in 12 years today by one of the dental students and it wasn't terrible news! I only have one very minor surface cavity which, while getting the filling done sooner rather than later is suggested, was barely worth mentioning. Otherwise, I need a deep gum line cleaning to keep the gum erosion on my two front lower teeth in check and my teeth are in good condition otherwise considering my lack of professional dental care.
About ID's, isn't debit cards valid ID in the states? Or does everybody just have credit cards? It's never an issue here as I pay with the same visa card that I use for ID.
Yeah, and some states (or maybe it was just MA?) won't even accept out-of-state licenses for alcohol.
I'm quickly becoming addicted to facebook scrabbleish games, but I hate people who cheat, and you can always tell. And they do it all the fucking time. I keep wanting to grab people by the collar and yell 'OH, THAT'S YOUR WORD? DEFINE THAT FOR ME, MOTHERFUCKER!'
If you have to use an app to get your words, you're not playing pseudoscabble, you're just trolling the dictionary.
I'm quickly becoming addicted to facebook scrabbleish games, but I hate people who cheat, and you can always tell. And they do it all the fucking time. I keep wanting to grab people by the collar and yell 'OH, THAT'S YOUR WORD? DEFINE THAT FOR ME, MOTHERFUCKER!'
If you have to use an app to get your words, you're not playing pseudoscabble, you're just trolling the dictionary.
While there certanialy are people using other apps to cheat, Scrabble is not a vocabulary game and many players know only that a word is legal, and not what it means. Similarly, knowing which words are not legal, even though you think they should be ("tase" is not a legal word, even though it has been adopted (from the proper noun Taser) for some years now to be the verb for shocking someone with a stun gun. The OED recognizes it as a word for goodness sake!!)
Qi is a word but chi is not a word in scrabble.While qi is the correct pinyin Romanisation for 气, which is not a proper noun, it is also the romanisation for 齐 as in the Qi Dynasty which is a proper noun.
Random thing to post but I just read about a guy who is suing Oxford University (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21161891) because they wouldn't let him study for a 1-year MSc because he couldn't prove that he had £12,900 to cover his living costs.That's pretty crazy. Even to get a student visa to the UK, you don't have to show that much money for living expenses. I think the first time I did it, I only had to show about £5000. It's strange to think that a university wants you to have more money than the immigration-phobic government does.
What on EARTH do they think students spend? The average rent for a single room in Oxford is £535. Let's be generous to the university and say that accommodation will work out at about £7000 a year. Who on this earth spends £6000 a year on living costs excluding rent? I live on less than a third of that! If I were living on just my student loans, and not my earnings from various jobs, I'd be surviving on a sixth of that.
Just couldn't believe that a university which claims to be encouraging applicants from deprived backgrounds could have such an outrageously out-of-touch view of student lifestyles. That sum doesn't include tuition, by the way - he had a separate loan for that. They will not accept a masters student who cannot show that they have £13,000 in the bank at the start of the course.
DOCUMENTING YOUR FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS
If you receive an offer of a place, your college will require you to complete a College Financial Guarantee form providing evidence that you have sufficient funding to cover your fees and living expenses for the duration of your programme; for some part-time non-matriculated courses, the Department for Continuing Education may also require you to provide satisfactory evidence of funding arrangements.
The cost above is based on a mixture of eating meals in college and self-catering. Meals in colleges are subsidised and can be significantly cheaper than purchasing meals outside. Self-catering can also minimise food costs.
You're quite right of course, news reporting is notoriously incapable of presenting the whole story. So I have looked into it. I found this on the official website for the university:
<SNIP>
Minimum spend per 12 months
Accommodation £6,200 (US $9,796)
Utility bills £1,050 (US $1,659)
Food £2,950 (US $4,661)
General living costs (clothes, books, socialising, etc) £2,700 (US $4,266)
TOTAL £12,900 (US $20,382)
£2,950 for food. That is £56.73 (US $89.63) per week. That is more than my parents spend each week to feed two people, three cats and a dog.
Additional edit: Cambridge specifies its minimum maintenance amount (as in, the amount graduate students have to show they have to live on) as £11,750. I'm genuinely staggered. Am I really in the minority? Does everyone spend this much a week on food and I just hadn't realised?
Though seeing my name anywhere is weird since almost no one has my first name.I think I've seen it on the forum.
Ah. I'm from Huddersfield originally, but I don't sound much like it. My Yorkshireness is discernible to the conoisseur of accents but it's been cruelly battered by my sojourns in Shropshire, Paris, Cambridge and America.
I had a horrible idea pop into my head...My Little Pony Glue Factory.
I googled it, and to my surprise (I really shouldn't be surprised, it is the internet after all) I found a fanfic. Pinkie pie is a sleeper agent sent to grind up all the other ponies into glue.
It is fuckin' hilarious. :mrgreen:
Though seeing my name anywhere is weird since almost no one has my first name.I think I've seen it on the forum.
Won't be nearly as popular as Rainbow Factory.I had a horrible idea pop into my head...My Little Pony Glue Factory.
I googled it, and to my surprise (I really shouldn't be surprised, it is the internet after all) I found a fanfic. Pinkie pie is a sleeper agent sent to grind up all the other ponies into glue.
It is fuckin' hilarious. :mrgreen:
Can't be worse than Cupcakes.
and at the Cambridge end a major radio telescope got built on its track.How careless of them.
Welu, what's the basis for intermittent fasting? Only eating 600 calories sounds downright dangerous to me.
I have seen said big-ass telescope! It's quite cool.
Oh, and he's playing the same program he just did in New York in Berkeley, CA on Sunday (http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/performances/2012-13/recital/nicolas-hodges.php)
Oh, and he's playing the same program he just did in New York in Berkeley, CA on Sunday (http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/performances/2012-13/recital/nicolas-hodges.php)
Gaining another good review (http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Nicolas-Hodges-review-Showmanship-depth-4233471.php).
I'm drunkenly navigating punk rock label websites, almost, but not actually buying a bunch of 7"s.
I'm drunkenly navigating punk rock label websites, almost, but not actually buying a bunch of 7"s.
Just as website registrations have a turing test to make sure you're not a robot, eCommerce checkout pages need to have a sobriety test to make sure you aren't drunk spending. "mrgreen:
Three people using one bathroom? I am looking forward to living somewhere where 14 people don't use one bathroom!How can you live like that.
I'm drunkenly navigating punk rock label websites, almost, but not actually buying a bunch of 7"s.
Just as website registrations have a turing test to make sure you're not a robot, eCommerce checkout pages need to have a sobriety test to make sure you aren't drunk spending. "mrgreen:
As I started going to theater events sometime in the 1990s, and occasionally on busy travel days at freeway service plaza, I began to notice lines at women's rest rooms. It really hit home when a major musical came to the large theater in Detroit's venerable Masonic Temple. Young women weren't waiting in line for the women's rest room, they were using the men's.
I imagine that's commonplace at older entertainment venues nowadays, and I gather other cultures are much more accustomed to it.
My memory is that it's a scam rather than a prank. If you bite, you learn that money is needed.
Problem is that it's just a shell and needs a lot of work but could be very worth it.You'll learn a lot!
There's been a scam going on here where the caller somehow has some background information on the person they're calling. My husband's grandparents got a call from someone claiming to be my husband, saying he was in jail or suck in Mexico or something and could they send money. The scammer knew my husband's name and his father's name, but couldn't answer where his father was born. I've also seen it as an email scam but that's obviously easier to make up since they don't have to have a phone conversation, and easier to check since if you get a suspicious email you just call the person.
And this is student housing ... not trench warfare or a similar uncomfortable place?Three people using one bathroom? I am looking forward to living somewhere where 14 people don't use one bathroom!
RT
Except for me it's 46 sharing two toilets and one shower.
Will you post it?And embarrass myself in front of the internet as well as the family? :lol:
I need to strike a balance between super-busy and super-lonely.Yes. Yes you do. :wink:
Girls:
Your father and I would like you to recognize that using foul language does not reflect well on you. On Facebook you have accepted many people into your public conversation. If any of these are not people you would curse around in person, then you shouldn't do so on Facebook.
In addition, we have raised you all with excellent vocabularies. You know how to express yourselves very well. I suggest that whenever you are feeling inclined to use a foul word that you stop and think of a word that accurately expresses what you are describing.
Mom
Also he's having his cat put down since he can't take it with him to his new place:-( :-( :-( :-( :-( And I'm not even especially fond of cats.
A few years ago, my sisters and I received this email, titled "Language!":I hate notes like that. Casual lines to inform you you have diminished yourself as a person. Shit like that makes me want to hurt the sender. That's a lot harder with relatives though, than with a random fucker on the internet.Quote from: my motherGirls:
Your father and I would like you to recognize that using foul language does not reflect well on you. On Facebook you have accepted many people into your public conversation. If any of these are not people you would curse around in person, then you shouldn't do so on Facebook.
In addition, we have raised you all with excellent vocabularies. You know how to express yourselves very well. I suggest that whenever you are feeling inclined to use a foul word that you stop and think of a word that accurately expresses what you are describing.
Mom
Jace: Yay! With the sane roommate, or Jess, or both, or on your own?
In other news, my steady tutoring student cancelled this afternoon. There goes that money...
In better news, I had my first shift with no supervision at the beer store yesterday. It went well. Now, if only it was more than once a week...
I need a night job.
Bouncer?
I have a friendly face with a grey beard - I'd fail horribly as a bouncer.
It has a teflon coating and you can't use metal utensils in that, I mentioned that to both housemates. GUESS WHO'S PAN HAS SCRATCHES ALL OVER THE BOTTOM.
Bouncer?
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I'm 5'7" (1.7 m) and about 200 lbs (92 kg). I look smaller (and weaker) than I am, and have a friendly face with a grey beard - I'd fail horribly as a bouncer.
But the hospital's a good idea...
Tempting! (http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/for-sale-alan-turings-monopoly.html)Man that does look nifty on the one hand.
You'd be awesome as a bouncer! All you'd have to do is put on your best "I'm disappointed in you" look, and every hooligan will get a flashback to their poor old dad and feel awful and beg for the chance to make it up to you. No muss, no fuss, just pure, guilt-driven bouncing.
Why is it called a green room?
Why is it called a green room?
my partner gets into Buffalo in a couple hours and oh my god oh my god oh my goodness gracious i am not prepared for this in the slightest oh god oh god oh god
Also I met a girl I had a nice time talking with, we exchanged numbers, and it turns out we live accross the street from each other. No lie. I may have a drinking buddy!!!!!
and having her point out the confederate flags flying around here
I recall seeing them displayed in the polish-american stronghold of south buffalo when I was younger, too. More social commentary than heritage... there was a real fear of the chorni (black/damned, it's the same word) moving in.
I recall seeing them displayed in the polish-american stronghold of south buffalo when I was younger, too. More social commentary than heritage... there was a real fear of the chorni (black/damned, it's the same word) moving in.Don't the people who fly Confederate flags always say they've got nothing to do with racism? :angel:
(behind a spoiler because HELLOOO huge image that I have no clue how to resize)
Huzzah dooks!
See, I fight in an A-frame stance, and no one in this area really does that, but the dudes in nearby Canada do fight in that stance.What is an "A-frame stance" in the context of swordsmanship? I googled, but only found hits for skating and pistol-shooting.
The gentleman on the left there (Duke Brannos) is in the A-frame stance. Essentially, your sword is across your face and your shield is pointed slightly out, creating an "A" shape.See, I fight in an A-frame stance, and no one in this area really does that, but the dudes in nearby Canada do fight in that stance.What is an "A-frame stance" in the context of swordsmanship? I googled, but only found hits for skating and pistol-shooting.
On that note, my wife has the biggest boner for James Marsters, not even joking. x__x
chest
rack.
Apparently, it's a symptom of hypothyroidism, lupus, and a few other things that I have no other symptoms of. I really shouldn't have googled it...
Like what can even be done with them?
Is it bad that my first thought with 'what can you do with them?' was piercings?
I honestly legitimately met someone last week for whom it actually was lupus.
Anyway, blog thread, I spent my morning giving medicine to a grumpy cat. I was all dressed up for work (business casual), except for a shirt, and I had to scruff my 13 pound cat and force 4 CCs of medicine down his throat. I got covered in fur and drooled on. And I get to do that for the next two weeks!
Percy, the grumpy cat, somehow managed to lose his left fang this weekend. I can't figure out how. But now he has antibiotics and pain meds so I have a stoned cat.
I got covered in fur and drooled on. And I get to do that for the next two weeks!
I've been reading some stuff about Islam and its beliefs a friend linked me and I got a similar ad. Although it said, "The one your parents picked no good!?" which seems really, really off.
Ack: What sort of upfront investment cost are we talking here, if you don't mind? Shaving is a huge part of my pre-social rituals, so am curious.
Slashdot is having a really pretty sensible discussion (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/19/1753215/oxford-temporarily-bloc) of an issue which has been of concern to me in the last week or two, as I run a mail server in that institution.
*I don't know if the phrase design jam is common
Frankly it's hilarious to me that people are relying on the Google Docs program instead of an internal system,
I can search for the people I want to add without being sure of their exact email.
So I did this (http://dollarstorecriminal.tumblr.com/post/43625984828/so-im-kind-of-tired-of-living-with-these#notes) on my blog. I'm not sure how I feel about asking for donations...
What happened to not taking money from people,
Oh look, another of my grandchildren is pregnant (and single)...
At least this one is actually asking for advice.
You wrote 'bright blue briefs' but I read 'golden sparkly G-string.'
Heh, not too bad (http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=2577350), I guess.
Gareth sends email around people at work asking who wants to go for a drink this Saturday
Email includes the new girls from marketing
One of the new girls from marketing replies observing that she is 17 next month
Oops
I'm 24, and I've started seeing a girl (yeah, I said it; her name's Esther) who happens to be 18.
Poked it a little, and then explained that the repair was to give me a new one - for free, as it was still a few weeks within warranty.Nice one! A reflection, perhaps of the "unrepairability" of modern electronic devices? Or was it a software thing?
Then, as they were finishing off, the entire store network crashedThey should hire you! Or maybe me, except that I don't want to live in the UK. Cold!
Or was it a software thing?
They should hire you! Or maybe me,
I don't want to live in the UK. Cold!
I'm in a relationship now based on intense mutual pity I think?That... doesn't sound very good?
I'm in a relationship now based on intense mutual pity I think?
I'm in a relationship now based on intense mutual pity I think?
Reinstalling the OS is always an option, that just means all your data is gone.
Quite right...as long as you have enough free space on the disk to reinstall the O.S., you don't need to reformat.Reinstalling the OS is always an option, that just means all your data is gone.
Not if you don't reformat the disk.
I'm in a relationship now based on intense mutual pity I think?
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Keep the cameras dry!
Sounds like it's time to have a conversation with your husband, partially to set up some kind of text message code for "my day is going absolutely horrible, cook me a fancy dinner"An excellent idea...some way to be able to reach out to him and let him know that the day is sucking massive nuts, and that you need his support.
Oh yeah and we got an invitation to his cousin's wedding in the mail today. It's in Florida. On the 30th.
When you come up for air, I hope you talk to him about this. He needs to hear it.Seconded. As a husband who has all too often not been there for my wife, I can tell you that if he really loves you, he needs to know that it's not your responsibility to cook dinner every freaking night, especially since you're working just as much (or more...I'm really just assuming on the job situation here) as he is. Example: I work, and my wife does not (physical disability). But we take turns cooking and taking care of other responsibilities around the house. Not just odd days/even days, but when one of us is feeling like crap, the other will pick up the slack. I'm pretty sure your day was worse than his, thus he should be wearing the apron at that point.
Aren't there any places you can go together though? Does it have to be a 21+ bar?
creepy awful guy
When you come up for air, I hope you talk to him about this. He needs to hear it.I did mention it a little later. He apologized, said he'd only gotten home about 15 minutes before me, and had been trying to ask, did I want to do dinner right now or later?, not, go make dinner.
creepy awful guyI don't know what's going to happen with this. He doesn't work for us, he's essentially a client, but since I'm in commercial real estate that means he's got a lease with like 5 more years left, he works in the same building as us, and our office exists to assist people like him. My boss is going to call me this morning to ask about what happened yesterday and see what kind of action might be available. Apparently there's some concern about potential vindictive behavior from this guy. Ugh. How do you shut down a smarmy 50-year-old Pakistani who's constantly being either condescending, overly conciliatory, or if you know what I mean whenever he speaks? Who you can't be rude to?
That sounds really stupidNot to me it doesn't. The shared discipline... Respect for the master... The number of times everyone has slapped everyone into the mat... :)
It honestly never occurred to me. I was just thinking of the booze. I used to think I was funny when a date left the table for the "powder room." "Keep your powder dry." Haha.Keep the cameras dry!We're going to be filming in a mostly disused lounge area of a larger pub so a lot of the bottle that were there were actually empty. I'm sure we'll find a way to get a little wet though. :mrgreen:
Edit: I just realised what I wrote as soon as I posted. To clarify: We are not shooting a porno.
[...] That sounds really stupid but it really isn't. [...]Nope, it doesn't.
A music video I made for some friends who collaborated on one of the best-sounding songs to come out of the local scene that we just released today. There's a lot of buzz around the song and the video already, and I think we came through with the goods in a way that's going to get a lot of attention.
Console yourself with the thought that there's a new pope, Francis 1st; a Jesuit from Argentina who is the first third-world pope, and was runner-up to Benedict last time.Well, thanks. I wouldn't know what I'd do if I didn't have you to keep me informed about the issues that are closest to my heart.
Lynnie
Lynnie
Gah. That's my middle name/nickname for family so I was like, why is he talking to me?
I run into very few people who share my name, especially the way I spell it.
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Two people within ten minutes came up to me in work asking if I'd heard and was I okay and I started crying and got sent home.
It seems my aunt is dying of cancer.How do you feel about your aunt, for starters? And any other deaths in your near family?
Unsure how I feel about that.
Jace, while you got the padded shorts, you should look into one of those padded compression shirts that American football and rugby players wear.
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I thought you were older than 12.
When I was 9 boy kicked me in the shin and broke my leg. Every nurse and doctor I saw felt the need to tell me that he must like me. It was infuriating.
Step one, find something to wear to this interview.Indeed. First impressions are often made within the first 90 seconds...dress the part.
Phone interview for the internship went well, though I was not as prepared as I wished I was because I misunderstood the nature of the interview. I didn't think this was going to have the "tell me about your weaknesses" and "tell me about a project you are proud of" questions on it. The man told me to expect a call in the next week to set up an in-person interview, so that is great.Every interview I've had (and every interview I've conducted, for that matter) has had the old "weakness" and "accomplishment" questions. They're meant to test you and see if you can recognize not just that you have faults, but how you overcame them. Accomplishments can be a measure of your self-worth and your own view of your productivity in the workplace.
The me from two year ago would have been intimidated by the me of today. That is a good feeling.One of the most important things interviewers look for is confidence. We're also looking for the knowledge to perform the tasks the job requires, but someone unsure of how to do them isn't going to stand out in our eyes.
ARRRGGGHHH Stop growing boobs.
Hope you people are well, I really wish you weren't posting quite so damn much all the time, because I have no chance to keep up with everything anymore. :P
ARRRGGGHHH Stop growing boobs.
As an English major I want to call myself out a moment, and to clarify: my boobs are growing, I am not growing extra boobs. Sometimes that comma matters. :psyduck:
Meanwhile, my younger daughter seems to be going into an exacerbation - her legs have quit working entirely, she's completely wheelchair bound. She's also leaking a bit through the night. I'm worried about her breathing.
The next appointment with the neurologist is on the 26th.
Of April.
Gonna try and move that one up.
She refused to see me or talk on the phone, so I had to do it via text. God. That feels so dirty. I never wanted that. I wanted to do it like a man, like a person of dignity, but I was left no choice. She robbed me of that and I almost feel like I'm less of a man for it.
.....or Post-It note.
I'm going to assume that people do weird things from grief.This is not untypical.
The alternative is that my family is comprised of idiots.Sadly, this is common, too. Just don't be one yourself, and you'll get through it fine in the end.
I'm going to assume that people do weird things from grief.
Yes. Captain Jack Sparrow on the left there is making his famous 'dookadookadookadook' noise, which all of the ladies found irresistible.
So, they found the source of my daughter's headaches. Did a spinal tap (they needed to test the spinal fluid for antibodies anyway), and found her fluid pressure's about twice normal level.
It's called intercranial hypertension.
She's sleeping well for the first time in several weeks.
Now, if only they can do something about losing all control of her lower legs...
bleh, physical contact, bleh.
I know that since it was a lady kissing a lady people will down play it as innocent, but grabbing someone and kissing them against their will, particularly when they are in a service role and obligated not to stand up to you, is disgusting, and is assault. I'm sorry that it happened to you.
OK, here's the synopsis;
At 16, my daughter, a pole vaulter, runner, flag twirler in the band, and all around great kid, got a painful tingling in her feet one day that worked its way up her legs over the next week. The emergency room was baffled. When it hit her waist, she was shipped to Children's in Pittsburgh, where they thought it might be Guillain Barre (it wasn't) or transverse myelitis (it wasn't). It got to her diaphragm and she nearly stopped breathing. It hit one side of her face, and she looked like a stroke victim. The best they could do was stabilize her, and after 6 1/2 weeks, she was sent home without a diagnosis, but with lots of expensive therapy so she could learn to walk, breathe, pee (with a catheter) and eat again. We were referred to Johns Hopkins, where they said it was all in her head. That place still leaves a bad taste in my mouth...
A few months later she was having trouble keeping food down, so we went to the gastro, who looked at the old MRI's... and spotted a tumor on her thyroid that everyone else had missed. The thyroid was removed with all the surrounding lymph nodes (it was metastatic), and after a lot of hemming, hawing, and long hospital stays as more of her digestive system crapped out, it was finally determined (through an international conference call of over 30 world-famous neurologists) that her immune system was trying to kill the thyroid cancer - and instead, had put her entire nervous system under attack. She wound up with a feeding tube, a wheelchair, a visit to the Mayo clinic to confirm this disease (called paraneoplastic syndrome, only about 100 - 150 cases anually worldwide). She will have a lifetime of huge medical expenses.
She was prepping to go to the US Naval academy. She wanted to study Marine Biology. She was lucky to graduate high school - she can't handle college yet, and will probably never be able to work in any way.
All their platitudes and comfort mean nothing, compared to the digital support I get from you guys.
Which is really pretty fucked up, when you think about it.
Which is really pretty fucked up, when you think about it.We might respectfully disagree.
I much prefer my online life to my IRL one.
Which is really pretty fucked up, when you think about it.I just feel inadequate that I can't really do anything to help.
at what point do i become a rock star fucking hell
i think you're a little further along than i am, albaniaboy.
i think you're a little further along than i am, albaniaboy.
I can hardly say the Albania thing's really such a part of why I play music. I choose to block the majority of the singing-on-live-television experience out of my memory as best I can. I have never felt so completely at the mercy of total strangers before or since, and I never intend to feel that way again. It's awful, completely fucking horrible, I'd sincerely rather be dead than ever feel that helpless again. I need to be in charge of my own fate, and if I'm not, I fucking melt down. I had a lot of great times but I have to make a very distinct partition for the different kinds of memories from that experience.
It'll be 4 years in July since my time on the show ended, and I still haven't decided whether or not the experience amounted to a net gain or loss. There's so many factors of both ends of the spectrum. Whatever I decide about the rest of it, I certainly learned a lot about myself.
I might be irreverent but it's a long day, with loads of travelling and sadness and crying.
I should make a Blót dedicated to her well-being and fortune.
mtmerrick, I might have misunderstood your post, but you might have misunderstood Valdis's - I believe the photos were of the Blót (can you tell us more about that?) which was for Carl's daughter, not for Beo's aunt's funeral.well I did misinterpret that pretty bad then. >_< my fail. I blame wikipedia.
I believe the photos were of the Blót (can you tell us more about that?) which was for Carl's daughter, not for Beo's aunt's funeral.
Feel free to take it as just another hollow platitude, but, like I said in the private message: Infinity hugs. :-)
I also encountered a deer on my way there. She ran off right quick.
Tregul the Bandage-Kitty says hi!
Wow. Thank you, Valdis. That was really very moving. I had no idea what was involved. I'll show her.
Oh, and I know you didn't know this, but she's wanted to be a marine biologist since she knew what the words meant...
Probably the smell of blood and burning fish...
Will you ever look at bambi the same way now though, Valdís?
The majority of the current population of Chinese water deer in Britain derives from escapees, with the remainder being descended from a number of deliberate releases. Many of these animals still reside close to Woburn Abbey.
The main area of distribution is from Woburn, east into Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and North Essex, and south towards Whipsnade.
There have been small colonies reported in other areas.
The British Deer Society coordinated a survey of wild deer in the United Kingdom between 2005 and 2007 and noted the Chinese water deer as "notably increasing its range" since the last census in 2000.
There are currently small, highly localized feral populations
I have now moved over half my people onto win7 x64, which even our oldest desktops handle - I just upped them from 1GB to 4GB. We've all had Office 2010 for ages, but Exchange is still 2003.this is confusing. What OS were they originally running? XP? XP 64? vista? It sounds like XP or vista 32,but that wouldn't make any sense, because if you loaded W7x64 on there, that means it's a 64 bit chip, and that means you'd be able to have more ram. Very few vista 64 machines speed with 1GB of RAM, nearly all came with 2, because vista was such a ram hog.
So really the only thing that wild make sense here is for those PCs to be originally XP 64 Pro. except that was one of the rarest OSes ever :psyduck:
They are shocked when they get out into the business world and find they need to support legacy systems that run on older technologies. Sometimes there is just not a decent ROI to justify the pain of converting systems and re training all of your personell when what you have in place works.Heh... Tell me about it. I've had to support some horrible old dusty decks (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/dusty-deck.html), especially in my first job after leaving uni.
I thought he already had.
My recycling bin is a 240 litre wheelie-bin (http://www.shreddersdirect.com.au/img/cms/Wheelie%20Bin%20Schematic.jpg). If I were homeless, I reckon I could use it as a house. It takes me weeks to fill the thing, and I tried to get the council to swap if for a smaller one, with a similar lack of success.
240 liters = 63.4 Gal. we have a 64 Gal, and are trading up to a 96 Gal. You must live alone or something to make that little garbage. :psyduck:I thought you said recycling? In our municipality each household has three bins (blocks of flats are slightly different). We have one 140 litre wheelie-bin with a red lid for garbage (material not eligible for recycling), one 240 litre with a yellow lid for recycling (glass bottles, cans, cardboard, paper, some plastic containers), and one 240 litre with a green lid for vegetable/garden waste (brought in after the state government banned backyard burning in bonfires or incinerators back in the '80s). We put the garbage bin out once a week, perhaps half-full. The recycling takes weeks to fill. The vegetation bin goes out very occasionally, because we compost. We do seem to produce less rubbish and recycling than our neighbours, but I am not sure why. I assume it is because our diet is different.
t turns out that paypal took out an extra $345 for the rattan order I did on Friday. I'll be getting it back tomorrow probably (I called with a very wtf tone in my voice) and so it will be okay, but it was still a bit jarring to see my checking account at zero dollars when I thought it should be around $250.
One of the blackboards in the computer labs here at uni has this text on it:¨
"Adun toridas
En taro Adun
En taro Tassadar
My life for Aiur"
<3
Yesterday Steve died. He had been suffering from cancer since 2007, and had 11 operations; but he lived with a supportive family, and spent less than two days in hospital at the end. So now we are two.
RIP Steve Thornton.
Hey guys, I think I'll go back to posting on this forum again. Just popped in for a sec and realised how many people I know here who I don't have much contact with elsewhere, so yeah, good to be back!
Hey guys, I think I'll go back to posting on this forum again. Just popped in for a sec and realised how many people I know here who I don't have much contact with elsewhere, so yeah, good to be back!
Great, another reason to check in here. Geez!
I kid of course.
Wait, wasn't I supposed to start posting more or something?
Hmm according to a post back in January I was.
I need to start working on that I suppose.
t turns out that paypal took out an extra $345 for the rattan order I did on Friday. I'll be getting it back tomorrow probably (I called with a very wtf tone in my voice) and so it will be okay, but it was still a bit jarring to see my checking account at zero dollars when I thought it should be around $250.
I had a time when a sales website kept crashing mid-transaction - and I found that PayPal had "reserved" the amount in my account each time; it wasn't taken, but became unavailable. I did wonder how it could have been done without, and whether full-on crashproof transaction programming is practical through a browser; at the least, the banks would have to cooperate a lot, I guess. (It's not a field of programming I know much about.)
My sympathies too.
I had not heard of Michael Gerzon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerzon), so I googled him. He died as a consequence of an asthma attack. It is shocking that this still happens. In 1995 Teresa Teng (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Teng) (adored by millions in the "Sinosphere", including me), died at 42 after an asthma attack. Asthma sucks. Cancer too. Support medical research!
Hey guys, I think I'll go back to posting on this forum again. Just popped in for a sec and realised how many people I know here who I don't have much contact with elsewhere, so yeah, good to be back!
Great, another reason to check in here. Geez!
I kid of course.
Wait, wasn't I supposed to start posting more or something?
Hmm according to a post back in January I was.
I need to start working on that I suppose.
well, you always were a prolific poster
(eric, right?)
Our central-heating boiler has broken. :x
Sometimes on hot days like today I like to listen to hawaiian music when I walk the streets of DC.
especially "Hawaiian rollercoaster ride" and "He mele no lilo" from the lilo and stitch soundtrack.
Are they different kinds or colors of mascara? Either way, yes.
My makeup supplies are pitifully low.
Hi blog thread,
Here is a list of things I did last night.
Hosted a bar night for my program in my city which 14 people came to (an AMAZING turnout).
Got very drunk.
While very drunk:
sent May the most adorable email she has ever received
CAN I DO YOUR MAKEUP????????
You know, I wonder when humanity is going to grow out of the notion that blowing people up is somehow an acceptable way of getting what you want.Not any time soon, I regret to say. When the supposed pillars of our so-called "rules-based international order" feel free to invade and thoroughly trash other people's countries when it suits them, at the price of thousands of lives, why should the uglier and less stable regimes, groups and even individuals value human life any higher?
Neither of which I'd have even given a second thought to a year ago.
Anyway, I'll be thinking of you guys a lot, even though I won't be here much.
"Man my faggot is giving me troubles, I need to swap it out for a new one"?
Anyway, tl;dr, we might (MIGHT) be opening for Vampire Weekend. :3
SO FUCKING GOD DAMN STOKED HOLY SHIT
SO FUCKING GOD DAMN STOKED HOLY SHIT
<3 flying.I took flying lessons while I was stationed on a couple of Air Force bases, first at a Strategic Air Command base, using an flying club grass runway off to the side. I'd been susceptible to motion sickness, but the flying lessons eliminated it in all modes of transportation, boats included, for a couple of years. A couple of favorite memories: My little Cessna 150 climbing as hard as it could from takeoff, and looking down and to my right, seeing a B-52 leaving the ground at a much slower rate, sort of sliding out from under me. And in the same part of South Dakota, seeing a couple of small clouds ahead, aiming at them and flying through them. My stepfather was an aviation writer who used to ferry Piper Cubs from Lock Haven PA to buyers for the fun of it. Later, he used to look at the airliner he was about to board, shake his head and say, "It'll never fly." He was as amazed as you that it did, that they all did.
I mean, the security and hassle that surround it, no, but the flying!
I still fight for a window seat, and stare out at the runway as we lift off with a giddy smile on my face as the ground shrinks away. That moment when the wheels leave the ground and we are supported by our understanding of physics and our engineering skill. I think that flight is such an amazing accomplishment! I am sure my crazy love of humanity is evident from other posts by now and I could ramble on forever, but flight... FLIGHT! It gives me such joy even though I have done it so many times. The fact that it is so routine to so much of our population is just... a testament to how awesome humans really are.
I took flying lessons for a year when I was young, and I loved every moment. There is nothing like pulling back on the controls and leaving the ground. My biggest problem was staying focused on the task of flying the plane when there was so much to see out side the windows.
I made a comment about a film that is not yet released on DVD until next Wednesday (and so some readers have no knowledge of) which was deemed a spoiler, and which I had not tagged as such. Of course, now I don't have the opportunity to argue that it was not a significant spoiler, at least no more than the comment in the post before that I was responding to - which post was made by a mod. I mentioned no plot or characterisation matters, but merely said (http://forum.evageeks.org/post/618941/RoE-in-the-UK-Questions/#618941): "I would argue that it contained some elements of <another film>". Banning on the forum concerned is instant without any other communication. To be fair, it was my second such offence (both purely accidental) in only five months...
I made a comment about a film that is not yet released on DVD until next Wednesday (and so some readers have no knowledge of) which was deemed a spoiler, and which I had not tagged as such. Of course, now I don't have the opportunity to argue that it was not a significant spoiler, at least no more than the comment in the post before that I was responding to - which post was made by a mod. I mentioned no plot or characterisation matters, but merely said (http://forum.evageeks.org/post/618941/RoE-in-the-UK-Questions/#618941): "I would argue that it contained some elements of <another film>". Banning on the forum concerned is instant without any other communication. To be fair, it was my second such offence (both purely accidental) in only five months...
When you each say "on my mobile", do you mean using a mobile browser, or using Tapatalk (or, heaven forbid, the WAP2 version of the forum)? That could account for the difference.
I've been using the mobile browser a lot as well and have yet to notice the phone... but then I don't think the code checks if the Internet Explorer that the request is coming from is a mobile one, I guess it will just say "oh IE, compatibility problems ftw!"
And I also wish there was a Tapatalk app for Windows Phone.
did you like, hotlink that straight from your email?oh that's weird.
that spoiler'd image wasn't displaying, so i tried to open image in new tab and its trying to get me to log into my windows account. :psyduck:now that's really really weird. I'll go fix it once, you know, I am out of bed.
if you guys hear about a violent murder in the temecula valley, that'd me me. physically ripping my mother, the stupidest person on the planet, to shreds.
Not only is Jake Bugg a Brit, he's from my goddamn hometown and he keeps making music videos in places I recognise.
I assume plenty of artists have gotten stuff in Baltimore.
I assume plenty of artists have gotten stuffed in Baltimore.
how i initially read that.
You need a supply of lesbians in hand, of course.
Your version is better.You need a supply of lesbians in hand, of course.
how i misread that.
That can't possibly be true.
Another forum?
Yeah I'd have to just use plain paper, since I don't have my own printer and the uni/library printers can only be used with paper provided by them. Oh well, I'll see what I can do, worst comes to worst I'll just go back to my original plan.
I don't know how it's possible to go through two toilet rolls a day
That's what Bidets are for.
Any time I thought I sucked, only other musicians have noticed, and frequently even they haven't.
Audiences are generally pretty dumb, and your fuckups are usually nowhere near as big as you think they are.
And even if you did fuck up, perfectionism is an endless pursuit and it'll stop you from getting sloppy and make you rehearse harder and keep getting better.
I got Sims3. Bye forever.We need to stop supporting crappy publishers by buying their games.
not homeless; great house; great pot; i leave people speechless with my music
and two people cried
I got Sims3. Bye forever.We need to stop supporting crappy publishers by buying their games.
not homeless; great house; great pot; i leave people speechless with my music
and two people cried
I got Sims3. Bye forever.
Yeah, that whole "Look at me hanging in mid air" thing is pretty fucking terrifying. I can deal with them on surfaces below me but even thinking about the whole idea of In Air and then On My Head is enough to make me spasm.
Eeeuuugh.
My partner was laid off because of stupid fucking reasons.Welcome to the unemployed life. We'd have T-shirts but we can't afford them.
Record them during a very private conversation if at all possible, capturing as much incriminating detail as possible. Then, blackmail them!
basically what i'm asking for is for an ULTRA-gendered world, obviously
Sexnaniganans?
sex ≠ gender
I still don't get what I said wrong. :psyduck: I (purposefully) avoided using that word...You didn't say anything wrong, you just understood it wrong. :P
I still don't get what I said wrong. :psyduck: I (purposefully) avoided using that word...
i'm p. sure spiders don't have a concept of gender, but i could be wrong.
They do.
would you putting spiders in with that group? 'cause i'm going to go ahead and put my money on 'spiders very likely do not understand the concept of gender'No doubt, considering humans have a hard time understanding the concept of gender as well. (I'm probably one of them.) But I think if you poked around a spider brain you'd probably find at least one neuronal network that's responsible for making boy spiders act like boy spiders and not girl spiders.
how's that for a blatant ripoff of the score from Pirates of the Caribbean
but does that fall into the realm of defining gender or defining sex?Gender, I guess? Or are you treating mind and brain as separate here?
would you putting spiders in with that group? 'cause i'm going to go ahead and put my money on 'spiders very likely do not understand the concept of gender'
Also we know at least some spiders are self-aware (http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/19/possible-new-spider-species-shows-3d-printers-whats-what/)Nope. Nuh-uh. Not even close. What that spider can do is very impressive - almost as much as spinning an intricate web - but that is absolutely no indication of self-awareness.
Kat, I think I've just fallen in love with you. :lol:
*It was the B-24 that was the Liberator, incidentally. Do these people know no history?...will you marry me?
Checked Baggage Fee - is avoidable by simply travelling with no checked baggage.
But, isn't that legal there now?
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A hazard to sleeping alone is that the other side of the bed becomes just another horizontal thing-collector.
I never thought about it. In fact it's queen size. I can't see accumulating stuff beside me on a twin. It'd fall off. OTOH I'm not that good lately about picking up stuff that falls on floors.
So hey guys
Long time no see
I'm in Colorado for the summer
I got decent grades (As and Bs except for one C)
I want this summer to go by fast so I can go back to Indiana
And I'm pretty horny
Yeah I think that's everything
Now to see if there's a diplomatic way of telling him you can't just stretch 4x3 footage into a 16x9 frame (in other words, my position as the best live music videographer in town is NOT at risk). :roll:
Now to see if there's a diplomatic way of telling him you can't just stretch 4x3 footage into a 16x9 frame (in other words, my position as the best live music videographer in town is NOT at risk). :roll:
I have friends who have their TV set up to do that; I offered to put it right, but they prefer to have the whole screen used, and really (it seems) don't notice the distortion.I wrote a tongue-in-cheek edit for my newspaper a few years back claiming that our ability to tolerate the distortion was behind the obesity crisis as we tried to live up to the images on the screen.
It seems weird to me that they can be like that...
Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders! Screw Flanders!
Keep in mind I've already made an elevator version of Portal's Still Alive.
I live in the Phoenix area, Chandler, to be exact. This is a pretty fun place to live. And you're arriving for the special Summer Edition - temperatures above 100o F every day.
And you made the steel parts of your armour yourself, Jace? I am very impressed; you look fierce.
So today I went to one of the only two cinemas that show movies in their original sound and not dubbed, just to find that every seat had been taken. I'm now in front of a cinema to watch it with German dubs, but I'm kinda disappointed :(
The AMGEN Tour of California came through my town (Livermore) today! And then there was a bomb threat 100 feet from where I was eating lunch.Turns out it was just a taped-shut discarded box of postcards. The fuck? Clever enough, at least.
Why those two?So today I went to one of the only two cinemas that show movies in their original sound and not dubbed, just to find that every seat had been taken. I'm now in front of a cinema to watch it with German dubs, but I'm kinda disappointed :(
Soooo... was it Star Trek Into Darkness, or The Great Gatsby?
Also, Loki, you scare me.
Hm, so I get to patron my very own bard. That's something worth note. Not even the Prince of Satyrs has a proper bard, he has to make do with a Court Poet, which is not nearly as reputable.
QuoteHm, so I get to patron my very own bard. That's something worth note. Not even the Prince of Satyrs has a proper bard, he has to make do with a Court Poet, which is not nearly as reputable.
actually this is him:
Prestidigitation
I am still not sure if it was all a trick to get me interested or not, but I was OFFENDED that he wouldn't play the bard I helped him make, and so I insisted on playing it. I always play something bard-like from a short race.
Hah. No. I am not even sure how multiclassing works, since levelling up not in the public SRD and I am too lazy to acquire the materials by other means.
I don't read A Softer World, and I probably shouldn't.
The only comics I read are, very roughly in order of frequency:
- QC
- xkcd
- Scenes from a Multiverse
- Order of the Stick
- Goblins (http://www.goblinscomic.com/)
- Another Gaming Comic (http://agc.deskslave.org/comic_viewer.html?goNumber=999999)
- Oglaf (occassionally. NSFW)
- Erfworld
- Times like this
- SMBC but usually only if I am drunk
- Dilbert (sometimes)
- Ménage à 3 (NSFW)
- Penny Arcade
Yes, those comics are the only ones I read.
[...]bruise[...]Don't you sword wielders have a convenient number of ice packs lying about? Would help with swelling and pain ...
Well, you see…. You called me a racist for being prideful of being white, I’m calling you a racist for having pride in yourself. You see, if pride is racist it’s racist in general. There’s no klan man on my chest, there’s no hate speech, nor is there anything racist about the tattoo. So, you being a prejudice Fuck like me, you’re classified as a racist… It works in a 360 “mate”.
Got called a racist by a guy with a "White Pride World Wide" tattoo on his chest.
His explanation:Quote...there’s no hate speech, nor is there anything racist about the tattoo...
QuoteIt works in a 360 “mate”.
I won this on facebook = Miles Davis Quintet - Live In Europe 1969 the bootleg series vol. 2.I was cast for an advertisement through Facebook.
My surprise was this: people actually win stuff on facebook? It's basically one big advertisement with likes and shares ... but people actually win??
The Lumia one?yeah (https://www.facebook.com/nokiadeutschland/posts/464855306880084). That was some experience :)
This is one of Erika's originals and it's probably my favorite of them all.
[awesome youtube clip]
So my friend Erika is basically my kid sister. She started showing up at the open mic I host at the coffee shop where my bandmate Matt works, and he and I both saw her and said "Kid, you're like a little songbird!" and she's been showing up almost every week since. Anyway, a couple weeks ago another participant brought a mixer and some cameras and out came this video. This is one of Erika's originals and it's probably my favorite of them all.
I want to say they are playing with Couches (Slow Trucks other band). They just played a show together here in Boise last weekend. During Treefort Music Fest a local bar hosted a 20 Sided Records showcase and I saw Ugly Winner. They were my favorite band of the entire festival. They didn't have any merch at the time when I tried to buy some, but I found a 12" of Inside Your Wave at my local record store a week later. I need to see that band again. My friends have also played a lot with Tartufi so they might do a show together. They are still setting it up but plan to stay and play shows for most of a week.
who are all of you people
Zingoleb
[...]Now you're just making the language up as you go along. That can't possibly mean anything.
Croeso yn ôl i'r holl gyn-fyfyrwyr!
Goddammit who changed these walls, why is the reply button there, why didn't anyone feed my fish, you jerks have a lot of explaining to do.
who are all of you people
are you enslaved to work you hate surrounded by people you despise? Or are you dedicating the brief time you have to giving everything to your passion?
who are all of you people
I would definitely do another Alaskan cruise and fortunately so would my gf. :) It's going to be awhile though since we need to rebuild our funds.
I would definitely do another Alaskan cruise and fortunately so would my gf. :) It's going to be awhile though since we need to rebuild our funds.
if you do, go to Sitka. and then BURN IT THE FUCK DOWN
I lived there.Fair enough.
I will hand it to you, the place is absolutely picturesque. Fortress of the Bear is a cool place, I guess it used to be a Navy armory and now they do rehabilitation for injured wild bears, orphaned cubs, etc. There's plenty of cool shit to do there as a tourist. You see the Russian Orthodox cathedral?
...and I never go to the doctors, ever.
Be a shame to lose you out of sheer stubbornness!
"Caution: may cause death."
That was on one of my daughter's medications when she first fell ill. I swear, they'll try anything once...
What'd'cha do in such a case?
You mean, if she dies?
You mean, if she dies?
I actually meant "when your daughter is prescribed a drug which might kill her". I may be slightly drunk, but I am not that insensitive. Insensible? Ya know what I mean.
I'd imagine it to be quite a tough decision.
The anti-vomitting pills I took when I got a virus a couple weeks ago had the common side effect of nausea, which it gave me almost every time I took it. I constantly felt like I was about to retch but couldn't, which made me want to retch more.
Exam tomorrow! When that's done, I've got my BA. Woo?
[...]
Guess I'll get back too trying to care enough to mac addresses and ARP queries and DHCP blæhrg.
The inner workings of the internet is so boring.
So the professor I am filming for work just went "what the fuck?". Thanks, now I have to bleep that part out.
Exam tomorrow! When that's done, I've got my BA. Woo?
[...]
Guess I'll get back too trying to care enough to mac addresses and ARP queries and DHCP blæhrg.
How is that a Bachelor of Arts?
So the professor I am filming for work just went "what the fuck?". Thanks, now I have to bleep that part out....so you decided to show it to the Internet :D What is the lecture about? Something about bitcodes, I gather?
Somehow I got it into my head that BA was used as a shorthand for "bachelor". Oh well.
Exciting things! Cannot explain yet for reasons! Super happy!Yay!
How is that a Bachelor of Arts?
Paul looks at his three volumes of TCP/IP Illustrated by W Richard Stevens on the shelf next to his deskI have those on my shelves too! And now I must do some actual work, maintaining all that boring plumbing.
Exam tomorrow! When that's done, I've got my BA. Woo?
[...]
Guess I'll get back too trying to care enough to mac addresses and ARP queries and DHCP blæhrg.
How is that a Bachelor of Arts?
Somehow I got it into my head that BA was used as a shorthand for "bachelor". Oh well.
a very localised outburst,
That was a response to a very localised outburst, and was entirely effective. It may end up in the rules area, though.
Its like, maybe 5-7 people that do it and they toned it down but I mostly ignore the string of posts that they'll do. It kind of gives a bit of insight into how it must feel to read PJ without knowing everyone.
That's why it felt necessary to give a shout out to the ol' self-aware makeout zone.
to nope the fuck right out
i've decided to forget about housing from now on and focus on a vehicle instead
i get trapped in houses and never get anything done; i'm tired of housemate drama, i'm tired of getting trapped, i'm tired of worrying about rent, i'm tired of worrying about my home
if i'm homeless for a couple months, w/e, i can handle it - save up and get a station wagon (cars are too small to sleep comfortably in; a van would be ideal, but far too expensive and conspicuous for what i need right now). work on seeing shows and connecting w/other musicians, network, like. play more shows, get recordings.
summer plans.
Yay! What is it that you want to do?
(click to show/hide)
[internship stuff]Yay!
I did my part yesterday.?
And today. (I have the blood on my shirt to prove it.)
ADVICE: Avoid wal-mart parking lots. Grocery stores don't tend to be too bad, but wally world is the place you will get your vehicle ruined.Oh God Yes. This is part of why I never go to Walmart anymore. I once got my taillight crushed when I made the mistake of going to Walmart in the month of December.
I won't bore anyone with details about how our friendship has progressed to this
a friend of mine just randomly loaned me $1,000 so i can buy a van to live in.
wow.
I won't bore anyone with details about how our friendship has progressed to this
Oh come on :x
I am kinda like a cat. Let me come to you and sniff you out a bit and don't pet me til I say so, you know?
I am kinda like a cat. Let me come to you and sniff you out a bit and don't pet me til I say so, you know?
I have a wonderfully adorable mental image of you skulking around like a shy cat and then sniffing her hand and rubbing your face on her
I don't know what tests your doctor has done; but this is a case where I'd expect to be looking into scans that can image localised brain activity, to see whether there is something going on in there, like a localised haemorrhage or thombosis, for instance (sorry if that's an even more scary idea).
I'm constantly dizzy and every head movement feels amplified.
Another possibility is a blocked blood vessel in the inner ear,
My wife gets that when she has labyrinthitis (which has happened twice) - but that doesn't produce a hearing loss for her (more than usual - she's over 50% deaf anyway)It must be a case of: same symptoms, different cause.
Have you been given anything to treat that possibility (aspirin and clopidogrel comes to mind)?No, because that's just something I read on the internet (http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Medical/Causes/sens_neur/sud/swc.htm) and I haven't asked the doctor if that's actually the case.
But in general it sounds as if your doctor is on the ball, at least. Good luck!Thanks.
Can you get a second opinion? I think this requires more than just "eh no clue, take some medicine"!The GP, the ear doctor and the abovementioned internet doctor recommend taking corticosteroids, because that's the only thing that's been proven to work at all, apparently. I don't think there's any more to know.
Bad news: I miss having sex.Good news: I don't.
I have only a faint idea what you are doing. Why would you need such a high recursion(?) depth for Tic Tac Toe?I don't. I'm trying to figure out why my code is going that deep.
So I recorded a cover. It isn't my own music, so I didn't post to the "own music" thread. Hope y'all enjoy.
At least Reversi works:Pfft! If you want a real challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go)...
I have to admit that I wasn't that interested in writing the AI in the Reversi game. I worked more on the UI backend (We had multiple team members), creating a completely variable skinnable GUI for the game. In the finished code, the GUI knows how to draw itse lf, but has no idea what to draw and where to draw it. These values are read from configuration files in runtime, allowing multiple themes and hot-swapping. When we were graded, my teachers didn't understand the systems I wrote. I felt good about myself.At least Reversi works:Pfft! If you want a real challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go)...
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Masterpiece; if you want some help, I can look at your code.
I'm so sorry to hear that... I can't think of anything to say except that I'm thinking of you.Likewise... :(
Parallel parking is a necessity in German drivers education. Is also one of the things you probably have to do during the 45 minutes practical driving test.
Parallel parking is something you learn here but you only have to do two of four manoeuvres you learn on the test. One will always be the emergency stop and you'll likely get reversing around a corner or turning in the road (three point turn). There's also bay parking but that doesn't seem to come up. Since it's a pain in the arse to find cars to do the parking behind, my instructor says it almost never happens. It's also something I'd need to know how to do to park outside my house, if I ever get a car before I move.
Parallel parking is a necessity in German drivers education. Is also one of the things you probably have to do during the 45 minutes practical driving test.Parallel parking is something my driving instructor taught very well. I actually managed to do it pretty well in the exam (German instructors give you five maneuvers, I managed to do it in three).
That feeling when your relationship of three years ends because time, distance, and apparently wanting different things out of life kills it.
Then not having anyone to talk to about it because you moved 900 miles from anyone you can spill your guts to over a beer to improve your life.
I am really sad and numb, but I am not thinking crazy person thoughts.
It gets better, right?
I never get why people don't like parallel parking. Either I've been taught well or I've been screwing it up loads, but I never have a problem with it.
I am really sad and numb, but I am not thinking crazy person thoughts.I think I went through a period of thinking "Ok, so now what do I do with all of this free time." Then I started writing again. It took up into Hyperbole and a Half's last comic before her haitus for it to sink in that I can be spontaneous as hell for fun though. Now most of my free time is centered around writing, video making, and pranking coworkers, so its been hilarious for me ^.^
It gets better, right?
The mechanic we would take it to said early 2000's VWs have a bunch of problems like that, and it is where a majority of his business comes from.Mechanics say things like that when they don't know how to fix the problem, but don't want to come off as incompetent. "Oh, they all do that!"
The mechanic we would take it to said early 2000's VWs have a bunch of problems like that, and it is where a majority of his business comes from.Mechanics say things like that when they don't know how to fix the problem, but don't want to come off as incompetent. "Oh, they all do that!"
in other news, benefits of being single and living alone include
the ability to leave an event whenever you want
the ability to take a longer route to get somewhere if you so please
the ability to leave an event when you want
not having to worry about how she gets along with people only you knoww
something else i forgot. tired.
admittedly, most of it were problems i created myself in my brain which werent really problems.
guys! guys! listen!
the sky. its full of stars. (yes, i am an urban child). just stared at them for a few minutes.
guys! guys! listen!
the sky. its full of stars. (yes, i am an urban child). just stared at them for a few minutes.
dont really know why looking at them makes people feel insignificant. when i consider the fact that in the universe we know, me plus "some" other people are the only beings who can appreciate their beauty (and humanity is so small on the scale of the universe it may as well have a cardinality of zero), i feel VERY special.
Flump!
SF Pride 2013 Recap, or: "The Day I Spent 14 Hours Completely Hammered"
This is a little GIF heavy, so be warned. But this is basically all of my feels ever, in one convenient page (http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/31-signs-youre-a-third-culture-kid).I'm more of a FOB than a TCK, but I relate...
Will you be putting the concert on line?
Also, since today I'm hearing an occasional clicking sound in my deaf ear. That's different from the usual tinnitus.
By the way, have you ever suffered from TMJ issues? You can have a problem with it that doesn't seem all that severe, but if the joint slips far enough, the mandible can impinge and damage the inner ear and otic nerve. Although that would probably show up on the MRI...I don't have what Wikipedia describes as temporomandibular joint dysfunction - I've never had any pain - but my jaw does click on the right side, which the internet tells me is related:
Most likely, your jaw clicks when you open and close because the mandibular condyle (the top of your jaw bone near your skull) is sliding off and on the temporomandibular disc (a little piece of cartilage that cushions your jawbone against your skull). This makes a clicking sound. This clicking is seen in a large percentage of patients that have no pathology and require no treatment.
I don't have what Wikipedia describes as temporomandibular joint dysfunction - I've never had any pain - but my jaw does click on the right side,
Been trying to reach the comic & forums for the entire day, only started working just now.
Just mildly bitter I have to defer to people who are worse than me at their job (Welcome to corporate America?).Welcome to the world. Especially if you are female, but I think it is a universal condition. I remind myself that it is all billable hours...
Another one saved!
I'm always torn when an intelligent person gives up teaching. We need more of them, but you could certainly do better...
So this is what I did on the Fourth of July...
Professional show in Suffolk, Virginia with 2.5" shells and cakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_%28firework%29).
Was I? I didn't know you were down in that area! The show was at Ebenezer Church in... Crittenden, I guess? Right by the Nansemond River.
Yeah, teachers are definitely in short supply, but the teacher training in this country is essentially worthless.
Yeah, teachers are definitely in short supply, but the teacher training in this country is essentially worthless.
As someone with the training, no, the training is not worthless. I had a very valuable experience in school. Just because the system is fucked up doesn't mean training is worthless. Also, if you want to go teach English in a foreign country, do it! I have a friend who has spent the last several years in Japan doing just that and she loves it. Another couple I know just moved to Malaysia to do the same thing. I've never heard of these experiences being bad ones.
I wonder if my old college would let me use the gym? I might ring them and ask.
One of my uncles is in the process of dumping mechanical engineering for teaching, because it pays more, has fewer hours, and more benefits. :psyduck:
So this is what I did on the Fourth of July...
Professional show in Suffolk, Virginia with 2.5" shells and cakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_%28firework%29).
Well he currently works 16-18 hour days, plus is often asked to come in on weekends for no additional pay (on salary). He has the lowest paycheck in the office, barely enough to pay bills, and zero benefits. He's getting the proper certification to be able to work in California or Nevada (what he considers to be his second home) and has already determined he'll be paid significantly more for teaching (he wants to teach high school math, actually) then he currently is. Same paycheck in CA or Nevada, but the price of living is lower in Nevada.One of my uncles is in the process of dumping mechanical engineering for teaching, because it pays more, has fewer hours, and more benefits. :psyduck:
Must be an insanely strong teacher's union if the pay and benefits are better than ME. As for fewer hours, that's a myth - you only have 6 or seven in school, but you have 4 - 6 more at home dealing with prep and grading. Unless you're lazy about it, in which case you won't be there long.
Tumblr seems to send me a lot of questions about my secks life. They also seem to be curious about whether I have a "love" for horses that is illegal in most states. I have no idea what's up with that.
I'll never understand Homestuck.^^^^
yo Uni I'm not sure how to break it to you but I'm never gonna get involved with Homestuck ever just because you've already burnt me out on it. ruv rooooo
I have decided to start working out using my own body weight and isometrics. I've gained about 10lbs since I started working at the pizza place (free food, yeee) and I figured that if I'm gonna put on weight despite my intense daily cardio, it should probably be healthy weight. So far I can do sets of 30 regular pushups, 10 diamond pushups, 20 wide-stance pushups, 30 tricep dips, and I haven't found out how many pullups because it's harder to get to a pullup bar (none of the doorways in my house feel trustworthy enough to support my weight). This combined with my daily 5.5 miles of bicycle cardio should be a nice comprehensive routine to get me looking like a person, and not a stick figure.
i also kind of hate myself for it but i've never been obsessive over any kind of media to this extent so it's kind of fun (but also terribly embarrassing at times because it's probably pathetic)
I finally got around to filming my new room (https://vine.co/v/hZDwmjxtPMP)
why is everyone meeting girls all of a sudden and I am not.
oh, right. because I spent the day at home doing fucking nothing
I figured that if I'm gonna put on weight despite my intense daily cardio, it should probably be healthy weight.
Unless you've got a lady friend coming over.nah, girls like it when you're spontaneous. I always make the bed off limits anyways. the real trick GM, go to the bar and end up at someone else's place. :3
Then it's time to panic.
I have ordered my shikibuton (so excited~ it's queen size and lovely!Pleasant dreams! If it is traditional cotton, just remember to look after it properly, and it will look after you. I'm sure the vendor will provide you with instructions, but:
I have ordered my shikibuton (so excited~ it's queen size and lovely!Pleasant dreams! If it is traditional cotton, just remember to look after it properly, and it will look after you. I'm sure the vendor will provide you with instructions, but:
Keep air circulating around it as much as possible. This is key. It is important to keep a shikibuton dry.
Air it regularly, ideally daily, by storing it away from the bed surface. A slatted bed-base can help here if you're not going to do the traditional thing and fold it.
Rotate and flip it weekly to change the sleeping spot and prevent compression of the cotton filling. This is easily done when you change your bed-linen.
Air it out of doors in the sun if you can. Apartment living can make this difficult, I know.
Beat the mattress from time to time to break up any clumps that have formed.
Driving that car (it's an Audi A4) felt like navigating a battleship. [...] Also everybody is driving too fast.
I gave the company name an odd look, but I love the painting and want it on a wall in my bedroom...Feng shui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui) (pronounced fung-shway (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Zh-feng1shui3.ogg) BTW) you mean? I am not sure how far geomancy applies to that painting, but maybe the painter is a practitioner. Or maybe it is just marketing chi-chi.
I gave the company name an odd look, but I love the painting and want it on a wall in my bedroom...Feng shui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui) (pronounced fung-shway (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Zh-feng1shui3.ogg) BTW) you mean? I am not sure how far geomancy applies to that painting, but maybe the painter is a practitioner. Or maybe it is just marketing chi-chi.
Pat - Eating is more important than being pretentious. Slap some sense into him.
A post. I'll let other people decide which part I mean.
Driving this big car always feels strange to me, but at that moment, driving at 100km/h on a street which is only wide enough for the car, it was a scary thought that if I just turned the wheel a little bit to the right, we'd crash into this big tree and probably die.
That makes being a passenger with my father a bit more difficult. He's doing a lot of driving on the Autobahn, so it's not uncommon for him to drive at 220km/h.
I'm a bit afraid of the first lesson on the Autobahn. But that'll take a lot of time till then. Also the suggested speed (Richtgeschwindigkeit) on the Autobahn (on non speed limited parts) is 130km/h, so not much higher than what I experienced today. But me not driving that fast doesn't mean that others won't drive that fast.
It'd get from 0-60 in about ten seconds though, so that made up for it.
I can't help but see this when driving this car: xkcd (http://xkcd.com/1075/)
Fancy, CG! GM, check out the British Top Gear episodes about turning cars into boats. Jeremy Clarkson makes a Toyboata both times, I believe.
In other news my idiot moving company fucked up their dispatch, apparently the truck in this area got filled up already today. So I have to wait till tomorrow. The crew will allegedly be here at 0800, but I'll believe that when I see it.That right there is some fucking bullshit, sir.
Ankhtahr's 220kph is double the freeway speed-limit in NSW, and good girls don't speed... :angel:
Ankhtahr's 220kph is double the freeway speed-limit in NSW, and good girls don't speed... :angel:
Is this a "good girls finish last" thing?
If by weird you mean fucking awesome. I've pushed 120mph+ in a small car and would love to go faster. I have gone faster then that, but aircraft don't count.
Also, I might have just told you guys all this because I wanted to use my keyboard some more :)
So I guess my granddaddy is in hospice care now.Filial concern is commendable. You are good people, Patrick. Of course there are sads, but: "I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."
Then I could start the driving lessons and the practical exam for the trailer license.Do you need a special licence to tow a trailer in Germany?
*We call it mass rather than weight.
I wonder if parallel parking with trailer is on the driving test.
I wonder if parallel parking with trailer is on the driving test.No it isn't. The only special exercise I need to perform for the driving test is reversing around a corner to the left. It includes stopping, getting out of the vehicle to lock the overrun brake and asking the driving instructor to get out of the vehicle and warn you of other vehicles. He is not allowed to signal if you're turning wrong, only to warn you if a vehicle turns up.
Thanks Ankhtar. In Australia, once you have a full Class C license (car, truck or bus up to 4.5 tonnes GVM*, with passenger capacity not exceeding 12 people including the driver), you can tow a trailer without any further training or licence endorsement. Having seen some people get in a terrible mess with their trailers, caravans etc., I think your system might be better.Yeah, same here in Belgium. Last year I towed almost a ton with my standard license, the first time I ever towed a trailer too. Somewhat scary when I was going over a viaduct and the whole back end of the car seemed to be buffeting like mad.
*We call it mass rather than weight.
Last year I towed almost a ton with my standard license, the first time I ever towed a trailer too. Somewhat scary when I was going over a viaduct and the whole back end of the car seemed to be buffeting like mad.
I wonder if parallel parking with trailer is on the driving test.No it isn't. The only special exercise I need to perform for the driving test is reversing around a corner to the left. It includes stopping, getting out of the vehicle to lock the overrun brake and asking the driving instructor to get out of the vehicle and warn you of other vehicles. He is not allowed to signal if you're turning wrong, only to warn you if a vehicle turns up.
I was trying to make a funny. On the other hand, I wonder if anyone has succeeded in parallel parking an auto with trailer in, say, two parking spaces.
What's the state of science education in Australia?ZoeB might be better positioned to answer that, especially beyond undergraduate level, but I don't think science education is adequate. Education is controlled by the states in Australia BTW, so my comments beyond this point are based on NSW, the state where I received my education. I am going to refer to "units" below. All you need to know is that high-school students in NSW need to complete twenty-two Board-Of-Studies-approved course "units" to obtain the Higher School Certificate (HSC), their score in which is used to calculate their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), the gateway to university etc.
heeeelp…
somebody keep me from buying all the vinyls…
My record player hasn't even been sent yet, but I already bought 4 vinyls…
heeeelp…
somebody keep me from buying all the vinyls…
My record player hasn't even been sent yet, but I already bought 4 vinyls…
Man, there's a vinyl I really really want. Shipping is 35 euros.... :(
Last year I towed almost a ton with my standard license, the first time I ever towed a trailer too. Somewhat scary when I was going over a viaduct and the whole back end of the car seemed to be buffeting like mad.
was the load's center of gravity centered over the trailer's? it's very important to do that so you don't get that buffeting. that can damage your trailer hitch and put unnecessary wear on yr tires.
heeeelp…
somebody keep me from buying all the vinyls…
My record player hasn't even been sent yet, but I already bought 4 vinyls…
Man, there's a vinyl I really really want. Shipping is 35 euros.... :(
DAYUM. Do people like you buy old vinyl?
Maybe it's time to dust off the collection and fire up e-bay... old Jethro Tull might be worth something... my copy of "Stand Up" still does.
i'm ordained now! this is not how i was expecting today to go at all when i woke up.
'fraid not. Only concert I've been to live (other than folk or classical) is the Dead. Back in college, many years before Jerry died.
Too many drugs. :cry:
Hello.
I actually do blog ..sorta.
I've got it buried in a fan site for my favorite hobby.
I've had it up and running for 2 years and 250 posts.
Hope you like: http://www.battletechuniverse.org/hpguplink/viewtopic.php?p=168755#p168755
Fun fun fun on the Autobahhhhhn...
Sie ist ein Model und sie sieht gut aus…The Rammstein version is better anyways.
Ankh, there's an English version and a German one.
Just gonna put it out there that I DON'T GIVE A SHITTING GOD DAMN ABOUT THE NEW DOCTOR, AND MY ENTIRE FACEBOOK FEED NEEDS TO COLLECTIVELY KILL THEMSELVES
Hello.
I actually do blog ..sorta.
I've got it buried in a fan site for my favorite hobby.
I've had it up and running for 2 years and 250 posts.
Hope you like: http://www.battletechuniverse.org/hpguplink/viewtopic.php?p=168755#p168755
if nobody else is gonna touch this, I'm gonna. this is not what the blog thread is for. I suggest participating in the "MAKE" subforum.
some guy basically called me a supporter of racism and bigotry and blah blah because I posted a status about not giving a shit about Dr Who, and how I much prefer Top Gear. dude went on to try to guilt trip the fuck out of me and try to force me into converting.
bonus points: he's a way old-school QC forumite, and that self-righteous reaction is typical of the old forums, and about 90% of why I'm glad those days are over.
I was thinking Tommy or Darrly, but Khar would make sense too.I remember them...
RuPaul
I don't care about Dr. Who, but Jeremy Clarkson is a worthless lout, at least in his public persona, so I don't care about Top Gear either.
Anyway, I keep listening to "Computerworld" and for some reason keep picturing Loki as the singer. It must be because the singer of the band comes from Dortmund and I picture Loki coming from Dortmund.
I don't care about Dr. Who, but Jeremy Clarkson is a worthless lout, at least in his public persona, so I don't care about Top Gear either.
Kind of missing the whole point I think.
I pretty much adore Doctor Who right now, having finally finished watching the whole thing. Torchwood gave me nightmares so I stopped.
When we were house hunting, HGTV mad me so angry. "Oh darling, which of these adorable but unique under-budget homes in our favorite neighborhood shall we choose?" "I don't know, dear, but that second one had some blue paint in the living room, and you know how I feel about blue." "Oh but I do! We can't possibly buy that one."
When we were house hunting, HGTV mad me so angry. "Oh darling, which of these adorable but unique under-budget homes in our favorite neighborhood shall we choose?" "I don't know, dear, but that second one had some blue paint in the living room, and you know how I feel about blue." "Oh but I do! We can't possibly buy that one."
[Another bitch about the medical community and antibiotics]
So I'm sitting in the hospital with my daughter. Since she caths to pee, she's susceptible to UTI's, and last week noticed she had one (no feeling in the shorts region means it gets pretty bad before she notices). Did the urinalysis and this infections only susceptible to a couple of things - nitrofurantoin (which we tried first but it made her so nauseous that she couldn't keep it down) and vancomycin, which has to be done through an IV, and in her case, through a picc line*.
So Monday we were in an office getting ready to get a picc line put in so the vanc could be done at home without an extensive hospital stay. She's on the table, when our doctor calls and cancels the procedure. The infection might be showing some susceptibility to plain old amoxycillin, and wouldn't we want to avoid using the nasty antibiotic and invasive procedure?
Well, no, not if it doesn't fucking work. The stuff wouldn't kill off the bacteria fast enough, and her back started hurting, which means the infection started getting up into her kidneys - dangerous territory. Not to mention the usual amoxycillin diarrhea.
So here we are, wasted time, wasted money, when we could've avoided both because my doctor's over reactionary about the overuse of antibiotics.
:-P
Sometimes you need the big hammer.
* picc line - peripherally inserted central catheter. Here's a picc pic;
(http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Images/Cancerinfo/Longdescriptions/Cancertreatment/PiccFront_2011_large.jpg)
Depends on how it feels about peas, I suppose.
Wow, I have never lived in a house that was built more recently than 1856. I would never call a 1956 house old!
my cats brought me a full grown squirrel as proof of their devotion.
life is awesome*.Yay!
and discovered devotchka.As I don't assume you discovered girls for the first time: what is this a name of?
life is awesome*.
::::3
German public transport sucks.No ot doesn't. You Germans just enjoy complaining about it way too much.
AMTRAK sucks. Y'all have no idea how bad a transport system can be.I have never travelled by AMTRAK, but I'd be horrified if it were worse than Countrylink, our "inter-city" rail system. Australia's rail network is all about transporting coal, iron ore etc. in gigantic quantities at low speed*, and everything else has to fit round it. Brisbane to Sydney often takes seventeen hours by rail, when you can drive it in under twelve. Sydney to Melbourne takes about twelve hours by train, when it is around nine hours by car. It is expensive too; a rail ticket is similar in price to an air ticket (about $200 return), and if you are flexible on flying times it is usually cheaper to fly. By contrast, the 1300km trip from Shanghai to Beijing by high-speed train (roughly 50% further than Sydney-Melbourne) takes less than six hours and costs under $100. I love Australia, but sometimes its unwillingness to invest in basic infrastructure drives me up the wall.
*For freight rail nerds:
This is how we feed the gaping maw of China's steel industry. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4-iFIafUo) This was shot in the Hunter Valley, just to the north of Sydney. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVmj5N3UIs)
AMTRAK sucks. Y'all have no idea how bad a transport system can be.I have never travelled by AMTRAK, but I'd be horrified if it were worse than Countrylink, our "inter-city" rail system. Australia's rail network is all about transporting coal, iron ore etc. in gigantic quantities at low speed*, and everything else has to fit round it. Brisbane to Sydney often takes seventeen hours by rail, when you can drive it in under twelve. Sydney to Melbourne takes about twelve hours by train, when it is around nine hours by car. It is expensive too; a rail ticket is similar in price to an air ticket (about $200 return), and if you are flexible on flying times it is usually cheaper to fly. By contrast, the 1300km trip from Shanghai to Beijing by high-speed train (roughly 50% further than Sydney-Melbourne) takes less than six hours and costs under $100. I love Australia, but sometimes its unwillingness to invest in basic infrastructure drives me up the wall.
and discovered devotchka.As I don't assume you discovered girls for the first time: what is this a name of?
As warriors we must remember that we are out our very hearts, servants. Indeed the Japanese word "Samurai" comes from the word Saburai, from the Chinese word "Saburau". Both these words mean "servant".In most European languages with which I am somewhat familiar (admittedly not many), the word for the classic feudal mounted soldier essentially means "horseman": chevalier, cavallo, caballero, ritter. I have always thought it interesting that the English word "knight" derives from the Old English "cniht" which meant "servant". Saburau was not a Chinese word; it's simply an earlier version of the Japanese. However the character 侍 which, in Japanese kanji means "samurai", in Chinese is indeed a verb which does mean to serve or attend upon (a high-ranking person). I don't know enough Japanese language or history to know how a multi-syllable Japanese word came to be written as a single character. The Japanese bushi, also applied to samurai and the root of bushido, is written 武士, which is wushi in Chinese. The first character means "martial", (you'll find it in words like wuxia, wushu, wulin etc. which will be familiar to any fan of Chinese cinema), and the second something like "specialist" (or in the past "scholar"), so the word is usually translated as "warrior", an essentially functional description. A brave, chivalrous hero would go beyond the wushi to become a 武侠 or wuxia. I suppose that would roughly be the distinction between a man-at-arms and a knight errant, in English terms.
Made a pell.I had to google that. So it is training target for mediaeval swordsmanship, the equivalent of a "wooden man post"?
GOOOOOOOOOLDEN SHOOOOOOWERS FIIIILL YOUR EYESSS
You'll do fine. But remember, If you're into that, you should tell her in the shower. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1695)Or when she administers The Test. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=603)
Woooooot, that is awesome, Uni!!
Heh. Uni at uni. :-P
Do you know what your major is going to be?
...put himself at great risk saving civilians from the My Lai massacre.
Woooooot, that is awesome, Uni!!
Heh. Uni at uni. :-P
Do you know what your major is going to be?
minor fall/major lift
prolly focus on art/language/recording classes. this is honestly a way to have money because a job isn't likely in my future so until such time that my music is widely distributed enough to support me, i'm going to just go to college and live off loans. two years at community college, and then go to evergreen once i'm able to, probably.
i don't r. have concrete plans. i'm going to see how well this single works out and try to make a bigger push in my music regardless of how well received it is. i'm crzy fkn excited for it, though, i sang some of the best stuff i've ever sang on these recordings.
Woooooot, that is awesome, Uni!!
Heh. Uni at uni. :-P
Do you know what your major is going to be?
minor fall/major lift
prolly focus on art/language/recording classes. this is honestly a way to have money because a job isn't likely in my future so until such time that my music is widely distributed enough to support me, i'm going to just go to college and live off loans. two years at community college, and then go to evergreen once i'm able to, probably.
i don't r. have concrete plans. i'm going to see how well this single works out and try to make a bigger push in my music regardless of how well received it is. i'm crzy fkn excited for it, though, i sang some of the best stuff i've ever sang on these recordings.
what I wanna know is WHERE ARE THESE DAMN THINGS. you teased me with some yeeeeears ago and they were insanely good, so what gives?
Halleluja to you too and good luck.Woooooot, that is awesome, Uni!!
Heh. Uni at uni. :-P
Do you know what your major is going to be?
minor fall/major lift
[...]
minor fall/major liftThe baffled King composing Hallelujah
except for when I bought a Burger King veggie burger and, after checking three different times that the burger was indeed vegan, the staff managed to put cheese on it...You wouldn't think it would be so difficult to understand, would you? There was a place that poured meat-juice gravy over my veggies. :?
i've decided to go to college in winter, i've filled out my fafsa - even calling arthur to get his tax information - and oh, my first single is coming out in a week, yeah. yeah.Congratulations! I googled fafsa; it sounds like a Lebanese pastry.
in three months exactly, this body will be twenty-three years old.No kidding, I'm apparently one day younger than you and am seemingly living on a different timescale, just by having a life that's not weird at all. I wish you good luck at university, and may it treat you as well as it has treated me.
time is weird, life is weird, and i feel far too old to be this young.
except for when I bought a Burger King veggie burger and, after checking three different times that the burger was indeed vegan, the staff managed to put cheese on it...You wouldn't think it would be so difficult to understand, would you? There was a place that poured meat-juice gravy over my veggies. :?
I just googled and apparently BK Bean Burgers not only contain egg but also milk. What the hell, BK employee? You were looking at the ingredients list! I saw you! You checked with two colleagues! Are you all totally stupid?
Cooked Red Kidney Beans (31%), Breadcrumbs (14%), (Containing Wheatflour, Raising Agents (E450/Diphosphates, E500/Sodium Bicarbonate), Yeast, Flour Improvers (E300/Ascorbic Acid, E920/L-Cysteine), Carrot (10%), Onion (9%), Potato Flake (Containing Emulsifier (E471/mono-and Di-Glycerides Of Fatty Acids) and Preservative (E223/Sodium Metabisulphite), Rapeseed Oil, Batter (Contains Stabiliser E412/Guar Gum), Green Peppers (7%), Water, Green Chillies, Salt, Chilli Powder, Garlic Puree, White Pepper.
I'm going to be a little bit upset if my vervelles don't show up in the mail tomorrow, I ordered them four days ago so I figured they would have arrived by now. We are working on finishing my bascinet tomorrow and I'd love to be able to put in the vervelles.(click to show/hide)
My first car was a Mercury Tracer s/w.
otherwise known as a Mazda 323 or early 90s Ford Escort.
I am looking at buying a Fiat 500 L as my first car. Initially I was looking at getting a used car, but if I have the money...
The 5 Stupidest Habits you Develop Growing Up Poor (http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-develop-growing-up-poor/)
Look up "flour weevil" and see if the photos fit. They appear to be black, but perhaps it's the larvae that are more beige. Maybe it could be worse, like all over your kitchen. This may be the lesser of two weevils.Dohohoho - no, beetles aren't this small, not even their larvae.
Which do you think I'm getting?Is there a prize if we guess rightly? :-D
Fiat might be expensive in the long term, because there not considered to be very reliable. Germans call FIAT Fehler in allen Teilen, which roughly translates into Mistakes in Every Parts. If your car fails regularly, it might add up to a huge amount of cash you'd have to pay.
I mean, I mean,
On that subject, here's another interesting article:I am looking at buying a Fiat 500 L as my first car. Initially I was looking at getting a used car, but if I have the money...
I am really glad you're getting this money and are going to be able to get out of the money issues you're facing, but as fellow poor folk, please be careful do not go overboard with your initial spending with your eventual finances (whatever they may be).
Just because I think it's useful for those who aren't poor, and I think most of us who have been poor for extended periods of time have a hard time recognizing and dealing with these issues, this is one of Cracked's much better and accurate articles.
The 5 Stupidest Habits you Develop Growing Up Poor (http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-develop-growing-up-poor/)
I mean, I mean,
also i'm glad to see i'm not the only one who does this
There was that whole recall shebang with Toyota though...
Unfortunately, the way that standardised testing works means that there's very little difference, on paper, between dumb and distracted.The fact that you know what epigenetics is already implies a substantial level of education. Whether it has a negative effect is up for debate, though. I was taught that the reason epigenetic inheritance exists is to let the child better deal with the life circumstances of the parent. Prolonged stress has a negative effect on the body and the mind, but stress has a useful function: it signals that your life is out of balance in some way - too much of one thing, too little of another - and motivates you to make a change. The simplest example is a cockroach: they prefer humidity, and if it is dry, the cockroach is under stress, and this directly causes it to start walking until it reaches someplace more humid.
I wonder if this is something that can also be intergenerational? I'm intrigued by, although almost entirely uneducated about, epigenetics and if I have understood the gist correctly, consistent sleep deprivation, stress and worry could affect DNA in some complicated biology kind of way, which could be passed on to offspring, meaning that they're predisposed towards the mental conditions of stress, worry and distraction which in turn contribute to less societal success.
Not dumb - distracted. When your worries and problems fill your every waking - and many dreaming - thoughts, there's little room for anything else.
Unfortunately, the way that standardised testing works means that there's very little difference, on paper, between dumb and distracted.
I was told by my high school maths teacher to stop considering doing a maths degree (I wanted to teach maths when I was 15) because I wouldn't even pass my GCSEs. I got an A.
All I know is that Fiat is not a brand one associates with reliability.
A lot of car manufacturers nowadays offer smaller hatchbacks for a lot less, so why the Fiat? I mean, I'm driving a Hyundai Elantra GT and while it's not tiny, it's still considered a compact. (The older Corolla I was driving was a compact and they're not much different in length or width externally, even though the inside of my car is MUCH more spacious.) And the Hyundai Accent 5-door is even smaller. I mean, I don't want to toot Hyundai's horn or anything, but I rarely hear anything bad about their engineering. Same with Toyota, Subaru, Honda, and VW.
I don't like to think what would have happened if I had had to rely on "internal assessment" by my junior-school teachers.A 1950s study (http://www.sociologyinfocus.com/2012/09/24/self-fulfilling-prophecies-in-education/) predicts you wouldn't have fared very well. My wife succeeded despite predictions from a couple of teachers.
Also, I'd be leery of a car model that's only a year or two old - bad designs need to be worked out.
All I know is that Fiat is not a brand one associates with reliability.
This is mostly connected to the older Fiats, and not the modern ones, I would like to point out.
Also, I'd be leery of a car model that's only a year or two old - bad designs need to be worked out.
Worth noting that the Fiat 500 is only new to the American market, they've been making the things for the better part of a decade. Fiat are also shareholders in Ferrari, and are the owners of Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati, as well as most of Chrysler.
Also, I'd be leery of a car model that's only a year or two old - bad designs need to be worked out.
Worth noting that the Fiat 500 is only new to the American market, they've been making the things for the better part of a decade. Fiat are also shareholders in Ferrari, and are the owners of Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati, as well as most of Chrysler.
As for the second part: Ferrari, Lancia, Alfa and Maseratis aren't exactly known for reliability ;)
...How is this news?
The blue nitrile gloves are better for cleaning, being stronger and more resistant to solvents.Maybe I should talk my boss into getting some of those. Every time I have to mix laser dye, the stuff seeps through the latex gloves I wear.
The blue nitrile gloves are better for cleaning, being stronger and more resistant to solvents.
so Camille's mom lost her job yesterday, which is going to make it that much more difficult for Camille to move down here. we're going to work something out, I just don't know what yet. I'm sorely tempted to quit all my unpaid extracurricular activities aside from the band so I can actually get a proper job, a car, a place of my own, etc. and figure out how to finance moving her back here. we're hellbent on being together and where there's a will, there's a way.
so Camille's mom lost her job yesterday, which is going to make it that much more difficult for Camille to move down here. we're going to work something out, I just don't know what yet. I'm sorely tempted to quit all my unpaid extracurricular activities aside from the band so I can actually get a proper job, a car, a place of my own, etc. and figure out how to finance moving her back here. we're hellbent on being together and where there's a will, there's a way.
Patrick, I love you and you know I do.
But be careful.
Patrick, I love you and you know I do.
But be careful.
I thought her name was May?Just [a] sayin'.
Voting during lunch hours might've been the best idea I've had in a long time. No queue, just walk in, put a piece of paper in a box, walk out.I'm still amazed that countries hold their elections on weekdays. In Australia, they are always held on a Saturday.
Wait hang on Carl, I just realised what you said. The Episcopal bishop for the US is a woman? How come you guys get to have female bishops and we don't?
Voting during lunch hours might've been the best idea I've had in a long time. No queue, just walk in, put a piece of paper in a box, walk out.I'm still amazed that countries hold their elections on weekdays. In Australia, they are always held on a Saturday.
Not that it's going to matter as the shitty people are winning, but democrazy, right?
Voting during lunch hours might've been the best idea I've had in a long time. No queue, just walk in, put a piece of paper in a box, walk out.I'm still amazed that countries hold their elections on weekdays. In Australia, they are always held on a Saturday.
Elections are always on a Thursday here. It makes sense - people are much less likely to want to give up their time off to vote than to pop in during the workday. Also they run from 7(?)am to 10pm so plenty of time to go before or after work.
I realise the Episcopal church isn't beholden. I just don't get how in the USA, where things like abortion and gay marriage and women holding high office are such political hot potatoes, a woman can be a bishop when we're pissing around failing to get it sorted in our ostensibly liberal and equal country!
Grr. Perhaps this should be in the rant thread. Last year's vote made me incredibly angry.
Aaaaand it's the lowest turnout since 1927*.
there's a giant-ass fire on Mt. Diablo, just north of my townHere too. The fire season is starting early. (https://www.google.com.au/#q=bushfires&tbm=nws) As I said in the Haiku thread:
OK, you guys from other lands do realize that your voter turnout figures are more than twice what the US gets in a good year, right? We average around 30%.
Do you need a realtor?In the UK, I think you call them "estate agents". In Aus they are "real-estate agents", and typically only people in the high-end, especially buyers from out-of-state or overseas, employ a "buyer's agent". You usually have to get in touch with all the agents in your area yourself, watch their ads, visit their websites etc. It sounds to me as if lepetitfromage's agent is a waste of space.
We have estate agents here but I don't know of anyone who actually uses them.
We have estate agents here but I don't know of anyone who actually uses them. In fact I've never seen anyone inside those buildings. They're just like large display cases for the photos of the houses.
We have estate agents here but I don't know of anyone who actually uses them.
But perhaps you've not been much involved in buying or selling houses? You can do it without, but it's hard work, and not many people try - same (but more so) with solicitors for the conveyancing.
So.....the house we saw last night was so amazing that we kind of got really excited and put The Realtor Talk off for another day. She did, however, help us with the paperwork involved in putting in an offer.
Please cross your fingers/say prayers/send positive thoughts our way. This place is unreal. Built in '99, 2700 sq ft, 4 bed, 2 bath, finished basement(!), city water/sewer, low-ish taxes, only $125K. It's in an artsy/cute/touristy neighborhood, but far enough away from the main strip to be peaceful. Last time it sold was for almost twice as much. Only downsides: needs new tile in the second bath, the yard is small and ugly, carpets have to be replaced and it needs some interior cosmetic work.
But.....it's a short sale, so who knows how long it'll take for the bank to get back to us.
Please cross your fingers/say prayers/send positive thoughts our way. This place is unreal. Built in '99, 2700 sq ft, 4 bed, 2 bath, finished basement(!), city water/sewer, low-ish taxes, only $125K. It's in an artsy/cute/touristy neighborhood, but far enough away from the main strip to be peaceful. Last time it sold was for almost twice as much. Only downsides: needs new tile in the second bath, the yard is small and ugly, carpets have to be replaced and it needs some interior cosmetic work.
When we tackled the quarterback and it was clear his pass wasn't going to make it, the entire crowd erupted, and it gave me chills.Makes it sound like you went down there with the rest of the crowd and tackled him yourself! Ah, sports fan grammar.
lol wasn't even trying 8-)What iduguphergrave said
If I remember right, the estimation is that 25% of the average person's memories are entirely fictional.If indeed 80% of all statistics are completely made up, there's only a 5% chance that what you're saying is true!
...and he is suing the mother for child support even though he gets social security and doesn't need the child support)
...and he is suing the mother for child support even though he gets social security and doesn't need the child support)
Not to derail, but that seems like a non-sequitur...
So I've decided to not eat anything for the last 24 hours and it's surprisingly easy.
What's the distinction between a martial art and a sport? Is it the historical connection with a military form?
You can actually use a martial art in a "real" fight. In a fighting sport, you know that your opponent follows the same (arbitrary) rules as you do, so the fight is formed around them instead of, well, fighting.I don't think there is a meaningful distinction. All forms of training and competition* in hand-to-hand combat involve "arbitrary rules", because it is a bad idea to kill or maim your opponent. When I practice the taiji form "White Snake Turns And Spits Venom", for example, it is obviously unacceptable to crush my training partner's larynx with a blade-hand strike, so I "pull" the blow. We are not competing for points or coloured belts, but our shifu will
I got an "On the Spot Award for Remarkable Customer Service" at work the other day for tracking down this lady's lost car in Colorado from all the flooding (I work in claims adjusting). She called in right after I helped her to speak with a manager about it. I got a certificate, a thank you note from our department head, and $25 deposited directly to my bank account. There are 16 claim rep positions that just opened and with that and my college degree I will probably get one. More responsibility and it pays $7000 more a year. Good news on the career front!Don't you love it when doing well gets rewarded? It's so much better than the opposite.
All I know is I trained aikido and juijitsu today and I ended up nearly throwing up from tiredness. The whole discussion about sport or art is meaningless. Just have fun.You put that so much better than I did.
You can actually use a martial art in a "real" fight. In a fighting sport, you know that your opponent follows the same (arbitrary) rules as you do, so the fight is formed around them instead of, well, fighting.I don't think there is a meaningful distinction. All forms of training and competition* in hand-to-hand combat involve "arbitrary rules", because it is a bad idea to kill or maim your opponent. When I practice the taiji form "White Snake Turns And Spits Venom", for example, it is obviously unacceptable to crush my training partner's larynx with a blade-hand strike, so I "pull" the blow. We are not competing for points or coloured belts, but our shifu willpraise usbe grudgingly less critical if we perform well in front of him, which is not so different. In modern wushu competition, taiji is judged purely on form for points (often to music), rather like gymnastics or figure-skating, something that many traditional shifu regard rather negatively. Many practitioners of taiji only ever perform the slow solo forms for health benefits, and as a spiritual and physical discipline. So, is taiji a martial-art, or a sport, or something else entirely? I would say that it is all of the above.
*Obviously a serious fight to the death or disablement of one or more of the participants is a form of competition, but that is not normally what we are talking about, and I have absolutely no desire to inflict injury on anyone. There is perhaps a matter of intent here. If a person trains in taiji, or krav-maga or boxing or whatever with the intent to win points and prizes in competition, then regardless of the fighting-style chosen, the sporting aspect is obviously paramount. Any contest that takes place in front of an audience nowadays is mainly sporting, and even the more hairy-chested styles like muay-thai or MMA have "arbitrary rules" about how the combatants are allowed to fight because having fighters killed in the ring is normally not intended or regarded as desirable. There is no doubt that this affects the judgement of which styles of fighting are more effective. The widespread perception nowadays that grappling is more effective than striking has much to do with the fact that many of the most effective strikes are banned and/or made impossible by protective equipment in competition, and grappling is safer in training. Suffice it to say that if I ever had to defend myself against an assailant trained in boxing, I would not underestimate my opponent because boxing was a "sport".
I'm afraid I'll have to buy myself a micro SDHC card reader for movies, because watching movies in HD is fantastic on this one.
All I know is I trained aikido and juijitsu today and I ended up nearly throwing up from tiredness. The whole discussion about sport or art is meaningless. Just have fun.
I'm just saying. If she laughs, she's a keeper. If she cries, she's also a keeper.
By the way you guys
http://i.imgur.com/ySJozpE.jpg
It's Oktoberfest.
Wish me luck.
But that's what Oktoberfest is for! Or so I've gathered from people who like drinking beer. (They've had both Woodchuck and Angry Orchard at ours the past two years, but I usually drive, so only one big cider for me...)
Also that is the best picture of you ever, the lederhosen are awesome!
German beer usually has at least 4.8%, which is more than in the US, or so I am told.
I cannot find how much Woodchuck has, but do remember that German beer usually has at least 4.8%, which is more than in the US, or so I am told.
HOWEVER it depends on the state, because once Michael's parents moved out to Utah, we found out that beer on tap out there can't be above 3.8%. Bottles yes, tap no. Poor poor Utah...In Oklahoma, if you're buying Bud/Coors/whatever (basically any beer you'd find at a 7-11), it's 3.2%... The brands of beer that are only sold at liquor stores are usually higher, though.
But do bear in mind that Octoberfestbeer has 6%.Need to correct this. Octoberfest beer has 12%.
But do bear in mind that Octoberfestbeer has 6%.Need to correct this. Octoberfest beer has 12%.
high utility bills
In Cambridge there is a week called May Week. It's in June. No matter what I like to think, it doesn't exist to celebrate me.
But what's so special about October? Why are the days leading up to that particular month so special? Kind of just sounds like a thinly veiled reason to drink a lot of quality beer. Silly Germans, you know you don't need a reason for that.It also used to be in October, but has been moved forward because a funfair in winter weather (which sometimes happens in October) is not very enjoyable.
Good luck!
I worked as an intern this entire summer, and it turned out that what they wanted me to do, I knew very little about (writing in programming languages I didn't know, doing stuff I hadn't done before). It worked out fine!
Remember, no matter what job you get, you'll probably not know the vast majority of the things you need to do that job well before you get there. Nobody expects you to be an expert on day one! You'll do fine!
How can you live mere feet away from rotting fucking food and not notice it.
Sydney Harbour (http://www.navy.gov.au/ifr/events/maps/fleet-entry) is full of grey metal ships (http://www.navy.gov.au/ifr/participants/warships).
So much for "stopping the boats" right?:lol: :lol: :lol: :cry:
I'd say you'd have to thank Mitt Romney for that
I think this is the place to post about this, so I will. ... Part of me wants to reply and just be civil, and another part wants to just ignore it and pretend I didn't even see it. Ugh.
... Fused ... Together?
What does that mean long-term?
Sports. I got thrown and a fraction of second someone else got thrown. And his heel hit me squarely in the left eye.Ouch! I hope the eye-damage is not serious.
So my sister-in-law, who recently joined the National Guard, had a training accident.Even more ouch! Best wishes for her recovery.
And as I get older I seem to collect tiny issues one should watch out for. Is that what happens with age for everyone?
I finished my move to Karlsruhe today.
... Fused ... Together?
What does that mean long-term?
I...don't know. I know she wants to continue in the National Guard if she's physically able (I think somebody mentioned she'll find out in a year, but I'm not sure. I've met people with two vertebrae fused before who have had problems because of it, but I'm pretty sure she had to have 5 fused together (iirc it's the lower three thoracic and upper two lumbar, so right at the curve of her back) and I can see lots of issues because of this. But her spinal cord wasn't damaged at all and other than being loopy because of drugs, she seems to be doing fine. But because she's in North Carolina with her and my husband's father, we're here in Ohio, and the rest of their family is in Utah, I'm only getting limited information via phone conversations Michael is having with his dad and sister (when she's lucid). I don't think we'll know long term issues until later on. :-\
Foot is borked. Any time I put a little bit of weight on my heel, it feels like I'm standing on a nerve. Think sciatica is solidly going down both legs now.
Could just be a heel spur. The pain is exquisite, and easy to confuse with nerve pain. If caught early enough, some stretching and exercise can make it go away.
As someone with the majority of my spine fused, it was actually surprising how basically not being able to bend my back didn't really affect how I do things.
I just bought a printer. They didn't include the cable, and I left all my USB A-B cables at home. The fuck, Samsung?
well, if I ordered a cable, I'd need to pay shipping and end up at pretty much the same price. I'm just a bit annoyed that I have to go to the computer store again. And that I have a box with about 6 of these cables at home, which I've bought for 0.95€ each, and probably have to pay 7€ for exactly the same tomorrow.You can't find a seller in the neighbourhood and pick it up in person?
I've always wondered about that Veet hair removal cream down there. Works on women's legs, clearly, but I never hear about it being used in the engine room. I'm guessing it's a terrible idea in some way.
Don't forget to call everyone /../ 'hen', Patrick.
My boyfriend wanted to introduce me to his friends and pretend I didn't know a word of English and that I was 17. I wish I had the guts.
Don't forget to call everyone 'pal' and 'hen', Patrick.
Those Ancestry.com commercials which tell you about "all I did was put in my grandma's name, and then POOF! I found 100 different other relatives!" are more than true - they can be downright annoying.
Dude. Get a Kickstarter together so you can BUY A BRAND NEW CAR.
Not a "used" car. NEW. Brand Freakin' New.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: No.
Better things to spend that kind of money on.
Rochester, New York has that 'shitty neighborhood' reputation with anyone not in the city as well. If you told them you lived in the city they'd get a look on their face like they were considering whether or not you were about to mug them. God forbid you ever invite them to go anywhere in the city.
Fucking suburbanites.
Welu, I can definitely give advice on shooting live music!
My first thought was to dress as a balalaika.
:? :roll: :laugh: :psyduck:
My first thought was to dress as a balalaika.
:? :roll: :laugh: :psyduck:
Ms. Balalaika of Hotel Moscow:
(http://cassland.org/images/QC/2007-09-26-72874.jpeg)
I dunno Carl, I bet you could rock the heels and skirt with some practice.
I stopped running after 2 hours and 35 minutes and 32 seconds and now my legs hurt.
I runned and I runned and I runned and I stopped running after 2 hours and 35 minutes and 32 seconds and now my legs hurt.I think all the running may have deprived your brain of oxygen to the point that it can't do grammar any more. :lol:
so my other flatmate and I have decided to not tell anyone what we're doing and then turn up as Pussy Riot
so my other flatmate and I have decided to not tell anyone what we're doing and then turn up as Pussy Riot
PARTY TIME
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so my other flatmate and I have decided to not tell anyone what we're doing and then turn up as Pussy Riot
PARTY TIME
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Haha thanks! I'll wear it with a yellow top under a red dress and purple tights, my flatmate has a pink hat, green dress and blue tights. I think we've covered most of the bright colours.Suddenly I'm reminded of the movie Spring Breakers.
so my other flatmate and I have decided to not tell anyone what we're doing and then turn up as Pussy Riot
PARTY TIME
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FUUCK!
dont DO that!
I runned and I runned and I runned and I stopped running after 2 hours and 35 minutes and 32 seconds and now my legs hurt.Yay! Go Team Legs!
I lost my job on Tuesday.
On the plus side... I am writing a book.
I am sorry for one of these things, and pleased to hear of the other. When do I get to find out more?Well, about a third to a half done with the first draft... it is probably gonna be crap, but I am soldiering through.
I can totally emphasize.
On this day, 23 October, 1983, 25 years ago on a cold morning in a land far from home, 220 Marines of 1st Battalion, 8th Marines (1/8) and 18 attached sailors, and 3 soldiers, and 58 Paratroopers of the French 1st Paratrooper Chasseur Regiment were killed in twin suicide bombings in Beiruit, Lebanon, firing the opening shots of the long war on terrorism.
The department at University where I work is being evaluated by an external firm, and I have to present my workplace to said evaluators.
I am scared as hell. Depending on my performance, my departments budget might be adjusted.
PANICKING
In all reality as someone who became Odinist without any form of outside help or influence... I dunno if it's really possible to join a religion or faith "accidentally". Faith is a concious choice. I doubt Unicorn was being serious though.
How does one accidentally become a pagan?
Also you can't forget the shenanigans that tend to crop up when you remember that there's always a chance the god/spirit/whatever you're interacting with/for is just Loki in disguise. :evil:
I don't know, I was fairly resistant to the idea of becoming religious. Kind of like I was rather resistant to starting running. It just didn't turn out to be an option.
You believe in what makes sense to you.
So my flatmate is throwing a Russian themed party tomorrow and wants everyone to dress up as something Russian. In the thread on fb everyone are discussing what to wear and it seems people are thinking of sort of standard Russian culture, so my other flatmate and I have decided to not tell anyone what we're doing and then turn up as Pussy Riot. I have tons of bright clothes so it's not like I even need make an effort, should be pretty fun.
Also you can't forget the shenanigans that tend to crop up when you remember that there's always a chance the god/spirit/whatever you're interacting with/for is just Loki in disguise. :evil:Hey now. I think I'd remember that.
I don't know, I was fairly resistant to the idea of becoming religious. Kind of like I was rather resistant to starting running. It just didn't turn out to be an option.
Yeah I don't really believe faith is a choice. I believe you get influenced by things around you, even if you don't necessarily believe in the same thing as the people around you. Most of my family is Christian, but I'm not, and I don't think I chose not to believe. Growing up Christian, atheism was more of a realisation than a proactive choice, I didn't really want to be an atheist until I found myself being one. You believe in what makes sense to you.
Does your faith have anything to do with you refusing to use your "u" key?
I find in forgein nations if you speak enough of the local lingo to apologize for not really speaking the language they usually give you a pass.Desculpe, eu so falo um pouco de português.
About foreign languages, in western Europe it's totally okay to not speak the native language. I worked at a cafe in Norway, and I'd rather have someone just speak to me in English, which we both understand, than them trying to explain something in broken Norwegian that neither of us understands. Everyone who is a native English speaker feels bad about not knowing the native language for some reason, but there is nothing wrong about not knowing it. How on earth are you going to know the languages of every country you visit?
I find this is a bigger issue with Northern Americans and Australians because most people speak English natively where they're from, but in Europe it would just be terribly inefficient if we were all going to be 'polite' and know each others languages, there are just to many. Rule of thumb: if you're visiting a country, don't bother learning the language, but if you're moving there you should make an effort. So yeah, as a guest: please speak English, it's better for everyone :)
Labels are hard. :psyduck:
That makes sense, not everywhere in the world is like this of course. But since Jimmy is in Vienna and I specifically said western Europe, that's totally how it works there. Basically I was just telling Jimmy, or anyone visiting western Europe, to not feel bad.
Also when I was in Italy, the funniest thing we witnessed was an American man trying to impress his girlfriend by loudly proclaiming "GRACIAS" when he got his beer in the most American accent I've ever heard. First: "Gracias" is Spanish, not Italian, and second: If you're gonna try, try harder.
Labels are hard. :psyduck:
That's why I prefer to screw around without them.
I suppose the thing is that in Norway, everyone really does speak english and it's not a huge country. It may also be relevant that you can get to France by train from the UK, so France probably gets more tourists who turn up without any language skills and just shout.
Aww, Jimmy, I'm sorry you're not having a good time. :-( When do you see your tattoo artist? Maybe they can suggest something for you to do or even take you somewhere? I don't know how friendly you are with your artist, but maybe they can help make your trip more bearable?I'm sorry too. :( I can't think of anything to say that doesn't sound like a fortune-cookie, but Linds' advice sounds good to me.
Just had my first real encounter with tram rails on the way to the store. Now I know how big the angle has to be when crossing them on a bicycle. My palms hurt.As close to 90 degrees as you can is good. Tram-tracks suck. So do level-crossings. Oh, and they are very slippery when wet too.
He was definitely American, my friends and I heard him speak and there's no mistaking American accents in Europe.
Would a fake film shoot be the film shoot of a film shoot? Meta.
DAYTON, Ohio -- Known as the Doolittle Raiders, the 80 men who risked their lives on a World War II bombing mission on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor were toasted one last time by their surviving comrades and honored with a Veterans Day weekend of fanfare shared by thousands.
Three of the four surviving Raiders attended the toast Saturday at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Their late commander, Lt. Gen. James "Jimmy" Doolittle, started the tradition but they decided this autumn's ceremony would be their last.
"May they rest in peace," Lt. Col. Richard Cole, 98, said before he and fellow Raiders - Lt. Col. Edward Saylor, 93, and Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, 92 - sipped cognac from specially engraved silver goblets. The 1896 cognac was saved for the occasion after being passed down from Doolittle.
Hundreds invited to the ceremony, including family members of deceased Raiders, watched as the three each called out "here" as a historian read the names of all 80 of the original airmen.
The fourth surviving Raider, Lt. Col. Robert Hite, 93, couldn't travel to Ohio because of health problems.
But son Wallace Hite said his father, wearing a Raiders blazer and other traditional garb for their reunions, made his own salute to the fallen with a silver goblet of wine at home in Nashville, Tenn., earlier in the week.
Hite is the last survivor of eight Raiders who were captured by Japanese soldiers. Three were executed; another died in captivity.
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The 80 silver goblets in the ceremony were presented to the Raiders in 1959 by the city of Tucson, Ariz. The Raiders' names are engraved twice, the second upside-down. During the ceremony, white-gloved cadets presented each of the three with their personal goblets and their longtime manager poured the cognac. The deceased's glasses are turned upside-down.
May, I just added you as a buddy but I couldn't find Welu. I'm bainidhe there if you want to look me up.
Let's be fair now, it's just a £300 meal each :roll:
I have often wondered where the threshold is between "overpriced" and "actually worth the money". I went out for dinner a few times with a guy I was seeing and we usually spent about £60-70 between the two of us, and I could not taste any discernible difference in quality from the £12 meals I'd normally have in restaurants, and only a slight improvement on my home cooking.
Holy crap is that without wine etc? :o
My £60-70 meals (for two) were with wine, although not a huge amount. The £300 meal was Paul's and he says it includes six different wines.
Oh no. Meal (nine courses) £155 a head; matching wines (six) £119 a head (that was the cheap option - the expensive one was £300 a head). With extras (champagne on arrival, coffee after) the £1200 voucher was pretty much accounted for.
Nine courses sounds a lot, but they were appropriately modest in size so that we were not over-stuffed at the end; but a glass of each wine was rather more alcohol than is generally prudent (I didn't force myself to finish them all). The presentation of the small food dishes was exquisitely detailed, with an almost jewel-like appearance in some cases.
What on earth is a frozen autumn still life? It's even worse in French! The pear Almondine sounds amazing.
Looks like I could only have had the third and seventh courses, but frankly I'm amazed it's that many!
Go West young man, haven't you been told,CaliforniaColorado's full of whiskey, women and gold...
I am very grateful for the fact that I've been able to spend time with Camille for the last few days, but it hurts knowing she's leaving again today. The good news is that it's only gonna be about 5 weeks til she's here and we don't have to say goodbye anymore.
I'm gonna cry so fucking hard when she has to go, though.
whiny sappy shit
To paraphrase a song mentioned in-comic: "If you like it, put a ring on it." ;)
See, I only really know the refrain of that song (and "uh-uh-oh, uh-uh-oh"), but given that it's repeated so much, it just makes me think that "it" is either my hand, in which case that is a little creepy that you like my hand so much that you want to marry it, or it's me as an object that you want to put a ring on because you want to own it, like putting an xbox on layaway at Target.
Oooh, you could totally have layaway ceremonies where the guy and the woman go to a chapel, the woman sits on a shelf while the guy hands the chaplain a wad of grubby fivers and promises he's so going to own her in a month or so.
...funnily enough that is basically what an engagement ring is. It's a down payment... in a sense, more a value hedge against a woman's chastity.
Yes....funnily enough that is basically what an engagement ring is. It's a down payment... in a sense, more a value hedge against a woman's chastity.
Yeah, I kind of prefer BDSM collaring ceremonies, because at least they're being honest about their objectification. I don't like engagement rings.
I am worth more than 6 cattle and some dirt and trees.
I don't really get the concept of proposals,
Yes, but that's ok because you exchanged rings, right?
I also dislike that whole part of "traditional" weddings where someone gives the bride away, for the same reasons.
It's not universal that both parties wear wedding rings. In fact I think that's a fairly recent development, but I could be wrong. Plenty of men still don't.
I just want to know her family approves of me.Why?
It's a down payment... in a sense, more a value hedge against a woman's chastity.Only the woman's?
I just want to know her family approves of me.As you should! My ancestors are nodding vigorously in approval. :-) More seriously, marriage inescapably involves two families, and it is very desirable for there to be approval on both sides.
It's a down payment... in a sense, more a value hedge against a woman's chastity.Only the woman's?
I just want to know her family approves of me.
Call me a sucker if you must, but I like the traditional Victorian ways of asking the Parent's permission (even if it is only a formality) and 'taking an arrow to the knee' of a proposal. Any young man who comes for my daughter better have his shit IN LINE.
I just want to know her family approves of me.
Why?
Wouldn't you hopefully know that beforehand?
Yeah. I'll pass on my parents making my decisions for me. My life is not subject to majority vote. Even if it's the wrong decision it's my decision to make.
Fwiw, 18 years into marriage, aside from parents and sibs I'm much closer to my wife's extended family than my own. Some of that is based on not being close to my extended family growing up, but some of that is down to how welcoming and awesome my inlaws are. I definitely consider them family now.
Hopefullyl, this factoid provides a bit of encouragment to Patrick, and possibly others!
Her parents invited me back for Christmas despite the fact that she won't be home yet by then. Unfortunately I've got my own plans, but the invitation speaks volumes.
I hate my partners family. They're a bunch of racist, homophobic, right wing idiots. Their dogs are nice though.
My house is one such place. If you're eating at my table, you're part of my family.
I really want to learn an instrument or how to sing after spending a weekend with musicians.
GM, if you ever make it to the general vicinity of San Francisco, I got you on some guitar basics. It is so much easier than it sounds, and literally the hardest part about it is learning how stumming complex rhythms works.
GM, if you ever make it to the general vicinity of San Francisco, I got you on some guitar basics. It is so much easier than it sounds, and literally the hardest part about it is learning how stumming complex rhythms works.
I used to play guitar (poorly) actually, got my hand smashed and never got around to learning how to play goofy.
Of course, if you have issues with one hand, it might be difficult to learn to play guitar, period.
I've often wondered if I'd be better off playing left handed, because of the dexterity needed to play chords.
I was doing fine until some schmuck stole my guitar from our storage area at our first apartment in Waukesha.
Granted, it was a crappy old Harmony electric six-string, and the neck was slightly warped, which meant constant tuning, but I had every intention of trying to keep up on learning to play.
You bite your filthy tongue. Harmony guitars are not crappy unless they've been neglected, abused, or poorly maintained.
IGTFY (http://igtfy.com/?q=NaNoWriMo). :-D
As someone who has had to answer hundreds of "what's that?" style questions to precocious 5 year olds in my time, I think I'm ok with using lmgtfy in simple cases like that.
my incredibly promiscuous friend has decided to get a vasectomy about 6 months after his illegitimate son was born.
yep, sounds about right.
Patrick, this isn't directed at you but sparked by your statement. I really don't like the word "illegitimate". Why do parents have to be married for a baby to be "legitimate"? Stupid hang-over from a former age.
My brain jumped to, "Does he really refuse to wear a condom that much?"
That's why I said it wasn't directed at you! I was just following a chain of thought. And honestly, the fact that a child is being used as a pawn in their parents' arguments doesn't mean they're any less of a legitimate human being.
Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22nd of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 “The Walking Dead,” and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the other just starting its seven-month combat tour.
Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines.
The same broken down ramshackle building was also home to 100 Iraqi police, also my men and our allies in the fight against the terrorists in Ramadi, a city until recently the most dangerous city on earth and owned by Al Qaeda. Yale was a dirt poor mixed-race kid from Virginia with a wife and daughter, and a mother and sister who lived with him and he supported as well. He did this on a yearly salary of less than $23,000. Haerter, on the other hand, was a middle class white kid from Long Island.
They were from two completely different worlds. Had they not joined the Marines they would never have met each other, or understood that multiple America’s exist simultaneously depending on one’s race, education level, economic status, and where you might have been born. But they were Marines, combat Marines, forged in the same crucible of Marine training, and because of this bond they were brothers as close, or closer, than if they were born of the same woman.
The mission orders they received from the sergeant squad leader I am sure went something like: “Okay you two clowns, stand this post and let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass.” “You clear?” I am also sure Yale and Haerter then rolled their eyes and said in unison something like: “Yes Sergeant,” with just enough attitude that made the point without saying the words, “No kidding sweetheart, we know what we’re doing.” They then relieved two other Marines on watch and took up their post at the entry control point of Joint Security Station Nasser, in the Sophia section of Ramadi, al Anbar, Iraq.
A few minutes later a large blue truck turned down the alley way—perhaps 60-70 yards in length—and sped its way through the serpentine of concrete jersey walls. The truck stopped just short of where the two were posted and detonated, killing them both catastrophically. Twenty-four brick masonry houses were damaged or destroyed. A mosque 100 yards away collapsed. The truck’s engine came to rest two hundred yards away knocking most of a house down before it stopped.
Our explosive experts reckoned the blast was made of 2,000 pounds of explosives. Two died, and because these two young infantrymen didn’t have it in their DNA to run from danger, they saved 150 of their Iraqi and American brothers-in-arms.
When I read the situation report about the incident a few hours after it happened I called the regimental commander for details as something about this struck me as different. Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat. We expect Marines regardless of rank or MOS to stand their ground and do their duty, and even die in the process, if that is what the mission takes. But this just seemed different.
The regimental commander had just returned from the site and he agreed, but reported that there were no American witnesses to the event—just Iraqi police. I figured if there was any chance of finding out what actually happened and then to decorate the two Marines to acknowledge their bravery, I’d have to do it as a combat award that requires two eye-witnesses and we figured the bureaucrats back in Washington would never buy Iraqi statements. If it had any chance at all, it had to come under the signature of a general officer.
I traveled to Ramadi the next day and spoke individually to a half-dozen Iraqi police all of whom told the same story. The blue truck turned down into the alley and immediately sped up as it made its way through the serpentine. They all said, “We knew immediately what was going on as soon as the two Marines began firing.” The Iraqi police then related that some of them also fired, and then to a man, ran for safety just prior to the explosion.
All survived. Many were injured … some seriously. One of the Iraqis elaborated and with tears welling up said, “They’d run like any normal man would to save his life.”
What he didn’t know until then, he said, and what he learned that very instant, was that Marines are not normal. Choking past the emotion he said, “Sir, in the name of God no sane man would have stood there and done what they did.”
“No sane man.”
“They saved us all.”
What we didn’t know at the time, and only learned a couple of days later after I wrote a summary and submitted both Yale and Haerter for posthumous Navy Crosses, was that one of our security cameras, damaged initially in the blast, recorded some of the suicide attack. It happened exactly as the Iraqis had described it. It took exactly six seconds from when the truck entered the alley until it detonated.
You can watch the last six seconds of their young lives. Putting myself in their heads I supposed it took about a second for the two Marines to separately come to the same conclusion about what was going on once the truck came into their view at the far end of the alley. Exactly no time to talk it over, or call the sergeant to ask what they should do. Only enough time to take half an instant and think about what the sergeant told them to do only a few minutes before: “… let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass.”
The two Marines had about five seconds left to live. It took maybe another two seconds for them to present their weapons, take aim, and open up. By this time the truck was half-way through the barriers and gaining speed the whole time. Here, the recording shows a number of Iraqi police, some of whom had fired their AKs, now scattering like the normal and rational men they were—some running right past the Marines. They had three seconds left to live.
For about two seconds more, the recording shows the Marines’ weapons firing non-stop…the truck’s windshield exploding into shards of glass as their rounds take it apart and tore in to the body of the son-of-a-bitch who is trying to get past them to kill their brothers—American and Iraqi—bedded down in the barracks totally unaware of the fact that their lives at that moment depended entirely on two Marines standing their ground. If they had been aware, they would have know they were safe…because two Marines stood between them and a crazed suicide bomber.
The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread should width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live.
The truck explodes. The camera goes blank. Two young men go to their God.
Six seconds. Not enough time to think about their families, their country, their flag, or about their lives or their deaths, but more than enough time for two very brave young men to do their duty…into eternity. That is the kind of people who are on watch all over the world tonight—for you.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kellys-speech-about-marines-in-ramadi-2013-6#ixzz2mWIjf4hc
Might as well move the original post there too Hodges.
That's what my family is to me.
For those of you keeping score at home:
Deer of Central Wisconsin - 1
JWH's Buick - 0
####ing thing ran in front of my car while I was driving to work. Swerved to avoid him, still nailed him with my side view mirror. Car caught the edge of the road, hit solid ice and started sliding a good 100 meters or so through the ditch. I thought I'd be able to recover, but I got too far down in the ditch, and the snow was too thick (and frozen).
A visit to the repair shop is coming tomorrow. :(
I had my masters interview on Tuesday. It did not go well.
Didn't just just get that job Linds? Or am I thinking of someone else?
I had my masters interview on Tuesday. It did not go well.
Sorry to hear that. Do you have any remaining applications still in hand?
Then I hung out with friends and had a very nice evening :)
apparently using the doge meme in a comment thread on Troubador's Facefuck page is such a grave sin that Matt's kicking me out of the band over it.I didn't even know what the doge meme was until I googled it (it turned out to have nothing to do with Venice), so I think that may take the prize for the pissiest reason to get pissy I've heard of. Hope you find a better slot soon, Patrick.
Just had my first real encounter with tram rails on the way to the store. Now I know how big the angle has to be when crossing them on a bicycle. My palms hurt.I almost crashed into a Mercedes because of that. I'm only here cause I'm lucky.
Just had my first real encounter with tram rails on the way to the store. Now I know how big the angle has to be when crossing them on a bicycle. My palms hurt.I almost crashed into a Mercedes because of that. I'm only here cause I'm lucky.
Yargh, spontaneous invitation to the city's lesbian bar by two girls I met a couple of weeks ago. I have no clothes which seem suitable for going to a bar. I made a joke of it but I genuinely don't know what one wears to a bar when one does not own any jeans (my friend's suggestion) and only has one dress which might be suitable, but is in the laundry basket.
I suspect that perhaps the magazine advice to lesbians might be a bit different. My friend and I were joking about dungarees and flannel shirts (neither of which I have either!).
Maybe you just haven't realised that the non-flannel short-hair lesbians were lesbians?Must be something like this. But it just strikes me as odd that every one of them that did declare themselves lesbians all basically wore the same. It just leaves you wondering why that is.
I think if I had to come up with an "All of the lesbians I know wear "X"", I wouldn't be able to come up with anything for "X" that wasn't incredibly general.
Like shoes. Yeah. They all wear shoes. :-P
Emotional rollercoaster tomorning. Now mighty fine.
Fuck Troubador without you. Far as I'm concerned they've made one record and broken up.
But if you had nothing to say about the comic, the question does arise of why you came to join this forum in the first place. Subsequently finding a greater interest in the wealth of stuff that happens in the rest of the forum is completely understandable, of course.
I am going to record the second album with them and then call it quits. I've grown weary of working so hard doing literally all the promotional work, the booking, the PR, and having nothing to show for it aside from two bandmates who don't care whether it gets us anywhere or not and a few shiny new wounds to my ego over this bullshit fight. I can't just sit here and want to make a career of this while they don't have any motivation to meet me halfway. We should ALL be going out of our way to make a success of this if we all want it like we say we do, not just push it on the one guy who wants it most.
Well, I love the comic, and I figured that people who liked it liked cool stuff and might be interesting to talk with.
I sometimes find it odd that people can dislike a cartoon character, but since I don't find it odd that people can like a cartoon character that's perhaps illogical.
overwhelming stuff. gotta let myself fall. be offline. relax. sleep. goodnight.
I just realized there's a school opposite of the building I'm living in. Today I heard someone do that "hot dayuhm" whistle outside, so I checked and saw a whole class of teenagers look towards my window. I wasn't wearing anything.
I have no regrets
Maybe you just haven't realised that the non-flannel short-hair lesbians were lesbians?Must be something like this. But it just strikes me as odd that every one of them that did declare themselves lesbians all basically wore the same. It just leaves you wondering why that is.
Didn't get in to university.
Ok so remember when I said this?Didn't get in to university.
Well what I didn't mention was that I was put on a waiting list, meaning if someone was offered a place and rejected it then I might be offered their place instead, depending on where I was on the waitlist.
I got an email today saying that I've been accepted into the Master of Clinical Psychology at CQ University. I'm moving to the middle of nowhere. I'm going to get to do with my life what I want to do.
Also today I presented the data of the program I've been running this year to the head Social Worker at the NSW Department of Health. He asked me to write, publish and present a paper on it.
I got an email today saying that I've been accepted into the Master of Clinical Psychology at CQ University.
I'm moving to the middle of nowhere.
My work just sent me an email saying that I don't have to work tomorrow. This entire week went by without working and I'll get paid for it still. And I'm getting two weeks of paid vacation.
I love my job.
I got an email today saying that I've been accepted into the Master of Clinical Psychology at CQ University. I'm moving to the middle of nowhere. I'm going to get to do with my life what I want to do.Yay! Congratulations! I'm happy for you; Queensland won't know what hit it!
I'll go home (as in where I grew up) on Monday. I just don't know, whether we'll have another linear algebra sheet due until Monday. I hope not.
Ok so remember when I said this?Didn't get in to university.
Well what I didn't mention was that I was put on a waiting list, meaning if someone was offered a place and rejected it then I might be offered their place instead, depending on where I was on the waitlist.
I got an email today saying that I've been accepted into the Master of Clinical Psychology at CQ University. I'm moving to the middle of nowhere. I'm going to get to do with my life what I want to do.
Also today I presented the data of the program I've been running this year to the head Social Worker at the NSW Department of Health. He asked me to write, publish and present a paper on it.
Don't worry, all messages out ofSwedeneverywhere are already being monitored
Every time I look at Facebook, I am presented with an additional reason to hate it.I so agree.
My new years eve was objectively better than the last one, as it didn't end with me sobbing uncontrollably.
Happy birthday, Pat!
In blog news, Facebook seems to think I got engaged on NYE, I'm suddenly getting tons of "getting married soon?", "recently got engaged?" ads. I have no idea why, I am definitely not engaged. I think I'd remember being proposed to.
My new years eve was objectively better than the last one, as it didn't end with mesobbingvomiting uncontrollably.
[birthday wishes]Thanks everybody :)
January is like, Official Forumite Birthday Month.Cool! My birthday is also in January!
January is like, Official Forumite Birthday Month.Mine's in December, so I guess I'm not a Forumite. :-P
Wow! Happy birthday (belated or not) to Loki, ev4n, and bain!!
January is like, Official Forumite Birthday Month.
Finally got my smartphone back.
FINALLY
Oh I see, the wire is just not attached to the phone, there is still a wire somewhere.Yes. "Wireless" is arguably a misnomer. "Contactless" would be better.
I know a few people that make a big deal out of 'Americanisms' but...some of them really make a hell of a load more sense than the English variation.
I did shop at Target when I was in the states last month, but with my credit card, and it's my debit card that the info was stolen from. I'm pretty sure it was one of the shops I went to in the states though, since the person using my card is in the states. But yeah, it's my debit card, not credit.
It's good that these things are available for those who sadly need them; I'm just a bit miffed that they are sending out the catalogue as essentially a junk mailing - spam mail I guess we could call it! But I accept that there is a possibility that one day I'll also need their services (I hope your father has an acceptably improved standard of life as a result of them).Thank you.
We get some, too; but more for Indian Restaurants.
I just noticed a tag line on the front of this catalogue: "Promoting Incontinence". Seriously, promoting it??
I get heaps of adverts for pizza delivery. It's like they're taunting me.Yeah... I could roof my house with the pizza-joint (mostly Domino's) discount coupons I get stuffed in my letter-box. And, of course, the places that do offer good no-meat, no-cheese toppings never discount and don't spam me with flyers anyway. I think there is correlation; the more frenetic the marketing, the worse the food.
I'm just a bit miffedBeware the Englishman who is "a bit miffed".
The last time that happened, the Falkland Island War resulted.I'm just a bit miffedBeware the Englishman who is "a bit miffed".
The last time that happened, the Falkland Island War resulted.I'm just a bit miffedBeware the Englishman who is "a bit miffed".
[...] and is already overflowing. [...]
If you have any amount of garden then composting helps too, more so if people in your house do any proper cooking. Don't really even have to use it.
I... you... how the heck do you kill a cactus?
"PLEEEEATHE BURRRRY ME WWWITH IT"
I went in to SF last night to see Autumn Sky, who our very own Jimor has worked with. She's not only an incredible musician (despite the venue's sound person SUCKING FUCKING MISERABLY OH MY GOD GET A DIFFERENT JOB BECAUSE YOU ARE AWFUL AT THIS ONE) but a genuinely wonderful person. And her band are all wonderful people too. I bought an EP and she autographed it. And when she's famous it'll be worth thousands and I'll guard it so jealously that I might as well quote Modest Mouse and say "PLEEEEATHE BURRRRY ME WWWITH IT"
I went in to SF last night to see Autumn Sky, who our very own Jimor has worked with. (clipping this for organization's sake)
Awesome! Glad you got a chance to see her and talk with her. Pretty much everything I'm doing now is her fault. (After the first time I saw her play, the totally out-of-the-blue idea popped into my head to help her get her music on TV, which started the long process of learning how to video from scratch, which led to my current job, and also to meeting just about everybody in the local music scene, which led to other projects like directing music videos...)
Centenary of the landing of the First Fleet by the British. I suppose it might be akin to either Independence Day or Thanksgiving? It's actual name is Australia Day and it's usually a day for jingoistic displays of nationalism and racism. People walking around with the Australian flag draped around their shoulders and getting extremely drunk.
A lot of Indigenous Australians refer to it as Invasion Day as it also marks the anniversary of nearly 150 years of oppression, displacement and attempted genocide.
I refuse to celebrate Columbus Day (I feel like this is a somewhat more accurate analogue) because I feel like it's tasteless to glorify a racist serial rapist/murderer.
That's why I'm treated like the computing genius in the office.
Woohoo! We got the house! :-) :-) :-)
Terrifies you because ... she might be a stalker?
Yesterday, I got two emails, one asking for more info, the other for an interview.All my best wishes, Carl!
Yeah Pat, I didn't even as much as doodle in a notebook for the duration of my previous degree (3 years), before that I'd enjoyed drawing and making art since I was old enough to hold a pencil. Now I'm in art school, and I actually think the hiatus was good for me. Maybe questioning what you're doing is a good thing once in a while? You'll either find out that it's not for you, in which case you'll be better off than if you keep doing it just because you think you're supposed to and discover too late that you're not. Or you'll end up rediscovering it, and then it's even better for you because it'll be like falling in love all over again, only this time you'll be able to appreciate it more since you know what it's like to be without and it's more of a conscious choice this time around.
Oxfordshire - Dry Lane in Crawley closed between the B4047 Burford Road junction and the Leafield Road junction, because of flooding.
That's freaking adorable.It abso-freaking-lutely was. hug was included.
(I added a :mrgreen: for loki)
Never before that moment did I have balls like [that]. They were both double my size and I didn't flinch, and felt awesome.
Double posting tralala I just bought a t shirt with a rainbow heart on the front to wear on the day the first gay marriages happen (Bob, it's the day we're going touristing round York).You're assuming it'll be warm enough for a T? I should find something in support. A pin, maybe. I don't think this (http://www.homage.com/store/styles/t-shirts/pop-culture/think)would do.
I get to see the Pixies tonight, suckaaaaz
It was consistently 30 degrees between 7am and 8pm pretty much every day last July, surely even a hard-core snow dweller would concede that's not coat weather!
She didn't say it was too hot, only too hot to wear a coat. 35+ sounds lovely, I love hot weather, as long as it's not humid. Air-con is okay if it's not freezing inside, and a lot of places in the states keeps the temperatures needlessly low inside. Such a waste of energy, and it just makes it even more of a shock when you go outside in the heat again! There's air-con in Europe too, lots of places in Europe get the same kind of temperatures as the states... They're just usually better at keeping it temperate inside.
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...okay 50c is way too hot.
Yeah, how far north most of Europe is is irrelevant, that's not how temperatures work.
I get to see the Pixies tonight, suckaaaaz
Oh fuck you.
I get to see the Pixies tonight, suckaaaaz
Oh fuck you.
I'd rather fuck their new bassist, sorry pal. Paz Lenchantin is goddamn precious, and she was completely killing it on bass and on Kim's vocal parts. She had this foot-pedal keyboard that she'd play some synth basslines with, and she'd be standing on one foot and lifting her leg a little higher than really necessary to move her foot to the next pedal, and she'd stomp on the next key and oh my god it was the cutest fucking thing I've ever seen and it made brilliant music happen and holy shit, mind = blown
also Black Francis had a sick SG Jr. and Joey Santiago had his hardtail Les Paul literally in his pocket at one point and I have never heard an instrument scream in agony like that before
...because they're both white as fuck, right?
...because they're both white as fuck, right?
How can you confuse them? Gareth is made of sads and Patrick is doing anything but touching his balls. Easy.
You guys need to stop playing into my fantasies. I'm looking at you, Gaz and Masterpiece and occasionally Pat.
ev4n I'm kinda curious where you got the idea I was English? I'm ultra NorCal, I just lived abroad a while. And not even in England :3You guys need to stop playing into my fantasies. I'm looking at you, Gaz and Masterpiece and occasionally Pat.
the hell did I do? :?
gave up the ghostThat expression is a thing in English? o.o
gave up the ghostThat expression is a thing in English? o.o
You guys need to stop playing into my fantasies. I'm looking at you, Gaz and Masterpiece and occasionally Pat.
the hell did I do? :?
I had something kinda exciting happen tonight, I often stop and help stranded motorists, cause I'm a fucking boy scout apparently. Also the motorists out here are very unlikely to be cartel members trying to lure you in so they can rob you and steal your car like AZ. Long story short, dude ran out of gas so I took him to go get gas and gave him a lift back to his car. He thanked me, said "Let me pay you for the gas" handed me $40, wouldn't let me say no, just shook my hand and sent me on my way.
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I'm just ... upset. Depressed, a little, too I think.And no wonder... If I could beam some good vibrations your way, I would.
So you're saying someone pulled the drama tag in your life, hm?
Trigger warning: Helmet cam, POV footage of a Marine triggering an IED and surviving.The only think I'm glad about is that the man survived. I hope recovery from his injuries goes well.
Hey peoples, I think I'm ready to start lurking and maybe post here again. What have I missed?
It's been a while. Things have been exciting for me.Yay! Missed you so much! Congratulations!
Congrats on the certificate, though. What does the smaller text say?
It's my Master's degree
It's my Master's degree
So you're Papersatan, MS? :)
Well, yeah, I'd be terrified of going to New Orleans, too.
EDIT: forgot the ;)
Have fun down at the other end of US 51.
You should have Wifi at the hotel, even run down hell holes have wifi in the states these days.
Lindsay Lohan -like.
I didn't know lawyers or couriers got up this early. I just got served papers walking out to my car regarding a child support claim out of SoCal, I don't recognize the name on the documents of the person who's suing me... any one know a good lawyer? Cause I might be screwed.
I can also be a snarky bitch
Wait. You? A grumpy bitch? I'm sorry, I don't see it. ;)
Working at a large company's data-centre, I once found a small bird trapped in a maze of corridors outside the underground machine-room. I managed to guide it to a loading-dock that was open to the outside world, by turning off all the lights except those in the direction I wanted it to fly. Yes, I was unreasonably pleased when it worked.
That's what always confused me about American culture I guess. What's a date and what's not? Wouldn't hanging out be considered a date? Is a date hanging out with higher stakes or some sort of level of seriousness to it?
Held a surprise party for my fiancé. Went really well. He thought it was just us two going for a meal for my birthday, which is this week, but had ten of his/our friends waiting at the restaurant. I thought he'd sussed me out for having something planned but turned out he hadn't and definitely not three weeks before his actual birthday. :lol:I may have told some of this in the forum before:
I think I don't need it for the opposite reason, I feel like we bond and enjoy each other all the time we're together, so we don't need to set off a special occasion for it.
Be a musical lawyer? Object while shredding on a classic Les Paul.
Be a musical lawyer? Object while shredding on a classic Les Paul.
I almost have to learn how to shred just to do this. "Your honor, this next song is called… 'Hearsay'..."
I thought of that, but I lived with my ex for a year and we went out for romantic reasons... once on valentines? I dunno, I think the concept of setting off time for a romantic date night out is pretty American. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, I just don't understand it. Now, the American concept of Mythbusters and Ben & Jerrys in bed I can understand the hell out of.
I don't think any of my fellow European real life friends go on dates either, and certainly not any parents I know of. My parents had plenty of time to be a couple after our bedtime, and they were always very affectionate with each other when we were around too. I think the closest thing people here do is go for weekend or week long trips somewhere once in a while?
Be a musical lawyer? Object while shredding on a classic Les Paul.
I almost have to learn how to shred just to do this. "Your honor, this next song is called… 'Hearsay'..."
Be a musical lawyer? Object while shredding on a classic Les Paul.
I almost have to learn how to shred just to do this. "Your honor, this next song is called… 'Hearsay'..."
That's dangerous. It might be misheard as "by Hear'Say", and that'll lose you the case right off the bat.
Be a musical lawyer? Object while shredding on a classic Les Paul.
I almost have to learn how to shred just to do this. "Your honor, this next song is called… 'Hearsay'..."
That's dangerous. It might be misheard as "by Hear'Say", and that'll lose you the case right off the bat.
'I didn't stalk her, your honour, I just told her that wherever she goes, I'm gonna be there, whatever she does, I'm gonna be there. Pure and simple.'
Be a musical lawyer? Object while shredding on a classic Les Paul.
I almost have to learn how to shred just to do this. "Your honor, this next song is called… 'Hearsay'..."
That's dangerous. It might be misheard as "by Hear'Say", and that'll lose you the case right off the bat.
'I didn't stalk her, your honour, I just told her that wherever she goes, I'm gonna be there, whatever she does, I'm gonna be there. Pure and simple.'
It's my birthday! Whoop!
yes yes you may puke and gack if you like but that's just how it is.
It's walpurgisnacht in Sweden
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Question: Will Baste ever shut up about the errors in the GoT show? Probably not. Probably not.
The new flat is bigger (yay!) with windows which face east, west, and north in the bathroom so there'll be plenty of light. It comes with a table and chairs in the kitchen area and there's space for a desk (maybe even a big corner desk!) which will be awesome. And there's a built-in wardrobe and space for a chest of drawers and basically it's much nicer than this flat, for not much more money. There's no washing machine in the flat itself but there's one in the building and a tumble dryer too. The convenience of the dryer (which I don't have now) will offset the inconvenience of having to go down two flights of stairs to do laundry.I think I should come over to inspect the new place. When's a good time? :psyduck:
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The second baby did a massive poo as I was weighing her and the third one weed all over the place, but fortunately both of them were lying on blankets and not my lap at the time! I took blood from a baby as well, so basically today was bodily fluid central.I have had all of that happen to me too. It's a very special feeling. Of warmth, mainly. Slightly moist, as well.
[...]Yeah ... No.
Also, guys, it's really not that big of a deal. I would rather them come from babies and children than adults. Tiny bodies can hold less mess. Usually...
Man, I hope so. That would be awesome.
If the movie "Juno" is to be believed, you get amazing hair & nails from pregnancy vitamins.Not a myth. I can hardly keep up with my nails right now. Judging by the edge of my polish, they've grown almost 1/16" since Saturday.
I dunno, I think given the choice between never having sex again and never having children, I'd definitely choose not to have sex.
In totally other news, Patrick - I have a question (floor's open to anyone else who wants to answer too but Patrick seemed a logical person to ask). I met a couple today who are Albanian refugees. I didn't ask them about it, because it's irrelevant to their maternity care, but I was wondering what they might be refugees from. I know almost nothing about Albania and my understanding is that it's a lot less turbulent now than it was twenty years ago.
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How this morning started. This is how a major board game release kicks off. A couple 40' shipping containers and a lot of dudes moving boxes.
Interesting. Is there a city of origin listed in their paperwork?
That is surely grounds for firing.
In other news I miss the Marine Corps still. I wonder if that particular ache will ever go away.
GM has already served as an active-duty Marine and can no longer do so for health reasons. He probably knows more Marine recruiters than you :P
Okay, I got curious about Norman's video, and looked it up.
Start taking echinacea.
Here's Ann Arbor's tourism ad.
Too bad, Flens (especially in the Dunkel variant) is my favourite beer. But it tastes pretty bitter, so some people might not like it. I visited the brewery once, as my Grandparents live in Flensburg.
I bet you couldn't weight to make that joke.I figured if I didn't say it, someone else meight.
The fire service said more than 90% of the structure was viable and they had protected up to 70% of the contents.
Some of us are not in your stupid Union! :DSome of use are not on your stupid continent!
Some of us are not in your stupid Union! :DSome of use are not on your stupid continent!
Oorah to Ashes
Stuck out all alone
trapped inside his head
young vet losing his cool
may as well be dead
Oorah to ashes
he still has his pride
but his hands keeps twitching
with no rifle at his side
keeps seeing the faces
of the brothers he lost
can't comprehend the cost
Oorah to ashes
A broken man's mourning cry
in his fitful sleep he sighs
tears pouring down from his eyes
as a gun salute takes to the skies
for yet another vet who died
in his cold, lonely, grave he lies
Oorah to ashes
The nightmares come again
against the horrors he fends
all of his dreams it rend
with his past battles to face
He feels like he lives in disgrace
Stuck alone in a hopeless place
Oorah to ashes
Leave no man behind
This lost brother we have to find
His clock is running out of time
the flow of pain, we have to stymie
Patch up the wounds
Get a Casevac, nine lines to shine.
Stuck out all alone
trapped inside his head
young vet losing his cool
may as well be dead
The Non-Combat Veteran's Lament
another set of rifle shots
echo in my heart
a salute comes up
as the casket lowers down
another folded flag
in to a grieving widow's arms
the sound of taps echoes
as the bugler begins to mourn
another brother fallen
in the thick of the fight
blood on the sands
in the dark of the night
men torn and mangled
by the bloody course of war
families destroyed and shredded
devastated ever more
I sometimes turn on myself
in the darkness of my mind
why was I so lucky?
simply to have survived?
my brothers lost and scattered
but my ticket never came
my rotation never happened
so now I sit in shame
I feel my honor is diminished
for not taking the same risks as they
a coward not a warrior
for not having the chance to stand
I accept the cast of fate
no matter what the cost
and in my survival know I must
forever remember the lost
over three thousand of my brothers
sent to their eternal sleep
I ask a god I don't believe in
for their souls to keep
I'll remember if no one else
the sacrifices made
which is why I stand here
at this unmourned grave
this is the task I set myself
to be a survivor with out shame
to tell the stories of the fallen
and share their immortal fame
Okay, so I read this thing (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27051071) describing how the EU elections work, and, well, I don't think Europeans should be allowed to complain about how confusing the U.S.'s electoral college system is anymore. :psyduck:
Just voted. It took all of ten minutes including the walk there and back :o decided to change my vote about a week ago, to my own surprise. This is the first time I've voted for the "Feminist Initiative"!
I won't be voting for them in the national election however.
I voted for the uh.. environmental party, like I do most of the time. It's basically the only issue I find relevant nowadays. So I guess I'm either bitter or naive, or both.
I voted Green for the EU too - but as Paul says, the racists have done pretty well out of this election :(In Australia, you don't have to vote for a fringe party to express your racism; we have a racist as our Prime Minister. And if you're sexist and/or homophobic, Tony's got that covered too; he's the complete package.
It has just come to light that while I was away, the person tasked with the slightly technical job of updating file permissions on the file server that holds all the individual, personnel, and trial files for the Medical Oncology clinical trials group made a little slip - she set all the files on the server to universal read/write, and also removed all trace of the previous settings. Now I have to recreate from scratch the entire security structure of the whole file server - in a highly sensitive environment.
It has just come to light that while I was away, the person tasked with the slightly technical job of updating file permissions on the file server that holds all the individual, personnel, and trial files for the Medical Oncology clinical trials group made a little slip - she set all the files on the server to universal read/write, and also removed all trace of the previous settings.Ow! That would have put me into what co-workers have occasionally described as a "Miss Mao" mood. Rebuilding that sort of thing is a pain, because permissions structures tend to evolve over time, and are often poorly documented. My sympathies.
It has just come to light that while I was away, the person tasked with the slightly technical job of updating file permissions on the file server that holds all the individual, personnel, and trial files for the Medical Oncology clinical trials group made a little slip - she set all the files on the server to universal read/write, and also removed all trace of the previous settings.Ow! That would have put me into what co-workers have occasionally described as a "Miss Mao" mood. Rebuilding that sort of thing is a pain, because permissions structures tend to evolve over time, and are often poorly documented. My sympathies.
There are exciting things happening. Cannot talk about it until Monday, though :3
Did you have a nice journey home? (I'm assuming you wrote this from home)There are exciting things happening. Cannot talk about it until Monday, though :3
Okay, it is official now.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of physics students in one year.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of IT students in one year.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of math students in one year.
Each of them has their own culture and procedures and what they are used to having at their respective conference.
They pack a size of 200/200/100 people respectively. It is public opinion organizing *one* of them is hard. We have three.
People on every side have told us we are insane.
We need to organize accommodation, space for them to work, and most importantly, money for food. I won't say how much in case anyone from there ever finds this post, but suffice to say we are talking five-figures.
Do people pay to attend or does your university have to fund them?Usually the attendee's students' union pays the fee and travel expenses for a few or all of their attendees.
I've been quite unwell since returning from holiday, and expecting it to pass. It hasn't, and today it was diagnosed as Giardiasis. I've started a course of Metronidazole which should clear it in short order, but means no alcohol for the duration.
but means no alcohol for the duration.
I've been quite unwell since returning from holiday...
I've been quite unwell since returning from holiday, and expecting it to pass. It hasn't, and today it was diagnosed as Giardiasis. I've started a course of Metronidazole which should clear it in short order, but means no alcohol for the duration.My sympathies. That is probably down to not-so-clean water, alas.
2. It requires a lot of knowledge I don't have. They are using Linux and Java, neither of which I know. They said for the right person they are willing to help them learn, but that's a lot of upfront pressure to predict one's ability to learn a new skill.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of physics students in one year.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of IT students in one year.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of math students in one year.
Each of them has their own culture and procedures and what they are used to having at their respective conference.
They pack a size of 200/200/100 people respectively. It is public opinion organizing *one* of them is hard. We have three.
People on every side have told us we are insane.
We need to organize accommodation, space for them to work, and most importantly, money for food. I won't say how much in case anyone from there ever finds this post, but suffice to say we are talking five-figures.
He was impressed with your desire to get more technical and your answers to some of his QA questions. But he feels he needs someone with more tech experience from Day One. The learning curve is just too great. Sorry this won’t work out. Thanks very much for your time and interest.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of physics students in one year.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of IT students in one year.
Our student council is organizing the Germanwide conference of math students in one year.
Each of them has their own culture and procedures and what they are used to having at their respective conference.
They pack a size of 200/200/100 people respectively. It is public opinion organizing *one* of them is hard. We have three.
People on every side have told us we are insane.
We need to organize accommodation, space for them to work, and most importantly, money for food. I won't say how much in case anyone from there ever finds this post, but suffice to say we are talking five-figures.
Prepare 100 meals and let each group of students randomly select two representatives from their midst to fight in a battle royale for the right to eat. Everyone sleeps in one of three giant tents.
So, uh, I just bought a chair. It's in Nottingham. I'm not in Nottingham. Are you allowed to take furniture on the train?
Edit to add: Apparently it's too heavy for one person to move alone. Does anyone live near Nottingham and would be prepared to babysit the chair until I can come collect it in my friend's car? It's a very nice chair, very well behaved and house trained.
Only 5000? It's Harrisson Fucking Ford.
Only 5000? It's Harrisson Fucking Ford.Yeah, if you can get a picture of Ford Prefect in that situation, you should be able to get way more than 5000 out of him.
Only 5000? It's Harrisson Fucking Ford.
So sell it to People or The Sun instead
I have enough of a Liverpool connection that I think I'm obliged to hate the sun for all eternity.Just cause you Brits never see the sun don't mean you gotta hate on it :parrot:
I have enough of a Liverpool connection that I think I'm obliged to hate the sun for all eternity.Just cause you Brits never see the sun don't mean you gotta hate on it :parrot:
I have enough of a Liverpool connection that I think I'm obliged to hate the sun for all eternity.Just cause you Brits never see the sun don't mean you gotta hate on it :parrot:
My wife has an interview for a job in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. That's to say, the interview is in South Africa, as she's already had a first round by Skype. If this goes forward, life could get very ... interesting in a hurry.So ... she's got to pop over for an interview for a bit? That really is a whole new level of interview anxiety if it involves plane schedules and clothing choices based on stylishness and climate.
my ID was expired.
The answer is bureaucracy. Anyway, even if I get it delivered they still want to see a valid ID so that package is going back to the Netherlands.my ID was expired.
Does your ID revert to describing someone else when it expires? Or is it you that expired and no longer match your ID?
That always puzzled me as well, particularly if the card has all of the recent security doodads that shows it's not a fake (and if you're going to fake an ID card, wouldn't you create one that isn't expired?)The extent of security doodads on my current ID card only goes as far as a micro-perforated imprint of my photo - that's quite cool, actually. But I don't think it even has a chip.
he is currently lecturing me about using an ethernet cable to assess the initial speeds so that he can reassess them in a week, and I am refusing because I don't want to and it's my router
This conversation is a carbon copy of one I had with my bandmate regarding leaving his guitar out in the rain, exactly one month before the warping finally caused the neck to delaminate from the neck joint in the guitar's body.Initial reaction: ... he's a cunt.
May is right; there is no need for her dad to interfere. If he's interested, he can offer advice
Home Children is a common term used to refer to the child migration scheme founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100,000 children were sent to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa from the United Kingdom.
Australia has apologised for its involvement in the scheme, while in February 2010 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a formal apology to the families of children who suffered. On 16 November 2009, Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney issued a statement that Canada will not apologise to child migrants.
The same could be said for so many things, but sadly, countries will always be held accountable for the actions of their forefathers.
I don't understand why you would apologise for something in 2010 that was done in 1869 and was nothing to do with you.On the surface it seems pointless, but if those affected get some sort of solace out of it then I'm all in favour of it.
I don't understand why you would apologise for something in 2010 that was done in 1869 and was nothing to do with you.
I don't understand why you would apologise for something in 2010 that was done in 1869 and was nothing to do with you.
a small hacker convention organised by our local hackerspace
Small? >.> I am told it has 300 people or somesuch.
I don't understand why you would apologise for something in 2010 that was done in 1869 and was nothing to do with you.At the very least it is a way of openly and explicitly saying that what was done was seriously not OK, rather than essentially pretending that it never happened. I mean, would it be better to say, for example, that sure the Massacre of Wounded Knee happened, but you don't care because you personally were not there?
One of the things that anyone who is seeking to do Genealogical research should be prepared for is that sometimes you may not like what you find. There are some things that may not seem to make any sense, but will result in you discovering a previously unknown event or action that resulted in a close-knit family unraveling very quickly - and, by looking back from a distance of several hundred years, unexplainable.
I don't understand why you would apologise for something in 2010 that was done in 1869 and was nothing to do with you.At the very least it is a way of openly and explicitly saying that what was done was seriously not OK, rather than essentially pretending that it never happened. I mean, would it be better to say, for example, that sure the Massacre of Wounded Knee happened, but you don't care because you personally were not there?
The apology for that latter event would be far more sincere if there weren't still Medals of Honor on the books for it.Very true, of course. It is a very obvious example of the problems involved in apologising for bad actions performed in the past, while people continue to enjoy the fruits of those actions today. Like museum curators crying crocodile tears over imperialist looting while continuing to fill their displays with its proceeds. Or those of us who live in homes standing on land that, although the titles may have passed through many twists and turns of subdivision and change of ownership, was originally seized without a qualm from native peoples left marginalised, displaced and largely excluded from our society. Generally, we cannot undo the crimes of the past, so we have no alternative but to beg forgiveness and move on, but our words are hollow if we do not work to address today the legacy of injustice that we all inherit.
Usually in a plastic head, unless you're like Paul or myself and remember them coming with metal handles where you dropped the razor blade in from the top.
Also, this past Saturday I officiated a wedding. That is the coolest thing ever. Or will be until I can perform same-sex marriages.
Usually in a plastic head, unless you're like Paul or myself and remember them coming with metal handles where you dropped the razor blade in from the top.
Yay for Russia being so backwards that I remember my father using those :D
Also, this past Saturday I officiated a wedding. That is the coolest thing ever. Or will be until I can perform same-sex marriages.
Most of that sounded bad, but this part sounds awesome.
I'm glad you've found work - you're only working the nights, right, not the two jobs AND the nights?
Sorry about your wife, that must have been pretty rough for you both.
That's a matter of opinion.The church pays me very little, but yes, the church gig pays.
Or, more seriously: is there a difference in pay for bigger congregations? Does it pay to be make a career in a church?
very small churches
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n00sTCUpGh0/T-gr2bKzXrI/AAAAAAAAAL8/nc4ITOX06DM/s1600/charlie_sheen_Meme_Dump-s350x350-150912-580.jpg)very small churches
Do they float in water? (http://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g)
(wasn't there a nails and makeup thread? did it die? )
Hodges what is an ambiosonic microphone? Looks both delicate and expensive
....what do you do again?
I always look forward to your posts.Me too, even when he's telling me to pull my head in. :-) Educational too, I had never heard of ambisonics until PWH posted about it.
Hodges what is an ambiosonic microphone? Looks both delicate and expensive.I think: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569945514/brahma-affordable-ambisonics-microphone
Paul, you continuously prove to be one of the most interesting people I know. I always look forward to your posts.
while I was visiting Norsk Data.
It was a setting of passages from the Song of Songs, in Norwegian, for contralto accompanied by string quartet, vibraphone and bongos.
[ambisonics account]
((Amazing things))
My friend from church, who is around 40 I think and whose sons I babysit for, came over for tea this morning. I'd mentioned I was seeing someone when I last spoke to her, and she asked me about it today. I hedged round the issue for a bit and then just told her straight out "it's a woman". I've spent the last year not coming out to her, because I wasn't sure how she'd take it, and her response was "well, I've known for ages". Right. OK. Seems I'm the only person in the world without operational gaydar.
Well, I have a huge problem with church people who DO have a problem with other people's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Also, I find the concept of a gaydar slightly problematic, since to me it seems to imply that there are specific brhaviors which allow you to reliably "spot" gay people, a notion which I find slightly irksome.
Big serious high five for you. o/\o
((Amazing things))
It's official: Pat is the only thing awesomer than this:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/superrad076/awesome.jpg)
Nope. It's mainly irrational, but the fact is that for many people homophobia is a very real and painful experience. I guess I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.There is nothing irrational about protecting yourself.
I think it's because the original picture (http://www.telkoth.net/wh33/Star%20Wars%20Rock%20Band.jpg) was cut off in the one posted.
Amazon Logistics (in the UK, at least) is at the lowest level of incompetent. Today they tried to deliver my package to an obviously business address at 7pm, when the building is closed.
The German postal services is belligerently incompetent. They refuse to deliver packages to our flat and then forget to give us the failed delivery slip. When calling their hotline, it takes hours to connect with someone.
LTK, your body is arguably worth more than a bike, and iirc you are in a country where you have insurance, right?I am well aware. I mentioned insurance, yes, so money isn't an issue, but the inconvenience of prolonged medical treatment is like a hundred times that of having my bike fixed. So it's still kind of the same!
Now I'm basically facing the same question again, only instead of my bike it's my body that's gone back to being defective just after being discharged from the hospital. So I can wait and see if it heals by itself or go back to the hospital for further treatment. I really hope it can be the former, this sucks.
I was confused because I thought that was a response to the random-greetings thing.
But it all evens out, see, because someone who's an expert at fixing computers will likely be equally clueless as to what's wrong (http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks) with your friend's/mom's/dog's computer as the guy they know who studies computer science.
It's like taxis. If you don't prebook, you're not insured.
It's like taxis. If you don't prebook, you're not insured.
Meanwhile, I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
This morning bought better news, no issues overnight, free to go home. Moved onto an oral Warfarin subsitute and instructed to do nothing strenuous for the next three weeks. Apparently even walking into town is off the list. Tough medicine for a very active person but doable.My sympathies and thoughts are with you and your wife, and I'm glad she's getting treatment and can come home.
Have you heard from your doctors about what they suspect caused the clot, putting aside the issue of the pill?
I definitely need to be more careful with these powders.
Oh right that makes sense. I had misunderstood.Well, it was two teaspoons more than usual, and it was two teaspoons of the powder with more caffeine than the other. So the amount of caffeine I usually put into my cocoa (and not every day) is about 350mg.
You said that this was "a bit more" than you'd usually have. How much more? If you're regularly consuming more than 500mg of caffeine a day you're really putting your health at risk.
Ditch all bitches who try to pressure you into something.This, basically. I am not much of a drinker, and I have sometimes had similar problems with people urging alcohol on me.
Have you told them what you just told us?Should he have to? Why isn't a simple "No, thank you" enough? Isn't it a bit of a dick move to demand justifications? Technically I should abstain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Precepts) from all "intoxicants", but should I have to discuss that, or the fact that I'm not completely rigid about it, with random acquaintances in a bar?
Have you told them what you just told us?You know what, I did. They still do it though.
When people used to ask me for legal advice, I would say "in my opinion as someone with a law degree, you should... go ask a real lawyer". Now if people ask me for pregnancy advice, assuming they are just my friends and not my mentor's caseload women, I say "ask your midwife". It's like taxis. If you don't prebook, you're not insured.One of the things about being a part-time preacher is, no one ever asks me for free theological advice.
Yes, yes you are. You should feel honored! :mrgreen:Now that I think about it, so should you - you are, after all, also the first forumite I met in real life.
Good day.You never get asked this when wearing a certain CoF shirt. Thank the lord.
Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?
Should he have to? Why isn't a simple "No, thank you" enough? Isn't it a bit of a dick move to demand justifications? Technically I should abstain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Precepts) from all "intoxicants", but should I have to discuss that, or the fact that I'm not completely rigid about it, with random acquaintances in a bar?
Good day.More like, "If you don't agree with me on Issue X, you aren't a True Christiantm!"
Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?
May, I definitely appreciate your worries. I won't need this for quite a while after next week, because the lectures will end then. I can't guarantee for the time after that, but I'll definitely try my best without caffeine.
In other news: I just got told that I have the voice of a audiobook narrator. Don't know about this, and the person who told me that is austrian, so it might just be that she's not used to german without an austrian accent, but I like to hear that. Some people here heard me on mumble (and one even in person). What would you say about my voice? I was already considering starting a podcast one day, so it'd be nice to have some feedback.
Good day.
Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?
Good day.No, but I have accepted him as my gardener. :roll:
Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?
I just won a tiny amount of money in the office World Cup prediction pool, because I am a badass motherfucker and absolute jammy sod.
Good day.No, but I have accepted him as my gardener. :roll:
Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?
I've already accepted Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour, and those people make me want to convert back. Street evangelism is just about the most pointless thing - I don't believe anyone has ever had a spontaneous spiritual epiphany due to being accosted by a stranger while doing the weekly shop.This is especially true of the kind of "street evangelism" I see at colleges and universities, where some moron with a sign listing "Abominations" yammers for hours about who is going to Hell.
Good day. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?I confess that I have occasionally pretended that I don't speak English to avoid such people.
Here we're not very far from the home base of the Westboro Baptist kooks, so they show up at the university every once in a while. Over time I've gradually learned to avoid the South Oval.I've already accepted Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour, and those people make me want to convert back. Street evangelism is just about the most pointless thing - I don't believe anyone has ever had a spontaneous spiritual epiphany due to being accosted by a stranger while doing the weekly shop.This is especially true of the kind of "street evangelism" I see at colleges and universities, where some moron with a sign listing "Abominations" yammers for hours about who is going to Hell.
I qualify for a window seat on the bus to Perdition on several levels.
I always say, "sorry my hands are full" and ostentatiously put my hands in my pockets when someone attempts to give me fliers.
Because I tend to have big difficulties getting out of bed and out of the house. There are many, many days where I lie in bed for several hours before being able to get up, get ready and go to university
NJ's fucking terrible about that. MD's pretty awful too, so I try to avoid all three when traveling with weapons, but I did MD this morning and I have no other options really (that wouldn't cost a fortune in time and gas) besides a quick burn across Illinois.Illinois is a short one. A couple of hours on 70 from Terre Haute to St. Louis comes to mind. I drive that twice annually between MI and AZ.
Would it be completely ridiculous to suggest not having the guns in the vehicle? I have no idea whether you're allowed to ship weapons so this might be a stupid thing to ask.
It's so boring and samey that it actually induces hallucinations and can lull you to sleep.This is quite dangerous especially with a solo driver. The Newell Highway in NSW has long, absolutely dead straight sections that are marked in red as a danger zone in my road atlas of Australia because so many people have run off the road, crossed the median line into a truck coming the other way etc. The Newell is single-carriageway for most of its length, and our state government, in its infinite wisdom, now permits B-triples like this on the road:
Wooo!me and GM are in the same state(for now)
But yeah, the construction around I65 can be awful. It seems like something in central Indiana needs a massive construction project.
[Newell Hwy scariness]The danger is more so the B-Triples going into your lane - we once had to swerve completely off the road because the truck driver wasn't paying attention and was half on our side of the road. Seriously scary shit
I'm becoming increasingly certain that I don't have a girlfriend any more. She appears to have graduated from the year five school of relationships and is breaking up with me by simply ignoring me forever.
Anyway, I came here to say something but can't remember what it was now.
Oh yeah, I remember. It was to announce that despite getting rid of the rotting cauliflower, cleaning out the fridge, taking the bin out, cleaning the bathroom and purging the drains, there is still a weird smell in my flat. WHERE IS IT COMING FROM?
I'm becoming increasingly certain that I don't have a girlfriend any more. She appears to have graduated from the year five school of relationships and is breaking up with me by simply ignoring me forever.
Anyway, I came here to say something but can't remember what it was now.
Oh yeah, I remember. It was to announce that despite getting rid of the rotting cauliflower, cleaning out the fridge, taking the bin out, cleaning the bathroom and purging the drains, there is still a weird smell in my flat. WHERE IS IT COMING FROM?
Oddly, today I haven't noticed the smell. Perhaps someone has moved whatever it was!Yay! And be glad you don't live near the ocean. Dead whales tend to take a while to get removed.
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Welp. Been away a while. I've missed you all! Here's what I've been up to.
I've been babysitting my good friend's cat for the last 2 weeks or so. He broke his ankle in 3 places, as you may remember, and couldn't get upstairs to his apartment to take care of his darling little furbaby named Kitcheri. Said furbaby knocked over the bird's cage, so his parents came over and took it away and he's finding it a new home.
I've also started seeing someone. Initially we were just fuckbuddies, but out of the awesome and often hilarious pillowtalk, we got to know each other a bit more. So we started hanging out outside of sexin'. We've both done the "meet all my friends" thing, and I like her friends, and she likes mine. We do stuff together. We spend time with each other. I haven't had that in such a long time.
One of my favorite coworkers did get fired, on the downside, but he's not bummed. He already had a full time job elsewhere, and now he gets more sleep, and more free time. And I get his hours. It's actually pretty awesome for us both.
Life's fuckin awesome lately. This is my best year on record.
The difference is GM and Grognard get shot at. I just get piss thrown at me.
It was us
Roaming the rainy roads, combing the gilded beaches
Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn
Bathing in places no-one`s seen before
Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island
Clad in nothing but the surf - beauty`s finest robe
Beyond all mortality we are, swinging in the breath of nature
In early air of the dawn of life
A sight to silence the heavens
I want to travel where life travels, following its permanent lead
Where the air tastes like snow music
Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture
I would bathe in a world of sensation
Love, Goodness, and Simplicity
I'm a little surprised that I've made it several weeks without getting any bodily fluids on my clothes at all. I did have a baby's blood running all over my hands and down my wrists a few days ago, but I managed not to drip on anything. There are moment when I take a mental step back and realise how weird my job is...I imagined this as a post by Gareth.
And I use those exact same gloves to clean up poop, pee, blood, and vomit. Woo! (Luckily the latter two not so much.)They're great for working on your bicycle too. Nitrile holds up well to oil and solvents.
99% sure I have the flu
let's see, exhaustion, achey muscles, dizziness, zero stamina, can't think straight...
I'm not leaving my house even if it's on fire
You couldn't just apply for a tourist visa at the airport?Nope. You have to either apply in person at the consulate, or through an agency. And either way, you have to give them your passport while they review your application. If you're approved, they put the visa sticker in your passport.
Funny thing is, from what I understand, the Brazilian government doesn't actually want most of those rules in place, but they keep them because the U.S. has similar rules for Brazilians to get visas to travel here. Basically, the U.S. government is composed of dicks.
Glad I didn't have to go through that with Japan.Australians don't need a visa to visit Japan for up to 90 days, so I've never had to bother.
Funny thing is, from what I understand, the Brazilian government doesn't actually want most of those rules in place, but they keep them because the U.S. has similar rules for Brazilians to get visas to travel here.This sort of tit-for-tat reciprocal arrangement is common. Australia only started to require visas for British citizens after Britain introduced visas for Australians in, I think, 1962.
You can play some of these rhythm games I'm getting addicted to with me!
Glad I didn't have to go through that with Japan.Australians don't need a visa to visit Japan for up to 90 days, so I've never had to bother.
Maybe... it sounds a bit too upbeat and fast for a cat with fewer than the normal number of legs.
What I'm surprised about is that the local shelter didn't have the cat chipped. My kitten has a microchip in her - part of the adoption process.
Your shelter must be pretty well funded, JW! Those things aren't cheap...
Or did you pay to have it done, and it's just their policy?
Locally, feral cats are a real nuisance, the city won't even license them, the "animal control officer" just scoops up all he can catch. They're held at the shelter for a short time if they're in fairly good health.
Most aren't.
I've never heard of a reputable shelter or rescue home that allowed you to adopt a cat that hadn't been spayed/neutered, microchipped and vaccinated.
I just went and read some of my old posts on a forum I used to frequent. Good grief, was I an obnoxious jackass.
Ok, so when I clicked on "new" I was taken to my last post in here - 20 pages ago. It was after not getting a job.
Guess what? This week, I got two email rejections. One for a job I applied for just over 4 weeks ago (WGU, I mentioned in in the University thread), the other for one I applied for about 2 months ago at the community college system over in Pittsburgh.
It takes so long for academic hiring to go through their system - all the decisions are by committees.
Gonna keep looking for more online adjunct work, I guess. Or.. I dunno... wal-mart overnight restocking? I've gotten more hours at the beer barn, but that's close to minimum
Since I last discussed my life, my brother (who has a really good job) won his state lottery, which gives him roughly $130,000 a year for life. This is good, because he has two autistic boys, one severely so, and he'll be able to put it aside for him.
My parents... god, my parents. Mom offered to help support us if I go back to school and become marketable, since the whole teaching thing just ain't working out anymore. My baby brother (42) went back recently for Control Systems, and has been offered a job by his instructor before even finishing his program!
Now all I have to do is figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life!
Oh, and the electric got disconnected the other day - we got it back on after 24 hours, but that's left us broke again. Two months behind on the mortgage, too... I did a restoration job for a friend from church, the ceiling in her attic fell in, the best price quote she got from a contractor was for replacing the whole thing at $2000. I patched it - properly - for about $350. But I just don't want the crap of being a contractor. I also delivered phone books a couple of weeks ago, got a few hundred for that, too. Unemployment ran out ages ago.
I'm thinking IT. Something with a high demand. I dunno, the home repair thing is kind of attractive, I love doing it, but it's too dicey, I'm slow (but I do really nice work) and I never know what to charge. I want a real job, something reliable and steady where someone else pays for my health care!
Sorry, this mostly goes in the complaints thread, I think.
There's so much more I want to tell you guys, but I have a tutoring appointment soon with a really flaky student. Maybe more later.
I just went and read some of my old posts on a forum I used to frequent. Good grief, was I an obnoxious jackass.
You think you got problems. Try reading anything posted on here by basically anyone pre-2007.
Hey, GM, that's not very nice! :(
Also, can you imagine the stink that would have been caused if it had happened?
we pootled alongWhat a great word!
Don't be silly, people are terrible.*clears throat* I believe he was talking about me or Gareth.
So if you're not technically dating, what do you call the breakup? That's how I've spent my morning. :-\
:psyduck: Was weekend the Amsterdam thing?Don't be silly, people are terrible.*clears throat* I believe he was talking about me or Gareth.
I wasn't sure whether to put this in the Happy thread or the Panic thread, so I suppose here is a compromise.As an update, I got my plane tickets today, and am submitting the visa paperwork tomorrow (just have to find a way to print a photo for the visa; the department office doesn't have any photo paper). The delay was because my advisor didn't realize that plane tickets to Brazil are expensive even though he's been there many times, so I had to find more funding so we could afford it. :psyduck:
My advisor just told me he's sending me to a conference in Brazil in the beginning of October. I've been to the city we're going to before, and I loved it there. The panic part is that my visa is expired, and the consulate recommends applying three months in advance... :psyduck:
edit -- apparently it's changed quite a bit from the last time I was there. Now the recommendation is two weeks.
I have trouble writing less than 2 pages :/ but I started in a writing intensive field.
idk what kind of writing on what topics, but by the time you stick an into and a conclusion, the rest of the words get used up fast, especially if you actually have something to say on whatever topic.
LU OnlineAny decent library will grant access to academic databases upon enrolment. Those are generally provided through the library without any need for anything 'cept student credentials. Even the last place I went gave me access to both EBSCO and Lexis-Nexis, and betwixt the two, I got all of the access to said databases without any problem.
online librarian is next to useless. :(
Or maybe a master's in instructional tech - something I'm already pretty familiar with, could keep me in education in a role I usually filled with my colleagues anyway...You've mentioned in the past that they won't let a man with a PhD in mathematics and years of experience, teach maths in schools without a Dip. Ed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_of_Education) (or whatever they call it there; a teaching credential anyway). I know it is a bit like hiring an F1 driver for a driving school, but is that an option? The school system here is always hurting for maths teachers.
Or maybe a master's in instructional tech - something I'm already pretty familiar with, could keep me in education in a role I usually filled with my colleagues anyway...You've mentioned in the past that they won't let a man with a PhD in mathematics and years of experience, teach maths in schools without a Dip. Ed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_of_Education) (or whatever they call it there; a teaching credential anyway). I know it is a bit like hiring an F1 driver for a driving school, but is that an option? The school system here is always hurting for maths teachers.
My handwriting is extremely ugly and uneven
stationary
plenty of character
Speaking of characters, my calligraphy is not very good but the Four Treasures of the Study (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Treasures_of_the_Study) (文房四宝) still have a certain magic.plenty of character:claireface:
Most parents of four year olds.He did not. Large blessings, to be sure.
At least he didn't puke at either event. Right?
Now with questionable smears!
Certain pens make it better than others.
Panic/Stress/Anxiety: If I do get the postdoc, it's in Germany.
Panic/Stress/Anxiety: getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrowThis may just be the painkillers and the sleeping all afternoon talking, but I feel great right now.
I ordered a pair of jeans online the other week, and they arrived yesterday. They didn't fit and I'm sending them back, but while trying them on I found two dollars and a used hair tie in the pockets... what?
Panic/Stress/Anxiety: getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrowPessimism: Turns out the postdoc position is already filled, so I'm not going to Germany.
Happy/Joy: Talking to one of our collaborators, it looks like I might be able to get a postdoc in their lab, we'll see, I guess.
Panic/Stress/Anxiety: If I do get the postdoc, it's in Germany.
apparently a lot of children who live abroad and learn English from native-speaking children come back with dreadful grammar, because English schools don't teach it and they just pick up local dialectsVery much so. Total immersion is great, but it will not in itself deliver mastery of a language. You have to work on grammar, syntax, and yes, pronunciation too, if you aspire to be an educated user of a language. There is a general problem in Australian schools with regard to children from non-English-speaking backgrounds in this regard. The basic approach is that we will just "pick up" English. We do, but what kind of English? Fortunately, my parents did not let me get away with that...
I always thought what was more important than speed limits is control. If I know I don't have control over my car, I have to drive slower.
As a side-note, the human body isn't really made to measure speed - only acceleration. So it feels comfortable at most speeds, as long as they are constant.We can't always feel the acceleration. It sometimes depends on the mass of what we're on versus the rate of acceleration. I remember the first time I took a flatmate's Jag on the motorway, I was doing 130 MPH before I looked down at the speed. I didn't feel any of it (well, a 3 tonne car will do that, even with a V12 under the bonnet). With a smaller car with the same power to weight ratio, I know I would have felt it, especially since I was used to driving small vehicles with a worse p/w ratio and noticing the acceleration.
If, for example, the car was drifting to the right or left because of technical faults, or if control was reduced due to slippery road or somesuch.That'd be a little extreme. When you're driving you notice how well the car follows your "commands". The sideways acceleration when you're driving a curve, how easily you can keep the lane, stuff like that. When you're in a curve and you notice that you need to actively need to watch out so you don't leave the lane (in contrast to the almost subconscious turns of the wheel one always does), or you feel like the curve is too narrow you're definitely going too fast.
I am no driver, mind, so I have no idea whether that was what Ankh meant.
We can't always feel the acceleration. It sometimes depends on the mass of what we're on versus the rate of acceleration. I remember the first time I took a flatmate's Jag on the motorway, I was doing 130 MPH before I looked down at the speed. I didn't feel any of it (well, a 3 tonne car will do that, even with a V12 under the bonnet). With a smaller car with the same power to weight ratio, I know I would have felt it, especially since I was used to driving small vehicles with a worse p/w ratio and noticing the acceleration.
In what way would you be lacking control if you're behind the wheel? :psyduck:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder#BehaviorIs recklessness tied to speeding for you? otherwise there's always base jumping/parachute jumping/what'sthatthingwiththejumpingofbridgeswithacordtiedtoyourankles/...stuff.../MMA.
In this case, recklessness absolutely can be linked to a personality disorder. It isn't always, of course, and I am self-diagnosing so I could certainly be wrong. It's also not the only reason I think I have that particular disorder.
I don't know where I can find an appropriate environment for being reckless.
In context, I was used to little cars where you'd have to floor the thing just to get it up to a more normal speed, so habit kicked-in when I was driving the Jag. At that time, I had already done SF to Davis, CA in 45 minutes in a Honda, so I *was* used to speeding, but with the powerful car that wasn't mine, I tried to be careful, so the excessive speed was an accident. 'Course, some folks I have known who are used to the autobahn consider 130 MPH to be a comfortable cruising speed.We can't always feel the acceleration. It sometimes depends on the mass of what we're on versus the rate of acceleration. I remember the first time I took a flatmate's Jag on the motorway, I was doing 130 MPH before I looked down at the speed. I didn't feel any of it (well, a 3 tonne car will do that, even with a V12 under the bonnet). With a smaller car with the same power to weight ratio, I know I would have felt it, especially since I was used to driving small vehicles with a worse p/w ratio and noticing the acceleration.
130 MPH?
So I would really like to get into audio engineering a little. I used to be the person responsible for my schools theatre and event sound system (I was also responsible for the theatre lighting, but I'd like to focus on sound now), which sparked my interest. Currently I want to learn more about recording and mastering. On the same page I'm considering starting a podcast, but I haven't decided on a topic yet. I have a Røde M3 and a (pretty shitty and oversized) mixer (it's a Behringer one which introduces some noise, but it supplies the phantom power and contains a USB audio interface as well). I just lack material to record. I might record some guitar pieces, but there aren't many good pieces I can play, and recording training pieces doesn't seem worth the hassle.
unsure of the protocols.
Speeding is not a personality disorder, but by speeding you are assuming an increased risk, and a doing so recklessly can be a symptom.
Is recklessness tied to speeding for you? otherwise there's always base jumping/parachute jumping/what'sthatthingwiththejumpingofbridgeswithacordtiedtoyourankles/...stuff.../MMA.
Screw the paracetemol, if you want to destroy your liver, booze is a much better friend.
I can never remember which it is... is paracetamol what us Americans call Tylenol or ibuprofen? Ibuprofen is better than Tylenol for this (especially because too much Tylenol can mess up your liver...)Tylenol is the brand name for paracetamol. Ibuprofen is a stronger painkiller but as I recall it can also cause heart problems. Basically there's no painkiller that doesn't have a risk of killing you one way or another, so pick your poison.
I turned out not to have any paracetamol either, so it was a choice between flu medication and co-codamol. I went with the latter.
I have never seen a school (or indeed a shoal) of fish drinking, so I can't tell you whether we do so similarly or not ;)Well, IME, most folks from the UK I know tend to put down enough to get labelled an alcoholic in the US, and most days their routine consisted of going to work, then heading to the pub until one was pissed enough to head home (and possibly have more). Kinda like Shaun of the Dead sans zombies.
I drink very rarely, and could quite happily never drink again. In fact I might easily not do. I didn't realise British people particularly had a reputation for drinking a lot?
Eh, I usually end up just calling it tylenol (it's a genericized brand name like aspirin, right?)
Even *Tylenol* calls it acetaminophen in the US.Well of course they do, being associated with the nonproprietary name is bad for their business!
Interesting. Doctors here frequently recommend 2x665mg three times a day for chronic pain associated with osteoarthritis, in a specific formulation available as Panadol Osteo (https://www.gsk.com.au/products_consumer-healthcare-products_product-listing.aspx?view=51).
:? Acetaminophen is the nonproprietary name here, that's what we're saying.Even *Tylenol* calls it acetaminophen in the US.Well of course they do, being associated with the nonproprietary name is bad for their business!
Fixed that for you, dear.Any medicationEverything is dangerous if taken in too large a quantity over too long a time.
I plucked apples today. Due to a russian boycot apple growers can't get rid of them. Apple growers are advised to let the fruit rot on the tree. One grower decided to just open his doors for the public and let them pick at fifty cents a kilo.
I got twenty three kilo.
We were not alone, though. Couple of thousand people showed up.
It was amazing fun. Go pluck some apples!
Due to a russian boycot apple growers can't get rid of them.Are the Russians boycotting apples (constipated comrades?), or the growers boycotting Russia?
Wait, you're from the UK and *don't* drink like a school of fish. I am now officially bewildered.
Yeah, the painkillers they gave me after my wisdom tooth extraction was cut with tylenol. I quit taking it as soon as I could and switched to ibuprofen. The downside of ibuprofen, though, is if you take it for more than a couple days it gives you an upset stomach. I'd rather have that, though, than liver damage.
I do have a tendency to get migraines every few months, and then I wouldn't know what to do.That is what doctors are for. Go and see one. Pretty please?
Okay, I'll start off by apologising to all the UK crowd, for implying that the whole country is filled with drunkards. I don't think that's actually the case, but I think that there is a cultural difference, that is totally *my* fault for typing what I did. The US doesn't generally (I've actually spent time in more places out of this country than in it, and some of the places I have lived in the US are different than what's common. I plead ignorance, your honour). Where I live, at least right now, most people walk quickly past the bar/pub/club, and there's a frequent reaction of people passing very quickly by, if they see anyone standing outside, and that people who frequent such places are either drunks, or, in the last case, kids partying away all their parents' money.Wait, you're from the UK and *don't* drink like a school of fish. I am now officially bewildered.
Not sure how I feel about this, joke or otherwise.
Akima: I sincerely doubt they'll do anything besides giving me a prescription for painkillers.
Now my head is pulsating and my feet shivering. Using voice over commands cut I can not type anymore I think I should medicationThat doesn't sound good at all. Get well soon!
Are you ever lunchin' on Zwiebelkuchen in München?
Do I feel a pun formin' in Norman?Are you ever lunchin' on Zwiebelkuchen in München?
Have you ever picked your feet in Poughkeepsie?
Being home sick is dangerous - I just applied for another job. It's essentially one I already do, except this time it's paid, so that would be an improvement.
But I bought materials for pancakes today. Tomorrow is national holiday, so I can't go buy food.
yay, moronic flatmate.
He left the flour open, as well as the cabinet, and I wasn't in the kitchen for quite a while, and fucking spiders had built a nest in the flour package. The fuck.
So now I had some weird failed omelette/scrambled eggs monstrosity which contained far too much milk and thus tasted sweet, because of the sugar in the milk.
I heard back from one of the professors I emailed. He wants me to go to Maryland for an interview, and it looks pretty promising. :-D
I heard back from one of the professors I emailed. He wants me to go to Maryland for an interview, and it looks pretty promising. :-D
Ooh, whereabouts?
Gaithersburg. And Maryland is surprisingly long. It takes about 2.5 hours to go from Gaithersburg to my mom's house in Allegany County.I heard back from one of the professors I emailed. He wants me to go to Maryland for an interview, and it looks pretty promising. :-D
Ooh, whereabouts?
It takes me 2.5 hours to drive to the furthest place I've ever been in Maryland. So there. :P
I'm not entirely certain if Allegany County counts as civilization.It takes me 2.5 hours to drive to the furthest place I've ever been in Maryland. So there. :P
I drive 2 1/2 hours in any direction and I'm still nowhere near civilization.
Yeah, look at the map. Maryland's totally got a boner for West Virginia.
She asked, as though Maryland was that big....Meh... There are no large states in the USA. If you add Alaska and Texas together they are still smaller than Western Australia. By over 230,000 square kilometres. :-P
She asked, as though Maryland was that big....Meh... There are no large states in the USA. If you add Alaska and Texas together they are still smaller than Western Australia. By over 230,000 square kilometres. :-P
I'd rather check my shoes for spiders than have the crime rate the US has.
Also it's not just the bugs, I'm pretty sure that every single animal in Australia is there to fuck up your shit.
XXXX is also called the Terror Incognita. Almost all animals and plants in XXXX are dangerous; when Death requested a book about the dangerous creatures of XXXX from his library, he was subsequently hit by a large pile of books consisting of the various volumes of "Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita", the total books going up to Volume 29C Part 3, while a request for information about the harmless creatures merely produced a note saying "Some of the sheep". The land is inhospitable because the flora and fauna all hate you and there is never any rain.Also it's not just the bugs, I'm pretty sure that every single animal in Australia is there to fuck up your shit.
Not all of them! We have some cuddly ones, too! Pretty much all our marsupials are adorable! and our birds! :psyduck:
Also it's not just the bugs, I'm pretty sure that every single animal in Australia is there to fuck up your shit.
Not all of them! We have some cuddly ones, too! Pretty much all our marsupials are adorable! and our birds! :psyduck:
Our mammals have to be poisonous, how else would they fend off the bogans?Also it's not just the bugs, I'm pretty sure that every single animal in Australia is there to fuck up your shit.
Not all of them! We have some cuddly ones, too! Pretty much all our marsupials are adorable! and our birds! :psyduck:
Still the country with the only poisonous mammals. Also your birds are cute when they aren't being eaten by Orb Weavers the size of delivery trucks.
Also it's not just the bugs, I'm pretty sure that every single animal in Australia is there to fuck up your shit.
Not all of them! We have some cuddly ones, too! Pretty much all our marsupials are adorable! and our birds! :psyduck:
I feel like most of you are SERIOUSLY underestimating the size of Alaska.
Also it's not just the bugs, I'm pretty sure that every single animal in Australia is there to fuck up your shit.
Not all of them! We have some cuddly ones, too! Pretty much all our marsupials are adorable! and our birds! :psyduck:
Oh yes, your koalas are very cute. They've also got daggers for fingernails. Kangaroos are cute, too, but they can kick you apart. You can keep them!
Although I will totally trade you a possum for an opossum. Yours are much cuter.
Cute:
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Not very cute:
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Some 200,000 (roughly) square kilometers is "marginal" to you?
Two thoughts from that link. Brazil must be insanely distorted on most maps, and I didn't know Greenland wasn't it's own country.
Some 200,000 (roughly) square kilometers is "marginal" to you?
There's easily 200,000 square kilometers of sparsely inhabited land around Quebec. Besides, I was looking more at percentages...
Two thoughts from that link. Brazil must be insanely distorted on most maps, and I didn't know Greenland wasn't it's own country.Brazil is larger than it looks like on many map projections. One interesting thing about it is that east-to-west, Brazil is about 2/3 the size of the U.S., but the whole country uses one time zone. That means that the eastern parts are about two hours behind where they should be. I've been noticing that in Recife, since it means the sun rises at 4 AM and sets at 4 PM (year round, since it's near the equator).
Another reason I want off these things is I can't seem to remember when I'm running out even though I regularly check and added the doctor's number to my phone to make sure I don't do that.I take enough meds that I've used pill organizers for years. I'm currently using two one-week organizers, each with AM and PM bins. My meds are delivered in 90-day supplies. As I fill them every two weeks, I check the pill bottles to see if I have a month or most of a month left.
I'm not looking for help, but I probably should be.
sup y'all
I'm gonna need a bigger wrench.
Don't know my own strength...You. Broke. A. Stilson. :psyduck: I showed my Dad your pic. He didn't believe it either.
a mad gorilla with a spider spanner (http://files2.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_669/6699955/file/tyres-spider-spanner-small-93256.jpg) (I don't know what they're called in America) so that they're impossible to undo.
I'm gonna need a bigger wrench.
spoken like a true redneck. :thumbsup:
I am not surprised Carl broke his Stilson, I have seen tools of every manufacturer shatter before, especially after years of service.
a mad gorilla with a spider spanner (http://files2.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_669/6699955/file/tyres-spider-spanner-small-93256.jpg) (I don't know what they're called in America) so that they're impossible to undo.
Well, of course (as you tell below) the first thing is to have your own spider.
I rarely wrestle crocodiles. I know, your faith in humanity is just withered.... I'm shocked and shaken to the core.
ride in the pouches of kangaroos!
So yeah, sorry I've been a hermit lately. Been trying to figure out my meatlife life, since it's a complete disaster. I haven't succeeded, but I've done some cool shit, such as brew beer and start playing with my band again for the first time in 3 months
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I rarely wrestle crocodiles.Liar, that's not what the Northern Territory News told me! :emotrex:
I got an email today asking me to speak at a larger event in Feb. I am friends with the woman who sent the email, but she said that after the event on Tuesday, the committee received emails from "several" people suggesting that they get me to speak at the event, and the committee knew she knew me and so had her ask me.
I said yes, obvs, and I'm not really freaking out because it is so far away. I am flabbergasted about how my career seems to be happening backwards. That is, I still don't have a single job offer, but people want me to speak at things, and be a part of really important conversations within the field. It makes me feel a little nervous, because the stuff I am talking about is all theoretical, but I have no practical experience to draw on. I have never actually done this job for money, and I only have a few small projects I've done any IA work on at all. I am anxious that someone will rebut the things I have to say with the valid criticism that I don't know what I'm doing.
I didn't network as well as I could have after my talk, because I was so overwhelmed at the response, but I did let people know I was available, and I will try to go to a few more events now that people know who I am, and talk myself up. Hopefully, this job at the university will just hire me, and then I can worry about it in 15 months. If things keep going this way, I might actually be able to apply for a Phd program at that point, which would be amazing.
I'm baffled by there even being a quit without saving function.It varies with the application. If you try to Cmd-Q out of a program edit, document, spreadsheet, GIMP image edit etc. then you get a dialogue asking if you really want to do that, and inviting you to save your work. Applications where the designers assumed your "state" was unimportant, often don't do this. You can of course remap the keyboard shortcuts to prevent that (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/39520/how-to-change-the-cmdq-shortcut-key-in-os-x-to-stop-accidentally-closing-apps/), but unfortunately you have to do it on an app by app basis.
But a controlled quit and a forced quit should really be separate functions.
I'm baffled by there even being a quit without saving function.Common enough on *nix, where the OS expects the operator to know what they're doing. If I type rm -rf / into a root console, I *expect* the bloody thing to start deleting everything without warning, since I did tell it to do it.
Rather than vote for the shitbag incumbent sole candidate for mayor, I wrote in Adolf Hitler and voted for him instead. They're both racists and xenophobes, but at least Hitler supported aerospace tech development and surface transportation infrastructure.Ha! That's one of the things that almost made me *not* vote today (not a shitty mayor), but the whole California "top-two" primary system. I can't even write in a protest vote when I don't want to vote (which is nearly always) for a (R)eprobate or (D)umbass for partisan offices. The only way to register dissatisfaction now is to stay the fuck home and be considered "apathetic".
Rather than vote for the shitbag incumbent sole candidate for mayor, I wrote in Adolf Hitler and voted for him instead. They're both racists and xenophobes, but at least Hitler supported aerospace tech development and surface transportation infrastructure.Ha! That's one of the things that almost made me *not* vote today (not a shitty mayor), but the whole California "top-two" primary system. I can't even write in a protest vote when I don't want to vote (which is nearly always) for a (R)eprobate or (D)umbass for partisan offices. The only way to register dissatisfaction now is to stay the fuck home and be considered "apathetic".
Can't any more. Only the top-two candidates in the primary are allowed into the GE. No third-parties, no write-ins.Same here in Oklahoma. Third party candidates and write-ins aren't allowed.
...what.I think that when the percentage of the state choosing to be non-partisan or "decline to state" the major parties started pissing themselves a bit, and got the idiot voters to pass that stupid law. Can't let us plebs have a true choice, after all, especially when the people have essentially become fed-up with them. Honestly, I think it's high time to scrap the primary system altogether, and make the parties choose their candidates at their own expense (ought to save the taxpayer a bit of money that could be better spent elsewhere).
Well. California.
Only the candidates anointed by those already in power are permissible.
Same here in Oklahoma. Third party candidates and write-ins aren't allowed.
Can't any more. Only the top-two candidates in the primary are allowed into the GE. No third-parties, no write-ins.Same here in Oklahoma. Third party candidates and write-ins aren't allowed.
I think BeoPuppy meant the whole "orgasms in mouth" thing.Seems more a Gareth thing than a BeoPuppy thing, to be honest.
Sounds like a tasty burger *exaggerated comedy wink*I'd throw in a *nudge, nudge* in too, for good measure.
Man. That Thanksgiving week was a doozy. I miss my sister now that she is back home in VA but I am sure glad that holiday is past and I can sorta return to normality.
I started a new band already. That was quicker than I expected but bassists are hard to come by, and good ones even harder. The new band involves Matt, but a new drummer. This dynamic is much more to my liking; less people who want to pick on me all the time, a more professional attitude, a drummer who isn't averse to constructive criticism, and the ability to maybe pack up our lives for a week or two and tour sometime, as opposed to Paul's 9-to-5 getting in the way of that.
I am optimistic, and if I were allowed to share the demos, I'd let them speak for themselves. All y'all really need to know is that I'm back playing in a band and I'm happy.
If it was determined that Akima was in that coffee shop, I imagine that GM would be on the next plane to Australia.Just to reassure everyone here (I don't think anyone would prefer me to be taken hostage :wink: and if they do, I am happy to disappoint them :-D), I was nowhere near Martin Place this morning, and I'm as safe as anyone is.
Won't that be a bit smoky? Or are your mowers four-strokes?A lot of places have banned 2-stroke motors, so that is a possibility.
That sounds a lot like you have a touch of the influenza.
Oh, I am so sorry to hear about the Sharks jersey. Maybe you can return it and get a better team's sweater? :claireface:
If it's not too personal to ask, I'd like to hear.
In Stockholm for work training! So far I've learned that Swedes are way worse at understanding Norwegians than Norwegians are at understanding Swedish, and there aren't a lot of traditional type restaurants here. Lots of hip food courts and ultra hip small places with deliberately mismatching interior. Stockholm is very hip. A little too hip, and I'm not even in the hip area. S'cool though.I heard that Stockholm was hipster central, but I never got to visit. Did I hear it here? I can't remember. I did see Gothenburg though, and it wasn't all that hip, but pretty classy in places. In fact, the friend I went there with refused to eat at the restaurant that my Swedish friend had made reservations at because it looked so classy. It turned out to be kinda pretentious, the food was just okay and there were fruit flies, I swatted one and got the attention of half the restaurant, haha.
I'm so cool you can keep raw meat in me baby, yeah!
I've got an appointment on Monday to get myself a new tattoo. It's gonna be of Serenity from Firefly, she's gonna be on my right boob. I'm really really excited about it, but just a bit bummed I can't show my family. They disapprove of tattoos. Y'all shoulda heard the earful my mom gave me about my Albanian eagle a couple years back, haha.
I made a facebook page for my kid's toy sheep. What would one put on such a page?(http://www.chinesenewyearin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sheep2015-300x212.jpg)
Awesome, will steal.I made a facebook page for my kid's toy sheep. What would one put on such a page?(http://www.chinesenewyearin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sheep2015-300x212.jpg)
I just reviewed footage of the SWAT dynamic entrance/hostage rescue at the supermarket in France. I really, really hope that was GIGN, because the initial entry was fucking embarrassing on an international scale.
Protip: If your point man makes entry you FOLLOW HIM THROUGH THE FUCKING DOOR. CQB is all about dynamic, high speed violence, the hostages do not have the time for you to peek around the door and pussy foot about, you need to be through the entry, clear of the vortex of fire and engaging targets as quickly as humanly possible, because the faster you are the better chance everyone who isn't a bad guy has of living.
I hope the French officer who made entry and got left with his ass in the wind is handing out some serious lumps to the rest of his stack in the squad bay tonight.
I miss you guys. It's nice to be able to just show up once in a while and say hi!I miss you, I suspect we all miss you, and I'm sure we're all glad there are some positive moves in your life.
I just reviewed footage of the SWAT dynamic entrance/hostage rescue at the supermarket in France. I really, really hope that was GIGN, because the initial entry was fucking embarrassing on an international scale.
Protip: If your point man makes entry you FOLLOW HIM THROUGH THE FUCKING DOOR. CQB is all about dynamic, high speed violence, the hostages do not have the time for you to peek around the door and pussy foot about, you need to be through the entry, clear of the vortex of fire and engaging targets as quickly as humanly possible, because the faster you are the better chance everyone who isn't a bad guy has of living.
I hope the French officer who made entry and got left with his ass in the wind is handing out some serious lumps to the rest of his stack in the squad bay tonight.
Seems the woman hostage that was killed - a mother of three and a barrister by profession - was hit by police bullets that ricocheted. When I first heard this, I thought it was a shame, but in such a situation.... now, after reading the above, I wonder just how badly the police fucked up, and who's going to pay the price.
(yes, I am an engineer's daughter, why do you ask?)
Scary. Any lessons I should take away from whatever the failure mode was?
The fixings were into the plasterboard (decent heavy-grade stuff), not the studs, and used those fat coarse screws that the fitting screws go into in turn, rather than positive toggle bolts or similar.That is what they looked like to me, and I would not be impressed by such fixings either.
You, Patrick? A neo-Nazi? There must be an outbreak of the stupid-virus going round.
I don't think violence is the solution anyway, but I'm glad you live on different continents for his sake. If you haven't blocked him there's a new reply btw, not from him.
That's not vigilantism, that's being good citizens and reporting evidence to the cops. You didn't do anything daft like trying to arrest Jeep-man yourselves, much less string him up from the nearest tree.
Crap... did they give you a quote? :/
Carl chews iron filings and spits out the parts he needs!
That was strangely cheering to watch.Schadenfreude is the best kind of Freude.
I'm such a bad person...
Hard to tell how fast they were going
edit -- Since this is the blog thread... nothing's official yet, but it looks like I may be moving to Wisconsin in the spring.
I dunno, Madison seemed decent enough when I was there, even though it was winter.
edit -- Since this is the blog thread... nothing's official yet, but it looks like I may be moving to Wisconsin in the spring.
My condolences.
So I feel like since I had a kid, all I talk about is my kid, but jesus, this kid runs my life. He's sick right now, but he didn't have a fever so they gave him shots yesterday anyway, so last like three days have involved a lot of screaming and some puking, and some of each was from my husband. And he managed to leave some laundry in the washer too long and it went sour, but we don't have any vinegar so we can't rewash it, so the washing machine is out of commission and we can't wash the puke-covered pajamas/sheets/changing pad cover/blankets/burp cloths. I was just starting to think of Zach as an actual tiny human, but I was wrong, he's a snot machine that makes noises that hurt my soul.
Well, I'd be in Madison, and it seemed decent (though very cold compared to where I am now).
I love that the plans are to skip 9 and go right to 10, probably denoted as Windows X...From what I've read, it seems the reason they skipped 9 is that poorly-written software tended to confuse it for Windows 95/98.
Untrue, but whatever.I love that the plans are to skip 9 and go right to 10, probably denoted as Windows X...From what I've read, it seems the reason they skipped 9 is that poorly-written software tended to confuse it for Windows 95/98.
I just ... fail to see the logic in this thing. I also sometimes fail to see the actual clickable things to end a program.
Untrue, but whatever.I love that the plans are to skip 9 and go right to 10, probably denoted as Windows X...From what I've read, it seems the reason they skipped 9 is that poorly-written software tended to confuse it for Windows 95/98.
Let me elaborate. If a "poorly written software" asks for the Windows OS version, it will probably use the oldest still supported API call that exists for that task, namely GetVersion (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724439(v=vs.85).aspx).Untrue, but whatever.I love that the plans are to skip 9 and go right to 10, probably denoted as Windows X...From what I've read, it seems the reason they skipped 9 is that poorly-written software tended to confuse it for Windows 95/98.
I was gonna, you just ninja'd me.Untrue, but whatever.I love that the plans are to skip 9 and go right to 10, probably denoted as Windows X...From what I've read, it seems the reason they skipped 9 is that poorly-written software tended to confuse it for Windows 95/98.
You could just correct him :P
Best of luck with that. Let's hope the part time position becomes, with your influences on improving the program, full time.
Yeah, I know. But it could happen!
$14 an hour? At the current rate of exchange, that is barely above minimum wage for a full-time worker in Australia. The recruiter must be an idiot.
This position is not a UX job, or even in IT really, and it is an intern position that is being modified for me as a "let's solve everyone's problems, you need money and we need someone to do a thing."
I would not accept an offer of $15 an hour from a full-time job in my field. Nothing I've applied to full-time has been hourly actually, but most work out to about 30/hr.
Update:
I just sent the email expressing my interest and I asked for "closer to $24" I'm anxious that I over shot, but since I was unsure about the job anyways, if I'm out of their budget, I guess that's ok. I am doomed to always feel that I am overshooting since I am used to making way less money. I have to remind myself that I have a specialized set of skills and I acquired a boat load of debt to get them. Self-promotion is definitely my skill most in need of improvement.
My kitchen is lit by twelve 50W low-voltage halogen lamps. Well, it was; today I replaced them with twelve 6W mains-voltage LED lamps (removing the transformers took most of the time).I must look at this again. Last time I looked at replacing the 12v track-mounted halogen spot-lights in my kitchen, the LED replacements weren't up to the job, but as you point out, things are changing rapidly.
My brother told me about one time in a nightclub, a guy came up to him and asked he wanted "stuff" and my brother reacted the exact same I would: With utter naive bewilderment. Eventually the guy realised my brother had genuinely no idea what was going on and went, "You know, coke, you want some cocaine?" and my brother's response, "OOOOOHH.... No, thank you."That reminds me of a phone call I got one night...
Do drug dealers actually do that? Is that why cops imitate that? Because that seems really stupid.Oh, god, yes, I have had days just walking in Amsterdam, broad daylight, that I have had to swat the bastards away.
Rozzers don't usually try to hook end users these days. It's not really much use in quotas which are usually more focussed around crime reduction than arrest figures.
Last time someone tried this with me it was someone who owed a dealer trying to keep their line of "credit" open.
I used to have a rule that I couldn't leave the kitchen when I was cooking, unless I got Steve to come stand guard.I'm so sorry this happened, but I'm glad you, Steve and the cats are all unhurt. I don't generally leave the kitchen while cooking, except perhaps if I have a casserole in the oven.
Scorched covers, but the pages seem intact - still useable, and quite the conversation pieces!
I used to have a rule that I couldn't leave the kitchen when I was cooking, unless I got Steve to come stand guard.
My freshman class in college set the fire alarm off by burning popcorn in the microwave so many times that the college instituted mandatory "how to use a microwave" classes. At our graduation, George W. Bush made fun of us for that in his commencement speech.
I can think of no sane reason to do that. Popcorn? Sure, it's a food-like substance. But... poop?(click to show/hide)
I can think of no sane reason to do that. Popcorn? Sure, it's a food-like substance. But... poop?(click to show/hide)
Some people think pranks are something you need to do in college.
Some people think pranks are something you need to do in college.
There's nothing wrong with a harmless prank. But short-sheeting someone's bed is a long way from setting the fire alarm off every night for three months straight (the dorm I lived in my Freshman year was notorious for that), or microwaving a bag of poop 'til it bursts into flames.
In college, we had the roommate that everyone hated. He had been reassigned from at least 3 other dorm rooms.
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remember 'ice bucket challenge'?
that, combined with the victim being in the shower and totally unsuspecting.
followed by a bucket of flour when they came screaming out of the shower.
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+ water balloons from the 6th floor.
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+ red dye in his laundry
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+ condom balloons, filled with liquid hand soap
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+ let the air out of all four of his tires.
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+ the final act to get rid of him was to De-Gauss his beloved computer. while it was running.
we hated that guy. he was just an overall shitty person.
Just to clarify, was he shitty before all that stuff or after? 'Cause I'm a nice guy, but I'd be a raging motherfucker if you did all that to me.
Just to clarify, was he shitty before all that stuff or after? 'Cause I'm a nice guy, but I'd be a raging motherfucker if you did all that to me.
IIRC, he was a junior, and had been charged with simple assault at least once. his idea of a 'joke' was to put his semen in our Senior's shampoo, urinate in our beds while we were gone, he took a shit in our coffee maker, and to top off things, he managed to "accidentally" grope the Senior's fiance'.
To this day, I don't know what his problem was; don't really care. Guy was an asshole, really, really deserved to get the shit stomped out of him.
But he was related to the Dean of Students, and our dorm was named in honor of his family.
Just to clarify, was he shitty before all that stuff or after? 'Cause I'm a nice guy, but I'd be a raging motherfucker if you did all that to me.
IIRC, he was a junior, and had been charged with simple assault at least once. his idea of a 'joke' was to put his semen in our Senior's shampoo, urinate in our beds while we were gone, he took a shit in our coffee maker, and to top off things, he managed to "accidentally" grope the Senior's fiance'.
To this day, I don't know what his problem was; don't really care. Guy was an asshole, really, really deserved to get the shit stomped out of him.
But he was related to the Dean of Students, and our dorm was named in honor of his family.
At least it's nicer than slashing them. Since the statute of limitations has expired, I can confess to fucking with an urban assult vehicle who threatened to ram me for a parking space. I didn't fuck with the tyres, but I did take my keys and spread them between my fingers Wolverine-style along one side. On the way back to my car, his was still there, so my then-gf did the same to the other side, and we used pepper spray on the door handles and tossed coffee loaded with cream and honey onto the cloth seats through an open window. People should learn not to threaten someone over a parking spot.
My first course in the accounting program starts Monday, as does a Calc 2 course I'll be teaching.
You probably won't see me much from here on out.
Again.
It's been fun!
*brandishes his Lesser Latinum*
"Contracts are to be kept."
I have much faster intertubes! And for cheaper than they were before!
According to my doctor I put on 12 pounds this year and that that's not good.
That isn't work stuff though so they aren't the boss in that situation.