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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