Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 122153 times)

Alex C · « **Reply #3850 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 15:51 »

Quote from: Papersatan on 12 Mar 2011, 21:36

the total time ever you have used the forums. so, you have spent 216 hours of your life reading or posting things here.

Fun part is that I never bother to log off, close windows or even shut down my PC so I have 80 days already or something similarly awful.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #3851 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 15:57 »

113 days 19 hours and 25 minutes. I really think I need to find other things to do with my time than be on this forum.

Metope · « **Reply #3852 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:00 »

Yeah I'm on 115 days, 12 hours and 48 minutes, because I leave tabs open for ages, and when I'm in front of my computer and not really reading the forums, I frequently click through every single tab I have open. Dunno why I do this, sometimes I also have three tabs with the forums and maybe four of just Facebook because I forgot I was there already... I need to spend less time online.

Eris · « **Reply #3853 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:06 »

The time logged on thing only registers the time you are active. After 15 minutes of doing nothing you're not active so it stops counting the time logged in. Sorry guys, you spent all that time actually doing stuff on here, you can't just say it's because you leave the internet open all night. I can't really talk, I am up to 282 days now.

Metope · « **Reply #3854 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:09 »

Yeah, that's the thing about clicking tabs all the time and not really actually being here, I can spend whole days on my computer doing other stuff and still clicking a new forum tab, so it looks like I've been in here an entire day. Like today! Go lazy Sundays!

jhocking · « **Reply #3855 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:11 »

I may have the most posts, but my logged in time is only 86 days.

get a life you losers

David_Dovey · « **Reply #3856 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:43 »

Guys we do this every couple of months

scarred · « **Reply #3857 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:02 »

It's a vicious cycle.

Rizzo · « **Reply #3858 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:11 »

21 days. Fuck y'all.

Hairy Joe Bob · « **Reply #3859 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:23 »

I have been online for 12 days, 4 hours and 49 minutes.

Since I've been a member since the evening the forums went online that makes me feel quite good about myself.

Ahhhhh! I have a life.

*smug*

Patrick · « **Reply #3860 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:40 »

It occurs to me more each and every day that I desperately need a car and a better life than what I've allowed myself to achieve.

tania · « **Reply #3861 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:41 »

look we're all extremely pathetic people, no need to try to quantify this

Tom · « **Reply #3862 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 18:25 »

Quote from: Metope on 13 Mar 2011, 16:09

Yeah, that's the thing about clicking tabs all the time and not really actually being here, I can spend whole days on my computer doing other stuff and still clicking a new forum tab, so it looks like I've been in here an entire day. Like today! Go lazy Sundays!

This the only reason why it looks like I've been here for 55 days, 3 hours and 52 53 minutes.

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #3863 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 18:41 »

I'm filming five 3 minute films over the next five days and I start tomorrow at 6:30am and I can't sleep and I just blew my nose and now there's blood everywhere.

Time for a hot milk.

öde · « **Reply #3864 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 19:34 »

Don't put hot milk in your nose.

jhocking · « **Reply #3865 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 20:05 »

Alternatively, do that and film it.

Patrick · « **Reply #3866 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 22:46 »

For a second I thought you were referring to a pair of short trousers.

squawk · « **Reply #3867 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 03:50 »

i was very bitchy and honestly just downright mean to my best friend a bit ago, for no rational reason other than i was being incredibly good at it. i'm feeling really bad about it right now and though i know she'll talk to me in the daytime, i just don't know why i let myself do things like that. it wasn't bad enough that tonight's instance might present itself as an "issue" or something, least i hope not, but i am just not in a good mood right now. and i think the vyvanse is wearing off. it's been over twelve hours. and yeah, i don't feel like studying anymore.

squawk · « **Reply #3868 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 03:51 »

dejected beef has so far never looked more appropriate than with that post's contents, even if it doesn't quite match his prose

valley_parade · « **Reply #3869 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:15 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 13 Mar 2011, 16:43

Guys we do this every couple of months

Yeah and I've dropped out of the top 10. 109 days.

sean · « **Reply #3870 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:38 »

90 days and counting bitches, i swear im gonna crack that top ten!

valley_parade · « **Reply #3871 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:49 »

Sam, it sounds like the exact problem my Tele's been having. I think it's just a shitty solder job.

Lines · « **Reply #3872 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:52 »

Oh good, I'm not in the top 10.

But I'm very close and I don't know how I feel about that.

Kind bad, now that I think about that. I need a life.

Lines · « **Reply #3873 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:53 »

Also who is good at APA format. Someone come write my 3 bibliographies.

McTaggart · « **Reply #3874 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:54 »

I've got a lab tomorrow morning where I have to write a bunch of search algorithms and I have totally forgotten how to C over summer. Luckily I doubt I'll be the only one in this situation and I actually did the tut questions and read the chapter so I should be fine. I hope.

@Linds: Can't whatever bibliography collating software you're using do all that for you?

nekowafer · « **Reply #3875 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:58 »

I adopted two ferrets yesterday and they are soo cute. They were dancing and dooking (a sort of chuckling sound, happy/playful) all over the house this morning.

ALSO I just got an e-mail from one of the doctors I do work for and he says I'm awesome. The only reason I enjoy my job at all is because of him and a few of the other doctors.

So far this has been a great week.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3876 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:59 »

Quote from: Sam on 14 Mar 2011, 10:55

Quote from: valley_parade on 14 Mar 2011, 10:49
Sam, it sounds like the exact problem my Tele's been having. I think it's just a shitty solder job.

oh yeah? whenever i lift the body of the bass, if the pickups are facing the ceiling or moving to do so it'll get muchofuxxed. hmmm. it's the input jack soldering? sorry i'm blind when it comes to guitar wiring et al

Not entirely sure. My bridge pickup goes in and out sometimes, and I have to jiggle the volume knob for said pickup to get it working again.

squawk · « **Reply #3877 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 11:11 »

Oh. i should probably avoid publishing things on the internet when my brain is overactive and i've been alone for too long

Also, how come on the rare occasions that i get doctor checkups, they never find anything wrong with me? i'm not begging for like terminal illnesses or anything but i pretty much do everything wrong

I feel like I definitely have myriad health problems. maybe they'll present themselves to doctors after this school year finishes. lord knows my habits haven't improved in any sense of the word

My last doctor visit was right before I left for school because I needed vaccinations. The doctor was the mother of my best friend, with whom I had sort of wrecked the entire friendship, like, a week before the appointment and she hadn't even talked to me during that whole week and it was just so unbearably... so unbearably.

upon reflection I should probably avoid publishing things on the internet all of the time, really. why am i writing this. i would author the worst blog in the whole world*

*um. you don't have to present Challengers for this title

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3878 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 12:49 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 14 Mar 2011, 10:54

@Linds: Can't whatever bibliography collating software you're using do all that for you?

What is this miracle software of which you speak? My bibliography collation has always consisted of me writing down on a piece of paper/word document and hoping I don't lose it.

Papersatan · « **Reply #3879 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 12:52 »

http://www.easybib.com/

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3880 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 12:53 »

why did no one tell me

Then again I haven't cited a single reference for any piece of work since I was 17. I cite cases but that is simple and doesn't require a special programme.

Lines · « **Reply #3881 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 13:06 »

That would be great except for the fact half of the things I'm citing are images and videos found online, which it turns out is very specific. As in it took me over an hour to cite the 10+ images. I haven't even started on the videos, websites, and books yet.

Why is citation so complicated. Why did I use so many images? I know why, I wanted to make this thing less ugly. I hate being forced to use ugly things for projects. But now I have to cite them all and I'm not happy about it.

Lines · « **Reply #3882 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:43 »

This just in: I got a letter from my uni that I've been accepted into the grad program! And I'm being awarded some type of financial aid! Woohoo!

valley_parade · « **Reply #3883 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:49 »

Um, o/

Lines · « **Reply #3884 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:53 »

Metope · « **Reply #3885 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 14:54 »

That is so great! Congrats, Linds!

nufan · « **Reply #3886 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 17:13 »

Quote from: Linds on 14 Mar 2011, 14:43

This just in: I got a letter from my uni that I've been accepted into the grad program! And I'm being awarded some type of financial aid! Woohoo!

Congrats! I just submitted my application for studying at Manchester in September. Still need to send off my references but I fucking finally did sent ittttt

Rizzo · « **Reply #3887 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 17:36 »

Congrats dawg! That's heaps good.

I've been job hunting for a while now and I don't really know what interests me any more. I was hoping people could suggest some jobs I can do. I've worked on a couple of IT help desks trouble shooting modems, integrating XML code and configuring eftpos. I've also worked in libraries, supervised and trained staff. I've written documentation and worked as a researched for 3 months.
The problem is that I've done lots of things for short periods, nothing for more than a year at a time.

I'd like to keep working in libraries I think but IT is interesting too. WHAT SHOULD I DOOOOO?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3888 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 11:25 »

Sooooo I've pretty much given up on a job. Pretty much nowhere is hiring, and the biggest employer in the area just shipped a metric fuckton of its jobs to the Philippines.

The best I can hope for is a temp job through the department of labour (which looks like it's going to happen!). That's going to last two months, at which point I'm going to fuck off with the money and travel. Now seems like the best time to do that since I don't have, you know, a job, or house, or anything remotely resembling responsibilities.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #3889 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 17:50 »

Ok so I've been back at uni for the last three weeks. I'm enjoying thr counselling and assessment classes that I'm thing but I'm starting to think I'm probably going to fail my other two courses, which are, of course, the most important ones. One class is my research thesis and the other is statistics. I suck at statistics and numbers and stuff like that, I don't understand anything the lecturer says and I'm pretty much ready to give up. I feel like absolute shit and I really don't thijk I can do this. Fuck fuck fuck my entire life.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #3890 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 22:13 »

does yr uni offer tutoring in the stats class? i couldn't ever understand anything in stats either except we had a really good textbook so i learned from that and spaced out during literally all of the lectures and the prof always assigned homework (it didn't get checked or anything; it was just practice) that i did every day. we also had a lab that helped, i ended up partnering with a girl who was awesome with numbers but since ours was applied stats, it was more to do with figuring out what the fuck the problem was anyway, which is the part i'm good at, so we taught each other.

Patrick · « **Reply #3891 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 02:16 »

I have been having such epic cabin fever lately. So yesterday I went out! I went downtown to the coffee shop where I first started hanging out when I moved here last year, and I played some Irish folk stuff with my buddy Gabe and some other friends of ours. Gabe is from Belfast and has a special affection for folk tunes from home, so he's been getting a bunch of musicians he knows and we've been practicing stuff whenever we can. Yesterday was lovely, it was my first time meeting the fiddle player he'd recruited, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that she was quite skilled (I have hardly ever heard any decent fiddle players).

Then in the afternoon, a former work homie of mine swooped me and we kicked it for the first time in a while. He's moved away for a bit so it's not often I see him. It was pleasant enough until I realized he was still just as annoying and poor in musical taste as always, but then again, that's one of the things that's endearing about the guy. We got a little stony and watched Iron Chef. Of the vastly superior Japanese-and-overdubbed-in-English variety. None of that Iron Chef America horsefuckery, homie don't play. The 'swallow's nest' battle, in case anybody cares to know.

Today I kicked the shit downtown with my friend Seth. We played a form of Scrabble on his phone for a bit and had pizza. Game will likely continue tomorrow, until the point where I have soundly whooped his ass. Then again, he threw some hellfire too, so we'll see. He's at 179 and I'm at 176 (my move), no joke. It'll be a good match. I forgot what it's like playing board games with friends. Nobody I know even does that anymore.

After our battle I came home, napped, showered, went to work and cleaned up ink that somebody had blown bubbles on the floor with. Came home and got a little buzzed on some tree. I've got Reddit browsing and silly single=player RPG gaming ahead of me now, so I will wish you guys a grand night.

jodizzle · « **Reply #3892 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 02:27 »

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In 3.5 weeks I make my roller derby debut!

For realz this time. No broken bones yet! We haven't hit that 2 week mark but I am feeling confident! I still favour my shoulder WAY too much and I know that is going to stick out as obvious as pie to the other team but hell, as long as I have made that debut it will not be so bad. break me in a bout, that's fine. break me in training? What a BITCH!

GUYS IT IS SO CLOSE AND I AM SO EXCITED AND WE HAVE A FULL TEAM THIS TIME AND WE MIGHT EVEN WIN!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Tom · « **Reply #3893 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 03:16 »

Jimmy, you can always ask your dem or tutor. Many are willing to help for the right price or know someone else who might.

Mind you, all my dems have been totally cool grad. geeks/students so your mileage may vary.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3894 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 05:47 »

Heard on the BBC news that unemployment is rising and the area that I live in is the hardest hit. Looks like the end of my contract in a couple of weeks is going to mark the start of a long period on benefits. The good news is that I get to wind up Daily Mail readers by being a filthy dole scrounger but this will probably come at the cost of everything else turning to shit.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #3895 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 05:58 »

My the only tutor for this course is the lecturer. I'm going to ask in the tute tomorrow what I can do in terms of getting extra help.

Lines · « **Reply #3896 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 06:30 »

They may at least be able to set you up with another student who can help you out.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3897 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 14:58 »

Hey blog thread!
I am in a super happy mood today as it is Thursday and I am having a long weekend for my 26th birthday. It is also St Patrick's day! I always find it fun to look out for the people wearing green on the train and in the city, and wonder if they did it on purpose. Most of them do it on purpose I am sure as they (at least the ladies) are wearing different green things like blouses and cardigans and hair accessories that obviously do not work together.
I bought an apricot danish for breakfast! They are my favourite.
I have been planning my Party lists on the train and they go something like this:

Mum and Grandma visiting:
- Skim milk
- Make sure teabags are topped up
- Fancy macaroons from the patisserie in Balmain
- Make sure sheets are changed and the pillowcases Mum made me are on display
- Scrub the bathroom

Party on Saturday night
- Beer
- More beer
- Vodka
- Juice
- Corn chips
- Salsa
- Guacamole
- Chocolate cupcakes
- Peanut butter frosting
- Nutella frosting
- Pizza

I was talking to our resident New Zealander in the kitchen this morning saying that my Grandma was visiting and he quoted 'There ain't no party like your Grandma's tea party' which made me immensely happy.
Now I am going to drink my tea and eat my danish.

Also here is a St Patricks day joke that I heard this morning.

Quote

An Irish man walks into a pub. The bartender asks him, "what'll you have?"
The man says, "Give me three pints of Guinness please."
So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they're gone. He then orders three more.

The bartender says, "Sir, I know you like them cold. You don't have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I'll bring you a fresh cold one."

The man says, "You don't understand. I have two brothers, one in Australia and one in the States. We made a vow to each other that every Saturday night we'd still drink together. So right now, my brothers have three Guinness Stouts too, and we're drinking together.

The bartender thought that was a wonderful tradition.
Every week the man came in and ordered three beers.

Then one week he came in and ordered only two.
He drank them and then ordered two more.
The bartender said to him, "I know what your tradition is, and I'd just like to say that I'm sorry that one of your brothers died."

The man said, "Oh, me brothers are fine----I just quit drinking."

Patrick · « **Reply #3898 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 15:00 »

Haha Lunchy I love that joke, if done right you can depress the shit outta people and that just makes it more likely you'll get an awesome groan out of whoever you tell it to.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #3899 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 19:16 »

I spent all day with a moron and am now feeling dumber for it. She's on spring break this week so she has to spend the whole day at the office (the horror (for both of us)) and I am pretty certain I'm going to kill her before Friday ends. Grr. She is SO DUMB.

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