So I'm sitting in the hospital taking the overnight shift with Alex, and only infomercials are on. Fuck me. I hope he goes back to sleep soon or I might have to go find that baby morphine and take a trip...
Best random title ever.
Why is he in the hospital?
Quote from: Freak on May 11, 2011, 11:57:03 PM
Best random title ever.
Agreed! ;D and the answer is, it's in the wind Theo!
He had to have a simple surgery, but we've been there since Tuesday. He had something called pyloric stenosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyloric_stenosis.
Basically he was projectile vomiting like a 19 year old at a frat party after EVERY BOTTLE. He was cranky all the time because he was hungry, couldn't sleep etc. In his crib one night there was a puke trail 2 feet long. If you think about it in adult terms, that would be like me puking 6.5 feet.
He had the surgery yesteday morning, and already last night he was calmer and not wiggling around. I could actually not hold him and have him not freak out. It was really nice. Before one of us had to hold him at all times, or he would freak out. He actually slept in his crib too, only waking up every 3-4 hours like a normal month old, not this every 20 minute crap like before.
I had to be one of those stereotypical parents, but you really dont understand how stressful and frustrating having one of your children in pain is. I'm a type A personality, not being in control freaks me out.
Glad it was a simple procedure and that he seems to be recovering from it quickly! How soon do you get to take him home?
While my postcount has floundered over the years (once upon a time, I was in running competition with Teeps and a few others for PI's biggest postwhore), I miss my sig more than I miss it. But hell, this gives me a chance to start again! I wonder if I'll be able to get here from the school computers, or if I'll have to use my phone for it. *plots* Eh, summer vacation's in like a month, I'll certainly be able to get some kind of edge there, especially if I'm just doing freelance editing.
boofu, I totally know the feeling. Phoenix had a bad bout of gastrointeritis a couple months back, and he was also projectile vomiting like your guy was. Just couldn't keep anything down. He got really dehydrated, lost almost 2 lbs (which is a lot when you're just shy of 18 lbs to start with). He stayed in the hospital for a couple days with an IV in him just to keep him hydrated. At the start of it all, he didn't even have the energy to cry any more, he just had this sad worried look on his face that just ripped your heart out. Thankfully 36 hours of quality Canadian health care later and he was back to his smiling goofy self, even if he wanted so badly to rip the IV out of his arm. It still took about another month before we could get him back on a normal feeding schedule with actual formula (fuck that lactose-free shit is expensive) and normal solid foods for him.
I'm glad your little dude is getting better. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you and boom can get some actual sleep sometime in the near future.
Poor little guy! Glad the surgery helped!!
Being a parent is the most stressful thing I've ever experienced. It's also the most rewarding thing. For these two things to coexist is a cosmic joke, IMO. I was talking about giving birth to one of my coworkers yesterday and when I came home I squeezed the boy (despite his 13-year-old reaction of "MOM STOP!") and just smiled at him: Flower of my Heart, Jewel of my Soul, Crown of my Creation.
i wasn't going to post out of protest and because the postcount jokes were so 7 years ago...
but i wish your new little guy the best and hopes he makes a speedy recovery.
Quote from: TPD on May 12, 2011, 11:19:23 AM
i wasn't going to post out of protest and because the postcount jokes were so 7 years ago...
Sure they are. That's why you have the highest post count besides Goose (as of this posting). Some things don't change. You still make a Big Thing out of not showing your face, and you're still going to be a giant postwhore. Just accept it. :P
Edited because I fail at numbers.
heh, freak mentioned to me the other day that if you google image search "ogre pic" i'm the first thing that pops up.
so much for anonymity.
ah, well, at least i look waaaay hotter these days than before!
edit:
and check who's got the larger postcount now, girl!
oh god scrolling text
does the blink tag work
Quote from: TPD on May 12, 2011, 12:38:40 PM
edit:
and check who's got the larger postcount now, girl!
I never said I wasn't ALSO going back to my postwhoring ways... If I'm gonna be back, I'm gonna be back :P
HTO HTO HTO!!!1
hey, stupid question, but would a videogame thread go in the video section?
Sure
I like that there's a whole subsection for the threads I never used to read :p
My vote would be for gaming to fall under Grand Miscellany. To me, anyway, video doesn't encompass the interactivity involved in gaming. Videos are for watching, games are for doing ;)
I'm wrong anyway; I forgot about movies.
It's good to have the polka dots back; now I can take them all the way to the paywindah again, daddeh.
Seeing the polka dots back makes me worry about certain other avatars that might make a comeback. . . :unsure:
Also, this whole applaud/smite thing is very, very tempting to horribly misuse. I really just want to go around smiting people because it's awesome, but I don't want there to be negative repercussions just because I like smiting.
Quote from: TPD on May 12, 2011, 12:38:40 PM
heh, freak mentioned to me the other day that if you google image search "ogre pic" i'm the first thing that pops up.
so much for anonymity.
edit:
and check who's got the larger postcount now, girl!
Kinda, you're on the first page of google image when you google "Ohgr" or "Ogre Skinny" both times first page.
Also Pig's post count went way up after he started to post ebay items and news things... I want to say it was double Teepers post count. Just saying...
That's why Goose's postcount is (was?) higher than TPD's; admins ALWAYS have high postcounts just from being admins. Once upon a time, there was actual competition for the top of the postcount list. It was both amusing and sad. On the bright side, I look back and I'm more amused than saddened. It was fun.
I wasn't even able to crack 10k posts on the old PI. Oh well.
In other news, I am totally in love with my iPhone. That is all.
drone
I seeeeeeee youuuuuuu, hidden user! :ph43r:
OH SHI
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on May 12, 2011, 08:17:58 PM
I really just want to go around smiting people because it's awesome, but I don't want there to be negative repercussions just because I like smiting.
Thou Shalt Not Smite YO MOMMA. :P
Ya, only smite me if I really fucked up... Other wise that is just rude. And just how do we smite/cheer someone? Do we have to have a set amount of posts?
I remember being SUPER happy about getting 1000 posts. After that I more or less just stopped paying any mind to it... *Shrugs*
Also I bought a 12 pack of Mello Yello. Its fucking amazing. It makes Mt. Dew its bitch. Its a lot crisper and cleaner then Mt.Dew, less sweet to. I don't think its my favorite soda. But its up there for sure...
Quote from: chimera on May 13, 2011, 10:53:02 AM
Thou Shalt Not Smite YO MOMMA. :P
No, Mom! Of course not! *cowers* :D
That's another smiley we need to hunt down. One of the boards somewhere along the line had a REALLY good :lol: that totally would have fit there. Edited in light of new emoticons!
Quote from: Freak on May 13, 2011, 12:01:46 PM
And just how do we smite/cheer someone? Do we have to have a set amount of posts?
I didn't really notice quite when the applaud/smite thing showed up; it was just there after a post. I'm not sure if it was Goose tinkering with the board or if it was postcount related.
SMITE ME. SMITE ME. SMITE ME.
SMOTE!
Sadly unsatisfying. Maybe this is why -- nevermind :P
Oh, cool. I went back and applauded you because I felt bad about how unsatisfying smiting you was and the whole -1 karma thing, so now you have +1 karma.
I WANNA BE SMITEN.
NOT SMITTEN.
FINE. CONSIDER YOURSELF RE-SMOTE!
-1 KARMA FOR YOU!
YAIS!
my goal of being the new troll du jour is accomplished!
because let's face it, we'll need a troll on this board since it'll be close-knit.
Just because you desire smiting, you shall be applauded.
Suck it.
Be careful what you wish for... keep in mind that trolls must be sacrificed regularly to appease the almighty ADMIN :P A dose of Goose's vintage Haterade makes Dust's promise of modship with an iron fist look like oven mitts for EVERYONE, not just the ones he likes.
ETA: AHAHAHA, or he could just do that instead
Has everyone seen http://goatsonstuff.tumblr.com ?
It's been amusing me all day.
Hahahaha that's great
APPLAUSE FOR GOATS ON THINGS!
Epic news is epic and must be preserved for posterity: New PI causes members to revert to 2003. SMF may be based on Time Lord technology.
<3 Goose :wub:
Nayl almost has 50 posts already?
Fuck me.
*giggle*
It's just like old times, only I'm *slightly* less ridiculous. Or infinitely more, I'm really not sure. I've theoretically matured some?
Quote from: tim on May 13, 2011, 02:49:17 PM
Has everyone seen http://goatsonstuff.tumblr.com ?
It's been amusing me all day.
OMG I work with a guy that raises goats and it makes him the butt of all jokes around here. I am so broadcasting this site to our team at his expense. Many thanks!
Quote from: boofu on May 13, 2011, 06:22:12 PM
Nayl almost has 50 posts already?
Fuck me.
Christ, when Dust came back he posted like 1000 in a week. I remember him going from new to 1k post count in a week maybe less. But ya, she is post whoring it up big time.
Also I plan on drinking till I forget my name tonight. THEN working tomorrow! Oh ya!
Quote from: r00 on May 13, 2011, 08:07:04 PM
OMG I work with a guy that raises goats and it makes him the butt of all jokes around here. I am so broadcasting this site to our team at his expense. Many thanks!
He should participate. He must have literally many pictures of goats on stuff, or if not, at least the means to create them (ie goats, and stuff).
Quote from: Freak on May 13, 2011, 09:16:18 PM
Christ, when Dust came back he posted like 1000 in a week. I remember him going from new to 1k post count in a week maybe less. But ya, she is post whoring it up big time.
Also I plan on drinking till I forget my name tonight. THEN working tomorrow! Oh ya!
*bow* I could make a grand in a week if the board was as active as it was in those days, but I need more people to banter with or else it crosses the fine line between absurd, but still amusing and absurd, but jesus christ doesn't she ever shut up?
That's why I didn't actually hit 50 til now. It's like boofu pointing out my postcount silenced the board for the night.
I hope that hangover isn't too horrible, Freak. I'm also jealous that you were ABLE to do that. I wanted to, but we're fresh out of booze and I haven't gotten paid yet.
I showed my fiance goats on stuff, and told him, "These are the kinds of things you can look forward to OFTEN now that I'm back at PI!" He boggled. It was priceless.
Quote from: tim on May 13, 2011, 02:49:17 PM
Has everyone seen http://goatsonstuff.tumblr.com ?
It's been amusing me all day.
I figured that it'd be a tribute to another famous site with goats(e) in the title. :O
USMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Usman on May 14, 2011, 11:30:51 AM
I figured that it'd be a tribute to another famous site with goats(e) in the title. :O
OMG JENGHAJAM I MISSED CHUUUUU
The president of Rwanda is having a public spat with a journalist on twitter. It hasn't yet degenerated into "ur mom" "no, ur mom", but it's close. I love that the internet makes these things possible.
(For the record, I'm not a fan of either of them, but the journalist's sins are less heinous.)
Quote from: Usman on May 14, 2011, 11:30:51 AM
I figured that it'd be a tribute to another famous site with goats(e) in the title. :O
USMAN! I've been wondering if you'd pop up. Welcome home, dude!
Quote from: tim on May 14, 2011, 12:49:29 PM
The president of Rwanda is having a public spat with a journalist on twitter. It hasn't yet degenerated into "ur mom" "no, ur mom", but it's close. I love that the internet makes these things possible.
(For the record, I'm not a fan of either of them, but the journalist's sins are less heinous.)
Ah, yes. The one thing that tempts me to Twitter is nonsense like that.
gooooose, that newsbanner on top:
cfg.
i see a lot of future hilar with that addition.
any word on that flint banner?
is that permanent?
can that be changed to something pi-ish?
Hey, Usman! :)
I love your sig, Kristin. <3
I have just discovered how to make ringtones for my iPhone. Oh shit. :D
drone
http://www.mytinyphone.com/ is very dangerous for that. I've used it across several phones now, though I couldn't guarantee what models it does or doesn't work for. Which reminds me, I have a friend's ringtone that rather desperately needs changing. I should honestly have probably changed it last summer, but I didn't. "I Kissed a Girl" suddenly isn't so funny anymore when your poly-crush decides she's monogamous. Whoops!
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on May 14, 2011, 04:01:14 PM
http://www.mytinyphone.com/ is very dangerous for that. I've used it across several phones now, though I couldn't guarantee what models it does or doesn't work for. Which reminds me, I have a friend's ringtone that rather desperately needs changing. I should honestly have probably changed it last summer, but I didn't. "I Kissed a Girl" suddenly isn't so funny anymore when your poly-crush decides she's monogamous. Whoops!
Actually, I found a way to convert existing songs in my iTunes to rightones. I just made Air's "Sexy Boy" into a ringtone for when T calls me, heh.
drone
Quote from: Usman on May 14, 2011, 11:30:51 AM
I figured that it'd be a tribute to another famous site with goats(e) in the title. :O
You mean like goatkcd, where the punchline to every xkcd comic is goatse? God bless the Internet.
That sounds like the most terrible website EVER, but I'd be a liar if I said it didn't make me laugh. God bless the internet, indeed.
Quote from: TPD on May 14, 2011, 02:28:02 PM
any word on that flint banner?
is that permanent?
can that be changed to something pi-ish?
I can change it damn near any time I want, I just need something to actually replace it with. I don't have any PI logos on my machine that'd be suitable, and I'm also hesitant to use actual PI logos without pig's explicit permission.
Quote from: rokken like dokken on May 14, 2011, 05:57:17 PM
You mean like goatkcd, where the punchline to every xkcd comic is goatse? God bless the Internet.
This one is absolutely perfect: http://goatkcd.com/879/ (so very NWS.)
Quote from: Usman on May 15, 2011, 01:11:51 AM
This one is absolutely perfect: http://goatkcd.com/879/ (so very NWS.)
I LOVE IT.
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7630/lollerskatesle.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/lollerskatesle.png/)
My external hard drive is a wealth of random things. I thought it fitting.
Welcome back, purple shaman! \m/
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on May 14, 2011, 01:09:28 PM
Ah, yes. The one thing that tempts me to Twitter is nonsense like that.
Thats the one thing I love about twitter too. It gives a lot of the celebrities and leaders total unfiltered access to make complete asses of themselves. There's no agents or press assistants to keep them out of trouble. Only their foot, their mouth, and a keyboard. Love it.
I know that I am way late on the goings on around here, but congratulations on the bouncing baby boy Boofu.
Reading these post is making me all sentimental and shit.
I'm drinking Mello Yello. Which is amazing. (PRETTY sure I said this before.) ANYHOO. TPD asks if it is like Mt. Dew. Which I tell that it is, only better. He then tells me that Mt Dew up in Canada doesn't have any caffeine. I look it up just to make sure he isn't messing with me. (This is all Text messages btw.) (I sent him a text a week or so ago and was like I don't know if you guys have chicken noodle soup but its amazing. I was joking I knew Canada has it... He didn't think I was joking thought... Sarcasm doesn't go over text very well...) Either way, I learned something today. I feel smarter.
Freak: Emotions generally don't go that well over texts I have learned and for that reason I use them rarely.
I have this fucking song from the Eurovision song contest stuck in my head and it is driving me crazy.
~hydra
My two yearold and I have strept throat. I can't fucking win.
:(
Wow firefox for android really sucks balls
Quote from: Hydra on May 17, 2011, 04:09:19 AM
I have this fucking song from the Eurovision song contest stuck in my head and it is driving me crazy.
hahahahahahahahahhahahaha
that is fucking awesome.
LINK ME
btw, you'll love this, sunna:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPFKy8Yqm0
Hahahaha! That was awesome. Best lyrics ever!
This is the song, the winner from last year. I have been trying to listen to as much death metal as possible to get rid of it and it worked, until I started looking for that link for you Tedders and it is back in there! :hmm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmOeISUYXuI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmOeISUYXuI)
~hydra
Damn, tpd is still here?
Quote from: luna on May 17, 2011, 04:48:40 PM
Wow firefox for android really sucks balls
yeah it's not that great. I prefer Dolphin Browser HD. It even lets you create your own gestures for url shortcuts and other actions.
Quote from: boom on May 18, 2011, 07:27:00 AM
Damn, tpd is still here?
I thought the same thing, I thought for sure he would be locked up in some sex crime unit at a prison.
Boom! Welcome back ^-^
And I'm not sure that tpd really is still here. It might just be some masked imposter flirting with anything that posts. He's not posting enough to be tpd for sure.
Quote from: r00 on May 18, 2011, 08:01:20 AM
yeah it's not that great. I prefer Dolphin Browser HD. It even lets you create your own gestures for url shortcuts and other actions.
Ooh I'll have to give it a try
Quote from: boofu on May 18, 2011, 08:07:12 AM
I thought the same thing, I thought for sure he would be locked up in some sex crime unit at a prison.
i lolzed...
why does your babies' mama hate me, boof? :(
(i missed the abuse, tho... glad she's back. =) )
Quote from: TPD on May 18, 2011, 10:43:36 AM
why does your babies' mama hate me, boof? :(
she's protecting her kids from king chomo.
but they're booooooooooooys.
and besides that, i always wait till they're 18...ish.
Quote from: Hydra on May 18, 2011, 04:53:04 AM
Hahahaha! That was awesome. Best lyrics ever!
This is the song, the winner from last year. I have been trying to listen to as much death metal as possible to get rid of it and it worked, until I started looking for that link for you Tedders and it is back in there! :hmm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmOeISUYXuI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmOeISUYXuI)
~hydra
omg i'm in love!
Quote from: TPD on May 18, 2011, 11:14:29 AM
but they're booooooooooooys.
and besides that, i always wait till they're 18...ish.
Ok, so with the real PI down, I can't necessarily come up with an instance of you hitting on dudes.
18...*ish* is very *ish* though, my friend ;)
Nice to see you posting more like yourself though :P
DOESN'T MEAN I'M SUCCESSFUL
I get older, but high-school girls stay the same age AM I RITE TPD
stranger danger!
I think TPD pretty much hit on anything back in the day, boys and girls.
The weather forecast for next weekend: Freezing cold and snow!
It is supposed to be summer already, the trees have leaves on them and flowers are starting to bloom. I love this country! ::)
~hydra
We're not getting snow in the forecast here, but I'm approaching the point of gloves-in-the-apartment again because for whatever reason, even after reclosing the storms to compensate for the temperatures dropping again, it's fucking FREEZING in here.
I'm flat out refusing to turn the heat back on in the apartment. I'll snuggle with the dog and a fleece blanket before that happens. That's another thing I love about not having a roommate; I can have it as cold in here as I want and nobody will bitch. :)
drone
np: "La Femme D'Argent" - AIR
We're trying really hard not to turn the actual heat back on; won't lie, we're cheating, we dragged the space heater out again, but no heating-bill-inducing heat. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, *I* am the one that's always cold, so *I* am going to be the one that's more miserable for keeping it off, but the likelihood of my fiance saying that we should turn it back on before I get too desperate and do it myself is pretty slim.
Just out of curiosity, how is your place heated (natural gas, heating oil, other)?
Gas. I honestly have no idea what the heating bill looks like because our landlord bundles all of the utilities into our flat-rate rent. It's nice, too, because for where we're living, we've got it damn good even in the summer, nevermind the winter when we're actually making heavy use of the gas (our stove is gas as well, so we do use the gas at least marginally year round). It's just too bad that the area sucks :unsure:
I live in a natural gas heated place too. Unless your electricity is 90% cheaper than mine, using that space heater is about twice as expensive as turning your furnace back on for a few days. Those things chug juice like a teenager in a Sunny D commercial.
That's a very good point, particularly given the fact that, both being geeks, and having netflix as our primary source of televised/movie entertainment, we're powering 2 computers the majority of the evening on top of the heater, not to mention the mini-fridge and more standard household electricity consumers. We kind of tend to use a lot :unsure:
Thanks for that, Goose. And my landlord doesn't know it, but he thanks you too.
Hellooooo inheritance
I have gas heating this place, too. I don't have the luxury of having utilities included with my rent, but considering that my rent is unheard of for a two bedroom apartment in Worcester, I can't really complain.
And I don't know if it's cuz I'm drunk, but I just scrolled over the :hmm: face and it says "I hate your face". It made me wet a little. :D
drone
yesterday we had 3 inches of hail that covered the roads for a bit. Even for this state, winter is hanging on with a late death grip.
Quote from: videodrone on May 18, 2011, 11:02:28 PM
And I don't know if it's cuz I'm drunk, but I just scrolled over the :hmm: face and it says "I hate your face". It made me wet a little. :D
I almost snarfed my coffee at that.
r00, that is freaking insane. We had some hail last week, but it didn't accumulate, much less THREE INCHES! ???
I'd really like for us to move to upstate NY somewhere, but the whole moving thing is kind of expensive, and I don't want to move broke like we did when we came to this place. This time we have a choice (last time we lost a housemate abruptly and the rest of us couldn't make the rent without that one more person to split it with, so we all started frantically apartment hunting) so I don't want to be stupid about it. Beloved disagrees :hmm:
Quote from: videodrone on May 18, 2011, 11:02:28 PM
And I don't know if it's cuz I'm drunk, but I just scrolled over the :hmm: face and it says "I hate your face". It made me wet a little. :D
drone
I was wondering how long it would take before someone saw that handiwork. I made sure every emoticon got something unique.
Oh wai...
:ph34r:
Quote from: r00 on May 19, 2011, 07:34:14 AM
yesterday we had 3 inches of hail that covered the roads for a bit. Even for this state, winter is hanging on with a late death grip.
That's exactly how I have been feeling. Winter was rather mild and then it's like when spring came winter just couldn't let go and is still hanging on.
As for indoor heating, that is never a problem here, we have geothermal energy that is cheap so even during the harshest winter we never get cold indoors.
~hydra
I guess I'll stop complaining about the endless gray and rain we're having here if other people are still getting ice. It's warm enough to go out in short sleeves these days, but I like to have my electric blanket on at night year-round.
Wait til I get home and find the cord for my Kodak. We had 3-4 inches of hail bout 2 months ago that scared the piss out of all 3 boys. And I don't care what time of the year it is, who's ever heard of hail in a friggin desert? I mean c'mon, it barely rains. Hail? :))
One thing I'm NOT looking forward to once we move to Cape Cod is the heating bill. I'm used to cheap-assed hydro-electric power. Over there, everything seems to be gas and/or oil, neither of which gets my vote.
Quote from: Hydra on May 19, 2011, 09:08:57 AM
That's exactly how I have been feeling. Winter was rather mild and then it's like when spring came winter just couldn't let go and is still hanging on.
Yeah we had a very mild winter too, so this must be payback. The nice part was the mountains still got hammered, so we didnt lose our summer watershed.
Yeah, we have gas heat here, which basically means we all huddle in one room with the space heater all winter, and never leave our coy beds. Spring time means remembering what the rest of the house looks like and getting the piano tuned. And even though we keep our thermostat on tundra, we can barely afford to pay the gas bill. I plan for this upcoming winter to be my last here, then I'm heading south.
Quote from: boofu on May 18, 2011, 02:23:26 PM
I get older, but high-school girls stay the same age AM I RITE TPD
I also walk around shirtless and play bongos all day.
Just like Matthew David McConaughey.
:)
Where are you living now anyway dee?
Just got a new monitor; I only upgraded by I think 2.5 inches, but it's like a goddamn ocean now; I keep losing stuff in this monitor.
My mom is moving to a new apartment, and decided that would be the best time to send the rest of my stuff that's been out there for 5 years now. It's all flooding in now, and I've gone through 12 boxes of old stuff. I just found 3 boxes full of cd cases, 1 of dvds, 2 of books, sketchbooks, clothes, and lots of strange odds and ends. All stuff that's been boxed up and sitting around for 5 years. A whole hell of a lot of it I didn't know I had anymore.
There's also a lot of stuff that's not even mine, I think she just started finding stuff thinking it was mine. And some strange receipts/stubs. I get the feeling at some point she may have just swept my room clean and dumped EVERYTHING into the boxes.
It strangely reminded me of going to the bunker for the first time in years. Everything still there exactly as it was left, and there's a lot of it I really don't care to remember.
I stood behind a seriously hot guy at the grocery store today. Just my type too but I was too much of a chicken to talk to him. :(
~hydra
story of my life...
I've acquired a new job title amongst the already existing list:
Adult Industry Nightlife Concierge/Liaison
amp! hey!
Quote from: threat on May 19, 2011, 02:41:55 PM
I've acquired a new job title amongst the already existing list:
Adult Industry Nightlife Concierge/Liaison
I know exactly how that's supposed to work and yet I can't help feeling there's a euphemism in there somewhere... :lol:
IDEK WTF my job title is; we had a reclassification thingie and my boss never told me what they decided on for me. And I don't possess any desire (burning or otherwise) to ask.
Post rapture pet care!
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/res/2391455779.html
So I started looking at engagement rings today, just pricing online. Holy hell those things are expensive.
Yeah... it's about that time.
Blue Nile, my man. Blue Nile.
Quote from: amputee on May 20, 2011, 03:12:02 AM
So I started looking at engagement rings today, just pricing online. Holy hell those things are expensive.
Yeah... it's about that time.
3 months pay is the standard rule still, right? Although I think my brother told me he spent 4 months on his.
Quote from: sin on May 20, 2011, 04:18:29 AM
3 months pay is the standard rule still, right? Although I think my brother told me he spent 4 months on his.
I think traditionally it's 2 months, but somewhere in the past several years it turned into 3 months. Either way though, over 80% of my money goes into bills. And right now, all the leftover money is going into saving for going to a friend's wedding this fall. It's crazy.
And yeah, bluenile is pretty awesome. I also found brilliantearth.com and that one looks pretty good too.
Quote from: chimera on May 19, 2011, 08:20:32 PM
I know exactly how that's supposed to work and yet I can't help feeling there's a euphemism in there somewhere... :lol:
No euphemism -- I basically (and quite literally) babysit pornstarlets.
concierge = figuring out the best party/event/show for them to partake in.
liaison = introducing them to the promoters/DJs, which they then in turn establish other networking rings with.
(It's not a real job, but maybe I
should charge for it.)
rae, i should prolly revist l.a. soon. :p
also:
cdc taking advantage of the rapture:
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
Quote from: luna on May 19, 2011, 11:10:19 PM
Post rapture pet care!
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/res/2391455779.html
HA!!!
Quote from: threat on May 20, 2011, 05:33:49 AM
No euphemism -- I basically (and quite literally) babysit pornstarlets.
concierge = figuring out the best party/event/show for them to partake in.
liaison = introducing them to the promoters/DJs, which they then in turn establish other networking rings with.
(It's not a real job, but maybe I should charge for it.)
Right, I figured you were being facetious about the actual
job part of it. But maybe you could have a spiffy tagline like:
rae threat: if you've got the tits, I've got the hookup.
Quote from: luna on May 19, 2011, 10:24:18 AM
Where are you living now anyway dee?
Oh, we're still in Saudi Arabia. Bloody hot, dusty, endlessly brown Riyadh. Hence my surprise at getting hail. We very seldom ever get measurable rain so actual
hail was amazing. Scared the crap out of the cats and Alex hid behind my legs and cried. :lol:
awwww
I am going to be in Los Angeles (specifically Playa Del Ray area) either the last week of July into the first week of August or the first/second week of August, for any interested parties.
I have to work this new PI in to my daily life. In the few minutes I've skimmed, I've come to realize that I miss it very much.
That aside, I really have nothing. Not putting much effort in to re-quitting smoking on this judgement day. There's always tomorrow.
Quote from: libertine on May 21, 2011, 02:32:45 PM
I have to work this new PI in to my daily life. In the few minutes I've skimmed, I've come to realize that I miss it very much.
That aside, I really have nothing. Not putting much effort in to re-quitting smoking on this judgement day. There's always tomorrow.
RAWWWWWWR LIBBY <3 <3 <3
:wub: @ Libby.
~hydra
i found her first!!!!!!! :hmm:
We miss you too, Libby! :wub:
Ted, learn to share. :hmm:
if you're saying i gotta share libby with you and sunna all at once... well, i say get me my camcorder, because rapture is indeed here :))
:lol:
Oh Teddy you are insufferable!
~hydra
Spent the other day raving about how much I loved Brides Maids, then yesterday, while having lunch with a couple adult industry members, noticed that Maya Rudolph was having lunch directly across from us.
Took every bit to resist the urge to run up and yell lines from the movie to her.
This is my lesson learnt: Every time I talk about a DJ/actress/whatever, they WILL cross paths within the day or two. :lol:
It's also happened a couple other times, so pretty freaky, yo.
Quote from: Hydra on May 21, 2011, 04:18:13 PM
:lol:
Oh Teddy you are insufferable!
~hydra
Agreed :))
Quote from: threat on May 21, 2011, 04:37:08 PM
This is my lesson learnt: Every time I talk about a DJ/actress/whatever, they WILL cross paths within the day or two. :lol:
It's also happened a couple other times, so pretty freaky, yo.
??? That is a seriously awesome superpower to have.
It looks like we have another volcanic eruption here. It started about 3 hours ago and it is unknown if it will be a large one. This particular volcano is similar to the infamous Eyjafjallajökull, that is it is under a glacier so we are expecting a lot of ash. Historically there have also been some large eruptions there but it is impossible to tell at this stage. I just hope it won't disrupt flight as much as it did last time. :/
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/64/564368.jpg)A picture taken this evening.
~hydra
???
That is AWESOME. I mean that in the awe-inspiring, original sense of the word. Whoa. I hope nothing too dangerous comes of it. How close are you to it?
I'm very far away, about 300 km (185 miles) or so. There isn't any danger I think, we are well prepared for this sort of thing. It depends on the size of the eruption of course, but this particular one erupted in 2004 last and that wasn't very big. There might be some property damage and the ashfall in the neigbourhood will be a bitch. The biggest question is how large the flood will be, since it is a volcano under a glacier there is always a flood that follows some hours after it starts and sometimes they can be seriously big and terrifying. There hasn't been a casualty due to volcanoes or earthquakes here in decades.
The ironic part is that it is in a similar area as the Eyjafjallajökull one so I feel sorry for the farmers there. :(
This is part of why I love this country, things are never dull! The earth is never still.
~hydra
Scary picture, but beautiful!
Ya that pic is amazing. But very bad at the same time. Crazy stuff. Hope everyone is alright...
Quote from: TPD on May 21, 2011, 04:14:43 PM
if you're saying i gotta share libby with you and sunna all at once... well, i say get me my camcorder, because rapture is indeed here :))
STFU SLUT
Y'all seem to forget that Libs is
my girlfriend. :P
Is anyone else expecting The Hand of God to come out of that cloud? You might want to watch out for that, Sunna. ;)
Quote from: Hydra on May 21, 2011, 05:27:48 PM
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/64/564368.jpg)A picture taken this evening.
WOW.
I've been working on set for these Nat Geo specials lately and today's callsheet called for "Roman orgies" -- on the day of the rapture. Found that quite hilarious.
That's beautiful Sunna. I love erupting volcanoes, so long as I'm not in the ash and/or flood path. :lol:
when I'm in the US, I live about 60 miles from Mt St Helens :)
Yeah that picture is awesome and I totally agree with you Julie, I have to watch out for the hand of god in this one. ;)
It looks like this one is bigger than the last one, and might even be bigger than Eyjafjallajökull. One of our most famous reporter said that it was the biggest one he had ever seen, and he has seen 23 of them. It isn't looking so good at the moment, there is a whole lot of ash in the area. The plume could be seen from ReykjavÃk last night but today all you can see when you look in that direction is just mist, which means ASH. I'm going to see if I can drive closer to it today.
This is a picture taken this morning close to the volcano. It should have been a bright and sunny morning but it looks like dusk.
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/64/564408.jpg)
~hydra
Quote from: threat on May 22, 2011, 04:11:31 AM
I've been working on set for these Nat Geo specials lately and today's callsheet called for "Roman orgies" -- on the day of the rapture. Found that quite hilarious.
:lol: How did that go, anyway?
holy god, that's awe-inducing.
stay safe sunna... 'tween the volcanoes and polar bears iceland is like the new adventureland of the world.
Yes, please stay safe. I can't imagine being near a volcano.
That first shot is amazing hydra!
Random: I'm currently on tpd's favorite mass transit system...it's not nearly as awesome as he thinks it is :P
Thanks guys, I am perfectly safe. :wub:
I didn't go near the volcano today as I had planned due to the fact that this eruption is a whole lot more powerful that the last one (Eyjafjallajökull) and there is pretty much nothing to see due to an enormous ash cloud covering everything. The cloud itself got to ReykjavÃk about an hour ago (last time it never got this far). It isn't dense though, just like a sandstorm or something, or perhaps just a bad pollution day in an average European city. ;)
I'm going to stay indoors as much as I can because the air is kind of gritty and probably not that healthy for long periods of time. Will be fun to clean my car when this is over. :P
~hydra
Quote from: luna on May 22, 2011, 02:43:48 PM
That first shot is amazing hydra!
Random: I'm currently on tpd's favorite mass transit system...it's not nearly as awesome as he thinks it is :P
If it's the skytrain, I agree - but it's miles better than Calgary or Edmonton. Edmonton's is so top-notch, its rail transit doesn't even stop at its number-one attraction!
Also it does have cracked out woman with holes in the ass of her leggings that she's wearing instead of pants :-[
IT'S LIKE THE FUTURE! I LOVE THE SKY TRAIN!
Quote from: Hydra on May 22, 2011, 02:54:06 PM
It isn't dense though, just like a sandstorm or something, or perhaps just a bad pollution day in an average European city. ;)
I'm going to stay indoors as much as I can because the air is kind of gritty and probably not that healthy for long periods of time. Will be fun to clean my car when this is over. :P
~hydra
That's not bad at all. Definitely not sandstorm or even dust storm (at least by Arabic standards) but nasty enough. I'm imagining a little worse than when our mountain erupted. We had ash and it was a bit hazy, but nothing like my Aunt Wilma got to the east. (She couldn't even see the street light in the yard, the ash was so thick)
Stay indoors, keep all vents to the outside turned off. If you go out, cover your face. Ash, even for short periods of time, is bad. Especially if you have any lung problems. And good luck with the car. Rinse it off rather than any sort of rubbing. Otherwise it'll get scratched to shit. (See? Even 30 years after the fact, I remember my basic volcanic eruption safety :)) )
Yeah you have to be really careful how you clean the stuff off. I'm just going to stay as much indoors as I can while the worst of it blows over. We are expecting some rain tonight so that should really clear the air.
It is pitch black closer to the volcano itself, just disgusting.
~hydra
So I guess I now have to keep an eye out on my car because the little shits that live a few houses down from me destroyed my downstairs neighbors' car. The windshield is cracked in two places, there are huge dents and scratches all over the hood and roof... all from having rocks thrown at it because the mother of said children is more concerned about getting them away from her than to actually watch them. Unfuckingbelieveable.
drone
Charming :hmm:
Are the cops in Worcester as useless as the ones on the south side of Providence are, where it took three WEEKS for them to come investigate when the apartment got broken into? The Beloved and I didn't lose anything, but two laptops were stolen from the bottom floor :hmm: Of course, by three weeks later, all the stuff was probably long gone, so it wasn't surprising that it wasn't found. I don't think they even had any suspects, much less the culprit.
Based on what my neighbor told me about what the cops did in this situation (see also: nothing), I'm going to say yes.
drone
Graaaaaand ::)
You armed with the DCYF number, too?
Damn, that sucks. You should look up what would happen if you shot them with a paintball gun. Like if it would break the law shooting someone that is fucking with your car...
:lol:
I like the way you think, Freak. http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/ might be a useful resource for determining such; I'd give it a better go myself, but I'm just sort of popping in before I run out the door. At a Jr. high today, not especially happy about that, but hey, it's a paycheck :unsure:
The charger on my phone is fairly jacked, and I have to put it in juuuuuuuuust right in order to get it to charge. I asked my dad for a ride to the cell phone place to get a replacement but he decided he would rather buy me an iPhone instead. I told him I didn't need one, but I can't say I protested too hard. If dude wants to buy me an iPhone, okay I guess. If he's just going to give me things I'd rather he paid for me to have my bike fixed than crap I don't need, but I can't exactly say "Hey, don't give me that free thing! Give me that other free thing!"
The phone itself is about 5 years old which is close to 1000 in cell phone years, so I was probably going to have to replace it soon anyway (it periodically won't work until I take the battery off and jiggle the sim card, and it also periodically deletes the contents of my address book), so it is somewhat convenient.
If you are friends with me on face book, you probably have been kept abreast of this story, but I felt I should share it with the rest of you as well.
My next door neighbors at my new place have this Pitbull. Pitbull gets out a lot. I don't really care, because hey, I'm fairly libertarian in my views - dog isn't bothering me, doesn't seem aggressive - who gives a shit? Same deal with that they are probably cooking meth in the house...I don't really care.
Anyway, last night the dog came out and charged straight at my son. I thought I was going to watch my son, in best case scenario, get mauled right in front of me. I get between the dog and my two year old and start losing my shit on the 17 year old neighbor. I don't know how I didn't hearken back to the hobo throw days and just start caving in skulls...but whatever. I start screaming, I call 911. We had called animal control 60 minutes prior, but they didn't come. I called 911, they didn't come. I called again 2 hours later, they still weren't here.
It became fairly obvious that this is my castle, and I need to defend myself. I went to the store and bought a shotgun. Nice little Remington 870 Express HD. Extended mag tube for more pitbull killing, and shorter barrel for home defense. Like an idiot, I screamed at the kid I was calling the cops so he took the dog and left.
Queue to today, kid is back with pitbull so I call the PD and they actually show up. I ask the cop, when can I shoot the dog?
"If it's loose, on your property and you feel threatened...you are legally able to shoot the dog to protect your property".
:hmm:
Straight outta East Des Moines, crazy mothafucker named Boofu
From a gang called Whiteboys with Attitude
When I'm called off, I get the sawed off
Squeeze the trigger and pitbulls are hauled off
You too boy, if ya fuck with me
The police are gonna hafta come get me
Off yo ass, that's how I'm goin out
or you could bust them for cooking meth and then the dog will be taken care of by the authorities...
if the meth-heads don't care enough about their dog to let it run loose and terrorize your kids, they'd prolly just shrug off the dead dog and just get a new one... and thus the cycle continues. eliminate the neighbours you eliminate the problem.
too bad you can't shoot the tweekers too :(
If they are sharing walls with you and you know they are cooking meth, you are probably in more danger from that than the dog. Those chemicals and vapors get in everywhere and don't leave. I don't think you want your family breathing that crap.
Your "straight out of compton" parody seriously gave me the lolz.
OMGJUDASPRIESTONIDOLLLLLL!!!!!
The entire painful season of watching talent hit the pavement just became worth it.
OMGROBHALFORD!!!!!
Sorry, but I actually called my kids down from bed to see this. (Shut up! They weren't asleep yet. Geesh!)
Quote from: evie on May 25, 2011, 06:24:19 PM
OMGJUDASPRIESTONIDOLLLLLL!!!!!
The entire painful season of watching talent hit the pavement just became worth it.
OMGROBHALFORD!!!!!
Sorry, but I actually called my kids down from bed to see this. (Shut up! They weren't asleep yet. Geesh!)
Even if they were asleep, it's your duty as a parent. At least, how I see it.
Pretty much a dietary supplement, considering the drivel to which they've been subjected all too often this season.
If my daughter --okay, and I-- are gonna like James so much, then the girl HAS to see The Master of Metal at work. She needs to see to whom James owes props, and all those high, operatic chops. Gaw, but I went all kinds of crazy during the performance (they liked seeing Mom spazz out, I'm sure). Priest was SO GOOD in concert here, a few years back. . .couldn't speak above a raspy whisper for days, for screaming!
It just won't be the same without KK Downing's lazy-ass guitarwork though.
http://www.bustedtees.com/goatsefarms (http://www.bustedtees.com/goatsefarms)
I found that and laughed. A lot.
drone
Quote of the day from colleague (I work in a university library)
"Why do we bother going to so much trouble with theses? It's not like anyone's going to read them"
So true.
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on May 25, 2011, 09:32:59 PM
http://www.bustedtees.com/goatsefarms (http://www.bustedtees.com/goatsefarms)
I found that and laughed. A lot.
drone
That shirt is awesome. :lol:
Quote from: evie on May 25, 2011, 06:24:19 PM
OMGJUDASPRIESTONIDOLLLLLL!!!!!
The entire painful season of watching talent hit the pavement just became worth it.
OMGROBHALFORD!!!!!
Sorry, but I actually called my kids down from bed to see this. (Shut up! They weren't asleep yet. Geesh!)
Since you are forcing me to watch American Idol, you'd better at least tell me which episode.
it was last night on the season finale. happens within the first 15 mins or so.
Quote from: TPD on May 26, 2011, 10:56:46 AM
it was last night on the season finale. happens within the first 15 mins or so.
This man speaks the truth! You will not be subjected to much Idol to enjoy your metal fix. Gaw, but I don't see a PA date for the Epitaph tour, yet. They stop at NJ at November's end, though -- so they'd better be in Hershey before the Yule Log burns bright. Or else (I have to not see them, I guess, heh).
how the fuck did i get 127 posts?
How the fuck did you get the 4.7*1023 posts you managed on the old board?!
Quote from: TPD on May 26, 2011, 12:46:33 PM
how the fuck did i get 127 posts?
I told you that you would catch up when you quit slacking :P
Quote from: Goose on May 26, 2011, 12:51:19 PM
How the fuck did you get the 4.7*1023 posts you managed on the old board?!
depression?
ooooh... that explains it.
R00, we don't share walls, they live next door. Im in a house now. I haven't seen the dog, she had 48 hours to prove it was less than 50% Pitbull. She probably took it somewhere, which is fine. Win for me: I don't have to kill the dog, Joe is safe and I got a new toy out of the deal. 8-)
Quote from: boofu on May 26, 2011, 07:07:31 PM
Win for me: I don't have to kill the dog, Joe is safe and I got a new toy out of the deal. 8-)
Sounds like a definite win. Now if only they would take the meth lab somewhere else, too, you'd be set!
You know, I don't even really care about the meth lab. Worse that is going to happen is their house is gonna blow and they all burn to death. No issue for me.
I explained to the cop infront of the lady that I had purchased a shotgun, and asked when I was legally entitled to shoot the dog. I don't think tweaker wants to fuck with a 12 gauge.
You sure she was with-it enough to process that? I (thankfully) don't have that many first hand experiences with tweakers, but the one time I did find myself dealing much more closely than I'd have liked with one, he showed no regard for ANYONE'S personal safety, his own included.
No.
I don't really care though. My family first, everyone else second. Tweakers are a distant third :)
Good to hear you sorted it out and they now have 12 reasons not to fuck with your family.
I'm always getting these random songs stuck in my head and for the life of me I can't figure out why, since most of them are songs I haven't heard in ages, anywhere!
Today it is The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
I feel all mushy. :hmm:
~hydra
that's why i get good songs stuck in my head. : p
<-------- NEW (OLD) AV
BANISH IT! :unsure: I honestly can't readily think of a time when your avatar WASN'T creepy, but the Gacy ones were particularly creepy :(
Quote from: TPD on May 27, 2011, 02:02:23 PM
that's why i get good songs stuck in my head. : p
I wish, but lately it has been completely random.
That avatar is not creepy up close I think, it just looks like a mad sports fan or something.
~hydra
Yeah, I think the creepy-factor comes from knowing what it is... but I can't separate it from that knowledge. :unsure:
IF WE CAN MAKE THE SEX THEN I GO PAINT THE FACE THAT WAY LIKE SO YES?
Oh Teddles, don't ever change <3
I suppose that if you're going to make sex with Ted in exchange that he removes a picture of one of the more notorious sexual sadists in recent memory, well....
Whoa. Sexual sadism is RATHER an understatement of Gacy's notoriety. S&M is hot, or at least can be, particularly if you throw in the B&D that often accompanies it. The whole raping/murdering teenage boys part, not so much.
PS. 200, Ted, come on, I told you that you couldn't keep up with me ;)
I'm aware of such, and I used the term simply because I couldn't think of a more polite way to describe Gacy without resorting to obscenities and otherwise sickening details about him. I've really kind of mellowed out in my time away from the board. :p
I think the polite technical term for folks like Gacy these days (aside from "disturbed") would be "predator."
I've probably grown up some in my absence (couldn't really say that with certainty, still being myself and rather biased against me most of the time), but I'm still pretty direct. Sometimes too direct, I'm sure.
I didn't come back to discuss semantics, to be sure. If I've offended anyone with my careless misuse of the word 'sadist', I apologize. :p
Fuck you Dust, I am offended. I hate you. We can't be friends anymore. I quit this board.
My MOTHER was a sadist, you COCK.
I think my dad might have put our dog down today, and didn't tell us?
Was a sadist, Sin? Was? Explains why you're so eager for me to beat you when you refuse to eat your dinner.
HORSE HERPES
Why must you always bust out the safewords before the going gets good....
My sadist mother is DEAD you asshole. I quit the board for real this time.
i had sex with a predator. i'm a sucker for dreadlocks.
Chris Hansen would like a word with you, tpd.
HOLY FUCK IZ!
DID YOU GET MY MESSAGE?
Yes! Thanks for the email. I actually got an update from that blog post you made... on the email account I almost never check.
I owe you half my kingdom.
hahaha! i knew it.
dude, that took difficult detective work.
i had to google cache your name, looking for some indication of your blog, because i remember you had one but couldn't find the link on this comp. i got some old videogame threads where i saw you were mentioned in a youtube vid, and from that i tracked down you blog address. i wasn't even sure if that was your blog, but it seemed familiar.
i even sent a message to your friend in that youtube gaming vid.
i decided to finally take a chance and comment on that blog!
huzzah.
i brought back rynne and iz.
(and mentally-willed xero to come back)
i fucking rule.
now if only we can get doomsayer.
(and obfuscated, and dozens of others i'm sure i'm forgetting)
Teepers if I'm ever lost. I want you to come looking for me. MMMMKAY?
My connection is being shitty. I say that to the roommate he says its fine for him. So he doesn't care to do anything about it. (When it doesn't work for him thought SHIT HITS THE FAN OH NOS! Well not really, he just called the old roommate that still works for the ISP.) I find it funny that if I say something doesn't work he doesn't really care. But when he says something doesn't work. Its some bullshit. (Last summer I was hot. So I said fuck it and turned on the AC it shit the bed and just blew air. So I told him, he turned it on, and said it feels cold to him. A few days later I get home from work and he goes ya, the ac is broken...)
HOLY SHIT I TOTALLY WENT TO BED TOO EARLY LAST NIGHT BECAUSE THINGS HAPPENED!
WELCOME BACK, IZ!
Also, be aware that because we have been referring to you as IZ while pondering our search strategies, I may feel compelled to call you Zim. Just fair warning.
Freak - sucks about your internet, dude. Is it possible that he was just hoarding the bandwidth? When I downloaded the trial for Rift, the Beloved couldn't even play Minecraft. MINECRAFT. It's 8 bit lego silliness and he couldn't play. So it might have been fine for him with his big whomping download and browsing and whathaveyou, but there was just nothing left for you :'(
To be fair, minecraft has to be one of the strangest/worst coded games ever. Between memory leaks, bug updates that create almost as many bugs as they fix, and no real qa support, it might be laggy just because.
That said, yeah, bandwidth divvying can be a bitch too.
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on May 28, 2011, 06:33:29 AM
HOLY SHIT I TOTALLY WENT TO BED TOO EARLY LAST NIGHT BECAUSE THINGS HAPPENED!
WELCOME BACK, IZ!
Also, be aware that because we have been referring to you as IZ while pondering our search strategies, I may feel compelled to call you Zim. Just fair warning.
Thank you! How've you been doing?
Zim is an AWESOME nickname, BTW. I could totally dig being called Zim.
Hell, I'll even rig up an alt account so no one knows it's me, call it GIRnoise, and steal threat's photos in spite of her watermarks and call my little brother my son while pretending I'm a 20-something year old starving artist. No, wait, that sounds too familiar...
Quote from: amputee on May 28, 2011, 06:42:00 AM
To be fair, minecraft has to be one of the strangest/worst coded games ever. Between memory leaks, bug updates that create almost as many bugs as they fix, and no real qa support, it might be laggy just because.
That said, yeah, bandwidth divvying can be a bitch too.
Prone to memory leaks, you say? That's very good to know. He was complaining that it was lagging "for no reason" when he went to bed last night, so that could well have been the cause. Closing the game out and reopening it should fix it, right? Or is this one of those that's so bad that you have to reboot your computer to kill the leak?
Quote from: individualzero on May 28, 2011, 06:55:11 AM
Thank you! How've you been doing?
Zim is an AWESOME nickname, BTW. I could totally dig being called Zim.
Hell, I'll even rig up an alt account so no one knows it's me, call it GIRnoise, and steal threat's photos in spite of her watermarks and call my little brother my son while pretending I'm a 20-something year old starving artist. No, wait, that sounds too familiar...
I've been good. Finally actually working for something approaching real wages doing what I want to do, still not actually married because school-finances-stepchildren craziness, but the engagement is still on... and I think that about covers it. Life is admittedly a little dull.
What about you? We've now seen the great lengths Ted had to go to to
stalk track you down, what've you been up to?
re: memory leaks
Closing the application down and rebooting it ought to fix the memory leak issue. You shouldn't need to reboot the whole computer.
@Nayl: Real wages (or approaching close to them) is better than what a lot of people have right now, so that's great news. It's awesome that your engagement is still on! Please take copious amounts of photos at the wedding, yeah?
As for me, I've been gaming and... well, the biggest news in my life right now is thus - early June means the move. We're moving further west through Maryland to a smallish town of 5000 (marginally smaller by about 1250 people out of 6500). This is big news because we're moving into a big, big HOUSE, as in not a 4-room trailer.
The home we have/will have had is weird. It's got a half-bath/half-bedroom molded into one sorta-room, a kitchen/living/dining room molded room, and a master bedroom and half-bath. It was built in the late 1960s and is a total piece of shit, but it was a roof over my head, so...
Interestingly enough, there's like four bars / restaurants within walking distance of the house we're moving in to. I might get a job as a waiter or cook or something. Money is nice.
Woo house! That's amazing! That's become another big debate recently for us; do we move first or do we get married first? We've been living for close to 5 years in an apartment that sounds to be comparable in size to the place you'll be leaving, maybe a bit smaller, and we've come to rather hate the city. Granted, could we afford a place on the East Side, I'm sure it would be better. The East Side has trees, and yards, and less crime, and all the benefits that living among the monied brings. Right now we're in the south end of Providence where it takes weeks just to get the police to properly investigate a break-in. But, as with setting the wedding date, it largely comes down to being able to afford it.
So moving into a house is totally awesome, smallish towns are nice (though the gossip is brutal ::)), and I hope the moving process goes smoothly!
Quote from: individualzero on May 28, 2011, 07:11:27 AM
re: memory leaks
Closing the application down and rebooting it ought to fix the memory leak issue. You shouldn't need to reboot the whole computer.
Yep. Also, if you're running a 64-bit os you have to find the correct 64-bit version of java (which isnt the default installer) and that helps. Also also, the game is practically unplayable right now because of the updating going on. Servers with mismatched versions wont work at all, and both single and multi player have HORRIBLE 100% cpu usage problems that haven't been fixed. Really, the game is hardly playable at all to anyone right now.
BUT MOVING ON!
I found this link (http://"http://bit.ly/ligIv9") earlier, the top 10 easter eggs on famous albums. Usually these lists are pretty tame, but a few of these are downright amazing.
Anyone who wants to see photos of very sweet kids holding very serious placards should check my twitterfeed. (And there's plenty more where that came from.)
I've a habit of picking up the most random hitchhikers. And they've all left me with great food for thought.
Life has been treating me better lately. That seems to always be the case when you carry a more positive energy. I needed a better light to focus on -- and plenty of it came. I'm grateful.
I totally hear that. When I make an effort to be more positive, I feel better and better things happen to me. My problem is that I am NOT a positive person by nature, so it takes a conscious effort to think that way.
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on May 28, 2011, 07:21:34 AM
That's become another big debate recently for us; do we move first or do we get married first?
Move.
Quote from: libertine on May 30, 2011, 07:52:46 AM
Move.
That's where I'm leaning too, Lib. Can I ask why you say so?
I just want to point out something that's been amusing me for a few days now... I don't think it was even mentioned here, but Ol' Gloomy's birthday is the day that we had the most people on the board at the same time.
MOVE IN WITH ME AND THEN KICK YOUR BOI TO THE CURB.
I'M STARTING UP A NEW PI CHICK COMMUNE AND YOU'LL BE MY QUEEN.*
*pi chick commune queen negotiable. accepting offers, bribes, and pics. decision not final. whole commune idea not final. offer void in nevada.
Can't you get hitched via justice of the peace? And I dunno how he did it, but Ric just picked a random, non-denominational pastor out of the phonebook one morning. Very inexpensive, he was available that afternoon and was a lot of fun.
:)) @ Teddykins
Is it bad that I can now, officially, drink my mother under the table? :unsure:
drone
I could drink my mother under the table in the womb.
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on May 30, 2011, 07:35:09 PM
Is it bad that I can now, officially, drink my mother under the table? :unsure:
drone
When I first read this, the word "officially" translated in my mind as "literally." I wasn't sure what to make of that.
Quote from: i.wanna.nayl.naylgirl on May 30, 2011, 09:11:56 AM
MOVE IN WITH ME AND THEN KICK YOUR BOI TO THE CURB.
I'M STARTING UP A NEW PI CHICK COMMUNE AND YOU'LL BE MY QUEEN.*
*pi chick commune queen negotiable. accepting offers, bribes, and pics. decision not final. whole commune idea not final. offer void in nevada.
*snerk* Thanks, Teeps. :lol:
Quote from: dee on May 30, 2011, 07:07:11 PM
Can't you get hitched via justice of the peace? And I dunno how he did it, but Ric just picked a random, non-denominational pastor out of the phonebook one morning. Very inexpensive, he was available that afternoon and was a lot of fun.
:)) @ Teddykins
It's not entirely out of the question at this point, but I'm kind of being a bit of a diva, if I'm going to be totally honest. I don't want something big and ridiculous and hideously expensive, but I would like to actually have a smallish party of a sort, which would still strain the finances as things are right now :unsure:
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on May 30, 2011, 07:35:09 PM
Is it bad that I can now, officially, drink my mother under the table? :unsure:
drone
I think that depends on precisely what drinking her under the table entails. I've been able to drink mine under the table for some time in that she gets soppy and sentimental and embarrassing when I'm barely buzzing, but as for who'd pass out first, it's me by a mile, but that's because my mom kind of has a problem. It's honestly probably a healthy sign on your mother's part that you can drink her under the table, and sort of meh on yours. Metabolic changes with age and all that rot, y'know?
Pleh, who'm I kidding, I'm so fried from being sick and going flat out despite that I might just as well be drunk :hmm: So totes going to do something about that this weekend, I better goddamn be feeling better by then.
i can make you feel better...
*devlish pantless grin*
[how can a grin be pantless, ted?]
<I dunno, man, just run with it>
[okay...]
Ahh, that explains it. Personally I was dreading the idea of having my mother anywhere near my wedding, so the way we did it worked out great.
So new advice... Move first. :)
I've got a tummy ache.
I love/hate some of the personal banking questions my bank has for the extra security... I understand that there are older people that use it, that are married (still rocking the single life) have a spouse with a middle name, have kids (oh hell no) ect. ALSO they know what Zodiac sing they are... (I had to look.) Before they upgraded their shit. they had favorite hobby/sport childhood nick name simpler shit, but it was also able to effect a lot more people.
So somehow discussing a friends birthday turned into Theo and I hosting an epic white trash bash at our house in honor of said birthday. This should be very interesting.
what is the WT beer of choice around there?
Depends on how cheap you need to be after spending all your money on meth. Hamms and old milwaukee are the standard, and if it's on sale, busch light is always a crowd pleaser.
I can get a six-pack of Busch Light tallboys for under $5 at my local gas station. It oughta be illegal.
Yes, given my living quarters and my drinking habits, I have to admit that I'm pretty much white trash at this point.
Beer is so cheap in americaland! Even good microbrew stuff, not just white trash stuff
Also I'm jealous you can buy beer at grocery stores and gas stations
Quote from: boom on June 02, 2011, 09:01:36 AM
Depends on how cheap you need to be after spending all your money on meth. Hamms and old milwaukee are the standard, and if it's on sale, busch light is always a crowd pleaser.
Hamms! I havent seen that in forever. I actually bought some Keystone Light yesterday, but only to make Cheladas with (cheap beer, Clamato, lime juice, and salt). I love those things.
Quote from: luna on June 02, 2011, 10:09:54 AM
Also I'm jealous you can buy beer at grocery stores and gas stations
Unfortunately for some states (like mine), any beer not bought in a liquor store cannot exceed 3.2% alcohol, so there is no point to it. 8(
If you want good cheap beer, brew it yourself. Research it properly, choose the right hops, keep patience rather than drinking it too early and you'll get excellent beer for 20 cents a pint. (And that's proper pints, not your weasley American pints.)
Quote from: tim on June 02, 2011, 10:40:58 AM
(And that's proper pints, not your weasley American pints.)
#1 reason I love the UK.
Quote from: r00 on June 02, 2011, 10:36:11 AM
Unfortunately for some states (like mine), any beer not bought in a liquor store cannot exceed 3.2% alcohol, so there is no point to it. 8(
I don't think you can even get beer that weak up here :lol:
Twitter strikes again. God, these people are dumb.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/crotch_anthony_weiner_says_pic_can_ovlbrNDMVL50vhmcam2ZZL
Quote from: r00 on June 02, 2011, 11:16:17 AM
#1 reason I love the UK.
do tell me when you're next in the UK so I can drink you under the table in British pints ;p
you're on! I am warning you though... my tolerance at sea level is quite awesome. 8-)
Quote from: r00 on June 02, 2011, 01:31:56 PM
Twitter strikes again. God, these people are dumb.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/crotch_anthony_weiner_says_pic_can_ovlbrNDMVL50vhmcam2ZZL
If you can, watch The Daily Show from Monday. Jon Stewart was friends with Anthony Weiner long before either of them were famous/in government, and his take on the situation is, to put it mildly, "unique". :P
As well, its come to light that it's highly unlikely Weiner did anything dumb. The EXIF data for the posted wang doesn't match the phone or camera he normally uses, and YFrog (which he uses for pic hosting) has a pretty massive security hole (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/lewd-prank-on-congressmans-twitter-account-might-be-yfrogs-fault.ars) that can allow anyone to post a picture to anyone's twitter account with a very small amount of dictionary hammering.
Quote from: Goose on June 02, 2011, 03:54:40 PM
If you can, watch The Daily Show from Monday. Jon Stewart was friends with Anthony Weiner long before either of them were famous/in government, and his take on the situation is, to put it mildly, "unique". :P
As well, its come to light that it's highly unlikely Weiner did anything dumb. The EXIF data for the posted wang doesn't match the phone or camera he normally uses, and YFrog (which he uses for pic hosting) has a pretty massive security hole (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/lewd-prank-on-congressmans-twitter-account-might-be-yfrogs-fault.ars) that can allow anyone to post a picture to anyone's twitter account with a very small amount of dictionary hammering.
:wub:
I was just flipping back to this tab from the article to comment on how suspicious it made me that "the tweet of the tasteless photo first was reported on Saturday by BigGovernment.com, a site run by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart." Breitbart isn't exactly known for his unbiased, unedited, honest journalism of late (I only say "of late" because the Sherrod thing was the first I'd heard of him). It makes me so happy that you already had the scoop on the possible techsplotation involved. I'm rather fond of Rep. Weiner, and would quite possibly support a campaign for president by him, so I was a little sad when I saw his name in the link r00 posted. I know he's still a) a politician, and b) a human being, but I still hope that it is a fabrication.
what continues to make me dubious of Weiner is he didnt just say it wasn't him. He said he "can't say with certitude" whether it was his crotch or not in the photo. To me that says he wants to be on both sides of the fence so he is covered no matter which side it falls on. Spoken like a true politician who fears being caught at something.
So maybe some of you have heard about the six tornadoes that came through Massachusetts recently. One of my closest friends had her house completely destroyed and her father ended up in the hospital overnight. Everyone's fine now, but the entire situation seems pretty surreal. I also feel completely fucking helpless, especially because she's still searching for her two cats. I plan on giving them money but it feels like a total cop out. I don't know. My head's still kind of a mess over the whole situation.
drone
It also didn't help that some Cunterella at work made a big fucking joke about the whole thing today. I had to step outside before I choked the life out of that bitch.
You have more self control than I do. >8|
Don't feel bad about giving them money. I am sure every little thing counts for them right now. Maybe once they get settled, you could get her a new cat if she doesn't manage to find the ones she lost. I can't imagine having something like that happen to me.
Quote from: r00 on June 02, 2011, 09:32:44 PM
what continues to make me dubious of Weiner is he didnt just say it wasn't him. He said he "can't say with certitude" whether it was his crotch or not in the photo. To me that says he wants to be on both sides of the fence so he is covered no matter which side it falls on. Spoken like a true politician who fears being caught at something.
I think the true heart of that comes more from being an insecure male than actually a politician. I think he wants people to think he might actually be that hung, for whatever douchebag purpose that might serve.
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on June 02, 2011, 10:19:38 PM
So maybe some of you have heard about the six tornadoes that came through Massachusetts recently. One of my closest friends had her house completely destroyed and her father ended up in the hospital overnight. Everyone's fine now, but the entire situation seems pretty surreal.
That's just terrible, please send them my condolences. That kind of loss is just life shattering. Hopefully their insurance actually comes through for them and can get them a new start.
Quote from: r00 on June 03, 2011, 07:27:06 AM
You have more self control than I do. >8|
I really had no choice. I need my job and openly punching someone in the face surely would have gotten me fired. But I did make sure to loudly mention near her that I had a friend that lost everything in the tornado before angrily storming outside for a smoke. I didn't hear a peep out of her for the rest of the day, so hopefully she heard me.
Quote from: Goose on June 03, 2011, 09:09:30 AM
That's just terrible, please send them my condolences. That kind of loss is just life shattering. Hopefully their insurance actually comes through for them and can get them a new start.
Thanks, I will. I'm not entirely sure if they owned or rented the house, but I pray that they had some kind of insurance policy. Seeing pictures of the house leveled like that is devastating.
drone
My tattoo artist friend is also doing a donation drive for them through the month of June.
Am so sorry to hear that Ash. Am praying for the kitty's safe return since the humans are thankfully okay.
Some close friends of mine lost their house and contents in a fire many years ago, so I know that ANYTHING helps, even if it just lending a shoulder to cry on. Don't feel like it's a cop out. Help of any sort will be greatly appreciated
I have some friends into the home-brewing thing. I had some while I was over there to grill out on Memorial Day, and it was delicious. They also had an earlier attempt that they warned me tasted like Pine-Sol, and they were mostly right, but the stuff they were actually proud of was pretty good.
inre: limits on beer alcohol, I am glad Iowa has no such laws. I can get beers 6.0 and above at the gas stations by my apartment and my parents house, and the grocery store by my apartment. Which is great, since the nearest dedicated liquor store is downtown and is like, 3 miles away, compared to the grocery store, which is literally next door.
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on May 30, 2011, 08:29:26 AM
That's where I'm leaning too, Lib. Can I ask why you say so?
Just my personal take because I got married at 24, and I had no idea who I was yet. I thought I did, but it really wasn't until I was in my early 30's that I figured a lot out about myself. (But maybe I just matured late??)
And there is your very abridged version. :)
I can't believe the memories some people have of the old PI board. A lot is going over my head.
Edit now that I read the rest of the thread:
My WT beer - I'll say it once, and I'll say it again: High Life for this low life.
Drone- I'm sorry about your friend's situation. :( I didn't see any bit of the storm. Guess I am in a good part of the state.
I see my brief stint in the Top 10 posters is coming to an end. Seriously; even I think I talk too much, and I'm not even TOUCHING some of you guys! :p
I'm slightly safer in the "Most Time Spent Online" category.
I apologize in advance if anyone is offended by new signature, but my cousin told me that joke and I thought it was the funniest god damned thing I'd ever heard.
Whenever anyone says "There are some things you can't/shouldn't joke about," I say that those are the things you MOST need to joke about.
Heh, my whole act is based on that.
Quote from: ^_^ TPD ^_^ on June 04, 2011, 07:36:17 PM
Heh, my whole act is based on that.
Holy shit, speaking of postcounts, I might need to actually start worrying if I want to hang on to the top spot :P
@Drone - Whoa. I am so sorry for your friends' loss. I've been sort of counting my good fortune that, although I had to be on the road that night, that my destination for most of the evening was probably SAFER than my home and that nothing actually HAPPENED in RI. No one I know was even directly affected, and I know a LOT of people who were under a watch or a warning. I hope that the cats can make it back to them as well, even if only as a small measure of comfort.
@Lib - heh, either you didn't mature late or it's you and me both. I was pretty sure who I was and what I was about through most of college, but some old doubts and questions have crept back of late. Makes me a little uneasy :unsure: I do think that some of it comes from how bitter I am at my surroundings though. That's all another thing for another time. Thank you for the input. I appreciate it :)
Quote from: sin on June 04, 2011, 02:02:29 PM
I apologize in advance if anyone is offended by new signature, but my cousin told me that joke and I thought it was the funniest god damned thing I'd ever heard.
Whenever anyone says "There are some things you can't/shouldn't joke about," I say that those are the things you MOST need to joke about.
I'll bite.
It's a cleverly constructed joke, but ultimately I agree with people who say rape jokes aren't funny.
I do think one of the reason rape jokes are becoming a staple of mainstream comedy is that, like a lot of mainstream humour these days (Frankie Boyle being the typical example), they appear transgressive and edgy without actually being so. In reality they agree with the political consensus - they trivialise something that is generally trivialised/denied/disbelieved etc.
Of course, humour can be used as a coping mechanism, etc. But I don't think that's what's going on with most of these types of jokes.
OK, so I'm making dinner, gayly dancing to Erasure's cover of ABBA's "Voulez Vous", and what comes up next? A forgotten song on iTunes - "Echoing the Sound of Hell". Oh, how I laughed! So of course, I had to find "Welcome to AOHELL (Canada)". I'm so glad these gems survived through three computers and the current Mac. :D
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on June 02, 2011, 10:19:38 PM
So maybe some of you have heard about the six tornadoes that came through Massachusetts recently. One of my closest friends had her house completely destroyed and her father ended up in the hospital overnight. Everyone's fine now, but the entire situation seems pretty surreal. I also feel completely fucking helpless, especially because she's still searching for her two cats. I plan on giving them money but it feels like a total cop out. I don't know. My head's still kind of a mess over the whole situation.
drone
It also didn't help that some Cunterella at work made a big fucking joke about the whole thing today. I had to step outside before I choked the life out of that bitch.
Wow, that is terrible. The videos of the destruction are horrible. Plus, I heard that there was some out of control looting going on. Crazy.
ha! which one was "echoing the sound of hell" again?
Oi, I need a weekend to recover from that weekend.
My wife had a couple friends that usually live far off, but decided to do some camping for a couple weeks in a park about an hour out of town. She decided it would be fun to try and take the baby, the dog, and us camping for the weekend to spend some time with them. The primary problem with this is that we have no camping gear whatsoever. I have most of the necessary skills from my decade as a Cub/Scout/Venture, but the missus has usually been fairly anti-nature. Our ideas of "camping" are vastly different, but for this occasion she actually largely came down to my level.
She borrowed some equipment from a friend of hers at work, who was very generous with their camping equipment. Family-size tent, two-person air mattress, two sleeping bags, it'd probably get us through the weekend. The baby could sleep in his playpen/porta-crib, and the dog would sleep on the ground in his own bed, and the tent was big enough for all of it. As well, it was supposed to get a little cold the first night, so we got an electrified campsite and we already had one of those fancy induction space heaters that would keep the tent warm without melting or burning anything. We weren't worried about the cold for our own sake, but the baby needs it a little more. He tends to thrash wildly in his sleep and throw blankets off of him quite easily without knowing how to get them back. If its only 6ºC, that's going to give him pneumonia.
So, we get out there, car filled to the brim with ungodly loads of crap. I set up the tent, and then we discover that the folks we borrowed it from forgot to include the fly. Its a hex-shaped tent, and every side is a screen window. No privacy, no keeping heat in, no keeping rain out. Oi. We managed to borrow a tarp that was big enough to clip around it and mostly keep it shaded and covered, but there was no way in hell it was waterproof, and I hoped it would be enough to keep heat in. Then we pull out the air mattresses, and realize that they only fill up with a pump, which we don't have. I don't mind, my wife does.
We sit around the fire, enjoy some amazing barbecue supper, and as the sun sets it gets bloody cold. Heat is escaping from the tent far worse than I had hoped, and the kid was having issues sleeping (weird new place and all, and a bit chilly). Then it actually starts to spit rain, despite all the weather reports saying it wouldn't. At that point, we know we're screwed. There's no way I can keep a sad baby, a skittish, chicken-shit dog like mine, and a wife cranky from sleeping on the ground in a leaky tent overnight. Thankfully, we're only an hour out of the city, so we just throw everything we can into the tent to shelter them as best we can from the rain, and head home for the night. The folks we were visiting have a big camper, and they could easily keep an eye on our site for us. Just as we leave, an extremely heavy downpour starts, and we know our tent is undoubtedly flooded. We got home at just before midnight, and everyone just collapsed into bed.
We peel ourselves out of bed as quickly as we can in the morning and get back out there at about 11AM on Sunday. Yep, nice layer of water on the bottom of the tent, everything actually touching the ground was soaked. Thankfully, the weather forecast was right this time and it was gloriously sunny and 25ºC. Spent some time hauling everything out and hanging it up or laying it out to dry, then turned the tent upside down to empty the water out of it and got it in the sunlight. Then things finally started getting enjoyable. Had some lunch, a small acoustic jam session with the folks we were there to visit, got the kid to enjoy a sandbox and playing on a playground (he loved the concept of being up and looking down at people from the playground, oh how the 10-month-old brain is easily amused). We even managed to get the kid to nap in the afternoon like he normally does, which kept his mood fresh. The dog, on the other hand, couldn't figure out how to relax outdoors, and stayed awake all day, unlike his normal six-naps-a-day. The only major problem was ticks. They were all over the place. Waaaay worse than I've ever seen.
Had another gorgeous supper, roasted marshmallows and smores, polished off a couple cases of beer, and started to pack up as the sun was setting. Good times after a shitty Saturday, got home around 11:30PM, but holy crap am I tired today. Even the dog needed convincing that he should go out and pee this morning, and the kid slept in until 10:30. Most of our stuff is still out in the garage, because my wife didn't want it in the house until it could be thoroughly de-ticked. And being that she works the next three days, guess who gets to do that while single-handedly managing the pets and the goober. Yay.
Ya camping can be hella good. Or hella shitty.
And is the goober the kid or the dog?
Kid
If I'm remembering correctly, I'm back to my original signature/avatar/member title combination. I'm hazy on the sig, but I'm pretty sure the av and title are right.
Kicking it old school.
This made me cry with laughter. Really, tears were pouring down my face as I watched. It's worth watching right through to the end, even though it's 15 minutes long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg
The older I get, the more I find myself using Visine for its intended purpose.
We throw shit out every time we move and I still have too much. I'm now seeing if anything I have will sell on ebay.
Well, my Canadian pride just got kicked in the tabernacle. Hate crime in Canada rose 42% last year, and 35% the year before that. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/06/07/hate-crimes-statscan.html?ref=rss) Unbe-fucking-leivable. What the flying monkey fuck is going on in this country?!
It must somehow be harper's fault
:lol: @ Goose. As I've gotten older- and especially with the new baby- my idea of camping is a nice hotel with room service. :D
Quote from: Goose on June 07, 2011, 12:48:32 PM
Well, my Canadian pride just got kicked in the tabernacle. Hate crime in Canada rose 42% last year, and 35% the year before that. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/06/07/hate-crimes-statscan.html?ref=rss) Unbe-fucking-leivable. What the flying monkey fuck is going on in this country?!
This is what the rural western part of the Tories want.
I had a garlic and oregano pizza for dinner tonight. It was so good, I wanted to rub my tits in it.
I like food. :(
drone
I laughed so hard at that, I stopped making sounds.
But ya, I love food to.
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on June 10, 2011, 12:29:38 AM
I had a garlic and oregano pizza for dinner tonight. It was so good, I wanted to rub my tits in it.
I like food. :(
drone
PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN
hey, jules (and rynne and the other moore nuts)...
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/10/alan-moore-by-frank-quitely/
lolz
check the inside of the beard. hahaha. clever.
and epic.
Quote from: Freak on June 10, 2011, 12:46:13 AM
I laughed so hard at that, I stopped making sounds.
My reaction was similar, until I started coughing ::) Stupid whatever-this-is that won't die :hmm:
I'm glad you enjoyed it though, Drone :))
In other news, the school year has officially reached lolwut stage. 5 teaching days left total, only 4 for most classes due to the nature of the schedule. It's gonna be July before I can celebrate surviving this, but I absolutely need to do something awesome. Sadly, that may just consist of buying myself a new video card and getting smashed, but at this point, those two things would make me very happy. Since I've been subbing, as much as I've talked about it, I've just been too tired to indulge a night of heavy drinking over the weekend.
I can never decide whether or not I should capitalize the D since I'm addressing you, but YOU don't capitalize it :unsure:I also just realised that could apply to more than one person on the board. Huh.
drone, that was too funny. I don't think I've ever had pizza that good before. :D
Naylzie, I only do the lower case coz I'm too lazy to hit the shift key. :P
My entire basement reeks of beer because of a group of obnoxious drunk boys playing beer pong down there. Did I mention my husband was one of them? I guess I must have forgot last night was "let's act like it's our freshman year of college" night. ::)
I was in bed with Farrier last night. Don't h8.
i miss our homo adventures. :(
Quote from: teeps on June 11, 2011, 03:09:15 PM
i miss our homo adventures. :(
We can still have some.
Quote from: adsf on June 11, 2011, 01:55:03 PM
I was in bed with Farrier last night. Don't h8.
now *that's* a sandwich I'd be interested in.
YES
Quote from: adsf on June 11, 2011, 01:55:03 PM
I was in bed with Farrier last night. Don't h8.
You forgot: not only any sort of bed, but a FURRY bed.
I have a penchant for getting them into these predicaments. And I'm NOT sorry. :p
RAWR!!!!
I'm buying a new rubik's cube. Either a 4x4 or a 5x5. Yep. I'm gona be an even bigger looser!
LIEK HAI GUYS! :D
OH SHIT DOOM!!!!
luckily while searching for the forum on google, someone made a fan page on facebook for perfect isolation, and Dustin was one of the comment-ers, so i messaged him and asked if he knew anything about what happened, etc. and he directed me here.
SWEET.
TPD was using his stalking err... Searching skills to find you. But you are here now!
Holy crap. Hey Doom!
OMG OMG OMG OMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOGMOGMGOMGOM
(http://tpd.threat.tv/tampon/cum1.gif)
DOOM! :D
I don't fully understand why women insist on dragging their boyfriends/husbands with them shopping. Every store I went into today, 98% of the men had that glassy-eyed "Get-me-the-fuck-out-of-here" look on their faces (especially in Yankee Candle. I overheard one man saying "Just pick two candles so we can leave."). Maybe it's just me being so used to doing things by myself, but I find that taking a man shopping is similar to dragging a bloody cow carcass behind you. *shrugs*
drone
Unimaginative passive men.
I check out the other hot women in the store.
-or-
Criticize the other shoppers on their purchases.
-or-
Start doing weird things like feeling up mannequins and trying on bras or dancing horribly (read: any body movement, by me)
My dad loves the Yankee Candle store. I think that's what motivates him to go shopping with my mom.
I've been dieting a lot and working out more.
In the past two months I've lost about 12 pounds.
pretty happy with that.
"weinergate" is quite possibly the most hilarious name for a political scandal I have ever heard :lol:
Quote from: doomsayer on June 12, 2011, 05:09:10 PM
I've been dieting a lot and working out more.
In the past two months I've lost about 12 pounds.
pretty happy with that.
Congrats!
Since I fucked up my knee running, I've been off-track adn have gained about 5lbs. I'm going to buy a bicycle this week, and I've been hitting up yoga and the gym more often, so I'm back on track. I'd like to hit my goal weight by Thanksgiving, if not sooner. First step- lose at least 5-6 pounds by July 4th.
How did you hurt your knee? Is it permanent damage or just temporary? Sorry to hear that happened to you.
I'm actually trying to lose some weight by July 4th as well, because there is a 5k I want to participate in, and want to be in good shape for it and not feel like im dying. ha. Just bought a resistance band, and I really like it, cheap and versatile. I want to join the YMCA, but cant seem to afford it right now, but I'd rather join there than Planet Fitness or something because the YMCA has a sauna, pool, and basketball court and seems better worth it than Planet Fitness of which all I'd use there would be the bench.
Yogas awesome too, I've taken a couple years of it in the past and always loved it.
Quote from: adsf on June 12, 2011, 04:12:34 PM
Unimaginative passive men.
I check out the other hot women in the store.
-or-
Criticize the other shoppers on their purchases.
-or-
Start doing weird things like feeling up mannequins and trying on bras or dancing horribly (read: any body movement, by me)
DITTO.
chicks love shopping with me.
one gal even told me i'm more fun to shop with than her other girl friend.
ha.
Quote from: doomsayer on June 12, 2011, 05:44:40 PM
How did you hurt your knee? Is it permanent damage or just temporary? Sorry to hear that happened to you.
I'm actually trying to lose some weight by July 4th as well, because there is a 5k I want to participate in, and want to be in good shape for it and not feel like im dying. ha. Just bought a resistance band, and I really like it, cheap and versatile. I want to join the YMCA, but cant seem to afford it right now, but I'd rather join there than Planet Fitness or something because the YMCA has a sauna, pool, and basketball court and seems better worth it than Planet Fitness of which all I'd use there would be the bench.
Yogas awesome too, I've taken a couple years of it in the past and always loved it.
I have "shredded" cartilage behind my knee cap. I guess from running, my kneecap was scraping against my cartilage. It kills to run. I got a cortisone shot a few weeks ago- it's helped a bit, but if i ever want to run (seriously run) again, I'll probably need surgery and then physical therapy. I'm going to give it a few weeks, at most, and then head back to the doctor's.
Was that caused by the type of shoes you were using, or just something natural?
I have to lay off running until I can afford a decent pair of running shoes.
that sucks though, maybe do some swimming in the mean time?
this was something that was recommended for people with bad knees, etc.
in the group: http://www.aquajogger.com/ (http://www.aquajogger.com/)
Quote from: adsf on June 12, 2011, 04:12:34 PM
Unimaginative passive men.
I check out the other hot women in the store.
-or-
Criticize the other shoppers on their purchases.
-or-
Start doing weird things like feeling up mannequins and trying on bras or dancing horribly (read: any body movement, by me)
LOLz. :D
If you're ever on the East Coast, we're going shopping.
drone
Quote from: adsf on June 12, 2011, 04:12:34 PM
Unimaginative passive men.
I check out the other hot women in the store.
-or-
Criticize the other shoppers on their purchases.
-or-
Start doing weird things like feeling up mannequins and trying on bras or dancing horribly (read: any body movement, by me)
I shop for almost everything online. (other then food.) However, I want to go shopping with you. In a very non ghey way.
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on June 12, 2011, 02:31:05 PM
DOOM! :D
I don't fully understand why women insist on dragging their boyfriends/husbands with them shopping. Every store I went into today, 98% of the men had that glassy-eyed "Get-me-the-fuck-out-of-here" look on their faces (especially in Yankee Candle. I overheard one man saying "Just pick two candles so we can leave."). Maybe it's just me being so used to doing things by myself, but I find that taking a man shopping is similar to dragging a bloody cow carcass behind you. *shrugs*
drone
I HATEHATEHATE shopping. If I have to go into a store, I try to browse online first so I can just run in, grab, and getthefuckout. Which would explain my wardrobe deficiencies. Alas, Ric loves to shop so I get dragged out a lot. :(
unless we're tack shopping (horse stuff) or car/car parts shopping. I could do that all day
See I find shopping with B painful because he can be soooooo indecisive ....i usually try to go alone because of it (although I did invite him to go with me to spend a la senza gift card today just for a laugh)
Also I think we should have some sort of pi shopping with bob meetup!
the closest i got to doing that was when i was at a candy store with him.
and i think a comicbook store.
that was the day we got drenched at the conan rally.
Quote from: luna on June 12, 2011, 11:02:22 PM
Also I think we should have some sort of pi shopping with bob meetup!
YES. I literally collapsed into giggles reading Bob's post, then when I got to Ted's I was like, "PI shopping party!" then Drone suggested doing so on the East Coast, which I obviously support because she's not that far from me even by RI driving standards, so yes, yes, and yes. PI shopping party, East Coast, SOON
TM*.
:rock:
SOONTM includes, but is not solely determined by, the time it takes K's knee to recover so she can join us too.
Sorry to break it to y'all, but being a seasoned shopper with Bob, I have to say shopping with him (and Anya) isn't all that exciting.
hahahahahahaha
damn, i miss the west coast.
soooon.
DUN!
I think threat wins the award for the most weirded out faces in a single shopping trip. YOU LOVED ME IN THE THRIFT STORES!
PIstCoast COMMERCIALISM DAY!
On a semi-related note, I'll be in OH for two weeks starting Monday. Looking forward to the getaway.
Nothing like a good old hockey riot :unsure:
Forgot to namedrop that I was at this opening weeks ago:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/05/08/lindsay-lohan-to-tyler-shields-life-is-not-a-fairytale/
Lindsay is quite the anti-social butterfly around cameras, Quinto is a total weirdo, and was also amazed that Juno actually remembered me from the Kaboom! set.
Quote from: luna on June 15, 2011, 11:14:44 PM
Nothing like a good old hockey riot :unsure:
I'm sure knowing Canadian hockey fans, there was no alcohol involved.
Apparenty it all started with people throwing beer bottles at a giant outdoor screen that the city set up for people to watch for free :(
Moral of the story: 150,000 people crammed into a few blocks of downtown is probably not a good idea
god, i expected that from Boston, or even this shithole of a city known as montreal... but goddamn, van.
this isn't how i want my future home to act. :(
The sad thing is this isn't the first time
Apparently millions of dollars in damage and there's conflicting stories on whether a Boston fan fell or was pushed off a raised walkway at gm place :(
Er rogers arena
gad that aint good
Quote from: teeps on June 16, 2011, 12:18:28 PM
god, i expected that from Boston, or even this shithole of a city known as montreal... but goddamn, van.
this isn't how i want my future home to act. :(
HEEEEEEEY now, you temper that Boston-juding!
:unsure:
Okay, so it's true, Boston does tend to get a little wild, win or lose, over its sports teams.
On a related note, it's funny when you have a colleague in a collared shirt with a tie wearing a Bruins jersey OVER IT and thinking that somehow it is less inappropriate simply because the appropriate attire is still under the jersey. :lol:
There's the Vancouver I know! I thought all that pot mellowed you guys out.
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on June 12, 2011, 02:31:05 PM
DOOM! :D
I don't fully understand why women insist on dragging their boyfriends/husbands with them shopping. Every store I went into today, 98% of the men had that glassy-eyed "Get-me-the-fuck-out-of-here" look on their faces (especially in Yankee Candle. I overheard one man saying "Just pick two candles so we can leave."). Maybe it's just me being so used to doing things by myself, but I find that taking a man shopping is similar to dragging a bloody cow carcass behind you. *shrugs*
drone
Me either. It is a pet hate of mine when I am out shopping. Either leave your boyfriend at home, or tell him to go and do his own shopping and you'll meet him later. I am so sick of dodging bored boyfriends when I am out shopping (I shop alone too).
Quote from: rokken like dokken on June 16, 2011, 05:16:38 PM
There's the Vancouver I know! I thought all that pot mellowed you guys out.
But did you see how the entire city pulled thru and actually cleaned up their mess?
that was touching. and cool.
that wall of love on the boarded up areas is so <3
and the media are now reporting the riots were started by a bunch of anarchists that had plotted to riot regardless of the outcome.
That made me so happy
i miss van. lots. :(
Quote from: teeps on June 17, 2011, 01:42:01 PM
i miss van. lots. :(
SAME. and I wasn't even there that long. But I miss it to.
Happy Father's Day, PI Dads!
self-promotion alert:
new track:
enjoy:
or not:
http://soundcloud.com/flannelogue/kill-her-robots-chaste-around
I'm saving that to listen to later. Gotta admit, that's a fucking awesome name for a track.
On my first play through of it. And I like it. The nosiey ness of it is good stuff. And the beats are good to.
The awesomeness of the track title matches the audio contents. That was really, really cool. It makes me think of NIN's electronics meets Skinny Puppy samples and beats, with a little Pigface thrown in ... and that's a very, very good thing!
thanks, guys!
and thanks for the comparisons!
<3
this was going to be released ages ago with charlie sheen samples (like the day after that whole broo-haha happened), but i was busy with stuff, and someone else made a killer filthy dubstep track with sheen (which was my total initial goal, dammit)... so i put it on the back burner.
the sheen thing got old within a week, so i never got around to putting those samples in, but i still liked the basic track so i tinkered with it every other day and then i didn't, and it totally morphed into a different beast (kinda like the one you just heard.)
i felt inspired yesterday and ended up working on it all night/morning fixing it up, adding stuffs, panning the wobble, and adding those awesome samples.
really happy with how it turned out.
especially since i've been in a music rut for the past few months and haven't been working on much of anything.
whooo.
more soon...
Keep us updated, unless I can just somehow subscribe. It's good shit. It sounds like a professional-level track without the pretentiousness, if that makes sense ("LOOK AT ME I'M TOM MORELLO I CAN MAKE ANGELS ORGASM WITH MY GUITAR LICKS")
aw shucks. <3
if you sign up to soundcloud, you can subscribe. or just keep a heads up on my twitter or fb...
either way i'll whore 'em here.
and if you like that stuff, check out the other tracks... they all sound different because i'm schizophrenic like that.
for some reason, this news of Ryan Dunn passing away struck a chord.
R.I.P You silly grizzly man. :(
I know what you mean; I haven't particularly cared that Ryan Dunn died, but I remember when Peter Steele died, I didn't even really listen to a lot of Type O Negative at the time, but for some reason it really affected me (and now I listen to it all the time).
Just one of those weird things.
see, I posted ALOT about Peter Steele, I LOVE me some Type O Negative.
I think it was everything surrounding it. To get sort of graphic, they had to i.d. him by his tattoos,
and there's a photo of the aftermath of his car, and its really just terrible. i just think of them all as
a bunch of dumb, silly kids that never grew up, and this feels so tragic, though (still unconfirmed) probably
caused by his own hands through foolishness. it's strange how some deaths can affect the way you think,
even if its not someone close or that personal to you.
I mean, I owned October Rust and I was aware of them and all, but Type O Negative went from "One of the bands I sometimes listen to" and became "A band I listen to all the time and will cut a motherfucker if they talk shit about them," which is weird for me. I'm usually of the "nothing is sacred about anything" school of thought, so it's not like I was just showing respect for the dead. I almost NEVER show respect for the dead. I could GIVE A FUCK about the dead. Just went and 'did a thing' when Peter Steele died.
funny thing, the other day a friend of mine who works at a local record shop, and for some reason they were playing the new Lady Gaga album. As I'm walking in, I see him raise an eyebrow and wait for the employee who put in said disc to walk away, and he walks over to the stereo, ejects the disc, the employee goes "hey!" to which he replies, "sorry, this is garbage." flings the disc, and puts in type o negative's "October Rust" and skips to track 3 like a pro.
I had an inner :rock: moment.
so i shopped around to the album playing, bought what i came to get, and the employee comes back around and says "I can't believe you like this band."
and I had to blurt: "NO ONE TALKS SHIT ABOUT TYPE O NEGATIVE!"
and my friend goes, "THATS FUCKIN RIGHT!"
then we both had a simultaneous inner :rock: moment.
i really don't get why people are all omg lady gaga!!!! ok i'll admit i've only knowingly heard one of her songs but based on that i feel qualified to make the judgement that it's just the same old pop/dance shit as everything else
i mean...i can SEE it. she's like the marilyn manson of pop music i guess, with attempts at "shock" and "strange fashion." with artists like kei$ha, katy perry, and the likes of, at least shes DOING something. she also embraces everything homosexual or outcast-ed as fandom family, and that has to mean a lot to a lot of people. i don't mind her in the least, i just don't chose to listen to her music.
Musically, she sounds like a combination of Madonna and Ace of Base, and stylistically she's not doing anything more "shocking" than rock and metal musicians have been doing for decades (I've brought up the Marilyn Manson comparisons myself on occasion). She really has never done anything original. On the other hand... it's pop music. It's always going to be there, so there's really no point in disliking it.
But kudos to your friend for overriding the Gaga to put in Type O Negative. I also had an inner AND outer :rock: moment.
Lady Gaga is fucking annoying, and her talent is overrated because everything else popular now is so terrible.
I love the portability and convenience of mp3's and streaming radio as much as the next person, but I weep for the age of the album which is all but extinct because of it. 8|
Quote from: kristin on June 21, 2011, 06:32:30 AM
Lady Gaga is fucking annoying, and her talent is overrated because everything else popular now is so terrible.
:wub:
I don't care for her "look how edgy I am" shtick, but I'm not gonna lie, I totally dig her music.
Fence is going up this weekend! I can finally take my kids out without worrying about that damn pitbull charging them again.
I'm not saying that some of her stuff isn't catchy or fun to listen to, but I think that she's not as talented vocally as everyone would like ya to believe.
I liked her better when she was Madonna.
:lol:
My roomamte was playing her "Judas" song (or something like that) and I thought it actually WAS madonna!
that's totally why he SHOULD have took pix.
and now some more shameless self-whoring:
new strip up:
http://bit.ly/jDKkUA
Crazy about Mad Max. Did you talk to him at all?
WOOHOO NEW HPT!
Sounds like a great vaca, threat! :)
Quote from: kristin on June 21, 2011, 11:45:22 AM
My roomamte was playing her "Judas" song (or something like that) and I thought it actually WAS madonna!
Same when I first heard that "Born This Way" song... Even when it got stuck in my head, it would morph into "Express Yourself" by Madonna. She has definitely passed homage territory and is now in the land of knock-off.
Quote from: threat on June 21, 2011, 11:51:52 AM
Yea, so we chilled at some intimate rooftop bar overlooking Malibu last night. And lo and behold, who should be sitting across from us but Mad Max himself... fucking Mel Gibson. Perfect hilarious ending for such a great mindfucked day, LOL
Mel! hahahaha awesome.
Quote from: kristin on June 21, 2011, 06:32:30 AM
Lady Gaga is fucking annoying, and her talent is overrated because everything else popular now is so terrible.
Quote from: luna on June 21, 2011, 09:25:03 AM
:wub:
A thousand times yes.
She is not nearly as edgy or challenging or provocative as she would like us to believe. I actually think Rihanna is more challenging than Lady Gaga. I really liked her "Man Down" video, and I thought the first two minutes of the "BDSM" video was quite good before she spoilt it at the end.*
* note, this is not an endorsement of musical quality, only of visual, thematic content & message. The music on offer is woeful, as will be evident to anyone who has ever heard a good piece of music & therefore has something to compare it to.
:)) I thought the same thing r00!
Alas, I do listen to a few of her songs coz Alex is totally enamored with her. (hey, he's only 14 months. Cut him some slack lol) If he hears one of her songs on tv, he runs into the family room and yells at the computer til I hook him up with some Youtubery. :lol:
that's why I try to keep the tv tuned to kids tv :lol:
New puscifer in October :D
Apparently sounds like "twin peaks in the desert"
http://m.spin.com/articles/studio-maynard-james-keenans-puscifer
SWEEET.
I just killed a house centipede. Of all the bugs I have seen/dealt with. They are the only ones that creep me the fuck out. I don't mind bugs. But centipedes are just fucking creepy. They are hella fast HELLA fast. However, my shoe kicked its ass... ( I dropped it on it.) Also did I say they are creeeeeppppy...
I hate most bugs, but the sight of millipedes and centipedes actually makes me retch and run away screaming for my life.
As I have mentioned before, my parents basement is ground zero for a massive war between centipedes and spiders. The centipedes currently seem to have the upper hand, although the contest is currently even enough that none of the centipedes have gotten bigger than about 2 inches except for one 4 incher that I crushed about a month ago.
I have, at times, seen 6 inch centipedes and spiders 4 inches from leg-to-leg. I'm as surprised as anyone that I can still fall asleep down there.
I want to see aussie Mike photograph and document this epic battle.
We might be in deeper than I thought. This Englishman stuff is serious bizniz.
Quote from: threat on June 28, 2011, 12:33:27 PM
We might be in deeper than I thought. This Englishman stuff is serious bizniz.
I hope this isn't offensive, because I have NO idea what you're referring to and this is just me trying to lighten up your day, but when I read that I got a mental scenario in my head of a bunch of top hat-clad Englishman popping out of their windows in London and yelling something about serious business and pistols at dawn.
I'm pretty sure Tim is taking a boat to America to kill me upon reading this post.
Yes. The boat is rowed by young chimney sweeps.
Tut tut, it looks like rain!
Hur hurrrr ;p
P.S. That art show I was in supposedly aired on G4's "Attack of the Show" tonight. DirectTV doesn't offer that channel anymore though, so I can't watch/record it :(
PIRATES ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
AND SO AM I. CHECK YOUR FACEBOOK.
Off to America brb
1 hour border lineup...boo
I'll give them a ring. I'll tell them that your Canadian, But its all good. :P
I think we waiting like 25ish minutes to get into Canada and like 30ish to get into the USA...
I think if I went to Canada right now, they'd probably have to make me sign an affidavit that I would actually eventually return to the US.
What are Canada's laws on illegal aliens like? :P I kid. That is so not something I would want to inflict on myself voluntarily, and things aren't quite bad enough here yet to go to such lengths. If, however, things keep going the way they are in government, I will certainly be tempted to check out the wait times on legal citizenship and whatnot again. Was like 3 freaking YEARS last time I looked :(
We treat our illegals very well! And free healthcare!
The healthcare is a BIIIIIIG draw. Having been put through the ringer with our system down here when Beloved fell on his way to work a few years back and sliced his shin open on a broken bottle (long story short: local mall doesn't pay employee parking, so it was cheaper to park behind the mall and walk. It's poorly maintained, it was icy, and he almost didn't seek medical attention for fear of how much it would cost us), I'm pretty uppity about healthcare reform, which doesn't seem to be passable here. ZOMG SOCIALISMZ!~
Enter from the south next time. I hear there are never inspection lines.
So our stupid fence still isn't done but our landlords think if we have enough friends over we can get it done saturday.
2 days before the 4th of july
When everyone is having a 3 day weekend
And it's supposed to be nice out....
I don't see this ending favorably.
I have a job interview with ACLU tomorrow. Laughing my ass off, yet crossing my fingers I land it at the same time.
Life really hands me the most random things sometimes.
as in American Civil Liberties Union? o_O
yup.
and no naked chicks?
Maybe. The campaign they're pushing for regards LGBT rights.
But I also just landed another interview working for a sex therapist.
Have a feeling the latter might be a better fit. :p
Both sound like pretty awesome gigs to me, but then again, that's me. Good luck with both interviews anyway! Hopefully you get the latter, but the former wouldn't be a bad fallback, I wouldn't imagine.
Sounds sweet. Good luck!
I got called to go into work early. Kinda cool, kinda not... But whatever...
Better than getting called in on a day off? Sorta? :huh:
See my main issue with it, is that when I work over what I'm supposed to, I have to cut the hours. Not so I go over 40. But so I don't go ever 35ish. (I'm still full time, so I get all those perks) I just find it bullshit, they say ya its cool for you to stay late today, OH, but we will need you to cut the time later. (However, leaving at the half mark of a normal shift is the shizznit.) Really, they need to hire more people. AND they should be able to do the job to... Ugh...
Monday I worked 4:30am till 4:00ish PM. Long day, I had to cut the hours yesterday. It would be cool to have a fatter check. But I also love getting out of there early....
Also I'm learning new ways to solve my 3x3 faster. I want to solve it in under a minute...
Pardon me if this was discussed before I signed in to this board, but I have to ask. Why do we have a cunnilingus smiley?
:P :P :P
@Freak - Nngh. That's a shitty situation, dude. Hopefully you can work the cut into something awesome for your own schedule.
Oh hai. I can haz Google+ invite powers. Already spammed this on FB, but figured there MIGHT be some folks here who I don't have there who might still be interested. Shoot me a private message with an email to send the invite to and I shall send invites along!
@Rynne: I think we just kind of accept it :lol: It has been used both as the standard tongue face and as something more suggestive (okay, so that only happened once), so use as you will!
the hours cut were yesterday. So I came home early, and played guitar till my hand hurt... Watched some tv (on my pc) and then played wow.
Also it was complete bullshit, they didn't need me to come in early 90% of the stuff I worked was overstock... But management was cool with me wasting time. So whatever.
Back from Seattle. Overall an enjoyable time, highlights include:
-finally visited the space needle for the first time
-got to see the nirvana exhibit at emp
-it didn't rain
Worst part is a tie between the brutal border lineup to get down (i think everyone was going shopping, stopped at the outlet mall on the way and it was packed), and getting stuck in brutal long weekend traffic on the way back
Pics to follow :)
Dammit weather decide what you're going to do so I can decide what I'm going to wear
Quote from: luna on July 03, 2011, 12:59:14 PM
Dammit weather decide what you're going to do so I can decide what I'm going to wear
This times about a zillion. This whole putting-one-outfit-on-in-the-morning-and-changing-by-4 crap is getting old.
Getting paid to stand around playing Pocket Frogs for three hours was pretty awesome. ::)
drone
It's too goddamned hot here.
And yeah, it's only 70F here, if that tells you anything.
QuoteDuring an appearance on "Live With Regis and Kelly," superstar and best friend to fighting robots everywhere Shia LaBeouf admitted that he is directing a documentary about shock-rocker Marilyn Manson.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Quote from: MrMonster on July 04, 2011, 05:13:53 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Seconded :lol: :lol: :lol:
Quote from: amputee on July 04, 2011, 12:24:51 PM
It's too goddamned hot here.
And yeah, it's only 70F here, if that tells you anything.
I used to say that, but now that it's never below 90, 70 is downright comfy. :)
it's been 124+ in town several days now, and it only get hotter. Good thing we live just outside the hot zone :lol:
What do you keep your house at with all the ac unites you have? I think I would take ice baths. Try to get a bit of hypothermia going...
What is wrong with you people? I <3 the heat
So says the Canadian! :P
I hate the summer. HATE. I'm pretty much miserable for all of it. Now I have a snow cone maker thought, I'm prepaired... Summer still sucks thought. I like the cold.
Remember the weather here in January? I consider that way too cold :lol:
Quote from: luna on July 05, 2011, 03:56:04 PM
What is wrong with you people? I <3 the heat
Seriously! Why would anyone ever come to Calgary any other time?
I had a college professor from Alabama and he was telling me once "Summers are hell in Alabama, so when I moved to Iowa I thought it would be great, but your summers are hell too, except now the winters are god-awful as well."
I'd still take our winters over our summers. You can always put on more clothes if you're cold, but eventually you reach a point that you can't legally take any more off if you get too hot.
Oh yeah, I'm with you Aaron. I HATE summers. Yet another reason I need to get out of here; it's year round summer and my seasonal depression is getting out of hand. :(
As for the temp, because of the baby, I keep it at around 70f. When it was just Ric and I, it was 65f. :)
Quote from: luna on July 05, 2011, 05:25:08 PM
Remember the weather here in January? I consider that way too cold :lol:
Your so messed up. :P
I thought it was a bit warm. Or at lest, that it should have been colder. Being Canada and all...
Our AC shit the bed... It isn't doing anything but blowing air. Not chilling it at all. I need to get a repair slip and get that shit fixed.
In the mean time I'm eating snow cones to keep cool. They are amazing! Best 20 bucks I have spent in a long time. Well 20 plus all the syrup... and ice, its so much easier to buy a big bag then make my own...
Before I moved out here, summer meant 100F days, every day for 2 or 3 months. Out here, "summer" means "3-5 random days that'll hit 80", but otherwise its a static 65F during the day and 59F at night. It's awesome.
In other news, our new snake totally bit my finger. It didn't hurt but I was really fucking surprised; it's easy to forget how fast and how strong those fuckers are. She snapped and let go real fast, but it drew some blood. Now it looks like a bunch of weird surface-scratches on my finger. It's weird. Snakes are weird.
I found a juvenile bull snake (about 18 inches long) in our garage the other day. It freaked me out at first because the pattern on it is similar to a prairie rattlesnake and it was all S-coiled up in the same defensive position as a rattler uses. I caught it and let it go outside.
Personally I like the idea of having a non-venomous snake in the garage eating any mice that get in, but dealing with screaming wife every time she sees it could get overwhelming. 8-p
Looks like I'm gonna be stuck being an Anglophile 4evaaaa ;(
The only bad thing about going in early on the start of my week. going to bed early. (I have NEVER been a morning person.) However, 3 days off is amazing. Then I work 4 days, get 5 days off. OH FUCK YA!
Also I love snow cones.
I have a ganglion on my right wrist.
Quote from: naut on July 07, 2011, 11:45:34 PM
I have a ganglion on my right wrist.
Is that like a lump in line with forefinger middle finger?
Quote from: naut on July 07, 2011, 11:45:34 PM
I have a ganglion on my right wrist.
I had one of those removed from my left wrist a long time ago. Thankfully it never came back.
I just spent 50 bucks. On what? A 7x7 Vcube (its a rubik's cube, different band name is all.) Ugh... I'm not sure why, but I kinda feel ashamed of it...
Well babe, it's your money and you're entitled to be extravagant if you want; but maybe it just shows you're getting old, boring, and responsible. :lol:
I don't normally feel the cold so much. But, since I got back from the UK I am freezing my ass off! WTF!
Quote from: chimera on July 09, 2011, 01:48:56 PM
Well babe, it's your money and you're entitled to be extravagant if you want; but maybe it just shows your getting old, boring, and responsible. :lol:
Huh. Well ya. And I have more then enough to pay all my bills and keep food on my plate. So its not like I don't have the cash... Ugh. I don't know I still feel odd that I like Rubik's cube this much... But I'm cool with being boring, I already bore my self to sleep (I'm sure to death sooner then later.) Old however is pushing it don't you think?:P But ya... I guess I am... Ugh.
LOL, well the last part of it was meant in jest. You're nowhere near old. Me, on the other hand, I'm trying to embrace my cronedom; I don't know if it's working (yet).
This may be corny but, I really think its a mental state instead of years... Coworker B is older by a couple years then coworker L. However, if I had to guess I would put L as older then B. Mostly to how they act and what not. (However, L has cancer or had. Either way, I'm sure that ages a person.) And B was well, a hippie. He dropped lots of LSD, did lots of shrooms and whatever else he could get (tons of weed to). So maybe that has to do with it to. But I really think its more of a mental state then anything.
Also if GOD can still rock out and be as old as he is. Hell Robert Fripp is as old as he is, and they STILL ROCK like the best of them. (Maybe it's cuz they are the best of them! DUN DUN DUNNN) You don't have anything to worry about!
speaking of being old a way younger co-worker was talking about a wedding she is going to and said something like "it's weird they're getting married now, they're OLD! they're like 30!"
to which i responded "um i'm 30, i must be OLD! "
anyway, i got id'ed at the liquor store yesterday so....yeah (ok i've arrived at a point where they apologize after realizing i've been old enough to drink for 11 years but whatever :lol: )
Yeah, 50 looks good on DC, but then again he's happy and if you're happy you're always going to look that good. And my dear acquaintance is almost 60 and he's incredibly spry for a near-pensioner. :lol: I'm just being a smartass, I'm perfectly fine with being this age.
I have finally arrived at the point where I keep a short beard so people show me more respect at work. I can't believe what a difference it makes when people realize you are in your 30's instead of your 20's.
Quote from: r00 on July 10, 2011, 07:18:49 PM
I have finally arrived at the point where I keep a short beard so people show me more respect at work. I can't believe what a difference it makes when people realize you are in your 30's instead of your 20's.
I might have the same sort of thing going on, but in reverse - I look older than my age so people sometimes respect me more than I'm due (due to being still at the bottom of the engineering totem pole) which is kind of funny to me.
Quote from: r00 on July 10, 2011, 07:18:49 PM
I have finally arrived at the point where I keep a short beard so people show me more respect at work. I can't believe what a difference it makes when people realize you are in your 30's instead of your 20's.
This is why I wear makeup and never leave my hair down. I am not yet far enough removed from being a recent college grad for many people to take me seriously. I get carded constantly, which is no big, but I also still get treated like a kid obnoxiously often. About the only time I don't is if the clerk is trying to push a store sponsored credit card. This is especially problematic for me at work; some of the parents I'm dealing with have kids who are MY AGE. It tends to undermine my authority a bit, and, in their eyes, my credibility. I've been lucky so far in that when I have had to deal with parents, either they have not been belligerent or I have had the backing (and presence!) of my department/administration.
I don't want to wish my life away, and I don't really want to change my look, I'm just at a frustrating point in my career for ageism ::)
Went to a friend's wedding last night. They had the ceremony and reception at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley; a large science museum. The wing we were all in had a dinosaur exhibit going through, so this presided over the reception:
(http://i.imgur.com/FxvLK.jpg)
Motion activated, fully animatronic.
I've been to many weddings, but that's going to be hard to top.
fucking awesome. 8-)
That's wicked! I bet that was the coolest wedding bonus ever!
There were also some dinosaur hand-puppets, and at some point, someone found some latex dino-gloves and a raptor mask. After all the drinking started to set in, things got strangely awesome, if not very confusing.
comedy pterodactyl sex option
I saw one of my old coworkers today. He quite/got fired awhile ago. (I think he got fired, by quitting aka not showing up any more) Anyhoo he had longer hair, a lip ring thing. And was missing an arm. (Ya missing an arm) He asked how I was, and I what I had been up to. I asked what he had been up to. He told me in and out of hospitals for awhile. I (being dumb) asked for what, he goes amputation. He said he got an infection in his arm and he got some hella strong antibiotics. Then got flowen to a bigger hospital, and they did two operations, and the infection was bad enough they had to cut off his arm.
Craziest thing about it. He really didn't seam to have changed much. (he comes off as an a (ex?)stoner) And still did missing an arm and all. Also, while I have no clue as to what/how/why it got infected, my first thought was Requiem for a Dream. *shudders* But ya, I have no clue... It sucks he lost his arm, but he seams cool with it. So I guess it could be worse...?
tonite's namedrop:
i was walking to my car, leaving this wine bar where i'd just gotten out of an awesome meeting. i was smiling immensely, feeling really good about what had just transpired, and this dude caught my eye. i let that smile carry on to him and he gave me a huge smile back. and that's when it hit me -- it was shia labouf, lol! he kept smiling, real genuine one, and told me "drive safe", winked, and i just looked away and drove off, laughing.
if bumping into shia labouf is any sort of omen, i hope it's a good one. cuz knocking on wood this project goes through cuz it's a good one. :)
oh. and i might make it as an actual payroll employee for this company i've been freelancing for a while now. crossing fingers that happens, because after deciding not to fully dive into the adult world over the weekend, this seems to be my only backup plan before i really the vanilla market. gigs are fun, but steady income is a total godsend. (i'm not made to be a STARVING artist.)
Good luck with the new prospect! That is a great story. 8-)
Quote from: Aaron on July 09, 2011, 12:24:15 PM
I just spent 50 bucks. On what? A 7x7 Vcube (its a rubik's cube, different band name is all.) Ugh... I'm not sure why, but I kinda feel ashamed of it...
Have you ever tried one of those android or iphone apps that generate rubiks cube solutions for you? Supposedly you use the app to take pictures of each side and then it compiles the move sequence for the quickest solution. I was wondering how accurate it was.
Quote from: r00 on July 12, 2011, 11:16:12 AM
Have you ever tried one of those android or iphone apps that generate rubiks cube solutions for you? Supposedly you use the app to take pictures of each side and then it compiles the move sequence for the quickest solution. I was wondering how accurate it was.
I haven't, however my coworker got the app for his android phone. And it worked rather well. He got it right then. However, it doesn't really teach you how to solve it with out the app. It just solves that time. Next time it could/would give you a very different solve pattern. So it works like that, but it doesn't teach you to solve it with out the app. (It was hella cool to watch thought, take six pics, and then it thinks for a bit, then it shows you what to do.)
Kinda defeats the purpose of having the cube don'tcha think! ;)
I'm really hoping I get my new iPod FM transmitter in the mail soon because the one I'm using now has officially shit the bed. :(
drone
Quote from: Stariki on July 13, 2011, 05:00:43 PM
Kinda defeats the purpose of having the cube don'tcha think! ;)
I don't have/use/need it so I wouldn't use it. However, its more about solving it then anything. You have to take pics of your cube in it's messed up state then it shows you how to solve it...
Quote from: ?uo?po?p?? on July 13, 2011, 07:20:41 PM
I'm really hoping I get my new iPod FM transmitter in the mail soon because the one I'm using now has officially shit the bed. :(
drone
I've tried 3 different types of those for my car, and they all we're terrible.
i hope you've found yourself a good one though!
Did the fitting for the fall lookbook tonight. Fucking EXCITED about that. And afterwards, went bowling with internationally known DJs, pornstars, and a former MySpace celeb tonite. That was interesting. All in all, shit I should document for future tell-all book about this "scene", :lol:
I need to get a sharpening stone or a new pair of barber's scissors. It's mustache trimmin' day, and it's more difficult than it ought to be.
Quote from: doomsayer on July 13, 2011, 09:30:28 PM
I've tried 3 different types of those for my car, and they all we're terrible.
i hope you've found yourself a good one though!
The one I bought is the same model of one I bought before - it's a transmitter that comes with a remote that attaches to the steering wheel. The first one lasted me forever, and when it finally died I went to go buy a new one and they stopped making it (which made me a sad panda). I've had a few different ones since then that have had short lifespans until I found my "old one" on Amazon and almost wet a little from the excitement. It came in the mail today, but now there's some loose connection somewhere and it won't play in my car. I'm gonna fiddle around with it some more, but if I can't get it to work in the next day or two, I'm going to contact the seller and hope I can either get a replacement or get my money back. Très lame. :(
drone
Overheard: bemused music store manager talking to fellow employee.
"Are you kidding me? Seriously? Am I to believe someone tried to steal a $1.99 gospel-rap CD?"
:lol:
The war on drugs has taken a new turn... they are now busting mummies.
World's oldest marijuana stash totally busted (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28034925/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/worlds-oldest-marijuana-stash-totally-busted/)
first sitting. (the empire logo already existed.)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lohf38GK3y1qabl3eo1_500.jpg)
Nerd :P
I'm such an angry person these days.
Have been so very tired these last few months and seems no amount of sleep will actually make me feel awake. I hope this doesn't carry on.
Well, our time with Phoenix has an official schedule now. Phoenix has been having visits with his mom at his mom's house, mostly unsupervised, for a couple of weeks now, and everything is going very well. He had his first overnight visit on Friday night, and as could be expected he didn't sleep much that night. It'll take some getting used to for the little guy, that's for sure.
He has a few more overnight visits between now and the end of the month. After his birthday party at the end of the month, he has his first week-long visit while my wife and I go on a vacation of sorts. After that, the visits last 5-6 days with a couple nights back at our place, and then on the morning of August 21st, he goes for two weeks. Assuming there's no problems during those two weeks (and that's highly unlikely), he won't be coming back.
I'm not handling this well, that's all I'll say. Even though I know he's going where he belongs, I'm still losing my little guy.
That's sad goose :(
At least you can know that you did such a great thing for him in the time you had
That is completely heartbreaking, Goose. I don't know what to say other than I feel really awful for you and your wife right now. Would Phoenix return to you if mom fell off the wagon again?
I am so sorry.
Quote from: r00 on July 18, 2011, 02:49:31 PM
Would Phoenix return to you if mom fell off the wagon again?
Yeah, we'd be the first ones Social Services would call if Phoenix ended up back in foster care. But, given what I've seen, that's
extremely unlikely.
:( condolences, Goose.
*hugs Goose*
I'm sorry. :(
drone
That's rough, man - sorry to hear about all that.
Foster parents impress me because you willingly take the hardest, most challenging and most potentially painful path. I know someone who's done it throughout his life, fostering something like 30 children. Keep up the good work if you can cope with it.
Quote from: Goose on July 18, 2011, 03:36:35 PM
given what I've seen, that's extremely unlikely.
From the child's perspective, this is a good thing, no? It must be awful to live through it as a foster parent, but I can only imagine what joy the biological parent must feel at being reunited with their child after successfully bettering themselves.
I mean no disrespect to you Goose, but I have to agree with not TPD. I'm sure it's utterly heartbreaking for you and I'm sorry you're having to go through this, but from the childs perspective, he has his mother back, he has another chance to actually have his real family instead of growing up wondering what could have been, all the questions, the why's etc. I'm glad for him. You should also be proud of yourselves for your part in his life.
<---- Not TPD :p
Also, the last two sentences of your post = complete agreement
Oops, fixed! *embaressment*
Quote from: sin on July 19, 2011, 04:04:06 AM
From the child's perspective, this is a good thing, no? It must be awful to live through it as a foster parent, but I can only imagine what joy the biological parent must feel at being reunited with their child after successfully bettering themselves.
It totally is a good thing, and I don't mean to detract from that at all. Phoenix's mom has worked really hard both to put her life together and reunite her family, and succeeded in so many ways. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be giving me enough consolation to stop me from being sadder than I've ever been in my life.
Yeah, I can only imagine what kind of torture you're going through after thoroughly emotionally committing to this child. I didn't mean in any way to diminish the love you feel as a parent (I know you weren't saying I was, but I wanted to reiterate). I don't think I could possibly deal with that sort of pain: of giving up a child, even knowing full well that it was in the child's best interests. It has to hurt REALLY bad and I'm sorry you have to feel this way. In the words of Marcus Aurelius: "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present," as in, the strength that fortified you enough to be a foster parent in the first place will be sufficient to sustain you through the pain of this separation.
I'm sorry Goose. That must be a very bitter sweet thing for you...
Oh B I don't know what to say except that I would be equally devestated.
*hugs Goose and Mrs Goose* I'm soooo sorry.
I hope everything turns out okay, Goose... Good luck.
You've done a great thing, you and the missus! Kudos! But hugs for your sense of loss!
As most of everyone's said, the time Phoenix spent with you is something that will always be most appreciated. You did good and helped enrich some lives. Should be proud of that, despite the bittersweet scenario.
The Player's Guild downtown is putting on Hair Spray this fall and I auditioned to be in it. I am really excited because I got a call back audition tonight, but I also am very nervous. Apparently I am auditioning for the roles of Lorraine, Cindy Watkins, Luttrell and Viola. I don't know who those characters are, but they have names and are not "ensemble" or "chorus" so I take that as a good sign. I have to dance and sing. I am confident about dancing, but singing....we'll see. Wish me luck!
That's really cool! Best of luck, and get some footage put up on YouTube when you get in! ;)
Thanks. :) I don't think my audition really went all that well as far as the singing part goes, but I felt rather confident about the dancing. The cast list goes up tomorrow evening (which is actually this evening, now that its morning I guess). If I don't get any of the parts I auditioned for tonight, that's okay. I just want to dance and have fun.
Quote from: tim on July 19, 2011, 03:30:45 AM
Foster parents impress me because you willingly take the hardest, most challenging and most potentially painful path. I know someone who's done it throughout his life, fostering something like 30 children. Keep up the good work if you can cope with it.
Ditto that. I want to do the same thing when I am married and have a family, and probably adopt too. I really admire a lot of people who are foster parents.
@Goose - My heart goes out to you. Working in child care, I find it hard enough just to send kids to the next grade level, or home to their parents after camp. I can't imagine what it must be like to be sending a child back to his mother after having taken him in as your own son. Do you and Mrs. Goose have plans to foster more children after him?
@Nadia - Keep us updated!
@Goose - Oh, wow, Goose :( I don't know what to say that hasn't been said. At least you know how hard his mother has worked to make this happen; it may not stop you from feeling sadder than you've ever felt, but it should keep you from feeling the boiling, blinding rage, and abject horror I feel every time we send my stepson back to his bio-mom and abusive stepfather. It's not much, but in the long run, knowing he's gone from your safe environment to a safe environment with his bio-mom is still a start. I'm so sorry. *hugs*
I charge my phone each night when I go to bed. I plug it in. About 6ish hours later I unplug it. It says that its 100% charged. Only to take a few pics and then bam 60% power. How does taking 4ish pics kill 40%? Ugh.
What kind of phone, and how old?
Samsung Galaxy S. I got it in mid March of this year...
Ok, that's kinda messed up. Either the battery sensor is way off and just reporting actual battery life wrong, or your battery is shot and needs replacing. Next time its fully charged, go completely ape-shit with the camera, and see how long it takes for you to completely drain the bastard to the point where it shuts itself off due to lack of power.
Yar. I will have to. This is the second time it has gone from full power to way less in no time. I have it charging now.
Get advanced task killer, it shuts down tons of crap running in the background sucking up the battery
I didn't get cast for Hair Spray. I am somewhat disappointed, but in a way I am glad. I knew that Hair Spray wasn't really the right kind of production for me, but I auditioned anyway because I thought it could still be fun and because the director asked me to. I guess after my audition the director decided that it's not the right kind pf production for me too.
Quote from: luna on July 22, 2011, 01:08:22 PM
Get advanced task killer, it shuts down tons of crap running in the background sucking up the battery
I will have to!
However, my battery is fine. It just randomly doesn't charge...
The inevitable happened... Amy Winehouse... RIP :(
another one in the 27 club too. weird.
I have two job interviews this week. One tonight and one on Wednesday evening. Tonight's interview is for a nanny job with a family that seems really awesome, and is a lot like the kind of family I've always seen myself working for. I haven't met them in person yet, but I have a feeling it might be love. The only problem is that the pay they offer is barely above minimum wage and no health benefits.
If I get a job working for this agency, I have no idea what kind of families I might end up working for, but whatever job I get I will more than likely get nearly twice the pay that this family is offering me, plus health benefits. Right now I am having a hard time deciding which route I would go in the event that I meet this family, love them and get a job offer but also have the opportunity to make more money with another family. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
don't be afraid to ask for more if you really like them, it seems kinda scary the first time you do it but if you are honest with them about really wanting to work for them but having another job offer with more pay and benefits the worst thing that can happen is for them to say they can't pay any more, they won't take back the job offer.
i have gotten a higher starting wage several times with this method, really i think most employers offer less just in case you ask for more...
good luck! :)
Went on Craigslist looking for a house to rent in Hyannis. Found one too good to be true. Family just moved out due to job transfer, yadda yadda... and yes, it was too good. Looked up the house address and while the lot is lovely, I've yet to find the 2 story house with a basement and garage. :lol: The biggest scam giveaway was this mornings email asking me to wire money via Western Union to Nigeria... I don't think so :lol:
Quote from: luna on July 25, 2011, 12:52:14 PM
don't be afraid to ask for more if you really like them, it seems kinda scary the first time you do it but if you are honest with them about really wanting to work for them but having another job offer with more pay and benefits the worst thing that can happen is for them to say they can't pay any more, they won't take back the job offer.
i have gotten a higher starting wage several times with this method, really i think most employers offer less just in case you ask for more...
good luck! :)
I already expressed to her that I am looking for a job with higher pay and she said that while she would like to be able to offer that, the pay is currently non-negotiable. So I decided to look at the current job postings for the agency I am interviewing with on Wednesday, and didn't see any families that seem ideal for me on the page. They all pay really well, but are a long commute and the families just didn't seem as good. I am think if this family offers me a job I'll accept. My interview is an hour. Wish me luck!
Quote from: dee on July 25, 2011, 01:16:28 PM
Went on Craigslist looking for a house to rent in Hyannis. Found one too good to be true. Family just moved out due to job transfer, yadda yadda... and yes, it was too good. Looked up the house address and while the lot is lovely, I've yet to find the 2 story house with a basement and garage. :lol: The biggest scam giveaway was this mornings email asking me to wire money via Western Union to Nigeria... I don't think so :lol:
I'll keep my eyes peeled as well! :)
Whew... going to try and meet a lady for drinks tonight. My first attempt at a "date" in 5 years. I know I won't be capable of completely hiding it, so my goal is to keep the insanity and dumbassery to a minimum.
Quote from: sin on July 26, 2011, 02:08:23 AM
Whew... going to try and meet a lady for drinks tonight. My first attempt at a "date" in 5 years. I know I won't be capable of completely hiding it, so my goal is to keep the insanity and dumbassery to a minimum.
Just relax, no need to put any undue pressure on yourself or forcing any kind of persona. Have fun!
So my in laws, in an effort to save money, ditched their land line and got a magic jack. I don't know if they just got a janky one, or if all of them are total shit, but a good 75% of the time we try to call them we get some error message instead of the call connecting. This wouldn't be a huge deal, but they're older and have a lot of medical problems and we get paranoid if we can't get ahold of them. We decided that instead of waiting for them to ask for help, we'd just add them on our sprint account, since an additional line is only $10.
The problem I'm having is finding them a basic cell phone with no internet or texting features like a slide out keyboard. The ones I'm finding on ebay are busted and missing batteries and chargers. Anyone know of another place to score a decent used cell phone?
Boomie - On the Sprint website you can search for phones by style. There are still some old fashioned flip phones and candy bar phones that are inexpensive or free. See this:
http://shop.sprint.com/mysprint/shop/phone_wall.jsp?INTCID=AB:Shop:CUST:Phones:All
And there are also these:
http://shop.sprint.com/mysprint/shop/phone_wall.jsp?INTCID=AB:Shop:CUST:Phones:All
Maybe those could work for your in-laws.
Sin - Good luck with your date tonight! Don't be nervous, have fun and let us know how it goes. :)
I think my interview went well last night. At the beginning of our meeting the father let us know that they had already interviewed someone else and that they really liked her a lot because she seemed like a great fit for the family and got along well with the kids. So I was kind of like, "Oh great, they've practically decided on someone else already. Why am I even here?" But hopefully they'll still consider me because I had a great time interacting with their kids and at the end of the meeting the four year old (there were two kids a four year old and a fifteen month old) didn't want me to leave. So I was kind of like, "Your kids love me so please hire me."
They want me to do a second meeting, this time with their current nanny so they can have her input.
Yeah, I know I can get one through sprint, but it's a long stupid story why I can't involving other lines and contracts and blah blah. I just need to buy a used one free of a contract.
Maybe amazon, or newegg? I don't really know thought...
Who just woke from a five hour nap? THIS GUY! Why? So I can stay up all night and go into work at 4am. WOOHOO! (the best thing about inventory, I get to listen to my headphones. OH YA)
Also there is a Silicone lube called Jig-a-loo. A lot of people with Rubik's cubes use it. And it works well. However, if you spray it and let it sit. It will weld the plastic together. Which is bad However, after spinning the shit out of it, its great. My cube is hella smooth now.
yeah what aaron said. I believe newegg sells contract free phones that aren't bound to any single carrier.
Spot-on, r00, Aaron! NewEgg and Amazon both do. I was eyeing a few of the Android phones. I'll warn you now: the options aren't usually as mind-blowing as contract-based phones (it seems to me that they lag behind by a month or a few), but sometimes you can find really amazing deals... and, admittedly, sometimes they're "WTF?" levels of expensive. Browse around and see what you like.
Craigslist also has the odd phone here and there, but I wouldn't trust phones off that site as far as I can throw the ad -- and printed paper doesn't fly very far. It's a fair bit worse than eBay with 'usable' goods, from my experience.
Q: How did the hipster burn his mouth?
A: He ate the pie BEFORE it was cool.
^I saw something similar to that on Facebook this afternoon, only it was pizza instead of pie. Still gave me a giggle snort.
drone
You follow PostSecret too? 'Cause that's where I saw it!
My friend told it to me a couple months ago, and I just happened to remember it now. Thought it was great.
Someone brought this to my brothers attention and I thought it was funny. If you know my brothers 2 dogs, this is even funnier.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html
Only in Los Angeles:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-woman-attacks-baby-in-stroller,0,3448593.story
Quote from: sin on July 27, 2011, 06:33:56 PM
Q: How did the hipster burn his mouth?
A: He ate the pie BEFORE it was cool.
Um...I am tweeting that.
Q:How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:It's a really obscure number; you've probably never heard of it.
Yeah, I've heard that one </hipster>
I've also heard the variation "I used to use light bulbs when I was in high school, but these days they're so passé."
I heard those jokes at an underground comedy club in Mexico, way back in 2004.
Mexico is so 2003.
You guys still use nationalities and numbers?
"So" is so 2002.
????????
Quote from: sin on July 27, 2011, 08:38:45 PM
Someone brought this to my brothers attention and I thought it was funny. If you know my brothers 2 dogs, this is even funnier.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html
I <3 Hyperbole and a Half so much. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html is so sadly me it's not funny.
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on July 28, 2011, 04:10:51 PM
I <3 Hyperbole and a Half so much. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html is so sadly me it's not funny.
You too? :lol:
Allie is a comedic genius, I think I've nearly peed myself while reading all her entries.
Ya, the dog story had me laughing. And a lot of her other stuff does as well... I can see that I'm gona be reading a lot of it in the next few days.
I have much <3 for Hyperbole and a Half as well.
drone
I got a bug bite on top of my foot. (it doesn't look that bad. its redder then yesterday. But not by a lot.) Also it fucking itches... A lot. A LOT. I have no clue what bite me, but I'm pretty sure it isn't something to horrible to get bit by...
Friday: Hung out and did shoot with this kid who just got signed to Columbia + met Ziggy Marley.
Saturday: Hung out with Metronomy + met Sade.
Sunday: Hung out with my homeboy DJs + shut down a bar.
Monday: Photoshoot with yet another pornstar.
Welcome to my life.
Quote from: threat on August 01, 2011, 04:54:30 AM
Ziggy Marley
Sade
Skrillex
I want to hear what each of these people was like in person, especially Ziggy!
awesome! Glad to hear they were all genuine souls.
rey - So do you know Kaskade, the guy who caused the big kerfluffle over the weekend (or whenever it was, Friday?).
I had thought that Uni-Ball had discontinued the "Vision Elite" model of pen, but it turns out that the store at which I usually buy them at had just stopped carrying them. I am WAAY more excited than I should be about ordering a new box of pens off of Amazon.
They're REALLY nice pens, though.
Quote from: sin on June 27, 2011, 03:05:56 PM
As I have mentioned before, my parents basement is ground zero for a massive war between centipedes and spiders. The centipedes currently seem to have the upper hand, although the contest is currently even enough that none of the centipedes have gotten bigger than about 2 inches except for one 4 incher that I crushed about a month ago.
I have, at times, seen 6 inch centipedes and spiders 4 inches from leg-to-leg. I'm as surprised as anyone that I can still fall asleep down there.
Oooh... sometimes crickets get big enough to try and establish an independent state in the basement, and it appears that that is the case tonight. Judging by the sound, this cricket isn't NEARLY as big as the nation of Cricket-Behindthefreezer-Onia, of awhile ago, but he or she has got nuts, that's for sure. I'm rooting for it, especially since the spider/centipede war has decimated both sides to their lowest troop-levels in years. Now is a PRIME time for an insurrection.
My roommate might be moving out. So either me and other roommate will need to find new roommate or suck it up and pay more for rent each month... Either way. Suck.
lol @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Threat
You know you've made it when you have a wiki article ;)
this guy is adorable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrH2MI_K2SU
Quote from: threat on August 05, 2011, 03:11:00 PM
lol @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Threat
lol @ "no coherent trajectory to her career"
Yea. That was a direct quote from a magazine article too :lol:
Met Jared Leto tonight. I was tweeting that I was backstage with Skrillex and him, and my friend, who's actually 30 Seconds To Mars' tour coordinator, tweeted me that I should say hello. So I did. Went up to him and said that she tweeted me to say hi. It was soooo awkward (but funny). Really not surprised by all this small fucking world shiz anymore. :lol:
I got a short shift at work today. (10am-3pm... I was supposed to leave at 2. But I stayed late...) Either way, I'm home, and kinda bored...
Day 3 and the riots in London continue, amazingly despite being in the middle of hot areas, we've yet to see or hear anything, though it helps we live away from the stores. Watching footage of teenage chav fucks looting in front of cops really makes me want to get the fuck out of this country. What started off as a protest quickly escalated into a very lengthy smash and grab with select douchebags posting their loot up on social networking. I guess I won't be going out today....
Sorry to hear that, static. 8( It scares me to think or what those same chavs (and the equivalent over here) will do if they ever stop receiving their government cheese.
Even on day 3 not all the riots are about the same things.
There is widespread breakdown in social order fuelled by a mix of distrust of police, the economics of recession, feelings of alienation, failures of political representation and get-rich-quick selfishness.
Early riots clearly had a lot to do with the lies the police told after shooting a father of four, and the belief they wouldn't be held accountable. Some are clearly blind rage. Some are opportunistic criminal actions. Today riots in Hackney started after a police stop-and-search.
Public buses and the homes of ordinary people have been set on fire, people have been made homeless and small independent traders have lost everything. Really really sad. Yet no-one has any answers. Politicians simply condemn everything and lump everyone together and in doing so fuel the alienation that drove the whole thing.
My boss is on leave for 2 weeks and it is so nice and quiet in her without her ranting and raving.
Hahahah nice!
I went looking for a D2 talent tree a week ago (the site also had the option to buy gear, lvling toons up. other shit) now, I see their site on every add I get. Youtube. Cracked.com (joke website. Some amazing stuff on there!) And I find it funny, the adds went from being random off the wall stuff. To something I was kinda interested in for a bit...
Ugh; I was supposed to go back to my apartment today, but I got drunk and slept through when my mom left, so I couldn't get a ride. Then a bunch of insane shit happened. My dad was doing some light yard work and collapsed, and I managed to get him back up to being a reasonable person again, but it freaked me out something awful; if I hadn't missed my ride he would have been all alone when that shit happened. I was 2 seconds away from calling an ambulance before he opened his eyes and sat up. My dad turns 67 this December; he's not a young turk anymore...
It's starting to be an issue that I don't want to go back to my apartment for my PARENTS' sake, rather than my own.
Holy shit I kind of forgot about you guys...what working two jobs and two kids does to you. Sorry, friend. I'll never leave you again.
Its time for an update on the story of my little goober.
On the Thursday before Phoenix's birthday (August 28th), at about 4:15PM, almost 30 minutes before I was actually leaving work for the vacation week, I got a call from Phoenix's social worker. He was on a visit with his mom at the time, and they were heading over immediately to apprehend him, because his mom had failed her most recent drug test. What happened over the next two hours is largely a blur, because I was already in a panic-based mode to get the work done that I needed to before vacation, but the end result is all visitation with mom is immediately cancelled. So he wasn't spending the week with his mom while we were in Winnipeg, meaning he'd have to come with us.
We had the party in Saskatoon as planned, and it went awesome. It was great to have so many people from both my family, Kyla's family, and both of our groups of friends show up. It really is a rare thing for foster parents to have such support (trust me, from speaking with other foster parents, the flack they get from their own families for trying to help children is just insane), and I can't put into words how grateful and thankful we are to have such supportive people around us.
I've put a few pics up from the party in his Phoenix's 4shared folder (http://phoenixd.4shared.com) (password: goober). The kid had a frickin' blast.
The next day, Kyla and I had a discussion. Phoenix is now at an age where he does not travel well. He's a mobile monster, and truly resents being strapped down for any length of time, meaning a 7-hour drive to Winnipeg would be hell. As well, Kyla's endometriosis was acting up really, really badly, and we couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't need extreme amounts of pain control in the near future. In the end, we ended up staying an extra day in Saskatoon, and cancelled the trip to Winnipeg and stayed home. Easily the best decision we could've made, as with both of us there for multiple days in a row, it was easy to take care of Phoenix and be productive around the house. At the end of the week, for the first time in a long, long time, I felt I was going back to work significantly more relaxed than when I left it.
During that week, we also got a handle on what his mom's situation is. Apparently she was getting extremely stressed out, not only with taking care of Phoenix (trust me, that kid's a handful if you're not used to it, it adds stress to your life no matter what way you cut it or how much you love the kid), but with other legal and family issues she was wrangling with, and she ended up relapsing in a vain attempt to cope with it all. When she was actually confronted with the failed drug test, she hid nothing, and was completely honest with her social worker about what happened. So, she gets more rehab and therapy, and her visitation schedule with Phoenix is back down to where it was about three months ago (three times a week, 2-3 hours at a time, 100% supervised).
I have complete faith that Phoenix's mom will get her situation sorted out and will be able to take Phoenix home full time in the long run. How long that will take, though, is a complete unknown right now, and we're back to just taking it one small step at a time. And that's where this story is currently at.
thanks for the update goose! i was wondering what was going on...i know i said it before but you are awesome for giving phoenix a family even if it isn't permanent
Ya that is awesome that you are taking care of him even if it isn't permanent.
Do you think you will adopt a child or two down the road? Or just foster care children?
I have plans to repaint my black JS100 to some sort of Living Colour thing (think the Cult of Personality video) but I'm not sure who can actually do that for me.
Quote from: Goose on August 12, 2011, 02:32:09 PM
Its time for an update on the story of my little goober.
A lucky kid is one that knows who will always be there for him no matter what. He's lucky to have you guys. Thanks for the update!
I'm backing up my PC. then I think I'm gona install Linux. Cuz I'm really bored. And I need something to do. Kubuntu or Ubuntu is what its gona be... Not 100% sure which one yet...
this is the greatest thing i've seen all day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU&feature=share
Quote from: Aaron on August 17, 2011, 01:30:24 PM
I'm backing up my PC. then I think I'm gona install Linux. Cuz I'm really bored. And I need something to do. Kubuntu or Ubuntu is what its gona be... Not 100% sure which one yet...
Well I failed. I tried Ubuntu and you can have it start up in either os (I have xp) and then that didn't work... SO I tired to make it a program that I can open in windows. And it gets about half way done, and shits the bed... So I think on my next days off I'm gona reinstall xp, or maybe windows 7 *shifty eyes*......
B: I'm gonna get all annoyingly hippy-dippy and say your goober is Meant To Be, at least for now. He's got so much love, on both sides, he can't help but be awesome when he grows up.
Trying to learn new ways to solve my Rubik's cube... (I'm trying to learn f2l, first two layers.) Shit is hard... I think I'm taking a break from my 7x7 as well...
You should put up a youtube of you speed solving a rubik's cube. I still impressed by how fast you learned a lot of this.
Thanks. But, to be fair, I have yet to learn the parity algorithms for the 7x7. There is really one two, I'm just lazy. When I get faster, I may put up a video. Or just tell you my times... (right now, my best for 3x3 is 1:45. However, there was a lot of luck with that. The last layer was mostly solved when I got there... My normal is right around 2 minutes...) I even bought a cheap timer. Best thing, its from China, and on the side, it says "Time machine". But once I get the f2l down I will see what my time is...
The world record is 5.66 seconds. Ya... Balls to the wall fast...
Here is the world record video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_Km6cv6DU
i've been on a big organizing spree the last 2 days...maybe i should be a professional organizer, what are the chances i would have to work with idiots?
Messy idiots...
aw
Ya, sorry to ruin your happy. :(
i'm still happy my drawers are organized at least :lol:
*waves* thought you guys disappeared, I'd lurk from time to time on the old board. tpd sent me a PM over at litany (which I've also lurked while not logged in) MONTHS ago and just saw it now after randomly logging in. so, it's good to see you guys again!
hey! *waves*
another day another drawer to organize...look what i found!
THIS LIFE.
Quote from: soul driver on August 21, 2011, 04:18:20 PM
*waves* thought you guys disappeared, I'd lurk from time to time on the old board. tpd sent me a PM over at litany (which I've also lurked while not logged in) MONTHS ago and just saw it now after randomly logging in. so, it's good to see you guys again!
HAHAHAH wondering where the hell you went!
How have you been?
do my eyes deceive me?? Welcome back, soul driver!!
hey soul_driver! welcome back. 8)
I'm having the exact opposite problem at my new job than I had at the last 2. Told the new place I wanted 20 hours a week and they're scheduling me 30+ which is a good problem to have I suppose, and I'm certainly not going to complain for fear of being cut down, but damn my house looks like a pit lately.
And I can't remember the last time I had a cocktail because I get home at midnight and I have to get up between 4-6am with the little jerk. :lol:
thanks for the welcome back everyone :) feels good to be back! I should be posting a bit more in the coming days, speak a little about what's been new and whatnot. just glad to see every single name being a familiar one :)
officially have my associates degree for english, and today marks the first day working towards my bachelors degree. happy to be away from community college.
Quote from: doomsayer on August 22, 2011, 10:46:28 PM
officially have my associates degree for english, and today marks the first day working towards my bachelors degree. happy to be away from community college.
You can get an Associates Degree in English? At my CC you had to get an AA in Liberal Arts, although they took pains to mention in the course catalog that an AA in Liberal Arts transferred completely to any 4 year university towards an English degree, with no redundant classes.
edit: Congratulations! Definitely something to be proud of. A degree is a degree. I'm proud of my AA, regardless of what my parents think :p
Damn, woman.
That's crazy. It's one more reason why I think when the shit hits the fan here, it will start in L.A.
Whaaaaaaaaaaa?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44245097/ns/business/t/magnitude-quake-hits-us-east-coast/
We felt it in central MD. Holy shit. Weird feeling when your entire house shakes like whoa.
We had one last night in Colorado too. I am starting to pay attention now to more of these theories surrounding comet Elenin. :huh:
Hope rynne and the missus are okay!
My crazy ex-friend just emailed me in the midst of a full-blown freakout (she felt it too, in Southern NJ).
I didn't feel anything here in Worcester. I didn't even know we had an earthquake until a woman at work was freaking out because she couldn't get a hold of her son who lives in Virginia.
drone
i've only ever felt one earthquake, by the time i realized what was happening it was over :lol:
The impression I got was that I was momentarily on the verge of passing out. The earth swirled exactly as if I was stumbling home from a long night at the bar. It was uncannily disorienting for a few seconds. And then it stopped. No big deal.
I was a bit scared, but that was 'cause my immediate fear was that our wind tunnel's fan failed and was about to throw a blade. Once we figured out it was an earthquake, it was like, "Hmm, okay, that was neat."
I don't understand why so many people in DC were freaking the fuck out over it. As far as I'm concerned, the quake's most damaging effect was that everyone was all "OMG FLEE THE CITY!" and gridlocked the Beltway by 3:00pm.
*edit* Mrs. rynne just told me she was in an elevator when the quake hit. *That* is legitimately scary.
Quote"Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!!" -Dennis Miller ...#WESTSIDE!
There's a lot of west coast brats out here who are scoffing at the one east coast earthquake all over Twitter. But I figure, it might be as if California got hit by a tornado/hurricane out here. Really unheard of. Exciting days! 2012.
Hot damn...
I have f2l down pretty well. oll and pll are gona suck. The algorithms aren't that long, its just that there is like 30ish (I'm sure I can get away with knowing less, like 15 or so. For the advanced method... The n00b version, is pretty easy.)
I also got a stupid lucky solve of a minute (one minute and five seconds) right now, I'm getting like 1:35-2:00. So really, who needs a social life or friends when you have a Rubik's cube? (saddly I'm not really joking... :( )
Perhaps you should join some sort of rubiks cube social club and meet a nice girl that shares your passion ;)
Quote from: rynne on August 23, 2011, 06:19:24 PM
*edit* Mrs. rynne just told me she was in an elevator when the quake hit. *That* is legitimately scary.
Oh hell yes! That's my fear now that I work in a building where I use the elevator (dont
have to but it saves time).
QuoteThere's a lot of west coast brats out here who are scoffing at the one east coast earthquake all over Twitter.
And see, because it was a fairly strong one for that area (or
any area, really) I wouldn't play it down necessarily.
1) I did not feel the earthquake
2) Looks like a hurricane is coming?
Random question about men's clothing: does anyone know where to buy lightweight, casual khakis for a reasonable price?
I'd like to get summer-weight pants that I can wear to work*. Something lighter than standard cotton khakis that'll be comfortable in hot & humid DC summers.
All the lightweight pants I've found so far are: A) travel or hiking gear made of breathable ripstop-type material, which is a bit too casual, or B) high-end menswear, which starts about $100 or more and thus is out of my target price range.
Can anyone steer me toward better options?
*I.e., suitable to go with polos and short- and long-sleeve dress shirts.
sup guys
Quote from: luna on August 24, 2011, 01:53:05 PM
Perhaps you should join some sort of rubiks cube social club and meet a nice girl that shares your passion ;)
Maybe she would even be down to smell of maple syrup!
Rynne I wear Dickie's I think I pay like 30ish bucks for them. (I have cargo's but, it they didn't have the extra pockets, I would say they are casual, while still nice enough.) And they aren't to warm... (also I know nothing of fashion just saying.)
Quote from: rynne on August 24, 2011, 03:57:28 PM
Random question about men's clothing: does anyone know where to buy lightweight, casual khakis for a reasonable price?
I hear good things about All Saints (http://www.us.allsaints.com/men/allsaintsworldcup/rumbled-chino/sand/mpk531-1666), but it might be a bit more out of your budget than you prefer. Have you tried American Eagle (http://www.ae.com/web/browse/category.jsp?catId=cat40003)?
Quote from: rynne on August 24, 2011, 03:57:28 PM
Random question about men's clothing: does anyone know where to buy lightweight, casual khakis for a reasonable price?
Try Kohls.
re: khakis
I can echo r00's Kohls sentiment. If they have American Eagle there (I believe that's where I got mine) as threat suggested, they're pretty awesome. I have a pair of their 'relaxed' pants (picked 'em up for $29.99 on sale at Kohls, funnily enough), and they're really comfortable and reasonably stylish. If you can get them on sale, even better. Kohls tends to have pretty good sales on occasion, so they're a nice location if you're looking to pick up lots of clothes or a particular kind of clothing.
Random (lolheyrandomthread) question: any of you know a place to get a good computer desk? I'd like something that will support the weight of my peripherals (large widescreen LCD, slightly oversized wired keyboard and standard wired mouse) and preferably my tower, as my power supply is mounted on the bottom and thus catches a metric fuckton of dust down there.
I don't care what kind of material or color it consists of, but I'd prefer to pay less than $130 if you think that's doable!
I am not sure how strong they are, but some of the Ikea desks I have seen look pretty slick and affordable.
Ikea?
r00 beat me :lol:
Rock on -- thanks, you two! I'm gonna look into some Ikea desks. Last I'd heard, they make some pretty affordable desks but I didn't think to look there.
Ric is on the Cape just in time for the hurricane to hit. While I'm glad to still be in Vancouver, I'm kinda worried about my old fart and wish I was there with him.
trying to find an HP Touchpad is pretty impossible :(
Went to some private party tonight that had some multi-platinum winning "artist" lipsynching all his top 40 hits to us. Pretty interesting crowd, definitely not one I'm down with.
And over down the street, my friends are still partying it up with deadmau5 backstage right now. And I'm home, laughing at my night, having partied with my breath stanking like coconut rum and carrying a purse full of fried chicken + waffles, lol
Re: pants. I appreciate the recommendations! I'm still looking, so keep 'em coming.
All Saints looks pretty sweet; the retail price is high but that sale price is within my price range. I see they've got a store in Georgetown---since I'm looking for a particular fabric weight, getting my hands on 'em before I buy is a must.
One of my co-workers echoed r00's and iz's Kohl's recommendation. Nearest one is a couple towns away, which is why I hadn't gone there yet. I might head over tonight, especially since it's next to a gigantic booze store and I'd like to be stocked up before Irene hits.
Quote from: dee on August 25, 2011, 01:32:27 PM
Ric is on the Cape just in time for the hurricane to hit. While I'm glad to still be in Vancouver, I'm kinda worried about my old fart and wish I was there with him.
Here's hoping the Cape didn't see much worse than we did. There's a tree down next door, but it had the decency not to hit the houses on either side of it, any cars, or the powerlines. A good chunk of the state STILL doesn't have power, to the point where half of my FB feed is mocking the hurricane and half of it is cursing National Grid for the fridges full of food going bad, but ours never even flickered. We really got off lucky for a state of emergency and all that.
thanks for the advice health canada! http://www.theprovince.com/health/fresh+semen+online+warns+Health+Canada/5324386/story.html
Wait... You can sell it? HMMMM... *shifty eyes* Maybe I'm in the wrong line of work...
think of all that money you've just flushed away 8-p
Ya, really. It makes me sad... think of all the cool stuff I could buy with it... Wait, could I write buying porn off of my taxes as a business expenses?
:lol:
Weird shit folks! The outer half of my left thigh has been completely numb for the last 12 hours or so.... no sensation except pressure, just like your face after the dentist gives you novocaine! No event that could give rise to this.... :-\
Really?
http://pitchfork.com/news/43861-jack-white-teams-up-with-insane-clown-posse/
8(
It's fucking terrible, don't even listen to it.
That has to be a joke
Oh wait it already exists? Wow
jack white will produce someone's bowel movement if given enough money.
example above.
Today I saw 30-40 kids doing group warm-ups between some big hoops on poles in campus' big green space. I didn't think much of it 'til they all started running around with brooms between their legs.
"Quiddich? You have to be fucking kidding me. ::)"
Quote from: teeps on September 01, 2011, 09:11:04 AM
jack white will produce someone's bowel movement if given enough money.
example above.
It was called The White Stripes - HO HO HO.
I kid, I just wanted to be like those old guys on The Muppet Show.
Shooting Atari Teenage Riot on Friday. Didn't know they were still around.
Absence does make the heart grow fonder.
Quote from: threat on September 04, 2011, 11:20:47 PM
Shooting Atari Teenage Riot on Friday. Didn't know they were still around.
p.s.
old foto, safe for work, lol:
http://twitter.com/#!/raethreat/status/110596069435523072 (http://twitter.com/#!/raethreat/status/110596069435523072)
Yeah, they've been hard ass touring for the last year with new material. Hanin isn't part of the group any more - not sure why, they announced she would be playing with them and she posted constantly about her touring with ATR on her FB, then out of nowhere she's off the line-up. Also, they got Kidtronik to fill Carl Crack's shoes.
If you get the chance, can you pack Nic Endo into a crate and send her to me.....
Will try. Have to figure out who she is first :p
Addendum: Of course, as I'm reconnecting even stronger with The Englishman (a feat I didn't think was even possible, as we were already connected rather deeply before), he's leaving for London (again) in a couple of days and won't be back until early next month. Two months "apart" really did us in.
Haha, the only female member of ATR now! :p
I'm moving to a thatched hut in the tropics so I don't have to pay exorbitant prices for a bathroom reno.
A thatched hut would make the renovations much easier, cheaper as well as more scenic. :)
I just found out we have to gut our bathroom, less than a week after we found a crack in our foundation and got that fixed (and the basement repainted). It's getting ridiculous and I'm concerned it's going to be one reno after another. I'd definitely rather have the hut. :P
Three and a half months and 3,000 miles apart. If he does not come home this weekend, I'm gonna lose my shit. I can't take much more of this, Universe.
drone
Gotta give John Huntsman mad props for being the only Republican at last nights debate willing to stand up and say that he believed in evolution and that global warming was both real and man-made. He's obviously trying to position himself as the "sane candidate," aka a "liberal republican," but I think it's too little, too late. The few liberal republicans that are left in that party aren't voting in the primaries, and certainly not in numbers high enough to get him the nomination. Maybe he's angling for a VP slot? I don't know. Still, it was refreshing to see a Repub saying something reasonable for a change.
edit: my concern is that he's talked enough shit about Perry that there's no way he could be Perry's VP; the only candidate he could fill the VP slot for would be Romney, and I HIGHLY doubt America would be willing to vote for an all-Mormon ticket. It's a shame that the only reasonable candidate is going to be doomed to obscurity.
I'm convinced it'll be Perry. My concern is he'll really give Obama a run for his money.
I think it'll be Perry too, but then again, this time four years ago I thought Rudi Guiliani would be the next POTUS so...
I'm just sick of this whole shell game. It's fucking two card monty at this point. No matter who I pick, there will be nothing under it for me. All I know is life sucks for a whole lot of people here right now and the same motherfuckers are playing the same games, regardless of being a jackass or an elephant. Personally, I have never seen it as bad as it is now and I really see no way out within the current system. Something has to change, and I mean real change.
turd sandwich vs. giant douche, the rematch!
one solution?
Turd Douche 2012!
My record for not noticing earthquakes continued today with a 6.4 off Vancouver island that apparently could be felt across the entire south coast
Quote from: rokken like dokken on September 04, 2011, 07:18:45 PM
It was called The White Stripes - HO HO HO.
I kid, I just wanted to be like those old guys on The Muppet Show.
haaaaaa
I'm realizing how much I've changed, as it's not the end of the world for missing out on opportunities to hang out with people like Alec Empire or even Manson.
Missed out on ATR because I needed sleep last night.
Missing Manson DJing private art opening tonight for same reason.
sleep > adding "cool points" to my "hitlist"
so the person i work with that got married yesterday's new last name is campbell...her new father in law's name is bruce...i like to imagine he mentioned something about his boom stick during the toast :lol:
GROOVY! I hope he did!
Quote from: threat on September 11, 2011, 12:24:02 AM
I'm realizing how much I've changed, as it's not the end of the world for missing out on opportunities to hang out with people like Alec Empire or even Manson.
Missed out on ATR because I needed sleep last night.
Missing Manson DJing private art opening tonight for same reason.
sleep > adding "cool points" to my "hitlist"
i donno. the chance to laugh at manson in public > sleep in my book.
there's only so many hot dogs out there...
I dunno; I've done insane things in my life due to lack of sleep.
More than drugs, more than hunger, more than imagination, more than mental illness. Being tired has contributed to more poor decisions in my life than any other factor. The best days of my life were the brief period when I committed myself to getting 9 hours every night no matter what. I'd scrap Empire and Manson for a chance to be sane again.
So my best friend is getting married and being that we've been there for each other through way too much crap I couldn't say no when she asked me to be maid of honor. In the span of a month this wedding has turned into a small ceremony with a reception in her mom's backyard, to a huge event with about 250 guests. Going through all the planning and meeting all the people to hire with her has made me even more grateful that Theo and I got married at the courthouse for free :lol:
The feline boys are sitting at the door getting a sound scolding from a squirrel who's busy bogarting the peanuts I put out. Funnier than heck since the boys have never seen a squirrel before and aren't sure what's going on. :))
Quote from: boom on September 13, 2011, 05:16:46 PM
So my best friend is getting married and being that we've been there for each other through way too much crap I couldn't say no when she asked me to be maid of honor. In the span of a month this wedding has turned into a small ceremony with a reception in her mom's backyard, to a huge event with about 250 guests. Going through all the planning and meeting all the people to hire with her has made me even more grateful that Theo and I got married at the courthouse for free :lol:
As much fun as my wedding was (and seriously, we were lucky enough to be able to have an open bar which helps immensely) I would probably never do it again. Ideally I wouldn't even have to get married again, obviously, but I wouldn't go through the whole rigamarole.
Quote from: threat on September 11, 2011, 12:24:02 AM
I'm realizing how much I've changed, as it's not the end of the world for missing out on opportunities to hang out with people like Alec Empire or even Manson.
Missed out on ATR because I needed sleep last night.
Missing Manson DJing private art opening tonight for same reason.
sleep > adding "cool points" to my "hitlist"
Excuse me? You had a very important delivery to make after that show!
:p
Meeting Neil Gaiman this weekend. I know absolutely NOTHING about him. But if you guys have any questions or photo requests for him, lemme know. Thanks x
ask what artistic endeavors might occur since him and amanda palmer got hitched.
i know they've been on a tour together.
I forget what Kristin said Amanda Palmer reminds her of one time. I just remember it gave me major lolz. haha
few awesome parts of the evening: my friend having to wipe down andy dick's urine off the toilet seat so that she could pee + then having fairuza compliment her on her shoes, to which she replied, "thanks, i'm a legal midget" (??!??!!??) :lol:
capped off the night, hanging out with a few friends at some diner, while the englishman was texting me from some LFW party about how much he loves me and etc. it was SUCH an odd juxtapozed moment. the girls all called me out when they noticed that i was staring so lovingly at a pile of plates behind one of the pornchick's heads, as she was talking about the femdom bbq they were hosting earlier, lol...
i really think i'm fully smitten. STILL fully smitten. blahhhhhhh
addendum: yup. still smitten. :wub: :wub: :wub:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
Holy shit... The only Roller Coaster I would ride. :P
That first sentence: "The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers" might be the greatest sentence ever written in the English language.
Quote from: sin on September 21, 2011, 03:51:20 AM
That first sentence: "The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers" might be the greatest sentence ever written in the English language.
Ya. I told a lot of my coworkers about it today. I also said I would be more then willing to buy some of my coworkers tickets for the ride, and fast passes to get them to the front that much sooner. Ya...
I like that it's for euthanasia or the death penalty :lol:
I think that the first loop is enough to kill you is impressive... The hill is stupid high, and the first loop looks to be like a quarter of it. So its a big loop. But damn. Shit is nuts. And it goes balls to the wall fast.
That's one for the bucket list.
irrelevant but still good for an early morning laugh:
(8:50:04 AM)sprintingspork: my friend made home-made coca cola and wondered why it tasted like unsweetened, syrupy, carbonated water
(8:50:07 AM) sprintingspork: me: "did you put sugar in it"
(8:50:12 AM) sprintingspork: my friend: "No...?"
(8:50:25 AM) sprintingspork: "you know why it doesn't taste like, you know, Coke then right?"
(8:50:27 AM) sprintingspork: "Why?"
(8:50:49 AM) sprintingspork: "because diet coke/coke zero don't have cane sugar in 'em"
(8:50:55 AM) sprintingspork: "let me try this solution you have provided"
(8:50:57 AM) sprintingspork: [insert pause]
(8:51:02 AM) sprintingspork: "EUREKA! IT TASTES LIKE COKE!"
I've said a lot of things about Amanda Palmer, r00. I'm not a HUGE fan, but I do appreciate the Dresden Dolls- but they're not a band that I can listen to all day.
I have been known to say that she reminds me of someone who would paint with her own menstrual blood...but that might be because I read that about her somewhere(???) I can't remember. Whether she admits to it or not, you KNOW that girl used tampons as crayons.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
2 more days of work. 8 days in a row sucks so much. I'm gona come home Tuesday after work. And drink take a nap. Then wake up WAY past my bed time, and sleep a ton more. I have done this once before. Its an amazing feeling when I wake up.
this article on prog is both hilarious and informative http://www.cracked.com/funny-2359-progressive-rock/?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=topic&wa_user3=topic&wa_user4=flashback
Quote1. Progressive rock is categorized by a sacking of traditional song structure, complex rhythms, odd time signatures and a sense of inherent superiority over other rock genres
2. Because of this, it's pretty much never been popular
3. It is the only rock genre in which the term "flute solo" has any meaning
QuoteIf you ever get trapped into a discussion with a prog-rocker and have no idea what's happening, just remember this rule of thumb: A good barometer of progressive rock quality is the number of instruments used at any one time.
:lol:
Quoteand even retard metal (Rammstein).
This part made me lol. And I like Rammstein...
Rofl, retard metal. Sadly applicable.
They forgot to slice my pizza at Pizza the Hutt. My parents want me to get a refund, but it was so minor that I just can't ask for a refund over something like this. Plus when I opened the box and my parents gave the pizza a surprised look and said, "They forget to slice it?" I got the opportunity to respond with, "What, you expected me to share?"
One of my favorite definitions is: "The seemingly insane juxtaposition of weird time signatures."
One of my memories of GOD has to do with a conversation post-Pigmys in which some guy was popping a fanboy boner over a Tool song (can't remember which one) and he said something like, "Then you went from 11/9 to 7/8 and then to 15/6," and Danny was all, "Oh man, I can't even remember what the fuck I was playing!" And I said, "That's what the whiteboard is for! Show your work!" and nobody laughed at my nerdy math joke but him. That's why I love him, of course.
Yeah, it can't be prog-rock without a lot of bizarre time signatures.
You know what gets me though, is how much of it with a few notable exceptions now just sounds like 70s throwbacks, or they're trying to be like Dream Theater.
Ultimately I don't listen to a lot of it. :P
I laughed so hard at the flute solo line because I actually once said something about OMG A FREAKING FLUTE SOLO! when describing tmv to someone :lol:
My right hand has mostly recovered from the freak Zippo accident from a few months ago, and I only have 2 noticeable scars from the incident. However, my fingers occasionally ache in cold weather now.
Quote from: individualzero on September 26, 2011, 09:16:43 PM
They forgot to slice my pizza at Pizza the Hutt. My parents want me to get a refund
Do they also check change return slots for coins whenever they pass one? 8-p
Quote from: sin on September 27, 2011, 06:30:42 AM
My right hand has mostly recovered from the freak Zippo accident from a few months ago, and I only have 2 noticeable scars from the incident. However, my fingers occasionally ache in cold weather now.
I need to hear about this incident.
Quote from: r00 on September 27, 2011, 07:19:04 AM
I need to hear about this incident.
There's not much to tell. I was refilling a Zippo, and spilled some lighter fluid on my hand. I sort of shook it off, and figured that was that, not realizing that it had sunk into my skin. I flicked the Zippo to test the re-fill, and as soon as the spark caught, my right hand turned into a fireball from the wrist down. I threw the lighter away from me in a hurry (and briefly set fire to the carpet, as the lighter itself was engulfed in a globe of fire), and, remembering my grade school fire safety classes, executed a "stop, drop, and roll", tucking my inflamed appendage close and smothering the flame.
The 3 seconds I was on fire, however, blistered the bejeezus out of my hand, and I now bear a permanent scar on the middle knuckle of my index finger, and another burn-scar between the 3rd and 2nd knuckle of my middle finger, due to me being a dumbass.
edit: me and my brother were actually laughing about it; of all the insane things that might happen to you, it's kind of ridiculous that grade school spent so much time teaching you what you should do if you should ever catch fire. I mean, really. What are the odds? But it's ironic, because it happened to me, and the first thing I remembered was Frederick The Fire Dog coming to my school in 2nd grade and making sure we all knew "Stop, Drop, and Roll!"
damn dude! that's nuts. Thank god for Frederick The Fire Dog!
@r00: they once returned a several hundred dollar HDTV because the delivery dudes scratched the finish on the frame trying to fit a fifty-something inch television through our trailer's door. While I'm not sure how they scraped it through a fucking box (they claimed it "must've gotten rattled while we were moving it"), you have to keep in mind that it was not the panel, just the black frame. They're kind of nuts about buying things new and perfect.
It's kinda weird because they never resell their shit anyway, but god forbid you put a soda down within five feet of a new item; they scold their children because they're apparently afraid that soda can will sprout wings and violently fornicate with their shiny new purchase.
Quote from: individualzero on September 27, 2011, 08:14:03 AMthey're apparently afraid that soda can will sprout wings and violently fornicate with their shiny new purchase.
That gave me such a LOLZ! :lol:
drone
I pretty much gave up caffeine while I was pregnant with jerk #1 and it wasn't really an issue until I started my latest job. Working until 11:30pm and getting up at 5am with jerk #2 doesn't make me very functional. My mom was down here last week and bought me a sweet new coffee maker and I'm actually up doing chores and getting shit done, as opposed to laying on the couch praying for naptime. heh.
Today, I heard a new word, that will immediately strike fear and panic into the very soul of any straight married man anywhere in the world:
Superovulation
Gentlemen, I will now commence panicking.
That's like pulling the goalie for an entire hockey match! :o
haven't posted in awhile but apparently i was m.i.a. for menstral crayons, zippo accidents, flute solos, and grant morrison.
damn. i. missed. you. pi.
Quote from: teeps on October 01, 2011, 01:06:20 AM
haven't posted in awhile but apparently i was m.i.a. for menstral crayons, zippo accidents, flute solos, and grant morrison.
damn. i. missed. you. pi.
You miss these every time you leave.
WTF spam?
save us goose!
you know your forum has really made it when you finally start getting spammed. 8-p
Maybe it's time to invest in a grill with all this spam.
POW!
Quote from: sin on September 27, 2011, 07:33:27 AM
There's not much to tell. I was refilling a Zippo, and spilled some lighter fluid on my hand. I sort of shook it off, and figured that was that, not realizing that it had sunk into my skin. I flicked the Zippo to test the re-fill, and as soon as the spark caught, my right hand turned into a fireball from the wrist down. I threw the lighter away from me in a hurry (and briefly set fire to the carpet, as the lighter itself was engulfed in a globe of fire), and, remembering my grade school fire safety classes, executed a "stop, drop, and roll", tucking my inflamed appendage close and smothering the flame.
The 3 seconds I was on fire, however, blistered the bejeezus out of my hand, and I now bear a permanent scar on the middle knuckle of my index finger, and another burn-scar between the 3rd and 2nd knuckle of my middle finger, due to me being a dumbass.
edit: me and my brother were actually laughing about it; of all the insane things that might happen to you, it's kind of ridiculous that grade school spent so much time teaching you what you should do if you should ever catch fire. I mean, really. What are the odds? But it's ironic, because it happened to me, and the first thing I remembered was Frederick The Fire Dog coming to my school in 2nd grade and making sure we all knew "Stop, Drop, and Roll!"
This is amazing.
only because of the uniqueness of the name, do i feel it should be shared, but what i've seen trent's son's name to be is:
Lazarus Echo Reznor
i like it.
Wait, wasn't he already born? Either way, his name isn't begging for an ass kicking. SO The tranks didn't fail as parents so far.
So three people moved in to this apartment, then two of them moved out, I moved in as did another roommate. One of the first three left a recliner chair. Which is about to become my new computer chair. Fuck ya! And it should fit under my pc desk. So as long as it does fit, I'm fucking set! Cuz my pc chair is falling apart. (However, I duct taped the shit out of it. So it doesn't fall apart the rest the way...)
So right now, I'm sitting in my lazyboy. Its the shit. Kits kinda short thought... Like I'm sitting hella low on the ground. BUT I'm sitting in a recliner... It will take me some time to get used to sitting so low... BUT taking a nap in my chair will fucking rule!!!!!!
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On the back wall of my apartment there was a mass of Box Elder bugs. Like 300-400ish. (Maybe even more.) ANYHOO, I went out with bug spray, and started a genocide. And the worst thing, or at lest what I really don't understand at all. You look at my wall, covered in them. If you look anywhere else on are apartment complex, there is hardly any. I don't get it... But I just shit on their population, so its all good. I need more spray thought...
I went to the bank yesterday to start a savings account and move some money around. The guy that can start new accounts was gone for the day (He had to go to a different town, the lady didn't really say what for.) But that other bank lady could make the new account for me. SO I was like sure, I will wait. (I brought my cube so I wouldn't be bored. They said they would get everything set up, and rocking for me. I would just have to go in tomorrow (today) and sign some paper work. Turns out, lady was wrong, the only thing that changed was I have the savings account. (AND since I didn't think to ask for my CD paper work back, I don't have that either...) Ugh.
I find it odd that out of the 3 other people there, none could start a new account. Well one could. Kinda? (I really don't know.)
Also my connection has been shit lately. Like download speed is fine, but loading pages even ones with very little pictures (like PI, WIKI, the other forums I'm on.) It won't load the little icons as to if there is new posts or not... Resetting the router worked for like 20 minutes... Or the format is horrible...
Got my new roommate. I know him from work, so he isn't that bad. But I have to say, I'm kinda worried... Cuz he is always broke. And not cuz he was living on his own, and had a lot more rent to pay. He was living with friends that didn't charge him rent, or if they did it was a very small amount. He smokes (cigs and weed) and while I don't care if he smokes weed, I told him not to smoke weed in his room/apartment. Cuz if we get evicted due to him smoking, I'm gona be super pissed.
Also some of the incense he burns fucking stinks. (and I have smoked weed enough times to know what it smells like, this isn't it...)
But really, as long as he pays his share of the rent, and bills (power and internet are the only ones we have. and he also uses both, so its not like I'm being a dick and making him pay for shit he isn't using.) And doesn't steal my shit, and takes out the trash every once in awhile. I will be fine with him... Other wise, shit may hit the fan... Cuz this isn't about being BFF but money, and it being cheaper to live...
Yeah, accept to excuses and mooching. Cut that shot off at the head if it starts happening.
And my guess is all the incense is being burned to mask the smell of his weed smoking. ;-p
my opinion of anderson cooper has decreased since he became a daytime talkshow host
He's a tool. And Wolf Blitzer is a mental midget. There is no way hiring and retaining him didn't involve kneepads.
:lol:
Quote from: r00 on October 17, 2011, 09:32:28 AM
Yeah, accept to excuses and mooching. Cut that shot off at the head if it starts happening.
And my guess is all the incense is being burned to mask the smell of his weed smoking. ;-p
He seams cool so far. Really, he fits in very well... As my and other roommate are both computer nerds, he is an xbox nerd... and he goes for walks when he smokes the weed. :P All in all, its going well...
The knee pad thing was good. I laughed at that.
I wish there was a polite way to tell a workmate (who I consider a good guy) that their body odor is overpowering lately. I would really like to let him know that it's time to do the laundry or crank up the deodorant or something. It's not worth ruining a decent work relationship though. 8|
If you figure out a good way to do that, let me know. We've got a somewhat "eccentric" guy at work here who, despite being talented in his own little ways (and is actually a good guy), bikes to work every day and feels that bathing is optional on many occasions. Sometimes his stench is a little overpowering.
I've said this before but it bears repeating because it really works: if you have a smelly coworker talk to HR. Most of them are trained to handle situations like this and the coworker wont know it was you that brought it up. Most smelly people don't actually know they smell so they need someone to bring it up delicately.
I'm in a building primarily filled with "private contractors". There's no HR person, and I don't want to start complaining to our boss, as that will just come off as petty I'm sure.
For anyone who wants to read about my Floydian pilgrimage to the RMAF:
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/wywhsacd.htm
So jealous
That's awesome, chim!
File under "I'm going to Hell": Mrs. rynne and I had dinner with one of her friends. The friend was telling Mrs. rynne about an acquaintance of theirs who'd had premature twins. One of them was in the hospital and was unable to keep down solid foods. Very tragic, etc. Big sads all around.
After the story's over I waited for a beat then went: <deadpan> Well, at least they've got a spare. </deadpan>
Mrs. rynne shot me the angriest look ever, while her friend unsuccessfully tried to keep from busting a gut.
Quote from: chimera on October 19, 2011, 02:56:38 PM
For anyone who wants to read about my Floydian pilgrimage to the RMAF:
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/wywhsacd.htm
great read! Thanks!
whoooo jules
and shocked they still make sacd!
Thanks all, it was one of the things I've dreamed of writing for years, to give public praise to Mr. G as I feel he deserves.
Quote from: rynne on October 20, 2011, 07:46:55 AM
After the story's over I waited for a beat then went: <deadpan> Well, at least they've got a spare. </deadpan>
So wrong, but also so you. :))
(Okay no, that was bad, really bad N, and yes you're going to the hell where they make you listen to the music you hate on repeat.)
Yes, there's a special listening room for him in hell and the only disc they have is The Fragile. 8-p
:lol:
So apparently traffic is completely fucked all around my place because bush is giving a speech at the sheraton a few blocks away, huge protests and major streets completely shut down.
Of course I'm missing everything because I'm at work...
Quote from: rynne on October 20, 2011, 07:46:55 AM
That's awesome, chim!
File under "I'm going to Hell": Mrs. rynne and I had dinner with one of her friends. The friend was telling Mrs. rynne about an acquaintance of theirs who'd had premature twins. One of them was in the hospital and was unable to keep down solid foods. Very tragic, etc. Big sads all around.
After the story's over I waited for a beat then went: <deadpan> Well, at least they've got a spare. </deadpan>
Mrs. rynne shot me the angriest look ever, while her friend unsuccessfully tried to keep from busting a gut.
My dad always told people 3 kids is the ideal number because if one dies the other one isn't an only child - people think he's kind of a bastard, apparently. :lol:
So do you have two siblings?:P
I'm getting sick, I woke up with a fever. Or at lest, I was stupid hot, even with my window open and my room in the mid 60's. And work this week is gona suck extra. Woohoo. I think tonight, I'm gona come home and kill my flu with Scotch, and sleep like the dead.
Quote from: Aaron on October 21, 2011, 06:22:40 AM
So do you have two siblings?:P
Three, but I think they only planned on the three of us.
my money is with 2 planned + 1 accident.
Huh.
I find this funny. http://www.amazon.com/Shure-EA306-Triple-Flange-Sleeves/dp/B000F657DY/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1319255514&sr=1-3 I need to buy new ones for my headphones. And while they aren't that much money. I find it odd they were 500 bucks. and now 12. I mean, who the fuck would spend that much for 6 (three pairs of ear tips?) This isn't the first time I have seen something like that. Something stupidly high priced, then marked down to a normal price. Either way it makes me lol.
working 12 hour days, then rounding it off with either shoots or whatever else happens at nite is really eating into my sleep.
i feel like i'm back on drugs with all this delirium from lack of sleep...
but at least that momentum sped up + i'm finally raking in what i used to again.
it feels good.
the englishman and i have also decided to part ways... again. trying to focus so much more on our careers right now, but we're still very much deeply bound friends who completely support one another. besties for life, lol
i'm liking life a lot tho. still.
incredible job, incredible friends. couldn't be happier -- all the right people are here :)
Quote from: Aaron on October 21, 2011, 10:12:09 PM
I find this funny. http://www.amazon.com/Shure-EA306-Triple-Flange-Sleeves/dp/B000F657DY/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1319255514&sr=1-3 I need to buy new ones for my headphones. And while they aren't that much money. I find it odd they were 500 bucks. and now 12. I mean, who the fuck would spend that much for 6 (three pairs of ear tips?)
That reminds me, I was disappointed I missed checking out the CanJam at the RMAF; it would have been so cool to test a bunch of different high-end headphones.
Ugh, I think I'm getting (mildly) sick; probably a combination of the not-sleeping much from last week and having to deal with the batshit crazy ex-friend fangirl this week. Totally veging this weekend (save chores) to try and quell it.
Quote from: chimera on October 22, 2011, 12:16:01 PM
That reminds me, I was disappointed I missed checking out the CanJam at the RMAF; it would have been so cool to test a bunch of different high-end headphones.
Ugh, I think I'm getting (mildly) sick; probably a combination of the not-sleeping much from last week and having to deal with the batshit crazy ex-friend fangirl this week. Totally veging this weekend (save chores) to try and quell it.
I would love to go to a CanJam. However, my wallet would hate me forever. some of the set ups would make me cry. My set up isn't that amazing (or at lest, for what is out there, its not that amazing...) And I know there is better, but I haven't heard it, so I don't
know know.
joined some of the bikram teachers for a yin yoga session after this morning's bikram class. it was pretty crazy and remains to be seen if i will be super sore or super flexible tomorrow
I think I'm old. I go to bed earlier on my days off/Friday then on the days that I work... :( Normally I go to bed at like 10-11 and wake up at 3am. Its just before 9 and I'm about to go to bed...
Also I really don't want to go in to work at 4am... BUT I leave at 1pm. SO that kinda makes it worth it to me...
Don't feel too bad, Aaron. I go to sleep around 9-10 pm and I don't have to be up until the (comparatively) late hour of 4:30 am.
hahah thanks. I eneded up going to bed at 10:30pm. Woke up at 8:30am. Tonight I have to go to bed stupid early so I can wake up stupid early...
There is no way in hell that drugs were not involved in the creation of this (http://www.allmusic.com/album/r2271944). And not the good drugs. Very, very bad drugs.
I can't believe that is actually a thing. It exists. WTF?!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...?!
I can't even imagine... what this.. what the-- what?!
:lol:
It's always a white Christmas at Scott Weiland's house.....China white.
omg laughing so hard right now
Oh, Scott. ::)
Quote from: rynne on October 25, 2011, 05:36:35 PM
::)
exactly how i feel about STP and Scott Weiland in general.
Wth? Amazing.
Waking up at 130am blows. However i get off work at 1pm. I start at 4am.... Ugh....
Scott loves kitsch, so it doesn't really surprise me that he DID it, but that he thinks people want to hear it. But I still love a particular period of STP and I always will.
Oh you will score major points with those who do, he's the werewolf hottie on the show.
Did a lot of writing this weekend and I should be brain-dead, but surprisingly no, heh.
Well, today's the day here for a big layoff. I think I am ok, but I am worried about a couple of my friends. No matter what happens, I have already given myself the new year's resolution of kicking myself in the ass to find a new job after the holidays.
Our latest manager (who is a decent human being) didn't want anyone on his team sweating, so he pulled us all into a room and told us we were all safe. He just went up a few notches in my book. Most managers in this place don't have a pair and would never do that.
worked another 14 hour workday today.
have to wake up early to train another new employee tmr.
haven't even packed up my shit yet for the move. think i'm just gonna give everything except my bed, desk, computer, and clothes to goodwill. easiest solution, can't be bothered doing moving sale, etc.
it's a good time for many changes in my life. what sucks is that i'm working so much, haven't had time to fully enjoy it. oh well... i have plenty of time to later down the line, after this foundation is built.
leaving L.A.?
Quote from: r00 on November 01, 2011, 08:18:57 AM
Our latest manager (who is a decent human being) didn't want anyone on his team sweating, so he pulled us all into a room and told us we were all safe. He just went up a few notches in my book. Most managers in this place don't have a pair and would never do that.
My lead on our project runs interference for us with everyone all the time; it's amazing and it makes me sad I'll be leaving the project soon.
I hear ya. The ONLY reason my team doesn't catch a 10th of the bullshit that goes around this place is because of my director. He tells HR to fuck off religiously when they start nosing around his employees. If he was gone, I would expect 90% of this team would be out of here within the year. (The reason we didn't lose anyone in this round of firing was because he told them, "Fuck you. I fire my people when I need to fire them, not to meet a quota.")
They used to pull that shit with evaluations too (I'm sure some companies still do), it was on a quota system and even if everyone had done well that year, they would still give at least one person a bad review because of the quota. It happened to me one year and I challenged it, but nothing came of it, of course. ::)
Yeah that whole bell curve things with reviews is bullshit and almost everywhere I work has done it. Even if you have a team of superstars, at least 10% of them need to be ranked at the bottom as poor performers. Logic has no place in the work environment.
My old job would do kind of the opposite with reviews. A good review meant a raise so sometimes good workers just got skipped over when it came to review time. So glad to be done with that place.
so the new owners at my work are actually acknowledging that i know a hell of a lot more and am way more experienced than the other tech despite the fact that i'm not certified (i didn't go to school, i just learned on the job) and are actually "promoting" me to head tech
i say "promoting" because it wasn't really a "hey we're promoting you", rather a "why is our head tech not working a way better shift with weekends off?" so once i'm back from vacation i'm moving to 8-4 monday to friday and apparently the other tech (who has recently developed a HUGE attitude problem on top of being horribly disorganized and generally not good at doing important stuff) is getting her hours either cut or changed, possibly being demoted to saturday shifts and will be my responsibility to train so she doesn't suck so much
this will all be good as long as it translates into a raise for me, reviews are supposed to be happening mid december and if i can get another $2 per hour i'll be making what i was making at my last job
congrats! that is very cool. 8-)
Quote from: luna on November 04, 2011, 08:22:13 PM
am way more experienced than the other tech despite the fact that i'm not certified (i didn't go to school, i just learned on the job)
same story here. I have never gone for any certs. All my training is OTJ and I have had no problems obtaining offers based strictly on that fact alone. Experience > degree
My degree is in Biology (animal science focus), so that makes me extra jealous of what you do.
Sadly all the bullshit overshadows the fun of working with animals most of the time :(
Way to go, Luna! :D
Sounds similiar to my situation too -- E hired me as a contract technician about a month or so ago. Within a week, he hired me full-time, gave me a raise, and I'm now in charge of the photo dept of this office. I never trained for this, but apparently being honest, hardworking, and having a certain degree of skillsets can push you ahead. I'm very grateful for this job :)
The only thing I can only complain about tho (but not too much) is the fact that I'm working 60-80 hours a week, which leaves me walking around like a zombie, considering my other responsibilities being a "photographer" and all. But it's alright. I do get a sense of fulfillment from this job for some reason :)
*We work at a digital archiving office, converting everything (VHS, 16mm, 8mm, Betamax, audio cassette tapes, vinyl, U-MATIC TAPES(!), 35mm slides, negatives, etc) to digital form (including photo scanning). It's hard work (as far as being extremely tedious) and especially hectic right now before the holidays. But I really enjoy getting a glimpse of SO much of these families' ancestral pasts (so many beautiful photos from the 1800's - 1930s!). It's truly amazing getting to see all that history.
Addendum: I've even converted slides that were taken from the Apollo 11 landing, which was also awesome!
And r00: Nope, actually moving to the heart of L.A. -- downtown! Gentrified penthouse loft living -- finally, LOL
That sounds like a really cool job threat!
I agree. Any job where I could go through old history like that would be cool. That's why one of the coolest jobs ever would have to be a prop gatherer for period piece movies.
Grats on the new place too!
*High fives Luna* Hey, congratulations on your "promotion." I hope you get that two dollar raise.
so my aunt was over having coffee and we were chatting and she started talking about getting stoned and playing scrabble
wtf auntie! :lol:
BC. duh. 8-p
I just don't understand how my little 15-month old kid can eat the way he does. He apparently hadn't been that hungry during the day. My wife decided to make breakfast for supper, and that kid ate a piece of toast, a fried egg, 2 strips of bacon, and almost a cup of hash browns! My supper just had an extra egg and bacon strip, and my fat ass was full!! That kid is only 22 pounds!! Gah! Where the he'll did he just put all that?!
It only gets worse, dear. :D
In my typical late-adopter style, I've finally decided to get a gmail account. If any of the more tech-savy folks would be so kind as to recommend the best privacy settings for keeping my info secure, I'd be very appreciative.
Quote from: r00 on November 09, 2011, 09:08:29 AM
BC. duh. 8-p
bc: where retirees can get stoned and play scrabble to their heart's content :lol:
i really don't understand how the person i live with and spend the most time with is so oblivious to my life sometimes. today it went something like
B: why aren't you at work?
me: it's a holiday
B: yeah but you work holidays
me: no, my work is closed on holidays, i haven't had a job that works holidays in more than 3 years
B: but you always get a different day than the holiday off...
me: yeah it's because most holidays are on my normal day off so i get a different day, where have you been all this time?
*sigh*
welcome to the practically married life! 8-p It's just that us men never got the backup and storage plan that women acquired when they were assembled by the great PC tech in the sky. ;)
Yeah I try not to take it personally that he forgets the majority of what I tell him...
(7:56:12 AM): this guy was hanging around and at random, he goes "I didn't know Quebecians spoke English"
(7:56:20 AM): other guy kinda looks at him and says: "Yeah, Quebec is in Canada you know..."
(7:56:26 AM): so I pop in and yell "OH MY GOD"
(7:56:31 AM): "...THERE'S FRENCHMEN IN CANADA?"
(7:56:34 AM): "IT'S FUCKING WORLD WAR 3!"
lawlz
ah, the french
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving :)
I'M SO GOTH, I TRIED COMING TO THIS SITE AND TYPED "BLACKLORD" INSTEAD OF "FROGLORD"
I think I'm gona grow out my hair and then mohawk it again...
Hawk it up, bro!
randoom: For the first time in a decade, my family and I sat down at a table together and ate Thanksgiving dinner. It was actually a really cool feeling...
(Random and not a rave because we STILL HAVEN'T MOVED IN YET. Grr.)
well this is fairly random because i didn't even know this set was taped!
features some horrible spoken word, unreleased flannelogue, and a live fukencanuckens cover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWb7Hob0sPk
some notes:
i just finished work and rushed to the other end of town. as soon as i got there i was told i had to do a quick 7 because the show was running late. oh, and i had to go on right away.
i also had to deal with not being able to use the mic if i wanted to use my ipod, and seeing that i had never used my ipod in a set before i went with that. i get bored easily and like experimenting.
the audience was real drunk and high on obscene amounts of narcotics. i was sober as fuck and being emo about my birthday (which was the next day).
some people were confused. some people laughed. that's my target audience.
nice job! I totally lolzed at the David Copperfield/WTC bit. Very creative and very witty. Hang on to that gem. 8-)
thank ya! and yeah, it's a a nice piece. i've been doin that for a few years now... interesting psychology with that bit. it went from uncomfortable "too soon" laughs to less uncomfortable "too soon" laughs.
great stuff teeps. and I to lolled at the wtc joke...
I love watching the project manager people here at work scramble to get things in before their end of year deadlines and get pissed when they find out just how far behind the actual worker bees they are. Haha this is gonna be good. Enjoy your Christmas at work, assholes. My team's shit is already done and working because we do this thing called "planning way ahead." We look forward to you even attempting to blame us for when you have to tell the CEO you didn't make your deadline.
yeah, life kinda sucks when it throws curveballs at ya... the hurt can go away, but you still can kinda feel the mark.
*hugs*
congrats on the Trent tweet, tpd!
Quote from: threatsicle on December 01, 2011, 06:02:11 AMAddendum: And it really kinda puts me into a surreal shock realizing that I've somehow got into this scene, where I'm hanging out with people who are both nominated for Grammys and have won Grammys.
It is rather surreal, isn't it? And then coming face-to-face with an actual Grammy is interesting too, lol.
"Can I touch it? Is that okay?"
"Just don't drop it!""Suicide Note" was my favorite, Teddykins, the Grammar Nerd in me lolzed bigtime. :wub:
I have a frog stocking cap/beanie. And its the shit. Its warm to. Like really warm. ANYHOO I wore it for inventory a few days ago (27th of the month) and one of the asst. managers told me that she really liked it, and has and I quote "has a fetish for frogs." No joke. And while I wanted to correct her, it also made me laugh a little that she said that. Unless she was hitting on me... DUN DUN DUN!
I picked up my guitar again. I set the bar to high, trying to learn Lateralus... I am now learning Space Cadet by Kyuss. Cuz I fucking love that song... And its a lot less crazy then Lateralus...
Ever poured out a cup of coffee (the last in the pot after everyone else had their share) and put in your sugar, your creamer and what have you -- and suddenly a FUCKING STINKBUG drowns itself in your morning Joe?
It just happened to me.
:(
Got a new job for those of you not following along on Facebook. Very interested in starting. Boom doesn't like it because I'll have to travel for a few weeks, but I can't turn down the money.
Tonight I learned that douchebags will mosh to anything, even the noise in between songs
also it is required that every time i meet tpd in real life it must be outside the bathroom at the rickshaw :lol:
This is how epically lame Theo and I have become, we had the following debate the other day about the first toy story movie
"If they are moving in less than a week why his mom let him put up all those new buzz lightyear posters?"
"Maybe woody imagined them"
"No, because they're there at the end of the movie too!"
"Jesus christ I don't know it's a fucking movie!"
My bragging rights have now been revoked.
Sorry, I just kind of blacked out in the food thread.
Got a callback from the pharmacy I interviewed at ten days after I was laid off. The message was on my parents' machine, so I have to call some woman back and find out what the story is. I've got all fingers and toes crossed that they want to know when I can start. We shall see.
drone
Good luck drone! (fingers will be crossed. I can't cross my toes... :( )
My hands are super dry. One of my pinkies is even worse, and flaking and nasty. And in fact it cracked open today in a spot. Hurts hella bad. I bought Corn Huskers Lotion, cuz its cheap, and it doesn't leave my hands feeling greasy (well I read that, I haven't used it before... and its true) And it doesn't smell that much. I can smell it, but it isn't a strong smell...
I'm off the next two days. I have been waking up at 3:30am the last 4 days (maybe 5?) So I'm gona sleep in. Also my room is cold 60F (15C) which means lots of blankets, I LOVE to sleep under hella blankets, its a nice feeling, and good... It's like a hug from your bed.
fun week. got to hang with my old roomies and chillax a bit. sucks to be back to eMpTy heLL.
Quote from: luna on December 05, 2011, 03:06:45 AM
Tonight I learned that douchebags will mosh to anything, even the noise in between songs
also it is required that every time i meet tpd in real life it must be outside the bathroom at the rickshaw :lol:
bwahahaha i know! i saw we just meet there for the puppy show next spring.
and god, i fuckin hated those douches. my buddy lex was gettin' hella pissed with them and she mule kicked one of them really hard and he fell to the floor.
ha.
Met Jonathan Davis tonight. Puked a little bit more in my mouth and promptly left the venue.
Quote from: threatsicle on December 07, 2011, 04:43:24 AM
Met Jonathan Davis tonight. Puked a little bit more in my mouth and promptly left the venue.
I <3 you
Quote from: teeps on December 07, 2011, 03:46:33 AM
and god, i fuckin hated those douches. my buddy lex was gettin' hella pissed with them and she mule kicked one of them really hard and he fell to the floor.
ha.
I really hope it was that freakishly tall guy that was doing the robot all night
Working on a music video this weekend.
Music video is for that crazy singer chick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_Conner) who was on Rock of Love with Bret Michaels a few years ago.
Gonna puke even MORE in my mouth and all over the set.
AND I'LL GET PAID FOR IT. THAT'S WHAT WE GET PAID FOR BEING "ART DEPT".
Quote from: Aaron on December 06, 2011, 11:23:39 PMI LOVE to sleep under hella blankets, its a nice feeling, and good... It's like a hug from your bed.
This is why you are so adorable!
So rae HOW CREEPY exactly is Jonathan? :))
Quote from: chimera on December 08, 2011, 03:54:21 PM
This is why you are so adorable!
Eh. It's true. 100%. I really think this is why I like winter the best, sleeping with lots of blankets, and sitting around the house with lots of blankets. (And I get to wear my Lustmord beanie...)
If you are in your third trimester of pregnancy and you start getting itchy hands and feet, for the love of God go to a doctor.
J: I didn't know there was a creepness factor? I was just a shake, nod, nice to meet you. Dunno how creepiness plays into that?
I get that, I've just heard from others who have crossed paths with him that he's creepy in general but in certain situations I can see where it would be all business.
Quote from: rokken like dokken on December 08, 2011, 09:35:40 PM
If you are in your third trimester of pregnancy and you start getting itchy hands and feet, for the love of God go to a doctor.
Not that I'm gona have to worry about that any time soon (or hopefully ever). Why? What does it mean if her hands and feet get itchy?
Quote from: Aaron on December 09, 2011, 12:18:44 AM
Not that I'm gona have to worry about that any time soon (or hopefully ever). Why? What does it mean if her hands and feet get itchy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrahepatic_cholestasis_of_pregnancy
Oh no is everything ok?
Quote from: chimera on December 08, 2011, 11:13:41 PM
I get that, I've just heard from others who have crossed paths with him that he's creepy in general but in certain situations I can see where it would be all business.
explaining why Jonathan Davis is perceived by most people as creepy = hilarious.
Quote from: luna on December 09, 2011, 10:34:45 AM
Oh no is everything ok?
More or less - it just means that if her bile acid test confirms the condition the baby's coming about a month/three weeks early.
Good to know. Good luck with that!
I cut my middle finger yesterday at work with my box knife yesterday. I super glued the shit out of it. I can see a flap of skin. (I put in a new blade then went dumb and cut my self.) It's fine now, well it hasn't healed up but whatever...
I'm off the next two days. Can't wait... Going to play video games till my eyes bleed!
It's also cold here 20F -7C. But I'm hot so its all good. I got my beanie my mom made. Its hella warm so all is well.
Quote from: rokken like dokken on December 09, 2011, 07:27:51 PM
More or less - it just means that if her bile acid test confirms the condition the baby's coming about a month/three weeks early.
I know it's distressing news, but they take such good care of premies these days it's going to be okay and you're better prepared.
Quote from: chimera on December 10, 2011, 11:33:17 AM
I know it's distressing news, but they take such good care of premies these days it's going to be okay and you're better prepared.
Oh no, absolutely - hell:
-I was born 5 weeks premature
-my poor mom had to have one of those nightmare C-sections involving a blood transfusion
-we both spent a month in the hospital after birth
-when my mom finally got home my year-old sister forgot who she was
But we all still turned out fine. Really, the only reason I AM nervous is because I know what a worst case scenario can be. :o But by that token, the odds are pretty good that nothing like that will happen.
A girl that works for me had her baby something crazy, like at 23 weeks. He was in the office yesterday and he's 6 months old and looked fine.
Just like you said, it will be OK. The pit of emotions you will be subjected to when the baby is born and you think in your head for a minute something could go wrong is amazing. When Alex had to be rushed to surgery, it was the most stressful thing I ever put myself through. I would drive home in the car and just cry. It was weird, I wasn't upset...just tears. The same type of emotion and helplessness I felt every time one of my sons was born. Just felt like a release more than anything.
And that feeling of helplessness never quite goes away, either. But you learn to accept it through the years.
Yeah, I mean, if everything goes well, then it's for the best because it's been a pretty miserable pregnancy.
Good luck to you guys, mike. R00tle was 6 weeks early and a very stressful pregnancy too. I remember the sigh of relief once everyone was home from the hospital safe and sound. Please keep us updated!
And she is absolutely beautiful! :wub:
What the fuck is wrong with Best Buy? Their Christmas commercials are downright disgusting this year.
you watch commercials?
edit: not trying to hipster you or anything. I just can't remember the last time I watched a television commercial in this age of DVR's and bittorrent.
LOL I sort of watch commercials. I don't get to use the TV much (most of my watching is done through Netflix or 'means that may potentially indicate I am a pirate but solely of the legal seafaring corsair kind'), but sometimes I overhear commercials from my folks' living room and go to check it out.
I happened upon one of several Best Buy commercials where 'bargaining patrons' belittle and mock Santa in their own homes, who simply happens to be delivering presents at the time. Seriously, what the fuck?
EDIT: go look up one of the commercials and tell me that's just not downright mean. lol
I can see the humor in it, but I definitely dont think it works for a retail christmas ad. Oh well, those fuckers didn't get a dime out of me this Chirstmas anyway. They would have to beat online deals first.
The marketing company is Philadelphia-based and Eagles fans. They've thrown snowballs at Santa.
Eagles fans have, I mean.
I'm going to buy my self a straight razor. More then likely really late this month, or in January...
Is anyone here on turntable.fm??? r00?? it's not connected to fb any longer...
and also- Eagles fans are fucking derelicts.
Quote from: kristin on December 16, 2011, 04:40:52 PM
Is anyone here on turntable.fm??? r00?? it's not connected to fb any longer...
wha???
Ok, I'll check it out and join up.
Quote from: kristin on December 16, 2011, 04:46:02 PM
and also- Eagles fans are fucking derelicts.
It's true. The fictional crew of Always Sunny would be right at home with any Eagles game.
Quote from: r00 on December 15, 2011, 11:30:13 AM
I can see the humor in it, but I definitely dont think it works for a retail christmas ad. Oh well, those fuckers didn't get a dime out of me this Chirstmas anyway. They would have to beat online deals first.
Looks like I may have jinxed myself...
My PS3 aquired the Yellow Light of Death today. 8( I had to go to Best Buy and pick up a new PS3.
motherfucker.
please tell me someone else here has read or is reading 1Q84 and sees an eerie similarity between kim jong il's death and "leader's" death
the public mourning stuff for lil' Kim is kind of nutty...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pSWN6Qj98Iw#!
i'm assuming pretty much everything we're seeing from the north korean media is staged in some way...weird shit
Quote from: r00 on December 17, 2011, 04:14:56 PM
My PS3 aquired the Yellow Light of Death today. 8( I had to go to Best Buy and pick up a new PS3.
(my) Tim hasn't even had his Xbox a year and the hard drive already crashed; but Keith decided getting a new hard drive was cheaper than a new Xbox.
Quote from: r00 on December 16, 2011, 06:23:24 PM
wha???
Ok, I'll check it out and join up.
Let me know which rooms you hang in and I'll find you. My handle on TT is quirkybitch
Still can't find a sign up link on there that doesn't require some sort of social media. I'll keep looking into it.
xmas present to myself was this amazing sweater that is sold out everywhere http://www.hm.com/ca/product/97307?article=97307-B :D
paid way too much for it on ebay
Quote from: rokken like dokken on December 09, 2011, 07:27:51 PM
More or less - it just means that if her bile acid test confirms the condition the baby's coming about a month/three weeks early.
So how is the Mrs doing?
Quote from: dee on December 24, 2011, 07:49:04 PM
So how is the Mrs doing?
She's ready for the baby to come out - the doctors want to do it on Jan. 9, and all the ultrasounds and blood tests have come back fine so far, but she's just tired and sore and really wants it to be done.
merry xmas everyone
<3
DON'T YOU KNOW HOW INSULTING TH
Merry xmas, you <3
Maybe it's all the shit going on in my life right now that makes it not feel like xmas at all :(
Or maybe it's just that I had to spend 6 hours at B's parents house today and am really irritated :(
Quote from: luna on December 25, 2011, 09:35:31 PM
Maybe it's all the shit going on in my life right now that makes it not feel like xmas at all :(
Or maybe it's just that I had to spend 6 hours at B's parents house today and am really irritated :(
I hear you - in the past two days I've spent like 12 hours with the in-laws and I'm really exhausted - they're nice people but it's just different when it's not your family (unless you don't like your family).
Working retail killed what little bit of holiday joy I had. I'm just glade they are all over. I don't have in laws thought, so its all good. And I just see my folks for holidays.
My phone battery has shit the bed. It doesn't last long at all. Today with minimal use it was draining stupid fast. I didn't use it a lot either. (I checked the weather, and twitter) I also texted a bit. And it raped the battery level... I thought about buying a battery back up charger thing. However, I found replacement batteries pretty cheap on newegg... (15 bucks per) ebay has them for about half that. (free shipping to.) And just letting it sit on my desk (not being used) it's gone down ~20% in an hour or so...
Quote from: rokken like dokken on December 25, 2011, 01:24:13 AM
She's ready for the baby to come out - the doctors want to do it on Jan. 9, and all the ultrasounds and blood tests have come back fine so far, but she's just tired and sore and really wants it to be done.
Glad to hear all is well other than her perfectly normal wish for the wee fiend to be out. :)
So I have an opportunity to see Tool at the end of January. I have never seen them live and really want to go. Can I really justify spending $85 on a ticket especially when I'm not working and unsure if I'll even have a job by then? I don't know.
drone
If there is any way to pull it off financially you should go!
Also wft you've never seen tool live???
Yeah, I know. Which is probably the biggest reason for me to go.
drone
$85 is fucking ridiculous. I think it was only $30 when I saw them on the Lateralus tour. I might see them if I hadn't seen them before, but there's no way that I, personally, would pay that kind of money to see them today. Not a chance. in. hell.
I paid 40ish? when I saw them for 10K days. However, am I the only one that sees this as Maynard trying to make some cash for his Puscifer tour? He did some shows, then Tool tours and Puscifer is doing another tour right after tool... (Just saying)
The being said, if they were playing in Seattle or Van. I would do it in a fucking second... But I'm also a HUGE fanboi...
I think the most I paid to see Tool was around $60. Personally, especially at this stage in the game, there is no way that I would pay that much money to go. I had a chance, too- and I said "no thanks." I just bought a new car and am looking @ upgrading to a nicer apartment, so I need to save as much $$ as I can.
I think I paid around $40 when I saw them. I have way too many bills to drop that kind of money seeing anyone anymore.
Quote from: Aaron on December 27, 2011, 08:17:17 PMHowever, am I the only one that sees this as Maynard trying to make some cash for his Puscifer tour? He did some shows, then Tool tours and Puscifer is doing another tour right after tool... (Just saying)
I see it as the band making some cash the quickest and easiest way they know how; but also it could be a way to get in the groove again for the recording process, because if you spend a month or two playing live then it will be that much easier to do so once you get in the studio. Personally I don't want to see them again till they're touring the new album.
Pretty sure they could sell nude pics and make cash faster and never leave the house :P.
But ya, I understand that. And if it gets me a new album sooner, I'm fine with it. Either way, I want new Tool soon.
I agree with chim. It seems to make more sense once an album is out again. I'm really on the fence but that price is fucking steep. Plus there's puscifer and apc probably touring soon too.
I'd pay to see Puscifer before I paid for Tool. And good point- not supporting a new album on this tour.
If I recall, we paid roughly $60/tix for Puscifer, which came with wine tasting + we got to meet Maynard (meet + greet tix cost more, but we got free wine + got to also meet Milla, so that was quite an awesome bargain).
Front row center Tool for both L.A. + Vegas with Farrier was enough for me too (which also equated to us being on same plane with 3/4s of them too). Don't think I need to see them again.
On a different technical tangent, I can't seem to log into this site via Chrome anymore. Says something about a cookie error, which is quite odd, as absolutely no settings have been changed on my end since I last visited this site.
I use chrome and its been fine for me. (however it's been acting odd for me. Flash will work for a site, then not work then work again, due to missing plug in.)
So my phone battery couldn't hold a charge for like a week. (It would work, but it would drain, just being in my pocket not being used. Or At lest I wasn't playing games or youtubing with it and the battery would go down. Just being in my pocket and in an hour it would drop like 10% (I do check the time a lot while I'm at work.)) Now though after I bought a new battery, its working great. Maybe killing the battery and then recharging it helped it out...? Eh oh well.
probably the best tumblr ever, LOL
http://gothsuptrees.tumblr.com/
That's awesome :lol:
well after 16 days off of work, I am back. I feel refreshed, but my resolution is to find a new job within 3 months. This commute has been chipping away at my soul for 3 years now and I just can't do it anymore.
hahaha god I hate this fucking place. My weekend is already siphoned off by work. They need me to work sat and sun. (keep in mind I am salary, so that means ZERO extra pay too). Thanks for the last minute notice, dickheads.
On the bright side, I have learned more at this place in that last 3 years than I had the previous 6, so it has been great for me as far as my skill set goes. Plus their network is fucking huge, so I am constantly touching bleeding edge equipment that small businesses could never afford. So I am grateful, if only to the god of fate, not the business itself.
Good luck finding a new job, r00. I can't imagine dealing with your commute every day!
Thanks. I have adjusted my mental alignment to treat the next few months as if this place is paying me to find a new job.
Dear sleep
I miss you. I miss you terribly. I took you for granted and never appreciated what a wonderful thing we had until they came along and ripped us apart. I know, I hear them through the walls talking, giggling, crying, doing everything EXCEPT sleeping. Why don't they appreciate you and all the joy you bring to peoples lives? Why do they hate us both so much? Don't worry, someday I'll be able to change the locks and tell them I moved, somewhere far away with no phone service and only a dial-up internet connection. Then, we'll be together again. Just you and me.
Oh, that dude that shares the bed with me and insists on having a goddamn box fan going all night to further interrupt us? He can move in with the kids. Or to Antarctica. I don't care. Just you and me, promise.
Love,
me
Someday, boomer...I was a sleep-deprived zombie for about a year-and-a-half.
Because my missus works night shifts, she and I trade off being sleep-deprived zombies.
My lovelife seems to be a revolving door for The Englishman.
I'll be sure to livestream our wedding and invite all y'all to watch it.
Addendum: It should be mentioned that last line was a joke before it's actually taken seriously. NO ENGAGEMENT TOOK PLACE, lol
OH C'MON NOW! :op
But yeah we fully expect attendant coverage when it happens.
Quote from: threatsicle on January 07, 2012, 05:08:34 AM
Addendum: It should be mentioned that last line was a joke before it's actually taken seriously. NO ENGAGEMENT TOOK PLACE, lol
Yet.
it never ceases to amaze me how much personal information people will leave open to total strangers on fb
yes i'm spying, shouldn't have set your shit to friends of friends people
in other news over the last few weeks i have finally managed to tell B absolutely everything that i've been wanting to but putting off, i think things are going really well and might even be getting better in the future ^-^
and maybe i can start getting a decent amount of sleep again instead of waking up in the middle of the night to my racing thoughts...
Quote from: luna on January 08, 2012, 05:14:59 PM
it never ceases to amaze me how much personal information people will leave open to total strangers on fb
This yes. There is definitely a naivety involved with a lot of people online nowadays. I find that it mainly occurs in the young and those people that weren't online until the dawn of myspace/facebook. I can't imagine the kind of creepy shit and cyberstalking that goes on now.
I was reading the other day that now one of the first things a divorce attorney does when acquiring a new client is check out the spouses facebook and tell their client to lock down theirs and stop posting to it.
I imagine it's pretty standard for potential employers to check it out too
That's a big reason why I'm glad I work at the place that I do; personally, I try not to be ashamed of anything I've ever said (although maybe sometimes I should be), and I'm very glad that I work at a company that is really progressive in their opinions that employees are free to be themselves when they're off-shift (and the non-dress-code is a plus too; I wore a ripped pair of jeans and a Skinny Puppy T-shirt to work last night), so I've never even thought twice about accepting friend requests from my boss (I'm now on my 8th boss). However, I remember a bit ago when i was applying to a government job and the first thing I did was lock down my FB profile and change all of my privacy settings to make sure only people I trusted could see what I wrote. My super-accepting employers have kind of spoiled me.
My wife's having a baby tomorrow, no big deal or anything.
How many PI babies does this make?
Quote from: rokken like dokken on January 09, 2012, 10:51:05 PM
My wife's having a baby tomorrow, no big deal or anything.
pre-grats!
for all you spider lovers out there.... 8-p
Spiders in Pakistan encase whole trees in webs (http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/spiders-in-pakistan-encase-whole-trees-in-webs)
Ya Congrats! Hope everything goes smooth and fast, and everyone is alright!
r00 I like spiders, however, those trees scream GTFO so very loud...
Also learning two look oll. Going to learn all of the oll algs however right now, I want to do two look. (I will need to learn 6 more, out of nine that is.) For the real deal there is 57. SO it will cut down on how much I have to know, but it will make me slower then if I knew all 57. (It will make me faster thought, so I'm cool with that.)
Quote from: rokken like dokken on January 09, 2012, 10:51:05 PM
My wife's having a baby tomorrow, no big deal or anything.
Good luck to both of you :)
Baby's not here yet, they never prepare you for premature inductions.
After 72 hours in the hospital, we have delivery! I am also exhausted.
congrats! Hopefully the 3 of you are getting some much needed rest right now.
Grats!
Word of advice. Stay in the hospital as long as you can. And soon as you feel up to it, fill us in with details. Like did she arrive the 11th or 12th? Again, grats and sooo happy for you!!
Hooray for babies!
Do your wife a favor and keep your mouth shut about how tired you are. I guarantee you she feels 100x worse and doesn't want to hear you bitching. Or maybe that was just my marriage.
"Theo, I just spent 16 hours in labor, 3 of which pushing your kid out, can you go down to the snack room and get me some graham crackers?"
"No, I'm exhausted, I'll get them in the morning"
(this literally happened when I had my first one)
Quote from: boom on January 12, 2012, 01:12:43 PM
Do your wife a favor and keep your mouth shut about how tired you are. I guarantee you she feels 100x worse and doesn't want to hear you bitching.
ROFL!!! I was going to post a reply with something like that, but my testicles told me not to.
Quote from: rokken like dokken on January 09, 2012, 10:51:05 PM
My wife's having a baby tomorrow, no big deal or anything.
CONGRATS!! :)
Congrats! :) When are you going to tell us if it's a boy or girl?
Girl - thought I specified already but maybe not.
Ok, so my wife had cholestasis which is a condition where bile doesn't get to the liver properly and ends up in the bloodstream - the most common and prevalent symptoms is super-itchy hands and feet towards the end, and birth is almost always premature. This is why you need to go see a doctor about it as soon as you notice it - if you take it to term there's a 10-25% chance of stillbirth.
So she needed to deliver it prematurely, and went in Monday to get an implant but it didn't work. Tuesday, same thing. Wednesday, at about noon it started and she was slated for labor which started around 4pm, and about 14 hours later, no baby. In all we were in the hospital about 68 hours before she went in for a C-section, and it was finally over at about 6am this morning.
boom, you will be happy to know I was on my best behavior the whole time.
Congrats! Its good everything went well!
Oh my goodness what an ordeal! But I'm so happy for you both, congratulations!
QuoteStay in the hospital as long as you can.
See, I felt the opposite. They made me stay a week and I just wanted to go home and get on with it. My milk wasn't coming down, I was exhausted because I had a child with a completely nocturnal schedule, had to have a stupid IV, was hobbling around from the C-section, post-partum meltdown (because my MIL would come every day and just sit and stare at me and I wasn't up to chit-chat), argh.
CONGRATS, DOKKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Yeah, we finally got home today and it's really better. Becky's worried it'll be hard but I think we'll be ok, more or less. There's a lot of help available in Canada.
Quick question, since I couldn't seem to find relevant thread in Music section:
How much would do you reckon hardcore collectors would pay for memorabilia from the TDS and NIN/Bowie tours (i.e., original setlist drafts, tour intinerary maps, stage passes, etc.)? They're all in great shape and have been kept boxed in storage since 1997, so it's practically undamaged.
Thanks in advance for your help x
It really depends on whether the core fanbase has enough disposable income in this economy, I would think. But at the very least, say $500 for certain items, right? Especially if the provenance is fairly direct.
Wouldn't know, that's why I'm asking, lol!
The tour intinerary maps have everything from which venues they played to what hotels they stayed at (if any). It's actually pretty detailed and has little diary NINcamp stories about some of the stops.
It's silly that he might want to part ways with it, but guess he likes to know the option.
Addendum: Although, I'm thinking, since he had to sign a NDA, it probably wouldn't be sellable? But the setlists would be.
They had to print most of those on the go via one of the first Apple inkjet printers made by Canon that fit in their crewbags -- SO DETAILED, haha
Those generally do fetch a good price, I saw one from a Floyd tour go for over two grand.
Wow! But that's Pink Floyd, as opposed to NIN...
Maybe he could hang on to these things for a couple more decades and see what it's worth then, lol
There's 2cm of snow on the road everyone panic!
Seriously I person called in snow, another person tried but agreed to come in after I had a mini meltdown about being the only staff member here all day. I left house at the usual time and had time to stop at the bank and get a coffee on the way people ::)
We finally had snow that lasted more than 24 hours and of course it was during the 2 weeks I'm by myself since Theo is on a business trip. I can't leave the kids alone in the house long enough to shovel my driveway so I have to park in the street since I can't make it up to the house without spinning out. It's supposed to snow again tomorrow and friday and I live on a plow line so I can't park in the street after it snows. So, basically, I'm screwed. :hmm:
boom, I know that problem all too well. With my wife working night shifts, if it snows, it might be several days before there's enough co-ordination between us so that I can actually plow a path in and out of the house.
The only thing I've been able to figure out is to wait until the kid's asleep, jam a battery-powered baby monitor in my pocket, and shovel at night. Sucks balls (especially after a long day of work and midget-wrangling), but its the only way I can avoid getting nasty letters from the postal service.
I have found that you can pay the kids around here 5 bucks or so to shovel your driveway. Child labor owns.
I always knew deep down you had the mentality of a Dickens villain :P
I've learned that around here you do not feed the local wildlife. Get one to shovel your walk once, and they don't stop coming back until you start throwing hobos at them.
I live in an apartment, so technically the landlords have to shovel it, but they're not exactly punctual all of the time, and frequently I see my 60+ year old neighbor shoveling, and I always offer to borrow his shovel and take over for him when I see that happening, although about 10 minutes in I always find myself regretting my altruism.
Man, I hear what y'all are saying about all that snow shovelin'. Tell me about it!!!! It's fucking hard work, man. Living in LA with this 70/80 degree weather in the dead of winter. Fucking KILILNG me...
:p
Sorry.
Hey threat, it's the funniest thing; I happen to have a dick you can suck. :hmm:
You people and your crazy frozen water!
*ahem*
It never failed, when Keith would go out of town on a business trip something bad would happen that would require some kind of emergency fix since I was on my own with a small child. I'm glad those days are over.
We have freezing rain, and the whole town is covered in ice. (Which looks really pretty btw. Or at lest on trees) I walked to and from work, My boot chains haven't failed me at all. (these. http://www.amazon.com/Yaktrax-Traction-Cleats-Black-Small/dp/B001CZJIOQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327024191&sr=8-1 ) So it's all good.
Gotta love it. http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kills-department-of-justice-site-in-megaupload-revenge-strike
HAHAHAHAH fuck ya :rock:
Anonymous made a press release or whatever you want to call it.
There isn't much to it. But this made me lolzie
QuoteWe Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz. The FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us.
I really think the Lulz part does it for me.
Wow, for once Anonymous actually did something useful instead of just wagging their dicks.
I ordered a new headset since my Logitech G35s died. The package was supposed to be here at 9 today, but the USPS guy hit the 'delivered' key on his datapad when he got my package at 9AM this morning. Come close to 11:30 and I check my door, package ain't there. I call them and I can literally hear the conversation between the USPS employees:
"Did you deliver [IZ's headset]?"
"Uh... no?"
"But it says delivered on the interface."
"Oh, my bad! I was heading out to [deliver it now at 11:15AM] and I just hit the delivered key too early."
"Right..."
So the ice was worst to day, pretty much everything is covered in ice. A LOT of people called in sick today from work, and I'm sure there will be a lot tomorrow as well. But everything is covered in a thick layer of ice. And then it will rain, melt the ice (even thought it's cold enough for it all to freeze) and then refreeze. It looks really pretty, however its a shitty deal...
This anticipation is killing me
my sister bought me a compost bin for christmas, so I started it up today. I am starting to prep for the summer garden already and have seeds on order for various flowers and vegetables. I should be starting them up indoors by late Feb or March under lights and then move them outside by the time we have our last frost (usually 3rd week of May).
I just love growing things. Gotta get the bio major in me out somehow. 8-p
This 72 hour anonymous warning is pretty intriguing, I must say.
B's credit card had almost $2000 in fraudulent charges on it last month...awesome
I bought a new 3x3 today I like the feel of it. However I'm gona have to buy new stickers as I have already chipped some of the paint off the sticker? I didn't chip the sticker but the color is coming off the thing. Which is odd. But new stickers are cheap. And for 8 bucks it's really nice and works very well.
Quote from: Aaron on January 24, 2012, 11:29:53 PM
I bought a new 3x3 today I like the feel of it. However I'm gona have to buy new stickers as I have already chipped some of the paint off the sticker? I didn't chip the sticker but the color is coming off the thing. Which is odd. But new stickers are cheap. And for 8 bucks it's really nice and works very well.
Try one of these!
(http://uploads.notempire.com/images/uploads/talktome.jpg)
hahahah I have been looking at the for the blind cubes. They have ones with arrows on them, and all the arrows have to point the same way for it to be solved Like the top ^ the front < the right side > and so on.
Is anyone else using Chrome and having issues with closing youtube videos? When I close a video chrome crashes. (Well it says the flash player crashes, but chrome freezes up as well.) Firefox works fine with youtube. I can open and close videos as I please. I have updated adobe and it still crashes... I think I may switch back to Firefox...
decisions, decisions. I can feel life changes on the horizon.
I got a 32 second solve on my cube today. My new best. (my old best was 36 seconds.)
Tomorrow is inventory, which is kinda gona suck, but it really shouldn't be to bad at all. In fact it should be a pretty good one. Holidays are over, so less turkeys and shit. And we don't get new fright tonight, so less to count. It should go smooth. Hopefully the store manager doesn't notice my headphones. She made a stink about people having mp3 players and cellphones, and how we aren't supposed to have them while working. And while I still carry my phone (a calculator is really nice to have, and texting TPD) I only listen to my music on inventory, since I'm pretty much 100% in the back.
Men are so cute when they act like they're not jealous, but they really are, lol.
Ugh. My pc case has a front and back fan and then a lot bigger side fan. It shit the bed. I noticed last night when I went to bed and looked at my case, I could just see the fan and it wasn't spinning. However, my pc isn't running hot right now. I will need to dust the shit out of it and see if that fixes it. OR if I need to buy a new one. Newegg has them for dirt cheap so it's ok. Just wish I didn't have to spend more money. (THEN again, I have a smaller fan, and zip ties. So I may just kludge it up...)
Quote from: Aaron on January 29, 2012, 11:50:16 PM
Ugh. My pc case has a front and back fan and then a lot bigger side fan. It shit the bed. I noticed last night when I went to bed and looked at my case, I could just see the fan and it wasn't spinning. However, my pc isn't running hot right now. I will need to dust the shit out of it and see if that fixes it. OR if I need to buy a new one. Newegg has them for dirt cheap so it's ok. Just wish I didn't have to spend more money. (THEN again, I have a smaller fan, and zip ties. So I may just kludge it up...)
Buddy, if you didn't live so far away, I'd ship you my Coolermaster Sniper case, got 6 fans running in that one, but it's been redundent since I made a new build. If it's just a case fan that's blown, it's not a hugely critical issue unless you're seriously pushing the PC frequently.
Ya its just the case fan. I know its not that big of a deal. (Which is why I didn't order a new one yet.) (and my room is cool right now so I really don't have anything to worry about.) And even a new fan is less then 20 maybe 25 with shipping. So I'm not gona worry about it till I know I can't fix it...
I wonder if I just made a career limiting move and I lost it on my boss. I wasn't out of control and I was completely professional, but I told him how it is. Basically myself and 2 other people on a team of 10+ haven't had a completely free weekend since before the holidays. Every week midweek he has "Lumberg'ed" us with the whole "yeahhh ummm I need you to work this saturday" or be available on sunday for escalations, etc.
I explained to him how we could do this without wasting anyone's time and without losing any efficiency whatsoever. Let's see what happens. It feels like harassment at this point and I couldn't contain my opinions any longer.
If you've worked every weekend for a month and a half, any rational person would expect you to be a little on edge. If you kept your cool and just explained what's going on and offered a better way to do things that's easier on everyone, then that's usually worth a ton of kudos.
Of course, you also work in a place where insanity is SOP, so who knows what the hell could happen.
Either way, there's still job openings up here for anyone who knows a bit of Java. :P
Good on you for telling him how it should be, man. Bosses that incompetent shouldn't be working that kind of job and controlling people like that; I say that if he fires you/gets you fired for just honestly telling him the way things should be run properly, then he's lost a valuable asset and he's already sunk his own ship. I'd hate to work in a situation like that, myself.... I think anyone would.
Maybe this lolz moment will cheer some of us up:
individualzero: what's up?
nomesis: Watching the BBC
individualzero: aren't you American? why the fuck are you watching the bbc?
nomesis: sometimes I mute the sound and watch it
nomesis: And I realize
nomesis: these people don't seem nearly as foreign without the accents. its like they could be plain jain white americans wthout the funny voices
individualzero: lol?
Thanks for the words. To my manager's credit, I am certain that most of this is coming down from above him, but he isn't standing up to them and saying what I said.
I have already mentally checked out of this place though. Resumes are flowing and I am fairly certain I won't have to suffer under the thumb of lunacy for much longer.
So one week into the new job and I've had three different people tell me that I should get a second job. Uh, awkward?
drone
That is definitely weird.
Is it because of not getting enough hours or because you should watch your back around that place?
r00 buy this ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/61b7/?srp=44 ) and then it should go missing. Burn the place down.
Goose how hard is it to learn Java?
Drone that is odd. But ya same question as r00.
I woke up a bit ago. I was gona hit snooze and go back to sleep. Then I heard what I thought was knocking on my door, in an angry kinda way... So I RUSH out there no one there, it was the kids up stairs... (Or at lest I assume it was them, playing in the bath.) Oh well, I needed to get up anyway.
I wanted a new brush. And after asking around and reading I had it picked out, it was supposed to be in stock today. Now the site doesn't say it will be back in stock at all. Ugh. and GRRR all at once. They do have a differen't version of it, just a bit different (I don't think it looks as cool... Ugh. Oh well.) (what I wanted. http://www.italianbarber.com/semogue-owners-club-boar-bristle-shaving-brush-cherry-wood )
Quote from: Aaron on January 31, 2012, 12:04:14 PM
r00 buy this ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/61b7/?srp=44 ) and then it should go missing. Burn the place down.
hahaha I would be lying if I said the thought never crossed my mind.
I DEFINITELY SAID NO SALT!
WHOOOMF!
Quote from: Aaron on January 31, 2012, 12:04:14 PM
Goose how hard is it to learn Java?
If you know just about any other programming language, its not too tricky. But, learning how to use it (or any other software development tool) to build stable, professional programs takes either years of experience or a university degree, preferably a little of both.
Well I don't know any programming languages. So it wouldn't be easy.
Apparently my manager listed to what i told him this morning and I am off the hook for the weekend. Let the spice (booze) flow.
Yay!
Quote from: r00 on January 31, 2012, 11:01:29 AM
That is definitely weird.
Is it because of not getting enough hours or because you should watch your back around that place?
My theory is that it's all about the pay rate - I was told from day one that my starting pay is on the higher side from what they normally pay.
drone
I would just keep our eyes open and interpret the situation yourself. From my experience, new people are usually not on any chopping block unless they are a tremendously awful employee from the get-go. Most employers would rather use a termination opportunity to get rid of old, proven deadwood than someone getting paid more than the others who is a good employee.
Good point. I'll keep that in mind. :)
drone
i got a raise today because we need to hire another tech (because the other one is leaving) and since i'm supposed to be the senior tech i need to make more than the junior tech we will be hiring and no one in their right mind would accept the job for less than i was making...weird
another random fact: i can't tell the difference between regular and decaf espresso...this also confirms the fact that i've been stating for years that caffeine has virtually no effect on me
I am the same way. I can have several cups of coffee or energy drinks and still have no problem falling asleep afterwards. They can help me stay awake, but they never keep me awake.
i've been known to have a double or even sometimes a triple latte and go to sleep shortly after much to the amazement of people around me :lol:
PFT.
It works for me. But I have taken so much in a day that it stops working after awhile... And I can still go to sleep right after having more...
Quote from: luna on February 01, 2012, 07:18:39 PM
i've been known to have a double or even sometimes a triple latte and go to sleep shortly after much to the amazement of people around me :lol:
haha nice. I also have a weird reverse reaction to painkillers and the like too. They will cause me to zone out, yet stay awake all night. There were many a night in my youth that I would rent a console game, take a demerol or percoset, and completely zone on it and finish it by 6am the next morning. (especially if it was a platformer). I would also do the same thing with jigsaw puzzles. It was weird.
This wasn't anything regular I did. Just an occassional act with any leftover prescription painkillers that were laying around when I was in my early 20's. 8-p
:lol:
Sure Mr. Green Thumb also loved the pills! :P
Quote from: r00 on February 01, 2012, 04:50:06 PM
I am the same way. I can have several cups of coffee or energy drinks and still have no problem falling asleep afterwards. They can help me stay awake, but they never keep me awake.
I think I've always had a natural resilience to caffiene; when I was a lot younger and going to industrial clubs and the like, we (my friends and I obviously) would pop pro plus and hammer down energy drinks because this place opened at 10pm and closed 7am, and yet -always- I would be found at some point during the night, snoring whilst standing up against a pumping bass bin. Whilst I very much doubt I could be sleeping through that again, caffiene has never kept me awake and I can pretty much always sleep directly after drinking one. I've actually stopped drinking most caffiene and all energy drinks lately, because I've been getting thunderous headaches and I'm hoping this will cut them down.
i keep forgetting how open this forum is (in terms of how spammers get in here, etc), so i have to learn to not spill so much about my personal life or my peers'.
but, yes... things are still good. constantly good. and i'm happy. :)
Quote from: threatsicle on February 03, 2012, 02:23:18 AM
i keep forgetting how open this forum is (in terms of how spammers get in here, etc), so i have to learn to not spill so much about my personal life or my peers'.
but, yes... things are still good. constantly good. and i'm happy. :)
I wouldn't worry too much, those are automated. When I get some time I'll write goose a script to block robots etc.
It amuses me to know I can use the tiny sliver of influence I have to get someone else backstage at one of Roger's shows, but I wouldn't think to use it for myself. :lol: Honestly, it makes me nauseous to even consider it. But I guess it's nice realizing I do have a bit of cache.
Oooh a big heavy glossy tome, yes that's an awesome thing!
A lot of nice things rolling in. Life is awesome!
There's a lot to appreciate when you're not constantly bitching about it -- optimism brews opportunities. :)
after 3 days of being sick and not being able to take anything it's amazing how much better some codeine makes me feel...also B is out fetching me some decongestant, yay
So what your saying is you're high? :P Good that the medicine is making you feel better.
Was trying to see what was going on with that new Manson album (merely out of habit at this point) and it seems like the "official forums" are locked for some reason or another.
I figure if it was actually coming out this month like rumored it would have leaked by now, so probably not. (Or nobody cares enough to leak it, also very possible)
Quote from: Aaron on February 06, 2012, 01:06:48 PM
So what your saying is you're high? :P Good that the medicine is making you feel better.
Nah I have a pretty high resistance to opiods for some reason so it just makes me feel better...just woke up from a 2 hour nap too, I <3 sleep
a friend of mine passed away last monday, i've been a wreck ever since. he was hit on his bicycle at night, crossing the road when he shouldn't have. i just passed his name in my cellphones phone book and it just made me sad.
Luna, you aren't taking enough then. :P
Doom that sucks. I'm sorry for your loss.
That's terrible, Doom... my condolences. :/
Sorry to hear that, doom. 8(
yeah that sucks :(
doom- so sorry. :(
thanks everyone..
Wait why do I hate r00?
Dude got himself into the Diablo III beta.
I knew these kneepads would eventually come in handy.
Omg nerds :P
Uh Aaron...
Jack In The Box unveils new bacon milkshake. over 1000 cals! (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2740519) haha
Quote from: r00 on February 09, 2012, 04:27:12 PM
Uh Aaron...
Jack In The Box unveils new bacon milkshake. over 1000 cals! (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2740519) haha
There is a god, and he wants us to be happy, fat and happy.
However, fake bacon is horrible stuff. Thinkgeek.com has a lot of stuff with "bacon" flavor and it's fucking horrible. The Breath mints and jelly beans are nasty... So I'm kinda not sure I would want to try this.
Bacon breath mints. lulz.
They aren't good thought. It makes me sad... Bacon salt however is fucking amazing. It's even Vegan friendly (don't ask me how that works...)
My dad's (aka my grandparents) folks have been married for 64 years today... That is a really long time.
Quote from: Aaron on February 09, 2012, 06:34:20 PM
They aren't good thought. It makes me sad... Bacon salt however is fucking amazing. It's even Vegan friendly (don't ask me how that works...)
My dad's (aka my grandparents) folks have been married for 64 years today... That is a really long time.
Damn man, that's a very long time, congratulations to them. Have they had a letter from the President yet or is that a dead tradition?
No clue, but I haven't even heard of the tradition. So I really don't know... She hasn't said anything about it/and I have heard anything of it...
Quote from: Aaron on February 10, 2012, 07:22:11 AM
No clue, but I haven't even heard of the tradition. So I really don't know... She hasn't said anything about it/and I have heard anything of it...
A long while back, my Grandparents had their Diamond (50 years) and I looked up what came next, but apparently in the UK you can be sent a letter from the Queen after you 50th and in the US a letter from the President after the 50th.
I think you get a letter from the queen in Canada too
I should ask my grandparents (well, my Grandpa. He's the one who still has all his marbles); if they both live to December they'll have made it 70 years.
So I was catching up with news bits this morning and watched the clip of Foo Fighters playing the Grammy's last night. I swear to god they have basically become Nickelback with a cool front man. They had some good songs through their career, but now it just seems like middle-of-the-road rock. So generic and it makes me sad. 8(
I dunno I always found their sound very generic, grohl need to just stick to drumming
I can see that too. There are a handful of singles I like, but even those aren't anything I would classify as awesome.
I agree with both of you. I was never a very big Foo Fighters fan to begin with, but when I think back to any of their hits or singles or albums I never go, "Oh man, I would die if I never got to hear that again!" I just don't feel they ever did anything particularly memorable or interesting. I love Grohl as a drummer, though, and he seems like a genuinely nice, cool guy... it's just the Foo Fighters as a musical act that disinterests me.
and who says the big 3 record labels are no longer greedy, exploitative, pimping motherfuckers?
After Whitney Houston died, Sony Music jacked up the price of her greatest hits set on iTunes by over 60%. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/13/whitney-houston-album-price?newsfeed=true)
hahaha god it's so blatant, it's funny.
Quote from: r00 on February 13, 2012, 10:20:31 AM
Foo Fighters...have basically become Nickelback with a cool front man.
this is very true.
Quote from: r00 on February 13, 2012, 10:20:31 AM
So I was catching up with news bits this morning and watched the clip of Foo Fighters playing the Grammy's last night. I swear to god they have basically become Nickelback with a cool front man. They had some good songs through their career, but now it just seems like middle-of-the-road rock. So generic and it makes me sad. 8(
I love that he did his anti-computer music rant right before his mash with deadmau5, lawlz
And I also love how deadmau5 completely trolled Sonny by wearing a shirt that had his phone number on it -- and tweeted it to his 900,000 followers, LOL
Quote from: threatsicle on February 14, 2012, 12:20:41 AM
I love that he did his anti-computer music rant right before his mash with deadmau5, lawlz
I also loved (not) how he called Butch Vig the best producer of all time. That was a pretty dick move to the
other producer who gave them their big break (and IMO their best album).
Quote
And I also love how deadmau5 completely trolled Sonny by wearing a shirt that had his phone number on it -- and tweeted it to his 900,000 followers, LOL
ROFL. I did not see this or hear about it. Time to go look up the youtube video!
I am loving deadmau5's new LED screen mouse helmet. Too fucking cool.
deadmau5 rules.
Yeah I don't get the people who are saying the latest Foos record is their best. I think they peaked with One By One. Plus I do not get that whole cutting up the master tape business, it struck me as very gimmick-y although JG's friend Charlie disagreed with me - he helped Dave build that studio, apparently.
Well, my inside track gave me the hookup once again: release date, label, song titles, details...for two whole days, lol. Then Crazy Fangirl found the listing for Trevor's new album on the Varese Sarabande website. I don't get why they put it up because you can't even pre-order it yet; but once again any attempt at an actual Official Annoucement has been ruined by that stupid bitch. I seriously want to risk personal injury and punch her in the face.
Quote from: r00 on February 13, 2012, 10:20:31 AM
So I was catching up with news bits this morning and watched the clip of Foo Fighters playing the Grammy's last night. I swear to god they have basically become Nickelback with a cool front man. They had some good songs through their career, but now it just seems like middle-of-the-road rock. So generic and it makes me sad. 8(
They ARE Nickelback! I don't understand how people didn't notice the drastic change in sound and style from their first album even to The Colour and The Shape. Dave has had his fingers in many many different pies and seems to know more about how to change his music to sell in the current climate than he cares to put out the kind of music the Foo's were originally known (and got signed) for. After album #1 they flew into the mainstream and just degrade with each album. Hell they're pop rock.
Quote from: r00 on February 14, 2012, 08:43:53 AM
I also loved (not) how he called Butch Vig the best producer of all time. That was a pretty dick move to the other producer who gave them their big break (and IMO their best album).
I would imagine that would have a lot to do with the Sub Pop days with Nirvana than anything to do with the Foos no?
Quote from: r00 on February 14, 2012, 12:12:25 PM
I am loving deadmau5's new LED screen mouse helmet. Too fucking cool.
Forget the helmet, that holo-console he has is amazing!
Quote from: chimera on February 15, 2012, 12:20:39 AM
Well, my inside track gave me the hookup once again: release date, label, song titles, details...for two whole days, lol. Then Crazy Fangirl found the listing for Trevor's new album on the Varese Sarabande website. I don't get why they put it up because you can't even pre-order it yet; but once again any attempt at an actual Official Annoucement has been ruined by that stupid bitch. I seriously want to risk personal injury and punch her in the face.
And? Welcome to the world of shoddy journalism.
welcome to my life. i'm lonely.
but at least he calls every night to say goodnight.
:(
Quote from: r00 on February 14, 2012, 08:43:53 AM
ROFL. I did not see this or hear about it. Time to go look up the youtube video!
http://www.spinner.com/2012/02/13/deadmau5-grammys-2012-skrillex-prank/
Davy Jones has passed away. :'(
I heard! I don't care what anyone says, if Frank Zappa was on your show you were probably pretty awesome.
On a completely different note, has anyone ever traveled by freighter?
I have not, but I hear it's fun(?).
I stepped on a big green caterpillar today. This wouldn't be out of the ordinary if not for the fact that I have puncture wounds all over the bottom of my left heel from where its spines embedded themselves. Anyway, Google assures me that it's a venomous, albeit nonfatal breed and that I should go get the spines removed ASAP. It's not so bad that I'm going to hit the hospital, so I'm going to the doctors later on.
Jesus Christ does it hurt in the meanwhile, though.
:ph34r:
Zim - Less bare feet, eh? It sounds unsafe in your current locale. I hope it's no biggie!
Figured I'd pop in and see how people are doing, and I hear about the attack of the killer caterpillar :P
WHERE THE HELL YOU BEEN?
Also you have a lot of post whoring to do...
FODDER
Hung out with one of my friends today. (The one I'm moving to Seattle with.) All in all I had fun. I meet his cats (he has two.) And while I have known the guy since I was in Kindergarten (which is like age 6 or 7 I think) so basically all my life. And while he loves his cats. Cats can't live on love alone. (they have food and water and lots of both) however, their litter box was nasty... I don't know how often a cat goes, but it hadn't been cleaned in a long time... And I mean, a LONG time. (I'd say like a month...) And while I like cats, I don't want to be the one cleaning up after them...
And all this will be taken care of if we get a two bathroom place, the cats litter box will be in his restroom...
Also found a GREAT apartment that was cheap, nice and had all we wanted. (Even a Washer and dryer in the apt. Which is so fucking awesome. However gona be odd having so many quarters just chilling out.) It won't be there when we move up there, but if we can get one in that place, it would be super duper awesome!
When I hear about extra quarters laying around, my mind still goes straight to the arcade option. Pavlovian 80's conditioning at it's best!
Quote from: r00 on March 16, 2012, 07:03:27 AM
When I hear about extra quarters laying around, my mind still goes straight to the arcade option. Pavlovian 80's conditioning at it's best!
Hahahah. Ya, I have a ton. There may be a lot of arcade action when I get up there, if we have the washer/dryer in apartment. (which I really hope we can find.)
unemployment's been pretty nifty. been booked solid almost every day since i got (temporarily) laid off. so that's great, seeing as how worried i was about expenses, but everything's bit sorted now. i'm happy :)
on top of that, received the most unexpected message from someone straight out of the past yesterday...
thought he was grounded for life, but looks like he's found the tao of steve and has become quite a fan of my work + had SO many pleasant words to say. :)
REALLY unexpected, since i probably haven't spoken to him in maybe 5-6 years now!
it was nice. :)
Nice weaving of clues there, missy. :lol:
Nice that he's been keeping up with your career.
oh, you know... hung out with some legendary english dnb djs + multi-grammy winning artists + dita von teese tonite. typical quiet monday nite.
still adjusting to boyfriend's lifestyle. it's not surreal at alllllll...
and J: it IS totally cool that he's actually kept tabs on my work and reached out to me! he wrote paragraphs-long diatribe about how there's "humanity" in my work, etc, LOL! it's actually incredibly flattering. :) :) :)
Whenever I see him, I still think of his dogs. :lol:
:pppp
And another thing to add for this week:
I love how my photos are accompanying an LAWeekly item entitled "DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep", LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/03/dj_death_threats_fei_fei_beyond_wonderland_dubstep.php
My debit card goes out of date next month and my bank still has yet to send me a new one... I'm hoping its just a little bit late cuz they are switching stuff up and what not...
Quote from: threatsicle on March 20, 2012, 05:06:06 PM
And another thing to add for this week:
I love how my photos are accompanying an LAWeekly item entitled "DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep", LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/03/dj_death_threats_fei_fei_beyond_wonderland_dubstep.php
Very cool. I read the article and it is so true. A lot of EDM people seem to get snooty and genre-bound moreso than other types of music fans . Unfortunately no genre gets more hate thrown at it than dubstep (with your buddy at the top of the hit-list). I personally don't understand why. Just like any music, there is good and there is bad. I assume 90% of the hate can be attributed to the fact that it is one of the more popular genres (grammy winning even) at the moment and therefore no longer cool for the EDM-hipster type of crowd. What do you think?
Listening to that fei fei mix now.
That whole trance vs dubstep has nothing to do with it suddenly hitting mainstream, because trance sure as hell has made millions upon millions of dollars over the years -- and so many raves themselves have become mainstream, this event included. Just happened that dubstep got played to a crowd that was expecting trance set (despite being hinted in so many multiple areas that she would be playing dubstep -- or "fei-step") + were douchebags about mixing those two genres.
Also don't think finding these hardcore "purists" are exactly EDM specific. You see it in a lot of music genres. Think of all the hate Trent probably got from industrial purists when TDS came out. It's wasn't traditional industrial OR goth, yet he was getting branded the prince of darkness. Sonny's the same way, being dubbed (no pun intended) the prince of dubstep, even tho, to UK + dubstep purists, his sound is far from it.
It's just the purity of the sound, rather than the popularity of it. And what's suddenly branded as defining that whole genre that pisses people off (if it does).
dinner at B's parent's house tonight...sigh :(
Quote from: threatsicle on March 25, 2012, 04:35:22 AM
It's just the purity of the sound, rather than the popularity of it. And what's suddenly branded as defining that whole genre that pisses people off (if it does).
That definitely makes sense.
I keep listening to Fei Fei's mixes when I am working. I really like them. So thanks! 8)
Dubstep is mostly associated with Hipsters than EDM these days... I know because I've been going to dubstep nights since 2008 or 2009*
*yes, i realize how hipster that sounded, see what i mean?**
**make your own assumptions
But yeah, threat hit the nail on the head on why it's getting flack... it's the new "in" thing.
And her buddy's getting flack from (both sides) because he's the "new" guy that made it big... and he has a shocking past!!!
(he was in an emo band (gasp!))
But what it comes down to is, he's good at what he does, he's has his own sound (which is doubly tough for dubstep), and he's got the respect from major names in the electronic and non-electronic genres.
so good on him.
-tpd
(listening to dubstep (and making dubstep) since before it was trendy)
shameless plug: http://soundcloud.com/flannelogue/fiddler-crab-season
Dunno how it is in Montreal, but dubstep is most definitely NOT associated with hipsters in L.A., haha
Dubstep is considered "BROSTEP" out here for a reason -- usually a bunch of college drunkards calling each other "BRO!" at these shows!
Also: I'm sure you've heard of my other buddies, Benga and Caspa, right? They've been doing this a lot longer than you in 2008 ;p
I am digging chillstep lately. It's dubstep without the bros. lol
(and I think I am going to try to remix TPD's daffystep tonight. haha)
edit: bah! TPD, why don't you have your stuff set to download? 8( Send me a copy of daffystep!
So after waiting for a little bit I went to the bank today about my debit card going out of date in April. I thought it was the start of April. The bank teller guy said it goes out at the end of the month. So I leave the bank get home. And what comes in the mail today? New card. I got it activated (which took me forever, cuz I would fuck up a button and restart...)
Boss was just waxing lyrical over how she'd found this music available under Creative Commons (we are in education and while we have music licences, they're restrictive) by "the Nine Inch Nails"
Seriously couldn't stop giggling.
Quote from: threatsicle on March 28, 2012, 01:56:00 PM
Dunno how it is in Montreal, but dubstep is most definitely NOT associated with hipsters in L.A., haha
it's total hipster fodder (or has been for the past 2 years) here. then again we got a massive hipster and bedbug infestation here so maybe it's clouding my logic,.
some british paper named us the new brooklyn! weep.
as it's becoming more mainstream imagine the bros will hit here soon (if they haven't already)
QuoteAlso: I'm sure you've heard of my other buddies, Benga and Caspa, right? They've been doing this a lot longer than you in 2008 ;p
well, yeah! dubstep's been goin on for ages, yo.
i only heard about those guys, and dubstep itself, for the first time in 2008, is what i'm saying...
but i had to throw in an I KNEW IT FIRSSSSST to continue my hipster themed post. ;)
<3
Quote from: r00 on March 28, 2012, 07:02:49 PM
I am digging chillstep lately. It's dubstep without the bros. lol
(and I think I am going to try to remix TPD's daffystep tonight. haha)
edit: bah! TPD, why don't you have your stuff set to download? 8( Send me a copy of daffystep!
i shall send it first thing in the morn. they're on another comp right now...
in the meantime, hear my howardsternstep and killerrobotstep
http://soundcloud.com/flannelogue/droppin-loads-of-stern-show
http://soundcloud.com/flannelogue/kill-her-robots-chaste-around
there's also a tribute to whiteny houston in a crackstep track i haven't uploaded yet :lol:
When I came back from Seattle I was sick. I recovered from being ill to just having a really bad cough and phlegm. I went to the clinic we have here in town. And the nurse said (I didn't see a doctor, but a nurse that give out RX) it wasn't pneumonia which I had as a kid. And it wasn't in my lungs. And she gave me a rx for some pills that should open up my lungs or something. They aren't really working. And I'm still coughing, and my voice is still fucked. I sound horrible and my voice will crack or just go away randomly. And she said that it should be getting better after 3-5 days. Today is day 7ish. SO I'm waiting eh. I just hope it is going away at some point. (OR I get good enough drugs to where I don't care if it does or doesn't go away!)
I cannot remember seeing so many sick people over such a long time period before. Since November, I have come down with some sort of flu or cold pretty regularly every 2 weeks. It is fucking crazy. I have been sick more times in the past 6 months that I have been in the past 10 years. I don't know what the fuck kind of super flu was released last year, but thanks! There has been many a day where my workplace sounds like a goddamn TB ward.
Damn. Normally I get sick and feel better a few days later. But never like this. I can always talk when I get sick. Now though, not so much so... But ya, I hope I get better soon this is getting stupid...
Also a shot of dayquil and an energy drink works wonders for the cold/flu.
Wait are you sure it's not your "snot wrangler" ? (I still LOVE that phrase.)
I would say yes, except everyone else has been sick 10 times as much as she has.
Honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with how many people I work with that are just off a plane from halfway across the world. I think this place has a constant influx of new state-side cold and flu viruses that I have no built up immunity to.
I hope you feel better soon, Aaron. If it continues to get worse, go see another doctor and get a second opinion.
Damn. There always seams to be people sick at my work, but then again, we have a lot of people in and out of the store...
Ya plane rides are great for getting sick. Closed space and lots of people...
Ya, if I'm not better in a few days I'm going to see someone else. Thanks for the well wishes. The main issue is that I'm not really sick, I feel fine, just cough and my voice sounds like shit.
Ugh. Still coughing, and the RX she gave to me was helping, in that it would let me breath with out coughing. I also have a pounding headache. Which might be from not eating food till hella late. Ugh... I'm loath to go to the ER, but I have 5 more work days till I'm off to go back to the clinic... (Mostly cuz the ER is expensive HELLA expensive. And I'm super cheap when it comes to medical bills...) Ugh... I don't even mind being sick, as long as its like the flu or whatever, this just fucking sucks. I'm sick, but not really, I still feel fine, other then cough...
do you have a sick day you can use so you can see a doc? I hate urgent care prices too. I had a bill from them once for $1000 for nothing more than standard tests.
Ya I can call in sick and not get yelled at. However, I don't think I need to. I feel better. My voice is still fucked, but my cough doesn't lead to headache, nor is it as bad... (And the headache I went to bed with is gone...) Either way I do feel better... (Well I wasn't ever feeling ill from this. Just my cough and shit are better.)
I just hope it sticks. I'm going to be working in the freezer a bit today. Hopefully that doesn't undo my feelings of betterness.
so i wrote a humorous anecdote yesterday about a co-worker's search for a name for her new cat but I apparently didn't manage to actually post it :(
anyways the point was that it all brought me to the realization that freddie is the most awesome name for a fiv (feline aids) cat....i guess you had to be there :lol:
bwhahaha omg.
but ya, fiv... man, poor cat. :(
No I saw it and read it. (Not creepy) Your Posts and K's posts got eaten. Goose posted on his fb that they were having issues with their server hosts or something and posts were uh getting eaten. Also is FIV like HIV as far as how bad it is?
Yesterday I went to work feeling worst then normal. My boss left a note for me to work in the freezer all day. EVEN though she was telling me I probably had walking pneumonia. So after like 20 minutes in there I puked and talked to management, (I still had to be there for 4 hours so it wouldn't count against me for leaving early.) But I stuck it out and left. (mostly cuz I don't want to do anything that would fuck me over for getting a transfer out of there.)
I went to the clinic again today. I saw a doctor this time. I have an infection. She/The Doctor looked in my ears my nose and my throat. And said that they were infected. Then listened to my lungs. I have been wheezing at night (at first I thought it was the kid up above me. Then I noticed it was coming from my chest...) SO I'm on antibiotics, and anti mucus meds. Both of which are cheap. Really cheap. THEN I got an inhaler 47 bucks. That was pretty shocking to me. BUT its hella cool. (and it doesn't even get me buzzed, for that much I should at lest get a head rush...) But it does seam to help me breath better/deeper. SO at lest I should be getting better soon. Which is hella sweet. (HOWEVER, I'm not sick enough to get to stay home sick from work. Kinda shitty.)
Yeah fiv is basically the same as hiv but this cat has no symptoms at all, it's even possible he was vaccinated at some point which would make him test positive
Quote from: luna on April 12, 2012, 09:02:14 AM
Yeah fiv is basically the same as hiv but this cat has no symptoms at all
maybe you should change his name to Magic Johnson. 8-p
I hate being in weddings. My brother is lucky he's my brother.
Quote from: r00 on April 12, 2012, 09:27:18 AM
maybe you should change his name to Magic Johnson. 8-p
I think teeper's suggestion of meowjic Johnson wins :lol:
Quote from: r00 on April 13, 2012, 06:36:28 PM
I hate being in weddings. My brother is lucky he's my brother.
I think that I will only go if there is an open bar/bottle of booze in it for me...
We got a new chick at work. Who is a foot shorter then me. (she is 5foot2 I'm 6foot1 er for everyone not in the US that is 157cm which is 185cm. Or give or take, the app I was using seamed off) And I have nothing against short people. BUT She is fucking tiny, so when she has to lift stuff that weights 50ish pounds (22kg) it's going to be like half her body weight. And thanks giving is going to be insane for her. (again, I have nothing against her, its just she is tiny and short. And some of the shit we have to lift is gona kill her.)
ANYHOO
I saw her Saturday, she was off sunday and monday, Then she worked Tuesday and Wednesday (maybe Thursday?) She had a break down in one of the coolers and went to a different department and cried while standing in the corner. I wasn't here for any of this. I just heard second hand. My coworker told me she was saying that if she had a gun she would kill the dude that got her fired from her last job. (She worked at the Casino in the hotel. I guess? And dude said she was sexually harassing him. And since she had done it before? She got fired.) My coworker also said that she wasn't joking. So she is out on a leave till the 20th of this month... I want to know how we got something this crazy...
Ya, true. But for her to have made it through all the interviews and the training and been fine only to have snapped like that. And mostly we just get really stupid people, not crazy saying she wants to blow a dudes brains out...
I laughed btw. Does that make me a bad person?
Quote from: r00 on April 13, 2012, 06:36:28 PM
I hate being in weddings. My brother is lucky he's my brother.
Oh man, this is the goddamn truth. My best friend roped me into the maid of honor thing 2 weeks ago, because she's my best friend and she's finally put on her big girl pants and got with a dude that doesn't beat her or cheat on her. I had to wear a dress for the first time since 3rd grade and I had sky high crispy bridesmaid hair. My face hurt from 2 days of fake smiling. Never again.
OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: HAY GUYS, LET'S GET KEITH MOON TO PLAY THE LONDON OLYMPICS
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/keith-moon-drummer-died-1978-invited-play-olympics-173439598.html
I love the response :lol:
Quote from: luna on April 13, 2012, 06:58:36 PM
I think teeper's suggestion of meowjic Johnson wins :lol:
Indeed it does. It has the TPD witty touch that I still have trouble reaching. 8-)
Quote from: Aaron on April 13, 2012, 08:26:00 PM
I think that I will only go if there is an open bar/bottle of booze in it for me...
This is my family you are talking about. Of course there is an open bar.
(The last time I saw my dad completely hammered was at my sister's wedding over a decade ago. He didn't come home for a long time and we were all waiting by the phone for the DUI call. Luckily, he finally found the way home. 8-p )
Quote from: boom on April 14, 2012, 07:47:51 PM
Oh man, this is the goddamn truth. My best friend roped me into the maid of honor thing 2 weeks ago, because she's my best friend and she's finally put on her big girl pants and got with a dude that doesn't beat her or cheat on her. I had to wear a dress for the first time since 3rd grade and I had sky high crispy bridesmaid hair. My face hurt from 2 days of fake smiling. Never again.
Pics or it didn't happen!
Quote from: teeps on April 15, 2012, 03:31:04 PM
OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: HAY GUYS, LET'S GET KEITH MOON TO PLAY THE LONDON OLYMPICS
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/keith-moon-drummer-died-1978-invited-play-olympics-173439598.html
WTF! That's up there with inviting Lennon or Bonham. How the hell do things like that happen? Is the committee run by a bunch of 10 year olds?
Japanese. Is there anything these guys won't try to do? 8-p
This guy turned a bike into a Traktor DJ controller...
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/turntable-rider-bike-dj-controller/
Quote from: r00 on April 15, 2012, 07:24:09 PM
Indeed it does. It has the TPD witty touch that I still have trouble reaching. 8-)
aw shucks, but you birthed My Name Is TeePeeDee... and without that i was nothing!
bad: been under too much stress lately.
good: i've lost 20lbs because of it.
yeah, that's what caused my weight loss too, among other things...
having said that, i hope your stress reduces.
aaron would agree that i was neglecting my non fb pi people by not posting this here too
http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/04/texts-from-my-dog/
:lol:
BATDOG!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
YES VERY MUCH SO!
Also there are more of them at this site.
http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/
HI-larious! I love passively-aggressively trolling the twat in another comm whom everyone says is a comedic genius with real comedy.
I'm going to be opening again soonish. Which is kinda cool I love leaving work at 1pm or 2pm. However starting work at 5am fucking sucks. But it's a great shift, there is always hella to do and time goes by a lot faster.
Holy shit I need a hobby.
Howdy do, folks. I know that I have a bad track record for showing up, making a couple of random remarks that otherwise don't add much to the discussion, and disappear just as soon as I start reacquainting myself. But don't hold it against me, eh? We go way back after all, in some sense or another.
Glad to see (almost) everyone just the same. :)
'sup Dust!
get the fuck out of here, Dust. You have broken my heart one too many times.
Hi Dustin *hugs*
Hey dust! :)
Hello Dust. Hope you stick around this time.
Zero! Luna! Thanks Dee! :)
r00: Don't be like that, babe. You know daddy loves you.
Aaron: I know right? I think largely my problem has been that I just haven't had the time or anything of interest to talk about. After spending a long while lurking, I realized I really do miss you guys. I think getting back into posting regularly could be really good for me, as these days I'm hard pressed to poke my head out of my shell. I was always sort of a hermit, but now I'm hermit with a girlfriend, as Ms. Dust likes to say.
Quote from: Dust on April 24, 2012, 08:46:50 PMAfter spending a long while lurking, I realized I really do miss you guys.
Well how could you not; us being awesome and all. :op
i thought i was your girl.
you fucking hussy.
:(
Good to hear things are going well for you, Dust. Please stick around. I know this place is a billion times smaller than it used to be, but we still have some good convo. 8)
Welcome back, Dust. <3
Chim: Indeed! I'm not exactly sure I ever really attained the heights of the collective goodness of you bunch, but I'm so glad that you'll at least keep a seat open for me in the meanwhile.
Thanks Kristin! :)
"Going well" is debatable, as it goes. Y'know, between the constantly broke, working crappy jobs, and having no artistic motivation whatsoever. C'est la vie, I suppose. Otherwise I do my best to keep in good spirits, as I tell myself that twenty-seven is still young and that I have plenty of time to figure out just what the hell it is that I'm supposed to be doing with my existence. I recall some folks here mentioning that they're suffering a mid-life crisis, so at least we're in something of the same boat, eh?
Yeah. Anyway.
Today is mine and m'lady's one-year anniversary, which we won't get to celebrate until Saturday because of the cruddy night shift I'm currently working. Sort of gives me an extra couple of days to think of something especially sweet and romantic to do for her though. :)
Maybe a breakfast picnic on the Toronto Islands. Depends on the weather though.
Quote from: Dust on April 26, 2012, 02:14:48 AM
"Going well" is debatable, as it goes. Y'know, between the constantly broke, working crappy jobs, and having no artistic motivation whatsoever. C'est la vie, I suppose. Otherwise I do my best to keep in good spirits, as I tell myself that twenty-seven is still young and that I have plenty of time to figure out just what the hell it is that I'm supposed to be doing with my existence.
Considering how everything is out there right now, I consider that doing well. ;) It seems like everyone I know is on a shoestring budget at the moment.
I know what I would love to be doing with my life. Unfortunately, it wouldn't pay the bills. I think later on in life I will cut back to a more simplified and satisfying existence, but for now there are things and people I need to take care of.
Yeah, I'm hoping by the time our kids (current and one future hopefully) are finished high school I'll have enough experience and expertise to do what one of my super-senior co-workers does: work two full years without vacation and then go for four months every other year. Maybe on a worldwide boat trip or something (for me).
I'll admit to lolzing at this...a lot
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/reasons-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
Quote from: r00 on May 01, 2012, 03:48:56 PM
I'll admit to lolzing at this...a lot
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/reasons-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
hilarious.
PEPSI BLUE NVR 4GET
Chim. It's all about the Surge!
But a lot of that was so amazing.
the colon stuff had me rolling.
that explains why the subway full of commuters always smell so much of ass...
this. is. all. kinds. of. awesome. http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/aus/2875664657.html
thanks for that!
"Ninty-Five percent of you weak cow-fuckers cancel because you need to wash your skinny jeans and polish your fake glasses."
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
I would hire that man to play in my band without a second thought.
I would also pay him in clean Asian whores.
(He also has good taste in technical metal. I like All That Remains' older stuff too.)
I would hire them too, this guy is awesome.
"any kind of piss-poor, sloppy guitar and whiny "my vag is so sensitive to sand" vocals."
That made me lulz
Quote from: teeps on May 03, 2012, 01:27:16 PM
this. is. all. kinds. of. awesome. http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/aus/2875664657.html
outstanding.
Prime example of Craigslist performance art, heh.
Sort of like all the crazy Amazon reviews, some of them are amazing.
Quote from: Aaron on May 06, 2012, 12:50:31 AM
Sort of like all the crazy Amazon reviews, some of them are amazing.
A guy on my team at work will wear his three-wolf-moon shirt here from time to time. 8-p
i got one as an xmas gift years ago from my folks (you like animals!) and didn't realize it was one of those shirts until a good while later.
:lol:
I need new speakers for my computer. I have Soundsticks II, but one of the speakers is blown :'( They're years old anyways, and need to be replaced. I'm looking for clean, crisp sound- and excellent bass. $300 or under, please.
Quote from: kristin on May 08, 2012, 05:49:39 AM
I need new speakers for my computer. I have Soundsticks II, but one of the speakers is blown :'( They're years old anyways, and need to be replaced. I'm looking for clean, crisp sound- and excellent bass. $300 or under, please.
Oh man, I hope you didn't pay too much for those Soundsticks. While they do sound really good and look funky, you really don't get what you pay for there.
If you're looking for something that'll sound just as good, I'd go for Altec Lansing stuff myself. The Octane 7 (http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/ca/computer-speakers/octane-7-vs4621/invt/vs4621/) set should sound about the same quality wise, but be way cheaper.
here's another one for the "you can't make this shit up" category.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120508/LOCAL07/305089969
:huh:
that guy probably got his kids this clown too:
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/parents-pay-clown-to-stalk-kid.html
and named his kid this...
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/4/10/16/enhanced-buzz-10199-1334091112-25.jpg)
Quote from: threatsicle on May 10, 2012, 05:37:37 PM
Forgot to link to this when it dropped:
The hype's pretty low now with only a few hundred hitting it daily, but when it first launched, we got over 100k hits within the first week. Feels amazing to have produced something that's garnered that much interest :)
vimeo.com/40484214
NOT SAFE FOR WORK
:)
Sadly, along with many great martial arts movies, my company are also responsible for bringing Girls Gone Wild and various tacky Playboy titles to the UK, fortunately, this means absolutely nothing is classed as unsafe for work, though I can tell you, it's quite funny doing quality control on porn, completely ignoring any sexual activity and noting down how they've fucked up EE and interpolated it and screwed the audio....
I think "bitching about shit online" is still my main hobby.
FISHTANK CRISIS AVERTED
Was Batdog involved?
it's entirely possible :lol:
wrote some new shit and tried it out. mangled the hell out of the pieces, but they went very well, all things considered.
also debuted a new stage name.
huzzah!
heading down to san diego for a couple days. first real trip in what seems like forever!
i've always wanted to visit san diego. one day. prolly a comiccon. one day.
Thomas just moved there 2 months ago. Now I have to visit CA whether I like it or not. :lol:
I have to go down there because my friend's managing some touring band down there and he wants me to play roadie for a night or two :|
so weird going to a shitty industrial goth night when this shit happens RIGHT FUCKING OUTSIDE IT:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/arrested+Montreal+protest/6668555/story.html
I really need to let go of the things in my life that I can't control instead of letting them stress me out :(
Quote from: TPD on May 24, 2012, 03:00:45 AM
so weird going to a shitty industrial goth night when this shit happens RIGHT FUCKING OUTSIDE IT:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/arrested+Montreal+protest/6668555/story.html
A new record for the cuntstabulary Ted!
You people are still here?
SO disappointing. ::)
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:lol:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2012/05/maynard_james_keenan_comments_miami_zombie.php
I got my set of Cards Against Humanity yesterday. Fucking awesome.
I hate waking up early (3am) my stomach always feels like ass... However today its a lot worst then normal... And I have no clue why. I even wake up in the middle of the night with pains. Other days I'm fine. Not tonight.
Quote from: TPD on May 24, 2012, 03:00:45 AM
so weird going to a shitty industrial goth night when this shit happens RIGHT FUCKING OUTSIDE IT:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/arrested+Montreal+protest/6668555/story.html
I'm now starting to think you're just a magnet for random violence, first you get a girl knocked out by Trent Reznor, now this?
Quote from: Aaron on June 01, 2012, 05:17:06 AM
I hate waking up early (3am) my stomach always feels like ass... However today its a lot worst then normal... And I have no clue why. I even wake up in the middle of the night with pains. Other days I'm fine. Not tonight.
Errrr! 100 year old egg! Could that be a clue... :lol: ;)
Today I saw a dude with a White Power World Wide shirt on. He even had a swastika tattoo on his right arm (around the elbow.) I thought it was funny.
Also my coworker has been leaving an hour+ early both yesterday and today. And my boss found out today that she is documenting everything that she is doing and we aren't doing. I think it's funny that she is fucking up and trying to get me/boss and I in trouble. I loled... My boss told me to do the same. So this should be enjoyable to see how it turns out...
I can't stop laughing at these pictures!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ITO=1490
He turned his deceased pet cat into an RC quadracopter.
wow. that is the last time i go to THAT Berlin Net Café...
Quote from: Static on June 01, 2012, 05:23:58 AM
I'm now starting to think you're just a magnet for random violence, first you get a girl knocked out by Trent Reznor, now this?
ha.
Quote from: TPD on June 05, 2012, 11:59:04 AM
wow. that is the last time i go to THAT Berlin Net Café...
Indeed!
wft he mailed body parts to two elementary schools out here
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Luka+Magnotta+Body+parts+sent+Vancouver+schools+headed+back+Montreal/6739427/story.html
he also filmed himself feeding a kitten to his snake. 8(
I think he also filmed himself chopping up that body too. 8(
all posted online.
These stories keep becoming more and more unbelievable.
going on a roadtrip this weekend + meeting up with the englishman in the middle of nowhere! pretty excited! :)
I don't like most of the kids that come into the store. Then again, I don't like kids... BUT there are some awesome kids that come in every once in awhile. Today, while I was getting my lunch and sitting down and what not. A lady came in with her kid in the cart. Kid was CRYING. While crying she was saying "I can walk. I'm a big girl." the mom walked to the back of the store and back to the front with kid. Kid crying saying she can walk the whole time. I really felt bad for the kid. Cuz kid just wanted to walk, she wasn't begging for a toy/candy just not being in the cart so she could walk...
ehh... I have a 3 year old and I make him sit in the cart when he's running around throwing shit into the cart and not listening. He usually cries about wanting to walk too, but I work retail and I hate cleaning up after kids tearing shit up.
Eh ya. However they were walking in the front door. Like just getting into the store. But ya, my boss more or less said the same thing. Her grandson says he will be good once out of the cart, and for like 10 minutes he is. THEN HELLRAISER mode...
Aaron, you will like this artist. He uses Rubik's Cubes to make giant mural mosaics. I can't imagine the time it takes him to arrange each cube beforehand. Check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TvWlPl8ltHc
Here is is site:
http://petefecteau.com/
Damn. That is some impressive work. I wonder if Rubik gives him the cubes for either really cheap or just out right gives them to him... That is a lot of cubes...
repost from nin.com coz every geek needs to hear this: http://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine
usman posted this on facebook. i saw rob or trent mention it the other day but didn't get a chance to check it out.
this chiptune guy recreated PHM using eight 8bit systems.
it's insanely good and the cover art is lolz.
seriously. this is sick.
my kind of tribute. thanks!
Where's my hoverboard and self-lacing shoes?
Nike only made 1500 pairs of the MAG self-lacing shoes (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/08/nike-unveils-the-2011-mag-shoe-to-auction-off-1500-pairs-of-the/), and auctioned them all off for charity.
Hoverboards, I dunno, we kinda screwed the pooch on that one.
Quote from: r00 on June 27, 2012, 02:26:20 PM
Where's my hoverboard and self-lacing shoes?
I came here to post about future day! :lol:
So we put in an app for an apartment. It's nice and what not. However, my soon to be roommate wants to move up there and veg for a month. Since he isn't going up there with a job or whatever that is bringing up some flags. He has a few months rent saved up and what not. So I'm not to worried about it. BUT at the same time. I don't want that to be the thing that fucks us over. I have to send them some sort transfer paper? Like saying I got a transfer? (I will be calling them up Monday. The HR person should be back then... And since I have put in for every job there, well most every job...) other wise I think we will have the apartment. I hope.
So I'm stressing out about that the transfer and moving out of my current place... WOOOHOOO
Also I have been looking at getting a new phone. Verizon at that. (My current phone provider doesn't work up in Seattle... US Cellular.) And I have been eyeing the Razr Maxx. However, the plans they have aren't cheap (or at lest compared to what I have now.) The phone is a nice one, and amazon has it for 200 bucks less then what I would buy if I got it from Verizon... (with two year plan)
Also the manager that is over my area and what not. Is well... A cunt. No one likes her much. Mostly cuz she has zero idea how to do her job. and has the people skills of a dead fish. However today, she showed that she was human. I was impressed... Just a bit... But still impressed.
Got my new phone. It's slick and sexy, and a bit bigger then my current phone. (which is nice since I have big hands...) I ordered a case for it and will get it tomorrow.
I called a Sam's Club that is close to my apartment today (Seattle.) It's on a hiring freeze... So I'm gona call up Costcos tomorrow (there are two of them) and see what they say...
Talked to the ladies in personal today (more or less HR.) And told them about the transfer issues I'm having. AKA them telling me to call like a week before I want to start. SO they are working on it now, I also told them that I needed the letter of transfer for the apartment...
I'm about to put an app in for fish processing on the ships out at sea. You can make hella cash, but work 16-18 hour days (if there is fish to process. Other wise not many hours at all.) I have found two different companies, one charges 10 bucks a day for room and board, the other company doesn't charge (and you get laundry once a week to.) But ya. I'm gona put in apps for both. I'm not sure I like the idea of being gone for a few months with only snail mail for communication... BUT the amount of money you can make. Guh. Not sure I want to, but at the same time I do...
Congrats Aaron and threat!
Aaron, I think think that is so fucking cool that you are apping for a fishing boat job. Very adventurous!
Thanks r00. I haven't put in my app for the ships yet (still not really sure about it... ) I have done on land and in Seattle though. Right now I'm still stressing about the transfer. While I will get a better job once I'm up there, right now I NEED a job to go to up there. And the main HR lady said she would call the store manager Monday if she doesn't get anyone today...
Off to look at houses #4 and #5 sometime this weekend. I'm kind of shitting bricks right now because these houses are slightly out of my price range, and if I end up liking one of them I don't know how low I can negotiate without insulting the seller and not having my mortgage be more than I can afford. I just want this stress over with already. :(
drone
np: "I Know I'll See You" - A Place To Bury Strangers
'grats, Threat! I bet it'll be fun time when they get there. Good roomies = good times.
Aaron, that's hella cool. Good luck if you pursue the fishing option. Costco isn't a terrible place to work either from what I hear (I had a friend who got offered nearly $10/hr to start, but I think that was because he had prior experience... which you do, so maybe there's hope in that department).
Videodrone--that's really awesome. I know a lot of people ask for a high starting price because they know buyers will talk them down quite a bit, so I'm sure you can barter your way into something more in your price range. You can do it!
Quote from: videodrone on July 13, 2012, 11:14:05 PM
Off to look at houses #4 and #5 sometime this weekend. I'm kind of shitting bricks right now because these houses are slightly out of my price range, and if I end up liking one of them I don't know how low I can negotiate without insulting the seller and not having my mortgage be more than I can afford. I just want this stress over with already. :(
drone
np: "I Know I'll See You" - A Place To Bury Strangers
if the housing market is anything like it is here where you are (ie: incredibly difficult to sell) there is no way you are going to offend the seller. When we bought our current place we had an awesome realtor that laughed at what we were going to start offering at, convinced us to offer significantly less and ended up having the seller counter offer less than what we were originally willing to pay! (did that make sense?)
anyway good luck! :)
Thanks! And yeah, it made sense. This whole process is still all so new to me and luckily I'm working with a realtor that has the patience of a saint and isn't looking for a quick way to line his pockets with a commission. My appointments are tomorrow morning so we'll see how it goes.
drone
np: "Mind Control" - A Place To Bury Strangers
Thanks IZ.
Drone, good luck with the place!
Monday I find out about my transfer for sure. I really need it to go through. Then after that it's smooth selling (once I get up there I will have to budget a lot more then now. Hell I don't really have to budget really. SO that will be a change. I for see a lot of potatoes being eating soon. And canned tuna.) Either way, I have been stressing out about it a lot...
Also I love that Seattle has been about 20F cooler then here (about 10ish C) EITHER way, cooler. However it's not as cold in the winter so that kinda sucks, but our power bill will be cheap. (I didn't use my heater at all, and it was a lot colder here then there.) I will also have to invest in a nice rain coat.
Also the whole moving thing seems surreal. Working there for six years (September will be seven. Ya, it's as depressing as it sounds) and then leaving... Great times, but damn. Also gona miss my current roommate. I didn't know him well at the start (we work together, he needed new roommates, I needed to not live with my folks.) But next month a new game comes out for us to play and bs with each other about. SO we will still talk. Either way, I can't wait for the move. Scared as hell, but happy.
We got a new chick at work. Named Erin. Ya... There is three people in the same section of the store with the same name. (my roommate and I being them. ) And while she works, she is really whinny, REALLY whinny. However she called in sick today, so I won't have to deal with her again. My other coworker quit so I won't see her again. All in all work is going great. (Other then being the only person there on the weekend.)
Quote from: Aaron on July 12, 2012, 04:47:26 PM
Talked to the ladies in personal today (more or less HR.) And told them about the transfer issues I'm having. AKA them telling me to call like a week before I want to start. SO they are working on it now, I also told them that I needed the letter of transfer for the apartment...
I'm about to put an app in for fish processing on the ships out at sea. You can make hella cash, but work 16-18 hour days (if there is fish to process. Other wise not many hours at all.) I have found two different companies, one charges 10 bucks a day for room and board, the other company doesn't charge (and you get laundry once a week to.) But ya. I'm gona put in apps for both. I'm not sure I like the idea of being gone for a few months with only snail mail for communication... BUT the amount of money you can make. Guh. Not sure I want to, but at the same time I do...
AM I going to see you as the new greenhorn on Deadliest Catch? ;)
HAHAHAH Naw FUCK THAT SHIT!
No, the boat I would be on would be MASSIVE compared to those ones. They do everything on the ship. Catch process and store the fish all right there. They just have to go back to land to unload and refuel and what not.
Today, I should finally hear about my transfer the store up in Renton has been fucking around a lot. But today I should know. (A HUGE perk of the HR lady going to church with my mom.) Also last day at this walmart. Either way, I have been stressing out about it for a long while...
Quote from: Aaron on July 17, 2012, 11:02:42 AM
HAHAHAH Naw FUCK THAT SHIT!
You'd never get me on one of those boats!
QuoteNo, the boat I would be on would be MASSIVE compared to those ones. They do everything on the ship. Catch process and store the fish all right there. They just have to go back to land to unload and refuel and what not.
Probably not on one of these either (I don't know why, in my adulthood I've suddenly developed an irritional fear of exceptionally deep water) but it's good to know you're not in danger of being washed overboard every 10 seconds! How long would you be going out for at a time in an operation like that?
QuoteToday, I should finally hear about my transfer the store up in Renton has been fucking around a lot. But today I should know. (A HUGE perk of the HR lady going to church with my mom.) Also last day at this walmart. Either way, I have been stressing out about it for a long while...
Good luck! Would be nice to see this one come to a close!
Thanks Static.
With as cold as the water would be I'm pretty sure death would be fast if I was washed off the boat. Sinking would be the issue. They have the survival suit things that will keep you alive for a lot longer. But meh.
I have read that the trips out are 60-75 days. And there would be little/no contact with the out side world. They have satellite phones, but they are for company use, so they charge either 1-1.50 a minute or I have also read 10 bucks a minute. They do have regular mail, however it is also slow as hell to. So more or less 2(.5) months with no real out side human contact.
And I still don't know about the transfer. Ugh. I'm also heading up to Seattle in a few hours to sign for the apt. And hope they are cool with me not having the paper work/knowing if I will even get the transfer... Ugh. So much was riding on that for it to fucking fail me....
sorry to hear the people processing the transfer are so fail. You have been there for so many years and it shits me to se them hold no value in that. To be honest, that seems to be how most places work now even in corporate-land. They have the attitude that "you are lucky to work here," instead of thinking about actual retainment of a good employee and not having to shell out the time and money to retrain someone new.
Basically, HR departments are a bunch of fuckfaces. 8)
Thanks r00 and ya its Shit of them ( I'm on my phone so expect more typos ) but ya it pissed me off they are fucking me over like they are. But meh. I had to change my phone number on my Costco app. But somehow I had to do the whole thing over. And the fishing jobs Gona app for.the boats.
I'm going to head to uh old work tomorrow and see whats up with my transfer. Hope I get some good news.
Also got the place. It's a lot nicer then I though it would be (kinda. For as much as it is, I would have been pissed if it was ghetto or meth labish.) The bathrooms are set up kinda fucked. It's a 2 bedroom 1.5 bath. there is shower bathroom, and then other bathroom right next to it, in fact they share a sliding door. Which is what's fucked about it to me. Other wise it's nice. I'm getting the bigger bedroom (It has two closets. Which is cool, I can keep all my shit in it. All in all I'm happy about it. Money will be tight. But as long as I budget I shouldn't have any issues.)
However they go with comcast for teh intertubes. And they may not do torrenting. So that may suck a lot...
Put an offer in on a house. Been shitting bricks and losing sleep all week. Only thing I've heard so far is my realtor politely telling me how pissed off he is because the seller's agent is being a total dingleberry. We'll see what happens. :/
drone
Aaron, be a hardass about that transfer stuff. Go over their head to corporate if you have to. It shouldn't be taking this fucking long. Being the LARGEST PRIVATE EMPLOYER IN THE WORLD, transfers are something they do thousands of a month. I wonder if you are dealing with an local employee issue and not a process issue. Kick 'em in the peppers and make them do their fucking job.
Drone, that is awesome!!! I know where you are coming from with this stress. We got our current home at the midnight hour due to our own agent being a fucking pussy and not kicking some ass. It took me calling and ranting at the loan office (because the agent wanted to be mr. nice guy) to actually get the deal pushed through. The loan office kept taking exterior pictures of the wrong house for their appraisal and were using that to hold us up. I seriously thought I was going to have a heart attack because we already had the home we were selling on contract and timing was everything. Let us know how it goes and pre-grats on having your own place!
i am so fucking horrified at what happened in colorado this morning.
jesus christ, what the fuck is the world coming to.
yeah it's sad stuff. I still don't understand it. I'll pass through Aurora tonight on my drive home. 8(
as a geek this really cuts me deep. just everything about it so fucking weird and sad.
like the girl from texas that escaped the recent toronto shooting getting killed in this shooting.
and the reports of the shooter calling himself the joker and booby-trapping his home with chemicals and pyro.
christ.
Just got a call from the HR person here in town. I GOT A TRANSFER! they want me to start the 28th. In produce (which is hella kush,) The timing of the start kinda fucked. BUT I got a transfer either way... Best thing, I know Produce pretty well, my roommate works in that department, and we would help each other/slack off together... Heheheh. I really just hope I get a set time for work, even night shift wouldn't be to bad, since I would get there and leave when the buses are in full swing. I just hope I work either mid day or nights. (granted I haven't really looked at the night routes. Right now for a in the day buss ride, it's just under an hour.)
The calm I feel now is amazing. I'm not stressing out about place to stay. Then just how the hell am I gona pay for place to stay. NOW I got it all settled. Bus riding is gona be odd. BUT I should get used to it fast.
And the shooter is fucked.
I thought I ordered more stress. Where is my quadruple helping? I don't think I have quite enough yet.
im seriously about to just get in my car and drive until it all stops.
The problem with having a big family is that there are too many funerals to go to.
Quote from: r00 on July 30, 2012, 02:00:52 PM
I thought I ordered more stress. Where is my quadruple helping? I don't think I have quite enough yet.
im seriously about to just get in my car and drive until it all stops.
Switch that to "plane" and you can hide out at my place or we can swing by the Winchester until it all blows over!
sounds like a good plan. I'll wait until after the Olympics though. Your city seems to be a nightmare to get around in at the moment. 8-p
Quote from: r00 on July 30, 2012, 02:00:52 PM
I thought I ordered more stress. Where is my quadruple helping? I don't think I have quite enough yet.
im seriously about to just get in my car and drive until it all stops.
looks like we're on the same boat.
Quote from: r00 on July 30, 2012, 02:00:52 PM
I thought I ordered more stress. Where is my quadruple helping? I don't think I have quite enough yet.
im seriously about to just get in my car and drive until it all stops.
Ask and ye shall receive!!!
I had a blow-out on the drive home from work yesterday. After all of that, turtle followed me to the tire shop to get a new tire and they don't have mine, so I have to upgrade to a more expensive tire.
Then when I am leaving the tire place, Turtle's car won't start. We got a jump and took it in to make sure it wasn't the alternator. thank god it wasn't, but now that repair is done.
What a crazy fucking morning. And we are traveling tomorrow too. :'(
Eeeep! At least no one got injured during those car troubles :/
Safe trip tomorrow, dude. Where are you heading?
Lame, r00. Living paycheck-to-paycheck has made me develop a visceral hatred of unexpected expenses.
Quote from: threatsicle on August 01, 2012, 07:34:33 PM
Eeeep! At least no one got injured during those car troubles :/
Safe trip tomorrow, dude. Where are you heading?
So the plane didn't crash. haha.
I was in my brother's wedding. It was a good time, but I get so drained constantly shaking hands and meeting old family friends for 3 days straight. I just want to lock myself in my house now for a week and not go anywhere. 8-p
rented my car out for a music video shoot tomorrow night.
really laughing my arse off over who this video is for, hahahaha
Please tell me it involves the same person that recently went through airport security with "fuck you" written on his face
close...
he WAS in marilyn manson.
but he was also in limp bizkit. :(
and he's going to be crawling out the trunk of my car in... 4 hours.
Your car will never be the same :lol:
i've had ppl have a 3some in the backseat, omelettes made on the hood, pornstars crying in it, pornstars peeing around in, midgets dropping ice cream on the floor...
yea, think some limp bizkit foo crawling out of my trunk adds a different dimension
Well clearly it needs to be washed...you know, to get the limp bizkit out of it
pi moment, this time involving drone:
found out tonight that the bass player for that band i was working for a few years ago is now the bass player for hoobastank.
fucking hilarious! hahaha
HA!
Fucking Hoobastank.
drone
Only in Canada... (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/08/31/montreal-maple-syrup-theft.html?cmp=rss)
:lol:
Oh pi we never talk anymore :(
Since I have been goneish. Well using my phone for all internetting ya... PI has seemed extra dead. (Right now I'm using my roommates laptop and a unprotected wifi. He/roommate also ordered the stuff we need to hook up commcast. since the douche hasn't called him or me back... and we both have called him back a few more times... SO we are trying to get just good old or at lest cocast. Or xfinity. whatever.
also looking at getting a French press to make coffee with. they seem to be pretty cheap. Not sure about it though... (also they look hella bad ass so that makes me want one. Not gona lie.) And since I'm in Seattle I figured I should be a coffee snob now... :)
My roommate has two cats. One is cool and pretty chill. And he uses the littler box all the time. The other not so much. She has pissed in front of my bedroom door twice. And I think part of the problem is that he doesn't clean the litter box as often as he should. Also cat piss and shit stinks horribly. I didn't think it would smell good or anything. But when I walk out of my room (I keep it closed up, so the cat can't piss in my room) the smell hits me hard. ugh... Other wise though its going pretty good. He hasn't found a job. And isn't really looking from what he has told me. He put in an app for one place, but they called him up and said no... BUT meh, he should be able to find something soon. I hope.
Luna, sry we've been away. dunno bout everyone else, but my internet connection blows. We have wifi and it isn't a constant connection. It's so crappy I can't even log into WoW. :(
Aaron, sry to hear about the one cat. Come live with me; my boys always use their box and it doesn't stink. I don't feed them fish-flavoured crap food and I clean it daily. Ashton howls at me if I don't keep it tidy. :lol:
All is mostly well here. The heat is not as oppressive as it could be. We almost always have a steady breeze off the ocean. The construction is a HUGE pain. We currently have one entrance for 3 buildings so if you live in the other 2, you have to drive the wrong way thru our parking garage to get to the other ones. The construction is 24 hrs a day with only Fridays off. I'll only complain if they put up a new building between me and my view of the lovely houses on the hill.
Btw, the crunchy cheetos here are WAAY better than Frito-Lays. Just an observation... :lol:
Aaron get a French press from Starbucks, you also need to either get them to grind your coffee very coarse or get your own grinder. It's a million times better than coffee maker coffee
Maybe I will dee. But ya his cats are fine. I just wish they would warm up to me. One has kinda or at lest he understands I'm the one with treats...
Luna. I picked out a press and grinder from amazon. The grinder I'm spending a fair amount on just so it grinds the beans better. Also will need a kettle I think I'm gona buy a cheap electric from work then get a nicer one if I need it down the road...
One of my best fronds is crashing at my place for a week for uh I guess its SWAT training. Either way its the first person to vist. And I'm saving him hella form the hotel.
Comcast should be here the 12 to hook up our internet. Wooohooo...
well got "laid off" today which is really a good thing since i fucking hate my work, it would have been nice to get some notice so I could stock up on food though :hmm:
apparently i have an attitude problem ::)
so sorry luna. 8(
Did they at least give you some pay out the door?
Yup severance pay and I can collect ei :)
very good. Enjoy your paid vacation while you look for another gig. 8) Good luck!
Remember, you can start drinking before noon now. There is no shame in that. 8-p
:lol:
after 3 weeks on the road and having anya and pinionist over, it's back to the humdrum of regular life :(
GUESS WHO IS BACK BITCHES! *
Luna that blows. But yes, as r00 pointed out, ZERO shame in drinking when you wake up.
Rae, I'm starting to think that Burning man is almost a PI meet up. I will have to go at some point.
*AKA got the internets set up and working!!! The apartment I'm at has some sort of discount thing when we go through this one dude. I called he called right back that day. Roommate called fucking nothing. He (roommate) called and left him a few voicemails. Nothing. SO we finally said fuck it, and went with regular comcast. I really can't bitch to much. We have a faster connection then what we pay for. We pay for 12 and are getting 20-25. So that is hella sweet. However, since I can't torrent it seems kinda wasted... :(
Either way, I have a real connection, and am not stuck with my 3g (which works really well everywhere but my house. OR using someones unprotected wifi.
Work is going well, I really like most all my coworkers. A couple are fuckheads, however not many of them are. SO that is super nice. My manager is kind of a dumbass. But I like him over all. Also the lack of state tax (Oregon doesn't do Sales tax, but does income tax.) So my checks have been a lot bigger up here. (I also got some of the bonus that this store got. and an extra day of pay for the holiday.) SO I just bought a treasure cube (it's hallow inside to hide stuff. AKA if I smoked weed I would hide it in there... However I don't... So it will be empty :( )
Called up the Doctor that I really liked working with that my crazy ex boss fired the day she bought the clinic for a reference and got a lead on a part time opening coming up at her work, woo
aaron I'm sure you can find something nice to hide in the cube :lol:
Luna, only time you have an "attitude problem" is when you work with idiots. :lol: Glad you got the extra pay and can look for intelligent people to work with. :)
So today (AND I SWEAR I'M NOT LYING!) an old dude like 80ish? in a wheel chair well the in the store kind. Comes up and says (I am quoting him here) "Partner where are the vibrators?" I am trying not to lol. I ask what kind (HOPING he was using the wrong word or something.) "The personal kind. Maybe in Pharmacy?" I said probably. Ya. No joke. No joke at all. I told my coworker right after, he said Bullshit right away. GREAT day.
Quote from: luna on September 13, 2012, 04:25:16 PM
Called up the Doctor that I really liked working with that my crazy ex boss fired the day she bought the clinic for a reference and got a lead on a part time opening coming up at her work, woo
nice! maybe it will turn into a full time position once they see how much ass you kick. ;-)
looks like the new plan is to collect ei, work there part time and do an online Med Lab Assistant course so I can finally, hopefully get a proper job for a change. Fuck the veterinary industry it is fucking bullshit and I just give up.
So since this place is kinda dead a lot. And Goose does a great job of getting rid of the spam before some see it. I wanted to post thing. Since the first thing I thought when I saw the name was TPD just did a name change. However I was saddened when I found out other wise.
My roommate has two cats, one cat is awesome. The other is horrible. She pisses out side my door a lot. Like 5 times in the past 3-4 days. And I really don't get why. The litter box is cleaned out. But she still just pisses in front of my door. (well the hallway to my door.) It's getting old.
aaron as someone who seems to have FINALLY gotten one of my cat's peeing around the house under control I offer you this advice: -the cat might have a bladder infection, cats are weird and think it's totally the thing to do to pee around to demonstrate that there is a pee related problem, your buddy should really take it to the vet and see, it's not a big deal and not too pricey even if it needs antibiotics
-the litter boxes probably aren't being cleaned/changed often enough (yes I know they're not your cats so maybe tell your buddy this?) Roxy demands that the boxes are scooped a minimum of twice a week but I have been having lots of success with every other day.
-feliway is the shit, it's happy cat pheromones, you can't smell them or anything but they seriously make cats happy...it's weird. Like when I replace the thing every month Frodo spends a significant amount of time rolling around on the floor in front of the diffuser :lol: Yeah they're a little pricey but also living with cat pee is gross so...yeah. You can get them cheaper on ebay http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=feliway&_sacat=0 one refill lasts one month
Shes right, Feliway is the shiznit. On her advice I bought some and it works great. I use it when we travel (whether its to the vet or international) and I use it in new places. If you don't want to spend a fortune on the diffuser right off, get the spray and after you clean the carpet (use an enzymatic cleaner to get the smell out) spray the Feliway where she pees. She shouldn't go there anymore coz it will smell like "her" place. You may want to shampoo the entire hallway to your room too.
Here's hoping kittys only got a bladder infection. *crosses fingers*
man, i wish i was named that...
and yea. my cats need it cleaned every day otherwise they get cranky. that and cat piss/shit stinks
My boys are spoiled. I clean their box every day, change litter once a week and usually scrub the box every other week. :wub:
(they're traditional persians so they have super long fur between their toes. A clean box is a must if I don't want dirty litter/poop prints all over the house)
Luna thanks for the info. I will be hounding him about cleaning the litter box more. I don't know if I posted it before. But while he LOVES his cats he doesn't take that good of care of them... Like they have food and water but eh.... Like taking them to the vet and brushing them. (the one that pees had hella matted fur from what he told me, so he got her groomed/aka Poodled.) Like the litter box at his folks house (he lived with them before moving here) was full of shit/piss. Full. And then they would shit in front of it. And then he told me that she would kinda do her thing all over in the house. And my only though was "Would you want to shit in a bathroom covered in shit and piss?" Taking her to the vet will have to wait till he gets a job. BUT ya, I will be making him take her.
And I'm gona have to buy the happy cat stuff. Is it kinda like Cat nip only more long term? Also isn't cat nip like coke only for cats? like a huge upper? I may just buy the spray bottle stuff then get the other thing later. Just to make sure it works on them.
It doesn't make them all stoned like catnip, just happy
If you're roomie doesn't like cleaning the box, maybe he should get a "litter-maid". They're those self-cleaning boxes. Kinda spendy but since he's such a lazy fuck it might be worth the money. BTW Aaron, you're a much better kitty guardian than your roomie. He needs to be shot. (Just my 2 cents worth as a devoted kitty mama)
I agree! It's weird but I've seen so many cats come into clinics that I have worked at that aren't very well taken care of and the owner is absolutely IN LOVE with them but for some reason can't do the basics to keep them happy....sigh
dee <3
We are going shopping tomorrow (I have been feeding the squirrels that live in the apt area. And found that work has food for way cheaper.) So I'm also gona buy them some catnip. (even if I have to drug those cats, they will LOVE me.)
And ya, I have no clue about him sometimes. I mean he LOVES them. Which I understand, I love my puppy. But ya basic care is kinda out the window to/for him it seams. I mean basic care should be a given when you get a pet. And understanding their needs a lot better then he seams to/ or how often stuff should be done. I means its the basic care that goes along with a pet... And there are times when it fucking reaks to. And I don't mean cat just went and it smells a bit. Or that I'm just being an asshat and bitching about the box. But like I come out of my room and it hits me like a slap... The Ammonia smell is terrible at times...
Like I'm sure getting a cat used to being brushed would be a pain, but just letting her be matted like that for a long time is a douche move. (and it's not like he was hurting for cash when he lived at home.) I'm sure she was matted for at lest 4 months before he got her shaved. And to know the cat may not be in pain, but sure as hell isn't doing good and just let her stay like that... I feel bad for the kitty to...
Also Luna, I have been dropping hints that you Dee and TPD have given me. However being a Vet tech... Well you are going to be brought up a lot... :)
Thanks for the help ladies.
I think you're roomie is going to really dislike hearing about me soon :lol:
I'm already the resident animal expert when it comes to B's gaming buddies....although I think I put someone off the time he asked what to do to get a cat in heat to stop acting so crazy and I told him to "get it fucking spayed" :lol:
Eh. Well if him taking better care of his cats means not liking you as much... Worth it to me... I mean it's great he loves them. But he needs to take better care of them... They can't live on love alone...
Also cats high on catnip are awesome. The cat that pees is really lazy and just sleeps most of the day. She rubbed it all over her face and rolled around on the ground with it. The other cat licked the hell out of the toy and then rubbed it all over his face... Either way great to watch.
:lol: @ Luna! Gawd, I hear ya. I get so sick of people asking me how to stop their cats from marking/yeowling. I mean really, does it ever occur to these people to get their animals fixed? Sheesh...
Aaron, some kittys don't like being groomed. I've groomed my boys since they were 3 weeks old and I STILL have to fight Hershey. But he has to sit for it. The health benefits outweigh his discomfort. If they get too matted, it's terrible. They get skin sores, which get infected which leads to a whole host of other problems. I've seen cats and dogs with maggots under their mats. Very, very nasty. (One of the many reasons I never went into veterinary work. I'd kill someone for treating ANY animal like that) Daily grooming also keep hairballs down to a minimum.
Also, there's no need for the box to smell that bad. They either need a bigger box, different litter (all litters are not created equal, lol) and/or more frequent cleaning. Food also plays a part in box smell, but that tends to affect fecal odor more than urine odor. Since they aren't your cats, maybe try sprinkling baking soda on the litter. Like, say, 1/2 cup at a time. And have your friend put soda on the bottom of the litter pan when he cleans. I always put it under the spots where they pee, then mix a bit more up in the litter. Works great, especially now that we have a tiny friggin box for them.
I wish I could find some good nip for my boys. Their kitty blunt is getting old and I noticed they don't drool on it as much. They're so much fun to watch, especially after 20+ years of having furry children who hated the nip. :)
Quote from: dee on September 24, 2012, 11:37:30 PM
I wish I could find some good nip for my boys. Their kitty blunt is getting old and I noticed they don't drool on it as much. They're so much fun to watch, especially after 20+ years of having furry children who hated the nip. :)
It's really easy to grow. (I would compare it's growth rate to basil, so super fast). Just order up some good seeds and go! I grew some and our cat went crazy for it. It must be a close cousin to another "herb" because it can smell a bit like it once it starts flowering. lol
I used to work with someone that grew her own catnip. I remember bringing a baggie stuffed full home and making the mistake of leaving it out on the kitchen counter...I woke up to what I can only guess was some sort of catnip explosion and a very stoned Frodo :lol:
If anyone plans on selling their house, here's a tip: clean your fucking house before the showing. Buyers don't want to see your dirty laundry all over the floor or your half eaten breakfast all over the counter. /snob
drone
hahaha drone so true! It's amazing what little effort some people put into selling their house. I remember one time we looked at a house that was first off messy as hell (it looked like at least 8 people were living in this 3 bedroom house). Secondly, it reeked liked they cooked fish in it 24/7. The nail in the coffin was when we opened the door to one of the bedrooms and there was a 60-something year old asian guy watching porn on his computer and possibly wacking his pud. All I know is I closed the door faster than I thought humanly possible and we immediately left. I think that house is still for sale years later. I wonder why that is... ::)
You see it on craigslist too when people are selling their cars. They post pics of their unwashed car with cheeto crumbs all over the interior. Fucking lazy.
Oh my God r00, I wouldn't know what I'd do if I walked in on that scene. Maybe pour acid into my eyes and never buy a house.
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r00 that is hilarious!
When we were selling our old apartment I cleaned it every freaking day! There was one time though that I couldn't get home soon enough for a showing and drago had pooped on the floor...needless to say those people did not put in an offer :lol:
Amazon has 4 dollar next day shipping (well when you have prime.) Amazon is gona be the death of me...
So I have been dropping hints about the litter box (Not just invoking Luna's name.) But he still only changes it once a week. And in fact when I bought it up to him (changing it more often might make kitty less likely to piss out side my door.) He comments that since he changed it and she pissed out side the door the next day then he may have to scoop it every day. Only thought was well ya, or you can keep cleaning up her piss. And he said it like it was the CRAZIEST idea ever. Like while I wouldn't say he is abusive to them, cuz he really dose love them a lot. HE abuses them by not really giving them that great of care... I mean, changing the litter box (scooping it at lest every other day) making sure they have food and water, before he leaves to hang out with his friend. Its kinda like making a little kid in charge of it. While the kid may do something, it's half assed at best. And the worst thing is since he doesn't have a job it's not like he doesn't have time to change the litter box or whatever. Guh...
However that being said, one of his cats sat on my lap yesterday. They are taking forever to warm up to me. BUT they are. (I also put food in their food bowl a week ago? And they fucking loved me after that.) However since I keep my bedroom door closed when I do leave it open he (the cat that uses the litter box) will sneak in and look around. When I come in and I see him, he is like oh shit busted and hauls ass out of there. It cracks me up.
And he still hasn't found a job. Which is starting to worry me. Cuz I sure as hell can't afford this place on my own. And the lease we have is for a year, we can break it, but its a shit ton of money to do. And I like the place we are at. But ya, he needs to find a job soon. Granted I think last week it hit him that he couldn't be so picky given his lack of any real skill. Like he has had jobs but they aren't technical jobs. Like I have retail experience but I think it would be more the time I have that would look good on a resume as apposed to the job its self. Kind of a thing. So I think he has kinda hit desperation mode and is applying to a lot more places...
In other news, TWO days of work till my VACATION! I'm SOOOO fucking happy. Gona do some exploring, and wondering around and see MONO other wise doing fucking nothing.
Oh family drama I want nothing to do with you. Sigh
ugh. sorry luna. that is the worst. 8(
the stupid thing is that I've made every attempt to NOT have family drama in my life and after several years of calm something new has to pop up ::) My brother and his wife are having a thanksgiving dinner/birthday party for my nephew on Sunday and my dad seems to think he's not invited because they don't like his girlfriend who is apparently now dying (what?)...ok yeah I find her kind of irritating and I find it frustrating that he always manages to end up with someone with some sort of problems but I'm sure he's invited!
So of course instead of just calling up my brother's wife (as my brother is doing a gone for three weeks, home for 1 week job right now) and asking about it he's calling me to ask what's going on. It's not as if I talk to them very much either, she fb messaged me about it for fucks sake. Now apparently his plan is to wait for my brother to get home later this week and call him about it. jesus fucking christ
Ugh, I hate crap like that. And its not even a situation where you can tell your dad to just man-up and talk to his daughter-in-law about it, because its an invitation to her event, and a conversation like that could just make things worse.
Tell your brother's wife to call your dad if he's invited, and at least put that out of the way.
my (ex) brother in law was murdered yesterday. My nephews father. Always thought he'd OD. Unsolved thus far, We've had no real contact with him in years (years in and out of prison, drugs being more important than his son) but he's still my brother of 31 years and I still love him with all my heart. I wanna go home
Terrible news, dee. I don't know what to say... I can't imagine how awful this is for you right now.
I'm sorry dee :(
Dee that fucking sucks. I'm sorry :(
Thanks guys. :wub: Still a bit shaky, but I think the hard part is not being able to be with the rest of the family to grieve, ya know. And help my nephew. As next of kin, he has to deal with everything. Poor baby is only 20. Thank goodness he has lots of family there to help.
Dear god my new work is soooo boring :(
So while moving up here has been and still in one of the best things I have done. Moving in with the roommate that I have... Not so much so. HOWEVER no matter what happens with him. One of my other friends up here said I could stay with him till I can get back on my feet and find my own place.
More or less long winded bitch post. That I can't really post any where else. And Theo has already heard enough about this... SO feel free to skip... Just needs to be said, and I can't really post it anywhere else...
So I'm so worried roommate will fuck everything up and I will be homeless, just that he will fuck everything up and I will have to explain about this apt on my next apt application... Friends currant roommate B (Friend being P) Lived with currant roommate (mine, A) before. Like a few years ago. Err like 4ish? ANYHOO, A's cats ruined the carpet, and in fact B had to state that the cats (cuz that was the main issue cat damage) were not his. And that was the other guys... So I'm sure I'll be able to put that on any apt app that I fill out. (I have a job, I don't own cats...) But I don't want to have to put that on an app. That is my biggest thing about it.
I mean I love A like a brother I have known the guy since Kindergarten. But it depresses me to no end that he is so shit at being a human being... I mean, after the year here I will be finding my own place (and maybe I will be making more at a new job? If not I really do like Cup of noodles And lentils are dirt cheap...) It just saddens me to see him not care about the litter box like he does. And he doesn't see something wrong with it, or not ever really helping out around here. Like dishwasher (load unlaod) take the trash out... Do something... Instead he sits on his ass and plays games all day. He has had one interview ONE. He checks up on the jobs that he doesn't have a snow balls chance in hell getting. And doesn't check in on the jobs he could get (working at a store. I know the job is shit, BUT its a job and a pay check. Pretty soon his dad will have to cover his end, and help him pay for food and what not. Cuz he has to be running low on funds...) I mean I love the guy. But to hear him say (granted this was a few weeks ago) that putting in applications is boring. No joke he fucking said that. I mean I could understand if he had a job, But he doesn't. He is living on his savings... I try to not worry about this shit thought. Cuz my friend P will let me crash at his place if needed. And that gives me huge peace of mind. But I'm still stressing about my roommate...
My guess is he is going to hit you up for loans before he hits up his parents. That is where the fun will begin... when you have to support the deadbeat. My advice to you is start shopping for a new place now. Find out if you can sublet to someone or what it will cost you to break the lease. The landlord should be familiar with the "my roommate just isnt working out" scenario. You dont have to go into any details other than that.
You were worried about living with this guy before based on his actions and all your worries are slowly coming true. Trust your feelings, Luke.
Well see his dad is also on the lease, basically saying he will pay if we can't he will. (Garentour or something like that.) And breaking the lease will be I think two months rent? (we have to give 30 days notice, thought I'd give more. So we would have to pay that months rent, and then another months rent on top that.) I'd have to double check but pretty sure that is what it is. If it doesn't change soon/him getting a job I'm already saving up for a new pc, that may have to wait and get changed to getting out of my lease... But it might be what happens.
that sucks Aaron. Have you thought about just finding a roommate on craigslist? Or maybe there's a cheaper place you can afford on your own?
you know, a lot of times the spam posts read like something hatter would post...
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Ya, I know of some places that are cheaper (and closer to work as well.) So push comes to shove, I could. And I know my friends here in town would help me move in needed. (I would sweeten the deal with beer. Lots of beer.) But ya, I'm sure I would be able to if I needed to... I just hope he finds a job soon. I get putting in apps is boring, but being jobless and not really doing anything but video games and movies has to fucking suck now.
Also I think Theo has a point... And speaking of Hatter, where has Chim been? I haven't seen her post in a long time?
So if you've ever been to a frat party you know there is always that one guy, the one that feels the need to get epically wasted and stumble around screaming "WHOOOOOOO!!!" and punching and slapping every other person there. Well, my 1 year old is that guy. Seriously. He screeches at everyone like a goddamn pterodactyl and slaps and punches everyone. Yesterday he charged my 3 year old full force and knocked him into the gate I have blocking the kitchen, mangling it and forcing me to buy a new one. He's 1, so unlike the frat party douchebag I can't kick him in the nuts and tell him to calm the fuck down. Fucking kids.
I turned 30 last month and spent the day on the couch with GLANDULAR FEVER (or mono as you ppl call it). You know, the illness you're supposed to get at college when you're 19.
Fuck my life.
"One time I thought I had mono for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
TELL HER I LOV HER NEW HAIR
whoring this out because I like how it turned out:
http://soundcloud.com/flannelogue/halloween
and need validation
Don't think I've ever seen Halloween ;)
What the fuck did I just play?! (http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions)
Quote from: Goose on November 22, 2012, 01:33:19 AM
What the fuck did I just play?! (http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions)
i just played it too and i'm not sure. :(
I got frustrated on the text adventure section.
There is a cubing competition here Jan 12th. http://www.cubingusa.com/cubekingdom2013/index.php
After thinking a lot more about it. (if I get my time off request approved I will be going) I want to go . I want to meet some nerdy fucks like my self. I'm not that good at any of the solves I would be doing (3x3 5x5 7x7 maybe one hand 3x3...) My 7x7 time isn't terrible though... Or at lest my best. My average isn't as good. However I think going there to meet people and go to a cube competition is more important to me then anything else...
also it's dirt cheap to enter. even late entry is cheap... 5/10 bucks then 2 bucks per event... So I'm looking at spending 20 bucks tops...
I'm getting switched to a different department at work. Which doesn't bug me to much. However not being asked about it. More or less being told pisses me off. Also it sounds like I will be doing a lot of the department managers job for her. I don't mind covering if she is sick or something. But it came off a lot more like I would just be doing a lot of her work for her... Which is fucking bullshit. I won't be getting paid less or more, so at lest that isn't changing... But I like where I'm at and the people I work with...
Also I'm going to start to look for a new job at the start of January. I want a warehouse work. Or at lest not fucking retail. That shit is soul killing. I'd love to work in a freezer/cooler like I did at the old wm, like warehouse work in a cooler would be fucking sweet. Also gona fill out the paper work to get fed aid or school. While I would still like to be a funeral director I'm not 100% on it. And that is a huge issue I have with it. And I do love me some computers, so I talked to one of the people I went to HS with and he said if I got a degree I could get a job at amazon pretty easy. Hell I might try to get a warehouse job for amazon. (I will be applying there at the start of the new year.) And up in the C@ttle area they have amazon fresh. That would be a cool job.
Also today I bought some carpet cleaning stuff, while I know it's not really enough to really clean all of it. (mostly just the hallway) Like the carpet is still fucked but it doesn't look as bad, and it smells a lot better. Does it make me a bad person that I can't wait till he tries to get a place off his own and can't cuz of the cat damage? Cuz I really want to see that bite him in the ass. Cuz my goal is to find a super cheap studio... I don't want to share a bathroom, but I don't care how tiny the place is...
Merry Christmas (eve) everyone! I can hardly remember when I came across this place 13 years ago, but I am thankful it's been a part of my life with all of the people that come with it. My online family, so to speak. 8)
cheers!
Woo Christmas!
Minutes away from hosting our first holiday gathering...dear god
Merry xmas everyone. Much :wub: to all
Merry Christmas to everyone here as well.
I bought a Square one, my first shape shifting puzzle. And all in all it's pretty good. Not amazing. BUT pretty good. However I have been stuck for a long fucking time on it. Turns out when I poped a piece out (like I was trying to spin it and it popped out) I put it back in wrong... I gave my self an unsolveable parity... WOO for finally realize it like 20 min after I started out trying to fix that shit... Just solved it for the first time. It's fun. It's also new. And with that I think it makes it a lot funner. Like other cubes are still fun to me. But this one still has the newness so it's fun! instead of just a way to pass the time/as a hobby...
So I think my first clue that I should have stayed home today was when I slipped on the ice and fell down the stairs while taking Jorgi outside. The second clue was arriving at work to find clouds of smoke billowing out from under the hood of my car and a horrid stench of burnt oil. Needless to say, I'll be spending my day off at the mechanics. Ugh.
drone
So I was going to treat myself to a wii U but the store I have gift cards for is completely sold out of the deluxe model, like every single store in the entire province as well as online. A salesman tried to talk me into buying the basic telling me it's pretty much the same thing....um no, I'm not an idiot...so I have to wait :(
I went on a job interview yesterday and the guy that I met with just reeked of frat boy douchebag. Really, it was hard to concentrate when I was staring at a guy at least 5 years younger than me that probably spent a good chunk of his college years doing keg stands and groping drunk chicks at parties. ::)
I got volentold to work overnight three nights. So I'm trying to stay up as late as I can tonight so I can sleep as late as I can, I need to do laundry. But other wise... And it nets me three days off (well I'm off at 7 am on Wednesday and I don't have to work again till Saturday...) AND the absolute fucking best thing about it. I can listen to my headphones at night... SO looking forward to it. I want to switch to nights. Buck more an hour, and a set shift time would be nice... And the buses to get there and home are pretty easy peasy...
Ugh. awake at 1pm.... FML... Granted though trying to sleep like 8 hours after I get up isn't an easy thing to do...
So overnights weren't bad. The sleeping thing was odd.. BUT not bad. and if I switch over to nights full time I would get a buck more an hour. And get to listen to my headphones. Which alone makes it worth it... I'm gona be talking to my manager about switching... Also getting home on the weekdays is a breaze. both buses I take run every 15 min instead of every half hour... Which is fucking sahweet.
My hair is now long enough for a ponytail... It's a very short ponytail. BUT its there none the less... AND it keeps my hair out of my eyes...
It's the little things that make me happy. Like being told to do the wrong thing (I still did it. cuz I'm a piece of shit) BUT I was right. I was told to clean the fish tanks and it was taking me forever. Mostly due to the tanks being fucking gross. Like caked on black shit and just nasty. Also I don't think they have been cleaned in 5ish months. And even then eh... So I was vacuuming the gravel with the hose thing and it would work, but really slowly. So then my boss's boss comes over and says they look better and that a lot of the gravel could just be taken out. Fish only need a really thin layer in the take to be happy. I said I thought they needed more to clean with and to lay on it when they sleep. She said no... Told me to throw out a lot of it. So I did. Just checked on the google BAM right. I'm the fucking man.
I was recently informed that you can rearrange the letters in "President Obama" to spell "Dreamboat Penis," and I'm telling everyone I know.
omg this is hilarious (https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/430104_10151634375652802_740920915_n.jpg)
Holy shit how I loled. That is awesome!
I do wonder which part makes Canadian bacon though. I really need to know! :P
The mooses or is it meeses part had me rolling.
Finished editing my resume and sent it off to my friend to edit it up again. Woo! Getting closer to a new job.
Also my folks are coming up in a week. Only for three days. BUT I get to see them. It should be awesome.
I also bought a wool blanket. It's big and super thin. BUT it's pretty warm. Not itchy. But it's 70%wool and then 30% man made fibers. I also don't have woolite so it smells of chemicals and my cologne...
Luna - I love it! It reminds me of this map of Massachusetts.
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In other news, I sort of got offered a "promotion" at work. I don't know if I want to take it due to the fact that I'll be sitting in front of a computer for eight hours talking on the phone to insurance companies. I feel like I should blow my brains out now and save myself from doing it later. Unless it will be more money. That's different. ;p
drone
lol I think you are getting older. I cant imagine anything more miserable than attending a huge multiple day festival.
I'll watch the live stream instead. Better seats, cheaper drinks, and no d-bags.
Definitely a sign of getting older, my dislike of douchebags has meant only heading out to shows I really, really want to see lately and even then spending most of the time getting irritated at them
http://worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2013TUCK01
7x7 is my favorite. AND while I'm not that great. I didn't do bad for my first time... AND once I get it back from my friend (she is restickering it for me. Little hands are better at that then big hands.) ANYHOO It makes me want to get better for next time.
Been swamped with work. A particular client has been out of control and violent for some time; spent some time in the psych ward at the hospital and has been back for about a month. I'm back to working exclusively overnights, as the county won't give us funding for increased staffing during the overnight shifts and I'm one of the few employees willing to work by myself with this particular client. I get really anxious before my shifts now, but he seems to be doing well, so fingers are crossed that this continues.
been dating a handful of people in the entertainment industry lately only to once again cement the fact i can't date industry people.
Tell me about it. I married one. 8-p
errr... i was complaining that i can't date them... are you saying you shouldnt' be married to one? 0_o
:(
haha no not at all. Just piss taking Rodney Dangerfield style.
rodney dangerfield? what are we? in the early '90s?
:p
he will always be a classic. (that's something us old folks say. haha)
My nephew "Lincoln Albert" is due in 3 months. I'm happy for my brother, but the ultrasounds are starting to become detailed enough to give me nightmares... I don't know a polite way of telling him that I don't want to see anymore.
So I have my resume back. And I am gona do the last little things to fix it up and make it goodly. I am also thinking of changing jobs. I want to be an unloader. Its hard work physicaly. But there is no mental to it. ( well othe then matching up department numbers...) If I was in the truck most nights I would lose weight. However I would work 4pm to 1am. And the bus I would end up taking home it would take me till 5 am to get home. It would take me less time to walk. I would buy a bike and ride home (google maps says 1 hour and about 9 miles.) It would pay a bit more but I wouldn't really do it for the money. (if I lost pay I wouldnt.) I fucking hate where I am. Like the people I work with directly are all cool. The department manager is fucking awesome. Its the other bosses I have to deal with that piss me off to no end. And the switch would be awesome. Cuz its always busy work. And time flies by hella fast. And they get lest alone kinda. Well other then the management telling then to hurry up... I am well liked by the people that do it and the lead would put in a good word for me I'm sure.
I'd have to get a back light, helmet and figure out a way to rid my flash light to the front. Other then just taping the damn thing on. And a bike... But I could just get acheap one at work and a better seat. My fat ass needs a bigger seat...
is there anyone with the same shift and a car that could give you rides in exchange for gas money? Biking 9 miles would suck in the rain.
Uh. Maybe. And ya I thought that like third thing. Or at lest he could drop me off a lot closer... I put in for the job last night so hopefully I get it...
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LOL!
I'll add another!
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Just counted. Hoping that the irs didn't slow down I should have my tax return pretty much any time now... Wooo.
I had to pay almost $300 on my taxes :(
Suck. I have never had to owe thank fully....
Quote from: threatsicle on February 18, 2013, 05:18:04 AM
rodney dangerfield? what are we? in the early '90s?
:p
Realizing this quote constitutes a form of thread necromancy... consider where you are. 'nuff said :p
I wish they taught how taxes worked in school. Not just like sales tax and basic percentage crap, but actually your state and federal TAXES. THAT should be an elective math class. And/or social studies. It's kinda both, really. I've never owed either, but that is because I have been dirt poor since I started having taxes to file. I don't know how you end up owing, and I don't know how to avoid ending up owing. The idea of being told in April "Hey, you owe us an extra goddamn paycheck, cough up!" and not knowing WHY I have to cough up does not make me very happy.
This year I'm getting penalized for not having health insurance for four months due to that brief unemployment period and the 90-day "new hire" waiting period for benefits at my current place of employment. I'm bullshit because this is the first year I've ever actually owed money on taxes (granted it's being deducted out of my refund, but still). I was really hoping to be able to pay off my middle class, mediocre piece of shit car with this money, but I don't know if that's a possibility now. Fuckers.
drone
Wait, they're dinging you for not having insurance? I am so fucked next year :hmm: There's no chance I'm going to be insured through work before next year... FML >:(
Man, I'm not even in your country and I knew that's how the Affordable Care Act was going to work. If you don't have even the cheapest of possible insurance, you get dinged on your taxes. Hell, it even went to the Supreme Court for a ruling and was all that was in the news for nearly a week.
Oddly enough I didn't have to show shit for mine. My folks told me. But I do have health insurance from work... So enh...
Oh. Heh. March 2010? Yeh. Not surprised anymore that I missed that. I'm usually pretty good at keeping up on the news, but at the time, I just cared that it meant I was covered til I was 26. I didn't follow the news because that was the period right after I graduated college where I barely got out of bed because I was so depressed. And insured at the time, I REALLY should have gotten looked at, but I kept shrugging it off because what did it matter anyway? It doesn't excuse my ignorance, but at least I know how I managed to miss the details. I didn't get my head out of my ass until probably January 2011, and that's when I was first starting to consider leaving my ex, which still didn't happen for almost a year after THAT. More than a year? I don't even know.
I am, however, educating myself now so that Brian and I can hopefully avoid getting railed next year.
ETA: Granted, I'm consulting crowd-sourcing here, but the initial brush up suggests that that provision is not yet in effect:
Under things that are effective by January 1, 2014 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Effective_by_January_1.2C_2014):
Impose an annual penalty of $95, or up to 1% of income over the filing minimum,[101] whichever is greater, on individuals who are not covered by an acceptable insurance policy; this will rise to a minimum of $695 ($2,085 for families), or 2.5% of income over the filing minimum,[101] by 2016.[19][102] Exemptions to the mandatory coverage provision and penalty are permitted for religious reasons, members of health care sharing ministries, or for those for whom the least expensive policy would exceed 8% of their income.
And, most likely, I currently fall into that last exemption category. Brian may not, but I make just this side of jack shit right now.
I think I brought this all up before, but yeah. Affordable care act means being forced into it or taking a tax penalty.
"I want everyone to remember why they need us!"
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZlyyY7-OCb8/R1LoOaVyPyI/AAAAAAAAANQ/JC1RW2MjkdY/s1600-R/v-Sutler2.jpg)
Threat, I love it when your name pops up as the most recent poster in the Random thread because I know your post is going to be a crazy/fun read. rofl
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on March 18, 2013, 08:43:13 PM
Wait, they're dinging you for not having insurance? I am so fucked next year :hmm: There's no chance I'm going to be insured through work before next year... FML >:(
Yup.
Basically, it went like this: I was laid off from November 2011 to January 2012. I had the unemployment office up my ass to sign up for COBRA. At the advice of a friend of my mother's, (who works in Human Resources so she has an idea what she's talking about) I took a gamble that I was going to be employed before the deadline to sign up. Thankfully, I was, as I got hired at my current place of employment in the middle of January 2012. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to afford paying for COBRA while receiving unemployment checks (as it was my severance pay was the only thing keeping a roof over my head at the time) and I was "making too much money" to qualify for Mass Health. Long story short, my mother's friend had said that the penalty for not having insurance was far less in the long run than having to pay for COBRA coverage. The whole thing makes me want to become a complete societal leech. :hmm:
drone
Quote from: videodrone on March 20, 2013, 04:48:33 PM
Yup.
Basically, it went like this: I was laid off from November 2011 to January 2012. I had the unemployment office up my ass to sign up for COBRA. At the advice of a friend of my mother's, (who works in Human Resources so she has an idea what she's talking about) I took a gamble that I was going to be employed before the deadline to sign up. Thankfully, I was, as I got hired at my current place of employment in the middle of January 2012. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to afford paying for COBRA while receiving unemployment checks (as it was my severance pay was the only thing keeping a roof over my head at the time) and I was "making too much money" to qualify for Mass Health. Long story short, my mother's friend had said that the penalty for not having insurance was far less in the long run than having to pay for COBRA coverage. The whole thing makes me want to become a complete societal leech. :hmm:
drone
Nngh, yeah, it looks like I'm going to be eating the ding for lack of insurance next year... My folks neglected to mention that something had arrived for me at their place TWO MONTHS AGO and I didn't see it until two days AFTER my shot at COBRA expired. The COBRA extension under my dad's coverage would have been HALF of what I'd be paying for an individual plan, with better coverage, and from the looks of it, it's probably cheaper for me to just accept the federal scolding for not being able to afford to better take care of myself. AUGH. File this under "Fire them all and start over" please.
Someone should screencap the facebook random thread.
Haha, damn thing will be like a zillion screen caps long :lol:
Who's up for writing a recap thread
I think what should happen is r00 rynne and Chim (where ever she has been) should get a fb and join it. Even if its 100% fake name or pi username. I like the idea of a fb group. But I want this place to still be alive as well... And I think its clear some poeple won't be on here much or ever...
No. Facebook is evil and I envy anyone not on it. I joined it by necessity. Because I'm a creeper.
I miss Chim. 8(
me too. I didn't realize she had been gone for so long :(
Aaron, you be safe out there in Seattle, ok? (http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/03/28/company-releases-new-bacon-flavored-condoms/#ixzz2OriHQTSs)
"make your meat look like meat"
:lol: :lol: :lol:
gives a whole new meaning to "smoked bacon".
Insert "pork" joke here.
I will oblige TPD.
Pulled pork anyone?
Smoke my meat! The low cal bacon. Nummyy
And roo no worries. And no promises if I find the right pre-op tranny or a chick that loves bacon as much as me... :rock:
:'(
Quote from: r00 on March 29, 2013, 06:54:01 AM
I will oblige TPD.
Pulled pork anyone?
I just snorted :))
Hey peeps - ('cause it's Easter)
It's a long story and you know, I despise attention whores, drama queens, emotional terrorists and everyone who has to suck all the oxygen out of a room so I won't go into it but....life is challenging. For everybody. But my coping skills are less than stellar of late. But first it has started out with technical problems, as I had told Teddy a while back. Aaron, I'm sorry I didn't respond to your PM from before, that was very rude of me. B, thanks for your email. r00 my bruddah I'm sorry I haven't kept in touch but I think of you and turtle and the Princess all the time. I'm okay, though, really. I have a FB sockpuppet account that I had to create because the owner of LPMP (still my second job) wanted me to have one so we could chat instead of email. So if someone wants to send me the name of the PI group or whatever I'll friend it but likely not participate (I still hate FB). But yo momma loves you, always, and I hope some day to reach a better frame of mind for the internets again. :)
PS: I really like the latest El-P album but I'm still unsure about HTDA, and it's because I don't really like Mariqueen's voice all that much. I could give a shit about the neopotism aspect of it or whatever, I love the idea, I just think Trent could have married a better singer. :op
*hugs J*
Sorry that life is sucking for you right now. I hope things work out for you soon. It's certainly good to see you around these parts again, even if it's just for a brief moment. :)
drone
Quote from: chimera on March 30, 2013, 11:32:40 AM
But yo momma loves you, always, and I hope some day to reach a better frame of mind for the internets again. :)
Is it horribly sappy that this genuinely made me smile? Serious warm fuzzies; I will still always remember you as NINMom. Sorry to hear that things aren't going smooth, but like drone said, it *is* good to hear from you. We were all bummed out about not being able to find you to join the FB monster, and that no one had heard from you here for a bit, either. We were worried that we'd lost contact.
I hope the day that you reach a better frame of mind for the internets rolls around soon, and not in the way that we usually mean that word around here ;)
::hugs::
J!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SENDS HUGS AND GOoD VIBEZ!!!!!!!
<3
Dronez and naylzie symmed up far bettet Han I x voyld.....
Typung on an android.
Quote from: TPD on March 30, 2013, 02:47:18 PM
Dronez and naylzie symmed up far bettet Han I x voyld.....
Typung on an android.
Aw, man, is this what I have to look forward to when I *have* to get a phone with an onscreen keyboard? Is THAT what happens to your typing? :o Do not want! :'(
oh chim so nice to hear from you! :)
well I like to think that my phone typing isn't nearly that horrible teepers might be suffering from the same thing I am, that my Samsung just did a big system update and now you can't use autocorrect because apparently apple sued over it? fuck you apple, now I actually have to correct my typing before posting anything :hmm:
Apple sued Samsung over their navigation, basically, I think... I dunno if autocorrect was a part of that, but seriously, if it was, that's beyond stupid.
As far as it goes, the one thing I do like about crackberry is how it handles that; it underlines things like word and you can check them individually if you think they may actually be wrong.
Autocorrect was definitely part of it...if you google why it stopped working after the update there's tons of stuff about it :(
I hope they figure a way around it since it's fucking annoying
B says I should just use the voice input but I think it would be weird to always be talking to my phone :lol:
NINMOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its so good to see you once again. I though you were hiding. Sucks that life is difficult for you right now. And I to hope you come back soon. And no worries about the pm. I'm just really happy you are back around.
And naw Theo can't type cuz he doesn't look at the keyboard when typing. And is still new to his phone. Luna that fucking sucks. Can you find a third party app and add it to your phone? Cuz I have HTC and it still had it.
I have to look into it. I'm kind of anti paying for apps thus why I have an android in the first place :lol:
Vd
Ymy problem is I muss mtl my. My qwerty pad. And I'm too lazyb to flip my gone flip my phone over. If I take time is not still bad but I smarts type quick as witnessed by pi charts.. and cats chats
Of fuvking hell I sound like a robot with water in his logic board
Quote from: TPD on March 31, 2013, 10:04:25 AM
Of fuvking hell I sound like a robot with water in his logic board
I think that about sums it up.
Ted, you may want to invest in a micro-usb keyboard if this is going to continue to be your primary mode of communication. Or cheat and do this, if you're stationary. (http://gigaom.com/2010/02/17/how-to-add-a-usb-keyboard-to-an-android-phone/)
Good to hear from you, Chim! Sorry life has been throwing too much shit at you. I hope things get better.
Hey again, Chim!
@TPD: So I'm not the only one who hates touchscreen keyboards for how inaccurate and awkward they feel?
RANDOM:
The restaurant job fell through but I'm possibly getting a call back with a 'yes or no' from the epic local coffee shop. They're so close I can literally walk less than ten minutes and be there. I really... really need work, so here's hoping the answer is 'yes'. Folks, if you could, cross your fingers? (And maybe your toes, possibly even your eyes.)
Quote from: individualzero on April 01, 2013, 08:59:29 AM
@TPD: So I'm not the only one who hates touchscreen keyboards for how inaccurate and awkward they feel?
add me to that list too.
Totally dude. I am sure they just take some serious getting used to, but to me I find myself typing like I'm on crack whenever I'm at the helm of a touchscreen keyboard; I need to be able to feel the keys and the position they're in as I press them, I guess, otherwise I wind up hitting the wrong key or hitting multiple keys and yada yada...
Don't get me wrong, I love stuff like Swype and touchscreen menus (And I have gotten sort of good at punching in phone numbers with the touch interface, besides that accidental Japanese sex line phone-in), but I hate dealing with touchscreen keyboards.
It took me awhile to get used to the touchscreen on the iPhone. The only downside is that it takes me forever to type on messageboards with this thing, as opposed to mere seconds when I'm on my PC.
drone
It's the devil I say
I don't mind the touch screen keyboard but then again I went directly from an old number pad phone to a touch so not having to scroll through the multiple letters for each number was a huge improvement :lol:
I found a keyboard app that has autocorrect and it works really well, it's free for the first month then I'll have to shell out $4 for it....damn you apple and your stupid patents!
I went from texting like 8 times a month (8 eight times. On my old old phone to getting an android and texting like a high school girl/ someone who's best friend lives in a different country and call wouldn't be cheap...) And now I think the most I have ever scent is like like 2k ish...
I got yelled at today. For what you ask? Dumping milk down the drain. (It was dated the 30th of March and today is the 2nd of April. So it wasn't nasty like separated or smelling horrible. Just out of date. Like I would have still drank it if I bought it. ) I was in the claims area and the claims manager (well the supervisor) asked me to dump it down the drain and then put the empty jug in the trash which I did cuz its easy and kills time. So I get done dumping them all out (half gallon uh just shy of 2 liters.) And one of the two ladies we have from different stores to come help out in are claims area (we do a lot lot more then any other store in the area like double or triple...) Tells me I can't dump milk down the drain. At first I'm just kinda dumbfounded... So after a few seconds aka the time it takes me to realize she isn't joking. I ask what am I supposed to do with it then. She tells me I'm supposed to get a trash bag and put alzorb (uh this powder shit we have to clean up spills works great.) And dump the milk into the bag with powder and then throw it into the trash. The other store lady tells me its cuz milk has a lot of fat and the fat will kill the fish. (I fucking swear she really said that.) I go OK and walk away. Cuz what the fuck else do you do? And it wasn't so much her telling me the "right" way to do it. It was how. Like I wouldn't talk to a dog that way...
In fact the claims manager apologized TWICE for how she talked to me. (Mostly cuz she told me to do it.) But ya... Next time I have to throw milk away I'm making a huge fucking mess back there. Cuz well fuck her and how rude she is...
Remind that idiot that human feces contain fat as well so she needs to start shitting in a bag full of that powder too.
Ya. I even said that to one of the people that works for our store there. What does she think about the poo or urine going down the drain. Or hell when I cleaned I used like half a gallon of bleach all down the drian. Hell I used so much ibdamn near cleaned my soul out... I will give it to the idiot that she was nicer then the other lady...
did you hear anything back from Amazon?
Wtf that lady is crazy
Nope. Nor the other place I had an interview with. Even though I was told I would hear back from them this week, one way or another if I got it or not... Nothing yet. Aka I didn't get it and dude was wrong about them letting every one know...
Luna ya she is hella crazy...
I'm off the next 4 days so while I will have friends up here. I will be looking around and sending out my app to as many places as I can. I will also be using up all my personal time. That shit doesn't get cashed out.
Quote from: Aaron on April 04, 2013, 09:24:12 AM
Nope. Nor the other place I had an interview with. Even though I was told I would hear back from them this week, one way or another if I got it or not... Nothing yet. Aka I didn't get it and dude was wrong about them letting every one know...
Call them back and check in on it. I have acquired a job before simply because I was the first candidate to call back and check. People are lazy. Use it to your advantage. ;-)
Yes I was going to recommend you call too. Even if they offered the position to someone else if it doesn't work out it's good to have reminded them that you are still interested.
Called, got told I didn't get it. Also the person I talked to seemed annoyed/little mad that I called..
Now its time to app to more places.... Only issue I haven't found much warehouse jobs that I qualify for. Like they either want lots of experience or forklift certification or wouldn't pay much more then what I make now... Grrrr. Also seasonal or part time... Neither do I want.
Shit. Sorry you didn't get it, man. :(
Eh, shit happens. Looking for new jobs now on my roommates pc. AKA typing on a real keyboard, it's so different from using my phone. The newest issue I'm having is that jobs that were posted yesterday are already filled/closed. OR one of them has "DO NOT APPLY FOR THE JOB IF THEY PAY RATE DOESN'T MEET YOUR STANDARDS" pay rate isn't fucking listed, at all...
When I called up company the lady sounded rushed (and kinda pissed maybe not really at me. BUT who knows.) Either way all the jobs are back open, so I'm gona apply again. And since I know how much I will be making (right off the bat way more then now, and then after 90 days even more... Like I will be able to afford to live on my own. However two different coworkers have asked about roommate... So maybe I could get a place with one of them. ANYHOO the lady basicly just said that the applicants that got the job would have been called. SO I'm putting in my application again. Cuz well fuck it... Why not? (AKA I really haven't found anything that is closeish and better pay or not seasonal. Like I could work at a beer warehouse but it's seasonal... Which sucks. WAY better pay, but then being out of a job in 4 months isn't my idea of a good time...
Also got a show to go to today. WOOO.
Icp!
:p
sorry to hear about amazon, aaron. 8(
Thanks.
I called the other place again, I talked to the HR person and she said I didn't get it due to lack of experience in the warehouse picking line of work... She did say they had another job open however the pay isn't that much better then what I make now. Better but not by much. .30 cents an hour if I work a 40 hour week at both jobs 12 bucks. So not worth it... BUT she did tell me to keep checking their site back.
And as butt hurt as I am about them not hiring me. I have been putting in more applications. Cuz I want fucking out of retail... And I want more money...
It's a big city. I am sure you will find something if you keep looking. I don't blame you for wanting out of retail.
Thanks r00 I am still looking. Just hope I find something soon enough that I can afford to move out and not have to deal with all the cat piss smell... Granted since I won't be taking any pets I should be able to find something and hopefully cheaper to... I may not get a studio but live with one of my coworkers that I like...
I think I will try Costco again... It's still retail. BUT I don't think it would be as bad as wm... And I'm sure they pay better then wm...
I've read the numbers. Costco definitely pays better and has statistically higher employee satisfaction than wm. Totally worth looking into, even if it is just to get out of wm. Not all retail is created equal. My fiance and several friends have also spoken very highly of Best Buy as employees, so that might be worth it if you're willing to stay in retail until something better comes along.
It's not that I hate retail.... Well I kinda do. But it's the only real job I have ever had. I've been at wm for seven years. I need some change... And really I just want to get a bigger pay check. And Costco can't be that bad... And I will have to look into best buy to see how close they are to me...
Aaron, how do those fish throwing jobs pay down at the wharf? That looks like a fun ass job!
HAHAHAHAHAH I will have to look into that. Fish Tossin sounds a bit dirty to... HMMM. I'm a fish tosser. Hell ya.
Prepare for the nerding.
I have a ShengShou 7x7. It's awesome. However it has become to loose. Like it miss alines a lot when I spin it... making solves harder... I don't have as much control over it as I want/like. I have read that I can tighten it. And if that is the case I can just do that. Other wise I will need to buy a new one and soak it in lube and then solve the shit out of it. (The lube is called Jig-a-loo not joking...)
I got a new best time on my 5x5 today. 3:06.59 which is awesome...
On my first break I was in the break room and one of the other people came in and called (her son?) and was talking about how another coworker passed away the night before. (Horrible car crash.) And while I wasn't that close to her. She was a cool lady, really nice and kind, and other then being really nosiey she was a great lady. (And I'm not one of the people that won't talk ill of the dead. She really was a really kind nice person. And always happy, would always say hi and stuff like that.) And it's really shocking that she just died like that. I lost one of my best friends when I was in 8th grade. And that was shocking. I lost a friend to Cancer and it wasn't as shocking. Cuz well I can put two and two together and it was close to her time due to it... But I saw coworker that died yesterday. And she was fine her normal self. And then bam... Fucking hell... *sighs.*
Also some how the Seattle times got the news all wrong. Like coworker drives a truck, not a van and ect, So they got who was to blame and who was in what car 100% wrong. Which saddens me even more.
that's awful, Aaron. 8(
Ya, it's still really shocking. Like how she was fine and then car crash. And it happened like 15 or so minutes after her shift. Like she was on her way home.
that sucks :(
So I have at least half joined the dark side.... I am on a MacBook Pro now as my secondary work computer. I had been talked to about supporting some Mac driven network initiatives at work, so I told them if they wanted me to do it I would need a new Mac to properly test things. BOOM! So they bought me one.
Of course I will tell you I have also been using it for play as well. Traktor runs ultra smooth on it and all my Native Instrument gear worked from the get go with none of the tweaking I had to do on the PC.
I still primarily use a PC, but I am glad I get to learn Macs now too. The last Mac I had was the original 128k Mac my dad brought home in 1984.
One thing I do have to say though... IT FEELS DAMN GOOD TO BE ON A UNIX TERMINAL AGAIN. This is the first job I have had where I didn't have a UNIX/Linux machine. I used to do a lot of Sun and Linux admin stuff and desperately missed it. The first thing I did on this Mac was start writing shell scripts to make my day to day life easier. It's amazing how much I still remember of vi. 8-p
Speaking as someone who has to do a bunch of command-line Solaris/AIX/Linux work, and usually that's the only thing available...
Fuck vi. In the ear. With its retarded command structure. Fuck it. Die and go back to the 70s from whence you came you evil fucker.
Fuck vi.
:wq
hahaha
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:s/Speaking as someone who has to do a bunch of command-line Solaris/AIX/Linux work, and usually that's the only thing available...
Fuck vi. In the ear. With its retarded command structure. Fuck it. Die and go back to the 70s from whence you came you evil fucker.
Fuck vi.
:wq/I love vi with all my heart/
<esc>
ZZ
Eat a bag of hell.
PS: Your original won't work because you didn't escape the slashes in my original text. Suck it. :P
OH SHIT NERD CODE FIGHT! :P
I was walking home from the bus. And I looked up to see a super cute itty bitty animal right in the path. It was a baby Opossum. ANd it was SUPER cute. And tiny like about the same size as a small rat. It was dead still. And I noticed it, said out loud "no fucking way a baby opossum!" Then I was like shit I have a camera phone, two pics and both are of it running away. BUT it was super cute. However just to ruin what happyness this may have brought you. I saw mom across the road dead... (I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure the insides should be on the inside.) So what joy it did bring was snuffed out hella fast...
There is an opening at work for DSD. I don't really know what that stands for... BUT anyhoo the job is checking in vendors and merchandise (like DVD's and CD's that come by fedex.) It's cush, cuz you don't deal with the public it's 100% in the back room. It pays better, I would have way less baby sitters. BUT the down sides. I would get one full day off and work two super short shift days. AND zero busses run that early. (I would start about 5:30am.) So i would have to bike to work and then bus home. And since I would work 6 days a week. I would be biking 60 miles/96KM a week. On a bike I don't own yet. We do have some ok ones at work for cheap (hell the high end one we have there is 150.) But I would need a bigger seat and lights and what nots. BUT I would loose weight fast doing that. So I did put in for it. And while I'm still job hunting. I would love the change this would bring...
Quote from: Goose on May 04, 2013, 12:23:43 PM
PS: Your original won't work because you didn't escape the slashes in my original text. Suck it. :P
8( **hands you the tri-force**
vi 4 evah!
M-% vi RET emacs !
... on a totally different note, does anyone know any good references for philosophical Taoism? I've read some interesting translations of the Tao Te Ching and the Chuang Tzu and I find the philosophy fairly appealing. But from what little additional research I've done, it seems like Taoism in practice became more of a religion, which I don't particularly like. So, any suggestions?
RIP Ray Manzarek. 8(
This one really caught me by surprise.
Yeah, I didn't even know the dude was sick. Still, he had a good run, and it can't be completely unexpected. To me, everyone over the age of 70 is due to drop at a moment's notice. But then again, I'm also pessimistic as hell.
Sounds like nobody knew he was sick. In March he let his bandmates know he was going to Germany for some treatment and then he never came back. 8(
Work is going well. I am still learning stuff. But it's not really that hard. Just coming across stuff that hasn't happened yet, so I know what to do when it does. But I basically just check shit in. Vendors (bread, pop chips, red bull. I haven't learned how to do Beer and wine or hard liquor.) UPS and Fedex are both pretty easy. I have fucked up on a few things, but not really in a big kinda way. So all in all I am doing pretty good. It's very office job with some non office job parts. AKA easy as shit. just learning how to do everything. But other then two mess ups (and very minor ones at that, very fixable as well) I'm doing pretty good. Going to bed early is still killing me though. Yesterday I had one vendor show up, so I did paper work for most my shift. Making hella easy money. HELLA easy.
It's better pay but I can mess up and get into way more trouble. So kinda double edged sword but eh... I will be going in at five am next week so I will have to wake up at like 1ish so I have more then enough time to get ready and bike to work. (I need to buy a water proof back pack.)
Biking to work is fun. In the rain it sucks, but it isn't that bad. My legs already have more definition and look better (or at lest my thighs) All in all I'm enjoying the new job I really can't wait till next payday, Holiday pay and new job raise pay. My boss/person training me is hella cool, and she is a super nice lady.
So the reason the other person left (the person who's job I took) was the person in the invoice office. And most people there think she is a cunt. (Granted person that left got a promotion. Like she got a pay raise, but I don't think it's that much of one. And two days off a week, instead of the two half days and one full day off.) Like even boss who says she is her buddy doesn't really have much nice things to say about her... Anyhoo Office lady said I was doing good, (other then my fuck ups. BUT there aren't that many, and it doesn't sound like a lot of work to fix. Like total I have like 6, and even then only 1 slightly bigger fuck up. In that she will have to do a few extra steps. the others are easy peasy fuck ups.)
I have a sound cloud. I have two songs (as of now) uploaded. They aren't bad, and since they are my first songs made (one is the first song I did.) I think they are pretty goodish.
https://soundcloud.com/abtucker
I know I say this at high risk of a bitch slapping from goose...
But I love my MacBook Pro. For a portable computer with a UNIX terminal, I couldn't ask for more. I still am (and always will be) a PC desktop fanboy at home for gaming and customized expandability, but for day to day work and production performance for sound editing, video, and ssh terminal work, Mac is owning me. *
*I do not own a Linux or UNIX laptop at the moment.
the sort of hilarity that r00 is missing out on ;)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/252253_802482688374_280335900_n.jpg)
Oh one of the best things about working in the back? I can wear shorts. (blue jeans to. But I carry a lot of shit, and wear cargo pants.) Biking with shorts on is so much better then pants. Also there is a bike shop a mile from work so I can buy fenders and get a tune up. (The back gear thing is messed up, and my fix didn't fix it. And I don't want to fuck with it anymore then I have as breaking it isn't an option.)
Quote from: luna on June 01, 2013, 05:11:48 PM
the sort of hilarity that r00 is missing out on ;)
hahaha
you are getting closer to making me proxy an account.
YES
Quote from: r00 on June 03, 2013, 09:32:55 AM
hahaha
you are getting closer to making me proxy an account.
Hey, I'm not under my real name.
Just sayin'.
drone
Which took me forever to realize... I suck at word games...
i've done this on the facebook, but i'm going to do it here too...
i'm going to shamelessly whore out this video my brother made.
it's for a contest this bank is doing. grand prize is 10 grand. he made it as a semi-finalist.
please vote (and vote everyday until the 15th). it'll mean a lot to me and him.
http://bit.ly/10IunN2
oh, and it's funny too.
just watch it and click the vote button.
<3
can you really see your H house from there?
So my phone's battery has shit the bed. Today I woke up at 5:30 (sleeping never felt so good :( ) Took it off the charger at like 10 or maybe 11 after not using it (I did turn up the volume in case someone texts or calls me.) But other wise I didn't use it. It was down to like 80% Then after some light use (twitter and a few texts) it was down to like 60 and being in standby mode... YA... I have found it on ebay for cheap... SO I will probally be buying a new one soon.
when my old phone did that I got a new battery for $15 on ebay
Ya I can get a new one from China for like 24ish shipped. SO not bad. And I have seen how to fix it.
leaving it off for a few hours and then turning it back on some how fixed it. It was running really hot for a long time to. Not anymore.
Got my biked fixed up yesterday, the part that was fucked fucked the back wheel up hella. SO I had to buy a new one of them as well. I spend a lot more then was planned. But I get paid again before my rent is due (for realzies) So mehh. BUT I have a new back wheel and cassette (the gears on the back wheel) It also looks way cooler. And there isn't a plastic thing on the back just metal. And both parts that got fixed (bottom bracket, the part that the pedals are in the bike at) are now way stronger. So they should last me a lot longer.
Now just hoping that the only thing I will need to have done to it is break pad replacements and tune ups.... AKA easy peasy stuff for them to do for cheap.
I might be able to swing a new bike in August. I may have to ask my folks for a loan for said new bike. I will be checking out some of the used places as well that get used bikes and then fix them up and sell them. There is a couple shops I want to go to. One that is way the fuck north, and then another that is really close to work. (Like a ten minute bus ride) The bike I want isn't cheap, but it's not that much as far as bikes go... So that might be happening in August. Maybe...
My ride has gotten easier, and my knees don't hurt as much now. (Only when I sit down, or stand up from sitting down. Then there is some pain.)
Talked to my roommate about cleaning up. Also the cat is pissing in the hall again (right after he got a carpet shampooer.) AND to fucking clean my rice cooker out, not just wipe the inside with a fucking towel and then leave the towel on the counter with the rice still in it. Also clean the lid.
Work is going well I know what I'm doing now, and can be left alone and I don't worry about fucking shit up anymore. I still make mistakes, but not many. And since it's my second month. I'm doing pretty damn good.
ok this probably makes me sound like a horrible person or something but I fucking hate weddings. We went to B's cousin's wedding yesterday, to start with it was out in the fucking boonies so after the ceremony (which had everyone sitting in direct sunlight which resulted in B and probably many others getting a sunburn and everyone being drenched in sweat) the wedding party fucked off for about 3 hours to do pictures while everyone had to just hang around doing nothing. Then it was the typical watch the wedding party walk into the room and sit at their special high table, speeches, watch them all get to eat (everyone was fucking starving by that time) then play some stupid trivia game so win your trip to the buffet (we were one of the last and I was about ready to die I was so hungry). Oh but before dinner we got to listen to some preacher guy give a sermon about how wives should submit to their husbands ::) wtf? Then it was a whole lot more sitting around until they finally danced to this terrifying country song about how "she loves me like jesus", um what?
thank god B was going to be called to work when we got home so we could leave early. Why the fuck anyone would want to put themselves through that is beyond me but if you were going to wouldn't you at least make it a bit more personal rather than sticking to the usual stuff you're expected to do?
just watched it. LOL. Guess you don't start an interview by insinuating the only talent in the band is the biggest name in it. ::)
right?? the whole interview was a joke! haha
I dog-sat for my roommate last week while he was out of town, and one of his dogs has apparently gotten attached to me and he is starting to get SERIOUSLY pissed off at her, as, since he got back on Friday, she continues to try to sleep in my bed and hang out with me in the basement. "God DAMMIT Babe, that is NOT your new dad! Get the fuck upstairs!"
edit: Golden Retrievers are a bit flighty, emotionally, I understand.
I got my yearly evaluation yesterday, I was told I'm doing good. Keep it up. Some of the stuff I needed to work on she says to everyone. (Try to take care of it your self before you bug me ect.) I also was asked if I could come in earlier. Which I said I can since I'm feeling good and biking to/from. HOWEVER if I'm sick, the buses don't run early enough to get me there pre 630am. (Well at lest get me there early enough so that I don't have to leave my place at midnight. and take a crazy fucked up route.) Manager said if I could just come in early and override my time. BUT if I'm feeling sick she wouldn't change my start time from 630 so I can still take the bus if I really need to. New start time is 530... SO it's not to much earlier... Either way I got the basic raise.
The best thing I won't have the sun in my eyes when I get to work... I face the sun then and it sucks. Cuz it blinds me at times. (Unless I put my helmet down as it has a visor thing.)
Funny story. I got hit by a car while I was riding my bike.
(Everything turned out as well as could be hoped for, which is why I'm not posting in the Vent Thread.)
Scene: Friday night, about 7:30pm. I'm biking on the sidewalk---I like to ride in the street if I can, but this is a 6-lane road with no shoulder and riding on it while it's getting dark is a death wish. I'm coming to an intersection with a stop light and the little white glowing dude is telling me I have the right-of-way. And as I'm going through, *BOOM*, a car making a right on red hits me from the side. I'm down on the pavement, completely winded and in a decent amount of shock.
Ignoring the kid who's hopped out of the car, saying he's so sorry, I try to assess the damage to myself. Broken bones? Doesn't seem so. Cracked ribs? Not that I can tell. Lovely. Some bystanders call 911, and in a couple minutes there are multiple police cars, a fire truck, and an ambulance on the scene. Holy shit, this is a lot of fuss.
By now, I'm actually not feeling too bad. The kid who hit me had just started creeping through the intersection and wasn't going too fast at all---most of the energy in the collision came from me. I seem to have come out of it with just some minor scrapes. As for my bike, my saddle and seat post are bent to shit, but otherwise it's in good shape.
The person I really feel bad for is the kid. It's not his night at all. This is his first week with a license, and to make matters worse, he's left it at home. So not only is he scared shitless from hitting me, but he has to call his dad to the scene to bring him his license. Oops.
Eventually, the cops write him up with a citation, and he and his dad apologize profusely and offer to pay for any medical bills and/or bike repairs. We exchange information, then I leave and bike 5 miles back home on a bent saddle. Later, Mrs. rynne checks me out and says I avoided any serious injuries, so I'm feeling pretty lucky about the whole thing. I figure that between the citation and his parents, the kid has adequately learned his lesson, so I probably won't bother him about the cost of fixing my bike (I'd been thinking about replacing those components anyway).
Mrs. rynne was at work when this happened, so I had to call her to say I'd been in an accident, which is a pretty evening-ruining message to get. She didn't like my response when she asked how I was feeling: "Well, I feel like I've been hit by a car." She never appreciates my sense of humor. :lol:
Damn that sucks. It's great that you and your bike are ok. (well other then the saddle and seat post.) What kind of bike do you have? And ya, that kid isn't have a good week that's for sure.
He'll be more careful at intersections from now on, that's for sure. So will I, for that matter. I guess *everyone* learned a valuable lesson that evening.
I've got a hybrid bike from Giant that's about 15 years old. It's a steel alloy frame: not light but really tough. Our new house is in a really bike-friendly neighborhood, so I've been trying to bike instead of drive as much as possible. I've been considering getting a lighter road bike for longer trips (maybe commuting to work, too) and keeping this one as an around-town beater.
Ya, I am sure he did. It's good you didn't break anything.
I have heard good things about Giant. Right I'm biking 10 miles (one way) to work and then back home most days, I bus it home some days. (I road 100 miles last week.) Right now I'm on a walmart bike. It's not really been that bad. But I'm saving up for a better road bike/cross cycle. If you do get a new bike let me know what you get. I've been looking at Trek and Specialized, Surly has some really nice ones. However they are quite a bit more money. (well the Disk Trucker is...)
Wow, that's awesome, Aaron. 100 miles a week is no joke!
Sounds like you're looking at the same kind of bikes as I am. If money were no object, I'd get a Cross Check or a Long Haul Trucker in a second. I'd get a Giant again, and you pretty much can't go wrong with Trek or Specialized. Raleigh makes some pretty nice bikes, too.
whoa. glad you're okay!
Ya. I road 110 miles the week before. And then 100. I got these shorts (that I'm wearing now) on August 15th. They were tight and fit fine, now they are a bit loose, like I'm going to need to wear a belt with them soon. I have lost some weight biking. I started biking in May and have been ever since (I skipped two weeks from being sick. Bronchitis and Pneumonia at the same time doesn't make for a fun ride. Or feeling like I will live after I get to work.) But quite a few of my coworkers have said I have lost weight, and my cheeks are smaller and my chin is a lot less doubly. Also diet change, I eat less shit food have cut out soda (today I had some, first time in a few weeks) and I only drink sugar free energy drinks now. And I have cut way back on them as well.
Trek has a warranty/insurance thing you can buy that makes them nice. Well on top of the bikes being good bikes. I would get the Crossrip if I got one from them. Surly Disk Trucker, everything I have read says its a tank, and you can add a back basket to it. (I want to be able to attach my bag pack to my bike and not carry it. I get nasty sweat stain from it.) I might use up all my tax return and bday money and if needed ask my folks for a loan... Right now I noticed I need winter bike cloths more then a new bike (read rain gear.) Shit they even make studded tires for bikes, so I have zero reason to not bike year round. (I road in a two days and got soaked, I need better clothes to wear in the rain. And when it's cold and raining.)
Aaron, do you have any experience with taking apart/rebuilding bikes?
It turns out that my front rim is slightly bent. Not so much that it's unusable, but it'll have to be replaced eventually. I'm thinking that if I get new front and back wheels in the not-too-distance future, I can try to switch the wheels myself and get some experience with some mid-level bike maintenance (which I'd like if I'm going to get a nicer bike in the future). The thing is, I've never done anything that extensive before and I'd like to have somewhere to turn to for advice if I get stuck.
I have not. If I understand what your saying. Are you asking about rebuilding the wheel it's self? Or just changing out the whole wheel for a new one? (If so I'd say that is pretty easy as long as you get the right sized parts...) If you mean a new wheel and having to change out the hub and spokes then no. I wouldn't even want to try. I'd take it to a bike shop. (also look for bike shop school/classes. I know there are a lot around here. Granted, Seattle is very bike friendly, but...)
My bike skills are very basic and does it work better then it did before, if yes, don't fuck with it any more. (AKA wait till payday and take it to the bike shop. Which I'm no on a first name basis with...)
I had a friend that stayed here for a couple of weeks (2.5ish?) and we talked a lot. He told me that he had gotten 19k a year from FASFA (government aid to go to school, aka huge loan.) He was going to school in Idaho where it's cheaper to live and the schooling is also cheaper, so I might be able to get more. The good/bad thing about all that. I make a bit more then that, so if I go to school full time (which I would have to) and work part time I could have my wage there, and I wouldn't suffer to much. (I'd eat more potatoes then I do now.) BUT it looks like I'm going to be going back to school for realzies... I need to. I like my job, but I fucking hate were I'm at, and how much I make. I like the people, and the job I'm doing isn't hard, but... Working for the biggest corporation in the world and getting paid shit wages, the more I think about it and the amount of time I have put in there is fucking depressing...
I'd try to get a degree in computers. Not really sure what, but a 2 year program would be better... Even if I hate my job after, I would still make a shit ton more money. And that would cheer me up a bit. (If not I could buy enough drugs to keep me happy. SO either way it's a win.)
have you looked into learning a trade? that's where all the jobs are here plus it's much shorter time doing just schooling then you start doing on the job training so you make money while you learn
Kinda, I don't know which trade I would want to learn, which is my biggest issue... But I will have to learn more that's for sure. Thanks.
I got a bonus on this coming pay check. I'm going to buy a ball python. She will be both purty and fucking awesome. I'm super excited.
Linky. (warning pic of snake.)
http://shop.kicksballs.com/100-het-Orange-Ghost-Female-2013-26-7.htm
She is born this year, so she will be very small. BUT I will get to have her for her whole life. (20ish years. I have read that 15 is really common and easy. So I will have her for a long while.) I have named her Lady Luci. She will be awesome. She should get to be 5-6ft. I will be buying the tank and stuff this week. (some from amazon, and then I'm going to a pet store for the tank and lid and some other stuff I need.)
Also since I'm getting a female now, I can buy a male down the road and breed them if I want. And if I get a good looking morph male I can have some cool babies come from it.
So on my way from work to home. My right peddle felt odd, like it felt uh... Movey... So at one point I have to stop to cross a bridge and walk my bike. So I got off bike looked at peddle felt it didn't feel any different. Then I spun it. And BAM good sized crack on the crank arm... WHICH isn't the cheapest of things on a bike to fix. HOWEVER it could be much worse. I'm going to go to the bike shop tomorrow. (and hope it's less then 150 to walk out with it fixed.)
And then on the way home I fb emailed my mom about getting a loan for a new bike. Her and my dad both were cool with it. My dad just needed to know how much and when. My dad also said I didn't need to hurry to pay them back. (I was the one that brought it up. Like I'll pay you back 150 a month...) SO I'm getting a new bike. It's going to be the Trek Crossrip. It's a sexy beast. And I will ride it till it fucking breaks in two... BUT I will have a high end bike. My bike right now was 220 (not including all the shit I have done to it after the fact.) Bike I'm getting 1000 bucks. Also a road bike. I can't fucking wait. I'm so happy I'm SQUEEEEING inside like a school girl that gets to see Beiber and 1 Direction at the same time, while riding my brand new pony.
This also means no snake for awhile. But new bike is a lot more important... I'm putting 100+ miles on mine a week. So I need something good and that will last... A pet can wait.
So I have been at wm for 8 years (and I have managed to not kill anyone or my self. I'm a fucking saint) and I make shit for wages. That being said. I have looked into getting a warehouse job. There are two different options. One is Pepsi, and one is Columbia (they sell deliver pop beer wine and liquor.) BEST thing, both are close to me (well with in easy biking range.) one is 7 and the other is 12. (right now I do right at 10 or just under.) Columbia pays more but is further away... Best thing I can get recommendations from people at both places... And since I could get three recommendations for Pepsi, (One Merchandiser maybe two, and then a few of the drivers, one has been there for a long time, so him saying I'm good would be really awesome, and their sales rep.) Columbia I could get one, maybe two. (One of the drivers just got they employee of the year award there, so getting him to say I'm good would be super duper awesome, and the warehouse manager is good friends with the driver I check in, so I might be able to get him to give me a good job.
Either way, I could be getting a new job sooner then later. And both jobs would be night jobs. Which is fine with me. I don't have a social life now so it won't hurt anything.
Two weeks ago one of my friends asked me about my roommate moving back home. I said I hadn't heard anything from him. So when I got home (and he got home) I asked him about it. He said he isn't being kept on at his current job, (seasonal) and he can't find any other work so he is putting in an app at his old job at the casino there. Which hasn't called him back about a job... That being said he is still moving back home. So he is taking his cats. (other wise they would turn into out side cats. The one that pisses in the hall would find herself in a bag, in the river.) Which is awesome. he is also going to clean the hall before he leaves, so my folks will be willing to come see me again. He will be paying his half of everything (power and internet bill as well) which is gona be awesome. BUT ya, I'm happy I will have the place to my self, and really get to see what living on my own will be like... And I might be able to invite people over and not feel ashamed of how bad it smells.
Aaron, you inspired me to try to bike to work today (or rather, since it's Saturday, bike to my place of work, then turn around and come back). While I was able to do it without having to take a break, I think I need to get into a bit better shape before trying it on an actual work day. The ride to work is largely downhill, but the idea of coming home uphill in DC rush-hour traffic isn't something I'm comfortable with at my current state of fitness.
I'll probably get a new bike early next year after I get some Christmas money, so I'm aiming to build up my strength/stamina over the next few months before then.
*Blushes* That's awesome!
How far is the trip? I ride on the side walk when I am on the road. Mostly due to not being confident enough to bike in the road with the traffic. (at lest in the afternoon, morning there really isn't much traffic at all.) And ya, Hills fucking suck. However even now I ride up two overpasses, and there is still a small since of victory and joy that I feel at the top. Which are the only real hills I have to do on my way to work. But coming home I live on a steep hill. And I'm still way to fat to be able to peddle my self up it. I can do inclines and overpasses with ease. But fuck my hill... I still push it up there :( But ya. Biking to and from work has been amazing. Even in the rain, and the cold. (well cold for fall...)
If I used this bike mapping tool (http://veloroutes.org/bikemaps/) correctly, my ride from work to home is about 8.5 miles with something like 885 ft total elevation gain. And it's also got a fucking steep-ass hill not too far from my house. It's like, you're almost finished and that last hill is like, "Nope. Fuck you, you're not getting home that easily."
I swear, I had to use lower gears to get through that trip than I've used in, like, five years.
Hahah ya. I hear that. My hill is steep-ass fuck as well. My biggest issue with changing to a lot lower gear, is that I loose a lot of my momentum going up. And by a lot I mean pretty much all. Most all my ride is flat. there are a few inclines, and a few under a bridge back up the other side of the bridge...
However after a few weeks the overpass was easier, and now I can go up it at a good speed. And the same with my hill. I still walk some, but I can peddle up more of it...
I bought some Chamois and i will be wearing them tomorrow for the first time... Saddle sores ain't no joke.
Yesterday we (roommate friend, the one I go to shows with, and I) went to Beth's Cafe. The home of the 12 egg omelet. (and the standard 6 egg omelet.) I ate a 12 egg omelet. I felt horrible at the end of it. BUT I FUCKING DID IT! I'm still so fucking full I am not eating breakfast. (Normally I have two clif bars and a quart of water.) Today just some energy drink. BUT I did it. I also gained back all the weight I have lost biking to/from work...
And on that note. I bought a scale and I weigh my self right when I get home from biking home. Since I got it I have lost 5 pounds (ish?) It's kinda hard for me to know for sure, but I know I have lost some weight. My belt needs a new hole to keep my shorts up better. And my thighs look better, I have a lot more muscle showing then just round shape. My calves are fucking rock hard, (Granted I'm fat so I have fat man calves. But they are made of Steel now. Like even the front of them flexes at times...
Also Rynne if you don't have them, I recommend bike short liners. They go under your normal pants/shorts, like underwear only with padding for your but and front. Which is really nice.
I have a bike app on my phone, and while I trust the speed and time distance seems a bit well fucked. I take the same route to work (when I time my self. I like to look around on my way home so I go slower.) And it has the distance change almost a mile. And I could understand like .01 miles. But not by that much... BUT I'm still hauling ass I have gotten faster.
I had a nightmare my roommate moved back in since he couldn't find a job at home... *Shudders* hoping it doesn't come true...
poinky just tried to register an account here. There's a thing that's not happening.
Wow she actually found us?
Damn...
I have an app for a job that pays a bit shy of double what I make now. One of the drivers is going to be putting in a recommendation for me. I'm trying to not really get my hopes up. But I really hope I get the job.
I really like my job now. Just not the shit pay, or all the bullshit we have to deal with. Even if there is a lot of bullshit there, the pay will make up for it.
If I do, I'm having a 2 week notice party. I will be drinking classy shit. 40's of OE and Scotch. Yep I said it. And if I don't get it I will drink the same thing, and cry a little (ok, a lot) Best thing. the 112 hours of vacation pay I have will be cashed out. Which will be more then enough for a new pair of boots and a jacket. And a huge payment to Bank of Parents for the loan.
Hey PI we never talk anymore
I got my chain and cassette replaced yesterday. The chain was super stretched out, and while the cassette still had some life left on it. It was showing wear and tear. And a few of the teeth on it would mess up the chain a lot faster then normal riding. (there was a few teeth with large burs and that were stretched out.) Oddly the cheaper cassette will last longer then the higher end one. (30 bucks vs 55 bucks) Since it's made with heavier duty stuff. Best part I didn't pay a dime for any of it. Since I bought the Care Plus Plan (aka the main reason I went with Trek.) The guy also looked at the shifting and made it a lot smoother.
I have about 1400 miles on it. And I got it Sept. 21st. So not bad. (2250ish KM)
So every January work cuts everyone's hours. Which sucks. Mine haven't gotten cut to much. But one week I'm getting an extra day off. Which is fucking sweet. I am gona see if I can use Personal time to make up for the day of pay missing. And then sleep the fuck in and play WoW till my fucking eyes bleed. And it's all so at the end of the fiscal year they have more money and thus look better and the stocks go up and other great things...
Damn, wearing out the drivetrain already? You are a beast, Aaron! :lol:
Ya. I'm a beast! :) The whole commuting on it and only it. (I did bus last week for getting home as my cold was kicking my ass. But I'm back on it. And riding home.)
*tumbleweed*
i miss this board.
Me too :(
Derek: in response to one of your comments on threat's random encounter with GOD, you know VOLTO! isn't really a weird old guy cover band anymore, right? They're a weird old guy fusion band now. But here's where the joke's on you: Danny is the oldest one in the band. ;)
It makes me very sad to realize that this place is almost gone...
Are you in the fb group? We still chat regularly there...
Last weekend I went to the Pink Floyd conference at Princeton; so whomever might be interested in reading my article...
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/princeton/intro.htm
Nice :)
Quote from: luna on April 19, 2014, 04:34:06 PM
Are you in the fb group? We still chat regularly there...
I am perpetually insecure and I always thought I wasn't really welcome there... I AM kind of a douche.
Short answer: No.
Douchebags don't come much bigger than me and I'm part of the FB group. Join us!
Yes join. I honestly don't know who the fuck most of the people in there are anyways ;)
That's why we posted that index file that lists everyone's usernames and real names.
Ah I forgot about that!
Hi
Facebook killed the discussion board star.
Yep :(
Fucking Facebook you suck
facebook killed me again, guys.
:(
Quote from: Goose on June 26, 2014, 01:03:05 PM
Facebook killed the discussion board star.
Does that mean some of us are going to join Yes
Quote from: rokken like dokken on April 15, 2016, 10:27:24 AM
Does that mean some of us are going to join Yes
Probably. The rest will probably move on to Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitch, and Periscope, while quasar toils endlessly in the bowls of MySpace.
Quote from: Goose on April 15, 2016, 03:24:49 PM
Probably. The rest will probably move on to Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitch, and Periscope, while quasar toils endlessly in the bowls of MySpace.
What about G+ and Ello? :lol:
I've always kind of hoped that quasar wasn't like Derek Smart, where the mere mention of his name brings him wherever you are.
Oh man, Ello! Weren't they going to revolutionize social media or something? The world can only be so revolutionized, as Theranos has found out.
TPD come back, we need to talk about how TNA is getting taken over by Neo-Nazis
it was at 666...
OH FUCK I REZNOREKTED AN OLD THREAD OH FU
Way to go
Quote from: rokken like dokken on April 20, 2016, 12:50:48 PM
TPD come back, we need to talk about how TNA is getting taken over by Neo-Nazis
wait, what?
Quote from: rokken like dokken on April 15, 2016, 10:27:24 AM
Does that mean some of us are going to join Yes
i'm almost a year late on this, but that's brilliant
It's done!
I'm free!
Quote from: Dust on February 05, 2017, 11:17:03 PM
It's done!
I'm free!
leaving facebook was one of the best things ever... well, the first time. being unceremoniously deleted again kinda sucked.
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/the-hottest-daddies-in-video-games
So, if we're coming back, you fuckers are suffering through the knowledge of this article with me :))
But why male models?
Quote from: Nayl_Girl on February 05, 2017, 11:24:05 PM
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/the-hottest-daddies-in-video-games
So, if we're coming back, you fuckers are suffering through the knowledge of this article with me :))
Dudley and Mario probably get into kinky moustache wax scenarios...
I imagine a scene like the bath house fight from Eastern Promises, but with Donkey Kong instead of Viggo Mortenssen.
Just let that sink in a little.
WHY AREN'T WE KICKSTARTING THIS FUCKER?
"That $30,000 on getting Donkey Kong's dong to swing the right way when he dodged that second knife swing? Best money I ever spent."
- Ted
all dong movement was practical fx too because viva la difference!
"Donkey Kong's dong was filmed at 300 frames per second."
- David Cronenberg
i wish he still made cool movies...
Donkey Kong's Dong's DONG!
- A cool movie directed by David Cronenberg
PS - Emphasis on DONG for stylistic title purposes, and also that I'm testing out formatting.
Or maybe it's like se7en.
Do7g
i c yr psswrd
How is there 94 pages of this? Jesus.
Right?
There is 94 pages cuz you fuckers don't shut up... Just saying...
Quote from: Aaron on February 06, 2017, 02:35:35 PM
There is 94 pages cuz you fuckers don't shut up... Just saying...
we're making up for near a decade 0f inactivity!
When did Welcome to N00bieHell (fix this BRoKeN MaCHiNE) come out? Or AOLHELL Has it been more than 10 years? Death cakes (in my shower.)
I know PodGirl was less than a decade ago. And your fucking "song" reading her posts. (I think MrMonster did a song as well? Maybe?) Or the NVER 4GET I don't remember the date, but I think it was in January. Some troll got on and spammed the shit out of new thread button. And then Dust said he should be giving Mod status, and that he "Would rule with an Iron fist. And an oven mitt for the ones he likes."
Never mind, MrMonster's song is reading her post. TPDs is "Podgirl is a fucking tard" "But I can't find the thread where Podgirl is a fucking tard" (Guess what I'm listening to)
noobiehell was January 17th, 2004. Ted reads the post date in the song, and I remember my sister having a really annoying birthday party while we were putting it together.
Good times. :)
Christ that was forever ago... pretty sure I was on for the whole shitshow though. Or at least most of it. :lol:
Quote from: Aaron on February 07, 2017, 05:26:08 AM
And then Dust said he should be giving Mod status, and that he "Would rule with an Iron fist. And an oven mitt for the ones he likes."
Also, I'm pretty sure this was part of my sig on the old board when it died.
i miss those collabs... if we keep this board alive for 3 months dust and i will give a live streaming fc concert.
Quote from: TPD on February 07, 2017, 11:58:05 PM
i miss those collabs... if we keep this board alive for 3 months dust and i will give a live streaming fc concert.
Quoting for proof. So May we will have a FC live stream show...
I remember Dust, you Nayl, I know there was a few more people. And for whatever reason, the troll didn't go into the thread we were talking about him. (Just making new threads.)
It's going to be a camshow on xhamster.
Oh, I have never heard of that site... I like hamsters so 10 hamsters must be awesome.... (uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....)
I just went and did this:
(https://i.imgur.com/tAayclL.jpg)
good luck!
Good luck!
Thanks dudes! It's just been emailing back and forth so far, but I really like the idea of taking stuff to a decent studio and getting it fleshed out a bit more. There's a few songs that would be amazing with live drums.
Anyway, here's hoping that they're cool. If it goes well enough, I can see it becoming a regular thing.
Woo! Scheduled an appointment for 12:30pm next Thursday. I'm crazy excited about this. :D
8-)
That's awesome dude! Hope it goes really well.
That's awesome, man! Look forward to hearing things. You'll have to let us know when it's up; I'm terrible about remembering to check soundcloud for new things.
Well, I'm going to post it here, guys. If it's going to suck, I'd be so happy if you're the ones to white lie to me first.
<3
I do plan on subjecting you to a shitty playlist though, so you better be on your toes about it.
wooo!
Yay new music!
This is definitely the best thing that happened today
If I were Trudeau, I'd totally have stinkpalmed him. If they detected that Trump got sick because I rubbed my hand down my asscrack before I shook his tiny sausage fingers, I'd totally fess up to it. I'd even admit that it was biological warfare, because I know he'd call it that.
Just desserts.
Now that's prime minister material
My first act as Pseudo-Trudeau is to make luna my Sectretary of Good Times.
May God help us all.
PS - Whoever has been smiting TPD with me for the fun of it: I love you.
Oh yeah I'm all about good times. Now off to bed at 9pm because I'm cool like that
I'd vote for you. I'd move to Canada just to vote for you.
Can we just have Pseudo-Trudeau then and let Canada keep the real deal? I'm sure that without being an American citizen and with no background in politics, Dust would STILL be a better leader than the SCROTUS (So-called ruler of the US, if you haven't seen that one in action. It's one of my favourites.)
You had Pseudo-Trudeau. His name was Bernie Sanders.
Elizabeth Warren would be a close second. She better run next time.
:'(
I voted for him, for all the good it did. We're hoping Warren'll run next, but we're worried that the Dems will still shut her down because she's too radical, and unlike Bernie, it wouldn't make sense for her to RUN independent. Some of us, despite his age, are kinda hoping he'll run as an independent in 2020, but I'd vote for Warren.
My official platform would be an actual platform, that only I get to stand on. It represents my elevated sense of duty.
Do I still get the job?
You've got my vote!
But seriously I am not super impressed with Trudeau and I know a lot of people who voted for him just to get rid of harper are also not impressed so I think we are headed for another conservative government next election. Hopefully they don't choose a racist asshole as their leader...
Quote from: Goose on February 14, 2017, 01:42:41 PM
I <3 this phrase now.
Pseudeau
Quote from: luna on February 14, 2017, 08:54:02 PM
But seriously I am not super impressed with Trudeau and I know a lot of people who voted for him just to get rid of harper are also not impressed so I think we are headed for another conservative government next election. Hopefully they don't choose a racist asshole as their leader...
same. i didn't vote for him tho, i voted ndp. mulcair actually ran in my riding.
Quote from: Dust on February 14, 2017, 08:10:55 PM
My official platform would be an actual platform, that only I get to stand on. It represents my elevated sense of duty.
Do I still get the job?
Will you also wear an iron gauntlet on one hand and an oven mitt on the other?
Quote from: luna on February 14, 2017, 08:54:02 PM
But seriously I am not super impressed with Trudeau and I know a lot of people who voted for him just to get rid of harper are also not impressed so I think we are headed for another conservative government next election. Hopefully they don't choose a racist asshole as their leader...
I understand that the position has a lot of demands, and sticking to your guns and keeping promises is an endless parade of comprimises that I'm sure he didn't particularly forsee. Still, he seems to be as much of a douchebag as every other politician in this day and age. At least with Harper, he was fairly transparent about his motives and policies, and didn't seem to care about being a scumbag. Meanwhile, Daddy's Boy seemed like he played it up for the popular vote, then turned his back when he got what he wanted.
I pretty much don't care anymore.
Quote from: TPD on February 14, 2017, 11:49:04 PM
Pseudeau
same. i didn't vote for him tho, i voted ndp. mulcair actually ran in my riding.
Mulclair seemed alright at first, and I was going to vote for him at some point, but then the NDP started getting a little too friendly with some Conservative policies (of which I can't recall now), and I had the feeling Trudeau was going to win anyway. Meh.
Quote from: Aaron on February 15, 2017, 05:30:00 AM
Will you also wear an iron gauntlet on one hand and an oven mitt on the other?
No no no, I'd wear a iron mitt on one hand and an oven gauntlet on the other.
Yup the whole electoral reform thing pushed me.over the edge with him. I voted liberal because they were the ones most likely to beat the cons in my riding. If he kept his promise I could have finally voted for whichever party actually represents my values and know it would count but now I am just back to voting against who i don't want to win, sigh
Yeah, I really hope he fuckin remembers who voted for him... it's pretty much like what happened in the us election*, what with the rust belt voting for drumpf with hesitation, but expecting him to change things...
I kinda stay away from voting for political dynasties because of the whole monarchy thing (like isn't that what we moved away from?), and with Pseudeau it seemed like people were voting for him JUST** because of his dad.
And that doesn't always work out right (see Bush).
That's also why I didn't think Clinton would win... (see Bill.)
Having said all that, I really hope Caroline Kennedy runs in 2020, because if anyone might be able to sway things it might be another kennedy.
*similar minus quasarland, bullying, and rampant racism
**we also benefited from Harper fuckin up a whole bunch for a decade, and people went in with the anyone but harper vote.
I would probably stinkpalm all of them too.
Last time 'round I voted NDP, mostly in an attempt to follow an ABC (Anything But Cons) voting pattern. With both the libs and the NDP, some things I agree with, some things I don't, but everything I was seeing was giving the NDP a bit of hope. Unfortunately, word didn't really get out in this province, and everything ended up splitting the vote on the right, so the Cons swept up. Seriously, my riding was like 30% Lib, 30% NDP, 40% Con., (or something like that) and fuckin' Scheer ended up re-elected.
I also had high hopes for electoral reform, but I know its going to be a rough fight to ever get anything like that done. Trudeau got blindsided with how much else he had to deal with once he was in charge, and ended up not being able to follow through. I don't think he's been a terrible PM, he's quite possibly the best of the options we had at the time, but he definitely wasn't completely ready for what awaited him post-election.
I miss Jack Layton.
Ugh me too :(
Rip Jack. :(
So my puppy is 15 years old, and for a wiener dog that's pretty old. And she has had a good life. Spoiled rotten. This coming Monday she is taking the long nap. And while I understand it, I'm still sad as shit about it. Mostly cuz I don't really have a way to get home to say good bye. And like I said, she has had a good life, and while her health has gotten worse she is mostly blind. And we have a deck that she has fallen off of a few times. It's like 2.5 feet high (like .75 meter ish.) which while not that high, when you are only 4 inches tall that's pretty damn far to fall. And I was handling it pretty well ish. But I ended up falling a sleep in my chair and dreaming about her. I woke up crying. and now I still am...
Man, I'm sorry Aaron. :(
Oh I'm sorry Aaron :(
:(
I'm sorry, Aaron. That's terrible. We had a scare with Maven (our cat, but hubby's originally) Thanksgiving of '15. Vet told us that another year with him was basically delusional and we should either a) pay like 3k on the spot to have him observed overnight, or b) put him down. We chose c) take him home with meds and at least let him be somewhere familiar, and wouldn't you know it, Thanksgiving '16 was almost 3 months ago and he's still going strong. Hubby was absolutely DESTROYED at the time though. I can't even imagine what that's like. I've only lived with Maven a little over 3 years. 15 must be a devastating loss to face. Lots of love to you, dude.
Thanks everyone. And like I said she is old and what not. but it's still hard as hell. I did ask my mom to get her some Mcdonalds burgers or chicken nuggets. Sorta last meal ish. And she said she would. It just sucks...
I have so many awesome projects that I'm working on at the moment, that I feel pretty damned blessed to be where and who I am. Not in a goofy sentimental way, but it's so nice to actually feel good and okay about everything.
Y'know, admitting without rubbing it in. I'm just really glad to be here, dudes.
Shit, Aaron, I'm so sorry. You've given your heart to that little dog, and she's had a great life because of it. I'd like to tell you to take solace in knowing that you made her life a wonderful experience---and you will take solace in that, eventually---but it's gonna be hard for a while.
You just take the time you need to remember her. I can't offer much, but if there's anything I can do, let me know.
Thanks Rynne. And ya, she has had a great life. She was spoiled rotten. I also had the lowest (to the ground) bed, so she would always hop onto my bed when I was off work/school. And it is hard, like I won't lie, I cried a lot yesterday and Friday. And today... But at the same time, I like to think we are erring on the side of caution, and stopping whatever pain she has now, instead of letting it get really bad. But it's so fucking hard to try to keep happy about it...
The beauty about losing a friend like yours, is that you can apply that same love to your next good buddy. She taught you how to love, so pay it forward.
Thanks dude, that's beautiful. And ya, someday when I'm able to have pets (Roommate is allergic to cats, and I'd feel bad having a dog working 10+ hours a day. Roommate also hates snakes and geckos...) I will love them just as much.
Finally saw tickled, it was...really good...and disturbing, definitely disturbing. Even the baby tried to stay awake to see how it ended :lol:
Hi. I don't have anything interesting to say but keep popping in so figured I would post
i'm having a mid life crisis... or 2/3 life crisis. i dunno. 1/3 life crisis?
but hey, i'm working on a short film that's pretty rad
My entire life is a mid life crisis
Quote from: luna on April 27, 2017, 06:41:06 PM
My entire life is a mid life crisis
truthfully, saaaame.
but this one in particular has me confuzzled
Move to Vancouver, be my babysitter, problem solved ;)
Tempting!
Thought of the day:
Jaden Smith is what happens when black people contract white privilege.
Bshahhaa it's true
Theo Move to Van. See me often.
My boss at nights is super scatter brained. Like he tries to do all the things but won't finish anything. Like he jumps around from task to task. Instead of finishing task a then task b ect. He also is really shit at social skills. Like if he was home schooled, I wouldn't be shocked.
I've been sick and coughing a lot. So much so that my abs are sore.
Quote from: TPD on April 26, 2017, 11:09:19 PM
i'm having a mid life crisis... or 2/3 life crisis. i dunno. 1/3 life crisis?
but hey, i'm working on a short film that's pretty rad
Me too! There is an age starting with a 4 looming in my near future, and my mom is now straight up elderly. How did this happen??
What type of film are you working on?
A SHORT FILM. I'LL LINK IT WHEN WE RELEASE IT.
Yay!!