COLLEGE RADIO BROS YES! WHAT IS THAT AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND WHY ARE YOU RUNNING IT ON WINDOWS UGH
That sounds awesome. How did the radio show come together?
http://www.wrcufm.com/show-info/?id=598 You can stream on iTunes radio or directly from our website!
Oh okay. Well I will definitely check it out on Sunday especially since it's supposed to rain for most of the weekend.
So yeah last week was probably one of the worst weeks I've had in a few years, but at least it's over now. That said, I'm not a fan of people who change a ton when they get into relationships. CIP: roommate (who is 22 years old). Ever since he started dating this chick he has lost any semblance of the person he used to be. Wants to be referred to with a new name, use different pronouns because he's now gender-fluid. I'm now hearing "terms" like aquarius cusp, XNFP, 4 w 5 wings. His kiss-pal or whatever the fuck they call each other at this point has self-diagnosed herself with ptsd, bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, adhd, and avpd, like these are symptoms that you can just buy at a fucking shopping market. People who self-diagnose infuriate me, especially because I know actual people with these actual disorders and it fucking sucks, it's not fun and you don't put it in your fucking tumblr profile like it's some sort of positive identifier. But yeah. Now scopophobia "triggers" him. I showed him that video of that robot that wants to put humans in people zoos and he just looked up at me and was like "why do they have to gender the robot?" Like are you fucking kidding me man, this robot wants to take over the world and you're worried about its pronoun usage? Tried to talk to him about it but he lashed out and said I was being insensitive and didn't support him. Really that's only because I don't coddle him like his girlfriend does, but I also just left it alone since I've got my own problems, haha. But yeah, he basically wants to become that whole "hipster-white-dude-poet that smokes and has a manic pixie dream girlfriend and is super poor and hates the system and just isn't understood" stereotype. Which, okay, whatever gets you hard, but you also have to pay rent and if that becomes an issue his ass is grass, I ain't got time for this shit, lol.
I'm getting old :) Mind translating for people out of the loop? I took some guesses Aquarius cusp, XNFP, 4 w 5 wings - new superheroes? Avpd - alien vs predator disorder Scopophobia - fear of people who use foreign words, like biscuit instead of scone and pop instead of soda
Well, thanks for making stifle laughter in class. Okay I'll give this a shot. I can't tell you what Aquarius Cusp means. XNFP: a Jung Personality Test identifier. It means nothing. 4 w 5 wings: An enneagram type. I don't know what it means, but whatever it means, it means nothing. AVPD: Avoidant personality disorder. Scopophobia: Fear of being stared at. Yup.Avpd - alien vs predator disorder
I know you ain't hatin', but... Gender fluid or Gender neutral's a bunch of things, but it's pretty much never "it" (unless someone specifically requests). "It" is reserved for inanimates."They/them" is pretty standard neuter across English and the Romance Languages (Italian, French, Spanish). Just because you think it's a phase for this person doesn't mean it's not daily life for a bunch of people.
aquarius cusp refers to horoscopes. if someone was born around the 20th of the month, that's likely to put them on the cusp of another sign. aka more horseshit
The root word is "anterior", which means either toward the front (in anatomy) or preceding in time. I may have been mistaken when I applied to term to planetary motion. It is a very common term in biology, and is used as an opposite to retrograde (say in transport of proteins up and down nerves). Apparently, this term isn't used in planetary observation. The most common term according to wikipedia is "direct motion". Apologies.
i feel like mercury has been in retrograde for like half a year now but i don't pay attention to the planets so...
I wouldn't let it get you riled up, I think that sort of thinking has just become a bit of a phase among college-aged people these days. Most people I know who have swung that way have tended to relax back within a year or two. Staying uber-judgemental and politically correct is just a difficult thing to keep up once the regular stresses of life compete for mental energy.
Yeah you're probably right. I'm just used to phases being in high-school, lol. But college has been a long, drawn-out realization that just because we've grown up doesn't mean everyone has gotten smarter/more analytic/more reflective/etc. But yeah that's basically how I feel. It's always eggshells around him about shit I don't find very important. Ah man, maybe I am insensitive. But it's like, (in the words of Bernie Mac) I'm fuckin out here with all these white people just tryin to get an equal piece of the pie, I'm not focused on this shit. Plus it comes down to "I am offended about X, but let Y slide." Like how his gf has a sticker on her truck that's like "I LOVE DYING AND BEING DEAD," which, if we're going to play the game, would be something I'd say triggered me, considering the events of last week. But when I brought that up with him all of a sudden "it isn't a representation of her as a person!" /endpettyrant.exe
You're gonna hate what I'm about to tell you. High school never goes away. Ever. Work in an Office? or Academia? High school or worse than. In Government? high school. In an insular industry? High school. You will be 70 years old, hanging out in an old folks home, thinking to yourself "I can't believe Dan and Rami were talking shit about Florence over bridge. it's just so fucking high school." Sorry.I'm just used to phases being in high-school, lol.
If she put that sticker on her truck, I'd say she is trying to represent something, although my first reaction was -- wow, she has a condition of alien vs predator disorder -- AND a truck. cool.But college has been a long, drawn-out realization that just because we've grown up doesn't mean everyone has gotten smarter/more analytic/more reflective/etc.
Even post-college life involves the realization that just because we have grown up and continue to grow up, it doesn't mean anyone else has.
Oh college has its own completely new set of phases: druggie, promiscuity, sophomoric, hippie, political, pre-yuppie, etc. I feel you though. If you liked him before, there's a good chance he'll eventually re-adjust and hopefully you'll like him again in the future. In the mean time, pubski bears its ears.
Lol it does suck because we were pretty good friends in high-school and he's not all that bad otherwise, but this is less of an infraction on the bro code and closer to just straight up pissing all over it and then setting it on fire. He's friends with my sister too, who is also pissed at and getting cold-shouldered by him. Like I'm not saying "YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ME AND YOUR GIRLFRIEND" I'm just saying when you shut everyone out that you used to be friends with because of your girlfriend maybe it's time to take a step back and think about what's good, bruh.
Last week The week before that The week before that The week before that The week before that You get to the point where you're so used to bad news that you don't really recognize the good stuff when it hits you. But we should have a lease this afternoon, and it should contain no surprises, and there will be terms that we've agreed to. It's based on a layout that's been conditionally agreed to by the State. It's going to cost us an ungodly amount of money per month, but if the projections hold (and the projections are conservative) we'll be paying 4x that ungodly amount in salaries by this time next year and by this time 2017 will be profiting... an embarrassing multiple of that amount. It's all projections, though. "Helplessness" is putting all your energy into a business you can never practice, you never want to practice, and whose practice you have zero competencies within. A friend is taking all of the house plants and the aquarium. We're under contract with the movers and the car hauler. I thought long and hard about paying $900 to have a $2600 car moved a thousand miles but the fact of the matter is, there are no $3500 cars worth owning. At least, not at this stage in my life when I need a back seat that will hold a booster and a vehicle that will get me where I need to go on shitty icy Seattle roads. At this very moment, my wife is seeing her last clients as her former business entity. Change of address forms have been filed. A box full of cuttings of the plants that matter to me (some of which were on my desk back when I started working after college in 2000) are in transit to my father-in-law, who will root them and get them ready to live again. We've started that "do this one last time" process. Yesterday was the last ride down the Strand before boxing up the longboard. We've also started that "things you were supposed to do while you lived there" process. This weekend was the "take pictures at the Hollywood sign" trip. I'm going to be in dire trouble in about 12 years. Dire trouble. God as my witness, I have no idea why my 2-year-old daughter poses like Kathy Ireland. She brought home a 5x7 piece of paintboard with a green smear on it. I asked her what it was a picture of. "Paint." Then my wife asked her what she'd painted. "Probably a picture." She'll never be Damien Hirst with that kind of thinking.
Naaah. Shit was getting twitchy towards the end. The Benelli decided to pull its whole "I'm italian and I have electrical problems" thing about two days before we were done and that encouraged me to give it a rest until I can rip the front off and waterproof the dash. And drivers around here have been extra-special bad lately. You know how sometimes you can sort of feel seriously bad shit about to come down? That was September. Fortunately for me, none of that bad shit came down on me. Unfortunately for my buddy Joe, he got squeezed between a Lexus and an Audi at what he thought was 35. Turns out it was 65. He ended up with stitches and PT and a totaled Buell XB-12R rat bike. Nothing says "grabby front brakes" quite like Erik Buell and his amazing inverted rotors... We tried that design on a Formula SAE car and discovered exactly why nobody does it like that. As did my buddy, at 65mph, on the 101, staring into the face of a bunch of shredded skin. The bike is going in the back of a moving van. Then it's going into a garage where I can get on it fer realsies, where my tools will be two steps away, rather than five flights of stairs. I'm so eager not to have the trunk of my car function as my toolbox.
Today I have my first product demonstration with a client at my new job. I'm a bit nervous.
The next round is on me so you'll feel obligated to listen to my little rant. Bartender? top shelf for everyone! !!!! Why do people insist on using unnecessarily large quantities of exclamation marks?!!!!?!!!!?!?!!! I'm corresponding with a woman via email and text message about some help I'm providing her and she ONLY uses exclamation marks for punctuation!!!!! Unless she's asking a question mark - in which case it is several question marks and exclamation marks!!!! and it's not like she's saying anything urgent, she just likes to use them or something?!?!?!??!?!?!!!!! all of this causes me anxiety. not in the clinical sense, mind you, just in the "I read what you're sending me so YOU MIGHT AS WELL INCLUDE ALL CAPITALS BECAUSE THE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s AREN'T SHOUTING LOUDLY ENOUGH" sort of way... Perhaps her phone's software keyboard has a broken period button or something. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. So anyway - life is crazy but good. I'm still kinda riding the high from meeting a bunch of you hubskiers in Boulder LO those many days ago. My wife is in the NYC with a friend of hers which makes me Mr. Mom this week... I've said it before and I'll say it again - hats off to EVERY single parent who ever was. Bartender? Another round for every single-parent in the room! oh wait... that wasn't enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today Cons: Got soaked coming into work, I feel and look like a drowned rat. Pros: Considering buying a beer helmet.
So mk, let me ask you out of curiosity. When a ton of spam bots take a massive shit all over global and you guys have to clear it out, what kind of booze do you crave most at that moment? Edit: Damn. The bastards are still at it. I wonder what's drawing them all here.
I saw my HRT doc yesterday. I usually use that day to try out new looks, go out in more femme clothing. I saw a girl in the mirror yesterday. I'm hopeful.
Alright Hubski, I left the community I was really enjoying for awhile because life got in the way. So I'm sorry and I hope you can take me back. Do you like roses? Anyhow, my month or so since I last posted, well, I got a job. But it's in a city about a 3 hour drive from my home. So I spent the past few weeks getting ready for that and moving out. I now live with one of my best friends because he goes to university here. I attended the homecoming and didn't move for a full 24 hours after passing out at 4pm. Day drinking is dangerous kids. My girlfriend is now in Switzerland and sadly didn't pass her courses as I talked about like a month ago. I don't know what's gonna happen in terms of our relationship when I need to go back to shcool and she can't attend, so that worries me, but I can put that off until December. Also, before I moved I went to New York and Boston. I got to see some cool art (the new Whitney is amazing) and I attended the Pokemon World Championships. It's been a busy month.
http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/worlds/2015/ They stream it and everything, mostly comprised of high level cards and video games, but this year they had a tournament for Pokken. You can watch some of the highlights on Pokemon's youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/pokemon/videos
Try your best to hang in there and have fun where you can. A 500 person wedding sounds like an experience. A 500 person Macedonian wedding sounds like a hell of an experience. Also, I had to look Macedonia up on a map. I mean, I knew it exists, but I didn't know where. That place is tiny. You could probably walk from one border to the other in a little over a week.
His mom tried to get him to send flowers to a Macedonian girl who she's been trying to set him up with. We live together and have been dating for several years. I'm the opposite of what his mom wants for him. She wants someone to stay at home and take care of him, cook, clean, ect. I have a career and I'm not domestic at all. It's a bit of culture shock on both sides.
I honestly don't see how that's okay different culture or not. I hope things work out in the endHis mom tried to get him to send flowers to a Macedonian girl who she's been trying to set him up with. We live together and have been dating for several years
From what I've seen and heard about many couples in situations like this, I've come to a conclusion. After marriage, in laws seem to get much better, or much, much worse. My wife lucked out. Both her parents and my parents are convinced she's too good for me. :/I hope things work out in the end.
PRODUCTIVITY I put a VirtualBox with Ubuntu on my laptop. That's fun. Even more fun: I'm scheduling out 4 50-minute blocks of time each week, minimum, to start going through Learn Python the Hard Way. If I end up with significant downtime at work, I'm going to try going through How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, since I can do that without having to screw with my work laptop. I've learned that I'm a lot more likely to stick with things like this if they are clearly scheduled out. NOT PRODUCTIVITY Hanging out with a lot of people who work for the big tech companies out here and trying not to feel like I'm a "part of the problem" but they seem like good people and it's weird trying to look at this group from the outside. People fall into strange places and I've been falling hard lately. Going to Portland in two weekends so cgod better tell me the name of his damn cafe.
Portland is great! Going for a vacation? And let me know if you have programming questions, happy to answer here or on IRC. As for how to not be a part of the problem, in general action is best. Volunteer, participate in your community, be kind to others, then it's hard to write you off as a brogrammer.
Just for the weekend with a friend, partly to see two other friends who live there. I'm already doing volunteer work semi-regularly but there's not too much of it right where I live that aligns with my interests, unfortunately. Thanks for the offer! I'm not a programmer / brogrammer, just trying to learn it to compliment my current career and maybe try to make a switch in a year or two if possible.
The hatred of techies is a consequence of the residual hatred from the last tech boom, which Seattle had hard. The other problem is back in 2000, the tech companies were at least innovative (livedoor, metacrawler, realnetworks) while this time they're fuckin' Crazy Bezos and his prices which are INSANE.
On hiatus. It wasn't fulfilling what I was looking to accomplish, listening to good music and reviewing it is great, but I realized that while yes, some people might find new music, it's not exactly the kind of thing I'd like to do for music. Brainstorming ideas of how to make it a locally/regionally focused thing.
So, the eclipse happened. We saw about 20 minutes at the start, we saw every cloud in the sky converge on the moon, and then we saw the last 3-5 minutes of totality and the whole end of the umbra phase. We made the news, ALL of the news channels ran a story on us. at one point we had over 150 people in lawn chairs, sitting on blankets and asking a million questions... IT WAS AWESOME. We hit 12,000 outreach contacts for the year. We got invited to do a "star tour" this month that looks to have about 1500-2000 people attending; they are going to turn off the street lights and we also get to sneak in a talk on light pollution while we show off Neptune, Uranus, a few brighter galaxies and who knows what else. On top of that, the local library wants me to do a talk on how to buy a telescope at (for now) two branches, maybe 5 in total depending on how the first couple go. My "merry band of weirdos with telescopes" has reached the level of success that the old guys in the club are grumpy and jealous that they did not get off their ass for 5-7 years and grow the club. The other thing that is going on this week is that the US health care system sucks. I use a CPAP machine in order to sleep and I need to get a new one. I can only go one place if I want my insurance to handle it, it is 7x more expensive than anywhere online I've found, and I can only "rent" the unit (after the rental period I own the device). And on top of that the one place I can go is being a dick about scheduling the appointment to pick the damn thing up. Too bad I need this shit to not go mental and actually function at work. Finally, Emergency server upgrades on an accelerated testing schedule. So, staying up until 3AM Monday, 12 hour day Monday starting at 0730, odd sleep and I've not freaked out yet. Life is good.
Last night I had a dream I was adopted. I remember sort of coming to out of the dream into a foggy but conscious state around 2 a.m., at which point I thought "Hey wait! That explains why my brother and sister are super tall, and I'm not! And why I have darker coloring while they are fair! And...! And...!" And then I faded back into my dream only slightly wondering why my parents had waited until I was 25 to tell me (this thought process concluded with, "well that would actually be rather typical of my mother..." The night before that I dreamed my dad had the big cancuh. A bad one. Dreams are weird.
"so... uh... I might... have... uh... like... a MEETING! Yah! That's it - a late night work meeting that I just found out about last minute for a night a month away... so... uh... I won't be able to... you know... uh... get my ass kicked - I MEAN meet-up with you _refugee_" ha! Well done lady. That is seriously just fantastic dedication and work. Keep it up. It's really encouraging.
Pretty sure I had a dream recently and you were in it. And klein. I think it's easier to put people I've never seen the faces of (or only seen a few times) into dreams because then I can project your personality on formless, people-like shapes. Can't remember it for the life of me, though. I should start writing them down.
I'm starting kickboxing again today and I'm very excited. Until February this year I was training 3 nights a week and absolutely loving it. I had spent 5 years at it and was really happy with where I was at. It was weirdly meditative in a way. Then all of a sudden the club was disbanded because the lead instructor decided he just didn't want to teach anymore. It was pretty hard on some of the students. But now a bunch of them have found another teacher who originally trained with our old instructor. Guy holds classes 10 mins walk from my front door. I'm excited.
Hey. Glad to hear you're starting back up. Out of curiosity, what kind of kickboxing do you do? I haven't posted any in a while, do to being too busy with work and all, but every now and again I'll post some breakdown videos under #martialarts. If you ever see or read anything you find worth sharing, post it, cause I'd love to see it.
It's a Filipino style that sort of combines kickboxing, weaponry and ground fighting. At least it was. I'm still not quite sure what to expect from the new classes. There was a bit of a factional split that caused my earlier club to even exist and I think my instructor messed around with the curriculum a fair bit... So we'll see how different it ends up being to what I'm used to I guess! :D I've just spent the last few minutes looking at stuff you've posted under #martialarts. Some of it looks really interesting! I'll definitely delve into it a bit deeper when I get the chance! And rest assured if I find something I think is worthy of the tag, I'll post it :)
If you were to kick a guy while boxing, I imagine you'd probably be disqualified... :) Kickboxing is punching and kicking. What I do is technically more like MMA. It's a Filipino style of what is essentially street fighting. So not much is off limits...
Lots of learning this week. I designed a flyer for the hydrogen project and found out that Illustrator has some really handy perspective tools. Put a ton of effort into the linear algebra class I'm taking and yesterday I had one of those moments when you finally thoroughly understand a topic and what it is about. I am also working on learning Django to build a simple Python-based web app, so I am in the process of transferring my entire site to a DigitalOcean droplet. Finally, I got my hands on ArcGIS Pro this week. It's cool, shiny & new, but it made me realize that I need to upgrade my damn CPU because the i5 2500K isn't cutting it. I attempted to make b_b's suggested obesity - income correllation map but I had a hard time importing the data on the site (in part because it took ages to process). I think I'm gonna try and find the source data myself.
Tomorrow was going to be my "me" day. I'd relax a little, try to read a bit. Not now though. I'm gonna job hunt like my life depends on it. I have a goal to send out at least 3 resumes by the end of the day. Minimum. I'm hoping to do at least double that.
Asked another girl out yesterday. "Nah. I don't like to walk in the city." I feel like a creep, asking girls out seemingly on the spot. It makes sense to me to do that, though: I like a girl and would like to get to know her better in a more-or-less private setting (which walking in the city appears to me as, what with strangers all around, with none giving a rip about us two), so I ask her out. Fair, right? I have no experience on the matter - all the girls I've successfully asked out were already no strangers to me in whatever setting - so I have no idea what's at fault here, and neither do I know whether to trust what they say completely (does, for example, "I don't like to walk in the city" really mean it, given that the girl's from a conglomerate city?). Knowing I'm doing stuff that's fine will at least make me certain that I'm not messing my own stuff up. I feel lost - which, I suppose, is normal given that I'm just starting - head-first, too. I don't know whether I should persist, asking any girl I like out, or set my preferences up differently.
All I can go off is your word, but tone means a lot I think. "Nah. I don't like to walk in the city." Sounds final, if someone I liked wanted to go do something I don't, i'd propose an alternative(To be honest, I would probably do something whether it sounds fun or not haha) "Uh, how about x? I hear they y very good z" etc. Personally I'd find that more difficult. How do you go about wording that? I find it helpful just to imagine other people are you in social situations that I've not much experience with(I have a lot of experience not having experience). If you were in the current emotional situation she is(busy?, tired?, happy? etc.) and someone came up to you and said something like "Hey, would you like to go for a walk some time?" what conditions would you need to say yes? How attractive would she need to be? How well would it need to be worded? all the girls I've successfully asked out were already no strangers to me in whatever setting
I have no idea what's at fault here
So I figured. It didn't sound like she was going for "Sod off, creep", but given that she proposed no alternative, I'm left to presume that she simply doesn't want to go out with me. Nothing different: "Would you like to take a walk with me?". They usually reply with "Okay!" or "Well, why not?". Just how well might I? I don't believe going for anything more than the phrase I stated before would be necessary - other than, perhaps, finding out whether the girl is busy at the moment or for whenever I'd like to ask her for. From what I see, I've stated my request in a voice that implies interest; hopefully, my voice, though somewhat emotionless, does not imply something I don't want it to - for example, that I'm wanting something beyond the walk immediately or have no interest in the girl herself. Am I wrong to assume all that?"Nah. I don't like to walk in the city." Sounds final
How do you go about wording that?
How well would it need to be worded?
Hectic week! I pretty much had an oral presentation almost every day (sunday, monday, wednesday and 2 more to do this week). It's fine, presenting is fun, but I didn't realise until it was too late that I volonteered to do the powerpoints for all of those... So far so good, our group even won best presentation at my weekend creativity/innovation/entrepreneurship class :D In other good news, I'll be moving out next week. Well, it's gonna be my dad's apartment so I have a really good deal on rent but I'll still have to pay all the other expenses with my boyfriend.
October is going to be very busy. Friday evening I have a reception and dinner to greet the speakers coming into town for a conference on Saturday. All professional stuff and my first time really representing my program to a public face, rather than just patient interaction. However there will be lots of friendly faces, and I'm leading two breakout sessions so I'll have to be busy rather than any kind of anxious. I'm trying to find someone to go apple picking with me on Sunday. The orchards are opening around here and I'd like to take full advantage of the season.
I've been busy recently, but I feel like I've finally gotten into the swing of university. Now I just need to get back into going to the library as often as I was the past few weeks. I feel like if I let that habit slip, I'll be doing myself a major disservice. I accidentally hit my head against the brick wall next to my bed relatively hard a few days ago, so I've been taking lots of naps and been (trying, and succeeding for the most part) to go to bed early. I don't think I have anything major, but its probably worth it to take it slow. Also getting into the habit of going to bed earlier really doesn't have any negatives either. Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of WipeOut! I've really come to appreciate the games in recent years, and I'm particularly sad that studio liverpool was disbanded by sony. However, a portion of the core team has been working on Formula Fusion independently which seems pretty promising. A fan group has also been working on SlipStream GX which also looks pretty promising. If any of you guys have a ps3 and or vita, hit me up! I'd love to play with anyone here who's a fan.
Well my fiance's visa application has been thrown into administrative processing just a week after she was approved. Today was her last day on her job since she was planning on flying over a week from now. Now... Who knows? It feels like the government just stole my happiness and gave me an IOU. Naturally we're out half the cost of the plane flight and it's thrown both our schedules right out the window. The worst part about this is there's nothing I can do. Calling more than every 2-3 weeks won't help either. I'm feeling rather lost today.
Had a friend. Wanted to bring his girlfriend over on a fiancee visa. Process took about 18 months. Did not have a happy ending, but that wasn't the government's fault. She showed up eventually. He was an American citizen, born and bred. Have another friend. Wanted to bring his girlfriend over on a fiancee visa. He paid a lawyer in Beverly Hills $25k and she was here three weeks later. Six weeks later they were married. Oh, and by the way, he wasn't even a citizen. Dual French-Uruguayan citizenship. 01 visa. So, it's not like there's nothing you can do... it's just likely there's nothing you can afford to do. AMERICA!
No pictures this week, but last week's class had us demo a new microscopy technique that let us see individual neural synapses in a slice of mouse brain. Tomorrow is another imaging lab, so hopefully I'll get some cool shots of their optical bench again!
So apparently there is still some chance we get hit with a little hurricane in a couple of days. I doubt it will be anything on par with Sandy, but still it's odd to think that this is somehow becoming a normal thing in regards to hurricanes making landfall this far north.