Am I alone in my interest in starting a #styleski tag? I think we have a broad range of ages and places in life on this website that I would be interested in a slice of life, style tag for people to post their #ootd (outfit of the day) or ask for advice because style is so subjective and varies across fields. Additionally, I'm of the opinion that couture is one of the highest art forms. I know Meriadoc has thoughts, but I wouldn't start it if no one would participate.
I was about to post a self-deprecating comment and then I realized WAIT I actually have a motorcycle story. It's pretty interesting too. Flagging for when I get home so I can post it.
Oh fuck is tag of the week motorcycles? I am all over this. Also, what is wrong with this bike? Why is that price so reasonable? It's been keeping me up at night.
I don't know anyone who loves that vintage of BMW. The inline four was less loved than the inline three and the inline three was a lot less loved than the flat twin. That price seems to pretty much be what they go for. It's like an AMF Harley - yeah, it's a "classic" harley but... it's also kind of the worst classic harley you can own. If you're gonna go '80s half-tupperware:
Oh no way would I go for it. I don't have the wallet deep enough or the time of day to deal with a BMW. But I still found it an interesting bike nonetheless. I'm hoping to go with a Yahama FZ-07 or -09 in the new few months if things go as well as I hope they do.
http://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/2014-yamaha-fz-09-long-term-test"It’s the best thing ever!" I responded. "It’s absolutely incredible and blows everything else like it out of the water, and that’s before you factor in price. It’s also basically un-rideable and feels like it could be trying to kill me. This thing is so close. Someone just has to get it sorted."
I sat on one. They're really quite peculiar. You sort of feel as if you're in position to have your genitals tattooed. They were repulsive enough at the time that the dealer discouraged me from contemplating a purchase. When the guy in the Honda shirt calls it a "Do Not Order One" you can rest assured that sales will be slight.
arguewithatree and I are also dealing with 115 degree fucking weather with the humidity from hell in DC, so at least my outfits are limited to "literally the least I can get away with wearing" while keeping a jacket and winter socks at work because my office is an icebox. Summer isn't my fucking season, man.
I probably couldn't even commit to an outfit a day anyway. Maybe an "outfit of the moment" if I felt particularly inspired.
sign me up! I have some pretty strong opinions on socks, though - be warned.
Docs really are the most comfortable shoe. Stylish too, depending on the decade. And they last long enough for a single pair to be stylish, go out of style, and become stylish again. My mother (36) wore a pair of silver calf high quick lace docs while hiking all over Europe. She handed them down to me (19) when I was in middle school. They were totally all the rage at my8th grade winter dance.
I would at least watch for the posts. I keep an eye out on things on frugal male fashion and goodyear welt over on Reddit and sometimes male fashion advice but that one is more because I think it's silly a lot of the time.
it can be very silly. i never understood the obsession with chukkas
While I would follow such a tag I would probably not participate all that much outside of discussion. The only really pressing 'fashion' issue that I have at the moment is whether or not I could get away with wearing scrubs on clinic days just to switch things up from slacks and a button down. And I'm probably going to buy a pair anyway to wear as pjs.
yas shoes. i'm obscenely jealous of men's shoes because of their simplicity. my new boss is wearing a stellar pair of double monkstraps today and I'm sure it took him no time at all to choose them out of his closet wherein I had to try and predict how much walking I was going to do, whether I had sock liners to wear, what my plans after work are etc. before I made my decision.
guilty: skipped it last week when I said I was going to go because of gut trouble (see post elsewhere in pub about recent surgery), but I have started tracking my food on MFP again
Allen Edmonds Park Avenue when I'm feeling dressy. Which is not often as I'm a jeans and tee shirt kinda guy. But these were a nice investment. 360 degree Goodyear welt, calfskin upper, and for the life of the shoe, the company will completely re-craft them. It may be a decade before I'd even need to look into that, but these are seriously kicks I could have for the rest of my life. When I was buying them, there was an old man in the shop that was wearing a pair of his that were over 20 years old and they looked fantastic.
Meriadoc luuuuvs his allen edmonds. as do i. they are beautiful and a great investment.
Double monkstraps sounds like something you would curse an enemy with in Harry Potter. I bought my first pair of Carolina 118s in 1991. They finally gave up the ghost, after two resolings and some serious leather work, in 2006. This new pair suffered a little in the 405 adventure but I suspect they'll carry me through 2021 at least.
As an off-hand remark in regards to men's style. It is so unbelieveably expensive, and as a college student it is even worse. I mean I would love a pair of double monkstraps, but I can't really drop like 200 for a nice pair. On top of the fact you can't just buy shoes like those and not have an outfit to go along with it. It's crazy...
That's true but it's been my experience that men's stuff is actually built to last. Brands that I used to trust to last a decent amount of time have degraded in quality recently. Lots of things cost $200 in the women's fashion world but you can still end up with shite.
still style! I just want to make the personal more real in any way possible.
Well. I forgot to post the pubski post even though it was attached to my alarm, calendar and trello. I'm brilliant sometimes. Thank goodness for thenewgreen who saves the day...again. I'm so sick and tired of failing at shit like this. I feel like I can't keep up with anything right now and I forget to take care of the things that actually matter to me. It may sound silly, but Hubski really fucking matters to me. This piece-of-shit abortion of a site that has been doomed from the get go DOES NOT. Today, for example, I was dealing with two employees playing the "he broke my CSS" blame game. After dealing with the situation via a strongly worded "I don't care who's fault it is I only care about solutions", I went in to take a look at what was happening. What I found...wow. Neither have any right to play the blame game seeing as the CSS and HTML was already spaghetti-coded together and a brilliant mess of shit. Any single line of code that either of them added would certainly break their own code, let alone each others. So, instead of assigning tasks, I deleted the mess and spent two hours and rewrote the entire thing to actually work without weird JS hacks and the other bullshit that had be implemented in order to fix one "bug" or another. The site hasn't launched yet. There is NO excuse for every container (there were 5 nested containers) having a clearfix on it when they are all positioned fixed or absolute. I am reconsidering the responsibilities I am handing to them now and I don't like that. But the reality is, I hire people to make my life easier. If I have to put off everything I am doing to read a 2000 word email about whats broken and who's fault it is, I would rather build time into my schedule just to do it myself. Takeaways from the above rant: 1. Your boss doesn't give A SINGULAR FUCK who's fault it is or WHY it isn't working. I care about (1) what I need to do to get it fixed and (2) that you are going to fix it and (3) if the fix you are going to implement is going to push / block other deadlines. 2. If you do not make your boss's life easier, they will not continue to work with you. End of conversation. I will gladly pay an employee whatever they ask for -- even if it's above what I'm making on a fucking project -- if they make my life easier. You don't have to know everything. You don't have to be the best at anything. If I can pay you $100 so that I don't have to deal with 1 thing, I will do it. In an instant. Oh! But I did get my Project Fi invite!!!!!! WOOOOO. Now I have to buy a nexus 6. If anyone wants two refurbished (by me) nexus 5s with differently broken screens and one with a faulty LTE connection work, message me an offer. They both have Lollipop on them but a factory reset will push them back to 4.4 or whatever. The one I'm currently using, the screen is barely broken and it doesn't affect your use. The old broken screen / fault LTE is...a mess. I'll throw in my broken-screen'd iPhone 5s too! They'd make for a great testing device!
Okay, look, you're how old and you have employees^. You're winning, insom. Don't forget the forest for the trees. ^and not like my last roommate, who got to his tech internship and found a team of people in Bangladesh at his disposal. Real employees, maybe.
I have had a Fi invite for a while but I want the 64 gig Nexus and they don't have it in stock. The fact that the nexus doesn't have a SD card slot bothers me a lot more than it probably should, but that means I want a big ass native drive to compensate. I'm currently rocking a 16gig galaxy s4 with a 64 gig SD, and I'm really hesitant to sacrifice the storage space.
Ive been hearing September / October release but probably shipping November. Ugh. I love my nexus 5 and want to keep it. But I also want to do project fi!
I'm not a good coder by any means, but it always surprises me when people mess up HTML. I just strikes me as so straight forward, even when integrating CSS or JS, that to fuck it up takes a certain level of skill all too itself. Or stupidity. For the unaware, what kind of site is it? What does your comapany do?
We build websites for people. Design and Dev. Mostly custom WordPress or other basic CMSs. I think people mostly pay us to solve their problems, not write code. I spend probably half the time on any given project talking and listening and figuring out how to best build something rather than actually building. This is one of my oldest clients and this particular site has been a messy abortion since the get go. They recently moved over to Kentico which is the worst site to build anything in. And they wanted us to start development before all features were decided. This led to features like Parrallax and floating navigation being added after we had already QA'd the site once. I don't typically work like this but he pays by the hour for the work and typically it's in and out stuff. Html in itself isn't hard. Css in itself isn't hard. Doing it correctly and with foresight is hard, especially in a collaborative environment. Anyone can write a page of html easily and cleanly. No one can edit a page of html and add new feature and change existing features 10 times over 10 weeks with 3 other people doing the same thing and a client adding copy and not fall into the easy trap of adding to and overriding, rather than correctly implementing and going back to remember how stuff is laid out or addressed.
Ah, the ancient enemy of the developer, other people. There is a good reason I'm not a programmer and your people are, though it seems very important that you are around to fix stuff. Kinda like Hubski. Sound like a good company though, in a tough field, but you seemed to have managed to get a foot ahead. Best wishes on the rest of the project.
Don't be too harsh, some people just cannot approach a block of text on a logical structural level. Most people will have experience with using Word or a rich text form, both of which are going to hide any inkling of text markup, so it's understandable that people find the concept so alien. This is why WYSIWYG editors are so popular after all.
Hey, I'm on Ting. I'm still on my parents' plan, but if my sis or I use excessive data, we are expected to cover it. I like Ting, service is fine and all, and actually not to hard to set up with BYOD, but the range of devices, so you tend to be stuck with an older phone. For example, I've got an HTC One M7, because the M8 didn't work on Ting when I got it (though I think it does now, or will soon).
Just sent in my three applications for congressional nominations pre-West Point. Both NJ senators and my district's representative– I gotta contend with the whole state of New Jersey for 10 nominations per Congressman, just to get "permission" to apply to USMA. Sweet shit the anxiety is mounting. I hope my mom can keep her shit together so I can actually focus on my apps and schoolwork next semester, cause she is wired at the moment and it's getting really hard to keep it from getting to me. . On the other hand, my best friends who are all seniors are pretty much on their way out to college within a month, and I'm gonna be the lone kid in the crew who has yet to graduate. God damn, we had some crazy fucking fun together, really gonna miss these dudes– anybody ever spend two days downing Glenlivet your friend's parents gave her, so she can spend her 18th partying in the mansion they left her since September? Anyway, considering this is real life, things are really surreal nowadays.
His family is wealthy and they would go to Seria every year for months at a time and we would all stay in his mansion. They had everything you would want. They owned a big Appliance store so all of the TV's and Video game consoles were the latest and greatest. It was a blast. We had enormous parties. Pretty much everything I did for the "first time" was done at that house. Enjoy your summer pabs and good luck with everything.anybody ever spend two days downing Glenlivet your friend's parents gave her, so she can spend her 18th partying in the mansion they left her since September?
-Yes, but it was my best friend and he is a he, not a she. But yes, I've done that.
Smooth;) Best of luck to you too tng, I'm just afraid if you keep getting job interviews they're gonna start fighting over you for so long that you'll never get hired. Just kidding. Maybe? Nah, just kidding. But seriously, I hope we both end up with our share of good news after this summer.Pretty much everything I did for the "first time" was done at that house.
Hey all, sorry this was posted so late today. mk is normally in charge of the pub. Today, it opens late. But that's all good. Better late than never and sometimes it's wise to begin drinking after noon. I'm excited because my good friend is in town visiting and tonight I'm introducing him to my other good friend and we are getting a drink at my favorite bar in NC. The Crunkleton. I'm really looking forward to it.
You here? We need to have a Hubski meet up in the triangle some time soon. We are way over-due. lucky_cabbage and ipreferpi you guys down? I bet there are a bunch more on the site these days. Could be a fun excuse to to have a few. Let's do this by the end of the summer.
Awesome! I will refer back to this thread the next time we do a meet up and "shout-out" to you all.
The tag #meetup one that I normally use for the meet-ups I schedule. Just stay active on the site and you'll definitely see it.
We have a signed LOI. We're supposedly seeing an actual lease on Friday. Our architect is engaged. Our interior designer is putting together samples. We have a website. We have a landing page. We have a facebook (in stealth mode) with over 100 posts on it. We have a Pinterest (in stealth mode) with over 130 articles on it. We have all of our funding secured, but half of it is from the business that we were going to sundown. Our bank will not extend credit to the business we're standing up, despite 5 years of six-figure credit history and six figures of equity. So now we have to play debasing games related to proving whether or not our house is actually what the county says our house is worth. Which we have to pay for. Of course. I have never before worked so hard to risk so much. It has literally taken me eight months of 30-40hr weeks, above and beyond everything else I'm doing with my life, to get to this point... and I am so goddamn fatigued that all I can think is "i wonder if it's safe to start chilling that champagne because I'm getting sick of it mocking me from the wine rack." BONUS EYEBLEACH The green wall mockup, 3 weeks in
green walls are awesome. If all goes as planned, we'll have one of these.
This one will be purely aesthetic. While it's possible we may try and throw some herbs in there, the overwhelming majority of herbs are high light plants. At best I'll have a skylight to sit under. This is why the "test" - this thing is actually in a totally dark hallway being hit with some $11 Amazon LEDs which I'm evaluating with a PAR meter. Unfortunately it's designed for golf courses so "2-50 PAR" is one LED. On the plus side, I can hit at least 2 PAR. On the minus side, more than 50 PAR (which is where you cease to be a "low light" plant) requires about 11W of LEDs to be less than two feet away from the plants, which will not look good.
This being the dry run version, you dump water in it. The big boy version has a pump and a recirculating tank. The reason I did the little version was to see what I thought of their method, since it's different than the whole Wooly Pocket approach. 3 weeks in I rather like it.
I think it's scattered across like nine or ten pubskis. Long story short: after seven highly successful years in show business my family is moving back to Seattle where my wife is opening a birth center. This involves me sort of abandoning my career in place but since I have a novel at a boutique agency that's maybe not such a bad thing. Or at least, that's what I keep telling myself.
Ha. Pre-engineering at WWU, degree from UW, we've owned a house in Lynnwood since 2000. My wife did her schooling from pre-school to medical degree in WA and not only matriculated from Bastyr, she was baptized there back when the monks still owned it. I remember Goddess Kring before the Internet, Dick's before Labor Ready, Eagle before Lowe's, Ernst before Eagle, Bill Nye before he was the Science Guy and SoDo will always mean "South of the Dome." Appreciate the sentiment but we're coming home.
I got a promotion. Shh, don't tell my mom yet. Also got a second job. I got Bluetooth headphones as a gift. They're the biggest "damn I don't need these but holy shit are they useful!" things I've ever gotten. I lost my credit card. Called my bank and they cancelled ALL of my cards. Now I'm gonna go deal with that. Won a Smash tourney. Mained Roy. Meteor spike game too strong. No money but lots of bragging rights. Hubskina is finished but I don't know when I'm gonna post it.
Been there, done that. Well, not quite. Got notified my credit card might have been compromised so I called and cancelled it. They cancelled my debit card and left the credit card going. It was mighty confusing when I went to pay for pizza with the debit literally straight after and it was denied. Tried with the credit for shits and giggles and wouldn't you know. Picked the phone right back up and spent the entire call with my palm attached to my forehead while getting it sorted out.I lost my credit card. Called my bank and they cancelled ALL of my cards. Now I'm gonna go deal with that.
Shhh.. We should act like we did this on purpose.
LIDAR selfie! Man, what a week. San Diego and Esri UC have been amazing so far. Ton of interesting workshops and interesting people to talk to. I mean, I attended a talk by JPMorgan Chase this morning, TomTom over lunch and now I'm in a packed room listening to real estate GIS experts. Coolcoolcool.
Updated my creepy website project today.. It's been fun so far, and it will become more interesting and challenging once I begin to add APIs other than Instagram's. Surgery in 3 weeks. Nervous but glad to finally be getting it done. Should be easy breezy. Enjoying the (mildly) increased speed of hubski.
Holy hell you're right that is creepy! Nice work though it worked very smoothly and the location detection was somewhat accurate in my instances. (Well, it was in the right county, I'm guessing it's based off of IP or something?) One UI consideration may be to have the balloon popups close if you open another one, also an option to filter NSFW if that would be possible?
Thank you. Yes it's just off IP - I don't mind it being inaccurate for the initial load, just needed an area to start it on :) I don't think NSFW can be fixed, since I don't believe Instagram allows them in the first place. Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely change the popups so only one can be open.
Since being creepy is the point, there is the geolocation api. Doesn't work if your users have a clue it disabled, but for most you'll get a better point.
I just played around with it some more... you can specify the location so accurate that I was able to pick out two of my neighbours. This really is a scary webapp. Edit: You may also want to consider blocking searches from around schools as there's a lot of kids playing on instagram in class -- will definitely be using this to show them the dangers of the web! There should be a way to get that information from google maps.
I think I'm going to take tonight just for me, instead of 'BAZILLION THINGS YOU NEED TO DO NOW THAT YOU'RE LIVING ALONE' plus a 5 minute attempt at meditation/blood pressure reduction before bed. I'm going to crack open a howler of beer that's been sitting in my fridge, pick up my neglected guitars, maybe watch a brainless movie instead of trying to cram more information into my already overloaded head. I think I need to re-learn how to make truly new friends. After the first year of undergrad most of the people I met, I met through a mutual acquaintance and my 'Go out and meet people independently' gears are more than a little rusty. Other than work and going out with some friends who came down for a weekend to help me move some furniture I haven't really explored my new city like at all. I've been justifying it by saying that I'm saving money by not going out and I need to live like I'm broke for a while to avoid going into non-student-loan-debt, but I think I'm actually more than a little nervous to be out and about on my own. I'm not at all used to going out by myself and just letting things happen to me.
Fucking right!? "I need a couch", "I need to finish a stereo setup", "I need a vacuum cleaner", "I need to clean this apartment". There are a bazillion things to do and it's crazy. Finding balance is hard.BAZILLION THINGS YOU NEED TO DO NOW THAT YOU'RE LIVING ALONE
Broke up with a girl in 2001. September 13, in fact. Gave her the apartment September 13, 14 and 15, and came back to discover my ass completely cleaned out. Like, couch, bed, 90% of the CDs, everything gone. Wandered over to Fred Meyer and bought a 32" Trinitron television, a claw hammer, a party sub and a box of condoms. Did not get to use the condoms nearly soon enough. Used the party sub immediately. Two weeks later, had to buy the same goddamn mattress and the same goddamn bedframe again, despite the fact that I'd bought them six months previously. Still loving both. PROTIP: you can probably get by with a carpet sweeper until things get dire.
Haha! I wonder what the incidence of party sub use vs. condom use is. Somewhere, someone got a grant to fund this research, I am sure of it.Wandered over to Fred Meyer and bought a 32" Trinitron television, a claw hammer, a party sub and a box of condoms. Did not get to use the condoms nearly soon enough. Used the party sub immediately.
I'm about to be living alone in a new city too!! How long have you been living on your own? If you're in a big city, there might be some interest groups nearby. Like clubs in undergrad :D. A lot of them are probably pretty cheap/free too. Dancing clubs, board game clubs, etc.
Pretty much end of June. I'm auditioning for a choir in September, and i'm going to start going to the local open mic night at the comedy club, just to get a feel for the scene. If all else fails, I like DnD, and will find a local LFG and join up.How long have you been living on your own?
At home, drinking after a jam session by a lake. Thank you for being a part of making this wonderful website.
I've been inventing systems since the day I started this job two years ago. About a year ago an internal training system I created got some traction from a higher up and she's been making sure I succeed at it. It's been great to actually see how my theories play out into reality and they're finally opening a position where I'll be able to pursue this system full time and maybe even build something that has a lasting impact. I'm scared shitless. I've always been a theory guy, and my theories tend to be more progressive than most, so they usually don't get implemented. Now I'm questioning myself and my systems, because no matter how many tests I run them through, I can't recreate reality. It all comes down to the question of if I can adapt fast enough to offer real value, or if I'll just be another person with more pointless work for the people on the ground level. I really don't want to be that guy. But, on the other side of things, I'm about to spend 8 days in Washington backpacking and I just got my first motorcycle. Overall, the week is a plus.
We're shooting for the 7 lakes /hoh river area, but I messed up and got didn't get the permit fax (because it's still 1998 in backwoods Washington) in on time. It's 50% pre reserved, 50% first come first serve, so we're leaving first thing in the morning from olympia to try and get one. If that doesn't work we'll just bum around a bit and hike and sleep where we can.
Oh lovely. You cannot go wrong if you're up in there. I'm real fond of basing myself out of Moclips and just heading wherever. One time I was burning through so much film I restricted myself to only shooting waterfalls. I think I still cooked off eight rolls.
I'm actually really looking forward to it now that we don't have the permits. My fiance is a planner, through and through, I like my adventures to be a bit more... spontaneous. I'm hoping we get a chance to do something we never planned and get lost for a little while.
Do you have stickers? If not, can I send you stickers? When do you leave? I love posting stickers on vacations. Spread the hublove!
Ummm I think I was being sent some by thenewgreen, but I'm unsure. I'll take more though, and definitely share the hublove. I leave in a little more than a week. EDIT: Just checked my mail, and the letter was there filled with stickers. EDIT 2: Praise the sun that he sent me an even number of stickers...
One of my cats spent Sunday afternoon in the kitty emergency room. She has bladder stones, but that might be incidental and not what was causing her to lose her balance, throw up and breathe fast. This hasn't been a fun week.
Ugh. I feel your pain. Did they do a blood panel? If her electrolytes are off kilter, then you should have her adrenal glands checked. I had to put one of my cats down they other day. I haven't been this sad in a long time. He was my favorite cat. Good luck. 
I don't think they ran blood work. The emergency vet got her respiratory rate back to normal, and she seemed fine by the time we got home. They did take X-rays to see if anything was wrong with her legs or anything to account for the wobbly gait, and that's where they found the bladder stones. We saw our regular vet today, and she recommended removing the bladder stones. She was hesitant to say they were causing her to be wobbly and throw up, but it's possible if they were causing her pain. Even if not, the bladder stones aren't doing her any good, so we're going for surgery next week. I want to say this to someone: this is expensive. I can afford it; that isn't what I mean. But it's still a lot of money. But I love my little girl, and as long as the diagnosis is hopeful, I'll do what I can to help her. I'm so sorry about your little guy. Pets work their way into our lives in such a meaningful way.
No joke. We ended up in kitty ER mere weeks after we got ours. $350 for some saline under the skin and, antibiotics and pain relief. Would have been more if we left him with them overnight by an order of ridiculous. He seemed fine at the adoption place but came to us with a virus nonetheless. Doubled down with a bacterial infection days later. We have accident/emergency insurance for him now, and he's on supplements to help prevent recurrences of the virus, but there's no hope of illness coverage since his record has evidence that he had been sick before we got him covered.I want to say this to someone: this is expensive. I can afford it; that isn't what I mean. But it's still a lot of money.
It must be tough to be in the ER so soon after adopting him. My little girl has been home for over two years, and we've gotten close in that time. It's tough to put down so much money, but it's really tough to see her struggling, too. I was in for $500 at the emergency vet (mostly X-rays, which did prove helpful) and will be over $800 next week to have the bladder stones removed. It's probably for the best, but last week I also booked a vacation. It's good for me to get away, but the flight, two vets and hotels I've yet to book will make July expensive. But that's why I work (not to imply I dislike my job). I hope whining in pubski is ok.
We were angry. He started sneezing like 3 days after we got him, and visibly sick by the end of that week, then I got a call out of the blue from the foster or shelter saying another cat he was near was being syringe fed because of a virus. You'd think they'd have picked up that the cat was sick before we we adopted the kitten. So there I am, not having had a kitten since I was a kitten toddler, figuring out from the internet whether he was in danger, pureeing up canned kitten food with extra water to try feed him with a syringe and trying to convince husband to drive us to the emergency vet.
My girlfriend is having her gallbladder removed this week. It's a very routine outpatient operation, but I admit I'm terrified for her. We've been together quite a while, but this is the first time either of us has had to be hospitalized for anything. Also, I'm working for a pretty small company right now that is growing pretty rapidly. I've been trying to break out of my shell a bit more and show intent on growing with the company, which apparently has been working. Overall management has been really supportive of me and have approached me for a couple promotions over the last year. Recently It has happened again. They ultimately want me in a position that will require a lot of training and will have considerably more responsibilities. It's incredibly nice to see the vote of confidence and support the company is providing. But damn, I am incredibly anxious about it. I know my bosses will be available all the time to answer questions and support me, and I feel confident that I can learn what needs to be done if I work hard. But I think I'm still terrified that I'll be in a position with a team looking up to me. I struggle to find the confidence needed to be a good leader and be in charge. Overall I'm pretty stressed and excited about everything.
Got mine out in May! Don't evern worry about it. It's super easy recovery; I was on my feet by day 3/4. If you have any questions I am happy to answer them. Rest assured that she will feel 5000% better after she recovers. I didn't even feel human for the months that mine was causing me problems.
Thanks! I know I'm over thinking it. I'm really happy she'll feel better soon. I've also just always really disliked hospitals, not that too many people love them, I guess.
Random invasive question: is she on hormonal birth control? I only recently learned that hormonal birth control can increase risk of gall bladder disease. I didn't think twice when it started giving me trouble because every woman in my family has to get it out eventually, but they all got theirs removed in their 30s, 40s, 50s and I'm 23...
In one hour from now I will be surrounded by two middle schools' worth of budding science nerdlettes, members of the general public, and whatever else may walk on by. One of the teachers emailed us that the kids want to "help" set up. I'm trying not to freak out. At least we have a good clear sky and stable air so I can really wow them with the moon and Saturn tonight.
Tomorrow I find out if I'm going to spend 9 weeks in jury duty on a high-profile case, away from work and everything else that happens in the daylight hours. I'm torn up about it; I really don't want everything I work on to shrivel up while I'm gone. If I get picked I'll probably end up working evenings; September is going to be very hard. And yet, I still really hope I get picked. It's going to be hard to sleep tonight. Time for some whiskey.
Landslide in northern Arkansas added at least two hours to my drive and WOW it was the most beautiful highway in the state. Not a highway. A little road that suddenly went gravel without warning except a homemade sign that I didn't understand until too late. Hit the sand stuff at 75 so that was fun. Was running out of gas and had no idea if it connected through to the state road, and then it (sort of) did, anyway I made it to a beautiful town and now I'm gonna sit by the pool. Which is actually OPEN. Seems like half of hubski is going through some pretty wild changes in their personal life. EDIT: the new pubski time is an improvement. Say aye?
Cool, my dad is from Calico Rock, which is three counties East of you. If you ever have a free day, and are willing to take a drive, check out a blog called Exploring Izard County and try to find something they point out. Lots of cool stuff in the Ozarks—caves, ghost towns, cabins, and of course springs. Beautiful area.
Hearthstone announcement tonight! that's pretty exciting. Got a new game idea that is driving me crazy. Scratched the itch a little yesterday by writing the beginning and ending down. Stuck on what tech to use. Afraid I may have to use ObjectiveC. Not sure how help unity can handle what I want. Also gonna bottle my beer tonight I hope. If I'm lucky I can prime the whole batch at once and not each bottle separately.
Always do this. It's much harder to control consistency when priming bottle-by-bottle.Also gonna bottle my beer tonight I hope. If I'm lucky I can prime the whole batch at once and not each bottle separately.
Is this for mobile? Unity can handle a lot just look at Kerbal Space Program, but one thing to consider if you want it to be a web game is that Chrome now blocks Unity from running without changing a security flag. Is there anything you can reveal about your game? I'm sure you could find many willing recruits to play test here :)
It is mobile. The issue is that I need some access to the device in a few ways I'm not sure if unity can do. It could easily handle all of the game. It's essentially a text based game :P But I've done some work in the past for GSN (Game Show Network) with unity a few years ago so I have so idea of what it can do :)
That's interesting and very cryptic :), well the usual sensors seem to be covered by Unity so I am assuming you are wanting to hijack into the users other activities in some fashion. Android is all message based and does support this for some instances, I imagine you could have your app act as the default handler for certain events and then pass the message on to an acceptable alternative app -- i.e. register as a SMS app then read some data and pass the full event on to the real SMS app. Is that the sort of thing you're thinking? It's okay, you don't have to reveal anything further, just let us know when you have built something :D
lol. Very cryptic! I want to make something like Lifeline but more involved. I wanted to hijack sms but I can't on iOS the way I want. So looking at a few other approaches. I may be able to get away with a bunch of native extensions but at the point I may as well do it native.
It kills the experience I'm trying to achieve. I've come up with a different approach that I'm going to start playing with soon. Gonna try to write the first chapter of the story and build a prototype. May just start with objc since that's my day to day language at work atm. Make sure it's fun first and the controls makes sense.
It kills the experience I'm trying to achieve. I've come up with a different approach that I'm going to start playing with soon. Gonna try to write the first chapter of the story and build a prototype. May just start with objc since that's my day to day language at work atm. Make sure it's fun first and the controls makes sense.
In the last two days, I've had science fiction dreams for the first time in my life. And I'm quite a vivid, imaginative dreamer. Felt absolutely awesome, I woke up excited about what I'd dreamed. Such a vividly detailed world, fully formed characters with backstories, snappy dialogue, protagonists, antagonists, scenery, the way sunlight glinted off of pale blue curved surfaces, grey stonework. A massive influx of globes--that can fit in the palm of one's hand, were mechanical in nature--that flooded Earth and what they do is heal everything, build magnificent infrastructure, improve people's lives, transformed Earth's civilization into a Golden Age; but there was a hard to notice downside, which I noticed when walking through a colorful spacious indoor plaza, similar to Grand Central Station, in which I realized I needed to act happy and complacent like everyone else, or the system would start to tag me as a deviant. And then some fantastic, delicious making out with a woman who gave me safe harbor from the system. Damn she was a good kisser. Such a difference from all the other dreams I've had the past decades of my life. Is it the Wellbutrin? I hope so. Follow-up appointment is tomorrow.
Graphic novel creation has been something I've been wanting to do for several years. I've got a strong fine arts, design background, but not so good at freehand illustration, and am thinking I'd need to partner up with someone good at the illustration, while I'd provide the writing, storyboard. Just hasn't happened yet. Oh, and thanks. =)
Practice practice practice! I've seen some of what goes into making a webcomic and to get it off the ground you may want to have a team, but perhaps have a go at making a few pages and work on them over time, iterate on it bit by bit, then if and when you want to push on with it you have something appealing to show and bring in good partners. Some artists have been able to do it solo (afaik), just look at how far Jeph Jacques has come from the start back in 2003, then two years later and which he iterated on up til now, twelve years on.
Wow I can totally empathize with this creative flow idea. As of now, I have really been jamming with my dreams and my over all imagination is pretty spontaneous. But I think its cuz of the greenery
swedishbadgergirl - Do people in Scandinavia know what causes the aurora? Sorry to bother, just collecting datapoints. Thanks for any and all inputs :).
If they take high school physics they do. I don't because physics is not my strong point.
Thanks, that's a good datapoint. Auroral physics is not something that we're taught here in the U.S., even in honors high school physics classes. Perhaps physics' appeal is always framed in the human experience. In the case of high latitude living, the science describing the auroral physics is a curiosity that can help drive research in plasma physics. Sweden is a powerhouse of plasma physics and spaceweather forecasting capabilities, in fact. I work with a guy who lived in Kiruna, and he told me that it hurt to breathe the outside air for 5/8ths of the year. That was a no-go for any prospect of going over there. Also, the love of my life has a Swedish surname, appears Swedish in many ways, and is somewhere between 25-50% Swedish, genetically.
Hahah, yes kiruna is extremely cold. it does not (usually) get that cold here. It has actually been warmer in Sweden these last two winters. Don't let the wheather stop you from being recruited to fill in the fact that our population replacement rate is to low. (That is why immigrattion is wonderful for Sweden, otherwise we would have no-one to work and pay taxes in like 5 years.) But I love the fact that it can potentially snow two feet - it means that if you have tiny small humans they can jump around and play and everything and land softly. (Me and a childhood friend who has a lovely supportive and very protective mom (I actually work togther with her at the daycare-center right now.) who would have had a heart-attack if she knew it was jumping of a like 5 feet high roof into the snow. It was wonderful) I feel similarly about Chemistry, I like studying theology and philosophy but at some point you want to KNOW and PROVE things.
In my corner of Texas, we'll have snow in the forecast about once a year. Everyone loses their minds, but only one year out of two will it actually snow. Only one year out of five will it actually stick on the ground. I love snowboarding, but I've never lived somewhere that it snows, so I don't know how that'd go. Need my sunny days. I knew I wanted to be a physicist when the answers to all of my "why"s were technically knowable, and the only reason I couldn't grasp them was because of a shortcoming on my end. Curiosity killed the cat, but is a huge driver of scientists.I feel similarly about Chemistry, I like studying theology and philosophy but at some point you want to KNOW and PROVE things.
My wife just bought me a Pokey LaFarge album straight out of the blue. I love it. It scratches one of those itches you don't know you have. It's perfect for both of us too. It's got that alt country feel that I love so much and it has a hint of swing, something she loves to listen to once in a while. Something tells me I'll have this in my car's CD player for the next few weeks.
So for anyone with stylebot that would like reading here to be a little bit easier, here's some css to help. I've only really modified the important parts to me, so there may be some messing around you have to do based on your own personal perferences. My goal was to not be constantly squinting at my screen, so most of the changes are font-size, but there are some other little guys in there too, putting in work.