My physics teacher gave me shit in class because I was 20 minutes late to a 1.5 hour period, with an excused pass from the office. She was acting like a shit the entire class, telling me to start participating while I've got the fucking pen in my hand doing my entire group's project for them. I was late because PSE&G cut my power off because my mother couldn't make the payment. It took them two days to place the order for a technician to drag himself over and flip a switch in my building, and I was the only one in my two-person household who could stay to receive the heaping carcass of a human that took their sweet time in the basement. God damn people. Take a moment to recognize that there are other people around you with other shit to worry about. Fuck.
I was thinking a classic "I knew my location and momentum but never both at the same time, and I was therefore unable to cover the distance between home and class at sufficient velocity to arrive on time."
If I were a physics teacher I would have no other option but to smack you across the face for being such a smart ass. Lmfao.
I'd just like to take a minute to say how much I missed being in a capital C Choir. I only started seriously singing my freshman year of undergrad, but it does a very powerful amount of good for my psycho-emotional state. The first concert with this new choir is in 10 days, and I've never learned a piece of music so quickly, or with such precision. And this is probably just me being youthful and arrogant, but I didn't expect a choir composed primarily of folks over 50 to have so much energy.
Thats awesome! My wife is a music teacher and conducts several community Bands. It's amazing the energy that the older musicians bring to performances. I think it's their passion and pure enjoyment of playing together that brings that energy. Best of luck!
I think a big part of it with this choir is that every person in the room actively wants to be there. In high school (band and choir) a lot of kids are participating purely for the easy A. In college there is far less of this phenomenon, but as long as it's a class, some people will not be giving it their attention or musical best. But this choir, from the Maestro on down is completely voluntary, with no reward (really) beyond excellence in performance. And I really like our director. This season we're going to be doing a full performance of Handel's Messiah, which I have never sang but is super old hat to all the veterans, and there is a tendency for those who know it to go on autopilot. But our director made a point to say that every time you perform a masterpiece, there is someone in the audience hearing it for the very first time, and someone hearing it for the last time, and those are the people you're really performing for.
So I don't...drink, but, isn't 6 AM a little early? In any case, I got the internship I interviewed for and got a promotion for my primary job. They gave me an iPad. At first I was like "I don't know what to do with this piece of shit" but like any sentence that starts with "I don't know" I deferred to klein who was like 'get a bluetooth keyboard for this bitch' and now it's become quickly indispensable from an educational standpoint. I can read pdfs for class on it, highlight them through evernote, read a comic in between periods, take notes for class during a lecture, and use it as an impromptu second monitor along with my laptop, and it still has 95% battery by the end of the day. So yeah. I still wouldn't pay for it, but, I'm super cool with getting it free. The internship is mostly stay at home stuff too, which is cool. OH YEAH! OCRemix released an album for Final Fantasy IX, which the shit. Also, Big Boi and Phantogram just announced an album coming out on the 25th, and I think there's a Juicy J mixtape out tonight? And Rick Ross dropped a mixtape last week. Lots of good music comin out. OH YEAH YEAH. The new iPhone gets announced tonight. I've been saving up all my monies so I can get the one with the largest size and finally ditch my shit Nexus and shattered iPod touch that holds 32 gigs of my 75 gigs of music. The Nexus dies by 2PM and the fact that I have an iPad and a Macbook means that Apple's already got its hands halfway around my balls by this point anyways. Also I want to learn iOS development, so that's more incentive. Last Edit: I'm bringing back the plug.dj. Comment if you want a ping when I go in there.
Nexus 5 2015 in 14 days! My screen is officially at the shards-of-glass-in-your-fingers-stage.
Super disappointing. And it's not even a Microsoft Surface because it doesn't have a fullblown desktop OS, just iOS. But yeah, I don't even know. I hate buying phones. Am I eligible to upgrade? Would buying from Apple ruin my plan with Sprint? If I buy with Apple, what the hell happens if I lose my phone, AppleCare doesn't cover that. Does that mean I pay the full unlocked price upfront? Why the hell do I have to lease a freakin' phone!?
Maybe this helps you out. Yeah, I'm in a similar place. Have a MBP Retina that I love, a Windows 10 PC that I love, and a phone that needs to work with both. E.g. I use OneDrive for all my files but Mailbox for my email. I can upgrade in a month or two, and I might be able to get last-year iPhone for a price similar to an off-contract new Moto X. But I want a good battery in a small-ish size, so I'm also looking into the new Moto G ($230 and a killer battery). Cheap enough that I can just not insure it. But too cheap to be good? And I also need to combine it with a plan, somehow. #firstworldproblems
I am currently running a rooted, unlocked Nexus 6 and an unlocked, not-rooted-yet-because-Oneplus-is-a-pain OPO. The N6 is android; the OPO is a daily a couple days old because the rooting tools will convince you you're rooted, and you're not, and then you attempt to install Oxygen and you soft-brick. I ditched the 4S a year ago. I'll never go back. iOS is shit. Yeah, it works all the time and yeah - you never have to fuck around in the command line via ADB and recovery mode just to get a dialer that will actually connect to your cell tower but these two phones combined cost less than a six plus.
Ping me bruh. All this job searching and I forget that there's all this AWESOME SHIT going on. Big Boi and Phantogram? Let's hear it.
That's such an awesome saying. HA. Love it.It's a good day to be on this side of the dirt.
Yeah except this is my least favorite part of the year in terms of CO weather (minus -3 degree winters). It's like, wake up: 60 degrees. Out the door, all of a sudden it's 80. Then it's 90 till like 3 PM. Soon as I'm back in my apartment, it's super cold again, which completely screws with my allergies. I sleep terribly during this time of the year, lol.
two words: Nasal Lavage best thing to happen to allergies since.... never mind - it has been the single best treatment for allergy symptoms for me. And we can lovingly disagree about this time of year. I'll take the autumn over the summer EVERY day of the week. I love the cool nights (I can actually sleep now) and yah - it can still get hot in the afternoons, but man, the evenings are the stuff of legend. Crisp, cool, clear, dry western air. I love this time of the year so much. It's just over too soon.
Five hours from now, an investor, an architect, a broker and a contractor will converge on our prospective new site and give us the rundown on it. Three hours from now I'm meeting a buddy for lunch at one of my favorite restaurants in LA, probably for the last time in nearly a year. Two hours from now I'm depositing a (very large) check so that I can send an (identically large) check to TD Ameritrade, pulling some of my money out of my "safe" indexed annuity and putting it somewhere I can actually get to it. I started fake trading 48 hours ago and I'm up $541 whole dollars. That's because of an option I bought. I have no idea what I'm doing beyond that and the option expires in ten days. I'm super-glad it's fake money. Five weeks from now I'll be a thousand miles from here, my daughter's first roadtrip behind her, five thousand dollars worth of moving expense putting me, tactically, exactly where I was this time in 2008. I see billboards. They're for movies my friends have written. There are no billboards for me. I read news articles. They're for movies my high school classmates have written. There are no news articles for me. All my mixing colleagues are scrambling for work. Two of them are on a new show that sounds pretty horrible that I'd totally work on except I'm throwing in the towel. I'm awaiting an invoice on a post project. It's the last invoice I'll have down here, where invoices are a regular, common event. Capitulation is fucking depressing.
Dude, if you want a news article of your own you should try putting some feelers out, get the story about the birthing clinic to press when the business opens etc. I'm pretty sure you could garner some interest, and definitely could play off a human interest "Who is behind the hot new place for mums-to-be?" stuff. I don't know, I'd totally buy a newspaper/magazine to read about a prominent Hubskier.
My budget has finally evened itself out after getting slammed by the numerous school fees. Found out that a class I took a long time ago didn't count for anything and I've gotta fork over another thousand dollars by winter (Gotta make up three credits the going rate is about 300 a credit) to graduate on time in the spring. This all just means I will have to take more work hours while trying to balance my other job, and my school schedule. I'm not fretting though. I turn twenty one tomorrow, and honestly I've never felt more in control. The world seems like a bright and beautiful place and I'm determined to see it through.
Yea I forgot to mention I need to fulfill the requirement that the class that didn't count for anything was suppose to fulfill. I could have done the exam and then fulfilled the requirement in the spring, but my spring schedule is pretty much set in stone at this point in regards to major, minor, and core requirements.
Fuck is it already Wednesday again? Being crushed slowly but surely by all the shit I have to do. I had a professor not send the syllabus for my class today until late Saturday night with a required book list eleven books long which would have been just fine if he hadn't posted to the central textbook website that we didn't have any required books. Found an alum with almost everything I need, though so I'll be okay in that regard. One of my classes is an "in practice" type class so it's less about book learning and more about analytical exercises so the projects will be hard but the day to day workload shouldn't be. The other is hugely text heavy -- more than I've seen so far in any other class I've had in this program. I also found out yesterday that despite a policy re-write intended for people like me, I'm actually still not eligible for a birthright trip to Israel because of the length of the program I went on in high school. Which is some shit because I was really looking forward to traveling for free but at least I don't have to deal with the moral burden of receiving a free trip to Israel and all that entails.
On Tuesday, I had a date and it was great. Third date with this girl and she kissed me twice on the lips. Felt really good. Might do something later with her today. For the first time in a long time, I feel real good about a girl I'm dating.
The work story. I spent the last couple of months collecting data and coming up with a plan for how to build a better education system at my company. I presented it last week and the proposal was accepted, which means I'm essentially starting my own department. In my proposal I said it would cost $80 to get up and running, because that's how much a bluehost web hosting account costs. Instead, I got my first lesson to building something for a large corporation - it's always five times more expensive, and ten times more complicated, than doing it yourself. Legal and marketing had some issue with bluehost and even if they didn't our IT department had security issues. Instead, they insisted that we install on AWS and my $80 turned into $504. I was terrified to tell my boss about the five fold increase but the head of IT told me everything was approved by his boss, a different person, and we would be up and running by the end of the week. So that's cool. The personal story The wedding is coming along. We're realizing how expensive everything can be and we're getting a bit more creative with what we want. My fiancee is doing most of it, and I feel like I should be doing more, but most of this stuff just seems insane to me. If I had my way it would be a BYOB potluck with a simple ceremony and anyone offended by the lack of propriety would be more than welcome to stay home.
We did a ceremony on an island on a Wednesday. There were 13 people there. Then we did a reception a month later at my uncle's house. We sprang for the alcohol and the rest of it was a potluck. The downside? you don't get to extort presents from everyone. The upside? We were less than $2000 out of pocket, including putting up our parents on an island.
We have 180 invited. It's pretty insane, but that's what she wanted. It's not too bad, the guest list is 80% her side and she knows she's responsible for the size and therefore stress so she's taking on the brunt of the work. It still makes me sad to see someone I love learn a hard lesson.
So I've been freaking out a little about student debt. I always knew I'd wind up with a lot (didn't have a great deal of choice for a fair few reasons) but I guess the enormity of it all is starting to make me balk. I'm going to OXFORD of all places as a grad student in a couple weeks and I feel incredibly blessed and lucky and it's like some strange, surreal dream and all but still the idea of cost is just really bearing down on me. I sometimes wonder if it's worth it and whether or not I'd be better off just scrapping those plans and entering the workforce ASAP. But ultimately, I think I'd have more chance at success if I pursue my masters just cause it'll really open up my potential employment options - I'm doubtful that an undergrad degree in History is gonna get me far in and of itself. And I figure that I could potentially get a public sector job with the skills I gain (Mandarin), which means my loans could be forgiven in ~10 years. I dunno. It's just all a bit nerve wracking. I need to start making money, and quickly, just to keep all that interest down. I can't complain, I knew what I was signing up for but I guess I've just a had a bit of a delayed realization, heh. All of this + actual stress from the fact that I'm going to get my ass kicked mentally and intellectually has really had me on edge for the last couple of weeks. On the bright side, though, I've had a pretty great summer. A lot of reading, a lot of writing, a lot of family-time. Can't ask for much else :). AND a new Iron Maiden album was released a couple days ago and it's GREAT. So there's that.
So first of all Oxford was my youngster dream as kid (I really liked the Golden Compass), so congrats. Second, don't worry about it, we're all drowning in debt, I'mma just wait for the bubble to pop in a good ten years and see what goes from there. I just hope my university is happy that my invisible money got put into our mascot-shaped pool. They better be when they start lookin for a bailout. I'm also talking out of my ass and am only three weeks into a Macroecon class, so I could be wrong about all of that, but you know
Heh, I'd wanted to go to Oxford ever since I was 10 and found out that Tolkien went/taught there. Bit silly, but there you go. Thanks for the encouragement, anyway. It sorta seems to me sometimes that our generation got the shit end of the stick in more ways than one but I guess I'm still holding out hope that it'll make us tough as nails and prepared to change things and make em easier for the kids that come after us. (one can dream I guess).
Firstly, congratulations! Second, don't worry about student debt -- it's pretty low interest in the UK and is automatically taken from your wages. Plus you're going Oxford, you'll be able to afford an accountant to make it all disappear in some dodgy tax crap in a few years ;)
Monday night my a hose under my sink burst causing a large amount of water damage to my house. Now I have to move the wife, baby and 3 cats to an apartment for about 6 weeks to have it all fixed. Not really looking forward to that but what can you do, eh?
Well last week I was back at Coca Cola for another round of video shooting. That was 9 days after we moved into our new apartment. Today, after taking a much needed break over the weekend, I powered thru a butt load of work and then had two dinner meetings with client / potential client. Then... Well... After dinner we had a new adventure. We got back to the apartment to find about 50 people and two fire trucks outside the building. randomuser raced up to the 7th floor (while I parked) to grab Stella (our dog) who was inside. Everything seemed fine. We hung out outside for a bit until the fire guys came downstairs and told us it was all clear. We were still unsure what was happening. Drill? Minor toast burning incident? When we get back in the apt there's a puddle in the kitchen. At first I think Stella peed because we had left her alone for a few hours. But as we look the puddle gets bigger and bigger and bigger and stretches all the way around the apartment. Turns out the guy upstairs lit his kitchen on fire, leading the 8 sprinklers to dump what seems like 1000000 gallons of dirty water all over the place, covering his place and the hallway in about 6 inches of water and leaking down into our apartment, and the 3 surrounding apartments, with another few. We didn't get hit as bad as the guy next door. So.. We've spent the last 4 hours toweling and mopping and cleaning and unplugging and waiting for our turn with the wet vac. It seems like we got lucky and it missed our computers and TV and everything. On the plus side, we've met all of our lovely neighbors and management and the janitors responded quickly. Nothing important (us, dog, computers, or hard drives) were damaged. What can be learned? You can never have too many towels (we have like 15 and they're all soaked) Back up your important shit and keep that backup far away from your computer. And, that renters insurance is probably a good little investment if you have idiots above or around you.
as someone once told me - If your Back up is in the same building as whatever it is backing up, it's just a copy, not back up.
I am swamped to the point that I am inefficient, and I've got to work my way out of it some. I'm part of a project that is developing quickly, and I am looking forward to share it with all of you when I can. It could mean a significant change in my daily life. It's quite a thing that rob05c has the Hubski app reading and writing from SQL. The significance of that development isn't immediately apparent, but it will become increasingly more so.
A good friend of many years just said „I don't like Turks”, following with common racist justifications. I was shocked. I tried to convince her that „most Turks cause trouble" is just plain racism. With the current situation here in Germany in mind, that we discussed beforehand, I wasn't quite friendly. She quickly felt offended about my accusations and left me confused about her, the friendship and how to approach this topic in the future.
that's really bizarre and hurtful and i'm sorry that happened to you!
New York City for the weekend bichezz! I still have a 30 page essay about my internship due tuesday that I haven't even started so that's gonna be rough. I sense some sleepless nights ahead but I'm not gonna jeopardise the NYC visit for that. I'm going with my boyfriend's sister, boyfrend and mom too so we'll see how that goes...
The shit I dealt with this week so far has been frustrating, annoying and jaw-droppingly fucked up. I may do a self post later and ask the community here how to deal with a few things, but for now I'm off to Guild Wars 2 to kill shit and stomp on bad guys for a while. Speaking of Guild Wars 2, anyone else play?
Yesterday I functioned as a supervisor for a group of people that were anywhere from a year older than me to twice my age. It felt weird at first having people who have been in the company a lot longer than you have and are older asking questions related to what we're doing that day, scheduling, etc etc. and largely being able to manage that and give them answers and get things running fairly smoothly. Between that and some projects I'm being put on I've been put in a very empowering position. Then there's the whole latest twist in my romance life.
I'm doing some Python scripting at work, and it's mostly working pretty well. I'm able to do in one program what I used to cobble together in batch files, response files, and Excel scripting. I'm not a great programmer, but I'm enjoying this. As I typed that a script finished. The results are unfortunate, but I have them.
Immunology is calling my name. I just started my classes for my senior year in Microbiology and the lecture and lab that I'm taking in immunology is really tickling my fancy. Perhaps this is my calling? We'll see in a few weeks. Sleep however, is also calling my name, but I'm afraid this is likely going to be a 20 hour day. I hope I'll be able to squeeze a nap in here somewhere. Wish me luck!
I'm going to make a second pubski post because Okkervil River just announced a couple live dates where they'll play the entirety of Black Sheep Boy and Black Sheep Boy Appendix in honor of the ten year anniversary. Combined, they're one of my very favorite albums. I used to travel a lot to see live music. I don't much anymore, and it's been since last December since I have. But this is something to see.