February 2012
29 posts
I am revisiting the idea that I am supposed to maintain professional memberships in organizations that support my career. But fuck… I have a list of five I am supposed to join. Each one around $200 a year. For the minimum level.
I did this last year and ultimately didn’t join any.
Kinda feeling that way again this year.
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Charlie and the chocolate factory?
Snozberries are. The quote is from Supertroopers.
I feel like putting my slides on a timer. Going to class setting up the projector, turning it on and leaving.
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Questions actually worth answering.
I'm just going to answer these with out making you go through the ordeal of picking numbers....
Q: Apart from tumblr, what do you like to do in your spare time?
A: Many things. No really. Many many things.
Q: Name a favorite of each: food, drink, color.
A: Cheese curds. Porter. Green. I'm not asserting that these are my most favoritest things ever. Just ones that I know I like. Also, I'd quite like to be in a pub drinking porter and eating deep fried cheese curds.....and wearing something green I guess...
Q: If you married rich and your spouse gave you $100,000 a week, what would you spend it on?
A: The many many things I do when I'm not on tumblr. For fun. Probably travel, airplanes and more education.
Q: Name a favorite of each: book, movie, tv show.
A: Doorways in the Sand, Super Troopers, Archer.
Q: If you were given the opportunity to spend 48 hours with absolutely anyone (living or dead), who would you spend it with and what would you do?
A: I can't really come up with anyone for this. If I were to do this, I'd like to be able to grill them mercilessly about stuff, but that is distinctly rude. Question and answer is no kind of conversation at all. And I don't really want to spend two whole days with anyone. Ever.
Q: Name a LEAST favorite of each: food, drink, color.
A: Tongue, licorice tea, that kind of brown that looks like baby poop.
Q: What do you spend most of your money on?
A: The many many things I do when I'm not on tumblr. Airplanes.
Q: What kind of underwear do you prefer wearing?
A: The comfortable kind.
Q: Name a LEAST favorite of each: book, movie, tv show.
A: There was a steampunk novel I tried three times to get through, but the egregious abuse of physics and terrible grammar drove me from it on each occasion. Lots. But I'll go with one that I hate and most people like. ET. And that one with Tom Cruise and the unicorn. Most of them.
Q: If you were sat on a plane beside your favorite celebrity, what would you do?
A: Talk to them a bit like everyone else and then do a crossword. See #5. ps. If you were seated...
Q: What is the strangest thing you have in your room? (You are not allowed to explain why you own it.)
A: A meat hook. The kind you hang a carcass from.
Q: What is a weird habit you have, or people have told you have. (Weird, not bad. No nail biting or any of that nonsense.)
A: I don't know. They all seem so normal...
Q: What would you consider to be the biggest insult to yourself?
A: Anything that ends with a caveat. Like "You're good at ____....for a girl." "You do a great job teaching...when no one asks you questions."
Q: What are five things you absolutely have to have in your dream house?
A: Dream house? Steel roof (or be underground), a workshop space (both metal and wood), enough property that I am distinctly alone, absolutely no carpet (that shit is NEVER clean), a slide (spiral, preferably).
Q: If you could be reincarnated as any animal, which would you chose and why?
A: An animal. What really? Okay. An owl. Or some variety of corvid. But really, I like being a human, Indulging in a desire to learn and try everything out there. Related: I ate a durian today.
The rest of the questions descended into a drivel of pop cultural music obsessions. So I've deleted them. You're welcome.
Truthful Tuesday:
When I’m slicing frozen strawberries, I worry that my finger and thumb will become so numb, I’ll sever the tips of them and never notice…
Sanguine strawberry slicing.
Tasks
Part of my role with the shooting club is update the membership roster with all the new folks.
I was thinking, no worries, this is just going to updating a database with information.
The previous dude opened excel and showed me the spreadsheet. A spreadsheet. With more than a thousand rows. The columns don’t actually have headings, just numbers. The numbers supposedly correspond to the...
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One vote.
I need one more vote. Here. In the comments. For me, #2.
I swear this is a vote for good. This is a vote for taking care of quality original art. This is a vote for not using thumbtacks and tape to hold things on the wall. This is a vote for putting things on display. A vote for good!
HeroChan: Quick help from Herochan readers! →
herochan:
I thought we would try something different on picking a winner. I mean, why not? Rather than have a Who Run Bartertown system, I’d much rather see the people that support us decide. As far as I’m concerned, your voice as a reader is as powerful as mine. So why in the hell aren’t you deciding…
Permit me to say: I promise to provide this artwork with full framing. Conservation...
colinblack replied to your post: One single attempt at running makes it painfully obvious the zombies would eat well.
The trick is to start slowly & gently two or three times a week (assuming you don’t get caught) after a while you’ll be waving at the Zombies. In my limtited experience they are not that fit. :-)
Thankfully I’m quite good at long range attacks.
I do alright in short...
One single attempt at running makes it painfully...
I have class in 32 minutes. While I have “Lecture Monday Class 1” crossed off my to do list. I just realized I have no idea what I had planned to cover. None. We finished a section on Friday, I was going to start something new today. Unfortunately I didn’t bother to tell myself what that was….
I'm sick. The head cold from hell.
I canceled class last Wedesday and put up an online assignment instead. The assignment required downloading two files from our online classroom and opening one of them to run a simulation, then completing the quiz in the online classroom.
The email I sent to them was quite detailed in the directions. You will go to this list, click this icon, scroll down to my name, click the locker icon on the...
Had a dream last night that I single handedly (and...
I am between naps and doing some browsing on the internet. One of my new endeavors brings with it the possibility of court dates and staring down ignorance. So I’d like to have one (well, at least one) smoking, killer suit. What I would like is: to pick out what I want, have it come large enough that I can have it tailored down to fit me exactly and to be done with the whole deal. Apparently...
Mouth-breathing mucus grenade. Use extreme...
Cute little animal things that are drinking... →
In the flurry of agreeing to job #4 and applying for super awesome highly unlikely job #5, guess who forgot to turn her time sheet for job #2?
Hint, she also has two thumbs…
And a head cold…
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Things that make you go "ugh...."
The only Tiffany items I am familiar with are verging on a century old. They’re elegant, espousing all the art deco understated glamour of the time. I like them.
Apparently because it is verging on “That Holiday” and Ladiez love some little blue boxes, Tiffany sent a catalog to my house.
I sat down with my coffee this morning, expecting to see well designed, elegant, and...
January 2012
28 posts
One more bullet.
Jeeves and Wooster. Love.
My Week In Bullet Points
Oh really. In the last email you overslept. Then when the (intentionally extremely restrictive) make up time I sent you was inconvenient, NOW you’re suddenly sick. Poor you.
Hey. You. You in the meeting two feet from my desk in a 8ft square concrete room. I’m not part of your meeting. This is my office too. Use your inside voice. And turn off your damn cell phone.
It isn’t...
Did you guys know saying “like” as a vocalized pause is still a thing? I didn’t. It is. A room full of physicists in training across the hall is proving it right now.
Or maybe it isn’t and they’re just behind the times?
Daily Kos: Scott Walker raises $4.5 million in... →
wilwheaton:
While volunteers were gathering signatures to recall him from office, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was allowed to receive campaign donations of unlimited size. Never one to shy away from talking to rich people, over the last five weeks Walker used this opportunity to raise$1,000,000 from just four donors, and over well $2,000,000 from 33 donors
During his time as governor, Scott...
Event 1:
For the love of whatever you hold holy, when you shovel your walk and find 1/4” of ice on the pavement, salt that fucker. Unless of course whatever you hold holy is watching people fall on their asses. In which case you can expect some religious persecution from this quarter…
Event 2:
The five minutes immediately following your class are for you. The five minutes...
Problem solved.
Do work. Get stressed. Start hurting. Just in time for the doctor.
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Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research
and Kids Who Can’t Read Good Center.
The physical therapy doctor sent me back to the original doctor to get an xray and another cortisone shot because the muscles in my back are dislocating my ribs. Again. Excellent good. I made an appointment last week, they got me in later today.
Guess who woke up completely pain free this morning?
Me. So I am simultaneously thrilled: Yay! No pain! And frustrated: I know that it will come back....
so....
Should the topic of employment come up in conversation and “Doctor.” is all you volunteer, I will most likely retitle you “Self-Important Blow Hard.” Because doctor is a title, not a profession. At best it is what you did some time ago, a few years of specialized higher education. Yeah, I know. Most people assume “medical doctor” but you and I both know there...
It’s four below zero. Warmest it’s been all day.
I want: to go home. I need: to walk over to the library. I am: sitting in my office waiting for the IT guy who was supposed to be here an hour ago.
Things I have recently learned: It is extremely painful to run the tip of a knife up under your thumbnail a third of an inch.
See also: Things which bleed. A lot.
Captcha shennanigans
Todays captcha:
Treaslut
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In the spirit of curiosity...
I keep getting myself involved in things, that yes, most likely I will not enjoy. But having never actually done them, I don’t really KNOW that I won’t enjoy them….
So then I’m involved, committed to the thing for an entire fucking year and one meeting in I already want to punch people.
“I tried to watch the first version but all those Swedes just look a like to me!”
– The guy behind me at the annual shooting club meeting. After declaring that the remake of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a wonderful movie. “It really makes you think. Pay attention, like.”