TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

90% of all unix script issues boil down to chmod absent-mindedness, folks

and as for WIN32/PHP/JAVA issues, well, that's why I live where I do and am't allowed to smoke the weed

(also - HI DELL!)

you've apparently retired for the evening but, "hi"!

guys, i am supposedly going to begin doing manual labor next wk. on the application that i filled out, (in the why do you want to work here? space) i wrote something to the effect of "i am determined to work at a place that does not involve sitting in front of computers all day". flourescent lights, computer eyehurt, and bad postural habits resultant from that kind of thing can all go fuck off. plus i would be getting paid under da table and stuff

You get a different kind of bad posture!
One of my college pals told me the reason he finally left the trades and decided to go into debt to go to school (for computer science haw) was because he realized he only had so much structural integrity to give in his life and was not getting paid enough to afford the shoulder surgery he would need in another year or so. He remains one of the thickest and stockiest people I've ever met, after many years of meeting lots of people, such as bodybuilders and special forces types.

Every kind of work wears on you. It's what you can justify to yourself that counts.

dell did you come back recently from a long ILX hiatus? (do they call it "pulling a felicity" these days?)

Oh, okay tombot, I guess that makes sense...wow. Yeah, just from experience, I know that jobs which involve being on my feet all day and which involve moving around drive me less crazy than the sitting at a desk stuff.

Curt1s, nah, I've just been on something of a posting binge lately in part b/c the weather is turning spring and I'm feeling happy and social, but am trying (unsuccessfully) not to go out all the time and spend dough in the pubs and such. Hence my recourse to wasting away in computerville.

Had $20 left for the next week, spent $9 of it on a bag of rice, bag of beans, and toothpaste, $4 on a SIXER OF PBR TALL BOYS WOO LIVIN' IT UP I'M GOING DOWN BUMP.

I'm actually sipping gingerly on my second while keeping an ear out for the beans cooking, but CAPS FUNTIME seems appropriate.

I know that jobs which involve being on my feet all day and which involve moving around drive me less crazy than the sitting at a desk stuff.

There's a woman in my cohort who has a good job as a cytotechnologist, but she can't stand the lack of interaction anymore (apparently most cytotechs are introverts... she is NOT). It really is about figuring out which are the downsides you can actually live with.

Also AAAARGH MORNING SO NOT READY FOR A FULL DAY OF LECTURES NOOOOOO

i think some of you should move to a lazier country.

You'd all be welcome in the UK. We do fuck all, get loads of holidays, it's great.

but your weather licks it

It's Goldilocks weather.

Seeing as the main reason why I'm BACK AT WORK TODAY is because of the British company that bought my company, I am not inclined to believe you, Mark.

hey what is the rule for expired yogurt? is 1 week ok? my mom always said the dates were wonky and bc of the cultures it was ok to eat after but maybe she was just cheap.

I think it's safe to eat, it just goes sour after a long time.

(1 wk = it's probably still edible)

it was that 'greek style' anyway so already a little sourish?

yogurt lasts long long time

i think it's been in the fridge since early march. date was 13 april.

if it does not look or smell weird, i say go for it.

although i admit that i have thrown out stuff that's probably fine, because i'd rather not worry about it.

i threw away the last jar of my grandfather's pickled beets, a few months after he died, because i couldn't tell whether or not the lid had popped.

aw

i know. the stupid thing is that i had delayed opening them because, well, i wanted them for later.

(i know some of you might wonder that i didn't throw out a jar of pickled beets to begin with. if you're not from the south, you probably don't get it. and that's okay.)

it's like how i wish i still had jars of my grandmother's strawberry jam or pickles.

yes.

I got my grandmother's ragu recipe - the best, most evocative food I've ever eaten - and put it in my palm pilot for safety (it was 2000 or something, they were okay then). A few months later I broke the palm pilot. And I never got the recipe again before she died.

On the plus side, I make a pretty good ragu of my own. It's just not like nonna's :(

a theme.

tehresa, did you eat the yogurt?

i decided to play pinkberry and put it in the freezer so if it is weird i won't notice as much.

i've never actually been to pinkberry though.

But have you been to you?

Damn I am the ITR threadkiller tonight. Sorry y'all.

COME ON ROCKIES, WTF WAS THAT 8TH INNING?!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/04/thieves_rob_dan.html

too many mean-spirited LOLs here

Word up ITR. Just back from a 36 hours in Brighton. Aside from ten minutes or so this morning while watching spinal tap and a similar amount on the beach this afternoon I have not slept since I woke up on Saturday. I crazy.

What did I miss?

waitwaitwait, are you casually mentioning ilicit or dangerous hobbies?????????

yes. but not to sound cool.

:)

I don't know what you've missed btw

naughty nick

a'ight rubes?

i have missed..... itr

i am at work. basically, it sucks.

I am alive and conscious and I would like to pass out now, thanks.

But if you need a wound dressing changed, wake me up because I can probably do that for you.

guess who just finally managed to drink their hangover away

well done. i think i speak for all of us in saying we are proud of you!

i am going to see my friend's band in a little bit and probably work on my hangover for tomorrow.

proud, envious, six of one...

GAH treadmill time again... so soon.

Today I BURNED some TRASH and then chainsawed some more dead hickory into fireplace size bits and then I went and wired a couple of D batteries up to an aluminum baffle under the birdfeeder so as to ELECTROCUTE some MISCHIEVOUS COONS

it was totally weird working underneath the birdfeeder trying to make sure the ground wire would stay put and hearing all the little birds going back and forth only a few feet over my head

My response to the loud Chinese arguments going on in the apartment above: Playing Cool in the Pool every time it starts up again.

Seems to work.