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caek are u astronomer?

y also v drunk

y also v drunk

― caek, Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:34 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no kidding. feel awful today.

(sorry, this is not a question)

hay tom just watching eagle over here and wondering which in yr opinion movie most accurately portrays yr line of work thx j

eagle eye

Chief O'Hallorhan: You know we were pretty lucky tonight, body count's less then 200. You know, one of these days, you're gonna kill ten-thousand in one of these firetraps, and I'm gonna keep eating smoke and carrying out bodies until someone asks us how to build them.

Doug Roberts: Ok, I'm asking.

Chief O'Hallorhan: You know where to reach me.

weird that's like my job too

is your job also like live free or die hard because that's every day for me

only the part where he wrestles the plane

the plane = montreal's dining scene

john mcclane = slocki

ok so to flesh out my answer a little better:

There is an essential canon to my career field, I have thought about this and pretend to be appalled when colleagues confess to not having seen these movies:

TRON
Sneakers
WarGames
Live Free or Die Hard

Disaster films and generally any movie wherein put-upon civil servants or public officials competently deal with extraordinary circumstances are also pretty cool hence quoting from The Towering Inferno. I also have my personal fetish for movies about systems failure and machine revolt (terminator 3 is the best of the series btw) (colossus the forbin project byaaaaa)

of course since I work in a bureaucratic organization with computer technology my job is also a hell of a lot like Office Space from time to time (working at the NSA was completely like Office Space)

When people try to bring up enemy of the state or stuff like that I politely explain that I swore to protect the constitution not piss on its ashes, I do know people who were involved in the illegal telecom wiretaps but they drive beer trucks in college towns now

my gf has the much cooler job-movie connections, her work is all about The Conversation and Blow Out

they drive beer trucks in college towns now

in frat terror stings right? right?

your gf has the coolest job ever
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thx! i think so too but I try not to brag.
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Dear Tom,

1) Will you be hosting a SuperBowl party in the dc area this year y/n
2) Will your gf help me be a good jew or at least help me cheat on my hebrew homework y/n
3) When is the SuperBowl

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P.S. Happy New Yearz

1) I dunno I think it depends on who is playing and who wants to come to my house and drink. If I did have one in my apartment that would be a handy opportunity to take your delonghi deep fryer back, and maybe pete could come and return my paul ormerod book!

2) I think you asking this question probably signifies that you still have a lot of degoyification ahead

3) The 1st of February. This is nifty: http://projects.nytimes.com/nfl2009/bracket?hp

thx for answering my question tom that was fun - just for kicks maybe youd care to expand the movie list scope to cover the intelligence industry as a whole - thx j

since videogames, television, the internet, permissive parenting and a ridiculously high standard of living have already completely ruined the next generation of americans, i should pay of my loans quickly, quit my job as a mediocre math & science teacher and retrain as a ______________________

ninja obvs

oh wait did the title change to ASK JOE THE ICE CREAM overnight?
oh I see it did not!!

tell me u disagree w/my recommendation go ahead i dare u

http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Python_Ninja_or_Pirate__104_2.aspx

i'm not sure i'd want to work for somebody who put "ninja" in the job posting

i could work with ninja, i could never tolerate somebody who wanted a "python pirate"

u r a marginal bisexual at best

so i keep hearing

expectations can be tough

moonship I tend not to agree with the essential premise of your inquiry since every single generation is supposedly worse than the last and they all seem to turn out ok even when every circumstance appears to work against them. I think that you could probably retrain into any civil service field you wanted; I find it doubtful given what I have surmised about your inclinations from these borads that you would ever be happy as a cog in the private sector. If I may ask you a question in return, is there a particular reason you feel the need to get this kind of career advice while school is not in session?

just feeling like i don't want to go back to work on tuesday.

also:

1) gradual dawning realization that i was happier in my service jobs than in my work as a teacher, possibly because i find the constant cheerleading in the teaching field to be a drag. i'm a fairly withdrawn person at the best of times, and a rather glum person at the worst of times. teenagers tend to react badly to this, whereas most adults i worked with saw it as professionalism and/or politeness.

2) sense of mediocrity in my work that i can't figure out how to overcome

also:

1) gradual dawning realization that i was happier in my service jobs than in my work as a teacher, possibly because i find the constant cheerleading in the teaching field to be a drag. i'm a fairly withdrawn person at the best of times, and a rather glum person at the worst of times. teenagers tend to react badly to this, whereas most adults i worked with saw it as professionalism and/or politeness.

2) sense of mediocrity in my work that i can't figure out how to overcome

just feeling like i don't want to go back to work on tuesday.

yeah that's definitely a sign. teaching kids is a line of work which requires a lot of enthusiasm to offset the sisyphean struggle from what I've observed

youtube links as poll options

hi tombot, any chance of this? :-D

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hey tombot--

drinking. did you cut down or was it never a problem? cutting down, did you need to? did you ever do it cold turkey? i'm not a genetic wino and i'm feelin the need to cut it out; nothing else fills me with such joy these days. AA?

i shouldn't be asking some guy on an internet forum about this, but i thought you might have been somewhere around this yourself.
m

Dan,

It's ok. Mostly. They said not to put any weight on it.

Mr. P,

I have cut down on drinking quite a bit from six months ago, a year ago, the year before that, and etc. I have not quit drinking, but I have gone cold turkey before and it was ridiculous (cheap though). I'm not a "genetic wino" either, but I used to do all kinds of stupid shit on/for/with booze.

I can understand where you're coming from re: oh shit this is trouble but you don't need a bunch of other people to tell you not to make dranks the centerpiece of your lifestyle or whatever. Alcohol isn't the problem, you're probably just bored and slightly depressed and day after day you've cranked up your tolerance to a level that seems frightening. Don't concern yourself with that so much, just set some other goals in your life for career/relationships/whatever so you aren't stuck in a rut and the twelve pack problem tends to take care of itself.

Tombot, did you throw any shoes at the inflatable W in Dupont Circle and what size were they?

Morbius,

I didn't throw any shoes and you know this because having once been a member of a marching band at an inauguration AND the uniformed services I can proudly say that all of this pomp and ceremony is straight up 100% bullshit and that ESPECIALLY includes the unofficial hoo-rah nonsense that has taken over large portions of my city for the last few days.

sorry, feel ya

how is the government?!

miss u tom where u been @?

6-day temp ban.

lulz

RIP...

you guys killed him with all your butthurt mod complaints

nice work. now you're stuck with the itr crew as your mods.

just stopping in to say bi