[chat] going one way, people another

y2jake215

I could see why a bigger style would be useful at a poker table though!

Hamurabi

a5ehren wrote: »

Hamurabi wrote: »

Abdhyius wrote: »

I don't find dubai saddening. Or their flaunting of wealth distasteful.

They've gone far beyond all that. It's just something strange and insane that I'm watching, not a real thing.

They're relatively foresightful, at least.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi have some of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the entire world; ~$600 billion between them. Dubai specifically is pretty well-diversified -- unfortunately it chose a portfolio (real estate development, high finance, and tourism) uniquely suited to getting reamed by the 2008 GFC. Abu Dhabi has made tangible attempts toward funding sustainability/green initiatives, though to what extent things like Masdar City are for show is anyone's guess. They know the oil's gonna run out someday -- their current levels of output / proven reserves put it at ~130 years -- and are moving towards a post-hydrocarbon economic base.

One of them owns a big chunk of Global Foundries (aka AMD's former manufacturing arm) as well. All kinds of crazy stuff.

Norway has a huge SWF as well.

Is that what the funneled their oil revenue into?

Inquisitor wrote: »

When driving past a Burger King in Bali I noticed they had a phone number under their sign for delivery.

...

I think just heard scheck gently sobbing.

Literally everything in Dubai delivers. The campus cafeteria will deliver to your dorm.

The dorms are no more than like 300 feet away from the cafeteria.

Couscous

If they go outside, they might have to deal with more than one migrant worker!

P10

Inquisitor wrote: »

When driving past a Burger King in Bali I noticed they had a phone number under their sign for delivery.

...

I think just heard scheck gently sobbing.

magic 8 ball says...

"i had delivery bk and mcds in korea
so im just liek
ahead of da curve"

Inquisitor

In Bali it is more if you go outside you might get run over by 20 scooters, at once.

Crossing the street was an adventure!

Chanus

I would appreciate living somewhere where everybody delivered.

I would be so fat.

Dark Raven X

Just went downstairs to go put the ol' rubbish bags out so I don't have to wake up tomorrow. Halfway down the stairs I'm thinking "wow it is really fucking cold"

All the way down the stairs I'm thinking "wait what the fuck why is it so cold?"

I go through the kitchen, and lo my back door is wide open, rain pouring in. Living room door where the cat sleeps is also wide open. Oh shit.

Cat's fine, sitting there on the table meowing like crazy because this situation is wholely unorthodox and unauthorized.

So I guess Nan went to sleep without locking the door which is fine I am used to going down to double check that shit. Leaving it wide the fuck open, lights on, where any thief/rapist/murderer/all of the above can come in and kill me in my sleep is a new one! She's upping her game.

skippydumptruck

Call is over!

*begins to open boxes*

21stCentury

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Call is over!

*begins to open boxes*

Good luck, Skips.

You'll need it.

Inquisitor

I have gotten so bad about locking things in Japan. My apartment, my car... well I guess that's all I really own that has locks. Leaving my bag with my wallet on my chair while I use the restroom. Or heck just leaving my wallet on the table while I use the restroom.

When I get back to America I am going to get destroyed.

Mortious

Chanus wrote: »

I would appreciate living somewhere where everybody delivered.

I would be so fat.

http://foodrunner.co.nz/

Haven't used them before, but similar setup to Mr Delivery back in SA.

Nice because you could order from restaurants that are usually considered sit-down affairs.

skippydumptruck

21stCentury wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Call is over!

*begins to open boxes*

Good luck, Skips.

You'll need it.

don't worry I plan to post as I go

update as I turn each screw, plug in each doohicky

in excruciating detail

skippydumptruck

oh my god this processor fan is giant

Chanus

Mortious wrote: »

Chanus wrote: »

I would appreciate living somewhere where everybody delivered.

I would be so fat.

http://foodrunner.co.nz/

Haven't used them before, but similar setup to Mr Delivery back in SA.

Nice because you could order from restaurants that are usually considered sit-down affairs.

Yeah, we have something similar in Grub Hub, but no one around my area participates in third-party delivery

Sarksus

Everything is bigger than Skippy expected

EriktheVikingGamer

skippydumptruck wrote: »

oh my god this processor fan is giant

What processor did you get?

Sarksus wrote: »

Everything is bigger than Skippy expected

Well, not everything... Heyooo! (j/k)

Echo

Duel of Champions = fun.

The Haven starter deck is kinda poop compared to the Necro deck though.

skippydumptruck

captain's log

motherboard i/o shield installed successfully

the men are heartened by this early sign of success, but a dark cloud looms on the horizon

21stCentury

Sarksus wrote: »

Everything is bigger than Skippy expected

Skippy is actually two midgets in a suit.

spool32

@Skippydumptruck for serious if you need assistance just call.

skippydumptruck

EriktheVikingGamer wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

oh my god this processor fan is giant

What processor did you get?

i5 um 3570k

skippydumptruck

spool32 wrote: »

Skippydumptruck for serious if you need assistance just call.

yeah I should have just had you come over to do this with me

but yes I will call you if I fuck something up

Elendil

food obtained

crisis averted

P10

Echo wrote: »

Duel of Champions = fun.

The Haven starter deck is kinda poop compared to the Necro deck though.

which one is the haven starter deck

because i'm playing some dude who has cassandra as his hero and his deck seems real stronk
(ghosts are bullshit tho)

21stCentury

Echo wrote: »

Duel of Champions = fun.

The Haven starter deck is kinda poop compared to the Necro deck though.

it's a CCG, right? I assume on a mobile platform?

EriktheVikingGamer

Echo wrote: »

Duel of Champions = fun.

The Haven starter deck is kinda poop compared to the Necro deck though.

Haven gets better (as in an actual cohesive strategy) if you luck out and get more of their uncommons from packs. Necro has poison and incorporeal which just gives them all kinds of extra advantages amidst the lower ranks.

Mim

Elendil wrote: »

food obtained

crisis averted

My mother will not answer the texts or calls I am making to her about dinner tonight.

I am going to starve o_o

Kagera

Abdhyius wrote: »

Kagera wrote: »

I don't see anything to watch.

then something is fucked up on your end.

vimeo.com/35244188

here it is urld

Oh yeah phone chrome does not like Vimeo.

21stCentury

Gordon Ramsey is consulting a psychic to learn more about this restaurant.



WAT U DOIN GARDEN ROMSEY?

Tiger Burning

Echo wrote: »

Duel of Champions = fun.

The Haven starter deck is kinda poop compared to the Necro deck though.

sweet. i signed up and picked necro, based on absolutely nothing.

skippydumptruck

processor in

spool32

skippydumptruck wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Skippydumptruck for serious if you need assistance just call.

yeah I should have just had you come over to do this with me

but yes I will call you if I fuck something up

Ok!

Organichu

skippydumptruck wrote: »

processor in

i expect to be lol'ing with you in 90 minutes

Kagera

21stCentury wrote: »

Gordon Ramsey is consulting a psychic to learn more about this restaurant.



WAT U DOIN GARDEN ROMSEY?

Psychics are well researched experts even if they get things massively wrong on national tv.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/sylvia-brownes-amanda-perry-psychic_n_3240157.html

21stCentury

[Not a good post, carry on.]

RiemannLives

skippydumptruck wrote: »

captain's log

motherboard i/o shield installed successfully

the men are heartened by this early sign of success, but a dark cloud looms on the horizon

holographic evil Lincoln is gonna mess you up

Rear Admiral Choco

Irond Will wrote: »

PantsB wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

i wish we had automated red-light cameras and speed/ noise detectors in my city

i'm totes for cc fucking everywhere too

as good as the boston/ cambridge/ watertown cops were in the bombing/ terrorist thing lately, it generally takes something of that magnitude to get them off their asses. we have a lot of perverse incentives that keeps them from really focusing on their actual jobs.

Because our crime rates are low and general satisfaction levels are high, and because they get double-time for playing angry birds at a construction site but nothing for actually walking a beat or ticketing people who double-park on major streets with their hazards on for a half-hour, and because none of the cambridge cops actually live in cambridge, it's really hard to get them to engage.

They do all right if a black guy tries to break into his own house...

they are, admittedly, a little more proactive around mount auburn/ brattle street with the multimillion dollar homes than they are in my hood.

people talk a lot about how boston is (or was) a racist city because of the busing riots back in the 70s, but i almost never see anything like that in cambridge. most of the crime and disturbance seems to be irish/ italian white townies, and there are loads of wealthy/ established minorities and foreigners. i'd be a little surprised if that cop was at all motivated by racism in shaking gates down.

almost certainly what happened was the cop was being kind of a dick and, like, demanding id and being a tough guy, and gates, being hypersensitive to cop bullshit, escalated the whole thing until he was arrested.

will if where you live is the hood i don't want to be on this planet anymore

east cambridge used to be famous for being a shitty neighborhood. even when i moved there it was a little sketchy, and there are still more than a few section-8 families that have passed down their rent-controlled apartments for generations and are kind of a blight.

still, the gentrification of kendall square has done wonders, and east cambridge has reached that tipping point ratio of of pioneers/ hipsters/ young parents to drug dealers/ hobos/ layabouts that the kind of shit that used to pass in broad daylight without comment no longer really happens.

like there is a little wall in front of a portuguese church up on the intersection of medeiros and cambridge st. mean townies used to gather there every fucking day - like 12 of them - and just stand there and glower at anyone walking by. if you looked anywhere in their direction they'd try to start a fight.

this shit had been going on for decades - like, literally generations of shitty townies - fathers, uncles, sons, grandsons - had passed down this tradition of standing in front of "the wall" and being assholes to anyone they didn't know. the cops didn't do anything about it because it was just expected.

anyhow, i've not seen anyone hanging in front of the wall like that for a few years. it seems like gentrification has finally driven them off.

huh, interesting. it looked gorgeous to me- the nearby stores, the park with poop bags, people seemingly comfortable out front without any glowering. that's some improvement. i loved your neighborhood.

Remember Will is only slightly more rational about anime threads than he is about 'townies'

fair enough but seriously we used to have a stabbing once a year outside the portuguese club and there is no excuse for those dicks who used to camp the wall

like, i got my hair cut by a local girl who was somehow related to one of the old east cambridge families and was complaining about how her people used to run that town and how she was really sad and wistful that everyone had now moved out to medford and "the wall" was now sadly vacant and just anyone could walk around without getting thrashed.

I don't understand that mindset at all, I'm just kind of boggling at how shitty it is

skippydumptruck

heatsink on

Organichu

skippydumptruck wrote: »

heatsink on

well, you've already surpassed 21st

21stCentury

Organichu wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

heatsink on

well, you've already surpassed 21st

Hold on...

I had my heatsink on, it was just on improperly.

Who knows if Skippy did it properly?

Let's wait for him to boot up the computer. The temps don't lie.

(He's probably surpassed me. )