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SammyF

Irond Will wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Man, if I get this, I'll maybe just take the stupid little train into downtown and walk to work. That would be pretty excellent.

My daughter would love it because she'd get to use the car.

i thought you lived in like dallas

aren't trains illegal down there?

The Texas Rangers insist they keep running so that hopefully someone will try robbing the mail car.

Antinumeric

Raising kids seems like a real nightmare. You've got a good idea of certain things that work well on kids, then it turns out those have the exact opposite effect on other kids and then your instincts are to get angry/upset which is rarely the right thing to do and god.

so much hard work.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

Casual

Antinumeric wrote: »

Lying to your parents is weird. I remember I used to never lie to my parents. Then one time my parents lied to me when I was 8 and I was like- "Oh that's how things are" and basically never felt any guilt over lying to them afterwards and would do so all the time.

heh, yeah about the same age i started doing the same thing, just lying constantly and it pissed them off

some point around my mid teens it tailed off and i haven't really lie to them since

even when i reversed my dads car into a dyke >.>

ronya

of course, as soon as I wrote that, it seems that there is no CRAN project that implements the required way to optimize the latter.

21stCentury

kaleedity wrote: »

21stCentury wrote: »

Can no one help me with my butt internet problems?

I can continue

also my help desk work site is down

This is how most sites load for me now.

Sometimes, doing ctrl+F5 fixes it, sometimes it doesn't.

I tried restarting my router, restarting my modem, emptying the cache... nothing worked.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

spool32 wrote: »

Gonmun wrote: »

Not the best way for my morning to start when I get a call from my son's teacher saying he has two late assignments as well as a project due in two weeks that she fears he hasn't done any work for. So she's asked to keep him after school to do school work and I'm left fuming because he's been lying to me everyday when I ask him if he has any homework and let him go out to be with his friends on the basis that he doesn't have any. :evil:

Our school has a website where they publish all the assignments, and a fucking phone app with push notifications. It is impossible to avoid work and my kids hate it so much.

I'd be fucking furious if my school had this.

Casual

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

can't you buy a cat?

Irond Will

21stCentury wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Man, if I get this, I'll maybe just take the stupid little train into downtown and walk to work. That would be pretty excellent.

My daughter would love it because she'd get to use the car.

i thought you lived in like dallas

aren't trains illegal down there?

No, man, Trains are big. What else would bandits hop on to hold up people?

thus providing an opportunity for the "good guys" to pull out their guns!

but on the other hand creeping european socialism

what's a good ol boy to do?!

Irond Will

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

cats are terrible pets

it's like owning a stuffed animal that hates you

and sometimes poops on your floor

y2jake215

SammyF wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Welp, you may remember that I sent a very silly inquiry note to a director of social media at Whole Foods yesterday, asking how to find a person to talk with about a Director-level job offer there.

This morning I get:

Hi,

That is pretty direct. I appreciate it in today's fluff-filled world. Have you already submitted and application online? For all of our positions that's a critical first step.

I work on the marketing side of the house so I'm not 100% sure who is hiring for this position but I know who to ask. I'll do that and see if they are willing to have direct contact with applicants or if they would prefer to initiative conversations themselves as part of the hiring process.

I'll get back to you in the next day or so.

i will say that someone from marketing complaining about "today's fluff-filled world" is...

well it's pretty rich

It is kinda, isn't it.

But hey, maybe Whole Foods is a different sort of-

ehhh, no it's pretty funny regardless.

Whole Foods literally survives on its marketing to the granola crowd, there is no regardless here.

Eat your HFCS and like it, peons!

They would NEVER sell fluff at a whole foods so they are within their rights!

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Casual wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

can't you buy a cat?

1) I'm living with Pony and his fiancee and they already have three cats so I'm hesitant to bring a kitten into this environment
2) If I ever get kittens I want to get them in twos because they end up way better socialized that way, but if I get them now then the cats will outnumber the humans and five cats in one apartment is ridiculous
3) Neville and Sasha have the sweetest nicest personalities and I love them so much and I miss them :C :C :C :C

21stCentury

Irond Will wrote: »

21stCentury wrote: »

Irond Will wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Man, if I get this, I'll maybe just take the stupid little train into downtown and walk to work. That would be pretty excellent.

My daughter would love it because she'd get to use the car.

i thought you lived in like dallas

aren't trains illegal down there?

No, man, Trains are big. What else would bandits hop on to hold up people?

thus providing an opportunity for the "good guys" to pull out their guns!

but on the other hand creeping european socialism

what's a good ol boy to do?!

It depends on the train. If it's a sleek "bullet train", it's bad, even if it has "bullet" in its name. if it's a chunky coal-powered steam engine, it's good, because pollution is what God invented humans for,

y2jake215

Also I shook the HELL out of my pokedometer

Not so smart now are you Nintendo

Antinumeric

Casual wrote: »

i have never got the knack for doing assignments

ever

it's the primary reason for my abject failure in all forms of education

i can never just sit down, plan it out, say "this task will take x hours", and just begin the work

can't do it, as soon as i think about it my gut churns and my brain produces an automatic "NOPE" impulse that cancels out the command to do the work

it always takes a looming deadline and a fit of stress and panic to push me into action and I'll push something half assed out at the 11th hour just before the deadline passes (if i'm lucky, if i'm not i fuck it up and miss the deadline)

don't get me wrong I've achieved some good grades with this method so i'm apparently not a complete idiot, but the problem is it kills me and i hate it more than anything else in the world
so yeah, i just lack some necessary quality necessary for academic success and i'm not sure how to get it

Are you in fact me.

Cos this is me exactly.

Irond Will

i basically never lied to my parents

i fought them about everything

i get the impression that eventually they would have just preferred that i lied because it would have been a lot less of a headache for them

ronya

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Gonmun wrote: »

Not the best way for my morning to start when I get a call from my son's teacher saying he has two late assignments as well as a project due in two weeks that she fears he hasn't done any work for. So she's asked to keep him after school to do school work and I'm left fuming because he's been lying to me everyday when I ask him if he has any homework and let him go out to be with his friends on the basis that he doesn't have any. :evil:

Our school has a website where they publish all the assignments, and a fucking phone app with push notifications. It is impossible to avoid work and my kids hate it so much.

I'd be fucking furious if my school had this.

well it's college

aint no babysitting by 16

21stCentury

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

Casual wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

can't you buy a cat?

1) I'm living with Pony and his fiancee and they already have three cats so I'm hesitant to bring a kitten into this environment
2) If I ever get kittens I want to get them in twos because they end up way better socialized that way, but if I get them now then the cats will outnumber the humans and five cats in one apartment is ridiculous
3) Neville and Sasha have the sweetest nicest personalities and I love them so much and I miss them :C :C :C :C

oh man, if cats outnumber you guys, they gain democratic power over you guys.

They could impose rules like nothing but sardines and tuna in the fridge!

:O

Casual

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

Casual wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

can't you buy a cat?

1) I'm living with Pony and his fiancee and they already have three cats so I'm hesitant to bring a kitten into this environment
2) If I ever get kittens I want to get them in twos because they end up way better socialized that way, but if I get them now then the cats will outnumber the humans and five cats in one apartment is ridiculous
3) Neville and Sasha have the sweetest nicest personalities and I love them so much and I miss them :C :C :C :C

you cannot steal ponys cats and get your cat related joy without the hinderance of cat ownership?

thats what i do with my sisters cats

Bethryn

21stCentury wrote: »

This is how most sites load for me now.

Sometimes, doing ctrl+F5 fixes it, sometimes it doesn't.

I tried restarting my router, restarting my modem, emptying the cache... nothing worked.

Tracert next?

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

ronya wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Gonmun wrote: »

Not the best way for my morning to start when I get a call from my son's teacher saying he has two late assignments as well as a project due in two weeks that she fears he hasn't done any work for. So she's asked to keep him after school to do school work and I'm left fuming because he's been lying to me everyday when I ask him if he has any homework and let him go out to be with his friends on the basis that he doesn't have any. :evil:

Our school has a website where they publish all the assignments, and a fucking phone app with push notifications. It is impossible to avoid work and my kids hate it so much.

I'd be fucking furious if my school had this.

well it's college

aint no babysitting by 16

No I mean I'd be furious if my high school had this

Because I lived with abusive parents and the last thing I needed was them having more control over my life.

kaleedity

The modem/router is definitely not causing that kind of behavior.

Do you have any firefox plugins?

Is that site imgur.com?

click firefox menu->Help->about firefox-> What version do you have? I actually just started an update doing this as of typing this...

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Irond Will wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

cats are terrible pets

it's like owning a stuffed animal that hates you

and sometimes poops on your floor

Neville and Sasha LOVE me I'd wake up sometimes with one of them cuddled into my chest and another cuddled into my legs

When I passed out on the bathroom floor once Neville found me and sat on my chest and purred to comfort me and cried for help, alerting Aaron to my condition

They'd always crawl into my lap and rub against my legs

And they never ever pooped on the floor

21stCentury

Bethryn wrote: »

21stCentury wrote: »

This is how most sites load for me now.

Sometimes, doing ctrl+F5 fixes it, sometimes it doesn't.

I tried restarting my router, restarting my modem, emptying the cache... nothing worked.

Tracert next?

Whoah, i ain't doin no shifty hacker work here.

21stCentury

kaleedity wrote: »

The modem/router is definitely not causing that kind of behavior.

Do you have any firefox plugins?

Is that site imgur.com?

click firefox menu->Help->about firefox-> What version do you have? I actually just started an update doing this as of typing this...

ver 20.0.1

But it's not just my browser that's giving me trouble. Steam pages also load wonkily.

skippydumptruck

OH dk

my internet shit last night and cycling my router (without doing anything to the modem) fixed it

so I guess I need a new router

kaleedity

tracert (they mean opening a command prompt start->typing cmd->typing "tracert google.com" without quotes into black box) would help if there was a connection issue, but this looks like software flash/java/browser bullshit and not an actual connection issue

Zephiran

So today I find out that there a fuck-ton of Hamtaro games on the GBC and GBA.

Picking one up on the cheap from a fleamarket, here I am playing the son of a bitch. This is me right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYOKfLCu02Y

Erhmahgerhd deyr soooooo adorbs

You can poke shit with a stick! And tackle mahfuggahs with your butt!

Yeah, I can get into this.

TL DR

If my school had an online "this is your kid's homework" system, I'd have been a straight-A student.

I think my problem is that I felt cheated - I was never challenged and got A's just by being smart, and was always told that I was smart. I recognized that I could get an A or B with 0 effort, and furthermore that the difference was based on externalities like whether the teacher was having a good day or liked me, so why would I bust my ass to get an A+ when it literally did not matter?

It's not until I had a conversation the other day with my mom when she admitted that she never strove to be the best in anything that I've really started putting all this together.

They have adult literacy classes. Do they have programs for learning as an adult to give 110% on things that don't necessarily matter? Because I'm having a quarter-life crises, recognizing the very real potential of peaking at 26 and working $40k/year jobs for the rest of my life, and I'm desperately hungry for help.

P10

my family had 6 cats concurrently while i was growing up
more cats do it do it

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Casual wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

Casual wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

I MISS MY BLACK KITTIES

I MISS GIGANTIC STUPID NEVILLE

I MISS SWEET AND ALOOF SASHA

can't you buy a cat?

1) I'm living with Pony and his fiancee and they already have three cats so I'm hesitant to bring a kitten into this environment
2) If I ever get kittens I want to get them in twos because they end up way better socialized that way, but if I get them now then the cats will outnumber the humans and five cats in one apartment is ridiculous
3) Neville and Sasha have the sweetest nicest personalities and I love them so much and I miss them :C :C :C :C

you cannot steal ponys cats and get your cat related joy without the hinderance of cat ownership?

thats what i do with my sisters cats

One of his cats is completely neurotic and I don't even see her 99% of the time
One of his cats is extremely fat and shy, she's been here for a month or something like that and every time I pet her she won't even make eye contact with me, she goes limp and turns her head away
One of his cats is a little monster who wails and squirms if you hold him for too long because he wants to PLAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Gonmun

skippydumptruck wrote: »

OH dk

my internet shit last night and cycling my router (without doing anything to the modem) fixed it

so I guess I need a new router

...

I was the one that gave you that advice.

TL DR

I always read "cats are terrible pets" as "I am bad at being a cat owner".

Similarly, "dogs are terrible/poop inside/misbehave" nearly always parses as "I have no concept of basic animal psychology and have trained my dog to be a shit".

matt has a problem

If a Lakota Sioux named Susan needs to run a program with root privileges



Is that Sioux Sue's SUDO?

TL DR

There are ratios to be observed.

1 litter box, +1 for each cat
Maximum 1 cat per person or per bedroom

kaleedity

also 21st what is your isp, where is your location, and is your system your own or does it belong to work

Irond Will

TL DR wrote: »

I always read "cats are terrible pets" as "I am bad at being a cat owner".

Similarly, "dogs are terrible/poop inside/misbehave" nearly always parses as "I have no concept of basic animal psychology and have trained my dog to be a shit".

our dogs are well-behaved and good animals

frankie's cat is a little shit who only emerges from hiding to poop in the middle of the floor

21stCentury

kaleedity wrote: »

also 21st what is your isp, where is your location, and is your system your own or does it belong to work

Whoah there, with the personal questions!

I'll try rebooting my computer after updating firefox, maybe that could fix problam.

Restarting firefox apparently solved the problem, loading times are back to normal.

spool32

Irond Will wrote: »

spool32 wrote: »

Man, if I get this, I'll maybe just take the stupid little train into downtown and walk to work. That would be pretty excellent.

My daughter would love it because she'd get to use the car.

i thought you lived in like dallas

aren't trains illegal down there?

Austin, and the stupid greens have convinced the city to piss away money they could have used on good American highways to build a communist commuter rail system that goes nowhere (but sort of stops a few mile from my house at a park & ride, once every other Tuesday or something).

Half the train cars are reserved for bicycles and sensitivity training. The other half are vegan-only.

Sir Landshark

one of my dogs is medically incontinent

which is a fun thing to combo with two little ones!