Not unless my player has achieved sentience and decided that it only hates that particular movie....AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G#@%**N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G$#!+#N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I guess I'll take the bullet....
maybe it's your player??
Dare I ask the movie?
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Hmmm...
Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a gas station clerk: $1,800.00 +/- $300.00
Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance RPG writer: $150.00 +/- $30.00Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance illustrator: $0.00 +/- $0.00
Amount of money being borrowed to work towards a degree in illustration in the 2010-11 academic year: $48,000.00 +/- $1,000.00I'm seeing a pattern here. Not good.
Is there a site with your work on it, Shiny?
I am sure you have posted this before, but I imagine I missed it.
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Dare I ask the movie?Not unless my player has achieved sentience and decided that it only hates that particular movie....AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G*@%%!N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G#*&*%N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I guess I'll take the bullet....
maybe it's your player??
Why, it's Debbie Does....Naaah, just kidding.
It's Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.
:D *hugs da badgah*I'M SORRY!!!!!!Went to Burger King for dinner and got to watch the last five minutes of some college football game between two schools called, um, "Texas" and "Oklahoma," I think. Or maybe it was foosball. Us wimmin don't get this.
Anyway, condolences to our Texans. I thought sure they'd go with the onside kick with 1:39 left, then the two-point conversion after the score. Instead, it turned into a circus. Exciting, but I'm glad I'm not a Texas fan.
Thanks, I needed that. :)
Lots of negativity on the thread lately. Everybody sit down and have some Chocolate cupcakes. Sooths me when the days are rough and tumble.
Milk anyone?
holds out a tray with several glasses of cold milk
Lots of negativity on the thread lately. Everybody sit down and have some Chocolate cupcakes. Sooths me when the days are rough and tumble.
Milk anyone?
holds out a tray with several glasses of cold milk
Look who decided to join us: Boise State's schedule.
Look who decided to join us: Boise State's schedule.Lots of negativity on the thread lately. Everybody sit down and have some Chocolate cupcakes. Sooths me when the days are rough and tumble.
Milk anyone?
holds out a tray with several glasses of cold milk
What? Pardon?
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Hmmm...
Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a gas station clerk: $1,800.00 +/- $300.00
Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance RPG writer: $150.00 +/- $30.00Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance illustrator: $0.00 +/- $0.00
Amount of money being borrowed to work towards a degree in illustration in the 2010-11 academic year: $48,000.00 +/- $1,000.00I'm seeing a pattern here. Not good.
Hopefully, the freelance illustration work will pick up.
Does KQ pay a lot for articles? Are there other things you've worked on that I haven't seen?
I'm working on one project for Robert Emerson, and another article should be out in the next issue of Kobold Quarterly.
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...Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance illustrator: $0.00 +/- $0.00
Amount of money being borrowed to work towards a degree in illustration in the 2010-11 academic year: $48,000.00 +/- $1,000.00I'm seeing a pattern here. Not good.
This stuff I really don't get. How are colleges charging this kinda coin? My wife went to a Cordon Bleu program for one year, and came out of it with $60,000+ in debt. That's $512 a freakin month for 10 years. She got one of the best local jobs at one of the top restaurants and was the envy of her peers. The pay rate? $10/hr. And found out you'd have to work at that level, busting your ass for about ten years before ever getting a chance for a higher-level job.
I wonder if there's going to be an 'education bubble' like there was a mortgage bubble ...
I don't get it either. Honestly, with that kind of money going into tuition, you'd expect that even the faculty would be seeing it. No such luck. Not even for departmental budgets--one of my professors doesn't have enough budget money left to reserve open studio time every day of the week for her students.
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I'm seeing a pattern here. Not good.Is there a site with your work on it, Shiny?
I am sure you have posted this before, but I imagine I missed it.
http://theeldritchmrshiny.deviantart.com/
http://davemallon.com/Though, with the amount of busy-work I've been getting in my classes, I have ZERO time to do anything else. I've even had to put a lot of my writing projects on the back burner.
I'm working on one project for Robert Emerson, and another article should be out in the next issue of Kobold Quarterly.Hmmm...
Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a gas station clerk: $1,800.00 +/- $300.00
Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance RPG writer: $150.00 +/- $30.00Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance illustrator: $0.00 +/- $0.00
Amount of money being borrowed to work towards a degree in illustration in the 2010-11 academic year: $48,000.00 +/- $1,000.00I'm seeing a pattern here. Not good.
Hopefully, the freelance illustration work will pick up.
Does KQ pay a lot for articles? Are there other things you've worked on that I haven't seen?
Cool. You're getting to be a semi-regular in KQ. :)
What? Pardon?Look who decided to join us: Boise State's schedule.Lots of negativity on the thread lately. Everybody sit down and have some Chocolate cupcakes. Sooths me when the days are rough and tumble.
Milk anyone?
holds out a tray with several glasses of cold milk
Never mind him. He's bitter.
Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
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Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
ummm.... no what I'm just gonna let that one go
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ummm.... no what I'm just gonna let that one goThanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
O hell who am I kidding. You need to make sure all your wives see this. :P
mine!!!
AZ's words seem to work pretty well, so I'll borrow them...slightly modified for applicability:
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G*#*%@N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G%&%!~N STUPID@** PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP JOB!
I'M SO F&&%ING SICK OF THIS S*!%!!
+1.
AND they can suck the turds out of a dead goat's ass in hell for all eternity.
mine!
mine!
Good Morning, FAWTL. A friend of mine had an extra ticket for club level at the hockey game last night, so fun was had by all (even though the team didn't play very well). Unfortunately there was a young women there who (after 4 or 5 glasses of wine) start screaming for the Wild to do something, however she was always just a bit behind. We would get the puck and she would yell "Defense", etc. But other then that quite a bit of fun.
And Ashe your water is coming this way, sections of St Paul are closed to prepare for possible flooding.
So wait. You got annoyed at the lady for asking the Minnesota Wild to actually PLAY? Really? I thought the Wild just showed up and played "hit the puck"?
:P
Red Wings FTW!!!!!!!!!
No we were annoyed at her yelling the completely wrong thing. Yelling for them to play defense when they were on offense, telling them to clear the zone when they were at center ice, etc.
mine!
Dare I ask the movie?Not unless my player has achieved sentience and decided that it only hates that particular movie....AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G!!~~&N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G#!+~%N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I guess I'll take the bullet....
maybe it's your player??
Nah, it's not Avatar...
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AZ's words seem to work pretty well, so I'll borrow them...slightly modified for applicability:
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G!*!&$N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G#*~&&N STUPID@** PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP JOB!
I'M SO F&&%ING SICK OF THIS S*!%!!
+1.
AND they can suck the turds out of a dead goat's ass in hell for all eternity.
Darn skippy.
Spoilerized for those who don't want to read my whining:
Maybe it's the fact that I'm working in a position for which I've never received any formal training. I'm trying to manage thousands of pieces of highly technical equipment with too few personnel (and WAY too few people with the rank or experience to assist me). I mean, seriously, should a line officer with 14 years of Naval service, which mostly consists of driving ships and employing weapons systems--not fixing them, really be the one coming up with the plans for how to manage cooling and ventilation in an electronic equipment space? And why is it that, when I'm forced to spend time on that, no amount of success in such an endeavor seems to counter the fact that I'm woefully behind in significant amounts of administrative work or that I can't seem to figure out which major training event, operational assessment, or system inspection is coming up next, much less plan for it and execute it smoothly.
I'm sick of getting my butt chewed for the fact that other people can't manage their time, think creatively, develop solutions, plan ahead or do any number of things that I'm apparently expected to do for them...while doing the same for myself.
You know, for me, there are only so many holidays, birthdays, "firsts", or just plain old days that you can miss before you start to question if what you're doing is really worth it all. For a while, you can convince yourself that it is. But when the crap starts raining down so hard and for so long, and you're kept away from your family with almost no chance to develop any kind of friendships outside of work (and let's face it...how many Naval officers do you know who are RPG players?)...I can't help but begin to feel that little needle start to shift ever closer to "not worth it".
So here, I am, three fourths of the way through what should be a 20-year career and I'm finding myself questioning the purpose of it all? Why the hell do I even care? Why do I have to feel so personally responsible when the people under my authority don't succeed or when the equipment they maintain doesn't work?
It'd be so much easier if I didn't give a sh**, especially when, frankly, I don't know how to solve most of the problems I'm faced with. I muddle through each day, bouncing from one crisis to the next, never feeling really competent or sure of any decision I make. Frequently, I'm indecisive because it's too easy for me to see numerous possible outcomes or to see the gaps in my knowledge that I want filled so I can be sure my call is the right one.
Like I said...I'm just sick of it. I'm tired, I miss my family, and just once, I'd like to feel like I'm doing a good job.
Different job, different problems, same fear and loathing.
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...a lot of whiny stuff...
Of course, there are moments like this to remind me that there is a purpose. I just wish the rest of the job wasn't such a pain in the a**.
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...a lot of whiny stuff...
Of course, there are moments like this to remind me that there is a purpose. (I'm currently serving on the BOXER.) I just wish the rest of the job wasn't such a pain in the a**.
...a lot of whiny stuff...Of course, there are moments like this to remind me that there is a purpose. (I'm currently serving on the BOXER.) I just wish the rest of the job wasn't such a pain in the a**.
Well done, BOXER!
Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
There seems to be a lot of sharing of this link on Facebook. It's touching to know you guys are so concerned about breast cancer. Really.
There seems to be a lot of sharing of this link on Facebook. It's touching to know you guys are so concerned about breast cancer. Really.Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
Isn't this like breast awareness month, he he.
Isn't this like breast awareness month, he he.There seems to be a lot of sharing of this link on Facebook. It's touching to know you guys are so concerned about breast cancer. Really.Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
I knew if anything would get Eric out of lurking and posting again it would be breast awarene... Breast Cancer Awareness.
I knew if anything would get Eric out of lurking and posting again it would be breast awarene... Breast Cancer Awareness.Isn't this like breast awareness month, he he.There seems to be a lot of sharing of this link on Facebook. It's touching to know you guys are so concerned about breast cancer. Really.Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
InDDeed, he he.
AZ's words seem to work pretty well, so I'll borrow them...slightly modified for applicability:
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G*+**~N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G+@@!@N STUPID@** PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP JOB!
I'M SO F&&%ING SICK OF THIS S*!%!!
+1.
AND they can suck the turds out of a dead goat's ass in hell for all eternity.
Darn skippy.
Spoilerized for those who don't want to read my whining:
** spoiler omitted **...
As a former member of the military, now civilian, I appreciate what you're doing.
There seems to be a lot of sharing of this link on Facebook. It's touching to know you guys are so concerned about breast cancer. Really.Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
I know one of the local radio stations in the cities has a yearly promotion called save the TaTas for breast cancer awareness month.
There seems to be a lot of sharing of this link on Facebook. It's touching to know you guys are so concerned about breast cancer. Really.Thanks AZ for showing me this.
Study: Fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women
It needs it's own thread though.
I know one of the local radio stations in the cities has a yearly promotion called save the TaTas for breast cancer awareness month.
TaTa
TaTa
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Welcome back to the posting world Eric. Its been a long time.
My seminar on Benito Cereno was very interesting. Herman Melville writes on so many levels and the messages in the story are still, unfortunately, needed today. There were about 12 people in the seminar (all parents of St. John students + 2 tutors). It was a very engaging two hour discussion on the book. In closing, the tutor told us that it was successful seminar because we left with more questions about the text and ourselves than we began.
I wish I could find a local outlet for this type of study. My education was engineering based so I didn't have the opportunity to study literature at a deep level. I think my reflective thinking skills have suffered as a result.
Its been twenty years since I graduated from college. If I could do it over, I think I would have still majored in engineering but I would have also pursued a minor in philosophy.
After the seminar, my son went to lunch, restocked on supplies, then watched the student acting group perform "An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein" It was a terrific performance.
Overall, its been a great Parent Weekend visit. Last thing on the agenda is breakfast this morning, then a fun 12 hour drive home.
I don't get it either. Honestly, with that kind of money going into tuition, you'd expect that even the faculty would be seeing it. No such luck. Not even for departmental budgets--one of my professors doesn't have enough budget money left to reserve open studio time every day of the week for her students....Amount of money I made or will make in 2010 working as a freelance illustrator: $0.00 +/- $0.00
Amount of money being borrowed to work towards a degree in illustration in the 2010-11 academic year: $48,000.00 +/- $1,000.00I'm seeing a pattern here. Not good.
This stuff I really don't get. How are colleges charging this kinda coin? My wife went to a Cordon Bleu program for one year, and came out of it with $60,000+ in debt. That's $512 a freakin month for 10 years. She got one of the best local jobs at one of the top restaurants and was the envy of her peers. The pay rate? $10/hr. And found out you'd have to work at that level, busting your ass for about ten years before ever getting a chance for a higher-level job.
I wonder if there's going to be an 'education bubble' like there was a mortgage bubble ...
Yeah, the teachers always get the shaft. It's like mortgages. I used to shake my head when some crack shack would be on the market for $450K. I'd think 'Who the F would ever PAY that for such a dump?' Finally, others started thing the same thing. Now that I am looking at colleges for my daughter, and some of these STATE schools (which are supposed to be a low-cost alternate) are totally out of my budget. I can't be the only struggling parent out there telling their kid to go to trade school instead.
When the cost of something outstrips its utility, then guess what? Fewer and fewer people will avail themselves of that something. Just an economic law. The administrators and their ilk better watch it. People are starting to smell their BS in the colleges and even in the town school systems. Teachers have to buy their own supplies and taxes keep getting boosted. And the School Superintendent makes $150K a year with full bennies and pension. Disgusting.
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Dare I ask the movie?Not unless my player has achieved sentience and decided that it only hates that particular movie....AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G%+%%~N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G$#~+&N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I guess I'll take the bullet....
maybe it's your player??
Why, it's Debbie Does....Naaah, just kidding.
It's Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.
HA! I'm not crazy. Nor has my player achieved sentience! Someone responded to my thread on the DC messagboards that they've had the exact same problem!
Still.....SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G#~&%&N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G**$!~N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
TR, that college sounds awesome. I love their general philosophy of specializing at the graduate level. However, Benito Cereno keeps getting jumbled in my head with Benvenuto Cellini.
It's been almost a week since the yellow jacket swarm and the dog and I both seem to keep failing our saves versus the venom. She seems as itchy as I, and my once-invisible sting has blossomed into a palm-sized patch of mottled red and white which is swelling back up again. All the treatment guides say "swelling may persist for three days and redness up to seven." Sheesh, glad I only got stung once. I need to update the Wiki, though. Might be time to break out the Benadryl again for girl dog and myself.
It's a gorgeous fall day here - everything is still green but the air is cold and sky is blue. We work 10-3 and then have Council of Thieves tonight.
Dare I ask the movie?Not unless my player has achieved sentience and decided that it only hates that particular movie....AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G%&&~%N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G$@*~%N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I guess I'll take the bullet....
maybe it's your player??
Why, it's Debbie Does....Naaah, just kidding.
It's Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.
HA! I'm not crazy. Nor has my player achieved sentience! Someone responded to my thread on the DC messagboards that they've had the exact same problem!
Still.....SON OF A b&**& MOTHER f*!%ER G@!!&~N BASTARD s*!% EATING TURD SUCKING f*!%ING G+*#%#N BLURAY PIECE OF CRAP f*!%ING f*!%ED UP DISC!!!!!!
Good morning, AZ!
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...a lot of whiny stuff...Of course, there are moments like this to remind me that there is a purpose. (I'm currently serving on the BOXER.) I just wish the rest of the job wasn't such a pain in the a**.
Coast Guard, the under appreciated defenders of our borders, patrolers of our coastal waters and general do-gooders. Thanks for giving such a large chunk of your life in service.
(I could only handle the basic 4 years in the Navy, but I quite often miss being out to sea.)
We <3 you Paris. Thank you for all you do. (((hugs)))
Good Sunday morning all.