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Your clothes apparently:-D
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Getting dressed?
Edit: Ninja'ed =)
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Geez. One mention of Poldark and CH starts dropping his clothes. Somebody get him a scythe.
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*yawn*
I am awake and up already?
*sigh*
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A lot of it for us is that as we work primarily with non-profit organizations, many of our clients - in fact, a large majority - are churches and other religious organizations. As a result, the clients have an expectation of what employees at the company will look, dress, and act like, an expectation that the owner and management want to adhere to.
Yeah, I see it a lot as a "West Coast casual" thing as well. The farther east I travel, the better I have to dress for "casual" meetings. And there was always "visible to customers" dress vs. "hidden in the Troll Hole" dress.
There was finally a tipping point in the Bay Area around 10 years ago, and now it's pretty much only the sales reps, execs, legal, and marketing people who wear business attire. Everyone else is free to meander about in whatever doesn't violate local ordinances.
But I *know* that the Bay Area (and California in general) is rather infamous about dressing casually; I'm not surprised it's very different in other states.
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A lot of it for us is that as we work primarily with non-profit organizations, many of our clients - in fact, a large majority - are churches and other religious organizations. As a result, the clients have an expectation of what employees at the company will look, dress, and act like, an expectation that the owner and management want to adhere to.Yeah, I see it a lot as a "West Coast casual" thing as well. The farther east I travel, the better I have to dress for "casual" meetings. And there was always "visible to customers" dress vs. "hidden in the Troll Hole" dress.
There was finally a tipping point in the Bay Area around 10 years ago, and now it's pretty much only the sales reps, execs, legal, and marketing people who wear business attire. Everyone else is free to meander about in whatever doesn't violate local ordinances.
But I *know* that the Bay Area (and California in general) is rather infamous about dressing casually; I'm not surprised it's very different in other states.
Yep. My coworkers in the Seattle office don't dress up for anything. Here in the NY office, that is unthinkable.
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Someone recommended that I watch a movie called "Ghost in the Shell," so I ordered it off of Netflix. It's pretty good, and I think it's legit, but it feels like a bootleg. It's dubbed in English, with English subtitles, but the subtitles don't match the dubbing at all. I feel like I'm reading a synopsis of the dialog while the dialog is being said on screen.
My favorite subtitles story comes from Shiro's player. He was in Singapore, watching a movie that was subtitled in English. He was with a Chinese friend who was fluent in both English and Chinese.
His friend leaned over and asked, "So, how are you enjoying your movie?"
He responded, "It's pretty good so far."
His friend replied, "Good, because it's a totally different movie from the one I'm watching."
Sure enough, when a scene came along wherein the actors spoke English, the scene made no sense in the context of the movie Shiro's player was watching.
Apparently some foreign film companies don't just subtitle movies, they rewrite them entirely to suit American tastes.
Go figure.
On the other hand, the movie house managed to make TWO pretty good movies using one set of footage. Color me impressed!
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Squeeee!
Snakemen are coming back! Snakemen. Are. Coming. Back.
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Squeeee!
Snakemen are coming back! Snakemen. Are. Coming. Back.
** spoiler omitted **
XCOM 2?!? WHERE?!? WHEN?!? WHAT PLATFORM?!?
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~sighs~ That means a next gen platform is on the horizon with XCOM 2 and the new Bethesda game that will be coming out soon.
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I guess a new PC will be needed, not a new console.
I am in a similar predicament.
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You know, if you're suspended from your teaching job for violent behaviour, hitting the head master with an axe is probably not going to help your case.
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You knw, if you're suspended from your teaching job for violent behaviour, hitting the head master with an axe is probably not going to help your case.[/ooc]
I thought that was standard procedure in most Nordic employment disputes, assuming things don't get sorted out during the linnorm wrestling.
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I guess a new PC will be needed, not a new console.I am in a similar predicament.
I want a gaming laptop, but a gaming PC will be easier and cheaper. Just buy a standard PC and add a video card and you are good. Sort of. I guess that will be a tax time purchase.
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I thought that was standard procedure in most Nordic employment disputes, assuming things don't get sorted out during the linnorm wrestling.
You knw, if you're suspended from your teaching job for violent behaviour, hitting the head master with an axe is probably not going to help your case.[/ooc]
I just thought that the headmaster axed for it.
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Just buy a standard PC and add a video card and you are good. Sort of.
Yeah, be sure your power supply is sufficient to drive the card plus everything else; otherwise, the machine just goes bye-bye randomly.
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Just buy a standard PC and add a video card and you are good. Sort of.Yeah, be sure your power supply is sufficient to drive the card plus everything else; otherwise, the machine just goes bye-bye randomly.
alas, due to circumstances beyond my control, tonight will not be the treppa workout night I planned. I am postponing until next week... In fact I may miss a exercise this week. Damn. But... You will all see that it is worth it.
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Ah. The famous Kajehase workout.
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Just buy a standard PC and add a video card and you are good. Sort of.Yeah, be sure your power supply is sufficient to drive the card plus everything else; otherwise, the machine just goes bye-bye randomly.
Thus the "sort of". I figure around $1500 for the PC, video card, and monitor should just about cover it. Sort of.
Lost most internet connectivity for the afternoon, which pretty much ground my work to a halt. Best Comcast could say was that they were having server problems that should be resolved sometime tonight. Luckily, a helpful and tech-savvy friend knew the specifics of the problem. Apparently their DNS is on the fritz, so I got instructions on how to reset mine to use Google's instead of Comcast's. Problem solved.
Cool!
I'll say. I actually ran through the bookmarked sites on my browser, and the only two that came up at all (usually taking about 30-45 seconds to load, sometimes after a page refresh) were Facebook and Zynga. It was like someone wanted me to do nothing but waste time on the 'net.
Things to do.
- Plan out last session of Firestarters / Three Clerics
- Finish up the blog entry I uploaded
- Get back to writing my novel. It's been stuck on page 12 long enough to be a running gag...
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Grr. iPad not getting online, computer improperly processing Paizo ("you've made too many requests" stuff no matter what I do), leaving me only with my phone...
Comcast?
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Good afternoon every-FaWtL! I hope everyone is keeping well, life treating you right, and everything is going your respective ways. :) Keep being awesome everyone! :D
thanks to you, life is AWESOME!
Question for the New Englanders: How close is Hartford to Canada and/or New York City?
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Comcast?
Century Link.
Though I don't actually think it's them. This time.
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Ugh. It will be exhausting week. I need to make space and prepare space earlier than I thought...
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Question for the New Englanders: How close is Hartford to Canada and/or New York City?
My sister lives near Hartford. In light traffic, one could drive to New York City in 2 hours. (I am familiar with that drive.) It's substantially further from the Canadian border - about a 4 hour drive up through Massachusetts and Vermont to reach the southern edge of Quebec.
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I resolved yesterday that today was the day I was going to start eating better.
In celebration, I decided to support my local bakery by eating a cream puff and an eclair.
And tonight FHDM and I are going to a place that specializes in macaroni and cheese.
Today is a lost cause. I will try again tomorrow.
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I resolved yesterday that today was the day I was going to start eating better.
In celebration, I decided to support my local bakery by eating a cream puff and an eclair.
And tonight FHDM and I are going to a place that specializes in macaroni and cheese.
Today is a lost cause. I will try again tomorrow.
~LAUGHTER~ I feel your pain.
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It's substantially further from the Canadian border - about a 4 hour drive up through Massachusetts and Vermont to reach the southern edge of Quebec.
At least that.
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A useful benchmark: Sweden is roughly the same size as New England, plus New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, all put together.
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I resolved yesterday that today was the day I was going to start eating better.
In celebration, I decided to support my local bakery by eating a cream puff and an eclair.
And tonight FHDM and I are going to a place that specializes in macaroni and cheese.
Today is a lost cause. I will try again tomorrow.
Good luck! My wife and I started yesterday as well. An app that has helped me in the past is My Fitness Pal.
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I think Mass Effect 3 is the only game I've seen where the art direction and environment graphics were better than the previous game, but the character models were worse...
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Question for the New Englanders: How close is Hartford to Canada and/or New York City?My sister lives near Hartford. In light traffic, one could drive to New York City in 2 hours. (I am familiar with that drive.) It's substantially further from the Canadian border - about a 4 hour drive up through Massachusetts and Vermont to reach the southern edge of Quebec.
Thanks, it was that kind of information that made me ask the natives rather than look at a map. (Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)
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Still, I'm much better at it than most continental Europeans seems to be. When we did a school exchange with a college in Nottingham, they reacted to the bus trip between Harrow and Nottingham taking 5 hours as if we'd been on a polar expedition...
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Though I have to say, we saw a lot of sheep that day. (And Chinese restaurants while going through Leicester.)
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(Also, the best maps in my home is in atlas where the US is shown in Eastern United States and Western United States - even with an outline of Sweden next to it the scale get a tad abstract at that level.)
Add a north/south split so you end up with the country in four quadrants (Northeast, Northwest, South [Southeast quadrant but no one calls it that], and Southwest) and... well, in a lot of ways, it's more accurate culturally and philosophically than a map showing the unified whole.
To make it even more accurate, break off California and New York into their own independent sections on top of the four-part split.