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Seriously, if you're going to only work one day a week, Tuesday is the day.
Yeah, even back in 1991 when I was working at the video store, Tuesday was, "Hang out with the owner and watch R+-rated movies because nobody's coming in today..."
EDIT: Yeah, "Naked Tuesdays" were ALSO a thing at the video store...
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OK. My neighbors have moved on from annoying me with their lack of parking etiquette to thoroughly amusing me with an experiment I'd never thought of.
Last week, they put their couch out on the curb with a "Free" sign. It was a perfectly nice couch; I was surprised that nobody took it. Then, we got 2"-3" of rain over the weekend. Then, garbage day came.
And the couch endures...
They're very hippy people there, so I sincerely doubt they will ever have the getty-uppiness to get rid of the couch themselves.
And I am left wondering... just how long is that couch going to be allowed to sit there on the curb, blocking their own parking and slowly moldering into something interesting, before someone does something about it?
I'm betting it makes it to April...
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You know how some video games are played, and some are beaten mercilessly into the ground, until you stand above it's blooded corpse with nothing but your cramped fingers gleaming back into your cold, hard eyes?
I appear to have entered a similar stage of advanced mathematics.
math is evil and must be destroyed.
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math is evil and must be destroyed.You know how some video games are played, and some are beaten mercilessly into the ground, until you stand above it's blooded corpse with nothing but your cramped fingers gleaming back into your cold, hard eyes?
I appear to have entered a similar stage of advanced mathematics.
Math loves you. Why do you not love Math?
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Math loves you. Why do you not love Math?math is evil and must be destroyed.You know how some video games are played, and some are beaten mercilessly into the ground, until you stand above it's blooded corpse with nothing but your cramped fingers gleaming back into your cold, hard eyes?
I appear to have entered a similar stage of advanced mathematics.
Math gets fun when you get to pre-calc and trig. :)
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FAWLT contraband
** spoiler omitted **
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyurp.
As a Baptist, myself, that's the most difficult part.
It's literally someone taking my name, claiming to represent my culture, and then demonstrating disgusting and confused concepts in my name. It was humiliating and frustrating.
And what's amazing, is that someone asked, "Uh... how do these people support themselves?" - a question I hadn't considered, and then couldn't let go of - and the answer (from what I've read; I could be wrong) seems to be that they're basically a large number of extremely well-educated and well-paid lawyers, doctors, and nurses and similar.
It's... mind-blowing.
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You know how some video games are played, and some are beaten mercilessly into the ground, until you stand above it's blooded corpse with nothing but your cramped fingers gleaming back into your cold, hard eyes?
I appear to have entered a similar stage of advanced mathematics.
Huzzah! Well done!
math is evil and must be destroyed.
Math loves you. Why do you not love Math?
Indeed. I find it funny his expressed vitriol, considering how many of the things he cherishes deeply and fundamentally relies upon that very process to exist at all, much less thrive...
Math gets fun when you get to pre-calc and trig. :)
I loved pre-calc! And calc!
Trig was much better than geometry, but that's just because I always sucked at geometry.
... though that may have had an awful lot to do with being exceedingly distracted by the person sitting next to me, as we talked all-the-daggum time about everything.
>.>
(Real talk: I know, in retrospect, she liked me a lot, but I was - and remain, in many ways - a very, very slow dunderhead who needs to have things spelled out explicitly, and also considered her my (second? third?) best friend - for really-reals, not "Ah, she's just my best friend, and I don't want to ruin the friendship." but for serious, "Yeah, she's one of my best buds. It's cool that we don't have anything else going on, that could be awkward." On this side of it, I realize exactly how stupid I have to have been to miss the extremely obvious signs that she liked me. Heck, I accidentally* shot down, like, four girls in High School, and had crushes on three that were either happily taken, or had their sights firmly on someone else... or didn't like me at all. So what I'm saying is that High School was weird, and none of my romantic prospects ever made it past my - a continuous Sp power I have. Just so you know, Doomkitten; yes, we really can be that dumb sometimes - not all of us, but I was.)
Examples (names excised):
Girl, staring at me: "You have pretty eyes, <TL>."Me, only vaguely aware: "Oh! Thanks, they're contacts!"
Girl, staring at me, differently: "..."
... or...
Girl, to me, alone, twirling her hair: "So... what are you doing this weekend?"
Me: "Oh, man, I've got a really busy weekend. In addition to homework, I've got to get back to Final Fantasy Tactics - though I might fire up Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, or Super Star Wars instead -, and I need to put in enough study for the exam. Plus! I rented a movie, so I need to watch that before I have to return it. Oh! I need to get some house chores done, and my family is probably going to eat at a restaurant. Pretty normal weekend. And tennis practice. Lot of commitments, really. Why?"
Girl, no longer twirling: "Uh... okay, just curious."
... or...
Girl: "You know, I know we're friends and all, and people might make fun of us, 'cause they already do, but there are times when I think we should just get together anyway, you know?"Me: "Yeah, but that's just giving in to peer pressure. I hate that. I'm glad we're exactly who we are!"
Girl: "... yeah, me too."
And, you know... there's more like that.
And I was entirely oblivious the whole, daggum time. I mean that sincerely: I genuinely didn't understand that they were asking me to date them, or attempting to flirt, or anything like that.
Well, except the "eyes" thing, but that was only a few days later, and only because I mentioned the incident to one of my older sisters who slapped her forehead and mildly mocked me for "not getting it" - that bothered me enough that I actually sat down to think about it for a while, and eventually realized what had happened.
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Wow, Breath of the Wild went f*#~ing HEAVY.
In the course of adventuring and exploring if you climb the railing (or not for the no OSHA compliant ones) on a bridge and go to the edge that is over a high place and an NPC is walking by they'll get worried and call out to you and plead with you to get down, specifically get down on the bridge side. If you do they'll come over and ask if you want to talk about anything and if you want them to hang around for a bit.
Damn.
Thank you, Nintendo.
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Can you throw them off the bridge.
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I was actually in a pretty good mood this morning.
Felt better, got the sinus infection mostly kicked, and then as I was walking into the kitchen, stepped in dog s+~!. Evidently, one or both dogs s+$~ all over the living room during the overnight.
I'm going to kill them both! (Not really obviously, but when you're cleaning up dog s@&* at 6:15 in the morning, certain fantasies are bound to crop up).
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-_-
...
Eh...
*shrugs*
Well, have you tried. :-)
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I like things.
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That's actually pretty cool of Nintendo. And makes me wish I had the money to buy a $360 dollar game :P
And augh, writing. Why do you have to come so easily sometimes, and be utterly laborious others?
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Math gets fun when you get to pre-calc and trig. :)Math loves you. Why do you not love Math?math is evil and must be destroyed.You know how some video games are played, and some are beaten mercilessly into the ground, until you stand above it's blooded corpse with nothing but your cramped fingers gleaming back into your cold, hard eyes?
I appear to have entered a similar stage of advanced mathematics.
why... Are you lying?
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Well, I'm done here, I think.
Indeed. I find it funny his expressed vitriol, considering how many of the things he cherishes deeply and fundamentally relies upon that very process to exist at all, much less thrive...
If there were classes relating the things I love to math back when I was in (junior) high school, things might be different. But there were none. So I will continue to hate.
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I was always good at math, which was probably why I was bullied in school. Math is a large part of any computer program, including games. If Freehold really understood jut how much of his favorite games rely on math, his head would swim. For instance, just determining the field of vision for a first-person-shooter like Halo requires ray-tracing. reading the code commentaries for games like Quake has been very enlightening, to say the least.
I hate first person shooters with a passion. They make me dizzy nowadays, and in the old days friends would have fun telling me which screen I was in on multiplay, knowing it was the wrong one. Online multiplayer is a notorious cesspool of disgusting behavior, but I think that is more due to anonymity and childishness(both literally and figuratively). Strangely, I loved the latter storyline for halo, finding the world fascinating. And I loved the world War II call of duty games, they were some good writing, along with the occasional modern warfare. But I can't play them for long in most modern TVs- they make me nauseous/headachy.
My point is, "It's fun to tease Freehold, because he drinks a looooooot of hateraid."
Hm. I do hope that wasn't the end of my computer...
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I was always good at math, which was probably why I was bullied in school. Math is a large part of any computer program, including games. If Freehold really understood jut how much of his favorite games rely on math, his head would swim. For instance, just determining the field of vision for a first-person-shooter like Halo requires ray-tracing. Reading the code commentaries for games like Quake has been very enlightening, to say the least.
One of the guys in my Sunday game did the ray tracing algorithms for the original Lara Croft game...
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Hm. I do hope that wasn't the end of my computer...
Yay! It was not.
(That was kind of disturbing, though.)
((It just froze and nothing worked; then my sound freaked out, so I did a hard reset.))
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here's hoping it's at least 7 inches. Because.. Yeah. At least 7.The sun is out at least.
I think 49 is our high for today (and the rest of the week).
Snow returns tomorrow, with a 2-6 inches forecast for Thursday or Friday.
I'm hoping for Freehold to wash his mouth out with soap.
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You might want to set aside some money
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH~!
Oh, man, thanks, I needed that, what with our financial situa-
... oh, you were serious.
:I
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If I had 1gp for each time I'd heard that sentence...here's hoping it's at least 7 inches. Because.. Yeah. At least 7.The sun is out at least.
I think 49 is our high for today (and the rest of the week).
Snow returns tomorrow, with a 2-6 inches forecast for Thursday or Friday.
If I had 1gp for each time I've said it...
Daggummit, The 100.
You just luuuurrrrrrrve making your protagonists villains, don't you.
>:I
The last is the thing that I am doing. :)
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I'm hoping for Freehold to wash his mouth out with soap.here's hoping it's at least 7 inches. Because.. Yeah. At least 7.The sun is out at least.
I think 49 is our high for today (and the rest of the week).
Snow returns tomorrow, with a 2-6 inches forecast for Thursday or Friday.
:)
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If I had 1gp for each time I've said it...If I had 1gp for each time I'd heard that sentence...here's hoping it's at least 7 inches. Because.. Yeah. At least 7.The sun is out at least.
I think 49 is our high for today (and the rest of the week).
Snow returns tomorrow, with a 2-6 inches forecast for Thursday or Friday.
:D
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Well, I am checking things off the list of stuff I need to do, but don't want to do. Everything has more steps than I would like. If I have to do unpleasant stuff, I want to just do it and get it over with. I am a rip the bandaid off quickly kind of person. I tend to deal poorly with long drawn-out unpleasantness.
Things I am in process of doing:
Quitting taekwondo
starting back at the beginning to get insurance to cover my medication
getting referrals to doctors for testing for things I'd rather not have but probably do
All of these require multiple steps and lots of talking to people. I am not good at talking to people!
I'll just be over here hiding under the blankets until my social anxiety calms the freak down....
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Thanks Rysky. :)
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* crawls next to Lynora and plops down like a big old fluffy teddy bear *
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Those are all really tough. I'm so sorry, lynora.
You will be in my prayers.
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Those are all really tough. I'm so sorry, lynora.
You will be in my prayers.
Thank you. I appreciate that. :)
I am a bit calmer now. Some time to breathe in between making phone calls helps. I just have to remember that it's okay if I can't get everything resolved today. None of this is the end of the world. And dealing with stuff is better than hiding and hoping it goes away. Sigh. It never does. :P
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