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I wish I knew how to fix the "ugh, everything is pointless" epidemic among students.Speaking of jobs and pointlessness, Impus Minor has hit THAT age; He's always been a good student, but now he's seeing the sheer pointlessness of a lot of the homework and choosing not to do it.
Except... it got him two Ds on his last report card, which is unacceptable.
So, I have NEVER held a job where I wasn't required to do some percentage of work that I considered pointless and annoying. If you refuse to do things because you find them pointless, you will quickly find yourself unemployed and unemployable.
Convincing a 16-year-old of this fundamental-but-annoying truth is hard.
If/When/Somehow you figger THIS out?
YOU will be rich. Period.
;)its not that hard.
Just show them how it will lead to sex, wealth, popularity, success or some combination thereof.
On some reflection, my takeaway is "Read Cyrano for proof being good at words gets girls."
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Speaking of pointless things that annoy me, what *IS* it about people that they think that every single issue requires a scheduled meeting and phone call? It's *SUCH* a waste of everyone's time.
NobodysHome: Yeah, I just checked, and the implementer totally screwed this up. Here's what he did, and he's a screenshot of the issue.
Manager: OK. Schedule a phone call with him.
NH: Why? Did he have questions about what I said?
Manager: No...
NH: Do you have questions about what I said?
Manager: No...
NH: So why, exactly, am I having this phone call?
Manager: So you can ask him what his plans are to fix it.
NH: Can't I just email him? Our time zones are 12.5 hours apart. Getting together for a call is a PITA for both of us.
Manager: Just call him.
Because a phone call where we can mishear each other (especially on an international line where both of us have heavy accents with regards to each other) is SO much better than clearly-worded, well-documented emails.
Grr...
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I am a fan of both Subs AND Dubs,
Because sometimes even the english voices are difficult to understand, (Either bad voicing, or bad mixing and you cant hear them over the music) and sometimes you get TWO different sets of words, what you are hearing do not always match up to what you are reading. I find this both entertaining, and interesting how they find two ways to translate the same thing. ;P
I am a fan of both Subs AND Dubs,
Because sometimes even the english voices are difficult to understand, (Either bad voicing, or bad mixing and you cant hear them over the music) and sometimes you get TWO different sets of words, what you are hearing do not always match up to what you are reading. I find this both entertaining, and interesting how they find two ways to translate the same thing. ;P
Yes. No? Yeees? Nooo. Nooooooo. Double yes.
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What I meant to say: In winter when they stick you in a room with 500 other people you don't even see the other people, you see all the germs between the people.
What I actually said: In winter when they stick you in a room with 500 other people you don't even see the other people, you see all the Germans between the people.
This being the upper Midwest, both are true.
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Dem sneaky germans!
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So, I've heard good dubs, so I know they exist.
But for every good dub there are at least two instances of, "Hey, I already paid you to translate this! I'm not paying someone else again just to read it out loud! Just read what you wrote out loud and slap it over the video and nobody'll care."
Plus two instances of, "Well, yeah, in the Japanese version Princess Pippanoodle speaks in a quiet sweet whisper, but we got fricking Fran Drescher! Fran Drescher!! And she'll do it at half price if we let her niece play the princess' sister!"
Just too many appalling decisions to support dubs here.
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So, I've heard good dubs, so I know they exist.
But for every good dub there are at least two instances of, "Hey, I already paid you to translate this! I'm not paying someone else again just to read it out loud! Just read what you wrote out loud and slap it over the video and nobody'll care."
Plus two instances of, "Well, yeah, in the Japanese version Princess Pippanoodle speaks in a quiet sweet whisper, but we got fricking Fran Drescher! Fran Drescher!! And she'll do it at half price if we let her niece play the princess' sister!"Just too many appalling decisions to support dubs here.
Papa NobodysHome, you are so learned!
Seriously. Listen to dubbed Lina Inverse and tell me that's good.
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Antecedents are extremely important, children.
"They had an affair."
...that would be a very different story.
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Dear god, it is even worse than I remember. Why is she shouting instead of talking?
And you to present a song by the incomparable Megumi Hayashibara DUBBED?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
Have you no shame, sir?
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That is correct, TOZ has no shame.
Triomegozero has a little shame, but not enough to measure.
Seriously. Listen to dubbed Lina Inverse and tell me that's good.'Kay.
Love it!
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So, I've heard good dubs, so I know they exist.
But for every good dub there are at least two instances of, "Hey, I already paid you to translate this! I'm not paying someone else again just to read it out loud! Just read what you wrote out loud and slap it over the video and nobody'll care."
Plus two instances of, "Well, yeah, in the Japanese version Princess Pippanoodle speaks in a quiet sweet whisper, but we got fricking Fran Drescher! Fran Drescher!! And she'll do it at half price if we let her niece play the princess' sister!"Just too many appalling decisions to support dubs here.
This is often very true.
On the other, opposing argument: this is often very true!
(No, seriously, saw a movie recently and it was fantaaaaaaaaaabulous. Oh my word those accents! ACCENTS! EDIT: here it is! Or at least my post about it. Sigh. That dub was just... just magical.)
Hurray! ...I have a flat tire.
Dang it.
Well, it took roughly forever, and I got close to zero of my chores done, but we're finally, fiiiiiiiiiiiinally home! Also, I managed to pick the kids up on time! Suck on that, Flat Tire!
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Love it!Seriously. Listen to dubbed Lina Inverse and tell me that's good.'Kay.
....whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?
You LOVE this shrill woman screaming into a microphone?!?
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There are some things in life that are just enjoyable, and that I highly recommend to everyone.
As I've mentioned, every day I go for a walk into the Berkeley hills. As anyone who's ever lived here can attest, the "roads" in the Berkeley hills are really designed like a few kids playing a game wherein each kid had to stay in his or her area, fill in as much space as possible, but never cross. So... I live south of the Kensington Circle.
So I just started my walk up Ocean View avenue, figuring, "Oh, well, eventually I'll either hit the Arlington and follow it home, or I'll find some other neat route around here."
Long story short, it took 1.7 miles and nearly 500' up, but I eventually hit the Arlington after a long, winding, twisted, hilarious, unbelievable walk up into the hills. I was just stunned. I believe this should show my path.
And it was all kinds of fun, and took just under an hour.
Random walks over lunch for the win!
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On some reflection, my takeaway is "Read Cyrano for proof being good at words gets girls."I wish I knew how to fix the "ugh, everything is pointless" epidemic among students.Speaking of jobs and pointlessness, Impus Minor has hit THAT age; He's always been a good student, but now he's seeing the sheer pointlessness of a lot of the homework and choosing not to do it.
Except... it got him two Ds on his last report card, which is unacceptable.
So, I have NEVER held a job where I wasn't required to do some percentage of work that I considered pointless and annoying. If you refuse to do things because you find them pointless, you will quickly find yourself unemployed and unemployable.
Convincing a 16-year-old of this fundamental-but-annoying truth is hard.
If/When/Somehow you figger THIS out?
YOU will be rich. Period.
;)its not that hard.
Just show them how it will lead to sex, wealth, popularity, success or some combination thereof.
Looks like it...
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There are some things in life that are just enjoyable, and that I highly recommend to everyone.
As I've mentioned, every day I go for a walk into the Berkeley hills. As anyone who's ever lived here can attest, the "roads" in the Berkeley hills are really designed like a few kids playing a game wherein each kid had to stay in his or her area, fill in as much space as possible, but never cross. So... I live south of the Kensington Circle.
So I just started my walk up Ocean View avenue, figuring, "Oh, well, eventually I'll either hit the Arlington and follow it home, or I'll find some other neat route around here."
Long story short, it took 1.7 miles and nearly 500' up, but I eventually hit the Arlington after a long, winding, twisted, hilarious, unbelievable walk up into the hills. I was just stunned. I believe this should show my path.
And it was all kinds of fun, and took just under an hour.
Random walks over lunch for the win!
Little Billy's comics... genius! Tee hee!
Edit: TL, maybe don't click that link.
So, I didn't see this until after I'd clicked the link.
That said, I've run across Ken Ashcorp before, and I've perused his library. While quite a few songs are... ah... not my cuppa... the first one I ever ran across by him most certainly is. So I'm leaving you all with that much more SFW link!
(It's a fan song referring to Gravity Falls. "Dipper" looks like a Panda^ because, from what I can tell, that's Ashcorp's "fursona" so the picture is (hypothetically) as if Ashcorp was Dipper. Some of you will find that extremely obvious; others maybe notsomuch. Either way, it's a nice song!)
^
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If you take the Law Officer theme and combine it with the witchwarper class (both found in the Character Operations Manual for Starfinder) who do you get?
Blendin Blandin, Time anomaly police force.
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If you take the Law Officer theme and combine it with the witchwarper class (both found in the Character Operations Manual for Starfinder) who do you get?
Blendin Blandin, Time anomaly police force.
This little bit of glory has now been shared in the appropriate locale.
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Grrr.... "Be good or be charming..."
Impus Minor managed to convince his Chemistry teacher to re-check all his homework and pushed his grade from a D to a C. He assures me he's done the same with his English teacher, so his grades, while not great, will all be Bs and Cs instead of Bs and Ds.
So... at least he's charming!
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I like this guy!
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I love the Mandolorian.
"I have Spoken."
:)
(OR as it is also known, THE BABY YODA SHOW!)
This is the way.
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So, 30 minutes until my mandatory, "Why am I rubbing this poor guy's face in his screw-up?" meeting.
I mean, seriously. I notified him that he'd totally blown it. I sent screenshots. He knows how to fix it.
Yet my manager insists on holding a meeting between her, me, him, and his manager. It just feels like a great big, "We really want to publicize how much you screwed up," moment.
Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable. People make mistakes. Turning it into a massive to-do is just uncalled for, unless he claims he didn't screw up.
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Everything is still stressy and messed up at work but we're nearing the end of the tunnel
I am in a similar situation. Heres hoping the next two days go without incident.
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So, 30 minutes until my mandatory, "Why am I rubbing this poor guy's face in his screw-up?" meeting.
I mean, seriously. I notified him that he'd totally blown it. I sent screenshots. He knows how to fix it.
Yet my manager insists on holding a meeting between her, me, him, and his manager. It just feels like a great big, "We really want to publicize how much you screwed up," moment.
Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable. People make mistakes. Turning it into a massive to-do is just uncalled for, unless he claims he didn't screw up.
Well, oopsie-doopsie. Yes, yes he went there.
You could practically hear his manager having an aneurysm on the call. So yep, just making him aware that, "No, this was a big-time screw-up," did indeed require a phone call.
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I knew it!
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I'm taking the General and Crookshanks to the doctor today.
Yay.
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Spirit week themes have been posted for next week.
Wednesday: Good vs. Evil.
Clearly, I should just dress like normal as everyone knows I'm a nascent supervillain anyway.
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"Gee NobodysHome, why does your VP let you get away with such dismissive behavior towards the other teams, your peers, and all the mandatory meetings?"
"This morning I've spent 3.5 hours attending meetings and solving other people's 'critical' issues in the middle of my own testing cycle, yet I'll still come in ahead of schedule with a lower error rate than anyone else in the group."
"Er, yeah. Carry on."
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Hi, John!
And Proud Papa Milestone: Yesterday Impus Major successfully drove the Celica (a stick) to and from school, including in a traffic jam due to a car-b-que.
If you can manage a traffic jam in a stick, you can really drive anywhere the ground is flat and the pavement is dry. (Yeah, he still stinks at hills, but that's what cheap clutches are for.)
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"Gee NobodysHome, why does your VP let you get away with such dismissive behavior towards the other teams, your peers, and all the mandatory meetings?"
"This morning I've spent 3.5 hours attending meetings and solving other people's 'critical' issues in the middle of my own testing cycle, yet I'll still come in ahead of schedule with a lower error rate than anyone else in the group."
"Er, yeah. Carry on."
a change in VPs could easily result in that flipping.
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a change in VPs could easily result in that flipping."Gee NobodysHome, why does your VP let you get away with such dismissive behavior towards the other teams, your peers, and all the mandatory meetings?"
"This morning I've spent 3.5 hours attending meetings and solving other people's 'critical' issues in the middle of my own testing cycle, yet I'll still come in ahead of schedule with a lower error rate than anyone else in the group."
"Er, yeah. Carry on."
Meh. She's been around longer than *I* have, and she still has no idea what it is that we do. And everyone likely to replace her actually knows more about what I do than she does. So I'm not particularly worried. (The woman gunning to replace her refers to me as "her lifesaver", so yeah, not worried at all...)
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Hi, John!
And Proud Papa Milestone: Yesterday Impus Major successfully drove the Celica (a stick) to and from school, including in a traffic jam due to a car-b-que.
If you can manage a traffic jam in a stick, you can really drive anywhere the ground is flat and the pavement is dry. (Yeah, he still stinks at hills, but that's what cheap clutches are for.)
Polish drivers beg to differ...
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a change in VPs could easily result in that flipping."Gee NobodysHome, why does your VP let you get away with such dismissive behavior towards the other teams, your peers, and all the mandatory meetings?"
"This morning I've spent 3.5 hours attending meetings and solving other people's 'critical' issues in the middle of my own testing cycle, yet I'll still come in ahead of schedule with a lower error rate than anyone else in the group."
"Er, yeah. Carry on."
Meh. She's been around longer than *I* have, and she still has no idea what it is that we do. And everyone likely to replace her actually knows more about what I do than she does. So I'm not particularly worried. (The woman gunning to replace her refers to me as "her lifesaver", so yeah, not worried at all...)
Beware of becoming an inconvenient witness during the gunning, though.
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*sheeshh*
So my mother called that dad is in hospital. He struck himself on the head at work on Tuesday evening (protective head gear for the win) and because he had a moment of dizziness and incoherence afterwards the supervisor did their job and called ambulance because safety (thank the cthonic deities that Brits hadn't dismantled public health... yet). And the medic guys noted he has suspiciously increased heart rate (I might have mentioned before he was diagnosed with heart failure and was given treatment and meds to take) and took him to hospital.
So now he is waiting for angiography, and possibly angioplasty and getting a stent if need be. (apparently he stopped taking his medicine some time ago *grar*)
Gee. Great timing. Tomorrow is mom's birthday...
Also, it will mean issues with driving for a month and unspecified period of being unable to work.
NH, are you sure you can't convince Shiro to get that Scottish castle? Groundkeeper work would really be a nice change of pace for my parents.
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Also, the cat was super fussy when mother tried to grab him from the outdoors as he waited and waited for dad's return home. I wonder if he will be uncooperative today.
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Hope your Dad gets well soon, Drejk.
Hope your Dad gets well soon, Drejk.
This. Praying for your family, my friend.
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NH, are you sure you can't convince Shiro to get that Scottish castle? Groundkeeper work would really be a nice change of pace for my parents.
They'll have to move to the U.S., which would be all kinds of pain right now. But Shiro's gotten some land and is playing around with building himself a custom house. "Something like the Grand Californian Hotel, except smaller."
Honestly, he's not being a stereotypical executive; he's looking at a 2000 square foot house, since he figures it's just going to be him and lots and lots of visitors...
...but of course it's not in California, because everyone we know is fleeing for cheaper climes.
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Hope your dad gets well soon, Drejk.
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Grumpy Old Man Tirade #386: Applications that won't let you exit
It's irritating enough to have applications that just minimize themselves when you close the window (I'm looking at YOU, Steam and Epic), but applications where there is NO exit option so you have to right-click the icon in the taskbar and select Exit.
I've never found a single application that I want running on my computer all the time. The modern trend towards, "You can never exit" is appalling...
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NH, are you sure you can't convince Shiro to get that Scottish castle? Groundkeeper work would really be a nice change of pace for my parents.They'll have to move to the U.S., which would be all kinds of pain right now.
I thought more of getting a Scottish castle in Scotland... Not a Scottish castle moved to USA.
...
You wanted to talk Shiro into buying Scottish castle only to have it moved to USA? Why?! What would be the point of it?
But Shiro's gotten some land and is playing around with building himself a custom house. "Something like the Grand Californian Hotel, except smaller."
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Grumpy Old Man Tirade #386: Applications that won't let you exit
It's irritating enough to have applications that just minimize themselves when you close the window (I'm looking at YOU, Steam and Epic), but applications where there is NO exit option so you have to right-click the icon in the taskbar and select Exit.
Yeah. I noticed that about Steam too. I was mildly surprised to discover that Uplay apparently does respect being closed that way...
I've never found a single application that I want running on my computer all the time. The modern trend towards, "You can never exit" is appalling...
Modern? You hadn't been paying really attention in 90s then... All those games that requires reset/switch off to leave...
On the other hand, merely closing the window can be an accident - believe me, it is all too easy as not everyone has super-dexterous hands on their mouse. Having a dedicated exit option is definitely a plus. Which Steam does have in menu, like an actual program.