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Just got done looking for my mother's Aunt and Uncle. Both died a couple of years ago. ;_; Nobody told us.
Oh, jeez. Sorry, John.
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And eeeyarghhh it gets worse:
Department Standards: When updating an old practice:
(1) Check for corrupted fields. FAIL
(2) Apply the new template. FAIL
(3) Do not ever add page breaks; Production manages those at the end, and you're just making busywork for them. FAIL
So I just spent 45 minutes fixing indentations and page breaks on a Word doc. At over $50/hour, not a bad gig if you can get it, but probably not what Global Megacorporation wants a senior technical lead doing.
Of course, I happen to have the time right now...
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That feeling when you finally encounter and snag the rare critter you've spent all night trying to get to spawn. And I do mean all night - aside from an hour break for church, I've been hunting this thing down since 5 PM. It's now 10:30 here.Congrats Xenthya! I think that's how Nintendo hooks theirplayerspokemon trainers.
This is a fangame so not all of the credit/blame gets to be laid at Nintendo's feet, but they did create the idea first, at least within this genre.
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And with the Good comes the Bad:
NobodysHome: Hey, junior co-worker! Manager asked me to ask you to take over these two practices. So can you look them over and add some more depth to them?
Co-Worker: Sure!
Co-Worker: Here you go!
NobodysHome: But... but... where are the original practices? You wrote two new ones but the FIVE old ones are missing.
Co-Worker: There were previous ones?*SIGH*
Yay, you found something to do! :D
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In order to avoid a robot uprising, we should give them emotions like empathy and guilt BEFORE we give them guns and bombs.Errr....given what humans do with those emotions....I think this is how you start a robot uprising....so they can save us from ourselves....
Let's be honest, we need the saving.
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Let's be honest, we need the saving.In order to avoid a robot uprising, we should give them emotions like empathy and guilt BEFORE we give them guns and bombs.Errr....given what humans do with those emotions....I think this is how you start a robot uprising....so they can save us from ourselves....
We might not deserve saving...
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Mercury and Potassium are both similar. Mercury looks like the female symbol with horns on top of it, and potassium's symbol is basically the female symbol but with a square rather than a circle.
Here's a table of alchemical symbols.
Google is your friend.
The "male" symbol, in addition to representing iron, also in astronomy represents the planet Mars, with its association with blood and warfare being associated with masculinity.
Conversely, the astronomical symbol for Venus is the "female" symbol, which is also an alternative alchemical symbol for copper, associated with the planet Venus's coppery-gold-brown color.
Mercury's symbol is, predictably, also the astronomical symbol for the planet that shares its name.
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Mercury and Potassium are both similar. Mercury looks like the female symbol with horns on top of it, and potassium's symbol is basically the female symbol but with a square rather than a circle.
Here's a table of alchemical symbols.
Google is your friend.
The "male" symbol, in addition to representing iron, also in astronomy represents the planet Mars, with its association with blood and warfare being associated with masculinity.
Conversely, the astronomical symbol for Venus is the "female" symbol, which is also an alternative alchemical symbol for copper, associated with the planet Venus's coppery-gold-brown color.
Mercury's symbol is, predictably, also the astronomical symbol for the planet that shares its name.
I remember being so very confused watching Sailor Moon as a kid. "Why does Sailor Mars have the boy sign?"
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(No, seriously, I came to FaWtL at this exact moment to: ask if anyone had seen or heard from you, specifically, and also if they'd happened to hear from TinFoilYamakah, Tordek, David Mallon, Kajehase, Aranna, and others from the roll-call, a while back!)Hey, I wasn't even on that roll-call. :P
Neither was I, oddly enough. Must've been during one of my hiatuses.
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Yay, you found something to do! :DAnd with the Good comes the Bad:
NobodysHome: Hey, junior co-worker! Manager asked me to ask you to take over these two practices. So can you look them over and add some more depth to them?
Co-Worker: Sure!
Co-Worker: Here you go!
NobodysHome: But... but... where are the original practices? You wrote two new ones but the FIVE old ones are missing.
Co-Worker: There were previous ones?*SIGH*
Why NobodysHome loves Scint: Always the optimist! :-P
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I remember being so very confused watching Sailor Moon as a kid. "Why does Sailor Mars have the boy sign?"Mercury and Potassium are both similar. Mercury looks like the female symbol with horns on top of it, and potassium's symbol is basically the female symbol but with a square rather than a circle.
Here's a table of alchemical symbols.
Google is your friend.
The "male" symbol, in addition to representing iron, also in astronomy represents the planet Mars, with its association with blood and warfare being associated with masculinity.
Conversely, the astronomical symbol for Venus is the "female" symbol, which is also an alternative alchemical symbol for copper, associated with the planet Venus's coppery-gold-brown color.
Mercury's symbol is, predictably, also the astronomical symbol for the planet that shares its name.
We do not speak of this.
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Doing the kidlet’s birthday party/present early this year. His birthday isn’t until July first, but we are celebrating it tonight at an Imagine Dragons concert! Very excited! :)
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Just got done looking for my mother's Aunt and Uncle. Both died a couple of years ago. ;_; Nobody told us.
*Waddles over to John offering a hug*
So sorry to hear that.
My sympathies John.
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Anyway I'm feeling particularly snappish today so...meh. Ah hell. I'll just get it off my chest. Might make me feel better about it.
My aunt said that a pregnant lady in my cousin's colleagues church went to Tokyo and was told to go for a radiation check up on her return. The radiation results were too high and she was told to abort the baby and not have children for 5 years.
Now I know there's a lot of fake news going about etc, so yeah, what do you guys think?
I was planning to go and get that radiation test done, since I did go for a vacation in Japan. If I come out clean, then that's scientific proof that going there doesn't make you radioactive.
My BF said that he wouldn't believe it unless he talks to the person who was affected.
My aunt that sent me this message isn't the sort that spends the whole day spamming people with news, and I'm quite close to her.
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My Granduncle has a son, but he moved away. My Grandaunt has daughters, but they didn't like my Grandmother all that much (sibling rivalry between my Grandmother and Grandaunt, I think) so they intentionally not told us. Everyone knew but us, it seems.
Damn. That's sad. But if they intentionally didn't want to tell you, I wouldn't bother too much about them then.
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John, my deepest condolences. That sounds awful.
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Anyway I'm feeling particularly snappish today so...meh. Ah hell. I'll just get it off my chest. Might make me feel better about it.
My aunt said that a pregnant lady in my cousin's colleagues church went to Tokyo and was told to go for a radiation check up on her return. The radiation results were too high and she was told to abort the baby and not have children for 5 years.
Now I know there's a lot of fake news going about etc, so yeah, what do you guys think?
I was planning to go and get that radiation test done, since I did go for a vacation in Japan. If I come out clean, then that's scientific proof that going there doesn't make you radioactive.
My BF said that he wouldn't believe it unless he talks to the person who was affected.
My aunt that sent me this message isn't the sort that spends the whole day spamming people with news, and I'm quite close to her.
something about that story sounds off...
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That's the problem. I'm not sure on whether it's scaremongering or not. My BF is of the school it is, and refuses to give the source the benefit of the doubt and says that he wont take it seriously unless he can ask that pregnant lady questions.
The issue is I find asking a complete stranger about their medical conditions abhorent.
On the other hand, if I refuse to give the news the benefit of the doubt, I'm sort of showing a snub to my aunt to whom I'm on good terms with. Maybe just going for the test and getting a negative result might be the more diplomatic way of resolving the situation? I sure don't want to be nagged everytime I go for a Japan vacation.
Why do people even scaremonger in the first place? What do they stand to gain?
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Anyway I'm feeling particularly snappish today so...meh. Ah hell. I'll just get it off my chest. Might make me feel better about it.
My aunt said that a pregnant lady in my cousin's colleagues church went to Tokyo and was told to go for a radiation check up on her return. The radiation results were too high and she was told to abort the baby and not have children for 5 years.
Now I know there's a lot of fake news going about etc, so yeah, what do you guys think?
I was planning to go and get that radiation test done, since I did go for a vacation in Japan. If I come out clean, then that's scientific proof that going there doesn't make you radioactive.
My BF said that he wouldn't believe it unless he talks to the person who was affected.
My aunt that sent me this message isn't the sort that spends the whole day spamming people with news, and I'm quite close to her.
Words fail me.
So many lies. So many EVIL lies designed to convince a woman to abort her child, and go childless for many more years.
People do not believe the truth. So just go buy a Geiger counter. They're pretty cheap. Scan someone who has never been to Japan to set a base. Then scan the pregnant woman.
Once she sees that there are NO DETECTABLE DIFFERENCES she will hopefully sue the doctor.
Unless she went visited a nuclear plant, the most radiation she got on the trip was the plane ride there and back. And they let pregnant women fly all the time.
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Thirded with extreme prejudice.
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Just got done looking for my mother's Aunt and Uncle. Both died a couple of years ago. ;_; Nobody told us.
So sorry to hear this...
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OK, so I know "common sense" is harder, and far LESS common, but how about, "If Japan is still so overwhelmingly saturated with radiation from a couple of bombs in 1945, then why does Japan have the SECOND-HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE WORLD?!?!?!?!"
Either that radiation is doing them some good, or it's ALL A LIE!!!
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Am currently speed/no save running paper mario and TTYD, while I listen to the game grumps playthrough. Lets see how far I get...
Am currently just outside hooktail's lair.
Even accounting for my break for dinner, I've been at it for roughly 5 hours now...
And I'm just approaching the end of chapter 2...Granted 2-4 are all really long chapters but... I'm skipping all the dialogue and plowing through...
This game is very long for a 7 chaptered game.
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Sorry to be yelling, but people taking advantage of other people's lack of a scientific education is more than a pet peeve of mine; it's more like an incendiary device.
Were you aware that the radiation from a cell phone held next to your head absolutely dwarfs the radiation you'd receive from a tower on your roof? And in fact, your overall radiation exposure would go down because neither the phone nor the tower would have to use as much power to communicate?
Yet people object to cell phone towers on school roofs because "radiation".
Er... if you had any concept of science whatsoever, you'd know that the towers on the rooftops would be better for your kids if you're really worried about cell phone radiation...
(In almost all cases. For people like me who don't even carry phones 99% of the time, yeah, the tower would increase my exposure.)
EDIT to remove politics.
Except the original tirade, of course. 'Cause Fritzy needs a job.
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Mort, this Geiger Counter you can attach to an Android Smartphone.Though I'm looking around.
And no I don't know mechanical stuff so I can't build my own Geiger Counter even if you gave me a manual.
But will it start picking up my cellphone radiation, thus leading to inaccurate results?
Just got done looking for my mother's Aunt and Uncle. Both died a couple of years ago. ;_; Nobody told us.
Oh, wow. That's... horrible. I'm so sorry, John!
Neither was I, oddly enough. Must've been during one of my hiatuses.(No, seriously, I came to FaWtL at this exact moment to: ask if anyone had seen or heard from you, specifically, and also if they'd happened to hear from TinFoilYamakah, Tordek, David Mallon, Kajehase, Aranna, and others from the roll-call, a while back!)Hey, I wasn't even on that roll-call. :P
That roll-call was made by going through ten pages of checking, and also watching favorites who weren't me!
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No Mort. Because the cell phones don't use Gamma Radiation, which is what Geiger Counters detect. As an analogy, let's consider a 12-inch ruler. Radio waves, including those from Cell Phones, would be somewhere around 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch above zero. Gamma Radiation would be somewhere around 9 inches. Nobody'sHome can confirm or correct this using the minimum amount of math.
This.
Sorry to be yelling, but people taking advantage of other people's lack of a scientific education is more than a pet peeve of mine; it's more like an incendiary device.
Were you aware that the radiation from a cell phone held next to your head absolutely dwarfs the radiation you'd receive from a tower on your roof? And in fact, your overall radiation exposure would go down because neither the phone nor the tower would have to use as much power to communicate?
Yet people object to cell phone towers on school roofs because "radiation".
Er... if you had any concept of science whatsoever, you'd know that the towers on the rooftops would be better for your kids if you're really worried about cell phone radiation...
(In almost all cases. For people like me who don't even carry phones 99% of the time, yeah, the tower would increase my exposure.)
EDIT to remove politics.
Except the original tirade, of course. 'Cause Fritzy needs a job.
THIS THING, HOLY CARP.
The whole thing is evil, and I'm... nope. Just... nope.
Listen, your BF is in the correct.
Also, get a daggum Geiger counter, and Google any questions your family has.
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I am so sorry, John. That's horrible. Please offer my condolences to your mother.
::hugs::
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The problem is who's idea it was not to tell you. If it was the deceased, well the only person you can blame is gone. If it is her daughters, you can go on them like, "Why didn't you tell us earlier! "
But at the end of the day, I don't think it'd make any difference. Bad blood is notoriously hard to clear.