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"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
If, from the former, the parallels between women and science weren't obvious, I must then say out-right that one doesn't kiss and tell... At least, not the identifying details!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Gods damn it the title of this magical paper
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Don't you see, though, it was so wonderful for me because it was the end point of something that had been going on for awhile... All love is unrequited, but it's also always personal; one can never express the deepest meanings of the relationship to anyone else, and why would you even want to? It was between the people involved, as it was their involvement to have.
Also, the paper isn't available online anyway...
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Nailed a panel interview today.
What was the panel interview for? Another new job?
Been dolescum since October me.
Liquid nitrogen does have "magical" qualities. Just yesterday my doctor used it to remove a few moles and seborrheic keratosis growths. Yeah, look it up, those are the "barnacles of age".Originally Posted by Nessus
My youngest son was a bit sad that the "beauty mark" on my lower cheek was being frozen off, because he has a mole on his face in the exact same place but on the other side. We were sort of mirror-images of each other (he's left-handed with the mole on his left cheek, I'm right-handed with the mole on my right cheek) and photos were fun that way.
Anyway, the doc says he gets big tanks of liquid nitrogen delivered every two weeks (since its evaporation rate is high), and observers are always drawn to watch the procedure. He buys it from a local welding supply company, since they have the lowest rates. Just one half inch of the stuff, in a styrofoam cup, is enough to freeze-burn several dermatological growths. It had a slight burning sensation on my skin, but didn't do a thing to the cup, applicator, my clothes, or even the floor.
When he was done, he simply threw the remaining liquid onto the floor, and in a couple of smokey clouded nanoseconds, it "vanished" into thin air. We both got a big kick out of that.
We actually had a lab assignment once which involved making ice cream out of blended fruit and milk using liquid nitrogen to freeze it. It turned out pretty good.
Carthāgō dēlenda est
I hope they make you take a class on doing interviews at the same time you're meant to have the interview.Been dolescum since October me.
Hope is the denial of reality
Groezrock this weekend!
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Picked 13lbs of strawberries today at a pick-your-own strawberry field. So delicious! I've already made strawberry jam, and strawberry sauce, and freezing many whole berries for future smoothies. I am in heaven
What a wonderful, beautiful day. Her thesis defence was one of the most beauteous ones I've seen (though I heard differing opinions which were well-founded), she was the picture of professionalism. And tonight she danced with me a couple of times, that earnest dance where you know the other person doesn't know what the fuck they're doing but she soldiered on anyhows. I told her I liked how she was leading; she picked up the pace. I wish there would've been more; after the intellectual fire-works, the joy of being human together is so uplifting.
She had such nice things to say about me in her defence, too... I felt worthy of those dances. It felt wonderful!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Did she say anything about me?
Hope is the denial of reality
Maybe, you're an exotic creature living in southern America, and resemble a rodent to a disturbing degree...
I jest, of course
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Ordered a 3570K today for $249.99. That means the final build for this sucker is $1524. Which is pretty damn close to the ~$1500 I was planning on.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Hey, OG....sounds like you're happy with the results and what you paid, but I gotta ask----how long before you want updates, and how much would you spend to keep updating? $1,500 sounds like a lot of money for a computer, and I've got a Mac! What are the things your "build" can do, that others can't? Or is this like a hobby that only other hobbyists would understand?
OMG, never mind. I clicked on your profile and got the green goo. Computers and all their ancillary "stuff" is obviously an entertaining hobby for you, even though they're also tools for library science and your line of work.
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Games dammit GAMES
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
My first computer was an Alienware, dropped 3 grand on that mistake.
For $1500 I've got a pretty high end system. I don't expect to be dropping big cash on it to keep it upgraded. For the time being tech has kinda leveled out, so I'm not to worried about it being outdated any time soon. I have room to spend more on the memory, but thats a few steps down the road once I take apart my old machine to upgrade Brents. Otherwise the parts are pretty much end of life cycle, the CPU and motherboard won't see new models, and thunderbolt could end up replacing all types of connections from monitors to external harddrives.
On the other hand, the video card came out only weeks ago, it hasn't even arrived yet, and they already announced a faster model. Granted the new model is going to cost a grand, but still. Thats how these things go.
I could have gone to a store and had someone else build this for me, like timbuk did, but that comes with a price premium. To me these things are like adult legos, plug the pieces together, thread the wires all neat and tidy, and cross your fingers when you push the power button for the first time. Doing it myself allows me to pick out the exact parts I want, for whatever reasons I want. Like going with the water cooling setup, or the PSU thats modular.
And its all about the games. Its always about the games. With this setup, there isn't going to be a single title that won't play as smooth as butter in 1080p HD.
With the specs I've seen about the Wii U and Xbox 3, I shouldn't have to ditch this setup for about 3-4 years. A little bit longer than the machine I'm replacing.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Got a pair of tickets to the Olympic Games!
OK it for Football, not what I'd normally consider an Olympic sport - and its for Manchester's Old Trafford ground, not London, but still. Missed the window to apply for the Olympic tickets and was gutted to not actually be able to go to anything the one time we host it (doubt we'll host it again my lifetime) so delighted to have got something.
Our session has: UAE v Uruguay followed by Great Britain v Senegal.
My system has started adding TEDTalks into the catalog
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Well, for that kind of money, you get a high-end system that you probably don't upgrade. You replace it in 3 or 4 years. Kinda how I roll with my custom builds too, though I'm still waiting on the industry to catch up to my last build. Maybe upgrade the graphics card once or twice, but otherwise, if you do it right, the room for "upgrades" is pretty minimal.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Nice. Would be good to see Olympic footy at Old Trafford.Got a pair of tickets to the Olympic Games!
OK it for Football, not what I'd normally consider an Olympic sport - and its for Manchester's Old Trafford ground, not London, but still. Missed the window to apply for the Olympic tickets and was gutted to not actually be able to go to anything the one time we host it (doubt we'll host it again my lifetime) so delighted to have got something.
Our session has: UAE v Uruguay followed by Great Britain v Senegal.
We applied for quite a few, but the only one we got was rowing, down in Eton. Still, the Brits normally excel at the rowing, so we should have someone to cheer on.
Did want to get into the stadium tho. It's just about complete.
I missed the original application process. The football tickets have been released separately today and are able to order online. Not same as original order process, but ordered through the original site.
Thinking back on this day almost exactly two years ago... as in love now as I was then, probably more. Second anniversary in the middle of a super-long weekend, with perfect spring weather, wonderful late breakfast, a job-offer, delicious dinner*, champagne and strawberries, groovy greek tunes and soon Avengers. I've had worse days
* beautiful roast leg of lamb covered in a reasonably spicy herbalicious rub and filled with fig marmalade, onions and garlic, roasted on a bed of fresh veggies marinated in sambal oelek and lemon, served with garlic naan. Fairly simple dessert inspired by ferrero rocher
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
And speaking of Manchester ...
City 1 - 0 Utd
Could be the game that denies Utd the title.
I always admire your foody dalliances minxy.* beautiful roast leg of lamb covered in a reasonably spicy herbalicious rub and filled with fig marmalade, onions and garlic, roasted on a bed of fresh veggies marinated in sambal oelek and lemon, served with garlic naan. Fairly simple dessert inspired by ferrero rocher
Dessert. Much as I cook 6-7 days a week now, I never, ever do dessert. Think it's time I started.
Nailed a panel interview today.Been dolescum since October me.I landed the goddamn job.I hope they make you take a class on doing interviews at the same time you're meant to have the interview.
It's been over 10 months now of not working, and exactly 7 months of unemployment to the day.
In the nick of fucking time too. My nice fat redundancy package has been reduced to a few dusty coins rolling around inside a tin.
Job is ideal. It's away from global banking and into retail insurance, but dealing with similar regulation - Solvency II rather than Basel II.
I'm so happy I could vomit.
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