What's messing with your Groove?

[Flixy]

I just looked into the visa application procedure for my internship. Holy crap, that's a lot of red tape, and expensive

First fill out four forms, fax them to the university, get one form back. Pay some 180$ fee, fill in yet another form. Call the consulate (they charged 15€ for a single fucking phonecall), arrange a meeting, drop by. Pay another 130$ for the application itself, drop off passport and an envelope with €7 worth of stamps on it. Oh, and get new photos because the standard dutch pass photos are no good for american visa. And then hope you get it, and if you don't: no refund.

[CitizenCain]

Condolences, Flixy. Immigration really sucks.

But take some solace in the knowledge that it keeps America safe from terrorists and criminals, who are unable to come up with $310 and some photos.

[Crowheart]

Meh, lost my temper during a work meeting.

People that don't bother to show up half the week, then show up and bitch at the people covering for them, about subjects they don't have a fucking clue about, should just sit there and keep their goddamn traps shut.

[Flixy]

Condolences, Flixy. Immigration really sucks.

But take some solace in the knowledge that it keeps America safe from terrorists and criminals, who are unable to come up with $310 and some photos.

It's non-immigration visa For an immigration visa I could at least skip the €15 phonecall. And I have the luck that I am 'wanted' by a rather big and rich educational institution which can sponsor me directly. If I didn't have that (for example, internship at a company), it would add an extra layer of red tape and expenses to it.

[Angel_Mapper]

I think I fried a video card. I won't know for sure until I install Windows 7 in a little bit, it might just be corrupted drivers. I don't know if the UDK caused it, but I can't even run the thing right now without crashing my computer so I'm thinking it might be. I really can't afford a new video card right now so I hope it's not completely dead.

[Ominous Gamer]

BFG is exiting the GPU market They were at one time the hottest and most customer focused graphics card manufacturer in the market. They created the lifetime, instant RMA support thats finally become the norm in this part of the hardware industry. I still have a few BFG stickers around the house somewhere.

Looks like even the big dogs are getting burned by Fermi

[Angel_Mapper]

Coincidentally, the card that just fried itself was a BFG. I've only had it for a year. So... yeah single tear for them exiting the video card market.

[Hazir]

A friend of mine works at the airport in Istanbul. He arrived in Amsterdam yesterday. He gave me a pen, telling me he had found it at his workplace, but that he didn't really have a use for it but that he thought it was too pretty to throw it. And he's right, it's a nice pen. I just checked it out online. If it's an original it cost somebody around $800 (retail price).

[littlelolligagged]

Höüse season finale Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off

That's a lot of fucking off.

[Nessus]

Eat me, princess

[littlelolligagged]

Sure, why not.

It's not like I have anything else to do right now.

[Nessus]

And all that's left are photographs, reflections of the past

The years have passed but still remains, the beating of the heart!

[Loki]

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktl...,2610406.story

For Cain.

[littlelolligagged]

How utterly stupid

[Ominous Gamer]

Considering the 2012 logo is an artist's interpretation of a blow job, I'm not surprised to see London go with some all seeing eyes as mascots.

[Flixy]

A friend of mine works at the airport in Istanbul. He arrived in Amsterdam yesterday. He gave me a pen, telling me he had found it at his workplace, but that he didn't really have a use for it but that he thought it was too pretty to throw it. And he's right, it's a nice pen. I just checked it out online. If it's an original it cost somebody around $800 (retail price).

Nice! I found out that my coat rack has a retail value of 200€, for a remake, and mine's an original.

[GGT]

My sons are absolute pigs.

[Being]

My sons are absolute pigs.

Send them to military school.

[RandBlade]

Went out last night for my company's annual awards dinner, a big one this year there were loads of people who were there and we all had a fair bit to drink - but from our group at least everyone behaved themselves properly. It was a works function after all even if it was a party.

Halfway through the night, one guy from another table we'd never met before (very drunk) started to try to flirt with my partner, who works there too. She was sort-of creeped out, sort-of flattered, joking that her dress must be alright. At first it was funny but he became more and more annoying. Eventually he asked if he could get a photo with her: she got nervous but agreed and then I said to him that enough was enough now and he should cool it - he went back to his table then.

Later on while I was chatting with a colleague to my other side I see from the corner of my eye Amanda jump up and move away. The guy was back and had come from behind and started licking her elbow! Eww

At this point all joking about it stopped, I'm not one to ever start a fight but stood up to him and forcefully said again "enough's enough" and he should leave. He ran and never returned, I think he even sat at another table from then on. If he'd come back again I'm not sure what would have happened.

Having some random just come up and start licking you is just plain creepy. It's just not necessary, even if it wasn't a work function.

[Timbuk2]

Woohoo go Randy.

~

Out and out drunkenness does strange things.

Usually not good things.

Sounds like a good bash though. Work dos are often fun. See colleagues in a different light.

[RandBlade]

Yeah, one girl from our group early on got very 'merry'. Was in a real "I love you, you're my best friend" kind of mood to everybody

[GGT]

Gosh, I hope you don't find out he's some main distributor of yours, or the jerkoff son of a big-wig, or that he takes the picture of Amanda and puts in on the web like she's his girlfriend...or....something

[Knux897]

I hate assholes who speed up when they see your trying to change lanes >: ( Almost got into a godamn accident

[Angel_Mapper]

Well, I hate assholes who see my space cushion as an invitation to swerve in front of me with no turn signal, so if you almost got into an accident you should ask yourself what you could have done differently to avoid it instead of blaming the other person.

[rumrunner]

Well, I hate assholes who call other assholes assholes.
space cushion? I've never heard that one before. Sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie, or the space shuttle.

[GGT]

You asshole, hating those who call other assholes what they are---assholes.

I'd let you into merging traffic, but flip you the bird if you honk at me while I try to turn left on yellow.

[BalticSailor]

A small accident at work - I dropped a flask containing a compound, which took a couple of months to produce.
And, to make things more interesting, the flask contained a recrystallization solvent too - in this case, acetic anhydride. The hot weather contributed to its evaporation, and so I could enjoy its lachrymatory effect to full extent while cleaning up the mess.

[GGT]

eww, that sounds bad. Any time I see "anhydride" or "anhydrous" I kinda gag. Not because I'm a chemist like you, Baltic, but because my ex husband tried to remove a 1930's refrigerator coil from the top by cutting the cable. It spewed anhydrous (something or other) into our house. I felt it outside, when my skin started to burn. The cats were inside at the time. He came upstairs choking and red, still trying to fix his mess. I called 911 and the hazmat team had to don those space suits with closed ventilator oxygen masks.....

they had to set up a reverse osmosis/ventilations scheme thingie, with huge power fans and stuff, closing certain windows, opening others

all the window screens got tarnished, all the houseplants died, and they told us he would have died in another 3 minutes if I hadn't called for help. They hauled the damn fridge to the driveway to spew its anhydrous whatever, and it even changed the black asphalt to grey, and left some corrosive marks like a trail of tears.

He laughed. ha ha. Good thing the kids weren't home, and I could corral the cats before they were asphyxiated.




oh yeah, and he kept the damn fridge. It's now in his house and used as a liquor bar, with bottles of booze and fancy glasses. He's an artiste, you see.

[Being]

Well, I hate assholes who see my space cushion as an invitation to swerve in front of me with no turn signal, so if you almost got into an accident you should ask yourself what you could have done differently to avoid it instead of blaming the other person.

Says the red light runner.

eww, that sounds bad. Any time I see "anhydride" or "anhydrous" I kinda gag. Not because I'm a chemist like you, Baltic, but because my ex husband tried to remove a 1930's refrigerator coil from the top by cutting the cable. It spewed anhydrous (something or other) into our house. I felt it outside, when my skin started to burn. The cats were inside at the time. He came upstairs choking and red, still trying to fix his mess. I called 911 and the hazmat team had to don those space suits with closed ventilator oxygen masks.....

they had to set up a reverse osmosis/ventilations scheme thingie, with huge power fans and stuff, closing certain windows, opening others

all the window screens got tarnished, all the houseplants died, and they told us he would have died in another 3 minutes if I hadn't called for help. They hauled the damn fridge to the driveway to spew its anhydrous whatever, and it even changed the black asphalt to grey, and left some corrosive marks like a trail of tears.

He laughed. ha ha. Good thing the kids weren't home, and I could corral the cats before they were asphyxiated.




oh yeah, and he kept the damn fridge. It's now in his house and used as a liquor bar, with bottles of booze and fancy glasses. He's an artiste, you see.

You had an ammonia refrigeration unit? They are much more efficient than freon based units but I believe they are illegal now for residential use.

[Supermarioman]

I didn't know you could use ammonia for refrigeration.
You learn something new and useless every day!