Yeah, I've read about docs in the US cutting back their working hours too to spend more time with kids. So?
Yeah, I've read about docs in the US cutting back their working hours too to spend more time with kids. So?
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.
I think this story is relevant:
http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/ar...re-time,19409/
Hope is the denial of reality
Nessie, mine was a comment to Tim about who's tending hut.
Yes, so it was.
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.
I'm happy for being happyPlus the dreary sky is helping.
Brought some of my original Pokemon games back to life so when I play against the kids I can pull out a few surprises. I managed to replace the dead batteries in my Blue/Ruby/Sapphire games with better, bigger, longer lasting batteries. Only needed a screwdriver, a razorblade, staple remover, and some electrical tape. No soldering done, and I didn't break a single game
"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."
Pokemon is retarded.
Such is Life...
You're not a little kid, you're not supposed to like it.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I'm on spring break! Time to take off from work and school so I can focus on resting my weary mind. Also, Netflix marathons.
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Pokemon - a game that is re-released basically the same over and over again but re-packaged (in a different colour) so as to get the kids to think they need the newest one.Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
It is, as with all things marketed to "little kids" in this commercialised wonderland, not purchased by "little kids" since they tend to have no cash but rather by the witless adults whose youngsters have unwittingly become an under-age extension of the marketing team and demanded the adults purchase the latest Pokemon for them.
Or something to that effect.
So to re-phrase my original post: Purchasing Pokemon games is retarded.
Such is Life...
Yeah, yeah. Your kind has already appeared at my home, wearing smiles and polite repartee. How is school, do you like it, my how you've grown! You end up eating through food like locusts, making a lot of noise, trying to hide beer and vodka. Then I take your car keys....and find enough blankets and pillows for everyone to spend the night. Somehow girls end up in the picture. You and your weary mind? Just wait.
You could say this about pretty much any video game, though. If something is popular, another version gets released that has a few cosmetic changes and maybe the occasional new trick. The big difference is that they actually improve graphics, too - but games released for consoles or PCs are going to be better in that regard than games for a handheld, anyway. I think Pokemon dumb. I have no problem with buying my kids the new games so they can get new little critters. Just like I have no problem buying myself sims expansion packs so I can have different houses and new clothes, and I have more than one Civ or Tomb Raider game.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Good for you.
Such is Life...
I put a short picture tutorial of the battery replacement on Reddit. Ended up on the front page of the gaming subreddit overnight
The cool thing about Pokemon is that its only as indepth as you want it to be. There are a lot of game mechanics and behind the scene stuff that makes this a far bigger game than just finding the strongest party member. Sure you could rush through the game with the first 6 pokemon you find, but you don't want to. Aside from leafgreen/firered, they have done a pretty good job on keeping the franchise fresh with new ideas.
Even from a laymans view, its a turn based RPG where you form your party from a selection of hundreds, each with their own setup that could go hundreds of ways. Thats more freedom than most other games allow.
"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."
No idea why you spent so much time or effort on that, OG. But if a man with a new baby, soon-to-be-wife, step kids, and an elderly mom can sound so excited about using a staple remover and straight razor to a change battery for a game......well, that kind of makes me happy just reading about your happiness.
Hope is the denial of reality
We've been given a time of 12:15am, tomorrow, to go to our solicitors and sign the contract for our new home (Completion will be July/August time). I cannot wait to hand in my notice for my apartment, move back in with my mother and save my pennies to get all the finishing touches to my home while the builders are there.
Speaking of which, does anyone here have solar panels installed? Heck, if you don't, do you know someone?
My house is coming with a system as standard and i'm curious to know what it's like to live with and also if they've seen any impact on their bills. I'm sure they've installed the solar water heating system instead of the PV type which allows you to sell back to the National Grid.
Sounds good Lor.
I don't have solar panels, a shame I think it'd be good to make them standard in a new development. I think they put really cheap bulbs into our property as they've nearly all blown already after just a few months - all getting replaced with energy saver bulbs.
Should be part of the building code now that its done as standard while they're putting the roof up anyway, so long as you've got sun-facing tiles.
It's weird because they are offering them in the development I'm moving to but in the one down the road they are not. I also think they should offer them as standard for all properties SW/SE facing pitched roofs (mine is SW facing).Sounds good Lor.
I don't have solar panels, a shame I think it'd be good to make them standard in a new development. I think they put really cheap bulbs into our property as they've nearly all blown already after just a few months - all getting replaced with energy saver bulbs.
Should be part of the building code now that its done as standard while they're putting the roof up anyway, so long as you've got sun-facing tiles.
B&Q were selling Philips energy saving bulbs for 10p each, I wish I picked some up! Hopefully when I next go they'll have the offer on again as I've seen it twice now.
Did you get the developer to add 'Finishing Touches' to your house? Also, did you have much of a snagging list or whatever the terminology is?
Quite a productive day at work, one of those when things work out better than expected.
I started my day with a simple synthesis, hoping to produce a precursor for one of key compounds for my Masters thesis. It was a procedure that's described in literature, so there should have been, in theory, no surprizes, no guesswork - it's like using a cookbook. Mix all the components, boil for half an hour, and it's done.
Generally, this is where workup begins - after the actual reaction, you still have to get your product, because the reaction mixture is, well, a mixture. Besides the product it can contain starting material, solvents, catalysts or remains thereof, side products... Usually, for literature procedures, workup procedure is described as well.
Usually.
This was not the case. Apparently authors of the synthesis description either decided that the workup is so obvious it isn't worth describing, or they left that part out because when they did it, it involved a lot of swearing, attempts to summon ancient spirits to aid them, or sacrifices of farm animals - all procedures generally frowned upon among chemists. They're kind enough to imply that the substance is "yellowish or redish" solid at room temperature, however, so whatever they did, worked.
Assuming that the most obvious workup method should be the correct one, I proceed with evaporating the solvent followed by column chromatography. In theory, column chromatography should let me separate the reaction mixture and collect the individual components. Reality decided to be slightly different, though, so I got an impure product. I decided to leave it at that, since despite being somewhat impure, it's no longer 50/50 mixture with some other shit, and I figured it'd be easier to purify further after I get it in solid form by evaporating it to dryNess. The plan turned out to have a weak spot - the product wouldn't solidify. One of the impurities turned out to be benzaldehyde, which is a slightly oily liquid with a strong almond odor, and no idea when to leave. And it sometimes tends to keep things from solidifying. So I had a thick yellow oil, and no patience left. This is where I decided "screw this", and used the oil in the next reaction as if it was a pure precursor. To my surprize, the reaction went quite smoothly, and I was able to obtain what I believe is just what I need. Time (and analysis) will tell. If not, expect a post in the "messing with my groove" thread.
Inspired by this apparent success, I decided to try another reaction I had put off since further back than I can remember precisely. A year, maybe two. This reaction was a simple esterification reaction. The description for a closely related compound said the reaction takes 48 hours to complete, among other irritating details. I decided to do it like they did in the 1800s - mix the components, add a few drops of good ol' sulfuric acid, reflux for two hours. Looks like it worked, and it appears there are no side products, so no need to worry about that bit.
Yeah, that's the kind of stuff that makes me happy.
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We passed on the "Finishing Touches", they were a rip-off. EG we wanted to upgrade from a white oven to a stainless steel one - upgrade cost: £600
Cost of a new stainless steel oven at Currys: £600 (£100 more than a white one).
So we decided we'd keep the default, put the original oven on ebay when we wanted to upgrade and just buy and install a new one ourselves. Then we got a call from the developers a few days before we moved in: "they've delivered the wrong oven to us by mistake, if we send it back then we'll have a delay on finishing the build. Would you be OK if we install this stainless steel one instead of the white one you ordered?"
Getting a sizable tax refund this year. We'll be able to finish paying off our Highlander, hubby's student loan, get an iPad, and have some leftover to put towards the little one's future.
That doesn't sound like me. I'm not a big party type - I would rather go out for lunch (which I'll be doing tomorrow). And girls are the last thing I want in my picture.Yeah, yeah. Your kind has already appeared at my home, wearing smiles and polite repartee. How is school, do you like it, my how you've grown! You end up eating through food like locusts, making a lot of noise, trying to hide beer and vodka. Then I take your car keys....and find enough blankets and pillows for everyone to spend the night. Somehow girls end up in the picture. You and your weary mind? Just wait.
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Scheduled and paid for a family vacation to Disney at the end of April. 4 day passes for everyone and a rented condo.
Its my 3 year gift to Brandy.
3 years....jesus, I need to get on the ball with this proposal thing...
"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."
I was just buzzed by a fly!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
£600 to upgrade that?! That's crazy. Who was your developer if you don't mind me asking?
Persimmon are asking me for £105 to upgrade mine which we are planning to do. We've also asked them to change the radiator in the upstairs bathroom to a chrome flat towel radiator which will set us back £160 which isn't so bad considering the cheapest one I've found on the internet is £130 excluding fitting.
The biggest expense will be the floor tiling of the kitchen/hallway/downstairs toilet and a shower over bath as they need to tile 3 walls, fit shower screen and shower.
Most excellent!Getting a sizable tax refund this year. We'll be able to finish paying off our Highlander, hubby's student loan, get an iPad, and have some leftover to put towards the little one's future.
Ours was Persimmon too. Good quality and been professional.
We chose standard tiles & carpets. No shower upgrade as we already get one in the en-suite.
That's good to know. I looked around the net to see what experiences people have had with them, seemed quite even but the service I've personally had so far has been great. The show home we looked at was nice, although they tried to make a 3 bedroom house a 4 bed and it hasn't worked unless you like your bedroom to be a cupboard.
Did you have a decent range to select from? They've thrown in carpets and £500 towards legal fees for us.We chose standard tiles & carpets. No shower upgrade as we already get one in the en-suite.
^^Hey Lor, are you still with that Norwegian girl? Or was that someone else from the Unreal2 forum that had a girlfriend from Norway
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