[jimblumberg]

Probably, and maybe then some. Like I said you're making me feel ancient.

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[DarenR]

alapee, on 05 February 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

Day 2 of not smoking.............Sun flower seeds curb Nicotine cravings, 1 more day and they physical addiction should be well broken.

good job


i remember when i used to smoke all the time then one day i was like man this sucks-- quit cold turkey and never looked back

[ybadragon]

Working on the second portion of the Know it. Prove it challenge.

[BenignDesign]

alapee, on 05 February 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

Day 2 of not smoking.............Sun flower seeds curb Nicotine cravings, 1 more day and they physical addiction should be well broken.

I quit once, for three years, started back up for a year, and quit again about a year and a half ago. I wish I could tell you I don't have the urge to smoke, but that would be an absolute lie. If there's one thing I've given up in this life that I miss more than all others, it's smoking. But I did it, I quit. My best friend and I have a pact that if we outlive our significant others, we're going to get a place together and chain smoke Camels till the end of our days.

[macosxnerd101]

I've been pursuing a number of job opportunities through the career services website at school. I just got an email from a potential employer inviting me to pursue the next step! It's a strategy analyst position, so it should make use of my economics and game theory background. We'll see where this goes.

I heard a bit about grad school as well this week. Nothing is written in stone, but I hope I will have good news to share next week or so!

[depricated]

I'm excited for you mac! Sounds like things are on the brink of awesome.

[jon.kiparsky]

depricated, on 05 February 2015 - 09:39 AM, said:

I saw Queen in concert!

I was a kid but whatever. I saw Queen, bitches!

I saw Queen in concert. Last summer, it was pretty awesome.

[depricated]

jon.kiparsky, on 05 February 2015 - 09:48 PM, said:

depricated, on 05 February 2015 - 09:39 AM, said:

I saw Queen in concert!

I was a kid but whatever. I saw Queen, bitches!

I saw Queen in concert. Last summer, it was pretty awesome.

Really? I had thought of trying to get tickets and taking my parents but I heard it was just Roger Taylor and Brian May. They're all critically important - without Freddie's voice and Deacon's bass it seems - to me - like it would be similar to seeing the Dead Kennedys or Sublime.

But I'm glad to hear it was good! Now I kinda wish I'd gone. But that show was in Detroit, and I was able to see the Offspring and Bad Religion here in town a couple months later.

Guess I should have said I saw Queen with Freddie Mercury eh

[DarenR]

took kid to college fair last night--- now i am pushing him toward warm schools

[alapee]

Menu Today:
Tech Forum with the Bosses' Boss. That means grass root meeting.

Then on to fixing a weird email issue.


B9=> The year before last I had quit for like 8 months then stupidly picked up a cig in March of last year. My wife is going to quit this weekend (turns out trying to quit together was a bad idea, since we sniped at each other the whole time). So by Tuesday we should be smoke free completely.

[BetaWar]

Down to the final minutes of the hack-a-thon for work. Over the last 48 hours, I have spent more than 24 at work. Learned a lot though: How to create a REST API, what models (in MVC) are good for, how to integrate AngularJS front-end with a REST back-end and get it working properly, and the basics of Bootstrap.

[ybadragon]

So what did you end up making for it?

[BenignDesign]

New site launched. Now the department in charge of it is flipping out over spelling errors. I TOLD them their text copy sucked and they needed to proof read it. Don't listen to me, that's fine... no one else listens to me either.

Melodrama warning...

Spoiler

"Fix it! Fix it! YOU did this!"

"No, sir, I didn't do this. I added the text you sent me."

"All you did was copy and paste it!"

"Well, sir, if you are incapable of running a spell check on your Word document before sending to me, perhaps you should have your secretary look over your site content before you send it."

"This is outrageous! I don't understand what you do here! If you don't even proofread content before you post it, what the hell is your job?!?"

"I write code, sir."

"Code? Code. Shorthand is the standard code for secretaries, isn't it?"

"I'm not a secretary, sir. I am a programmer."

"What the hell does that mean?!? You didn't do the design! You didn't do any proofreading! I'd like to see exactly what the fuck it is you do!"

So I opened a 300+ line PHP file that was lovingly, painstakingly typed out, character by character by my own nimble fingers.

"What is that supposed to be?"

"That, sir, is what I do."

"You expect me to believe that you wrote this?"

"That is precisely what I expect you to believe."

"Well, I can see through you. You might have typed it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's pure junk. It doesn't even say anything."

"It says plenty, sir. And without this - and many other files like it, not to mention a database - your site doesn't function. THIS is what I do. I am NOT your secretary. I am NOT your data entry clerk. I am NOT your proof reader. I am a web developer. I am a computer programmer. If you are unable to grasp this idea, it's your problem, not mine."

He threw his arms in the air, growled like a feral cat, and sneered.

"Fucking feminists," he yelled as he slammed my office door and stomped down the hallway.

He's a peach. The day I leave this place, I'm going to make it a point of stopping by his office on my way out the door just to spit on him.

[modi123_1]

Damn b9 - that's fudged up.

[BenignDesign]

Indeed. This is the same guy who managed to talk the administration into imposing campus-wide gender-based restrictions on all activities so he could bring an Orthodox Jewish boys camp on campus for the entire summer.

Women were restricted in where we could go, what we could wear, who we could speak to. Dorm staff had to move out of their apartments. It was messed up.

But this is the same guy. Needless to say, I'm not exactly his biggest fan.