beregond
Feb 23 2011, 12:49 AM
QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 19 2011, 12:06 AM)

My state's governor is an idiot.
Me gusta.Tom Morello: periodically reminding me why I like him so much even though he hasn't really produced any groundbreakingly awesome stuff since Battle of Los Angeles.
iMatt
Feb 23 2011, 01:12 AM
:0
He was there and I COULD HAVE GONE WITH THE AREA DEMS AND GOTTEN A FREE RIDE TOO BLAGOIHUDFIOUWHGGUIOH
iMatt
Feb 23 2011, 01:12 AM
:0
He was there and I COULD HAVE GONE WITH THE AREA DEMS AND GOTTEN A FREE RIDE TOO BLAGOIHUDFIOUWHGGUIOH
beregond
Feb 23 2011, 01:26 AM
He so angry, he post it twice!
iMatt
Feb 23 2011, 03:56 AM
Yes yes so angered!
And god There, There is a depressing song...
Three Word Phrase is an amazing webcomic though, no worries
tryingtothinkagain
Feb 23 2011, 04:38 AM
QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 22 2011, 06:49 PM)

QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 19 2011, 12:06 AM)

My state's governor is an idiot.
Me gusta.Tom Morello: periodically reminding me why I like him so much even though he hasn't really produced any groundbreakingly awesome stuff since Battle of Los Angeles.
QUOTE
"No matter what Gov. Walker, the Mubarak of the Midwest, says, this land is your land," Morello said before singing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land."
I can't take him seriously after that.
Crow
Feb 23 2011, 04:55 AM
UC: Root beer flavored milk.
Jonesy
Feb 23 2011, 04:55 AM
QUOTE (Crow @ Feb 22 2011, 10:55 PM)

UC: Root beer flavored milk.
dear god why?!?!
Captaink
Feb 23 2011, 05:46 AM
QUOTE (tryingtothinkagain @ Feb 22 2011, 10:38 PM)

QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 22 2011, 06:49 PM)

QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 19 2011, 12:06 AM)

My state's governor is an idiot.
Me gusta.Tom Morello: periodically reminding me why I like him so much even though he hasn't really produced any groundbreakingly awesome stuff since Battle of Los Angeles.
QUOTE
"No matter what Gov. Walker, the Mubarak of the Midwest, says, this land is your land," Morello said before singing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land."
I can't take him seriously after that.
Yeah, teachers living a comfortable life in wisconsin totally equals unemployed egyptians...
Dr. Roffles
Feb 23 2011, 05:47 AM
ps: 30 problems finished on math assignment
uc: 11 problems not finished on same assignment
af: probably won't finish them
hr: i wake up in... like... ~7 hours ugh
debator
Feb 23 2011, 05:48 AM
yeah, everyone who uses hyperbolic rhetoric has no valid points to make
Captaink
Feb 23 2011, 05:50 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Feb 22 2011, 11:48 PM)

yeah, everyone who uses hyperbolic rhetoric has no valid points to make
Actually, I'm pretty sure at least one pundit has used that argument to discredit the tea party. Actually more like a lot of pundits...
debator
Feb 23 2011, 06:00 AM
so it follows that those pundits also have no valid criticisms of the tea party! isn't living in a black and white world grand?
tryingtothinkagain
Feb 23 2011, 06:10 AM
Would you take anyone who called Obama the Stalin of the West seriously?
beregond
Feb 23 2011, 06:48 AM
QUOTE (tryingtothinkagain @ Feb 22 2011, 10:10 PM)

Would you take anyone who called Obama the Stalin of the West seriously?
I'm not sure Stalin's quite the appropriate term for that...in that particular trend, I'd think of FDR as Lenin, Johnson as Stalin, and Clinton as Khrushchev.
Obama's really more like Brezhnev, and no one thinks of him anymore except for being part of an R.E.M. song. Small potatoes, really.
Moral of the story: Obama? Nbd.
Research Monkey
Feb 23 2011, 10:07 AM
QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 22 2011, 11:48 PM)

Obama's really more like Brezhnev,
...
what?
QUOTE (debator @ Feb 22 2011, 10:48 PM)

yeah, everyone who uses hyperbolic rhetoric has no valid points to make
Shheeeeeit yeah.
PS: I have 8 hours to catch 5 hours of sleep for a total of 8 on the night. Awesome.
AK_WDB
Feb 23 2011, 11:34 AM
QUOTE (tryingtothinkagain @ Feb 22 2011, 10:10 PM)

Would you take anyone who called Obama the Stalin of the West seriously?
Exactly. People who use that type of rhetoric discredit themselves by placing political ideology above facts and reasoned argument.
iMatt
Feb 23 2011, 01:18 PM
Full The King of Limbs album with a spectrogram

For those who don't want to d/l it for some reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-nGeJ6YQI...embedded#at=216
Widget!
Feb 23 2011, 03:17 PM
QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Feb 23 2011, 03:07 AM)

QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 22 2011, 11:48 PM)

Obama's really more like Brezhnev,
...
what?
Clearly, he means that his daughters are going to shame the White House with their tempers and proclivities to alcoholism and gold smuggling, his wife is going to develop diabetes and be abandoned by all his family, and that he is going to foster a cult of personality to win undeserved medals while forming severe alcoholism & a sleeping-pill dependency.
tryingtothinkagain
Feb 23 2011, 04:47 PM
I'd believe it
Chloe
Feb 23 2011, 06:43 PM
HR: I think my external HD just died
taking what I had of my 3D Media studio project with it
HR: Okay, I am pretty darn sure that I registered online for its warranty when I got it, but it won't recognize my email on the site...
oh god oh god oh god
Edit: Also maybe have lost a lot of my video projects from last semester
I think I'm going to be sick
Widget!
Feb 23 2011, 06:50 PM
QUOTE (Chloe @ Feb 23 2011, 11:43 AM)

HR: I think my external HD just died
taking what I had of my 3D Media studio project with it
HR: Okay, I am pretty darn sure that I registered online for its warranty when I got it, but it won't recognize my email on the site...
oh god oh god oh god
Edit: Also maybe have lost a lot of my video projects from last semester
I think I'm going to be sick
How long have you had it, and who's the manufacturer?
Chloe
Feb 23 2011, 07:01 PM
QUOTE (Widget! @ Feb 23 2011, 01:50 PM)

QUOTE (Chloe @ Feb 23 2011, 11:43 AM)

HR: I think my external HD just died
taking what I had of my 3D Media studio project with it
HR: Okay, I am pretty darn sure that I registered online for its warranty when I got it, but it won't recognize my email on the site...
oh god oh god oh god
Edit: Also maybe have lost a lot of my video projects from last semester
I think I'm going to be sick
How long have you had it, and who's the manufacturer?
Update: Okay, finally able to login, not sure why it wouldn't before...and it is under warranty
Iomega, had it for a little over a year
but it still won't turn on, and this is entirely unacceptable :[
Captaink
Feb 23 2011, 07:17 PM
QUOTE (Chloe @ Feb 23 2011, 01:01 PM)

QUOTE (Widget! @ Feb 23 2011, 01:50 PM)

QUOTE (Chloe @ Feb 23 2011, 11:43 AM)

HR: I think my external HD just died
taking what I had of my 3D Media studio project with it
HR: Okay, I am pretty darn sure that I registered online for its warranty when I got it, but it won't recognize my email on the site...
oh god oh god oh god
Edit: Also maybe have lost a lot of my video projects from last semester
I think I'm going to be sick
How long have you had it, and who's the manufacturer?
Update: Okay, finally able to login, not sure why it wouldn't before...and it is under warranty
Iomega, had it for a little over a year
but it still won't turn on, and this is entirely unacceptable :[
I thought iomega went out of business like, 5 years ago...
Also, chances are the drive itself is ok, and the electronics are just shot. I'd bet at least one of the 5 bajillion engineering students at cmu could fix it pretty easily
Widget!
Feb 23 2011, 08:04 PM
QUOTE (Chloe @ Feb 23 2011, 12:01 PM)

but it still won't turn on, and this is entirely unacceptable :[
If Iomega makes their drives as cheaply as Western Digital, then you've probably got a SATA drive inside, which you can get out and try connecting to a SATA-USB bridge.
USB controllers die before SATA controllers, so I'd say it's more likely that the bridge on your external drive itself--the one you connect your USB cable to--is damaged than the hard drive.
Granted, this assumes that Iomega makes their drives by simply building an enclosure around a standard SATA/PATA laptop drive, which may not be the case, but, it's worth a try.
Just, for the love of god, don't take it to Data Doctors.
Crow
Feb 24 2011, 05:41 AM
QUOTE (Jonesy @ Feb 22 2011, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (Crow @ Feb 22 2011, 10:55 PM)

UC: Root beer flavored milk.
dear god why?!?!
Some sort of crawling insanity is my guess.
iMatt
Feb 24 2011, 06:16 AM
Man, the HBO miniseries for A Song of Ice and Fire is looking to be frikkin' amazing, and the whole cast is full of amazingly attractive people.
Daenerys Targaryen

Jaime Lannister
Jonesy
Feb 24 2011, 07:46 AM
daenerys is like 14 in the books isn't she....? :/
iMatt
Feb 24 2011, 07:53 AM
QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 24 2011, 12:16 AM)

Man, the HBO miniseries for A Song of Ice and Fire is looking to be frikkin' amazing, and the whole cast is full of amazingly attractive people.
Don't care how old she is in the books, the girl playing her is quite attractive, I doubt you disagree

Edit: But yeah in the books she's 14 and there are a lot of awkward scenes with the likely 30-something Dothraki leader.
beregond
Feb 24 2011, 07:55 AM
Speaking of books, just got "The Gathering Storm" today in the mail at around 1. Did a bunch of other stuff for a bunch of the rest of the day, finished it a couple of minutes ago. That good.
I'm sad that "A Memory of Light" won't be finished for at least another year.
Jonesy
Feb 24 2011, 08:32 AM
QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 24 2011, 01:53 AM)

QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 24 2011, 12:16 AM)

Man, the HBO miniseries for A Song of Ice and Fire is looking to be frikkin' amazing, and the whole cast is full of amazingly attractive people.
Don't care how old she is in the books, the girl playing her is quite attractive, I doubt you disagree

Edit: But yeah in the books she's 14 and there are a lot of awkward scenes with the likely 30-something Dothraki leader.
I agree the actress is very nice.
Also, he needs to stop with the damn show and finish the freaking series.
overly_critical_man
Feb 24 2011, 04:47 PM
QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 23 2011, 11:53 PM)

QUOTE (iMatt @ Feb 24 2011, 12:16 AM)

Man, the HBO miniseries for A Song of Ice and Fire is looking to be frikkin' amazing, and the whole cast is full of amazingly attractive people.
Don't care how old she is in the books, the girl playing her is quite attractive, I doubt you disagree

Edit: But yeah in the books she's 14 and there are a lot of awkward scenes with the likely 30-something Dothraki leader.
And people get on MY case...
beregond
Feb 24 2011, 10:06 PM
Chloe
Feb 24 2011, 10:29 PM
QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 24 2011, 05:06 PM)

Ohhhhh my God
My state officials just keep outdoing themselves, I tell ya
Central Falls in particular...I can't even begin to describe the situation there
It's so incredibly bankrupt, and now I guess the strategy is to shut everything down and board it up?
Augh
AAAAAUGH
Perusse
Feb 24 2011, 11:37 PM
QUOTE (Jonesy @ Feb 24 2011, 03:32 AM)

I agree the actress is very nice.
Also, he needs to stop with the damn show and finish the freaking series.
I could not agree more. But, the miniseries does look awesome.
beregond
Feb 25 2011, 01:18 AM
VPS: Essentially found out from the University College Dublin liaison who stopped by Berkeley today that I'm into the exchange program.
So all my news and updates from the next academic year? Gonna be from Dublin, smurfs!
I do solemnly swear that I will post less about alcohol than other members.
dizzyizzy
Feb 25 2011, 01:40 AM
QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 24 2011, 05:06 PM)

QUOTE
"This is beyond insane," Providence Teachers Union President Steve Smith told The Providence Journal's Linda Borg. "Let's create the most chaos and the highest level of anxiety in a district where teachers are already under unbelievable stress. Now I know how the United States State Department felt on Dec. 7, 1941."
Um, no, you don't.
From what that article said, it was just letting all the teachers know they could be shaking up the district. Not necessarily a bad thing. Until I see their actual plan, this goes under AF, not really a UC yet.
dizzyizzy
Feb 25 2011, 02:30 AM
VVVVVVVVVPS: My little sis is planning on trying out for Acadec next year.
TheWerg
Feb 25 2011, 02:49 AM
PS: Through a combination of losing 18 pounds since the start of this semester and getting stronger, I now bench my own weight for reps.
Confusion: How did I lose this much weight?
Research Monkey
Feb 25 2011, 04:31 AM
QUOTE (beregond @ Feb 24 2011, 06:18 PM)

I do solemnly swear that I will post less about alcohol than other members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...tion_per_capitaYep.
Dr. Roffles
Feb 25 2011, 11:30 AM
ps: i just really confused everyone who doesn't read the updates to the random thoughts thread before reading the love thread.
i should make this chain keep going. everyone, join me in the german identity thread.
overly_critical_man
Feb 25 2011, 06:21 PM
Because I too am a dragon, I don't need to follow you. I'll merely experience on a spirtual level while traveling through the astral plane.
beregond
Feb 25 2011, 07:51 PM
Doc, you either got some crazy creative smurf on a Pynchon level going down in your head or you REALLY need to sleep.
Dr. Roffles
Feb 25 2011, 09:38 PM
probably a mixture of both, man
debator
Feb 26 2011, 11:26 AM
gave out a fake name for the first time ever tonight
feel pretty bad about that
overly_critical_man
Feb 26 2011, 11:41 PM
QUOTE (debator @ Feb 26 2011, 03:26 AM)

gave out a fake name for the first time ever tonight
feel pretty bad about that
That name better have had a title of nobility in front of it.
iMatt
Feb 26 2011, 11:53 PM
We've watched as debator's morals have slowly sliiiiipped away...
And now he's pretending to be someone else just to dull the pain.
beregond
Feb 26 2011, 11:53 PM
WTF: Ok, OCM, what the hell was that about? I thought Arizona was good, what the hell did your Bruins do?!
Research Monkey
Feb 27 2011, 03:57 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Feb 26 2011, 04:26 AM)

gave out a fake name for the first time ever tonight
feel pretty bad about that
I do that almost weekly, but it's exclusively to take out receptionists.
Captaink
Feb 27 2011, 04:24 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Feb 26 2011, 05:26 AM)

gave out a fake name for the first time ever tonight
feel pretty bad about that
Please tell me it was Leo Spaceman...
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