Random thought thread!

Omniscia · 2011-01-12T17:24:00.000Z

mmalloy:

Keep sending those blizzards during work days, Mother Nature! Tomorrow is going to actually give me a chance to get caught up on grading AND I won’t have to teach. WOOHOO!

Boourns! It was only snowy enough up here to let me leave work an hour early and then spend the next thirty minutes digging my car out of a snow drift, and then trudge home gingerly in a rear-wheel-drive vehicle that can’t take hills.

I swear, at one point I was barely moving. I had to turn my emergency flashers on, downshift into first, and crawl up the hill, and all the while the car was drifting toward the curb, like it was getting sucked in by an unforeseen force. And it wasn’t even that tall a hill. Eventually I did reach the peak, though.

Meanwhile, the dunderheads in tricked-out Civics and Calvin-approved F-150s are blowing by me at 40, in the snow, in low visibility, with winds producing noticeable drifts right in the road, and no plows in sight. And in a 35 zone, to boot!

Anyway, now the ABS light won’t go off, which apparently means either the speed sensor is damaged or the ABS relay fuse has blown…

Scrax · 2011-01-12T18:44:08.000Z

I’m in training for a week, and the guy today kept says “pacifically” rather than “specifically.” I’m in no way a grammar nazi, but even I was put off by how many times he said it.

Eilonwy · 2011-01-12T19:53:18.000Z

Hooray I am done with grading! At least until Monday.

Nixxter · 2011-01-12T20:46:51.000Z

Jesu de christo, I just looked at my pair of shoes on the floor and it resembled a cat.

Sarkus · 2011-01-12T21:15:15.000Z

I did my taxes tonight and filed them!

I’m getting a refund of $14. :-(

Bill · 2011-01-12T21:43:57.000Z

Tartar sauce.

Mightynute · 2011-01-13T06:36:52.000Z

Sarkus:

I did my taxes tonight and filed them!

I’m getting a refund of $14. :-(

That means you’ve been paying the right taxes, so all that extra money has been in your pockets the entire time. Why the frowny face?

Matt_Bowyer · 2011-01-13T06:42:08.000Z

Because big refunds are an extra present each year.

Speak_With_Bread · 2011-01-13T06:57:27.000Z

Nixxter - Jesu de Christo? <language nerd sensor set off>

Mrenda · 2011-01-13T08:01:15.000Z

I’m currently in two minds about something.

Do I get a cheapy SLR with 50mm lens and developing equipment and chemicals along with a film scanner, all of which I could probably afford now.

Or do I hold out for a DSLR which would be a lot easier to improve my picture taking on in a shorter time frame.

Hrrmm?

Jeremy_Johnsen · 2011-01-13T09:12:45.000Z

Enidigm:

I am about a month overdue for a haircut.

I haven’t shaved for three weeks and have a pretty nice beard going.

And wow is there a whole lot more grey than there was last time I did this.

Jeremy_Johnsen · 2011-01-13T09:21:49.000Z

Buceph:

I’m currently in two minds about something.

Do I get a cheapy SLR with 50mm lens and developing equipment and chemicals along with a film scanner, all of which I could probably afford now.

Or do I hold out for a DSLR which would be a lot easier to improve my picture taking on in a shorter time frame.

Hrrmm?

While I love the chemicals and the look of certain film, it’s pretty great to be able to make small on-the-fly adjustments to get the exact look you want.

I finally gave my film SLR to my niece last year, she needed it for a photography class in high school.

Omniscia · 2011-01-13T11:53:18.000Z

For some reason I keep mixing up David Alan Grier and David Ogden Stiers…

Nixxter · 2011-01-13T14:04:38.000Z

Speak With Bread:

Nixxter - Jesu de Christo? <language nerd sensor set off>

Sorry Speak with Bread, I have a bad habit of jotting down whatever I am thinking.

Let’s see - by jimminy, I glanced at my shoes on the floor and thought one of our evil cats was sneaking up on me! (/fails again)

VSys114 · 2011-01-13T14:14:29.000Z

Just found out what a “fish and finger pie” is. “Penny Lane” is not longer the innocent song I thought it was.

Anaxagoras · 2011-01-13T14:27:05.000Z

Dean:

That said, bad papers take twice as much work as good papers. So documenting why they did badly is basically what I get paid for. If anyone wants me to reconsider a grade, then be warned, the grade can go up or it can go down. I tell them that many times I consider the grade I give a bad paper an outright gift to them. If you make me read that bad paper again, I will probably write more words about why it is so bad than were in the original paper, and then I will give you the grade you really earned.

About once every four years I get someone who insists that I regrade their paper. I do, very thoroughly. Word gets around, and I’m good until all those students graduate.

Holy shit. First you declare that lack of attendance is a pet peeve & likely to cost students in their final grade, and then you proudly declare that you’re the dick that marks people down if they ask you to reconsider. Beautiful.

VSys114 · 2011-01-13T17:03:39.000Z

People in Seattle poison trees that block their view, but don’t seem to realize the trees keep the hill their house is on from sliding away.

Now, due to a fast thaw, some of these houses are going to fall victim to mudslide. Commence schadenfreude.

VSys114 · 2011-01-13T17:04:29.000Z

People in Seattle poison trees that block their view, but don’t seem to realize the trees keep the hill their house is on from sliding away.

Now, due to a fast thaw, some of these houses are going to fall victim to mudslide. Commence schadenfreude.

RepoMan · 2011-01-13T17:06:29.000Z

Fucking bronchitis went near-pneumoniac on me and now not even the antibiotics are keeping the phlegm entirely at bay. I feel like a tubercular cripple. THIS FUCKING SUCKS.

VSys114 · 2011-01-13T17:09:07.000Z

That sucks repoman. Get well soon!!