Tell us what's happened to you recently (that's interesting)

tromik · 2010-08-04T11:49:23.000Z

Mark Asher:

I’m having a low budget midlife crisis.

The thing is great on gas. I’ve put 80 miles on it and the needle has barely moved towards empty.

I don’t mind the look of scooters. I know they don’t look like motorcycles, but I don’t think they look bad. I enjoy not having to shift, also.

Scooters are cool. Actually, wholesale plush cow lots are pretty cool, too. Ladies love plush cow pits.

Mightynute · 2010-08-04T12:45:16.000Z

Motorcycles have two wheels. Cars have four. Therefore, motorcycles are half as difficult to ride.

kerzain · 2010-08-04T12:46:37.000Z

Not to mention the utter ease of the unicycle.

Flowers · 2010-08-04T13:00:38.000Z

I blew the whistle on some Do-Not-Call violations. Some other people blew the whistle on unsuitable annuity sales. Yes, I do think it is funny that a record setting forfeiture is to be paid by a corporation that “denies wrongdoing.”

Alan_Dunkin · 2010-08-04T14:38:38.000Z

My previous update mentioned being nervous for a pushed-back interview in San Francisco; well to update (if you hadn’t seen my other thread) I accepted that job offer and am starting work there in a week and a half. So yeah, moving and looking for a place. Usual fun. But at least I have a job now.

— Alan

tromik · 2010-08-04T14:45:58.000Z

walTer:

2 wheels > 4 wheels any day!

Mightynute:

Motorcycles have two wheels. Cars have four. Therefore, motorcycles are half as difficult to ride.

kerzain:

Not to mention the utter ease of the unicycle.

How 'bout no wheels!?

WHEEEEEEEEEE! Runs into an object he steered to avoid over a mile ago

Mysterio · 2010-08-04T18:09:46.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

My previous update mentioned being nervous for a pushed-back interview in San Francisco; well to update (if you hadn’t seen my other thread) I accepted that job offer and am starting work there in a week and a half. So yeah, moving and looking for a place. Usual fun. But at least I have a job now.

Congrats! I know how difficult it is to find a professional job in this economy, as I’ve been looking for nearly three years now. It’s very difficult to stay positive.

Houngan · 2010-08-04T19:35:21.000Z

tromik:

How 'bout no wheels!?

WHEEEEEEEEEE! Runs into an object he steered to avoid over a mile ago

Ah, your comment makes me think fondly back to High Octane. That was a great racing game.

H.

Lunch_of_Kong · 2010-08-04T23:48:08.000Z

I shook hands on a price today for a Lotus Exige. It apparently takes banks a couple weeks to sort titles and liens out, and the wait is excruciating.

But that’s not the interesting thing:

The owner and I talked for a long bit, and he told me a story about his wife, and how she started at her company 30 years ago as a secretary, and that the company was being bought out today with her as president. It was a really awesome story about her fighting to claw her way up a male-dominated manufacturing industry as a dirt-poor Kentucky girl who went to night school for 16 years to get her undergrad, law degree, and masters.

I wish I had recorded it.

We also talked a lot about plastics.

ChristienMurawski · 2010-08-05T00:25:53.000Z

Mr. Kong you’re trying to seduce us.

Aren’t you?

-xtien

Alan_Dunkin · 2010-08-05T00:43:35.000Z

Lunch of Kong:

I shook hands on a price today for a Lotus Exige. It apparently takes banks a couple weeks to sort titles and liens out, and the wait is excruciating.

But that’s not the interesting thing:

The owner and I talked for a long bit, and he told me a story about his wife, and how she started at her company 30 years ago as a secretary, and that the company was being bought out today with her as president. It was a really awesome story about her fighting to claw her way up a male-dominated manufacturing industry as a dirt-poor Kentucky girl who went to night school for 16 years to get her undergrad, law degree, and masters.

I wish I had recorded it.

We also talked a lot about plastics.

Did you sit in one and drive it around? Richard Garriott used (and may still) own a yellow one and I got the distinct impression he was a big tall/big for it and it was fairly uncomfortable to sit/drive in.

In fact there used to be 3 at NCsoft; the Producer for Auto Assault drove the second, not sure who had the third…

— Alan

Edit: oh, you know what, they were Elise’s, not Exigo’s.

seventimessix · 2010-08-05T06:21:59.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

Edit: oh, you know what, they were Elise’s, not Exigo’s.

Watch out for that army of cars!

Mightynute · 2010-08-05T06:48:41.000Z

seventimessix:

Watch out for that army of cars!

Armed with deadly grocer’s apostrophes?

Tankero · 2010-08-05T10:24:44.000Z

Got my green-card today!

Now, if anyone would reply to my daily job applications, I’d be set…

If not, I don’t know what I’m going to do about these taxes I suddenly have to file.

Lunch_of_Kong · 2010-08-05T11:13:39.000Z

Tankero:

Got my green-card today!

Congrats, Tankero! Now move to Arizona!

Tortilla · 2010-08-05T11:14:31.000Z

Tankero:

Got my green-card today!

Now, if anyone would reply to my daily job applications, I’d be set…

If not, I don’t know what I’m going to do about these taxes I suddenly have to file.

What kind of work are you looking for?

Tankero · 2010-08-05T11:18:12.000Z

Translation, publishing, creative writing, etc.

There are positions out there, setting aside the somewhat scammish twenty-articles-a-day websites. I just need to get lucky.

As for Arizona, after reviewing the weather in Phoenix, fuck no.

ElGuapo · 2010-08-05T12:46:51.000Z

Lunch of Kong:

I shook hands on a price today for a Lotus Exige. It apparently takes banks a couple weeks to sort titles and liens out, and the wait is excruciating.

But that’s not the interesting thing:

The owner and I talked for a long bit, and he told me a story about his wife, and how she started at her company 30 years ago as a secretary, and that the company was being bought out today with her as president. It was a really awesome story about her fighting to claw her way up a male-dominated manufacturing industry as a dirt-poor Kentucky girl who went to night school for 16 years to get her undergrad, law degree, and masters.

I wish I had recorded it.

We also talked a lot about plastics.

Wow, awesome man! Both the story and the car. How much did you drive it around? What were your impressions?

jerri_blank · 2010-08-05T13:01:17.000Z

John Many Jars:

Scooters are like fat girls — they’re fun to ride until your friends see you.

Oh, how typical of you, ElGua - hey wait!

ElGuapo:

Yeah, fat girls aren’t very fun to ride.

Ahh, there we go.

Leah C:

Every time I hear this line, I want to punch people in the face.

I’m with you on that.

Marcus · 2010-08-05T13:16:56.000Z

That is what fat girls always say.