Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yesterday I played a Flash game called Mu Complex- Episode One. It's a puzzle game with a backstory involving a rogue and probably murderous AI named Lya with a sweet female voice.

Today I received a customer satisfaction survey robocall concerning a product I recently got and the canned female voice identified itself as Mya.  Needless to say, I hung up quicker than usual.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Today I received a customer satisfaction survey robocall concerning a product I recently got and the canned female voice identified itself as Mya.  Needless to say, I hung up quicker than usual.

1) You gave your  phone number to a company regarding a product you bought?

And

2) You have a landline?


This makes Grumpy sad. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Today I received a customer satisfaction survey robocall concerning a product I recently got and the canned female voice identified itself as Mya.  Needless to say, I hung up quicker than usual.

1) You gave your  phone number to a company regarding a product you bought?

And

2) You have a landline?


This makes Grumpy sad. 

It was eyeglasses.  The optical shop needed the number to let me know when it came in.  Actually the call came in on my cell phone instead of my landline.  (Incidentally, I have a rotary dial phone hooked up to my landline, tho I seldom use that handset.)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Today I received a customer satisfaction survey robocall concerning a product I recently got and the canned female voice identified itself as Mya.  Needless to say, I hung up quicker than usual.

1) You gave your  phone number to a company regarding a product you bought?

And

2) You have a landline?


This makes Grumpy sad. 

It was eyeglasses.  The optical shop needed the number to let me know when it came in.  Actually the call came in on my cell phone instead of my landline.  (Incidentally, I have a rotary dial phone hooked up to my landline, tho I seldom use that handset.)

Ha ha, makes sense. 

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I'm at a psychologists office and my mom is currently speaking with her. The woman's name is almost identical too Angela Merkel, and so is her personal appearance. I literally became extremely nervous for a split second because I thought she actually the (new) Iron Lady herself.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

There is an account on Youtube that is named "Bob Dylan-Topic" with several full albums up. It will be gone in a few hours. Get your fill of the Complete Basement Tapes while it lasts!!

Link to the song I am listening to right now; everything else is up!

[All Along The Watchtower]

Feeling pretty down today.

[Hash]

Feeling pretty down today.

Same here. It's hitting me right now that my dream of finding a teaching gig abroad for a few months may not work out, and I'm left without a Plan B to occupy my 8 months from graduation until I go to grad school. I may be up sh**t's creek.

[King]

Don't feel like making a new thread for it but the last two episodes of South Park Grounded Vindaloop and Cock Magic have been hilarious dumb fun. Best episodes they've had in a few years.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I have a temporary staff position that's expiring soon, but I should be able to get another one based on talking to one of my co-workers. I have inside tracks on a couple of permanent staff positions, and am interviewing for both on Monday. For one, my work experience has uniquely qualified me for the position and I have already passed one in-person interview. The other, I am already familiar with several people on the search committee and I know that they have high opinions of my work.

     My attitude towards applying and interviewing is a rather existential state of not expecting any outcome and simply trying my hardest for the sake of trying my hardest. If I get the job, I can be overjoyed because I didn't expect to get it, and I will not be saddened if I am rejected for the same reason. However, I have no expectation of failure to hold me back in the interview process either. With that said, I am cautiously optimistic. As is typical for me, I have backup plans in place, in case things don't pan out.

[afleitch]

I'm currently starting the GOMAD diet, combined with some serious squats. It's going to be fun

[swl]

I've occasionally mulled over going back for a PhD but I feel like at my age (26) I'd just be ruining my life and end up being a bitter 30-something drawing price floors for hungover undergrads at some third-tier state school in the hinterlands.

Sorry I am bored and lurking old threads, but PhD in what? I am also 26 and considering it, there is a risk but on the other hand it it works well there is the prospect of spending the rest of my life having fun at work.

Also conditions for a PhD in the Netherlands are really good. PhD candidates are not students but employees of their university, meaning they save up for pension, qualify for unemployment benefits, health insurance etc. Salaries are also good, around 1500€ net per month, or more. And foreign PhD candidates get a 30% tax rebate because they are considered highly-skilled migrants.
The gap with neighboring countries such as Germany is crazy. It's not uncommon to have people in their 30s starting a PhD here, because there is no real financial sacrifice.

I think only northern European countries (Denmark etc) and Switzerland can offer similar conditions.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I've decided I have to emotionally detach myself from a close friend my feelings towards whom have become somewhat unhealthy. I hope that doing so doesn't completely destroy our acquaintanceship but if it has to then I guess it has to. I'm in a lot of pain right now.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Just bought Super Smash Bros. Wii U.

GAME ONNNNNNNNN!!!!!

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I've been having very vivid dreams due to the medication I am on, and one of them involved me and IceSpear meeting in person and I tried to trap him on a debate about Hillary and ended up being crushed. It was quite funny.

I don't even know what IceSpear looks like, which is the weird part.

[IceSpear]

I've been having very vivid dreams due to the medication I am on, and one of them involved me and IceSpear meeting in person and I tried to trap him on a debate about Hillary and ended up being crushed. It was quite funny.

I don't even know what IceSpear looks like, which is the weird part.

I guess you didn't see the picture then.

That's pretty funny though. Do you remember the content of the debate?

[TDAS04]

The ground here in Sioux Falls hardly has any snow left.  Very different from a few days ago, though we didn't come remotely close to Buffalo-level snow.

[Lief 🗽]

Whenever I dream about you folks, I picture y'all as personified versions of your avatars (unless it's Bushie or whatever where I know what he looks like). Like this basically:

               

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

I just dream of youngish white men with glasses (again, except those whose faces I know - Snowstalker, Bushie, Afleitch, Adam Fitz).

[IceSpear]

Whenever I dream about you folks, I picture y'all as personified versions of your avatars (unless it's Bushie or whatever where I know what he looks like). Like this basically:

               

How do you differentiate between people with the same avatar?

[Lief 🗽]

Whenever I dream about you folks, I picture y'all as personified versions of your avatars (unless it's Bushie or whatever where I know what he looks like). Like this basically:

               

How do you differentiate between people with the same avatar?

Luckily my brain has never run into that problem, or if it has, I don't remember its solution.

[Flake]

Whenever I dream about you folks, I picture y'all as personified versions of your avatars (unless it's Bushie or whatever where I know what he looks like). Like this basically:

               

How do you differentiate between people with the same avatar?

Something like that

[King]

I'm a much boring dreamer. When I dream of the Atlas, I just picture the forum taking up my entire line of sight (no computer, it's just a reality) and reading messages as a dream.

I didn't have a pretty cool lucid dream a few weeks ago. I realized I was dreaming because I noticed I was driving up the Pacific Coast Highway "late to work" but knew that made no sense because I don't live in SoCal. So, I got out onto the beach and made a "machine" to take me to the next dream level which ended up being a Stonehenge-like stack of mirrors all facing each other and when I stood in the middle everything turned purple and suddenly I was viewing my dream of being in California as a SimCity4-like 3D model of the dreamscape. The really interesting part was a ticking clock that was 37 seconds and counting which made me rush and when it hit 0 my alarm went off at 630 am. This makes me think my subconscious has an internal clock that knows when it's going to be 630 am.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

BTW, my argument with IceSpear was in my grandma's apartment and she was in the kitchen not saying anything (which was odd, because she is the person who introduced me to politics and loves it almost more than I do).

[IceSpear]

BTW, my argument with IceSpear was in my grandma's apartment and she was in the kitchen not saying anything (which was odd, because she is the person who introduced me to politics and loves it almost more than I do).

Did we discuss the criminal?