The many threads of anger before this:

Random Rants (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=142607) (The Original!)
Random Rants Two (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=230533)
Random Rants 3 (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=253204)
Random Rants 4: Keep Complaining (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=260283)
Random @#%& rants 5: Life is a female dog. (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=272646)
Random Rants VI: See, this is why we can't have nice things! (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=281481)
Random Rants VII: Why do they ALWAYS do that?! (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=288888)
Random Rantii VIII: When will Latin DIE? (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=291945)
Random Rants IX: I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore! (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=296521)
Random Rants X: Mraarrrrrrr!!!!!! (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=300339)
Random Rants XI: This Title Actually Has Some Imagination (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=305116)
Random Rants XII: It's Alright To Cry (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=309188)
Random Rants XIII: I don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=312102)
Random Rants XIV: You're gonna love my nuts (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=315871)
Random Rants XV: Like a Fine Whine (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=320601)
[/URL] Random Rants XVI: Whambulance Dispatch Center
[URL="http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=332805"]Random Rants XVII: Rage Against The Machine (Previous Thread) (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=326594)


Let Your Anger Out. Remember to keep it legal and as always, avoid terrorists.

Happy Ranting.

Yeah why the hell is it so cold? Summer was cold, fall is way too cold, we're getting snow nearby, it's been rainy and rarely above 50 this week. Wtf??

This winter is gonna SUCK!

And if you disagree with me, then you're probably a racist.

Why do people insist on using Fahrenheit?

Why do people insist on using any scale of measurement as opposed to a different one? They're all equally arbitrary.

Yes, a scale of measurement based on the freezing point and boiling point of the most common solvent on Earth is totally arbitrary. Oh great, look what's been started.

@Dachs Nice avatar :D

Rant: still have a hangover from Saturday :(

You have a relationship with someone based on sms-s and you call her you GF?
Now that is rantworthy....

:lol::lol::lol:

I'm not gonna go in to it too much but... We live far from each other, we meet maybe once every second week, we txt at least 1000 txts a week (I'm not lying. My cell phone can only hold a certain amount of txts and I have to erase all of them quite often), we go to different schools and we like each other very much.

Yes, it is possible to take a relationship to a certain point with just txting, chatting and the occasional bumping-in-tos.

I can't even keep friendships with people I see on a daily basis.

I can't even keep friendships with people I see on a daily basis.

Well, I'm sure we could be friends ;)

the weekend's over. :(

I just went to start my breakfast, and I have no thawed out sausage or bacon :mad: :mad:

I'm gonna have to do egg in the basket or something now... I swear, this sucks. I'm having my coffee, I'm having my cigs, and all I want to complete this nice morning is some damned pork.

I'm tired of China.

I just went to start my breakfast, and I have no thawed out sausage or bacon :mad: :mad:

I'm gonna have to do egg in the basket or something now... I swear, this sucks. I'm having my coffee, I'm having my cigs, and all I want to complete this nice morning is some damned pork.
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I frakkin burned them! [pissed] This day is not starting out well.

Did you burn them because you failed to pay attention because you had to tell us you were out of pork?

My mom always said: An egg burned is a lesson learned :)

You also have a pretty crappy camera. :p

Ooh, I've been away from the forum so long it's started whining when I log on the way that it does ("you haven't posted here in a few weeks; how come you never post here anymore? Don't you find me attractive like you used to?")

Still the real rant is that my PC died several days before I had to go back to uni (Blue Screen of Death and EVERYTHING), I couldn't find the installation CD, so the software on my PC now is from the one before that- it's taken aaaages to update everything (there's still very little music on- and, most tragically considering where I'm posting, I didn't have time to install any games back on it; it's basically a glorified typewriter... sigh)

Did you burn them because you failed to pay attention because you had to tell us you were out of pork?

My mom always said: An egg burned is a lesson learned :)

That's probably why they burned, yeah.

You also have a pretty crappy camera. :p
It's my phone's. I leave my camera at work typically.

Rant: Can no one come up with a good thread title? :mad:

Cold as hell is pretty funny innit? :shifty:

It's not as good as quoting Network, but that's been done before. :(

The good news is I have a new computer at work - they replaced it Friday when I was off. The bad news is I had to wait 30+ minutes for the techs to show up at work because they forgot to unlock my account to let me back in.

Now to reset all my passwords, reinstall a bunch of programs, and bug the techs some more to get access to some other programs. They were asked to install all the same programs they put on my officemate's computer, but of course they didn't. Here's hoping they remember where they eventually found the necessary software and licenses...

I hate this cold/flu season, since I have almost have sick for half of the time. While some were mild and not affected work, the last to illnesses have been very draining and this one that I have right now has been the worst illness I have had for many years. It is extremely frustrating to have been so sick so often.

It was way too warm today. Ridiculous. I want snow dammit!

Also I got a test tomorrow on crap I have no idea about and I don't have a textbook for this class.

I messed up half of my physics test because I forgot to switch two variables when doing calculations...

Why do people complain on my creative title?

Also I have a cold.

I'm so tired of Stainless Steel's insistence on denying me Fortresses and Citadels. It always seems like I'm fighting most of the game with Spear and Archer Militia, yet somehow the enemy can afford to have full armies of Mailed Knights or Tabar infantry or Ghulams???

In other news, the Kwarazaemians can suck my junk. This is complete BS. There's no way I can be expected to make headway against someone whose four unit, 500 man armies are rated higher than a full stack the best of my (Byzantine) units. None of my cities are growing vaguely fast, much less the castles, and when they do I don't have the money to spend to actually expand them because it all goes towards building new armies for the Fatamid/Kwarazaemian meat grinder. [pissed]

I'm so tired of Stainless Steel's insistence on denying me Fortresses and Citadels. It always seems like I'm fighting most of the game with Spear and Archer Militia, yet somehow the enemy can afford to have full armies of Mailed Knights or Tabar infantry or Ghulams???

In other news, the Kwarazaemians can suck my junk. This is complete BS. There's no way I can be expected to make headway against someone whose four unit, 500 man armies are rated higher than a full stack the best of my (Byzantine) units. None of my cities are growing vaguely fast, much less the castles, and when they do I don't have the money to spend to actually expand them because it all goes towards building new armies for the Fatamid/Kwarazaemian meat grinder. [pissed]

Let me guess, this isn't civ, right?

(cause if it is, you have some really bad strategies :D )

I only got a C or B on my Ecology exam. I hope he has a sense of humour and doesn't care about the doodle I put on the multiple choice section (the answers go on a scantron anyway).

I freakin hate all the various projects/essays in English class that have completely crap prompts and can only be completed by writing 5 paragraphs of total BS. F you, English. F YOU. [pissed]

That's plenty of classes. But yes, English is worst about that, glad I'm pretty much done with it assuming I don't go to some other university that makes me retake it.

I'm so tired of Stainless Steel's insistence on denying me Fortresses and Citadels. It always seems like I'm fighting most of the game with Spear and Archer Militia, yet somehow the enemy can afford to have full armies of Mailed Knights or Tabar infantry or Ghulams???

In other news, the Kwarazaemians can suck my junk. This is complete BS. There's no way I can be expected to make headway against someone whose four unit, 500 man armies are rated higher than a full stack the best of my (Byzantine) units. None of my cities are growing vaguely fast, much less the castles, and when they do I don't have the money to spend to actually expand them because it all goes towards building new armies for the Fatamid/Kwarazaemian meat grinder. [pissed]
"Fight smarter, not harder." :mischief:

Seriously dude, what the hell is with you and retardedly low pop growth? I guess part of it is probably you expanding way the hell faster than I usually try, but still...

I messed up half of my physics test because I forgot to switch two variables when doing calculations...

Ouch. :(

I'm getting a headache. :( :mad:

Why do people insist on using any scale of measurement as opposed to a different one? They're all equally arbitrary.

No, they're not. Planck units are most certainly not arbitrary.

Also 32 and 212 are far more arbitrary than 0 and 100.

And failing that, outside of the specific unit of scale, Kelvin certainly isn't arbitrary.

My prof spent the entire class today trying (and failing) to explain how the area of the bar on a bar graph can also be used to represent its value. It's an extremely simple concept that he completely messed up. At the end, he just shrugged and we all left.
I'm wasting a lot of time and money on this class. The only reason I go anymore is because I have no idea what is going to be on the midterm.

Also, Celsius > Fahrenheit.

It's freezing cold in Florida. It kinda makes me hate everyone.

Screw you Yankees, I wanna watch House.

It's freezing cold in Florida. It kinda makes me hate everyone.

Aye. When I moved into my [third floor] apartment three weeks ago there was a heat index around 100. Now it's definitely chilly. I could have used this respite then!

What is cold in Florida? The temperature of an oven instead of the surface of the sun?

What is cold in Florida? The temperature of an oven instead of the surface of the sun?

I would always see people in sweaters at 70* :eek:

No, they're not. Planck units are most certainly not arbitrary.

Also 32 and 212 are far more arbitrary than 0 and 100.

And failing that, outside of the specific unit of scale, Kelvin certainly isn't arbitrary.

To be fair to the side that we do use and often abuse arbitrary units though, people have created some utterly stupid misconceptions. One of the worst imo- the "fake nerd" T-shirt:

"Resistance is futile if < 1 ohm"

I forgot my sweater. It's cold as hell in the office.

I forgot my sweater. It's cold as hell in the office.

huh ?

"Fight smarter, not harder." :mischief:

I know, which is why I'm preparing a massive flanking maneuver via naval landing in the Nile Delta. But the ultimate problem is the Kwarazameian bottomless army pit. I'm just trying to hold them off and hold onto my provinces and even that is proving exhausting. I got lucky and repulsed a deep incursion into Armenia and Syria, but I've made nothing from it since their armies are so well equipped that every victory for me is Pyrrhic. Its put Ghulams on my short list.

Seriously dude, what the hell is with you and retardedly low pop growth? I guess part of it is probably you expanding way the hell faster than I usually try, but still...

Its 1189 and this is my empire:

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3858/byzantineempire1.th.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/byzantineempire1.jpg/)

Draw your own conclusions. Constantinople is a fine size at 29000 people, but all my castles are pathetically small; as far as I can tell there are not even any Fortresses yet anywhere on the campaign map! My armies consist of Byzantine Spearmen, some Dismounted Lancers, Peasant Archers, and Skythikon, plus whatever mercs I can scrape up. I just got Byzantine Infantry in Constantinople a few turns ago, but I haven't been able to use them in combat yet.

Too much geometry. Too little grammar. Incapable of remembering what a complete sentence is.

I got a vaccination in my left arm, and now my arm feels sore like a sonofabword. Ow!

Final day of school classes.

Both a rant and a rave.

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Apparently we two are the only people online....? At least 5 minutes ago that's how the index showed us. :lol:

Yeah I came into OT and I was the only one in the forum. :eek:

3 midterms: 3 days. :(

Activision/IW just stabbed me and millions of other PC players in the back.

Explain.

I just fended off a huge siege of Tabriz from the Kwarazemians, one I should have thoroughly lost, when my game crashed. There's no way I could hope to recreate that, it was pure effing luck. [pissed]

I hate when machines break at work. Especially when I'm about to start my weekly QA tests after-hours when there are no electronics techs around. It's even better when I can't just switch to my other machine because it's scheduled for maintenance the next day (and the same tests have to be done post-maintenance).

I get to go home a bit early today, but I have to stay even later tomorrow.

I just fended off a huge siege of Tabriz from the Kwarazemians, one I should have thoroughly lost, when my game crashed. There's no way I could hope to recreate that, it was pure effing luck. [pissed]
It's a siege in M2TW, so all you have to do is autoresolve. :p

It's a siege in M2TW, so all you have to do is autoresolve. :p

Nope, the Kwarazemian army was rated much higher than mine. Its essentially a full army of Spear Militia and Peasant Archers, plus a general and two catapults.

Chrome keeps crashing! :badcomp:

Nope, the Kwarazemian army was rated much higher than mine. Its essentially a full army of Spear Militia and Peasant Archers, plus a general and two catapults.
Oh, the catapults. Okay. Sorry mang.

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Wait, it started working 5 minutes after I gave up and went to bed?

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I got an 80 on my physics test.

Drowning in work again.

im sick, but i still got a lot of stuff to work on.

Oh, the catapults. Okay. Sorry mang.

No, that's MY army. The Kwarazamian army was Dismounted Ghulams and Arab Cavalry and other nastiness that requires my fine hand at dealing with. Even then I thought it was hopeless until their general died and a strange rout ensued (if they'd kept on fighting I would have lost for sure, the "power" bar on the left was probably 1/10 me and 9/10 them).

Why the hell do you have catapults guarding a city? God, everything about your games just confuses the hell out of me. More so the weird population problems.

My years of schooling ends today.

Both a rant and a rave.

Why the hell do you have catapults guarding a city? God, everything about your games just confuses the hell out of me. More so the weird population problems.

Well they were left over from a remnant army who was, at one point, trying to march south to the nearest Elburz city. I kept them there in the hopes that I might one day resume the offensive, and just load the catapults in a new army when it got to Tabriz rather than haul the bastards all the hell the way from Tiflis or Baku.

Also, I've experienced the devastating effects of catapults firing at point-blank range from a city square into an enemy mostly piled up on a street trying to force its way into said square. Similar to putting a PAK 40 in a bombed out building and shoving 75mms into a T-34 from about twenty yards away.

Some people don't understand, professionalism is a two way street.

My 40-pack of colourful magnetic letters doesn't have an 'h' in it! :mad:

This is the worst injustice ever inflicted upon anyone.

:lol:at the title. It ain't cold over here. :p

But GODDAMN these Blackouts are pissing me off!!!!

What would possess someone to tail gate me? :mad: I was already going 5 miles over the speed limit in a 40 mph zone! Was it that I accelerated slowly? I can't help it! My car is from 1994! It ain't built for speed!

Slam on your brakes. If you are rear-ended, it is almost always blamed on the person behidn since they are supposed to be following at a safe distance.

Slam on your brakes. If you are rear-ended, it is almost always blamed on the person behidn since they are supposed to be following at a safe distance.

/rant

i dropped my phone in water :( , now it doesnt work

i dropped my phone in water :( , now it doesnt work

Yeah that usually happens to phones when you drop them in water.

Slam on your brakes. If you are rear-ended, it is almost always blamed on the person behidn since they are supposed to be following at a safe distance.

True, but there's still a big dent in the back of the car, and it still might hurt, and it still isn't worth it.

If you already got some scratches dents on the bumper and need a new one it is.

I will never be 'truly' fluent in another language.

The key, and sometimes the only way to do it, is to live in a place where it is widely spoken... You can already speak Spanish and English, right? No doubt you can learn another one. You're probably thinking of French...? If that's actually the case, then you shouldn't complain and instead get to work! :D It's extremely easy - being Romance, it's so thoroughly connected to the other 2 languages that you speak, that you really should have absolutely no problem in becoming fluent. I know, learning a foreign language can get frustrating at times. It can get really frustrating, to the point of giving up. But if what I assumed is actually the case, then you've set out to learn one of the easiest languages in the whole world, for you! So just keep trying.

Hey, if my friend from Japan is 100% fluent in Romanian after 5 years of living there, and if most of the people I know here in Germany are fluent in German (including approximately 1.6564564576 million Turks (:p), which have a very hard time with an entirely unrelated language), then you can do it too, with a language that has a lexical similarity of over 80% to your native one!!

(and just so you know, the last number is actually not pulled out of my behind :p)

Just don't give up, it's admittedly painful, but the only way there is.

If it wasn't pulled out from your behind, what orifice was it pulled from?

The great hole of Wikipedia.

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It's not too late to not make it a murder-suicide dude, looking at your sig!

Well, I'm screwed. Got a 30 on my calculus test, which counted also as the one I missed. If I go and get 100s on the next 2 tests, I might still be able to pull out a B at least. Stupid math.

The key, and sometimes the only way to do it, is to live in a place where it is widely spoken... You can already speak Spanish and English, right? No doubt you can learn another one. You're probably thinking of French...? If that's actually the case, then you shouldn't complain and instead get to work! :D It's extremely easy - being Romance, it's so thoroughly connected to the other 2 languages that you speak, that you really should have absolutely no problem in becoming fluent. I know, learning a foreign language can get frustrating at times. It can get really frustrating, to the point of giving up. But if what I assumed is actually the case, then you've set out to learn one of the easiest languages in the whole world, for you! So just keep trying.

Hey, if my friend from Japan is 100% fluent in Romanian after 5 years of living there, and if most of the people I know here in Germany are fluent in German (including approximately 1.6564564576 million Turks (:p), which have a very hard time with an entirely unrelated language), then you can do it too, with a language that has a lexical similarity of over 80% to your native one!!

(and just so you know, the last number is actually not pulled out of my behind :p)

Just don't give up, it's admittedly painful, but the only way there is.
The thing is, even though I may be able to speak, read, and write it ... it'll never be like Spanish or English where it comes totally natural to me. I mean, it's not like I'm translating in my head when I see/hear/read French, but I make a connection (sort of like latching on to see the cognates) to Spanish. My mother can speak English very well, but it's not like when she speaks Spanish. I'm sure you're not as comfortable when speaking in German or Italian as you are in Romanian.

It's not too late to not make it a murder-suicide dude, looking at your sig!

I could :wallbash: myself to death or maybe :hammer: my head in1 :lol:

But I think I want to go out in style :ar15:

another goddamn blackout. :mad:

I'm still waiting for the electronics guys to finish the preventative maintenance on my machine so I can do the post-maintenance tests. They're usually done by 4, and right now it's looking like they won't be finished until at least 6:30, which is when I'd normally be leaving work on a 'late' day. So I'm looking at getting out of here around 8pm at the earliest tonight.

The thing is, even though I may be able to speak, read, and write it ... it'll never be like Spanish or English where it comes totally natural to me. I mean, it's not like I'm translating in my head when I see/hear/read French, but I make a connection (sort of like latching on to see the cognates) to Spanish. My mother can speak English very well, but it's not like when she speaks Spanish. I'm sure you're not as comfortable when speaking in German or Italian as you are in Romanian.

Well, it will happen over time, there's truly no doubt about that; again, especially if you take the time to live in a place where French is spoken by a majority of the population. I mean, if you can already think, understand and speak this language without translating it in your head, then you're obviously quite advanced with it. The rest comes just through practice... and I don't mean doing grammar exercises. I mean experience with the language, giving it the time to become ingrained in your mind. The problem with actually becoming fluent in a foreign language is not just learning the new words and how sentences and phrases should be built and tied together - the problem is that each language has its own different sets of categories; any language used by man is, so to say, a multitude of concepts, which, in different tongues, overlap each other, but are not perfectly equal - therefore being only partially the same concepts as the ones you were used to. The ability to mold your thinking after the shape of those categories is what will make you fully fluent in a language. What makes you slow and "foreign-sounding" while speaking a foreign language is exactly the existence of a discrepancy between the sets of categories you use in your first language (or in any other one that you speak fully fluently, for that matter), and the target language, the one you are trying to learn.

Also, yeah, I'm really much, much more uncomfortable when speaking German or Italian in comparison to Romanian or English... I mean for starters, I've never learned one bit of Italian grammar, therefore I'm quite certain that any full sentence I attempt to say will contain at least one mistake, and as for German... Heh, I'm still struggling to express myself in conversations most of the time, and when it comes to understanding... the person I'm hearing must be slow, speak clearly and most importantly not use any dialect words in order for me to be able to fully understand what they are saying (meaning: to get the feeling that I understood every word), and those conditions pretty much rule out the entire population of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. :p I'm still way, way further down with my knowledge of German than you are with your French, despite the fact that I'm living in Germany and have been working like a madman to learn it. But the situations cannot be compared. I mean this language shares with the other languages that I know so much less of the vocabulary... and don't even get me started on the sentence structure! Let's just say that the horrible mishmash of verbs at the end of any slightly complex phrase makes me need to rethink any long phrase in order to understand it... And this is in spoken conversations almost always impossible, due to total lack of time.

But I'm drifting away from the subject. The point is, these things come. Trust me, you have it easy, and time will prove it. Just give yourself some time to live in a French-speaking place and you'll be a fully-fledged fluent speaker in no time. :D

I only have 13 subcribed threads with new posts :(

I have something like 10 right now, so quit complaining. :p

Essay to write for UF ... I don't even want to go to UF.

I have something like 10 right now, so quit complaining. :p

8 :(

I had like 70 a month ago. Man, those were the days,

Looks like I'll be missing the ISO Conference in New York...so I can write two papers, a power point presentation, and study for an Econ exam. Fun days ahead.

Morning commute = staring into the sun
Evening commute = staring into the sun

Wear sunglasses?

Spooning out your eyes would also solve the problem.

Morning commute = staring into the sun
Evening commute = staring into the sun

Thats almost exactly what my commute to college is like. Going to? Sun's off to the side, so the shadows rapidly alternate with light. Turn the street? Im staring right into the setting sun.

Coming home? Yay for car headlights. I should get a powerful light for my bike, make the drivers eat some of their own medicine (And further make drivers hate cyclists. Cus you know what, we hate you too)

Can somebody motivate me into reading about the great Weimar German Revalorization Crisis of 1924? Because it's boring me to tears.

Rant: I'm awake right now, at 1 in the morning. Damn you, homework, DAMN YOU. :mad:

I'm doing the same thing, three hours in the future.

I have lived to the west of my school or job pretty much everywhere I have ever lived, worked, or gone to school, so the "sun in my eyes both ways" is a constant for me.

My mental state is in flux and I cant afford to take a week out to cool down. I predict many a hurt loved ones in the near future.

I panicked because i couldn't get enough air and couldn't swim today. It sucked

Man I'm not doing anything for Earthweek this year. To be honest I never do anything for Earthweek but I always feel like I should at least eat some soil or something.

{All I remember about last year's Earthweek was that the sky was very pretty on the Day of the Skies.}

I think some kind of murder suicide happened across the street from me or something because last night I heard a lot of screaming and crap coming from the house, then their usual annoyingness wasn't around all today, and now a cop's across the street at the house with his stupid siren annoying me.

I panicked because i couldn't get enough air and couldn't swim today. It sucked
Too much smoking or asthma ?

I think some kind of murder suicide happened across the street from me or something because last night I heard a lot of screaming and crap coming from the house, then their usual annoyingness wasn't around all today, and now a cop's across the street at the house with his stupid siren annoying me.

Wow, both reall crazy and unfortunate if true. At least, though, it seems you don't live anywhere near Quackers...that would've been quite a coincidence.

That would have invoked many reactions, namely, "Holy crap, he wasn't kidding!"

It's Friday. Much as I look forward to the weekend, I was supposed to have my work assignments on Wednesday.

Searching for pictures of Persia - the ancient culture, and half of the pictures come up for Prince of Persia - the videogame. :mad:

Then searching for the city of Persepolis, two-thirds of the pictures come up as Persepolis - the movie. :mad:

Well first of all it's annoying, second I'm sure Google gets paid somehow to keep money-making properties as results, third...this game and movie have no where near the significance of the ancient cultures.

Maybe I'm bad at Googling...maybe there's more possible results for the new stuff...eh i dunno.

Try 'persepolis persia', 'persepolis ruins', or 'persepolis iran' instead of just Persepolis.

Too much smoking or asthma ?

None of those actually, since I don't smoke and I'm not an asthmatic. It might be because I was piggcrap tired and the air in there sucked.

Try 'persepolis persia', 'persepolis ruins', or 'persepolis iran' instead of just Persepolis.
That worked well. :goodjob:

It's seems I've only just recovered from trying to learn about the Return to the Gold Standard in 1925; it was a hugely dull affair... Right what's next... Positivism and Critical Rationalism! Oh...

It's seems I've only just recovered from trying to learn about the Return to the Gold Standard in 1925; it was a hugely dull affair... Right what's next... Positivism and Critical Rationalism! Oh...

Oh... the humanity!

Them bastards in the BNP make my blood boil.

My _ computer _ is _ STILL _ "being repaired" - and it will be a month on Wednesday!:wallbash:
Yes, mo-fus, it is likely a mobo failure - as I told you when I brought it in!!!

:aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh: :aargh:

I've been sick for almost three weeks now. :(

Them bastards in the BNP make my blood boil.

Yeah, here in Sweden the SD are becoming more and more popular. Some guy wrote some essay about how "Islam is the root of all the problems in Sweden" and there was a massive fallout giving the impression that there's something "wrong" going on here:crazyeye:

Sigh... Populist parties suck.

Ugh what an ugly, dark, wet morning. October had been really nice so far, but now we're getting the gross fall weather.

I've been sick for almost three weeks now. :(
I've had a chest cough for about that long, maybe a week or two longer yet. :(

I hate Facebook's new news feed.

I hate Facebook's new news feed.

Agreed.
It upsets me greatly :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Oh, it's mid-October, why the hell is it snowing?

Interestingly enough we had our first snow today as well.

45* and it was snow flurrying. Is it even possible to snow @ that temperature? Nevertheless it was real snow. Felt like rain smaller than rain sprinkles but twas snow.

OH, a rant. right.

Y!A people are very stupid.

Oh, it wasn't our first snow, but I was waiting for the bus this morning and was caught in a snow flurry with lots of wind :mad:

Oh, and then I was outside for over an hour during the afternoon, and got a combination of snow, hail, and rain, pounded into my left ear :mad:

you sound like that red headed chick from American Pie

So.

Many.

Right-wingers.

In.

This.

World.

:mad:

Relative to what?

ideologies.

So.

Many.

Left-wingers.

In.

This.

World.

:mad:
:mad:
:mad:

The internet has left me in despair for reasons entirely unrelated to OT.

I need to stop treating the 'net as Serious Business.

I now have to get to Baltimore tomorrow morning by an alternative method, having unexpectedly lost the use of a friend's car.

This should be interesting. And expensive. Mostly expensive.

Well, it hasn't yet gotten below 50 here during the day, but has rained a lot.

Folks haven't been sufficiently spreading the meme of "Aimee's fallacy" (termed for Aimee recognizing it and enlightening us all)

Also: Some people out there likely still think "meme" is pronounced "meemee." This is something that must be corrected again and again :whipped:

Well, it hasn't yet gotten below 50 here during the day, but has rained a lot.

Well, it hasn't yet gotten above 50 here at all, but it has snowed all day.

And the snow was much colder than the air. freezing cold. Gave me a headache.

Finally I am a noob who needs to scroll up :(

After no small amount of hand-wringing, I discovered several things.

1. MARC does not operate on weekends. So I'd have to ride an actual Amtrak train, coach, to get there.

2. Said coach tickets would have had me out fifty bucks. At least. Probably more, I didn't double-check the schedule from the bus to the metro (the step before the train).

3. Cabs still cost more than weekend Metro + weekend train.

4. I don't actually have to be there at the time recommended.

So, at four in the morning, I pulled a Bill O'Reilly and elected to do it live. That is, on Monday. When I can actually get a train that won't run me a disgusting amount of money.

I have fever. It sucks.

I broke my spectacles when I woke up this morning. And my motorcycle is acting up again. I'm getting a car to solve this for once and for all.


I hate Facebook's new news feed.

Ditto.

I hate Facebook's new news feed.

Meh, It's okay I guess.

I went to Ikea the other day. It was terrifying, they were trying to push their weird food and everything had some foreign name. Like a lamp was called Lampan.

I went to Ikea the other day. It was terrifying, they were trying to push their weird food and everything had some foreign name. Like a lamp was called Lampan.

But they have awesome lingonberry jam! :love:

I also went to IKEA. It's not confusing at all.

Nationalism abound in the Altered Maps thread again. Screw you, Poland. :mad:

I hate the fact that the more recent google map javascripts have squashed circles instead of perfect circles. :mad:

I went to Ikea the other day. It was terrifying, they were trying to push their weird food and everything had some foreign name. Like a lamp was called Lampan.

Lampan = The Lamp.

"an" in Swedish = "the" in English

Not so strange after all huh...

Also, is it true that IKEA is the world's biggest exporter of Swedish cuisine?

Lampan = The Lamp.

"an" in Swedish = "the" in English

Wow, enclitic definite articles! The same system as in Romanian... I had no idea Swedish had that, although now that I think about it I did hear about some north Germanic languages functioning also like that.

Lampan = The Lamp.

"an" in Swedish = "the" in English

Not so strange after all huh...

Also, is it true that IKEA is the world's biggest exporter of Swedish cuisine?

Ja det skulle inte alls förvåna mig.

Ja det skulle inte alls förvåna mig.

IKEA: Serving the world meatballs and potatoes, covered in gravy and lingonberry jam, since 1943.

Its 5 am, im not asleep yet, and it doesnt look like ill be anytime soon. Im also extremely sore and physically exhausted.

So.

Many.

Right-wingers.

In.

This.

World.

:mad:

So.

Many.

Left-wingers.

In.

This.

World.

:mad:
:mad:
:mad:
Politics is a cancer.

I just saw one of the stupidest memes I can think of - much more so than even stuff from certain anonymous places. What type of losers came up with talking about some Candle Jack character from an annoying and pathetic kids show that hardly anyone ever even watched, and isn't nostalgic either?

Conservatism is a cancer.
Fixed. :mischief:

Humanity is a cancer.

Actually fixed.

Cancer is a humanity.

I reason:

Politics = Cancer = Conservatism, Cancer = Humanity = Cancer. Also, Humans taste like chicken. Therefore, Conservative Politicians taste like chicken.

In conclusion, People = S**t

Dammit Youtube copyright clampdown :shake:

Flu + Too much energy to sleep. Ick! But at least CFC is here, and with it discussions of politics and lingonberries!

I honestly don't understand why people take Glenn Beck seriously. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-gustin/net-neutrality-john-mccai_b_331298.html)

Saturday morning a guy I do not like called me at 6am and woke me up and asked me for some beer. I yelled at him and hung up and a moment later his mother called and asked me to give him some beer. :wallbash::dubious::mad:

Dammit Youtube copyright clampdown :shake:

WMG sucks. :mad:

I concur.

What pisses me off is that more and more pro-WMG laws will get enacted and enforced no matter what we do.

Damn capitalism. [pissed]

My new desk lamp has a huge base. I wanted one with a desk clamp, but there were no good ones with clamps. I had to spend the last hour machining a piece to connect my old lamp's base to the new one's body. Extremely annoying after you come back from work with a smashed finger.

I never thought the day would come when I'm actually wishing for some work. Hours to go till I can go home and absolutely nothing to do.

I never thought the day would come when I'm actually wishing for some work. Hours to go till I can go home and absolutely nothing to do.

Thats often my every weekend. Im just so tired after work that I dont feel like getting up and doing something, but I still want to do something.

I reason:

Politics = Cancer = Conservatism, Cancer = Humanity = Cancer. Also, Humans taste like chicken. Therefore, Conservative Politicians taste like chicken.

I thought it had been well established that humans don't taste like chicken, but like pork.

(Well, according to some cannibals man taste like pork and women taste more like roast beef, at least of cooked properly. It seems humans are also unable to smell human flesh, so it is probably more a matter of texture.)

Pork fits with politicians better though, so I'm sticking with politicians taste like pork/like the taste of pork(barrel spending).

Having extensively read on the subject, I recently conceived of the idea of writing a CFC history article on the causes of the First World War, only to find I had been beaten to the punch by a self-attested verbose poster (http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=1031) by some five years and change. His take on the matter is verbose, and it covers many bases, but it has some deficits.

The first point, I do not believe that many posters on CFC (OT or WH) have actually read it, considering some of the relevant information that is frequently ignored by many here who hold a substantive opinion on the matter. This is a shame, because, despite being nearly as random a narrative - though much better organized - as one I might craft, the author did a damned good job of tying together relevant threads and eliminating certain myths that seem to persist among the denizens of CFC.

The second point is that the discussion is kinda...dumbed down. It reads like it was written for a middle-schooler with no knowledge of European history from a standing start. This might be attributed to the fact that it was written in days when CFC was young and possibly more populated by people who didn't give a damn. (It might not have even changed significantly from that.) But in so doing, it omits quite a few relevant facts, and in wiping out a few myths fosters new ones. So, while an improvement on the current situation as I perceive it - which admittedly may be a poor generalization - it isn't enough, by my lights.

So there's already a long, fairly involved, and good quality history article on the subject. Sufficient rationale for not writing a long, fairly involved, and I would hope good quality history article on the same one. Plus, let's face it, I'm just thinking about this because I want a kind of release from other stuff I'm writing. Doing that would probably get a few (I hope) members of the community here a bit pissed at me.

But still there's the whole sense of maaaaaaaan associated with the whole thing. You know what I mean? It's kinda dejecting. And what makes it worse is that this is one of those minor projects that, unlike my other brief crusades like the grand effort to learn more about the history of the modern Middle East, or the glorious scheme to be better at basketball than just a decent pickup player, or the One That I Had But Got Away Anyway, it'll probably stick with me because I'm specializing in that period. (Well, that last one sticks too. Bad.)

So, yeah. Not really a big deal, but at five in the morning I had thoughts on it. In a postcountless thread. Shoot me.

So we've been struggling for 3 months to make good on the marketing promise of a 1 November deadline. It seemed a real long-shot to make it, but we looked about to pull it off. Last Friday we had some beers to celebrate the fact we only needed about 60 man-hours, spread over 3 guys, to get the job done. Cheers all around. This morning though we get called into a meeting. Since marketing got a whiff of our progress they decided to drop an extended requirements bomb in our planning.

If I stop posting here for a while and you find an article in Reuter's Odly Enough about a Dutch Project Manager being killed by anal insertion of a fruit machine; Game Designer arrested, you can guess what happened.

Having extensively read on the subject, I recently conceived of the idea of writing a CFC history article on the causes of the First World War, only to find I had been beaten to the punch by a self-attested verbose poster (http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=1031) by some five years and change. His take on the matter is verbose, and it covers many bases, but it has some deficits.

The first point, I do not believe that many posters on CFC (OT or WH) have actually read it, considering some of the relevant information that is frequently ignored by many here who hold a substantive opinion on the matter. This is a shame, because, despite being nearly as random a narrative - though much better organized - as one I might craft, the author did a damned good job of tying together relevant threads and eliminating certain myths that seem to persist among the denizens of CFC.

The second point is that the discussion is kinda...dumbed down. It reads like it was written for a middle-schooler with no knowledge of European history from a standing start. This might be attributed to the fact that it was written in days when CFC was young and possibly more populated by people who didn't give a damn. (It might not have even changed significantly from that.) But in so doing, it omits quite a few relevant facts, and in wiping out a few myths fosters new ones. So, while an improvement on the current situation as I perceive it - which admittedly may be a poor generalization - it isn't enough, by my lights.

So there's already a long, fairly involved, and good quality history article on the subject. Sufficient rationale for not writing a long, fairly involved, and I would hope good quality history article on the same one. Plus, let's face it, I'm just thinking about this because I want a kind of release from other stuff I'm writing. Doing that would probably get a few (I hope) members of the community here a bit pissed at me.

But still there's the whole sense of maaaaaaaan associated with the whole thing. You know what I mean? It's kinda dejecting. And what makes it worse is that this is one of those minor projects that, unlike my other brief crusades like the grand effort to learn more about the history of the modern Middle East, or the glorious scheme to be better at basketball than just a decent pickup player, or the One That I Had But Got Away Anyway, it'll probably stick with me because I'm specializing in that period. (Well, that last one sticks too. Bad.)

So, yeah. Not really a big deal, but at five in the morning I had thoughts on it. In a postcountless thread. Shoot me.

Meh, I wouldn't mind reading different articles on the same topic. In history it's always good to read as many perspectives and stories as possible to easier be able to get an understanding of that period. I say you go for it.

Otherwise, you could always post it on another forum ;)

Um, okay yeah. On a three lane road, what is the middle lane used for? YEAH, THAT'S FRAKKING RIGHT! LEFT TURNS! SO USE THE BLOODY THING IF YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE A LEFT TURN!! [pissed]

kthxbai, jackoff (you know who you are, though I seriously doubt you post here)

Postal strikes - I hate you! :mad:

Postal strikes - I hate you! :mad:

Yay liberals!

It's only 5.20 and it is already dark.

I won the 'first to fail' competition for all the new computers installed at work over the last two weeks. :(

My shiny new computer worked fine all last week, and this morning it wouldn't even boot up. IT is working on it (showed up more than an hour after I called) but in the mean time, I've had to get software installed on another computer - away from my phone and opposite the coffee pots (and lots of people traffic) - so I have somewhere to work until my computer gets fixed.

I lost 2 friends today. Not lost them, i just realised who are my friends and who are not in a certain group of people. When you feel like :):):):) and because of some "friends" you end up feeling worse then those are not friends. Those that can make you feel better are priceless tho. :)

Media-convert.com's being retarded.

New oven and microwave were delivered at 10am today. Oven worked out fine, we adjusted the legs and leveled it out. Microwave though, man. Nonstandard mount on it (its an over the range microwave oven) which meant that me and my dad spent 3 hours making a bracket which we could use to mount it. Why is it so difficult to make a symmetrical mount for a microwave?

That and I only got 4 hours of sleep again, except this time I woke up on my own for some reason.

:mad::mad::mad:

I'm going to become a year behind because of one stupid class holding up a ton of classes, and then my god damned pos school not offering it for 2 straight semesters. Real fair, douchebagels. Besides that, I can't take another class because it conflicts with every single physics class that is a requirement to take with said class. Surely geniuses decided on the schedules for this school. I wanted an AAS before I left this school so I wouldn't have to worry about another school not taking credits but I just can't deal with this crap.

So I have my computer back, but now I get to redo everything I did last week when I first got the new computer - downloading & installing programs I need, adjusting all my settings, etc. And I get to do more this time around (relocating all my backed-up files) because this time the back-up of my old computer wasn't copied onto the new(est) one. *sigh*

Now at place 240 in queue in Media-convert...

[pissed]

So we've been struggling for 3 months to make good on the marketing promise of a 1 November deadline. It seemed a real long-shot to make it, but we looked about to pull it off. Last Friday we had some beers to celebrate the fact we only needed about 60 man-hours, spread over 3 guys, to get the job done. Cheers all around. This morning though we get called into a meeting. Since marketing got a whiff of our progress they decided to drop an extended requirements bomb in our planning.

If I stop posting here for a while and you find an article in Reuter's Odly Enough about a Dutch Project Manager being killed by anal insertion of a fruit machine; Game Designer arrested, you can guess what happened.

What did they ask you to do, then?

As for that, well, I'm sure you can come up with something better than a fruit machine. Something that's sharp. :p

Over-slept during my nap

So here's a little rant/suggestion about the forums, I'd actually thought of it a while ago - who else finds it really annoying that once a thread hits page 10 (and hey, look where we are ;)), you can only directly link to the first 10 pages, and the "Last Page." I'd much rather have a "First page" and then the last 10 pages, as it would do for you inside the thread, since that's where recent discussion is. At the least, having an option to toggle or customize might be nice - this is the type of thing that heavily plagues certain threads (who wants to see page 5 of some sports thread, when it's months old...) if there already is an option I'm missing I'd appreciate hearing about it.

So here's a little rant/suggestion about the forums, I'd actually thought of it a while ago - who else finds it really annoying that once a thread hits page 10 (and hey, look where we are ;)), you can only directly link to the first 10 pages, and the "Last Page." I'd much rather have a "First page" and then the last 10 pages, as it would do for you inside the thread, since that's where recent discussion is. At the least, having an option to toggle or customize might be nice - this is the type of thing that heavily plagues certain threads (who wants to see page 5 of some sports thread, when it's months old...) if there already is an option I'm missing I'd appreciate hearing about it.

I believe you're looking for the Site Feedback subforum.

What did they ask you to do, then?We're making a multigamer, 8 games. Marketing wanted 10, but were told they'd have to wait for a next release. Marketing said "but we promised the customer". We said, "than you're a bloody fool that's what you are", since we told them they could have any number of games as long as it was lower than 9 and higher than 7 from the start. Now they expect us to port 2 more games in there from the German multigamer, complete with testing and peer review. In one week.

So I got together with the programmers, asked them to 'inject' a 'feature' which would crash each game after an hour. This morning our testers 'found' this unfortunate bug, so it looks like we have to spend the rest of the week bugfixing :mischief:

So sorry those extra two games have to wait for next release :(
As for that, well, I'm sure you can come up with something better than a fruit machine. Something that's sharp. :pFruit machines are quite big though. Should be rather painful.

Yay liberals!

I would like to rant about ignorance.

But I don't have time, since I must go to class and learn about feminist methods of art history. Yeah, you know that "please shoot me" face? Making it right now.

At least it's not feminist analysis of international relations. Yours seems at least vaguely possible to apply to the subject matter.

Political correctness gone mad :mad:

Rant: SverigeDemokraterna are on the rise.

I would like to rant about ignorance as well.

We're making a multigamer, 8 games. Marketing wanted 10, but were told they'd have to wait for a next release. Marketing said "but we promised the customer". We said, "than you're a bloody fool that's what you are", since we told them they could have any number of games as long as it was lower than 9 and higher than 7 from the start. Now they expect us to port 2 more games in there from the German multigamer, complete with testing and peer review. In one week.

So I got together with the programmers, asked them to 'inject' a 'feature' which would crash each game after an hour. This morning our testers 'found' this unfortunate bug, so it looks like we have to spend the rest of the week bugfixing :mischief:

So sorry those extra two games have to wait for next release :(

You gave me a rave and made me forget my rant! :(

You gave me a rave and made me forget my rant! :(I can make one up for you :)

Heretic_Cata starts a thread how CFC turned him into a newt and no one posts "it got better"?

What kind of cultural backwater internet wasteland is this?

Rant: SverigeDemokraterna are on the rise.

That article in aftonbladet was fun to read. Jimmie Åkesson is so damn stupid

Actually fixed.

Cells in a colorectal tumor with mutated p53 are cancerous. A colon is made of cells. Therefore, colons are cancerous. Sound logic.

I can make one up for you :)

Heretic_Cata starts a thread how CFC turned him into a newt and no one posts "it got better"?

What kind of cultural backwater internet wasteland is this?

To be fair, it's probably the first thing many of us thought, but the thread was already locked. So rant: Busy all day and didn't get check CFC earlier to get that in...

What he hell is wrong with our culture that people worship Miley Cyrus and the like and have no clue who the great scientific minds are? How many "average" people today know who Carl Sagan was, or Richard Feynman, or Niel DeGrasse Tyson? Who knows what our scientists are discovering today, even if it does make national headlines for a moment? How many people can talk for hours about the Steelers' defensive line, but don't understand how a simple prism works? Or can recite the lyrics of ever 50 Cent song but couldn't tell you the three laws of thermodynamics? And even among the "educated," how many know anything about epistemology?

I detest cheesy IM statuses.

You know, I didn't recognize Tyson's name as first but a quick search revealed that I've obviously heard of him - he's famous for efforts to "popularize science" though, not a bad guy at all, but it was kinda odd for you to mention him as a "great mind" and what that implies.

It's always been like that. Like any other culture cares more about science than sports and celebrities.

You know, I didn't recognize Tyson's name as first but a quick search revealed that I've obviously heard of him - he's famous for efforts to "popularize science" though, not a bad guy at all, but it was kinda odd for you to mention him as a "great mind" and what that implies.

If Tyson is known by laymen its most likely because of his recent (last few years) involvement in the Pluto question. I shouldn't have called him a "great mind," but he's obviously a very smart person.

It's always been like that. Like any other culture cares more about science than sports and celebrities.

It hasn't always been like that. Scientists used to be virtual superstars.

When has it ever been like that? Only time I could think would maybe be a brief time around Einstein and that time when major changes in how people thought the world was were being made frequently. And even then it'd have been mostly just educated middle-class people interested in his stuff, but the common man was mostly still just focused on who was in the world series.

Yes it about ended around that time.

But that doesn't change the fact that "its always been that way" is a thoroughly stupid reason for doing anything, or that that's the only way it can be.

What he hell is wrong with our culture that people worship Miley Cyrus and the like and have no clue who the great scientific minds are? How many "average" people today know who Carl Sagan was, or Richard Feynman, or Niel DeGrasse Tyson? Who knows what our scientists are discovering today, even if it does make national headlines for a moment? How many people can talk for hours about the Steelers' defensive line, but don't understand how a simple prism works? Or can recite the lyrics of ever 50 Cent song but couldn't tell you the three laws of thermodynamics? And even among the "educated," how many know anything about epistemology?

You know all of this?

You know all of this?

Except for epistemology, I'm still sketchy on that one, since its, you know, hard and stuff.

Cheezy, nobody knows anything about Classical Southeast Asia, I cry myself to sleep on a regular basis because of it. Bloody Philistines the lot of you.

It's sad that there are actually people in this world who are simply too dumb to troll.

Well, according to Cheezy's test I must be a borderline idiot. I couldn't tell you anything about Miley Cyrus, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Niel DeGrasse Tyson, the Steelers', 50 cent or epistemology; although, I do know a little about prisms and thermodynamics. All those unknowns represent, to me, esoteric knowledge. I don't have any immediate use for it, yet I'm sure Cheezy doesn't consider me a stupid person for not knowing it. I likewise don't consider him a stupid person for not knowing about my own obscure little corner of history and economics -- or rugby, or Indonesian history, or the economics of the Northern Territory. The sum total of knoweldge in the world has exponentially expanded in the last few hundred years, it was easy for the educated at the turn of the millennium to know all past and living 'great minds' there weren't all that many of them.

Perhaps subtlety of meaning is lost?

My rant was irrelevant to what you children were speaking about before I entered the thread.

... Cheezy test them. :D

Well, according to Cheezy's test I must be a borderline idiot. I couldn't tell you anything about Miley Cyrus, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Niel DeGrasse Tyson, the Steelers', 50 cent or epistemology; although, I do know a little about prisms and thermodynamics. All those unknowns represent, to me, esoteric knowledge. I don't have any immediate use for it, yet I'm sure Cheezy doesn't consider me a stupid person for not knowing it. I likewise don't consider him a stupid person for not knowing about my own obscure little corner of history and economics -- or rugby, or Indonesian history, or the economics of the Northern Territory. The sum total of knoweldge in the world has exponentially expanded in the last few hundred years, it was easy for the educated at the turn of the millennium to know all past and living 'great minds' there weren't all that many of them.

Perhaps subtlety of meaning is lost?

They were just placeholder examples of things, it wasn't supposed to be some sort of magic "are you as smart as Cheezy?" rubric.

If injuries keep occurring at this rate, the Vancouver Canucks will soon be the Vancouver Moose. :cry:

Some leaders are not as great as one thinks they are.

Ugh, today was going so well up until this afternoon. Then friends act like stupid, self-righteous gits, and the rain didn't help with traffic on the highway. None of this is helping my paper.

Some leaders are not as great as one thinks they are.

Well it shows how truly hard it is to rule well.

My stupid cat has a cold or something because he's been sneezing nonstop with a runny wheezing nose since yesterday. He of course then has to sleep on my bed, sneezing on me all night, then going psycho meowing and running around whining to go outside, finally he stopped and is snoring on a chair in my room now.

Speaking of which, my piano teacher's dog coughs up all manner of foreign objects during my lesson.

The customer is not always right.

I apologize to anyone (particularly in the legal profession) who may have been hurt or offended by some of my posts this morning. Stuff happened and I vented in my posts. Sorry.

That's really quite obvious, isn't it?

I'm sick. :(

Well it shows how truly hard it is to rule well.

But some people don't even try.

If I keep taking holidays, I'm going to run out of money.

They were just placeholder examples of things, it wasn't supposed to be some sort of magic "are you as smart as Cheezy?" rubric.

Yes it was. Stop being so darn modest! :mischief:

That article in aftonbladet was fun to read. Jimmie Åkesson is so damn stupid

Yeah. I just hope my brains won't be decorating the streets of Stockholm a la Lasermannen.

What he hell is wrong with our culture that people worship Miley Cyrus and the like and have no clue who the great scientific minds are? How many "average" people today know who Carl Sagan was, or Richard Feynman, or Niel DeGrasse Tyson? Who knows what our scientists are discovering today, even if it does make national headlines for a moment? How many people can talk for hours about the Steelers' defensive line, but don't understand how a simple prism works? Or can recite the lyrics of ever 50 Cent song but couldn't tell you the three laws of thermodynamics? And even among the "educated," how many know anything about epistemology?

Everyone has a place in society. These "'average' people" that you speak of probably have no use of this excess information. Why should they care about the conservation of energy?

I can understand epistemology (the usage of critical thinking is something I'd love to see more of) and I'd love for people to have a greater knowledge of politics and stuff that actually concern them but I see no reason to complain just because people don't worship Mr Sagan.

The rest of us will just have to stick to our science fiction.

RIP Sagan :sad:

You know, I didn't recognize Tyson's name as first but a quick search revealed that I've obviously heard of him - he's famous for efforts to "popularize science" though, not a bad guy at all, but it was kinda odd for you to mention him as a "great mind" and what that implies.

It takes a great mind to make science interesting and, in some ways, funny.

If I keep taking holidays, I'm going to run out of money.

Stop lurking on CFC.

Yes, know it all 'friend', I've been totally mispronouncing my hometown's name for years. Obviously I haven't the slightest freakin' clue on how to pronounce it, but surely since you live in the same county but not in the town, you obviously have the right pronunciation. It's not like you haven't been there in years or anything, or talked to many people native to that town. But please, do go on in lecturing me on how I and everyone else in my hometown goes about mispronouncing its own name. Jesus. Freaking. Christ.

If this were the only time she'd been this irreparably thick, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much.

So I was in class not paying attention because early morning classes make me sleepy when suddenly everyone raises their hand and starts staring at me, at which point I realized the TA asked a question about whether we should tolerate some cultures which advocate the forcible suicide of women who get raped. And by that time it was too late to raise my hand so I just didn't bother. Everyone looked at me real weird and now they think I support it. He was even like "So I see the vast majority around 95% don't support that" It's a good thing I have a high tolerance for public embarrassment but its the first time I've ever wanted to sink into the floor. I bet they even think I'm a Republican.

I have a paper due on Monday, Trig test on Tuesday
and a presentation next Friday

I GOTTA STEP UP MY GAME

Except for epistemology, I'm still sketchy on that one, since its, you know, hard and stuff.

This reminds me of a certain other time around here. Anyway, pwnage:

"'I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Recognize that....No cheating by googling or the like for you ;)

Why can't I ever stop procrastinating?

"Ehh, Ill stop procrastinating later"

Its probably because you know you can get away with it.

I'm not doing very well this semester. I got sick at the wrong time, and fell pretty far behind. I dropped the class I was doing worst in, but am not doing all that well in the others either. My Psych 1101 grade is probably fine (I got a 96 on the first test even though I was still sick, hadn't been to the class in about 2 weeks, and did not know about the test in order to study. When I did study for the second test I got a 91.), but I've thrown away about 6% (or maybe it was 8%, but 2% can be made up through an extra credit report or being a subject in a couple psych experiments) of the grade from being absent on days with in class assignments and forgetting to email him in advance. I haven't gotten a single Materials Lab report done in time (one of them I didn't get one at all) and that trend does not look like it is going to change this week. On Monday I pulled an all-nighter to try to finish the lab report since I thought it was due Tuesday (I missed the email extending the deadline to 5pm Friday), but did not get that much accomplished. It did mean that I ended up sleeping away most of Tuesday, and missing the review for Thursday's Environmental Engineering test and really throwing off my sleep schedule. I didn't get to study much, and am pretty sure I failed the test. That is after getting a D on the first test in that class, and the professor says almost never curves. I've also made very little progress on the lab report since then. This will probably be another all-nighter. There are so many outliers on my graphs I'm not sure what to omit. The website we were supposed to check for more info on the materials we tested does not seem useful at all, as the domain is up for sale and it only has a lot of useless links instead of real data.

I was planning to meet with my advisers tomorrow to discuss my schedule (since early registration for fall opens up Saturday for me) and when I'll end up graduating (as far as shear number of hours goes I could have graduated in the Spring, but I missed the deadline and am not sure when specific classes I might need are being offered), but I doubt I'll be able to as I need to focus on the report and then sleep.


My cousin is getting married on Halloween, but our part of the family was not invited. (I don't think it was actually anything against us in particular, as apparently only a handful of family members from our rather large family was invited. I guess they wanted a really small wedding at a certain place in Savannah that didn't have room for too many people.)

My leg feels like ow.

Again, I rant that it's 2 AM and I'm still not finished with my homework. Almost, but not quite. Damn you, Chemistry. :mad:

My cousin is getting married on Halloween, but our part of the family was not invited.

That's cold.

Well, I finished my homework finally. However, upon going to turnitin.com to turn it in, I discovered that what I just did is due next Wednesday, and something else, much shorter and less time-consuming, is due today at around 10 PM.

FML. :mad:

I have a chemistry exam in two weeks. If the last one is anything to go by, the people who writes my chemistry exams are a cruel merciless bunch.

Chemistry will suck.

Why do academic books have to have such short publishing runs, and thus be so expensive; my course tutors really recommend buying "Approaches to Social Enquiry: Advancing Knowledge" by Norman Blaikie (it's as exciting as it sounds) and I can only find it on play.com for £55

OK it's not much in the grand scheme of things, but for a student, and for a book that doesn't explain that much in the course (especially towards the end of the year) it does seem a bit much...

I am annoyed. I don't even know why.

Sorry Eran :(

I am annoyed. I don't even know why.

Karma for closing my thread without a good reason. :rolleyes:

I am annoyed. I don't even know why.

Was it something I said? :confused:

Dark CFC is a great theme to use for All Hallows' and all that, but I don't see how anyone can use it the whole year round. Everything's too grey. It's hard to tell where one text box ends and another begins.

Also, this thread has no tags! What's with that? A crucial oversight on your part, Love. If you weren't in France I'd send you to France as punishment.

As I feared, I did not finish the lab report on time. I fell asleep at almost 10am, and woke up about the time the lab was due. Maybe another all-nighter will be enough.



Karma for closing my thread without a good reason. :rolleyes:

Does that count as breaking the rules by publicaly discussing moderator actions? Maybe he could get some more bad karma by giving you an infraction.

Roommate just got laid off. I'm going to have to pay $1,100 rent by myself. Goddamnit.

Roommate just got laid off. I'm going to have to pay $1,100 rent by myself. Goddamnit.

Then kick the lazy bum out if he ain't gonna work! :p

Seriously, I hope he can find something else soon. $1100/month is a lot to cover on one income.

My rant: miserable weather the past few days. Nothing like waking up at 8:00 A.M. to a pitch black sky. Then finding out it's going to stay that way through the weekend, with the occasional grayness to look forward to. And, oh yes, it's going to rain THE WHOLE FRIGGING TIME.

Invisalign right now is painful.

Then kick the lazy bum out if he ain't gonna work! :p

Seriously, I hope he can find something else soon. $1100/month is a lot to cover on one income.

My rant: miserable weather the past few days. Nothing like waking up at 8:00 A.M. to a pitch black sky. Then finding out it's going to stay that way through the weekend, with the occasional grayness to look forward to. And, oh yes, it's going to rain THE WHOLE FRIGGING TIME.

That kind of weather is awesome.

I love it best just before it's going to rain like hell, when it's just cloudy and windy too.

Pitch Black + Rain is not awesome. Rain is not awesome.