Random Rants ΠΑ: That's a paddlin'

[MaryKB]

Looking like a old fart that hates technology and carrying a brief case is good cover to.

Wouldn't someone like that be more likely to have cash rather than cards?

My father told me he pretty much keeps his life savings in his wallet I told him that's not a good idea, but he never listens to me.

 

[rah]

I wear old jeans and a sweatshirt to work. They probably figure I'm not even carrying a wallet.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I use the "low reward" strategy myself, by dressing badly and having a cracked-up phone and a wallet that is literally falling apart. Who the hell is going to rob a dude with ill-fitting wrinkled clothes whose wallet is literally falling apart?

Coupled with that dude being young, fit, and six four? Nobody I know.

I understand what you're saying Tim, but I feel too often people ignore the macro part and focus entirely on the micro, and make their entire approach "If you're a victim, it's your fault." I find this gets especially egregious with crimes specifically affecting women.

I might also be taking for granted how I live in a virtually crime-free area and I don't worry often around here.

As I said, I think pretty much everything that can be effective on the macro side is already being done. Almost every area, again, speaking of the US, is a virtually crime free area, so long as you don't count crimes associated with illegal enterprises.

 

[Snerk]

Do you celebrate a raucous holiday at the solstice to thank the sun in its mercy for returning to the north of the world?

Naturally. The human sacrifices are a thing of beauty. So dignified.

 

[Syno]

Today has been a garbage day. Physically. But that leads straight to mentally, too.

I'm trying to muster some level of functionality by caffeine-bombing myself and it is... not working.

I switched some things around with my deadlines but it's still going to be an incredibly tough thing to see through. I need a sugar daddy. Or mommy, I guess.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm trying to muster some level of functionality by caffeine-bombing myself and it is... not working.

I once attempted to drink an energy drink just to see what would happen. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

 

[Ferocitus]

I wear old jeans and a sweatshirt to work. They probably figure I'm not even carrying a wallet.

In fact, you could be offered money by computer science/maths post-grads wanting you to help them with their Fortran assignments.

 

[Lexicus]

Coupled with that dude being young, fit, and six four? Nobody I know.

Six three and not super fit, but I walk a lot faster and more purposefully than probably 999 people out of 1000 so close enough.

Almost every area, again, speaking of the US, is a virtually crime free area, so long as you don't count crimes associated with illegal enterprises.

A former friend of mine was a victim of a legit violent robbery involving a bunch of dudes breaking into a house with ski masks and automatic weapons and knives...because the house was his drug dealer's, and for some reason he was just hanging out there doing work on his computer. We only ever bought pot from that dude but he was dabbling in harder stuff and I believe he got robbed because he inadvertently stepped on some toes.

 

[Snerk]

Today has been a garbage day. Physically. But that leads straight to mentally, too.

I'm trying to muster some level of functionality by caffeine-bombing myself and it is... not working.

I switched some things around with my deadlines but it's still going to be an incredibly tough thing to see through. I need a sugar daddy. Or mommy, I guess.

You'd just get sugar friendzoned.

 

[rah]

In fact, you could be offered money by computer science/maths post-grads wanting you to help them with their Fortran assignments.

I was a good fortran programmer in my day. And yes I did tutor students in it for cash after I graduated in the 80's

 

[AdamCrock]

Mary flexing her "I can write a poem on a whim" muscle.

Also: My cursive borders on Russian cursive in terms of legibility, so I write in block letters. And it's still barely legible in that form too.

Some people can, some people would
I'm not really sure You're out of the wood

 

[AdamCrock]

Sure. You're getting free room & board in my closet so you might as well work for it.

I insist being paid in cookies though .... aaand potatoe chips ! ^^

 

[Ferocitus]

I was a good fortran programmer in my day. And yes I did tutor students in it for cash after I graduated in the 80's

I still do most of my computational mathematics research work in Fortran. In 2009, the US Navy wanted ship hydrodynamics code from us in Fortran 77.
I think NVIDIA's decision to use Fortran (or "CUDA Fortran") has really upset some C/C++ fans.

 

[AdamCrock]

speaking of the US, is a virtually crime guns free area

... but let's not get into that here

 

[rah]

I was also competent in PL/1 and Cobol. (and quite a few other original mainframe languages.)

 

[Lexicus]

My writing varies so much between the "fast" and "taking my time" variants that it basically looks like two different people.

 

[AdamCrock]

My quick sign is also everytime a little bit different and I also modify it on a regular basis ... guess I like to change things often

 

[Takhisis]

Come to the arctic. We are in the process of disposing of the sun entirely. (at least for a few months)

 

[Snerk]

That's the gist of it.

 

[Ferocitus]

I was also competent in PL/1 and Cobol. (and quite a few other original mainframe languages.)

Well, you are older than me, so I'd be surprised if you didn't feed cuneiform tablets into a reader in your mainframes.
I'm a year younger than you, a product of the pencil and papyrus code generation.