Random Rants XLIX - IT CHAFES MY ARSE!!!

[azzaman333]

Sore throat.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

@PE: I'm sure she didn't take it as hard as you did. You'll be fine.

@Azzaman: gargle with salt water.
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[Heretic_Cata]

Gargle with lots of alcohol. Works every time !

 

[Cutlass]

Looks like my PC is dying

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Looks like my PC is dying

I am not a techie, but you can get a good desktop tower for less than $500. Don't toss the old hard drive, you can get user-friendly adapters to plug it into a USB and pull your
data off.

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[hobbsyoyo]

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[Cutlass]

Do you know which components are failing? Because it's a PC if you can identify them you can just replace them.

Rant:
Extremely long day ahead for me and I have this sinking feeling that the people we've assigned to work on stuff for the satellite project haven't actually done any work.

I hit the power button, the power supply came up, then a few seconds later shut down. I did this several times, one time it gave me POST beeps indicating a hardware failure and shut down again. a few more tries and it came up with no hard drive found (HDD is 2 weeks old). A couple more tries and it booted.

Machine is about 6 years old. It's time for a new one. Could be mobo, could be power supply. Either way, I've just recently replaced HDD, DVD, and video card. I can't see any gain from not replacing the rest at this point.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Rant:
Extremely long day ahead for me and I have this sinking feeling that the people we've assigned to work on stuff for the satellite project haven't actually done any work.

Where are the German scientists when you need them.

Don't despair. If YOU persevere, I think the hangers-on will either step up or quit.


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[SouthernKing]

Are you me?

I haven't been in Seattle since IIRC 2004, so I doubt it

Relax. Be confident in what you know, be comfortable with yourself. I was a late bloomer, myself, but I did things to help build my confidence
-- joined the theater, did sports (poorly at first, lost all but 2 wrestling matches), found friends who were like me, studied hard.

I didn't go to homecoming until my senior year.

FYI: in my junior year, got a wicked nosebleed at the Valentine's Dance and ruined my jacket. BUT I learned how to jitterbug!

Moods are just moods. They will pass.

Thanks. I do feel slightly better now than I did when I posted that, but knowing how my mood works I'll probably crash again by early next week. I'll just take it as it comes I guess.

I didn't start feeling better about my social skills until I was almost all the way out of high school. At which point I realized I wasn't going to be seeing these same people everyday for the rest of my life. And I really stopped caring what most of them thought. It's one of the cruel ironies of life that not giving a crap about what people think tends to make, at least some, people think better of you. But I hear ya. I'd think you were unusual or lying if you didn't feel this way at least a bunch of the time in HS.

It got way better in college. Fresh start. Totally socially acceptable to geek the hell out on life. Only hard part is remembering that while you can sit down and play games all day, you really will be happier if you do that alongside actually going to class and also making sure you hang the heck out with just the neat freaking people that exist to hang out with at college. You can always play games when you're done, the university social atmosphere is harder to replicate.

Thanks. That's part of why I'm waiting for high school to end, so I can (hopefully) move out of state and never see anyone from high school again.

Sore throat.

Drink something carbonated, preferably with lots of sugar, I've found that helps.

 

[azzaman333]

Drink something carbonated, preferably with lots of sugar, I've found that helps.

Funnily enough, i happen to be drinking a can of Red Bull to vanquish my tiredness, so if it can reduce the throatal irritation too that'd be a nice little bonus.

 

[bhsup]

Funnily enough, i happen to be drinking a can of Red Bull to vanquish my tiredness, so if it can reduce the throatal irritation too that'd be a nice little bonus.

YOU! It's your fault this crap exists!!

I just tried my first Red Bull energy drink. It was a vile concoction of crap. I cannot believe people continue to buy it after trying it once. Try coffee, tea, Coke, Sprite, whatever, but for the love of God please let this product disappear from the market. Really, really ticked at the money I wasted on it.

Jolt tasted better, and that's saying something.

 

[Ajidica]

I've never actually hated a professor before, but I flat out hate my Philosophy professor.
His lecture style is terrible. He has absurdly long pauses in the middle of his sentences making it impossible to know when an idea is finished, when he is buying time to put his thoughts together, or is looking for questions. He is crap at responding to questions promptly (I had my hand up for ten minutes, and he encouraged us to ask questions during lecture, so it wasn't like this was a 1,000 person lecture hall). When he does finally respond to a question, his response makes no sense. I asked him to clarify what he meant by the term 'wishing well' in the context of Aristotelian friendship, and he went off on what I perceived to be a tangent and talked about Utilitarianism and Bentham. I couldn't even ask him to clarify what he meant in the response because I had absolutely no idea what was said.
Furthermore, with little warning he assigned us 100 pages of Tolstoy to read over 2 days. He had told us this would be happening sometime over the next month as he has a very loose syllabus- but I hadn't expected it to happen the first real day of class. I'm sure he thinks his class is the most important of all, but I have other classes that have just as much reading (like Developmental Economics) that I actually care about. I can't drop the class as I need to graduate and there are no other semesters I could take it as I'm cutting my class slots very close already by double majoring.


Also, my advisor isn't responding to my emails about setting up a meeting.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Bummer, Ajidica. Does it feel like he's wasting your time and money?
I had great luck with profs in school. And I mean luck...

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[W|M]

I just tried my first Red Bull energy drink. It was a vile concoction of crap. I cannot believe people continue to buy it after trying it once. Try coffee, tea, Coke, Sprite, whatever, but for the love of God please let this product disappear from the market. Really, really ticked at the money I wasted on it.

Jolt tasted better, and that's saying something.

Mixing energy drinks (including Red Bull) with vodka is fairly popular here - And vodka with Red Bull is many times worse than pure Red Bull.

 

[Ajidica]

Bummer, Ajidica. Does it feel like he's wasting your time and money?
I had great luck with profs in school. And I mean luck...

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Yes to both.
Prior to this, I've never actually had a bad prof. One wasn't that great because he placed his department head duties before the class, but the few times he was able to teach he was quite good. I didn't get along with my first English prof that well, but that almost entirely my fault because I didn't put much effort into the class and I had other issues that semester.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Yes to both.
Prior to this, I've never actually had a bad prof. One wasn't that great because he placed his department head duties before the class, but the few times he was able to teach he was quite good. I didn't get along with my first English prof that well, but that almost entirely my fault because I didn't put much effort into the class and I had other issues that semester.

What would happen if you did meet with your advisor? Sounds like you're over a barrel. Is there an alternative?

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[Ajidica]

Oh, the advisor meeting is nothing pressing. I simply need to get her to fix a clerical error the Academic Counseling department made (that we already talked about last semester but decided to postpone the action to the fall because of the chaos of seniors graduating) and talk about study abroad possibilities and assorted stuff revolving around research assistants and possible internships.
I don't suppose the CPUSA would be interested in hiring an International Relations/Economics double major with a Spanish minor for research work?

I also have a confession. For the first time in my life I spark noted a book for class and I feel scummy about it.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

You're secret's safe with us, surely. Just don't repeat it. You'll feel better. I understand the pressure is on, leads to shortcuts.

When I was in school we didn't have the world wide web or Spark Note. Well, we had Cliff Notes, but those were in print and stet and you'd get caught easy.

I had a Marxist lit prof who led his own study groups and I couldn't get away with sloughing like I could with the TAs. It was good conditioning for me to read.

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[madviking]

my philo prof this semester is a bit crazy but so far not too bad

Mixing energy drinks (including Red Bull) with vodka is fairly popular here - And vodka with Red Bull is many times worse than pure Red Bull.

it's popular everywhere

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Rant: Rage. Pure and simple.

Do not be surprised if Earth becomes the only source for all future GRB's.

That's how pissed off I am.

Stupid EAxis programming.

Also, stupid Google.

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