I seriously thought it was you, tng, in your best girly voice.
It is, I was just messing with /. I recorded like 20 different phrases that weren't used. insomniasexx -you should make that a post :) I know you and I laughed out asses off when listening to them, I'm sure others would too.
"They taste like burning" may be my all-time favorite Simpsons line.in your best girly voice.
Actually am_Unition, I was channeling my inner Ralph Wiggum
Here's the demo link. I'll make a post tomorrow. Someone told me never to let anyone know who did the voices. Is that cat out of the bag yet? LOL http://supergeniustay.com/hubski-april-fools-2015/aprilfools.html
OK, now I know what mk was talking about when he mentioned limiting this implementation. I mean, I would've just been un-following, re-following, and OH GOD bear with me, this is live stream of thought: I've just tried out the first few voices, including "I FOLLOWED YOU!! :D" using a laptop, remote desktop'ing into my tower unit in my office at work. It is entirely possible that the speakers are turned on there, and not only was the audio routed through remote desktop to this laptop from which I type, but the clips also played from the speakers, in my office, and this is about the time the cleaning lady comes by... uhhhhh... It is entirely possible mk has saved a hubski-ite a police report by only using some of the more tame clips. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF WINDOWS REMOTE DESKTOP WILL PLAY AUDIO REMOTELY BY DEFAULT? THANK YOU. Edit: It does not. Audio is only routed to the computer that initiated the remote desktop connection. I just breathed a sigh of relief.
I'm working in IDL right now. What do you typically write in? I'm guessing some variant of C.
Yeah, b_b mentioned it. I don't really care, they're funny as hell imo.
You're actually not a bad Ralph Wiggum (what a terrible thing to tell another man!). When I drive around by my lonesome, I try to get on this guy's level. I've always been good at voices, but still got plenty of work to do on that one.
That guy's got it pretty well down, doesn't (s)he. It's fun to do voices and to take on a persona. I enjoyed making the sound-bytes for this thing. Seriously, there were a ton of them. We even had a kleinbl00 specific one that I thought was hilarious YO. insomniasexx.
If thenewgreen and insomniasexx had it their way, it would be far worse.
I'm sitting in a lobby, waiting to pick up paperwork for an $800k signing, AWESOME!!, and I circle-dotted your comment and the receptionist looked over at me like "what was that?"
Good: Bought a car Bad: Should probably get my license at some point huh Also I got this shirt coming in the mail: Also my desk area looks slightly less like a prison now Hilarious moment of the week: Had to do a thing for class about withholding myself from social media for two weeks. It was supposed to be a paper, but I was so used to doing projects for the class that I assumed my reflection on said lack of social media was supposed to be a project as well...so I made a full-blown visual novel, complete with music, art, and branching paths. Whoops. Hopefully he takes it.
My bad. I was commenting on the chicken and egg situation. I never got my license because I didn't have a car. But I never got a car because I didn't have a license. Eventually (and after getting some money) I said fuck it and bought the chicken wholesale.
Congrats on your new buggy, what did you end up getting?
Ricardo Montalban may be the best name ever. I used him and Tattoo in a series of posters for The New Green's final show in Michigan before I moved to NC. I can't find any of the final posters, but here's an early rough draft: He was a bad ass. I miss playing live shows. A lot. Thanks for the jog down memory lane via your penchant for names with "car" in them. Most hubskiers probably have no idea who he is or what this photo is from. lil and kleinbl00 -I'm betting you do. What an odd show that was.
One of my favorite songs by my good pal Tim Monger mentions Ricardo: http://timothymonger.bandcamp.com/track/crime-on-a-summer-day Great tune, eh?
HA. If so, I'm right there with ya pal. Not just age, but a certain type of person would recall this show, it's me thinking highly of you both... and recognizing that you're not 18.
I remember being totally excited to stop watching an episode of Fantasy Island because we were going to go see Ice Pirates. It was... kind of? worth it. FUN FACT: JJ Abrams was asked to come up with a pitch on rebooting Fantasy Island, only "edgy." He came up with Lost. Eventually, they were supposed to stumble across Mr. Rourke, the resort, the whole nine yards... but they got halfway through writing Season 1 and decided they were better off without.
T minus three days until my recital. Just trying to keep myself muscular tension-free at this point.
I try not to get too emotionally invested in my clients, but I recently got a new one who is really fucking me up. His first two nights here he was climbing on the roofs of the houses on the property I work at, pointing his finger at other clients and yelling "bang bang." He started building a bunker in the yard with furniture. Then he started to get better; I got him set up with a licensed social worker friend of mine so he could be seen twice weekly by someone who doesn't have a massive case load (aka VA). He started only getting caught in paranoid delusions maybe every other day. For the past 5 years he's been pushed from agency to curb, to agency to curb, over and over again with no stability and no long term investment in his well being. Then bad news came to him. Then more bad news. And it keeps coming. Last night I found him unconscious in the grass with vomit all over him after he intentionally overdosed on his medicine. He's gonna be fine, but I think the severity of his PTSD is such that medicine or therapy can't substantially help him. At least the kind of medicine that doesn't completely cognitively castrate you. The worst of it all is that he's probably going to end back up on the street in a month when the company collapses.
Man, how do you keep fighting the good fight after seeing things like that?
Not sure how to answer this... but a lot of my veteran friends have killed themselves and I've been on that edge too, so it gives me more of a sense of purpose. If he had died it might be a different story. Dealing with alcoholics and drug addicts is a lot harder and makes me want to give up the fight moreso than anything else. I'm constantly looking out for the deceit and the manipulation that comes with their addictions and it can be really hard to not let this modality supersede compassion.
I know that there's a rule about talking about working out, which basically goes that unless your working out involved you cartoonishly slipping and falling on a treadmill and getting shot into the wall, don't even mention it. No one wants to hear that shit, plus humility is the muscle that really needs to be getting the exercise, but this is the internet, so bragging is.. different? No? I've been training for American Ninja Warrior, an over-the-top sports competition show comprising of numerous obstacles that one must traverse without falling, all the while trying to make the best time. Several things: first, I can't even watch my application video anymore, all I see is a hundred different ways it could be better. Second, I went to a gym where a diehard fan created dozens of exact replicas of obstacles that are on the show and the good news is that I can do almost every single one. Yay! Any experience where your expectations come clashing rudely with reality is always a sight, which is why the show is probably so popular in one regard: people fail horribly on the show. It's downright comedy in some instances, hence the wildly popular spin-offs like Wipeout, a show that's less technically difficult but makes up for it by suspending the obstacles over much more water. ANYWAYS, if you had seen me try some of the obstacles for the first time, yea, I would've made some sort of fail-highlight reel that's between the contenders who made it further on the show. So I'm incredibly grateful for some tactile exposure to some of the obstacles, although each new season's course is slightly different than the last's. Speaking of previous seasons, have you heard the show is getting more and more popular? Which brings me to three: the show was picked up by NBC two seasons ago, granting it more public attention, which means that a record number of people applied to the show. Word 'round the campfire is that 40,000 submitted applications, which is a conservative estimate, for something like 500 spots. Which doesn't bode well for my Warrior Ninja-ing in America. But if I do hear back from the casting agency, it would be anytime between now and a week before my qualifying city's tournament taping, May 22nd and 23rd. All of this is an update for you guys because of the support and interest I found from the hubsquad. I haven't heard much since my submission in January, but my interest in the show went from a somewhat resigned fulfillment of a promise to my AmeriCorps team, to a full-blooded desire. Which means I've been training! Which brings me to my point: I've been working out regularly since January and am really happy with where I am.
This was a month ago (video). I'm now up to 20 pull-ups and am practicing my finger strength twice a week with a fingerboard. I'm working out five times a week. The worst case scenario, even if I don't get on the show, I've been cementing a really structured exercise habit.
Here I am, a full day late to the pub -- which is now empty. It's OK, I'll order a glass of champagne, And now a toast to 1) spousal unit's recent MRI: brain looks good, nothing left of the meningioma that was removed a couple of years back 2) managed to have a final quiz AND a party in class last night and decided a whole bunch of things to make the class better next year. First of all, I have to make them read my hubski-inspired blog Write Better Dammit early in the course and give them a quiz on it on the second week. Also after much debate with my co-teacher, I am going to make them buy a dictionary and teach them how to use it. Co-teacher is against it - she says they can look words up on their phones. Yeah, right -- really? Then why are there so many spelling mistakes? I'll have to write a blog on that during my Ramadan blogathon or sooner. 3) and a toast to the weather which will briefly be as high as 55 today.
I like the dictionary idea. Not because it will cut down on spelling mistakes -- anyone who is making spelling mistakes in the 21st century doesn't care about spelling, period. Sorry. A dictionary won't help. If you change something else, make spelling an emphasis of your class (which is a sad waste of time when you only have so many weeks to teach poetry and plays and beauty), then perhaps. Rather, the percent of your students who actually do look up words on their phones would benefit from looking them up in a dictionary instead. When you flip through a dictionary, your eyes wander. I will never forget the word 'epigone', because it's one of the "edge" words in the OSPD Scrabble dictionary. Every time you open a dictionary you learn an extra word or two, by nature. Hell, make them play Scrabble. Seriously.
Looking up words on the on-line dictionaries mostly give you the word you are looking up. The spelling mistakes are all compound words, hyphenated words, homonyms and words that spelling checkers mostly don't catch -- I know these are improving. As you say, dictionaries give a whole lot more. They have to write well because they are all doing research proposals that will give each of them $15K for their internships. That doubles what they would get otherwise. Their proposals are turned down if they are badly written, so cash motivates.
I took some sleep meds early last night so I could go to bed at a normal time (the night previous I couldn't go to sleep until 3). Now it's 6:30AM, I didn't have to get up from an alarm, and the whole house is quiet. Is this what it's like to be a morning person? Another side affect: I think I'm actually hungry for breakfast...
1. Back at the gym and feeling more or less fine. 2. Pretending to be a graphic designer and putting together some promotional material for my current job because that's what was assigned to me today. Fortunately Publisher is user-friendly for people who have next to no idea what they're doing.
My wife had hers stolen right about the time one of her clients was busily dodging paparazzi that wanted shots of her "baby bump." Yes, she did have that client's private contact info in her phone. No, she didn't have a PIN either. On the bright side, you don't have to call someone on the cover of People Magazine to tell her she needs to change her email address and phone number.
So my wife doesn't know it yet, but on 'find my iPhone' her phone just popped up at my mother-in-law's house across town. My mother-in-law was babysitting at our house today. Somehow my wife convinced herself that she lost the phone at the park, and somehow it was turned off and got to my mother-in-law's house. Oh, and the grill was left on. My daughter said: "Momma cooked vegetables at lunch".
Beats mine. My wife dropped it on the sidewalk by accident and in two minutes it was gone. Exchanged texts with the guy; even sent him a photo of me holding two Benjamins and offered an exchange. Got him as far as the Airport before he chickened out. Fucking LA.
The best part is if you have the phone, there are probably thumbprints on it and copying them is quicker than brute-forcing a password.
I want to hear, I want to hear....