Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[Madrun Badrun]

Got into York. That's 3/4 accepted/rejected so far.

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UofT was one of my top choices, so it was nice to get it first.

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[bork]

Hope everything goes well, Groogrux!

AT&T says they are coming on Thursday morning.  THEY BETTER OR ELSE

[Dickie Dee]

I just got back from the ER.  Had really awful stomach and back pain last night that brought me to the verge of tears this morning.  Finally, my mom talked me into going to the ER to get checked out.  Turns out, my gallbladder was inflamed and they're not sure why.  I have to schedule an MRI soon to figure out what's going on with it.

ALSO:  Morphine is a hell of a drug.   

Could it be the low carb/high fat diet?

[Boogie]

Got into York. That's 3/4 accepted/rejected so far.

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UofT was one of my top choices, so it was nice to get it first.

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Eww, York

Congrats on the UofT acceptance.

[Don Flamenco]

congrats FM.  Stay in school forever!   I know I want to...and am sort of succeeding at it.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

That's the fucking the truth. It's just like the 2 dollar meal deal at taco bell.

Those are $2.49 in my neck of the woods now

[Joe Molotov]

That's the fucking the truth. It's just like the 2 dollar meal deal at taco bell.

Those are $2.49 in my neck of the woods now

THANKS OBAMA

[Spurgeon]

Skyfall didn't prepare me for parents in Shanghai encouraging their children to openly piss/shit in the middle of a sidewalk.

[Madrun Badrun]

Had an interview with the Simon Fraser NLP group.  They seem like nice people, and they are doing machine translation which is cool.  Funding is really really low though.

[ZephyrFate]

So you're pretty much perpetually baked?

I wish. I just sleep very well.

[demi]

I just got back from the ER.  Had really awful stomach and back pain last night that brought me to the verge of tears this morning.  Finally, my mom talked me into going to the ER to get checked out.  Turns out, my gallbladder was inflamed and they're not sure why.  I have to schedule an MRI soon to figure out what's going on with it.

ALSO:  Morphine is a hell of a drug.   

Probably those horrible diets Cormac is subjecting you to.

[Diunx]

So when I was entering the office just now the door man greeted me with "hello John Casablancas"

[Madrun Badrun]

Did he find your fake adult friend finder profile?

[Groogrux]

I just got back from the ER.  Had really awful stomach and back pain last night that brought me to the verge of tears this morning.  Finally, my mom talked me into going to the ER to get checked out.  Turns out, my gallbladder was inflamed and they're not sure why.  I have to schedule an MRI soon to figure out what's going on with it.

ALSO:  Morphine is a hell of a drug.   

Could it be the low carb/high fat diet?

I just got back from the ER.  Had really awful stomach and back pain last night that brought me to the verge of tears this morning.  Finally, my mom talked me into going to the ER to get checked out.  Turns out, my gallbladder was inflamed and they're not sure why.  I have to schedule an MRI soon to figure out what's going on with it.

ALSO:  Morphine is a hell of a drug.   

Probably those horrible diets Cormac is subjecting you to.

I just woke up after coming home and passing out.  The morphine, albeit a small amount, was enough to let me relax and rest on my couch.  I feel 50x better than I did this morning. 

As for the diet, the PA that was working with me today was actually a fan of the diet I'm on and didn't think that it specifically had anything to do with the gallbladder.  However, she did say that it could have been triggered by something either really spicy or something really greasy.

I've fixed more fried bacon and eggs covered in hot sauce over the last two days than I've ever had in one sitting before...   

[Cormacaroni]

this gallbladder sounds like a problem

are you sure you need it

[Huff]

teacher during lecture: don't use guidelines during this situation

answer on test: use the guidelines answer

rebuttal: but you said no guidelines

answer: use the guidelines

wtf why do i bother going to class

[Joe Molotov]

this gallbladder sounds like a problem

are you sure you need it

Hush, Cormac. This is all your fault in the first place.

[Cormacaroni]

just according to keikaku

[Groogrux]

this gallbladder sounds like a problem

are you sure you need it

Hush, Cormac. This is all your fault in the first place.

  Seriously though, the PA told me I may have to lay low on fried/greasy foods for a while, and I responded,

"You mean, as in... bacon?"

"Uh huh."

"How soon can we get this thing out?"

[Cormacaroni]

i suspect that Paleolithic man probably didn't eat quite as much bacon as you do

[Shaka Khan]

Ahhh, gallbladder issues. I had the stones a few years back. I'd say it brought me to tears had it not taken all my energy and focus to continue breathing... Worst pain I've experienced in my life. Convulsions and piercing pain that you feel in your gut and your back, it just confuses the shit out of you lol.

 And they say kidney stones are even worse! holy shit, I feel sorry for anyone who went through that.

[Groogrux]

i suspect that Paleolithic man probably didn't eat quite as much bacon as you do

My hope in life is that I eat so much bacon that my DNA sends the good vibes back to my ancestors.  I want them to live vicariously through me.

Ahhh, gallbladder issues. I had the stones a few years back. I'd say it brought me to tears had it not been taken all focus to continue breathing... Worst pain I've experienced in my life. Convulsions and piercing pain that you feel in your gut and your back.

I've had these kinds of pains before, but I honestly just thought it was constipation or something.  When I told my mom about the back pain that was with it though, she told me I had to go to the ER.  Apparently, my family has a history of not getting along with their gallbladders.

[pickle]

Kidney stones are fucking horrible. I got one when I was 17 and I never felt a worse pain since.

17? Christ, what was your diet like?

[pickle]

Kidney stones are fucking horrible. I got one when I was 17 and I never felt a worse pain since.

17? Christ, what was your diet like?

Yeah. It was actually much better at the time then it is now. Then I barely if ever ate junk food, my mom was experimenting with new tasty healthy food, I didn't even drink soda. I was straight edge(yeah I was that kid), working out pretty hardcore everyday and on my way to playing soccer professionally, I was in the best shape of my life I'd say. It might have been my past demons catching up to me cause I drank way too much coca cola before hand.

That's really weird. The only other guy I know that had kidney stones that young ate nothing but shitty fried food.

[chronovore]

Six hour walk today, with breaks for lunch and coffee. Fantastic weather for the first time in five days. Lovely.

Even managed to do some tricep workout at a park which had parallel bars during it.

And picked up some Coedo beer for the evening.

Life is grand.

[brawndolicious]

oh fuck, you tell your group you'll meet early in the morning to finish the lab paper but then you stay up at night to pad up the google docs because you're the only real chem major who knows wtf he's talking about and then it becomes 3 AM and now you'll walk into the library in the morning looking and smelling like a waste gash.

I'm gonna have some caffeine poops tomorrow. Plus Jamaican slang.

[The Sceneman]

Six hour walk today, with breaks for lunch and coffee. Fantastic weather for the first time in five days. Lovely.

Even managed to do some tricep workout at a park which had parallel bars during it.

And picked up some Coedo beer for the evening.

Life is grand.

Sounds like a great day!

Mine went really well also. Beautiful weather, ate some BK Rodeo Burgers, had a really productive meeting with a potential employer (more or less confirmed now), and solved my Wordpress migration issue that has been troubling me for a couple of weeks. Time to work my ass off and make some real scrilla

[Fifstar]

Ben sick for the last 10 days and for reason today I feel even worse than yesterday. This suuuucks.

[The Sceneman]

yeah that happens with some bugs... sucks

It's 6.20am here and I cant sleep. Sun is coming up and I'm totally starving... the store opens at 7.30 so might just wait it out and go get some coffee and breakfast

[Robo]

Indians with shaved heads don't look bad at all.  Just look at Ben Kingsley.

[Madrun Badrun]

[The Sceneman]

[Phoenix Dark]

[BlueTsunami]

Demi, change Eschaton's username to "Ben Kingsley"

[Madrun Badrun]

Do it.

That feel when the girl you spent months putting work in turned out to have a boyfriend 

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I choose this picture because the cheater inducer is appropriately brown. 

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[fistfulofmetal]

Ben sick for the last 10 days and for reason today I feel even worse than yesterday. This suuuucks.

in the same boat over here. been sick for the last week. finally decided to take a sick day from work today to rest up. just ate a hearty breakfast and gonna sleep for awhile. hopefully this will finally break the tide.

[ZephyrFate]

That was the best ice burn I've seen in weeks 

[Joe Molotov]

haha

[bork]

Still without internet/TV service.

AT&T called last night to tell me "there's a technical problem and the tech can't come out" again.  I told the operator this is the same runaround I got on Monday and she says my ticket has no mention of this.  -_-

The operator then calls back and says "That IS weird...they have one ticket that says there's a problem and another that says they are coming out tomorrow morning."

 

So now we're waiting to see if anyone shows up.  The guy was supposed to come out between 9 and 11 and it's noon, so it's not looking good.  Time to switch to Comcast?

[Phoenix Dark]

Comcast can be annoying as fuck too, be warned; but their customer support is definitely not that bad. I already pay too much for what I receive, thinking about switching or downgrading.

[bork]

Comcast's customer service is rated way worse than AT&T.   

My father has been waiting at my place all day now.  He called about it and was told they're still supposed to be coming...this is ridiculous.

[Mupepe]

Before Comcast became Xfinity I had horrible experiences with them.  I never had proper internet speed at my home and I couldn't get on demand because it would freeze.  We moved and thought that might fix it.  I put in the transfer, stayed home from work to wait and the guy never showed up.  I called and they said that the tech had knocked on my door and no one answered.  BS.  They said that they would have someone come out the next day after 5 so I wouldn't have to take off work.  An hour after that, the tech calls and apologizes for not showing (I thought he told them he'd come by? wtf?) and said he'd be at my house in 30 minutes.  Never showed.  The next day after 5, he never showed either.  When I called customer service and told them about all the issues I've had with them and how I'd been a comcast customer for 5 years and I asked what they could do to make it right.  The lady tells me they can cut 20 bucks off my installation/transfer charge.  Really?  20 bucks?  I took a whole day off work and you wasted my time.  Fuck you.  I cancelled. 

When we moved a year later Xfinity was the only service provider in our neighborhood so I begrudgingly signed back up (internet only.  haven't had cable in forever).  Besides the high price, I never had a problem.  Service was great (and fast) and the installation guy was awesome.

[bork]

Checked my Email and found a series of automatically-generated messages from U-Verse.

Oh shit!  Service!? 

NOPE!   

They came out to my apartment to do whatever this maintenance problem was and said they'd be back sometime tomorrow. 

[bork]

Before Comcast became Xfinity I had horrible experiences with them.  I never had proper internet speed at my home and I couldn't get on demand because it would freeze.  We moved and thought that might fix it.  I put in the transfer, stayed home from work to wait and the guy never showed up.  I called and they said that the tech had knocked on my door and no one answered.  BS.  They said that they would have someone come out the next day after 5 so I wouldn't have to take off work.  An hour after that, the tech calls and apologizes for not showing (I thought he told them he'd come by? wtf?) and said he'd be at my house in 30 minutes.  Never showed.  The next day after 5, he never showed either.  When I called customer service and told them about all the issues I've had with them and how I'd been a comcast customer for 5 years and I asked what they could do to make it right.  The lady tells me they can cut 20 bucks off my installation/transfer charge.  Really?  20 bucks?  I took a whole day off work and you wasted my time.  Fuck you.  I cancelled. 

When we moved a year later Xfinity was the only service provider in our neighborhood so I begrudgingly signed back up (internet only.  haven't had cable in forever).  Besides the high price, I never had a problem.  Service was great (and fast) and the installation guy was awesome.

It's like even if you get choices, you're fucked no matter which one you choose.  :|

[Rusty Shackleford]

What kind of speeds are you guys getting from AT&T/DSL and Xfinity/(Cable modem?) in your neck of the woods? DSL was always dog slow here so we got Time Warner cable and it's like 2MBps. I think our local DSL is still ~500KBps.

[archnemesis]

Do you live in rural America? You could probably do better if you lived in a larger city. This is what I've been using for the last five years and I haven't come up with a reason to upgrade yet. If you get 2 MB/s (as in byte) than that should be sufficient for most activities. Downloading large games and movies in a few minutes is nice, but not at all necessary. Having a low latency is really nice if you want to play online multiplayer or host servers.

[Rusty Shackleford]

damn, 12MB/s download? nice. No, I live in the Los Angeles area. I know there are faster cable modem pay brackets but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 2MBps is faster than most of the country. Not sure what the deal is with DSL around here, maybe we're just far from the local switch or something.

[Mupepe]

Before Comcast became Xfinity I had horrible experiences with them.  I never had proper internet speed at my home and I couldn't get on demand because it would freeze.  We moved and thought that might fix it.  I put in the transfer, stayed home from work to wait and the guy never showed up.  I called and they said that the tech had knocked on my door and no one answered.  BS.  They said that they would have someone come out the next day after 5 so I wouldn't have to take off work.  An hour after that, the tech calls and apologizes for not showing (I thought he told them he'd come by? wtf?) and said he'd be at my house in 30 minutes.  Never showed.  The next day after 5, he never showed either.  When I called customer service and told them about all the issues I've had with them and how I'd been a comcast customer for 5 years and I asked what they could do to make it right.  The lady tells me they can cut 20 bucks off my installation/transfer charge.  Really?  20 bucks?  I took a whole day off work and you wasted my time.  Fuck you.  I cancelled. 

When we moved a year later Xfinity was the only service provider in our neighborhood so I begrudgingly signed back up (internet only.  haven't had cable in forever).  Besides the high price, I never had a problem.  Service was great (and fast) and the installation guy was awesome.

It's like even if you get choices, you're fucked no matter which one you choose.  :|

yep. I assume at a national level all customer service sucks for these companies. The best you can do is hope you have no issues and the local techs are decent.

[Polari]

Where my homies Sceneman and quietid at?

[The Sceneman]

right here yo, read my post up the page, mean news. Andy posts here too, username nice cat but chicken

[Polari]

Congrats man, you'll have to fill me in on the details via Facebook. Andy's here too? Mean, I should post more often. Got a two week vacation from GAF so plenty of time for it!

[chronovore]

i suppose there are worse usernames to have

fuck you robo

Eschaton, you are a good sport.

[Flannel Boy]

I went to the library today; it is, afterall, reading week.

It was orientation day for high school kids. God, I felt old.

[Flannel Boy]

As I was getting a hair-cut an hour ago, the guy next to me claimed that--and this is completely random--that "Bob Marley is responsible for police procedures in Canada." I don't even know what that means grammatically. He also referred to Don Draper as that "dark guy from Mad Men." If people are this stupid,* I'm glad I avoid them.**

*drinks Polish beer.
**signed up for group therapy again

[Madrun Badrun]

and Houdini died of AIDS. 

[Flannel Boy]

During my time as a law student, I managed to write one fucking outline, and it happened to be for the most boring class--personal property security law. Afterward, I never actually read it, dropped out of school days later, and deleted it from my hard drive. 2.5 years later, I'm back taking the same class (obviously not attending [never attended the first time {this aside is to teach you about punctuation}]) and I fucking hate myself for deleting it.*

*That's a lie as I hate** myself already.
**Or do I love*** hating myself.
***Love is real. Real is love.****
****

[Flannel Boy]

MBA interview on Saturday. God I hope I get this. I'm trying to make sure my answers for the inevitable questions on leadership

Puddles: Leadership comes down to three words: Kobe Bean Bryant

[Madrun Badrun]

My anxiety is pretty fucked up at the moment too and its mostly because I have skipped way too many classes.  I have mist 80% of my research methods class already.  10% participation  fuck that.

[Flannel Boy]

[Flannel Boy]

My anxiety is pretty fucked up at the moment too and its mostly because I have skipped way too many classes.  I have mist 80% of my research methods class

I'm misty, too.

For irony's sake, I have not attended a single class of legal responsibility.