Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[Madrun Badrun]

wait Nanaimo bars are not a thing in the U.S.?

[toku]

Ginger beer a great beverage.

[G The Resurrected]

Ginger beer a great beverage.

Can't make a Moscow mule without it! Too bad it ups my blood pressure sometimes though.

[Kara]

I ordered vodka on the rocks again tonight and that wasn't even the most embarrassing thing I ordered (which would be the Irish car bomb).

[G The Resurrected]

Been in bed for hours now and can't sleep. This sucks 😠

[Kara]

I highly recommend prescription sedatives, G.

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Get some sleep soon breh.

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[Kara]

My formal offer for that place I looked at on Friday was accepted.

September is going to be great.

Except for the 9/15 corporate income tax return deadline.

[G The Resurrected]

Congratulations Karakand!

When are the hookers and blow gonna be by?

[PlayDat]

Is this the place with the nerds?  Were you cool enough?

[Kara]

Nah it's the house with the stoners.

The cool nerds were going to "let me know this weekend" if I was cool enough to move in and well it's 14:00 on Sunday with not a word so I think I know the answer to that one.

[Madrun Badrun]

How is the water Demi?

[Himu]

holy shit youtube app on ios can be played when locked now

great to be on the winning team

[Kara]

Still haven't heard back from my cousin.

Trying to emotionally connect with a stranger because you share a common ancestor.

[Phoenix Dark]

Still haven't heard back from my cousin.

Trying to emotionally connect with a stranger because you share a common ancestor. (Image removed from quote.)

This is a slippery slope to incest. It's so demonic, my friend.

[Joe Molotov]

Put your cousin to the test.

[Kara]

I still don't get y'all on this one.

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We're just half cousins? Is that how it works when your parents are half siblings?

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Got paid to research profit participation accounting (aka Hollywood accounting) today.

Shit is hilarious.

[Mupepe]

Well you seem to be into arabic culture, might as well live it.

is it common in arabic culture?? fuuuuuuuuuuuu   Now I wish I was arabic

[Kara]

Well you seem to be into arabic culture, might as well live it.

Like they have a monopoly on it.

[toku]

Bruhs
Be Happy.

[chronovore]

Got paid to research profit participation accounting (aka Hollywood accounting) today.

Shit is hilarious.

How so?

[Rufus]

All I know is that you're getting screwed if you don't negotiate a percentage of the gross income.

[Kara]

How so?

It's basically the same shit I deal with in tax accounting (extracting money from a profitable enterprise with conduits whose legitimacy is specious) but with even less regulation.

http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=elr

Interest on Negative Cost (i.e. the actual costs of producing a movie)

For example, assume Fox charges 13.2% interest (11% plus 20% of, 11%). If the prime interest rate was constant, and all expenses were paid off in one statement period, most of the initial expenses would be charged interest for at least six months (until the first statement due date). Thus, the initial $23 million would accrue $1,518,000 in interest. Actually, the expenses are not considered paid off until the movie reaches breakeven, which could take years. Therefore, throughout these years, Fox is continually charging interest, pursuant to this contract, on the amount that is not yet paid off. Interest is recouped first, leaving the balance to accrue additional interest.1"7 For a conservative figure, $2,450,000 will be attributed to the hypothetical for interest on negative cost to date.

[Kara]

Speaking of accounting, today my shrink asked me why I just don't go and off myself and I said immediately without thinking and with all seriousness, "I have too many obligations," to which they replied, "Spoken like an accountant."

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Inappropriate emoticon?

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[Shadow Mod]

90s American Gladiators is on Hulu.

watch this messed up brehs, so good.

[G The Resurrected]

There goes my night thanks cowbell.

What the fuck good is Hulu Plus if you have to watch fucking ads for everything?!?!?! 

[ZephyrFate]

holy shit youtube app on ios can be played when locked now

great to be on the winning team

What? Still doesn't work for iphone 5c

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

90s American Gladiators is on Hulu.

watch this messed up brehs, so good.

oh fuck yeah, gonna stream this shit all day on our work TV

[Himu]

 If a job requires you to bring proof of education and you don't have a transcript, is a college degree fine?

holy shit youtube app on ios can be played when locked now

great to be on the winning team

What? Still doesn't work for iphone 5c

Go in safari and lock not the yt app.

[chronovore]

i wish i could use thecoli emotes in real life cuz i just got my electricity bill and it's $250   

Dude. Duuuuude.

I'm so doomed this month; every year previous, I've probably used air-conditioning a total of 10 days over any given summer, and that'd be a particularly hot evening where I didn't want to deal. Now that I'm working from home, it's on all the time. The first week of heat, I was foolishly attempting to endure, but the waterfall of sweat running down my arms and forehead just destroyed me.

We only run it to 28ºc, and we've got solar on our place, but sheeeeeit, it's probably going to be similarly damaging.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Sit in an empty office, let out a huge fart, then when it starts to smell the new coworkers comes in

 

[Barraco Barner]

Speaking of coworkers, I just found out that someone at my previous employer is telling everyone we had sex for a few days before I left.

[toku]

 

[Barraco Barner]

Oh, we did not in fact have sex.

[toku]

 

[Madrun Badrun]

Bought some beard oil;  I am a handsome man and I smell like something good.

[Madrun Badrun]

Seriously my beard is some where between charlie and martin on the sheen scale. 

[nudemacusers]

Ginger beer a great beverage.

[etiolate]

so spicy so good

[Mr. Gundam]

wait Nanaimo bars are not a thing in the U.S.?

Starbucks has them sometimes, but they're not a thing in the US.

We also don't have Aero Bars which pisses me off.

[etiolate]

I've seen Aero Bars. Some grocery stores have a tiny "British" shelf in the cultural foods aisle.

[Madrun Badrun]

Chewing to the beat of music is hard.

[demi]

Anyone familiar with GitHub / Git? I am trying to learn it for a project, and have a bunch of questions.

[Madrun Badrun]

I use it but I'm not an expert.  What do you need?

[demi]

What is the best way to pull changes from a upstream repository I forked?

I forked a project in hopes of making my own version, or at least using it as a base, and I made a change that I want to include in my main (master) branch. However, this project is currently being worked on, so there are changes in the parent/upstream repository. I can pull these changes, but should I be concerned about there being conflicts?

The whole process of messing with commits is completely alien to me.

[Madrun Badrun]

If your project is a true fork (as in you are creating a new stream or your own version) then you shouldn't need to pull the up stream changes, however if you ever think you are going to use/need the up stream changes it would be better to pull now and just deal with the conflicts.  For the latter you'll need to do a rebase I believe (I haven't done group git stuff in 2 years because my supervisor likes svn )

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7244321/how-to-update-github-forked-repository

[demi]

What exactly does a rebase / merge do?

[Madrun Badrun]

Merge is what you would expect, it merges two branches into one.

Rebase on the other hand will make it so that the changes point into one of the branches.  This means it can act as if you did your original fork at where the stream is now instead of back when you originally did it.

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing

edit:  I'm assuming you don't want your stuff in the branch you originally forked off of and that you are working alone on this thing?

[Kara]

My new place is 2 miles from downtown.

I just took whatever I could get, this is actually a pretty sweet deal / location.

I'm even closer to a Metrolink station, so if I ever got my shit together () I could commute to LA without using a car.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I have not had a Nanaimo bar, but I have been to Nanaimo

[Madrun Badrun]

Seriously make yourself a Nanaimo bar right now





http://www.canadianliving.com/food/nanaimo_bars.php

[Kara]

What, are our biweekly ones not enough for you?

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Probably? I don't know how dangerous the walk is or how expensive the bars are or how hard my roommates drink yet. The last one is particularly important since I'd rather they hate me and want me to die in 6 months instead of 6 days.

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[milchs evil twin]

Hito's passing once again reminded me of how unbelievably lucky I've been when it comes to people around me.

I'm 27 and besides two grandpas and one great-grandmother, no one close to me has passed in my lifetime. No family, no friends, no colleagues, no school mates, nothing.

I kinda feel like I don't deserve this sometimes, like when someone I only "knew" via some forum dying feels like one of the closest people leaving so far :-/

[Kara]

No one deserves death, so don't feel like you don't deserve not experiencing death.

[milchs evil twin]

Well, "deserve" is probably the wrong word in a lot of ways.

I'm just struck by the improbability of it.

[Kara]

(Excluding pets) I've only lost a grandparent, but I don't have much of a family.

On a long enough timeline you won't escape it, so it's not really improbability, just a timing difference. (Pardon the profane metaphor.)

[Cerveza mas fina]

The airline ticket I was 90% sure I was going to get just went up by $200 since two days ago. 

Heading to South America for 2 1/2 weeks at the end of summer. LA to Buenos Aires was about $575, and I almost pulled the trigger, but wasn't sure if starting in Brazil wouldn't be a better trip. Now it's $775 for the same route.

Two fucking days.

You snooze

[Atramental]

Today is my last day of employment at my 2nd job. 

Plus, they were able to find another designer to replace me so I won't have to worry about their projects hanging over my head while I'm working on my own stuff. 

[Mupepe]

I've been looking to buy a bluetooth speaker system for my motorcycle helmet and I settled on a Sena system.  They're about $220 retail and they also come in dual packs for your passenger for $399.  I was searching slickdeals for deals that have popped up in the past and and ran across one from 3 months ago where they had dual packs for $199.96.  Decided to see if it still worked and... success!!!  To put this in perspective, on one of my Harley forums they're doing a group buy with 20 people and 270 shipped for a dual pack is a deal. 

[fistfulofmetal]

i woke up and had like a dozen different notification types on my phone had gone off.

i feel so... wanted

[Himu]

not from the same person i  hope