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Elki · December 2011

Feral wrote:

Elki wrote:

Fucking finally. Youtube on Xbox.

no shit?

I'm having a Youtube Night at my house early next week. And I definitely prefer running it from the Xbox, instead of a laptop + HDMI.

Sarksus · December 2011

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

BeNarwhal · December 2011

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Why you getting down on yourself? I mean I can respect someone that can see, "I don't have the organizational skills for this." However, with your quick wit here, I doubt that's the case. Just keep it in your mind as you gain more experience.

I'm just a baby (cook)! I'm not a'sposed to be taking my big boy steps yet.

I mean, I am in a very fortunate position that the very moment I think I'd like to open a place of my own, my family would be on-board 100% because they are bored and have too much money.

But I don't even have my red seal! I got lots of learning to do about food, not to mention the business side of things. Money and product management I'm not too concerned about, but the HR/people side of things I could develop a lot more.

Mostly though, I want to find a place with a large, structured hierarchy where I can make meaningful progression through the organization through hard work and displays of skill and talent, and reach the upper echelons of that organization, before I even consider striking out on my own.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

You don't? Weirdo

BobCesca · December 2011

Good morning [chat].

Variable · December 2011

Elki wrote: »

Feral wrote:

Elki wrote:

Fucking finally. Youtube on Xbox.

no shit?

I'm having a Youtube Night at my house early next week. And I definitely prefer running it from the Xbox, instead of a laptop + HDMI.

you're always doing awesome things I've never heard of

Feral · December 2011

I need to fix my HTPC. The HD crashed.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

Feral wrote:

I need to fix my HTPC. The HD crashed.

>5 years on it?

Elki · December 2011

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

Pretty much? Not literally, of course, very few cat videos get played. It's a jam format where one person picks a funny video, which should inspire other people to go "oh, that reminds me of..." and then they pick a different hilarious video. Youtube Battle / Night, but everybody's a winner.

It's great.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

BeNarwhal wrote:

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Why you getting down on yourself? I mean I can respect someone that can see, "I don't have the organizational skills for this." However, with your quick wit here, I doubt that's the case. Just keep it in your mind as you gain more experience.

I'm just a baby (cook)! I'm not a'sposed to be taking my big boy steps yet.

I mean, I am in a very fortunate position that the very moment I think I'd like to open a place of my own, my family would be on-board 100% because they are bored and have too much money.

But I don't even have my red seal! I got lots of learning to do about food, not to mention the business side of things. Money and product management I'm not too concerned about, but the HR/people side of things I could develop a lot more.

Mostly though, I want to find a place with a large, structured hierarchy where I can make meaningful progression through the organization through hard work and displays of skill and talent, and reach the upper echelons of that organization, before I even consider striking out on my own.

Honestly, Mr. Narwhal. Do what must be done, but then, do what needs to be done. And that's, use your powers for awesome. No joke. I wish I had the palette for food prep.

TheNomadicCircle · December 2011

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote:

Spoiler:

A man walked into a bar, deeply depressed and in search for some meaning. Feeling a growing pain in his stomach, he asked the bartender for the cheapest meal he could give. In front of the man was laid a sickly looking sweet potato.

The man then sparked a bit of a conversation with the potato, which while it may seem impossible to an ordinary man is quite normal when you're as depressed and as hungry as he.

"Where did you come from?" Asked the man, still too sad to eat and yet too awake to stay quiet.

"A farm" Answered the potato.

The man began to sob.

"How similar we are. You, a potato, born to be devoured by men, and I, a man, born to be devoured by worms."

The potato shrugged.

"Eh, its not so bad. We all get eaten eventually. I've lived a good life. Met a good potato-girl who became my potato-wife, had a couple of taters."

"But," Said the man, "Don't you have regrets? I for one have lived my whole life in a mad scramble to extend my life. A cyclical dance of pointlessness."

"No," Said the potato, taking a drink from the mans glass of water, "I have no regrets. If I had built a tower, it would have fallen. If I had built a name, it would have been forgotten. I did what made me happy, and whatever I get in death is exactly what I deserve."

The man shook his head.

"No no, you've got it all wrong. I want to be important! I want to achieve! I want people to remember me!"

The potato smiled.

"You are, in your unimportance, important. Its because of the ant drones that the queen has any importance or means of survival at all. Contextually in society, you are, in your seemingly pointless life, the very essence of collective importance. Because of the boring people in society, we have the exciting people! Without the boring, then we'd all be exciting, which would become the new social norm. Therefore, because it would become common-place, it would in effect become the new "boring" of society, while the original boring would, in their rarety, become the new "exciting". You may think that the celebrities that lounge around lazily are the most important of people, but it is by your hard-work that they exist at all."

The man shook his head.

"I don't understand..."

The potato smiled again.

"Its simple. Society has social castes. Therefore, because of the existence of a lower caste, aka your caste, there exists an upper caste. Because of the "unimportant" men and women who work all day every day, we have the "important" achievers who are considered "rare". And remember, without the "common" there is no "rare". Contextually, you give them their very purpose of existence. You need each other, and therefore are of equal importance."

The man began to smile.

"So who... What, are you?"

The potato thought for a moment.

"You kill me, eat me, and I extend your life. I am food. I am a sacrifice."

The mans smile shrunk.

"But what are you? You're a living thing- You feel pain, you can communicate, you have a will to survive... What seperates you from me, a man? What are you?"

The sweet potato shrugged.

"I yam what I yam."

Excellent Joke. Tells alot about the caste system.

Caveman Paws · December 2011

YouTube comment sections are being invaded by "Blah blah blah, then he took an arrow in the knee."

Radical.

Feral · December 2011

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Feral wrote:

I need to fix my HTPC. The HD crashed.

>5 years on it?

I dunno of the top of my head. I'll have to look.

South host · December 2011

Elki wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

Pretty much? Not literally, of course, very few cat videos get played. It's a jam format where one person picks a funny video, which should inspire other people to go "oh, that reminds me of..." and then they pick a different hilarious video. Youtube Battle / Night, but everybody's a winner.

It's great.

I would just show a bunch of MST3K videos if I ever did one of these.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

Feral wrote:

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Feral wrote:

I need to fix my HTPC. The HD crashed.

>5 years on it?

I dunno of the top of my head. I'll have to look.

Sometimes HD's are warranted to 5-years. Honestly, though, it's a huge shell game. It's all statistics and physics. There are some heads on the magnetic readers that are better than others, also some platters that are better than others, so the firmware tends to run a statistical crap-shoot on how to store the data.

Most likely, you have 99% of the data on your drive in a stable form. However, the firmware is like, "wtf!? this shit is wack!" and tells you it's not good because the likely hood that the data is degrading is higher than some threshold.

OH YEAH I'M DRINKIN' WHAT'S UP?!

Caveman Paws · December 2011

South host wrote:

Elki wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

Pretty much? Not literally, of course, very few cat videos get played. It's a jam format where one person picks a funny video, which should inspire other people to go "oh, that reminds me of..." and then they pick a different hilarious video. Youtube Battle / Night, but everybody's a winner.

It's great.

I would just show a bunch of MST3K videos if I ever did one of these.

Or Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Mitchel and Webb... I could inspire a nights worth of British yuck yuck vids.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

In other news, Google can't graph me a 2-variable Gaussian curve, and this will be me tomorrow morning:

Sarksus · December 2011

South host wrote:

Elki wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

Pretty much? Not literally, of course, very few cat videos get played. It's a jam format where one person picks a funny video, which should inspire other people to go "oh, that reminds me of..." and then they pick a different hilarious video. Youtube Battle / Night, but everybody's a winner.

It's great.

I would just show a bunch of MST3K videos if I ever did one of these.

BeNarwhal · December 2011

thatassemblyguy wrote:

BeNarwhal wrote:

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Why you getting down on yourself? I mean I can respect someone that can see, "I don't have the organizational skills for this." However, with your quick wit here, I doubt that's the case. Just keep it in your mind as you gain more experience.

I'm just a baby (cook)! I'm not a'sposed to be taking my big boy steps yet.

I mean, I am in a very fortunate position that the very moment I think I'd like to open a place of my own, my family would be on-board 100% because they are bored and have too much money.

But I don't even have my red seal! I got lots of learning to do about food, not to mention the business side of things. Money and product management I'm not too concerned about, but the HR/people side of things I could develop a lot more.

Mostly though, I want to find a place with a large, structured hierarchy where I can make meaningful progression through the organization through hard work and displays of skill and talent, and reach the upper echelons of that organization, before I even consider striking out on my own.

Honestly, Mr. Narwhal. Do what must be done, but then, do what needs to be done. And that's, use your powers for awesome. No joke. I wish I had the palette for food prep.

Goal #1 right now is my Red Seal. It is my maniacal focus, and I will work any position in any kitchen in the world doing whatever I have to do to acquire the hours necessary to earn the right to write the exam for my Red Seal. I need 6000 hours and I am over half-way there (arguably close to two-thirds of the way, depending on what hours I include in my count).

Once I have that, pretty much anything is possible! But I don't have to make any decisions now, or any time soon. My goal for 2012 is to register another 2000 hours and for our wedding to go off without any major hitches.

I'm a simple man with simple dreams.

Feral · December 2011

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Sometimes HD's are warranted to 5-years. Honestly, though, it's a huge shell game. It's all statistics and physics. There are some heads on the magnetic readers that are better than others, also some platters that are better than others, so the firmware tends to run a statistical crap-shoot on how to store the data.

Most likely, you have 99% of the data on your drive in a stable form. However, the firmware is like, "wtf!? this shit is wack!" and tells you it's not good because the likely hood that the data is degrading is higher than some threshold.

Yeah, I'm not really worried about the data. It was a Windows XP machine that was mostly used for Hulu, YouTube, a little bit of content pulled over the network from my desk PC. And the hard drive in it was an 80GB IDE Western Digital, I have so many spares of those I can't sneeze in my office without hitting one.

Inquisitor · December 2011

Okay, starting to figure out the Bayonetta combat system some, though, I still having a hard time reading the enemy animations (hard to tell when an enemy is just milling about and when it is attacking, so much shit on screen).

The combos feel pretty weird still though, how fast you have to press the buttons for some combos and the pauses you have to put in for others. I guess at least it is not a pressure sensitive set up.

South host · December 2011

Sarksus wrote:

South host wrote:

Elki wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

Pretty much? Not literally, of course, very few cat videos get played. It's a jam format where one person picks a funny video, which should inspire other people to go "oh, that reminds me of..." and then they pick a different hilarious video. Youtube Battle / Night, but everybody's a winner.

It's great.

I would just show a bunch of MST3K videos if I ever did one of these.

Spoiler:

Yep, pretty much this, all the time.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

Sarksus wrote:

Spoiler:

South host wrote:

Elki wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

You get a bunch of people together and watch cat videos?

Pretty much? Not literally, of course, very few cat videos get played. It's a jam format where one person picks a funny video, which should inspire other people to go "oh, that reminds me of..." and then they pick a different hilarious video. Youtube Battle / Night, but everybody's a winner.

It's great.

I would just show a bunch of MST3K videos if I ever did one of these.

Yeah....

Nova_C · December 2011

I only get KFC once in a long while, but this is the absolute last goddamn time.

It felt like I had a lead ball in my stomach and it hurt so much I made myself vomit. I just couldn't take it any more. I feel so much better, but the fact that I had to do that just fucking sucks.

Sarksus · December 2011

Nova_C wrote:

I only get KFC once in a long while, but this is the absolute last goddamn time.

It felt like I had a lead ball in my stomach and it hurt so much I made myself vomit. I just couldn't take it any more. I feel so much better, but the fact that I had to do that just fucking sucks.

Sounds about right.

Jacobkosh · December 2011

HOLY SHIT YOU SCRUBS INTERSTATE '76 IS THREE DOLLARS ON GOG.COM RIGHT NOW

GO GO GO GO

Sarksus · December 2011

Jacobkosh wrote:

HOLY SHIT YOU SCRUBS INTERSTATE '76 IS THREE DOLLARS ON GOG.COM RIGHT NOW

GO GO GO GO

404 on the game's page!

Elldren · December 2011

what do you need a crimson pinniped for, narwhal?

MyDcmbr · December 2011

Hello [chat].

What's the good word?

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

Nova_C wrote:

I only get KFC once in a long while, but this is the absolute last goddamn time.

It felt like I had a lead ball in my stomach and it hurt so much I made myself vomit. I just couldn't take it any more. I feel so much better, but the fact that I had to do that just fucking sucks.

NSFW South Park Clip

Spoiler:

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

Elldren wrote:

what do you need a crimson pinniped for, narwhal?

It's a pretty big deal in Canadia. By big deal, I mean, it's awesome and I support his move to earn it.

thatassemblyguy · December 2011

MyDcmbr wrote:

Hello [chat].

What's the good word?

Why haven't you heard?

...

Elki · December 2011

Now let's see that again... in slow motion.

MyDcmbr · December 2011

thatassemblyguy wrote:

MyDcmbr wrote:

Hello [chat].

What's the good word?

Why haven't you heard?

...

No no no!

We are not going to do this!

Bergy · December 2011

if you call 217-332-1882 students of UofI will answer and sing you a christmas carol of your choosing

please bother the hell out of them.

Elldren · December 2011

thatassemblyguy wrote:

Elldren wrote:

what do you need a crimson pinniped for, narwhal?

It's a pretty big deal in Canadia. By big deal, I mean, it's awesome and I support his move to earn it.

I thought Canada was more of a walrus nation

Jacobkosh · December 2011

Sarksus wrote:

Jacobkosh wrote:

HOLY SHIT YOU SCRUBS INTERSTATE '76 IS THREE DOLLARS ON GOG.COM RIGHT NOW

GO GO GO GO

404 on the game's page!

refresh it!

or just go to the "deals" from the front page, it's listed there

Sarksus · December 2011

Jacobkosh wrote:

Sarksus wrote:

Jacobkosh wrote:

HOLY SHIT YOU SCRUBS INTERSTATE '76 IS THREE DOLLARS ON GOG.COM RIGHT NOW

GO GO GO GO

404 on the game's page!

refresh it!

or just go to the "deals" from the front page, it's listed there

Well I can just add it to my cart but I don't know what it is. I checked Wikipedia and it is a vehicular combat game and I don't really like those!

Sarksus · December 2011

Bergy wrote:

if you call 217-332-1882 students of UofI will answer and sing you a christmas carol of your choosing

please bother the hell out of them.

Why will they do this.

Bergy · December 2011

Sarksus wrote:

Bergy wrote:

if you call 217-332-1882 students of UofI will answer and sing you a christmas carol of your choosing

please bother the hell out of them.

Why will they do this.

I was told by them its a 51 year tradition to avoid studying for finals.

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