I too am abstaining from commenting on this whole thing at this point in time, just for the simple fact that I don't really feel like pissing anyone off today. Maybe tomorrow.:p
I too am abstaining from commenting on this whole thing at this point in time, just for the simple fact that I don't really feel like pissing anyone off today. Maybe tomorrow.:p
I don't think any of us are high and mighty enough to put in a discouraging word to Zig right now, neither for having problems in his life, nor for reaching out for help in a disfunctional way.... especially you. We've all been to dark places and most of us have brought it up with fellow clan members, including you on several occasions in the last year or two.
Besides, why post to say "I'm not gonna post"? I think if you're just going to be unsupportive and negative about it, just keep your trap shut on the issue (completely).
I'm sure my post title is totally unCALLED for but I couldn't agree more.
I was listening to some of my depressing music while typing my report and the following song came on:
River of Deceit - by: Mad Season
My pain is self chosen. At least so the prophet says I could either burn, Or cut off my pride and buy some time. A head full of lies is weight tied to my waste.
The River of Deceit Pulls Down The only direction we flow is down Down, Oh Down
My pain is self chosen At least I believe it to be I could either drown, Or pull off my skin and swim to shore Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see
The River of Deceit Pulls Down The only direction we flow is down Down, Oh Down
The pain is self chosen Our pain is elf chosen
Down, Oh Down
Ahhh...the vocal stylings of the great Layne Staley! RIP!
I just wrote that because it made me think of the situation.
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On a much lighter note....the job interview I went to last week seems to have landed me a new job. I would be making more money and getting a car allowance on top of my salary!:D:D I'm so excited.....I should be receiving the written offer later this week. I'll keep you guys informed on my latest happyday news!!:D:D:D:dance:
EDS: I was playing a game on MWS against some dude and he goes first. Drops a Godless Shrine tapped and passes the turn. I play the same thing but I untap it because I have a Mana Tithe in my hand. He untaps and plays a plains....then he types in...."This isn't a MARTYR deck" and plays a Martyr of My-Ass-Is-Broken. So I Tithe and he pays the . My turn I draw and drop a swamp because I have a Dash Hopes and pass. He attacks and I take the 1. He passes the turn. My turn I Mortify the Martyr. He does the little annoying trick and gains 12 life. We go back and forth getting rid of each other's creatures and stuff and he plays Debtor's Knell. I realize the use for the card and ask him how he can say that he isn't playing a MARTYR deck? He says, "I'm not using Proklamation!" ...misspelling included. Since then I have Zombified an Akroma into play, which he Fettered. I'm holding 2 Mortify and direct damage and he types in "gg. g2?" I was so pissed at his arrogance that I type in, "GG for what? What makes you think you won?" Before he could answer I left the game. I have never jumped out of a game like that but this guy was retarded. First to tell me that he isn't playing a martyr deck when the only other creature he had was Shrieking Grotesque. It was amazing to me. I swear people are dumber than dumb. You know you're playing a Martyr deck and you claim you aren't right before you play the card.
"Talkin outta turn....That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals....That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe....You better believe that's a paddlin'!" --Jasper
Wow.....I musta missed something deep and disturbing. Zig, take care of yourself in your darkest hours. Life is already short enough as it is. I may not know what your going through but I do understand that at times life just doesn't seem worth living. Thing is, death is worthless....something we all get by default anyway. And as pointless as life may sometimes seem there is no reason to rush death.
I would suggest getting some sort of help. I've heard great things about holistic healing and it might be worth looking into. Your body and mind is worth the investment.
On a lighter note I played poker again last night. Got my trash kicked, went all in on a pair of fours, hoping to buy the pot or bluff my opponent. Pair of fours loses to three threes. Was still a fun night. I got to play with a bong for the first time. Never had my skin turn all tingly and the world go all flashy on me before. Interesting sensation.
Daggertooth
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Nice news on the supplemental income Jonski! People on MWS can be dicks. Most just sign off as soon as they draw a bad hand.
Zig hasn't signed on here or myspace since Mon morn. It makes wonder if two or three clan members should have a list of all our phone numbers. Just for use in emergancys.
Another Tuesday night.. I figure I'll sit here, have a few and watch TV. ..What? It sounds better than working out and eating cheeseburgers. SLAM
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Not being Vauge....just used a bong for bongish issues. Too much too fast of a good thing methinks. I came out of it okay.
Been job hunting and I just realized that maybe, just maybe, the request that I send a copy of my college transcripts might have been directed to me. It stated that if I were trying to get in based on education that I would need to have that. Self explanatory, but I thought that was only talking about those with a few classes or something, not with an actual BS in Biology, something that requires a specific number of biology related classes by default. That might have nullified my previous work. Sucks to be me I suppose. I wont be able to get that for a few days or so. Not in the mood to do much more job searching now. Very unproductive so I'll probably head home in a minute or so.
Kinda freaky knowing I only have a month and a half of employment left.
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Heh, I don't really want to talk about the ziggs thing. Partly because it's all hearsay at this point... but mostly because I don't really understand emotions. I've got 2 of them, Hungry and Horney. All the others like love, sadness, or anger... I just don't seem to ever get them.
Cyan: Pristine Angel is about 2 million times better than Eternal Dragon for that deck. With dragon, you have to chose every turn if you want to attack, or if you want to block. With a 5/5 body the dragon is fairly easy to kill, and it's (more often than not) going to take you 2 turns to "dredge" and replay it.
Pristine has (essentially) vigilance, which lets her play both offense and defense very well. Plus, since she's damn near impossible to kill, it's tough for your opponents to do anything about her. And, like I mentioned, if dragon bites Putrefy even once, Pristine becomes a faster clock than dragon anyways.
Really for me the hard part was chosing to play Pristine over Exalted Angel, but since Pristine seemed to do as good of a job on defense, and tended to take the opponent from 20 to zero all by herself far more often, this was a suprsingly easy cut.
Jonny: Sounds to me a lot like you had HIM beat. Just keep pointing Mortify at the Knell and eventually he'll run out of life points. That said, I'd have probably played out the game till I killed him, just to prove that he's a ****ing idiot.
Incidentally, I think I faced the same guy a few days ago. (unless there's more than one idiot playing BW martyr with Knell). I was playing UG aggro, and at one point, he taps 2W for story circle, and asks if it resolves. I point out that he needs WW to cast the spell. He promptly says "green" sets a note on the circle, plays some other spell and passes the turn. I'm repeatedly telling him "no" and "stop" while he does this. finally when he passes the turn I get a chance to point out that he couldn't make all those plays, because he didn't tap the right color mana for circle, and on 2 swamps and 2 plains you can't cast circle, plus martyr. I then reveal the mana-leak in my hand, tell him I was going to use it on the circle once he tapped correctly, and quit the game in frustration.
I don't mind innocent mistakes, but when your opponent says "stop" it's common courtesy stop. Rude, stupid, and playing an awful deck. Sounds a lot like we found the same guy.
Daggs: I didn't realize they had bongs in utah. I thought it was the land of hot chocolate and board games. Either way, glad to hear your first experience was a pleasant one. If you ever need help on how to find... umm... "supplies" without meeting 2 Ton Tony in cellblock D, I've got plenty of advice I'd be happy to dispense. Just be careful how you use that stuff or you'll turn into Dux.
So in personal news... I just saw a kid get pwned in class, 2 days in a row.
I'll call the guy Devin. Devin is the sort of guy who gets under everyone's skin, really fast. He skips class all the time, and then when he shows up, he'll ask questions about the stuff we learned while he was skipping. He'll interrupt the professor mid-sentence, and won't stop interrupting until he's satisfied with the answers.
On days when he shows up, we almost never cover anything new. Instead the entire day is spent listening to Devin interrupt the professor, and the professor explain stuff we leared yesterday. It's annoys everyone in the class, and even the professor has occasionally complained about it. I've personally told him to cut it out and show up in class more often, as have several other students.
Even when he is caught up, he'll ask dumb questions. He'll ask a question about basic math, and then when we explain that it's basic calculus, he'll explain that he failed that clas, but had the pre-req waived, so could we please explain it to him. Now I'm usually pretty understanding... but calc is a pre-requisite for a reason. There's 19 other students in the class, and we can all do the math. If he can't, maybe the middle of a lecture isn't the best time to ask for help (I've told him this as well).
So, yesterday we were talking about semiconductors. The professor was explaining how a diodes, and asks us if we can explain a specific behavior that they sometimes show. I raise my hand and suggest (correctly) that the behavior could be explained by quantum tunneling.
Don't worry if you don't know what that means. We spent about 3 weeks this quarter talking about tunneling (Devin skipped all of them), and had 2 tunneling problems on our midterm. Basically, it was something everyone in the class should have been very familiar with. No sooner did the word "tunneling" come out of my mouth, than Devin interrupted me, and asked "what's that?".
I wasn't really in the mood to be nice, so I told him "We spent 3 weeks of class talking about it. If you could just read the book, or show up in class like the rest of us do, you'd already know what tunneling is." This triggered giggles from the rest of the class, and even earned an 'amen' from someone.
Devin turned red in the face, and spent the remaining 30 minutes of class glaring at me. At least he wasn't asking questions though, so it turned out pretty well. After class I had about 6 different people tell me how awsome I am for telling Devin to **** off.
So, today we're still talking about semiconductors. Devin asks something about doping (which we covered in detail last Friday). The professor (possibly inspired by yesterday), told him "Look, I'm just going to teach the class ok? We covered this on Friday, so just check your notes". That was a double whammy, since Devin never takes notes, AND he skipped class on Friday.
I was told today that this kid on my team called 911 twice this morning and hung up both times. They called back and his dad answered. The reason the kid called 911? He got an erection and didn't know what to do. I wish I was making this up.
Haha! There's a Devin in EVERY class... in high school. Usually the Devins don't bother with college, or they do maybe the odd first year course and get as far away from there as they can, early on.
So I just checked out two music videos online. I don't have TV and haven't really been into music videos since, well, I got married. But these two were great. Shakira and Beyonce in one together called "Beautiful Liar". Wow, those have to be two of the sexiest women in music right now. They're both in good shape but neither of them are too skinny, which is nice, especially on fairly tall girls. The song is moderately sexy, especially how they sing it. And it looked like they had fun doing the video, too. Whew... *fanning myself*. Nice! The second was Christina Aguilera's "Candyman". I'm not sure how you can get away with saying "he's a one stop shop, makes my panties drop, he's a one stop ship, makes my cherry pop" in a mainstream song these days, and not get sensored, but that's besides the point. The video is what you'd expect for her, given a swing type oldies style song (dispite the lyrics). Lots of 50s style dresses, hair up, and marines and military men dancing, cheering, and throwing their hats. And of course swing dancing like crazy. Christina is hot, always has been. Sure she's thin but she's petite and it suits her. She's not some tall big boned girl starving to death to be <110 lb. And she's got a great face, likes to dress sexy, and she can dance. To top it all off, she has an amazing, powerful voice for which she isn't given enough credit. To think, her and Brittney had similar roots, and emerged into pop music around the same time. Funny that one is a bald drunk trailer whore now, washed up with no recent music to speak of. The other is still doing what she does best - singing fun, upbeat pop songs that top the charts. Try and put her down if you want, but she's actually dirrty in a classy way, and her voice really can't be knocked unless you just don't know good tone when you hear it. She has true talent, something that wasn't immediately apparent when her and Brittney emerged with "hit me baby one more time" and "genie in a bottle" back in 98.
:lol: Congrattttsis on a maybe new jobbe, jj. You da man.
r_e, that last post has paragraph trouble, here's a tl;dr just for you
Y'all go check the clan council thread, I am trying to get the next contest motivated + made myself laugh, then came up with (what I think is) a cool idea for a bit of a different flava yeh etc.
Here, Uni works a bit differently, seeing as the government will basically loan anyone the $$$ to attend, so you get Devins in *every* class. Aurelia always has one or two each semester. Kids don't value the education 'cos they may never have to pay their HEX debt etc yeh blah blah tl;dr
The Chief is back from his fishing trip, so I no longer own the Chocave. . . + then the steel belt broke today. Please don't send me back to the kitchen ;_;!
monkey-eds - Doc MH, why you never post no more? What happened with joining even?
Thanks HKKID, But I probably shouldn't go arround looking for suppliers and such. Not something I plan to take regularly. Mainly I can't bring myself to spend the amount of money it would take to get into a habit like that. I mean I already spend a ton on Magic, who needs another addiction.
Way to tell that Devin off, I mean he shouldn't be allowed to be in that class.
Ria, Why are chocolates so expensive huh? I went to the rocky mountain chocoloate factory and saw one of them truffles you're always talking about for over $3 a piece! I would expect a bag for that much. How do chocolate people sleep at night?
Looks like I need to get into music video's. I mean with the way Daron describes them...fun.
So I got my transcript now. Somehow I figured out my password from several years ago and was able to change it to something manageable.
Well I'm dead tired and such. Hopefully I can get online sometime before the end of another week.
Later
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
EDIT: Damn, thinking about chocolate is painful! I love it, but I can't afford it. Man what I wouldn't give for a big pile of milk chocolate with pecans and nougat, whatever that is.... *drool*
EDIT: * rancored_elf waves at brother hydro *
Nougat is a confectionery made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios or hazelnuts are common) and sometimes chopped candied fruit. The consistency of nougat can range from chewy to hard depending on its composition.
Oh. Maybe that's not what I meant. Caramel, perhaps? What's in "Turtles"?
The second was Christina Aguilera's "Candyman". I'm not sure how you can get away with saying "he's a one stop shop, makes my panties drop, he's a one stop ship, makes my cherry pop" in a mainstream song these days, and not get sensored, but that's besides the point.
I told you all they'd write songs about me someday.
Daron your knowledge of curent pop music is sickening, but not suprising. I don't listen to the radio or watch raunchy music-videos. I stick to CD's and women's gymnastics!
I don't like caramel.
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*DUX sprays some air freshener*
What did I fart or something?.. Why is no one posting?!!
I am sitting here wasting my night, waiting for a post. My fishing hook is out there and no one is biteing.
And still no Sig'el from the our Zig'el Niz'el.
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I do enjoy popular music, not so much for the hollywood gossip crap nor the usually vanilla lyrics, but because some of it sounds good. And for me music is about how it sounds going into my ears.
you're all GAY!!! That's right...sue me for saying GAY!!! I guess that means I hate GAYS!!! but I don't...
I agree with everything you said about the way those ladies look. I agree with everything you said about Christina....I don't believe that Shikira can sing at all. All of the lyrics suck and the music is annoying....but that is because they don't write their music....they are performers....well..christina is a musician.
Dave...you're a freak for not liking Caramel....:p
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: monkey-eds - Doc MH, why you never post no more? What happened with joining even?
Because im a called lurker?:sneaky: That and I try to limit my posts hear because I don't want to overextend my welcome + life gets in the way of trying to join + your not looking for fresh blood.
But since I'v already come out from hiding I'll give a propper life update post:)
I work nights now at a local BK doing maintence ( what mostly consists of cleaning + scrubbing + mopping) and am taking collage courses online. Im also taking the State police entrence test in april, hopefully i'll get to carry around that mace and shinny badge . Other then that, nothing new here since I come home and sleap and study:frown:
Ok, im gona go back to my dark corner and watch from afar again.
quantumdraco: 'sup?
RancoredElf: eating some spagetti and meatsauce
RancoredElf: sitting around in my boxers
quantumdraco: eww
RancoredElf: so?
RancoredElf: as if you don't post naked
quantumdraco: I meant the meatsauce
Yay for silly chatlogs. Yukora made me AIM yesterday to discuss the clan contest, + Aurelia had set us up so we could video conference with my momma, so I AIM'd ;_;
With 10 clans on board, we've got a good shot at the 14 we're hoping for already (+ I will continue to stalk the remaining clans, 1 by 1), so we should be seriously considering who will be our game face;
I'm out 'cos I'm in on the setup. Of the remaining active members -
Silent P is out 'cos he's a compulsive low-content lurker type.
Cyan is good but always in a scummy aspect, also popular with the night targeting
Infiiicuub is still low on my radar, but at least isn't explosive n00b type.
jj would be funny + is fairly active, so could keep it up.
r_e has already expressed a desire to be our rep in the game.
DUX?
HKKID?
I would say r_e, if you've got the time to volunteer, jj being my second pick for the randomness. Just my 2¢
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I don't think any of us are high and mighty enough to put in a discouraging word to Zig right now, neither for having problems in his life, nor for reaching out for help in a disfunctional way.... especially you. We've all been to dark places and most of us have brought it up with fellow clan members, including you on several occasions in the last year or two.
Besides, why post to say "I'm not gonna post"? I think if you're just going to be unsupportive and negative about it, just keep your trap shut on the issue (completely).
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I was listening to some of my depressing music while typing my report and the following song came on:
River of Deceit - by: Mad Season
My pain is self chosen.
At least so the prophet says
I could either burn,
Or cut off my pride and buy some time.
A head full of lies is weight tied to my waste.
The River of Deceit Pulls Down
The only direction we flow is down
Down, Oh Down
My pain is self chosen
At least I believe it to be
I could either drown,
Or pull off my skin and swim to shore
Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see
The River of Deceit Pulls Down
The only direction we flow is down
Down, Oh Down
The pain is self chosen
Our pain is elf chosen
Down, Oh Down
Ahhh...the vocal stylings of the great Layne Staley! RIP!
I just wrote that because it made me think of the situation.
:D:D
On a much lighter note....the job interview I went to last week seems to have landed me a new job. I would be making more money and getting a car allowance on top of my salary!:D:D I'm so excited.....I should be receiving the written offer later this week. I'll keep you guys informed on my latest happyday news!!:D:D:D:dance:
EDS: I was playing a game on MWS against some dude and he goes first. Drops a Godless Shrine tapped and passes the turn. I play the same thing but I untap it because I have a Mana Tithe in my hand. He untaps and plays a plains....then he types in...."This isn't a MARTYR deck" and plays a Martyr of My-Ass-Is-Broken. So I Tithe and he pays the . My turn I draw and drop a swamp because I have a Dash Hopes and pass. He attacks and I take the 1. He passes the turn. My turn I Mortify the Martyr. He does the little annoying trick and gains 12 life. We go back and forth getting rid of each other's creatures and stuff and he plays Debtor's Knell. I realize the use for the card and ask him how he can say that he isn't playing a MARTYR deck? He says, "I'm not using Proklamation!" ...misspelling included. Since then I have Zombified an Akroma into play, which he Fettered. I'm holding 2 Mortify and direct damage and he types in "gg. g2?" I was so pissed at his arrogance that I type in, "GG for what? What makes you think you won?" Before he could answer I left the game. I have never jumped out of a game like that but this guy was retarded. First to tell me that he isn't playing a martyr deck when the only other creature he had was Shrieking Grotesque. It was amazing to me. I swear people are dumber than dumb. You know you're playing a Martyr deck and you claim you aren't right before you play the card.
I would suggest getting some sort of help. I've heard great things about holistic healing and it might be worth looking into. Your body and mind is worth the investment.
On a lighter note I played poker again last night. Got my trash kicked, went all in on a pair of fours, hoping to buy the pot or bluff my opponent. Pair of fours loses to three threes. Was still a fun night. I got to play with a bong for the first time. Never had my skin turn all tingly and the world go all flashy on me before. Interesting sensation.
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Zig hasn't signed on here or myspace since Mon morn. It makes wonder if two or three clan members should have a list of all our phone numbers. Just for use in emergancys.
Another Tuesday night.. I figure I'll sit here, have a few and watch TV. ..What? It sounds better than working out and eating cheeseburgers. SLAM
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
Nice Jonski... let us know!
I asked him for his, but he lost his cell (his only phone) recently on a drinking binge.
Why you little!!!
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Been job hunting and I just realized that maybe, just maybe, the request that I send a copy of my college transcripts might have been directed to me. It stated that if I were trying to get in based on education that I would need to have that. Self explanatory, but I thought that was only talking about those with a few classes or something, not with an actual BS in Biology, something that requires a specific number of biology related classes by default. That might have nullified my previous work. Sucks to be me I suppose. I wont be able to get that for a few days or so. Not in the mood to do much more job searching now. Very unproductive so I'll probably head home in a minute or so.
Kinda freaky knowing I only have a month and a half of employment left.
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Cyan: Pristine Angel is about 2 million times better than Eternal Dragon for that deck. With dragon, you have to chose every turn if you want to attack, or if you want to block. With a 5/5 body the dragon is fairly easy to kill, and it's (more often than not) going to take you 2 turns to "dredge" and replay it.
Pristine has (essentially) vigilance, which lets her play both offense and defense very well. Plus, since she's damn near impossible to kill, it's tough for your opponents to do anything about her. And, like I mentioned, if dragon bites Putrefy even once, Pristine becomes a faster clock than dragon anyways.
Really for me the hard part was chosing to play Pristine over Exalted Angel, but since Pristine seemed to do as good of a job on defense, and tended to take the opponent from 20 to zero all by herself far more often, this was a suprsingly easy cut.
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Jonny: Sounds to me a lot like you had HIM beat. Just keep pointing Mortify at the Knell and eventually he'll run out of life points. That said, I'd have probably played out the game till I killed him, just to prove that he's a ****ing idiot.
Incidentally, I think I faced the same guy a few days ago. (unless there's more than one idiot playing BW martyr with Knell). I was playing UG aggro, and at one point, he taps 2W for story circle, and asks if it resolves. I point out that he needs WW to cast the spell. He promptly says "green" sets a note on the circle, plays some other spell and passes the turn. I'm repeatedly telling him "no" and "stop" while he does this. finally when he passes the turn I get a chance to point out that he couldn't make all those plays, because he didn't tap the right color mana for circle, and on 2 swamps and 2 plains you can't cast circle, plus martyr. I then reveal the mana-leak in my hand, tell him I was going to use it on the circle once he tapped correctly, and quit the game in frustration.
I don't mind innocent mistakes, but when your opponent says "stop" it's common courtesy stop. Rude, stupid, and playing an awful deck. Sounds a lot like we found the same guy.
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Daggs: I didn't realize they had bongs in utah. I thought it was the land of hot chocolate and board games. Either way, glad to hear your first experience was a pleasant one. If you ever need help on how to find... umm... "supplies" without meeting 2 Ton Tony in cellblock D, I've got plenty of advice I'd be happy to dispense. Just be careful how you use that stuff or you'll turn into Dux.
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So in personal news... I just saw a kid get pwned in class, 2 days in a row.
I'll call the guy Devin. Devin is the sort of guy who gets under everyone's skin, really fast. He skips class all the time, and then when he shows up, he'll ask questions about the stuff we learned while he was skipping. He'll interrupt the professor mid-sentence, and won't stop interrupting until he's satisfied with the answers.
On days when he shows up, we almost never cover anything new. Instead the entire day is spent listening to Devin interrupt the professor, and the professor explain stuff we leared yesterday. It's annoys everyone in the class, and even the professor has occasionally complained about it. I've personally told him to cut it out and show up in class more often, as have several other students.
Even when he is caught up, he'll ask dumb questions. He'll ask a question about basic math, and then when we explain that it's basic calculus, he'll explain that he failed that clas, but had the pre-req waived, so could we please explain it to him. Now I'm usually pretty understanding... but calc is a pre-requisite for a reason. There's 19 other students in the class, and we can all do the math. If he can't, maybe the middle of a lecture isn't the best time to ask for help (I've told him this as well).
So, yesterday we were talking about semiconductors. The professor was explaining how a diodes, and asks us if we can explain a specific behavior that they sometimes show. I raise my hand and suggest (correctly) that the behavior could be explained by quantum tunneling.
Don't worry if you don't know what that means. We spent about 3 weeks this quarter talking about tunneling (Devin skipped all of them), and had 2 tunneling problems on our midterm. Basically, it was something everyone in the class should have been very familiar with. No sooner did the word "tunneling" come out of my mouth, than Devin interrupted me, and asked "what's that?".
I wasn't really in the mood to be nice, so I told him "We spent 3 weeks of class talking about it. If you could just read the book, or show up in class like the rest of us do, you'd already know what tunneling is." This triggered giggles from the rest of the class, and even earned an 'amen' from someone.
Devin turned red in the face, and spent the remaining 30 minutes of class glaring at me. At least he wasn't asking questions though, so it turned out pretty well. After class I had about 6 different people tell me how awsome I am for telling Devin to **** off.
So, today we're still talking about semiconductors. Devin asks something about doping (which we covered in detail last Friday). The professor (possibly inspired by yesterday), told him "Look, I'm just going to teach the class ok? We covered this on Friday, so just check your notes". That was a double whammy, since Devin never takes notes, AND he skipped class on Friday.
PWNED BY THE PROFESSOR!
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So I just checked out two music videos online. I don't have TV and haven't really been into music videos since, well, I got married. But these two were great. Shakira and Beyonce in one together called "Beautiful Liar". Wow, those have to be two of the sexiest women in music right now. They're both in good shape but neither of them are too skinny, which is nice, especially on fairly tall girls. The song is moderately sexy, especially how they sing it. And it looked like they had fun doing the video, too. Whew... *fanning myself*. Nice! The second was Christina Aguilera's "Candyman". I'm not sure how you can get away with saying "he's a one stop shop, makes my panties drop, he's a one stop ship, makes my cherry pop" in a mainstream song these days, and not get sensored, but that's besides the point. The video is what you'd expect for her, given a swing type oldies style song (dispite the lyrics). Lots of 50s style dresses, hair up, and marines and military men dancing, cheering, and throwing their hats. And of course swing dancing like crazy. Christina is hot, always has been. Sure she's thin but she's petite and it suits her. She's not some tall big boned girl starving to death to be <110 lb. And she's got a great face, likes to dress sexy, and she can dance. To top it all off, she has an amazing, powerful voice for which she isn't given enough credit. To think, her and Brittney had similar roots, and emerged into pop music around the same time. Funny that one is a bald drunk trailer whore now, washed up with no recent music to speak of. The other is still doing what she does best - singing fun, upbeat pop songs that top the charts. Try and put her down if you want, but she's actually dirrty in a classy way, and her voice really can't be knocked unless you just don't know good tone when you hear it. She has true talent, something that wasn't immediately apparent when her and Brittney emerged with "hit me baby one more time" and "genie in a bottle" back in 98.
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r_e, that last post has paragraph trouble, here's a tl;dr just for you
Y'all go check the clan council thread, I am trying to get the next contest motivated + made myself laugh, then came up with (what I think is) a cool idea for a bit of a different flava yeh etc.
Here, Uni works a bit differently, seeing as the government will basically loan anyone the $$$ to attend, so you get Devins in *every* class. Aurelia always has one or two each semester. Kids don't value the education 'cos they may never have to pay their HEX debt etc yeh blah blah tl;dr
The Chief is back from his fishing trip, so I no longer own the Chocave. . . + then the steel belt broke today. Please don't send me back to the kitchen ;_;!
monkey-eds - Doc MH, why you never post no more? What happened with joining even?
Way to tell that Devin off, I mean he shouldn't be allowed to be in that class.
Ria, Why are chocolates so expensive huh? I went to the rocky mountain chocoloate factory and saw one of them truffles you're always talking about for over $3 a piece! I would expect a bag for that much. How do chocolate people sleep at night?
Looks like I need to get into music video's. I mean with the way Daron describes them...fun.
So I got my transcript now. Somehow I figured out my password from several years ago and was able to change it to something manageable.
Well I'm dead tired and such. Hopefully I can get online sometime before the end of another week.
Later
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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EDIT: Damn, thinking about chocolate is painful! I love it, but I can't afford it. Man what I wouldn't give for a big pile of milk chocolate with pecans and nougat, whatever that is.... *drool*
EDIT: * rancored_elf waves at brother hydro *
Oh. Maybe that's not what I meant. Caramel, perhaps? What's in "Turtles"?
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I told you all they'd write songs about me someday.
Daron your knowledge of curent pop music is sickening, but not suprising. I don't listen to the radio or watch raunchy music-videos. I stick to CD's and women's gymnastics!
I don't like caramel.
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*DUX sprays some air freshener*
What did I fart or something?.. Why is no one posting?!!
I am sitting here wasting my night, waiting for a post. My fishing hook is out there and no one is biteing.
And still no Sig'el from the our Zig'el Niz'el.
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
I do enjoy popular music, not so much for the hollywood gossip crap nor the usually vanilla lyrics, but because some of it sounds good. And for me music is about how it sounds going into my ears.
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I agree with everything you said about the way those ladies look. I agree with everything you said about Christina....I don't believe that Shikira can sing at all. All of the lyrics suck and the music is annoying....but that is because they don't write their music....they are performers....well..christina is a musician.
Dave...you're a freak for not liking Caramel....:p
Because im a called lurker?:sneaky: That and I try to limit my posts hear because I don't want to overextend my welcome + life gets in the way of trying to join + your not looking for fresh blood.
But since I'v already come out from hiding I'll give a propper life update post:)
I work nights now at a local BK doing maintence ( what mostly consists of cleaning + scrubbing + mopping) and am taking collage courses online. Im also taking the State police entrence test in april, hopefully i'll get to carry around that mace and shinny badge . Other then that, nothing new here since I come home and sleap and study:frown:
Ok, im gona go back to my dark corner and watch from afar again.
later called
Me in card form!
Ziiiiig. . . Earth calling Space Station Ziiig. . . Move Zig For Great Justice. . .
Doesn't. Like. Caramel.
Takes all kinds, I suppose @_@
So, did anyone look at the Clan Council thread? I'm trying to get a competion going for the next Clan Contest, + it involves DYING ON A ROPE!
*feels ashamed*
*mostly*
Of course, most likely it just means that your idea is crashing and burning.
new-page-eds -
Well, I heard that Zig was on AIM today. But he's claiming it's not really him - just an emissary delivering a message. BS.
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Zig should say hi to us, at least
RancoredElf: eating some spagetti and meatsauce
RancoredElf: sitting around in my boxers
quantumdraco: eww
RancoredElf: so?
RancoredElf: as if you don't post naked
quantumdraco: I meant the meatsauce
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With 10 clans on board, we've got a good shot at the 14 we're hoping for already (+ I will continue to stalk the remaining clans, 1 by 1), so we should be seriously considering who will be our game face;
I'm out 'cos I'm in on the setup. Of the remaining active members -
Silent P is out 'cos he's a compulsive low-content lurker type.
Cyan is good but always in a scummy aspect, also popular with the night targeting
Infiiicuub is still low on my radar, but at least isn't explosive n00b type.
jj would be funny + is fairly active, so could keep it up.
r_e has already expressed a desire to be our rep in the game.
DUX?
HKKID?
I would say r_e, if you've got the time to volunteer, jj being my second pick for the randomness. Just my 2¢