Author Topic: Good Morning 2011: Wherein the emo comes to roost (Read 95767 times)

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #325 on:** March 19, 2011, 06:31:29 AM »

The situation just got elevated to the level of a 'disaster' that killed zero people and had no environmental effects to speak of! Watch out Djinn!

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #326 on:** March 21, 2011, 08:53:49 AM »

Still recovering from Zenny's commentary on my mustache. IT CUT LIKE A KNIFE

Cotigo · « **Reply #327 on:** March 21, 2011, 11:46:00 AM »

Just sayin, it makes you look like a pedophile.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #328 on:** March 21, 2011, 07:24:58 PM »

I'm sorry it's a work in progress, then. It'll be Swanson-level in like two weeks.

Anyway I'm in such a good mood I'm already over it.

SageAcrin · « **Reply #329 on:** March 21, 2011, 08:55:30 PM »

Quote from: Ciato on March 19, 2011, 06:31:29 AM

The situation just got elevated to the level of a 'disaster' that killed zero people and had no environmental effects to speak of! Watch out Djinn!

Just like Three Mile Island!

People are bad at this radioactivity thing. We don't want them to stop though, if people start treating it as at all reasonable they'll start wanting to nuke things.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #330 on:** March 21, 2011, 11:12:47 PM »

Potassium Iodide for everyone whheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Fenrir · « **Reply #331 on:** March 22, 2011, 10:32:27 AM »

Wow, this is the reaction for a friendly warning?
*deletes the euthanasy topic he was going to make*

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To be fair, it's not hard for a government to be more open about things than the old USSR. That Chernobyl was as bad as it was is can mostly be laid at the feet of (a) gross incompetence "hi guys let's shut off all our security measures while we run some tests, this can not possibly go wrong", and (b) lying to their own people outright "oh man let's send firefighters in and not tell them they are dealing with radiation because then people would know we screwed up". They also clearly intended to cover the whole thing up but couldn't because radiation levels reached Europe (not enough to hurt people, but easily enough to be detected). EDIT: That is non-Soviet Europe obviously.

It doesn't hurt to be safe even so, but at the same time, I'm not sure I fully agree that the media is trying to diminish things to keep everybody calm (probably depends on the media; I've seen more than a few outlets doing their best to whip people into a frenzy).

The French governement was also responsible for covering this up when they knew. This became a scandal twenty years later, victims of radiation sued the governement.

Well, I got the info from a stepbrother living in Japan. French medias are naturally more paranoid than japanese ones, but still. The main point is that you can't trust governements (of any kind) too much because they'll always care about society more than individuals(at least more than you care about your own life than about your society) Most people distrust the governement too much as a result, but that's something else.

I relied on a guy from the national center for scientific research instead before posting, the guy told me "Low risk of explosion, marginal raise of cancer in a few years". Risks are low, but it doesn't hurt to be safe as you said yeah.

Grefter · « **Reply #332 on:** March 22, 2011, 12:00:14 PM »

So what you are saying it is a cheaper way to sterilise yourself than getting a vasectomy?

VySaika · « **Reply #333 on:** March 22, 2011, 04:34:42 PM »

If anyone's been looking for me in chat, mIRC has been flat out refusing to let me on the past couple of days. If I can't get that fixed, can anyone reccomend another chat program that I could use instead?

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #334 on:** March 22, 2011, 04:49:48 PM »

Chatzilla is actually pretty damn good these days. When I first started using it, it was kinda meh compared to mIRC, but now I actually prefer Chatzilla's setup.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #335 on:** March 23, 2011, 10:45:08 AM »

Grades are in. Ran the table this term.

Decided to crown this month the best month ever at this point, what with that on top of everything else.

Idun · « **Reply #336 on:** March 24, 2011, 01:48:19 AM »

Just got back from Alabama and presented with three good e-mails from graduate school. (: Three more acceptances, so this totals four and two rejections.

Now that I have some free time, besides weighing which more or less debt I want to accrue. . . I WILL WORK ON MAH BANNERS. No lie.

Tide · « **Reply #337 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:13:01 AM »

Somehow still alive after getting myself into a pretty nasty car crash. Guess god decided it wasn't my time to go yet.

Shale · « **Reply #338 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:14:40 AM »

Yikes. Glad you're okay.

Sorry if you're getting stuck with the bill.

NotMiki · « **Reply #339 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:25:18 AM »

As I mentioned in chat, God clearly wants you to help me with my tax homework. Glad you're ok, man.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #340 on:** March 24, 2011, 07:07:38 AM »

Oh snap, car accidents suck. Glad you're okay, Tide.
Now that I know you're okay, I have to ask: Did the car go careening into an awesome tailspin? Details!

In other news, with graduation comes staff changes, and the staff changes to my awesome elementary school are anything but awesome... ;_;

BOTH of the teachers who actually speak any English are getting shuffled off to another school, and the rest of the teachers who I actually spent any of my free time chatting to are also getting reassigned! ...it's like losing all the best parts of working here all at once...

On the plus side, now that she's not going to be my co-worker anymore, I can finally ask that really cute teacher out on a date and see if it goes anywhere~

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #341 on:** March 24, 2011, 07:35:58 AM »

...aaaaand one of my students, Ryuusei Nakashima, just broke his arm and the vice-principal is driving him to the hospital. On the first day of his spring vacation...

...This is a day.

Cotigo · « **Reply #342 on:** March 24, 2011, 08:17:23 AM »

Glad to hear you're alive, Tide. Now you an do more SPEEDRUNS.

Clear Tranquil · « **Reply #343 on:** March 24, 2011, 11:51:49 AM »

Glad you're ok Tide <(^^)>

(has this happened before? >_> Other than to supers that is <_<)

Here's hoping for a better day for people all round Djinn. Oh and congratulations Idun!

* Clear Tranquil glomps \0/~

Tonfa · « **Reply #344 on:** March 24, 2011, 12:53:59 PM »

It's official: A mere car crash cannot stop a true defender of Justice.

Fenrir · « **Reply #345 on:** March 24, 2011, 04:35:02 PM »

Nice to know. I bet you took like only 15% HP damage.

Tide · « **Reply #346 on:** March 24, 2011, 09:59:02 PM »

Quote from: Shale on March 24, 2011, 03:14:40 AM

Sorry if you're getting stuck with the bill.

Man, the bill is the last thing on my mind right now. I'm just glad that I'm still here. I think the insurance may be footing it, but of course, this just means it comes out of my payments to insurance the next time they bill me (which will probably skyrocket after this

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As I mentioned in chat, God clearly wants you to help me with my tax homework.

Clearly! Then I realize this is what I am doing my entire life and I make myself sad. Lulz.

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Glad to hear you're alive, Tide. Now you an do more SPEEDRUNS.

Yes, yes. I need to get back my projects; I've been delaying to do unimportant things like work. I still have the ACF speedrun to do when I'm feeling unlazy.

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It's official: A mere car crash cannot stop a true defender of Justice.

*Salutes*

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Nice to know. I bet you took like only 15% HP damage.

Well judging by the visits to the doctor's I probably lost like 2% HP tops. The car took the brunt of it. I'm expecting it to be a write off pretty much.

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I have to ask: Did the car go careening into an awesome tailspin? Details!

I swerved across three lanes on the busiest highway in the area without hitting anything but the guardrail on the opposite side of the lane I was driving on. The front of the car looks like a bulldozer bashed it in and it smelled like gunpowder due to the airbags deploying.

Thanks everyone

. I'll worry about the aftermath as life keeps moving; just kinda glad to know I managed to make it out of that somehow still in one piece and apparently still pretty good.

Nephrite · « **Reply #347 on:** March 24, 2011, 10:33:16 PM »

Quote from: Tonfa on March 24, 2011, 12:53:59 PM

It's official: A mere car crash cannot stop a true defender of Justice.

No, that takes a missile to the face.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #348 on:** March 25, 2011, 01:11:41 AM »

So with books now at about 75% off at the Borders near me I've switched my approach to books I wouldn't normally get but had some interest in.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - I've heard really, really good things about the book version of this, and I've read a bunch of Shirley Jackson this semester so I became even more interested.

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain - History this semester prompted this one over other Twain books I've yet to read.

Opted for some pulp science fiction (The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell), since I love it but haven't really gotten much of in the past few years.

Also bought Choke and Garden State.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #349 on:** March 25, 2011, 01:40:14 AM »

So...

I'll be in San Fransisco May 1th - May 2th. With the girlfriend.

Anyone in the area on May 1th want to get together and have dinner/do something?

News:

Author Topic: Good Morning 2011: Wherein the emo comes to roost (Read 95767 times)

Idun