OTFPOTD 20 October.
In the news this (very early) morning:
Mr. Blackwell, he of the best/worst dressed list, has died. Here's to hoping Bjork shows up at his funeral wearing the swan dress.
Firefox Mobile is here, kind of.
Mila Kunis is my kind of baseball fan.
Mark Wahlberg is a humorless douche.
Kevin Smith...oh dear.
Man, the new iGoogle blows goats.
Also, I think there was a baseball game last night. Meh. It doesn't matter. The big-market, high-payroll, perennial winners always come out on...wait what?
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Well the Walburg article is bogus. Did you see SNL this week?
Here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/39813/saturday-night-live-mark-wahlberg-backstage"
More importantly THIS, not the Rays is the #1 World Series story (this should be added to the subject post): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJwoNSLRwg
by SethGrandpa on Oct 20, 2008 3:06 AM PDT 0 recs
So they DO break!!
A lot of the toilets here in Europe are that “jut straight from the wall” type including the one in my apartment. I’m not a chubby guy by any stretch of the imagination but I’m not light either and those toilets always make me a bit nervous.
by coolguyrob on Oct 20, 2008 3:20 AM PDT 0 recs
Tends to happen when the only people here are in NOLA, Croatia and San Diego =(
And dammit, ac, I was going to make a FanPost for this week requiring that only people who have never made an OTFPOTD before could make them this week!
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 6:31 AM PDT
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Some of us are too tag-challenged to be entrusted with the all important task of making the OTFPOTD
by coolguyrob on
Oct 20, 2008 6:34 AM PDT
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You type in the box and put a comma after the word or phrase.
It is exceedingly difficult.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 6:55 AM PDT
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The thought hadn't crossed my mind but whoa.
What about Croatia?
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 7:10 AM PDT
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They use commas instead of decimal points when writing down money
as in HR442,69. Which is 442.69 Kuna to us folks
by coolguyrob on
Oct 20, 2008 7:13 AM PDT
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Actually I won't be able to.
I’m going TDY tomorrow to Split for a USN ship visit. So I’ll be LL-less for a couple of days.
by coolguyrob on
Oct 20, 2008 7:17 AM PDT
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Well, a couple of days at the Croatian coast
on the government’s dime will go a long way towards keeping me alive.
by coolguyrob on
Oct 20, 2008 7:23 AM PDT
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So I'd say until next Monday, the following people are prohibited from making the OFFTOP
myself, NOLA, BrianL, pdb, ac, Faux, Phildopip, Gomez, Patrick517, (and did I miss anyone?)
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 7:18 AM PDT
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I fear one not being made and me having to work.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 7:21 AM PDT
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We'll post a time limit reminder for people to make one
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 7:23 AM PDT
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I'm usually up and on my computer at home by 5:30-6am
Maybe I’ll do one this week.
by Sec 108 on
Oct 20, 2008 10:38 AM PDT
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Just a friendly reminder from SB
someone new make an OFFTOP this morning!
by seattlebruin on
Oct 21, 2008 6:19 AM PDT
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Someone else, since I can't.
And do it soon, dammit, I have something to share.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on
Oct 21, 2008 6:44 AM PDT
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I'm starting to think this is a terrible idea
since the reason that the same people always make the OTFPOTDs is that we’re the ones who are up early
by seattlebruin on
Oct 21, 2008 6:49 AM PDT
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If there's not one up by 8 I'll do it
but I gotta get to work first.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on
Oct 21, 2008 6:56 AM PDT
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I'll put up one now.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on
Oct 21, 2008 6:57 AM PDT
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This is intended to be forced creativity
also, I want to see Graham post one
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 6:37 AM PDT
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My creativity does not reside
in the world of computer sciences….That’s for damn sure haha
by brayden04 on
Oct 20, 2008 6:40 AM PDT
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You could make an Off-Top about Japan and basketball
I would be entertained by this, at least
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 6:43 AM PDT
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Maybe I should start writing down
ridiculous things I see or differences in cultures and save it for one big OFFTOP.
by brayden04 on
Oct 20, 2008 6:46 AM PDT
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I dunno,
some guy who plays in my league. Word is he went to UCLA but transfered to Idaho. But with Japanese translation it may be another D1 LA school.
by brayden04 on
Oct 20, 2008 6:55 AM PDT
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According to Google, he went to Grand Valley State
http://gvsulakers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/naughton_justen00.html
Looks like he was a little before my time, though, so if he went to UCLA, I probably wouldn’t remember him =/
I’d definitely remember anyone who was at UCLA from ’03 on though
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 7:01 AM PDT
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Oh, it's just like my.yahoo
which works awesome once you customize it to not suck
by seattlebruin on Oct 20, 2008 6:33 AM PDT 0 recs
It's the format that has changed and is now much uglier.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 6:56 AM PDT
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I heard Google is hiring
and that they give employees complimentary massages and lunch every day
And something like 100k starting
by seattlebruin on
Oct 20, 2008 7:09 AM PDT
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Tell me about it. I am wild about all things google and they will not even give me a chance.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 7:15 AM PDT
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Are they aware of your unabashed love and fondness for all things google?
by coolguyrob on
Oct 20, 2008 7:19 AM PDT
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I more or less wrote them a love letter the last time I applied.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 7:22 AM PDT
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Google's insane.
We talk about Google a lot in class, and it seems like it would be extremely cool to work there. Then you realize that if you were going to work for Google, you would have no other life. On the other hand, by many if not all reports, working there is so amazing that you don’t even need another life. Color me vaguely skeptical.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on
Oct 20, 2008 9:12 AM PDT
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You have to be wired for it, definitely
Maybe I’m just an exceptionally lazy and unmotivated person, but the concept of giving up my life for a job – ANY job – fills me with a revulsion that I can’t really explain. Work is a means to an end. I’m extremely glad that there are people out there willing to sell their souls to The Man, but I ain’t one of them.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on
Oct 20, 2008 9:14 AM PDT
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I agree
The idea behind work is to facilitate your life, not become it.
by Gomez on
Oct 20, 2008 9:26 AM PDT
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Exactly.
Dammit I hate when work interrupts my day. I like my job and all, but, man I’ve got waaaay more important things to do in life.
This signature space for rent.
by PositivePaul on
Oct 20, 2008 10:10 AM PDT
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I'm a save the world sort of gal and I want to have a job that means something to me.
Shrug.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 11:26 AM PDT
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It's one thing to have a job with meaning that you're passionate about
and it’s quite another to be worked so hard at a job that you thought had that meaning that you burn out. There’s ways of working at jobs that have meaning that don’t involve working endless hours.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on
Oct 20, 2008 11:30 AM PDT
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This is what I want and I hope that I can find it.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 11:30 AM PDT
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Those jobs are out there
but as a general rule they don’t exist in the tech world. the tech world, especially leading-edge tech companies, seem to think that your passion should be rewarded with a workload that would kill most mere mortals. If that’s how you’re wired, as I said above, great; but from what little I “know” about you from hanging around here, that doesn’t seem like your scene.
I’d go the Gates Foundation-type route as much as possible.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on
Oct 20, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
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Interestingly enough, I'm considering the same sort of thing,
but am holding back because of the needed commitment.
by Matthew on
Oct 20, 2008 11:42 AM PDT
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Some jobs do facilitate certain people's lives
This can certainly be one. Many don’t.
by Gomez on
Oct 20, 2008 12:10 PM PDT
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I stay at my job even though I could make more elsewhere simply because they allow me the flexibility I desire.
I can take days off or leave early if I have something I need to do without any questions being asked (as long as I don’t overdo it).
Man do I love midgets.
by Thingray on
Oct 20, 2008 12:16 PM PDT
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My job is my life.
But I love it so it’s not such a big deal.
by brayden04 on
Oct 20, 2008 6:58 PM PDT
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An image from the end of "To Serve Man" crosses my mind.
Everybody moving up the escalator into the ship together, unwittingly about to become ingredients for an alien race.
"Sorry I hit you in the helmet Hank, I meant to hit you in the neck." Stan Williams to Hank Aaron.
by dpseadv on
Oct 20, 2008 12:28 PM PDT
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I saw a man wearing a flannel shirt today and thought, hey, fashionable.
Then I realized he was crossing the street to root through the trash can.
by NOLAmarinergirl on Oct 20, 2008 7:08 AM PDT 0 recs
Maybe rooting through trash cans is now fashionable too.
It’s like rich kids with tons of body piercings and tattoos begging for money.
Be open minded about what you don't know.
by Jed MC on
Oct 20, 2008 7:16 AM PDT
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Ok my day is already pretty bad but that just made me sad.
I apologize about the flannel shirt comment.
by NOLAmarinergirl on
Oct 20, 2008 12:37 PM PDT
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This is why I hate Dodger fans more than RSN.
“Everybody at Dodgers Stadium… was on their BlackBerries.”
by NOLAmarinergirl on Oct 20, 2008 7:09 AM PDT 0 recs
Which is a damn lie for all but playoff games, because I can tell you from firsthand experience that Dodgers fans are about 3x more ghetto than Angels fans
The playoffs would just be an aberration when only the rich fans could afford tickets
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Oct 20, 2008 7:19 AM PDT
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