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OTFPOTD 20 October.

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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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Huh.

Way to fact check Aaron.

J.K.L.

by acblue on Oct 20, 2008 3:13 AM PDT to parent up   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 to parent up   0 recs

So yes.

Tag you’re on for OFF tomorrow.

by NOLAmarinergirl on Oct 20, 2008 7:16 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

Just a friendly reminder from SB

someone new make an OFFTOP this morning!

by seattlebruin on Oct 21, 2008 6:19 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

Yay!

Sec108 already put one up!

by seattlebruin on Oct 21, 2008 7:07 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

Nope

who’s he?

by seattlebruin on Oct 20, 2008 6:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

I agree

The idea behind work is to facilitate your life, not become it.

by Gomez on Oct 20, 2008 9:26 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs