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My job got even shittier last night.  My camp is cutting back on their rooms and I know have to share my room with another day worker.  What this means is that rather than having an opposite who sleeps while I am working and vice versa, we literally share a room and sleep at the same time.  It sucks, but hopefully it is just for a few days.  At least he is someone I know.

No discusion topics really, just wanted a forum for those who get a little free time this weekend to pop in and let us know what's up.

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Lame that you cannot use punctuation in tags.

I needed several exclamations and Sorry NOLA needs a trademark symbol.

Fear the NPE

by thewyrm on Oct 25, 2008 9:53 AM PDT reply actions  

That sharing a room thing is really sucko.

It combines two things I dislike – hostels and work.

by royalcurve on Oct 25, 2008 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions  

Not enough snow yet.

And buuilding an igloo takes waaaaaaay too much effort.

Fear the NPE

by thewyrm on Oct 25, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions  

Plus you're basically gift-wrapping yourself for the polar bears

And vicious seals and Arctic Foxes.

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Oct 25, 2008 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

If I'm in a position of authority but there is no reason for anyone to think that

but I have to maintain authority so shit gets done should I carry a clipboard?

Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Washingtonhighways.org

by Corco on Oct 25, 2008 12:18 PM PDT reply actions  

When in charge

Be in charge. Let everyone involved know that you’re in charge and look them in the eye when you do it. Once everyone understands that, you won’t need a clipboard or some other symbol.

by coolguyrob on Oct 25, 2008 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions  

This isn't a situation where strong authority is necessary

Just in case of emergency my presence could theoretically be needed

Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Washingtonhighways.org

by Corco on Oct 25, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ah, different situation then

In that case an clipboard would be extremely helpful.

by coolguyrob on Oct 25, 2008 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions  

I will be seriously pissed if I can't watch baseball tonight/

I have worked 60 hours this week and missed all the baseball. I have 20 bottles of beer, a free house and a need for baseball-on-baseball action.

If the rain halts this, then I’ll have no choice but to drink all 20 of these bottles.

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2008 2:43 PM PDT reply actions  

You're guys, right?

What kind of flat screen tv do I get?

by royalcurve on Oct 25, 2008 9:26 PM PDT reply actions  

Wait for Black Friday

there’s about to be a huge price break on LCD TVs

by seattlebruin on Oct 25, 2008 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

That's what I'm doing

gonna “break” my 32" Vizio with the Circuit City extended warranty and buy whatever their best deal is for that weekend – prob like a 50" Panasonic or something. Hoping to get it for ~$700.

WRE to what TV to get, if you’re looking to go really upscale, go with Sharp, Samsung, Sony. Otherwise, I’d suggest just getting a bigger screen and going 720p instead of full 1080p HD. You actually won’t notice the difference at anything smaller than 42".

by seattlebruin on Oct 25, 2008 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

How big is the space/what do you wanna watch?

The whole plasma/LCD thing really seems to depend on personal preference and what you’re watching.

I got a big Plasma on black friday ‘06, and I love it. But in part that was because the refresh rate on LCDs wasn’t as good back then, so for sports the plasma made a lot more sense.
I got an LCD this year, and I’m watching the WS game on it now… it’s great. I can’t really tell the difference any more, though I slightly prefer the color on the plasma, but that might just be due to the fact that I’m used to it.
LCD, yeah, sb’s right – sharp, toshiba, sony. Plasma: really just Panasonic.

by marc w on Oct 25, 2008 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yes, I probably should have mentioned the whole LCD vs. plasma thing

but the LCDs have just gotten so much better/cheaper over the past two years that I think they’re the majority of flat screen sales now.

by seattlebruin on Oct 25, 2008 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ahhh. See, I didn't even know there was a difference.

I think LCD is what I’ll end up getting. It’s for my living room, relatively big space.

by royalcurve on Oct 25, 2008 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions  

Eh. Plasma life expectancy has increased

as LCD blurring has decreased (and contrast ratio has improved). Both will last long enough that when you’d replace them, you’ll probably be replacing them with cybernetic implants.

If it’s 50", you may still want to look at a good plasma. If it’s smaller than that, LCD.

by marc w on Oct 25, 2008 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

I have a Panasonic Pz-80B Plasma and it is a quality piece of kit.

I don’t have HDTV but I do have a PS3, and it looks quality on it.

When it comes to TV’s, Panasonic is considered the number one brand, at least by my company. Sony is also good.

I would recommend a specific deal, but I doubt you want to travel thousands of miles to pick one up…

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Oct 26, 2008 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions  

You actually won’t notice the difference at anything smaller than 42".

I disagree wholeheartedly.

by JI on Oct 26, 2008 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

I had noticed that line myself and thought about commenting

I don’t own an HDTV, although I’ve been in the market for one lately. It seems counter-intuitive that one wouldn’t notice the difference between 720 and 1080 unless it’s a larger television set. What have your experiences been, JI?

by katal on Oct 26, 2008 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions  

It depends on the connection

If you’re using an HDMI in general 1080 will be clear and 720 will be a bit grainy, if you’re using one of these sons of bitches, your picture will look duller and grainy regardless.

by JI on Oct 26, 2008 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

She's single and ... sigh... frisky.

We saw some hunky “jouster” at Excalibur and she yelled our room number at him.

by royalcurve on Oct 25, 2008 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

It's my 5th time.

I vacillate between hating it and liking it… it’s worth at least one trip.

by royalcurve on Oct 26, 2008 1:33 AM PDT up reply actions  

My parents went when I was a kid, relative lived there.

Fuzzy memories of walking into the old Circus Cirus, and driving down the old strip. Haven’t been back since. Been to “The Biggest Little City On Earth” a couple of times though. Reno seems ok.

by dpseadv on Oct 26, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions  

Reno's horrid

My family lives there. It’s awful. Between Monday and Thursday it’s a ghost town, between Thursday at about 4 and Sunday it’s packed. It’s like Las Vegas in the 1950’s – slow, mostly quiet, and not nearly the number of diversions Las Vegas has. If you don’t like gambling you won’t like Reno.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions  

Vegas 1950's sounds great to me!

Prior to corporate ownership, lets make it a family experience. Hey, that’s what Disneyland is for! Seedy, divey, no mega screen gizmo walks of wonder to blow my mind. When I think of gambling, I think of low ceilings, smoky rooms, drinks.

by dpseadv on Oct 26, 2008 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

That's Reno, definitely.

But where you’d think something like that actually has charm, in that 50’s Rat Pack-y kinda way, it’s just kinda skeevy. Reno decided long ago that they didn’t want the explosive growth of Las Vegas, so they put a halt to most mega-casinos about 20 years ago (Silver Legacy being the only exception, because they owned half the Reno gambling business anyway), so it’s not like they’ve CULTIVATED a 50’s feel, they’ve just stagnated.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions  

About 8 hours.

If it’s broken, it’ll turn all sorts of fascinating purply/yellow colors and will swell up like crazy and hurt like a mofo. If it’s just sprained, it may bruise a bit and be somewhat sore.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

I am not a doctor.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

It's also important to note that there's nothing really to be done for either a sprained or a broken toe.

I’ve broken a lot of toes in my day, if it happens you basically just have to live with it. Which is annoying.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions  

Yup. The only way to make it heal fast is to stay completely off it

and that’s completely not realistic.

In a completely unrelated note, Against Me! are a not very good band that draw a lot of annoying douchebags to their show. Had I realized that Ted Leo wasn’t headlining I probably would not have gone – someone told me yesterday “Ted Leo are playing at Roseland tomorrow night!” and so I went down there and paid my money and didn’t look at the bill before I did so. Ted Leo was great, but I left after three Against Me! songs because the douchiness quotient was pretty ridiculous.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

Against Me! are terrible.

I can now bend it at the joint, but not without quite a bit of pain. Guess I should have another beer.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2008 12:42 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'd never really heard of them before tonight

and if I never hear them again it’ll be too soon. Seems like if you took Bad Religion, subtracted the intelligence, added a bunch of douchey facial hair, you’d get Against Me!. I really wasn’t impressed. I was scared when I got to the show, because Ted Leo had just started and all the boyds and their laydees were moshing. It was quite funny, actually, watching a bunch of guys in popped collars and backwards hats mosh with their girlfriends; the novelty wore off fast. Even Ted Leo started making fun of them after a while. Which just made them all go WOOOOOOOO even more.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:47 AM PDT up reply actions  

Many broken bones are like this

A doctor won’t do much other than to tell you to take it easy.

by Gomez on Oct 26, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions  

I did this about two months ago

and the doctors told me it makes absolutely no difference, since either way, they’re just going to tell you to tape it to another toe for stability, ice it when you get the chance and stay off it as much as possible

by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2008 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

You could buy a metal insert that goes under the insert in your shoe.

I had to do that one year when I had really bad turf toe. That is an awful injury by the way. Just miserable.

by brayden04 on Oct 26, 2008 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions  

Seconded!

Well, actually he’s probably my first favorite.

by royalcurve on Oct 26, 2008 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions  

"I'm 12!"

“Great, go to school, who gives a shit.”

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2008 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions  

"AMERICA! EATIN' MY LUNCH FROM A SINGLE BOWL! IN MY PARENT'S BASEMENT!"

“I DON’T WANNA’ WASTE THOSE PRECIOUS CALORIES CHEWIN’!”

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2008 1:18 AM PDT up reply actions  

Hey there, theater fags and English queers -

Put on some pantaloons and a scarf and take a bracing shot of absinthe and skip on down through a field of gilly flowers to the physics department, where we’ll teach you about the music of the spheres! Without using any scaring numbers! And you can ask questions like “Is the red planet Mercury like the crimson eye of Cerebus?”

by royalcurve on Oct 26, 2008 1:21 AM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

AH THAT BIT JUST CAME ON!!!

Salt is salty. That’s it, that’s all I know.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2008 1:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

Uh, I have just been informed that Sulu fires the phasers on the USS Enterprise."

“uh, if this made the question impossible to solve, I will change the name of the crew member. Give your bluebooks to my TA. I’m gonna go home, sit in a hot bath and open a couple of veins. Fuck all of you, I don’t wanna live on this planet anymore.”

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2008 1:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

City won 3-0

ROOOOOBBBBIIIINNNNHHHHOOOO!!!

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Oct 26, 2008 9:55 AM PDT reply actions  

I haven't been able to say this all year, but SO DID WE!

HAHAHAHA! Yeaaaahhhhh bbbooooooooyyyyyy!

I’m raising a drink in honor of royalcurve right now.

by marc w on Oct 26, 2008 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions  

Let me tell you what I hate

My alarm clock fell off my television the other night and broke. Since then, I’ve had two choices:
1) Go without an alarm clock.
     Benefits: Research indicates that one sleeps best with as little light in the room as possible. My alarm clock had an LCD screen, so without that, my room is a lot darker.
     Costs: I either have to trust my body to wake up at the proper time each day, or I need to start using my cell phone as an alarm clock. I need have to have the phone next to me as I sleep, as to make it easier to turn the alarm off upon waking. This means that I can’t plug it in at night.
2) Buy a new alarm clock.
     Benefits: I don’t have to deal with the costs that derive from the first solution. I get to wake up to a cd that I enjoy each morning.
     Costs: My old alarm clock, before breaking, had an attractive cube shape and featured an easy gray/black color scheme. The alarm clocks on the market today? Not so much. They typically either don’t include a cd/mp3 feature, or they are gigantic and/or purple.

I’m in a bind.

by katal on Oct 26, 2008 11:05 AM PDT reply actions  

I have this alarm clock and I love it

I got it about a year ago and it’s awesome, and reasonably cheap. Doesn’t have cd/mp3 built in but you can attach a player to it no problem. It’s a big clock, but it’s not ridiculously bright – and it has a room light sensor that turns down the brightness of the clock when the room is dark, too.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 26, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions  

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