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Tenshi
Joined: 18 Apr 2008
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Asa! Get to work! *nags*
Today I wonder if everyone has melted from the heat. It's a balmy 57 fahrenheit here today. -grin- (Actually, I'm rather cold...)
Today I installed the newest bit of code released from some talented code monkeys, and now my jailbroken iPhone is also completely untethered (this means I can reboot without a PC, and still enter the jailbroken state). Woo! ^_^
Today I nurse my leg a bit. There was a huge social gathering my folks were throwing, and As I'm recovering in their home, they were quite adamant that I should participate. ..now my leg hurts, and feels weak. I am rather displeased.
Yep, still thinking Nem would make a better world leader than half the people that the public normally elects.
Today I wonder if I can get away with sitting for a bit. I'd like to write a letter or something, but pens don't work upside down.
Today a friend was accosted in Kentucky and accused of being a witch (no, seriously), after politely asking the accuser's young son to stop staring at her (this had gone on for 15-20 minutes). ...a witch? A witch? Was the lack of a broomstick at all questionable? Perhaps there was no pointy hat, and I should cherish this person's power of observation! My...word.
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Tinu.
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: The land of dreams
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Tenshi wrote: |
Today a friend was accosted in Kentucky and accused of being a witch |
Appalachian mountains=time travel back about a century. There you go.
Today I need to work on homework and projects, but I just kinda want to sleep. I'll be glad when my lecture-class is over. Two more weeks . . . *sigh*
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Nem
Joined: 14 Apr 2008
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Location: England
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Use a pencil then Tenshi, gosh =p
Today I drove the father to London to pick up his bike and then drove back home again. Visited the local Aldi my mother's been bothering me to apply to be the manager of. Can't think of a job I'd be worse suited to, myself. Shop looks like it'll go under soon enough anyway. An expensive version of Lidl. We went in for Chocolate and a blackforest gateau and found neither.
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Asa
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
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Location: Grammar Police HQ. Watch your language, I'm armed with the NYTimes Style Book AND Strunk and White!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| Nem wrote: | | Use a pencil then Tenshi, gosh =p |
...See, this is why Nem should be World Leader and not me, because I was thinking of space pens or grease pens.
But also, if you prop pillows up on your waist and beneath your head, you can prop the pad of paper upright at an angle and do it that way.
Nem, maybe being manager of a store would prepare you for taking over the world. Can't be worse preparation than being a community organizer.
Yesterday I did my presentation and today I turned in my midterm. I also put together an outline for the seminar paper due at the end of the summer, but didn't work on the seminar paper due at the end of the month. That is my goal for the next several weeks.
So I was productive! Thank you for nagging!
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Keeper of the Library and the Gateway to Haven
Nem: "It's the sort of face you just know is getting ready to poke you with something sharp."
BS: "...then insist you eat a brownie."
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Tenshi
Joined: 18 Apr 2008
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Location: Star Stuff
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Tinu. wrote: | | Appalachian mountains=time travel back about a century. There you go. |
Well, yeah, but... I dunno, witches? I don't know the exact dates, but I don't think I've heard of that since the Salem Witch Trials up in Massachusetts, and that can't be less than a century ago. >> It's just so ridiculous! Urgh. She had a laugh about it, though, so all's well.
| Asa wrote: | | Nem wrote: | | Use a pencil then Tenshi, gosh =p |
...See, this is why Nem should be World Leader and not me, because I was thinking of space pens or grease pens. |
...you know what, I bet I have a mechanical pencil around here somewhere. While I feel very sheepish and more than a little stupid for not thinking of it first, that's a very good idea.
I'm sure I've told this story before, but I heard a joke once. NASA spent some odd millions of dollars on research and development of a pen that would write in a zero gravity situation so that they could take them into space.
Russian missions took pencils.
*drumroll* .... *crickets*
| Asa wrote: | | Can't be worse preparation than being a community organizer. |
I see what you did there.
Today I have, apparently, broken my iPhone. >_> Apparently, for those of you who have iPhones, if you do decide to Jailbreak your device, it may be a very, very bad idea to then later boot your device while someone is trying to call you. It seems to interrupt the whole "loading the iOS" part of the booting process, and then it gets stuck in an endless boot/crash loop. I'm doing a Factory Reset now. >_>
Today I had a hamburger. It was really tasty. I don't know why that's pertinent, but I was really craving a hamburger. I had one. It was good. ...Hush, I'm on bed rest, my life is pretty boring! Staples come out on Wednesday, though. ^_^
Today I plan to meet up with a friend from the intarwebs in the coming week (maybe). He's a fairly good guy, though bigger than me (physically) by far. He sings in a quartet and does some other cool stuff, and is (likely) moving to my area to become pastor of a local church. All told, very cool, and I hope he's hugely successful in his new role. Knowing the city he's going to be a part of, there is some good and some bad in the area. He'll have the chance to do some good, though.
Today I have spent too much time for the past week browsing imgur on my phone. Oddly, it's more effective than on my netbook.. better screen on the smaller device.
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Keeper of the Siderean Swords
"If by chance some day you're not feeling well, and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done, and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled."
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Asa
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
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Location: Grammar Police HQ. Watch your language, I'm armed with the NYTimes Style Book AND Strunk and White!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Usa wrote: | | I see what you did there. |
Hee hee.
Today I'm supposed to type up my comments from the ninth grade's final presentations, and give them grades. I don't know how to do that! I feel like it would just be an arbitrary assignation of numbers, since I don't really know the teacher's rubric or anything. And yes, I know that grades are arbitrary assignations of numbers anyway, but usually they're pinned to SOME sort of achievement level.
Also, a meeting with my professor to talk about my progress (*coughcough*) on his seminar paper. Rather, my seminar paper for him. Something like that. >.>
Also, more rehearsal. I made a really poor showing last night, couldn't remember half my lines. Note to self: review script before rehearsal...
My play is in two weeks! Those of you who will be in Israel during that time, you're more than welcome to come. ^___^
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Keeper of the Library and the Gateway to Haven
Nem: "It's the sort of face you just know is getting ready to poke you with something sharp."
BS: "...then insist you eat a brownie."
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Nem
Joined: 14 Apr 2008
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Location: England
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Today reading through a contract from a company that shall go unnamed - can you say "heads I win tails you lose"? Essentially what it says is they're not obligated to offer you work and you're not obligated to accept. And that, even if they do, no continual employment shall exist - if they offer you work on two subsequent days then that constitutes two separate contracts.
It's very clever. I'm not entirely sure how enforceable it would turn out to be. Some of the wording sounds like it would constitute undue influence. Still, contract law is horrifically complex and their lawyers ought to be better at it than me.
I know you can't sign a non-compete clause in perpetuity, you can't even sign a phone contract for six months. And that's in there regardless. Well, you know what they say about evidence - anything that misidentifies experimental aircraft as weather balloons probably isn't trustworthy when it comes to identifying UFOs.
Since they're treating the days as different periods of employment, you're never going to accrue the benefits of someone who works continually. Which, as I said, makes it potentially quite clever on their part.
Edit: Coincidentally, I was reading an interesting paper the other day. Did you know that if you have people sign on the cover sheet of a contract, rather than the back page, they're far more likely to keep to it?
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Tinu.
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: The land of dreams
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Today I was informed that my car can be fixed. Yay!
Today I was informed that my laptop cannot. Boo.
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Nem
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose that's better than the other way around, strictly speaking ^_^
Today we endeavour to become less ranty =p Perhaps a nice cup of tea?
Edit:
Today we did think about encryption - even if we're not ranting about certain responses to it.
Anyway - yeah, if you want to exchange messages perfectly securely, (implementation problems like your computer being hacked aside,) encode it on your end. Send it to your friend who encodes it on his end. Get him to send it back to you and remove your encryption, then send it back to him with just his encryption on.
Just makes sure your rotor size and your alphabet size don't match - otherwise they'll be able to compute the difference between his message and yours. Which will give them what he did to it. Then they'll just be able to undo it when you send it to him with just his encryption on it.
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Tamir
Joined: 22 Mar 2008
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Location: Israel
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Nem, that trick puts some serious restrictions on the kind of encryption you can use. Asymmetric encryption like RSA is better all around. =) |
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Asa
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
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Location: Grammar Police HQ. Watch your language, I'm armed with the NYTimes Style Book AND Strunk and White!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday I signed a lease for an apartment! Today I'm wondering if anyone has experience with carpentry or contracting and can give me some advice on reinforcing a loft.
Today the following items need to be done:
Grade papers
Make a grammar quiz
Study for an exam on Sunday
Study for the other exam on Sunday
Read two articles more for a presentation
Make the powerpoint for said presentation
And I think that's it, because none of the final papers are due until July 30, so I have a little bit more time to think about those after next week.
Now, those things are not ALL going to get done today, but those are the things that need to be. The things I intend to DO today are:
Make a grammar quiz (DONE)
Grade papers
Study for an exam on Sunday
Print out the slides for the other exam on Sunday
Thank you for allowing me to use the forum as a to-do list, again. ^_^
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Keeper of the Library and the Gateway to Haven
Nem: "It's the sort of face you just know is getting ready to poke you with something sharp."
BS: "...then insist you eat a brownie."
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Tamir
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Today I am engaged. ^^ |
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Nem
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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.... O_O .... Wow.
Congratulations! ^_^
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You are both super awesome people who deserve one another!  Best wishes to you both!
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Maeniel
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Congrats!!!!
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