So, which hospital was this again? I'm asking for a, eh, friend.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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LaTeX and BibTeX are awesome. Especially if your papers have any cross-references or equations.
GasBandit
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For stuff like surgery, I'd rather have experienced professionals.
In a weird place right now. Today marked the last day I volunteered for my professional organization. It started ten years ago and I've grown and learned so much since then. I've met some great people along the way and we've had some great successes together. I've held almost every conceivable office while there, from happy go lucky awards organizer to stern disciplinarian to the national director. Leaving is the right decision for me and I don't regret it, but it just feels different.
Perhaps alcohol will help.
Perhaps alcohol will help.
Sample for a trip to the doc on Mon?
WHY. I mean, thanks for the warning, but WHY. WHY WHY WHY.
--Patrick
I don't get Amazon sometimes. "You've browsed music before, so this product might interest you." Not a specific CD, not a band, not even because of a genre--just music in general was the criteria. You guys have all these processes and programs for figuring out what people want, and then you just decide to wing it.
Based on my very pleasant experiences in the hospital, the two are hardly mutually exclusive!
"Hi, we seen you've searcched for and around SD-cards, and have bought one last week. Here are TEN OTHER TYPES YOU LOOKED AT BUT DIDNT BUY. Still interested?"
No, probably not, given I just bought one.
That happened to me once. I bought a Verbatim Tuff N Tiny 4gb flash for my keychain, and a couple days later, they showed me a 32gb model. It was on sale for less than the 4gb, so I bought it.
There's method to their madness sometimes
figmentPez
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I bought a new watch a few weeks ago. A men's sports watch. Now they're frequently showing me ads for women's dress watches. I don't get it.
You think it's a men's watch. They think it's a bit effeminate.
Alt: You bought a watch for yourself? That'll make the misses jealous! Better get her one too!
figmentPez
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Okay, I get the G.R.O.S.S. reference, but I don't recall any connection to digital watches.
I've ordered so much stuff from Amazon for so many people (as recipients) and for so many people (i.e., as a proxy) that now Amazon's algorithms have little to no concrete idea what to show me. It's frequently hilarious. "You just bought a KitchenAid 4qt mixer. Would you also be interested in this One Direction CD? This Lego pirate ship? A li-ion rechargeable battery pack? A Turkish bathrobe?"
--Patrick
--Patrick
I buy basically nothing but DVDs and blurays, but every so often there will be one outlier, like a new HDMI cable, and then suddenly it's like "This guy must fucking LOVE HDMI cables. Let's recommend him every HDMI cable we have." and it's like, dudes, I already have an HDMI cable. I just bought it, remember?
Paraphrasing a conversation I'm having right now with a girl I had a crush on in college:
Me: "So I was thinking of asking [Girl's roommate] out, but I kind of thought she was dating [mutual acquaintance], and I got scared and chickened out"
Her: "No she's single. I actually was just talking to her about you the other day."
Me: "Really? In what context?"
Her: "I was really upset and brought up how you and I were always two ships passing in the night during school and how you asked me out twice and neither time was a good place for me emotionally and I shut you down"
Me: "I only remember asking you out once."
Her: "Well, it was twice."
Me: "I am so sorry, that's really unlike me. Was I drunk or something?"
Her: "The first time, yeah. Anyway, yeah, and then in 4th year I realized I did have feelings for you, but it seemed like you had moved on by that point."
Well, fuck. Glad I bought beer and whisky last night. I can't deal with this.
Edit: Oh I forgot to mention the part where she revealed to me she's bisexual and in a rocky lesbian relationship that is on its last legs.
Me: "So I was thinking of asking [Girl's roommate] out, but I kind of thought she was dating [mutual acquaintance], and I got scared and chickened out"
Her: "No she's single. I actually was just talking to her about you the other day."
Me: "Really? In what context?"
Her: "I was really upset and brought up how you and I were always two ships passing in the night during school and how you asked me out twice and neither time was a good place for me emotionally and I shut you down"
Me: "I only remember asking you out once."
Her: "Well, it was twice."
Me: "I am so sorry, that's really unlike me. Was I drunk or something?"
Her: "The first time, yeah. Anyway, yeah, and then in 4th year I realized I did have feelings for you, but it seemed like you had moved on by that point."
Well, fuck. Glad I bought beer and whisky last night. I can't deal with this.
Edit: Oh I forgot to mention the part where she revealed to me she's bisexual and in a rocky lesbian relationship that is on its last legs.
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GasBandit
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Saw that, still not 100% convinced.
I mean, look at that guy's eyes. They look like thousand-year-old eggs after the drops go in.
I need to know more about the mechanism by which this works before I go trying it, y'know.
It's one thing to be like sulfur hexafluoride, where it's all fun and then everything goes back to normal after a few minutes, it's quite another if there are going to be lasting effects.
--Patrick
I mean, look at that guy's eyes. They look like thousand-year-old eggs after the drops go in.
I need to know more about the mechanism by which this works before I go trying it, y'know.
It's one thing to be like sulfur hexafluoride, where it's all fun and then everything goes back to normal after a few minutes, it's quite another if there are going to be lasting effects.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Oh man, you're missing out. I tell ya, getting lasik was the best thing I ever dkd flr mhse.f.
See also "X - The Man with X-Ray Eyes".
Truthfully, I did not. This was a case of great minds thinking alike....did you click my link?
--Patrick
