The EPIC WIN Thread
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PAYDAY! (but im too miserly to go spend any of it 
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)Pfft. We don't need lube. 
No, but the sad thing that set this wonderfulness in motion is the fact his job position in IN was terminated. He's now looking for work here. WISH ME LUCK!
Oh, and I would be on more if he didn't have to run so many goddamned heroics on MY gaming machine.
...which I just found out doesn't have Microsoft Office on it...ha.
No, but the sad thing that set this wonderfulness in motion is the fact his job position in IN was terminated. He's now looking for work here. WISH ME LUCK!
Oh, and I would be on more if he didn't have to run so many goddamned heroics on MY gaming machine.
...which I just found out doesn't have Microsoft Office on it...ha.
I work at a movie theatre doing various things depending on the day. Sometimes I have to bounce kids out of movies that they try to sneak into and while I really hate doing it most of the time every once in awhile I get a nice opportunity.
Right now we have My Bloody Valentine in 3d and here it's 18A. Yesterday I was pulling tickets and had noticed that three emo guys, probably around 15 years in age, had just handed me three tickets to Bride Wars.
I pull their tickets and, sure enough, they eventually sneak into My Bloddy Valentine. So I get someone to take over for me and head down to the theatre that it's playing in. The movie is still in it's pre-show so it hasn't started yet and is surprisingly busy but I manage to spot them. So I head up there and politely, but as loud as I could with out yelling, say "I think you guys went into the wrong theatre, Bride Wars is in number 10."
They all just stopped and stared for a minute before getting up and running out of the theatre.
Right now we have My Bloody Valentine in 3d and here it's 18A. Yesterday I was pulling tickets and had noticed that three emo guys, probably around 15 years in age, had just handed me three tickets to Bride Wars.
I pull their tickets and, sure enough, they eventually sneak into My Bloddy Valentine. So I get someone to take over for me and head down to the theatre that it's playing in. The movie is still in it's pre-show so it hasn't started yet and is surprisingly busy but I manage to spot them. So I head up there and politely, but as loud as I could with out yelling, say "I think you guys went into the wrong theatre, Bride Wars is in number 10."
They all just stopped and stared for a minute before getting up and running out of the theatre.
My robe is fresh from the dryer.
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I just stapled my fingers! Hells yeah! How's that for a win?
Really, I was bored at work, and playing with the stapler. I snapped the thing shut half-mindedly and the staple is sitting nice and deep in my pointer finger as I write this. It didn't hurt going in at all, but the coming out part is gonna suck.
Really, I was bored at work, and playing with the stapler. I snapped the thing shut half-mindedly and the staple is sitting nice and deep in my pointer finger as I write this. It didn't hurt going in at all, but the coming out part is gonna suck.
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Wait...how is this a win...?Singularity.EXE said:
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I know. I should listen to you guys more often. I'm gonna start punching more emos, also.ElJuski said:ABOUT DAMN TIME SILLYFACECajungal said:Congrats
I just started reading Achewood. It's very funny. And I want to make a dreamsicle cocktail now.
'Nother win for me--had an entire day with my godchild. And during our tea party, while she's pouring, I ask: "What kind of tea is this?" She usually says Earl Gray.
"NO, Aunt Leslie! I have juice today, and you have beer!" ...I love her so damn much.
Also her favorite 'night night' song from me is "Honey Pie" from the White Album--the sweet one, not the noisy one.
(and, as always, Jake, you make-a me laugh)
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Awesome. It was payday friday. Im going to finally buy me one.Gusto said:I won a mug that looks like this -->
While he's still a rich son of a bitch, Eric Bauman gets what's coming to him: http://blog.ebaum.tv/
Read the post titled "How it all went down," and keep going until you see the CEO of the parent company driving off in the eBaum-mobile.
Read the post titled "How it all went down," and keep going until you see the CEO of the parent company driving off in the eBaum-mobile.
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hehe, oh schadenfreude.... its so tasty.Enresshou said:
I'm getting a sketch of my favorite City of Heroes toon (and only 50) for Valentine's Day, from this guy:
http://chenzan.deviantart.com/
He's a friend of Mr. ZM's and has done cards for the WoW TCG. And yeah this is a bit of a plug for him but also I just love his art and can't wait to see RooGirl immortalized!
http://chenzan.deviantart.com/
He's a friend of Mr. ZM's and has done cards for the WoW TCG. And yeah this is a bit of a plug for him but also I just love his art and can't wait to see RooGirl immortalized!
Can someone please provide a synopsis? I tried going to that link, but it made my browser cry and then crash.Silvanesti said:
Bauman lost ebaumsworld and is out on the streets, or something to that effect.General Specific said:
So, someone came along, stole all his stuff and is now using it for themselves?CynicismKills said:
Well, isn't that a nice slice of poetic justice? :lol:
Tinwhistler said:Today, I did something that 3 other programmers in our department said couldn't be done easily.
Long story short: We are doing OCR forms recognition. We use templates to OCR forms in bulk. The existing in-house app for template generation is clunky and takes a technically trained person to understand and use. It requires typing in lots of text and numbers, and takes the lead developer and primary user about 17 minutes to make a template. The developers have sworn that they've made it as simple as possible.
I've had the working source code since Friday--after a huge "I'm not giving up the source, it's my project" penis-waving contest. I grabbed the guts of their C# code, threw a nice simple VB interface on it, hid all of the non-essential stuff, and auto-generated all of the typing and numbers via context algorithms. Now the end user has a shiny point-and-click interface with heuristic aids to generate a template. You select a data point, you click on the on-screen picture of the scanned document, and the software helpfully boxes the entire word it thinks you're selecting and asks if that's what you meant, and tells you what it thinks the word is via OCR.
Now, it takes less than 2 minutes for an untrained person to make a template, and anyone can sit down, understand the app, and start using it right away (I tested on the guy in the office next door who has no relation to the project). I look forward to Monday when I show off my prototype and I shove it in the other developers faces, since they've given me such political crap about it over the last couple of weeks. Now I need an emoticon where a guys is rubbing his hands malevolently while lighting strikes in the background.
Update on epic win:
The guys that have been working on the project have been fired. I'm now totally in charge this entire project. I just showed my latest prototype to the president & ceo in an upper management meeting, and he said that I was doing an awesome job and that i didn't need to worry about job security because he can see how this project will just expand to cover most of their business over the next few years. heh.
I'm getting the fuck out of SoCal on March 6th.
Atlanta, moving in with a friend. It's going to be rough since I'll be jobless at first, but I'll have a good chunk of cash put away by then. I need to make a change and try starting over somewhere, and this seemed a great opportunity to do so.Vytamindi said:
The boyfriend got laid off and he's moving here. Have you ever thought about subbing for teachers? In my parish you sign up, attend a workshop, and are good to go ASAP. You get paid according to your highest degree.CynicismKills said:
He's doing that for work when he gets here. It's the worst job in the world if you look like a 19 year old (which is why it was hard for me. No respect), but you can pull in at least $300 a week. Pretty sweet for over glorified babysitting.
Just a suggestion that doesn't involve the food service industry. :teeth:
School districts are up top on my list of places to check out. Get myself in the sub listing out there, even for on-teacher work. I'm not being picky though, I'll clean bathrooms in a gas station 12 hours a day if it makes enough to pay the rent.
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