What's on Your Mind

[LJay]

Careful, ceez.  Marcella Hazan is spinning ever more rapidly in her grave.

[LJay]

@Chase I see that you are now styled "the eternal king of America." Does this mean that you are challenging the present inhabitant of the White House who has been referred to as, "the So Called Ruler Of The United States[SCROTUS]?

[Chase]

@Chase  I see that you are now styled "the eternal king of America."  Does this mean that you are challenging the present inhabitant of the White House who has been referred to as, "the So Called Ruler Of The United States[SCROTUS]?

I'm the king now, so we can all be spared the anxiety we're filled with every four years.

[IanSaysHi]

I keep thinking about wasabi flavoured snacks. And whisky.

[LJay]

Do you have a favorite whisky, Ian?

[Insertnamehere]

I'm watching you boy!

Nah, relax it is just an IP based thingy!

Wouldn't be the internet without the potential Orwellian nightmare scenario my dear.



Thank you for confirming the less threatening alternative tho

I'm pissed. My school is saying because of some stupid technicality I have to take two more entry level classes to graduate, which means I'll either not graduate in the spring, or have a super heavy course load next semester.

Well this sucks.

A story for ya. When I finished my undergraduate thesis, defended it, got it approved and went on to pay and do the paper work to get my professional degree, the uni kindly told me that I hadn't done the...I dunno what you call it...work training? internship? that I had to do after getting my bachelor.

I found myself understandably shook...

I told the nice secretary that unless I have some serious neurological issues, I can't really have imagined going to a R&D company, asking for a temporary position for training, spending my summer of 3 months there, writing a report and presenting said report and the corresponding performance evaluation to you, about 2 years ago (yes the damn experimental thesis took me longer than the 10 months+2 months of writing it should have, don't judge!)  But they had lost all of that and it never got into their system that I did in fact fulfill that requirement.

By the time I defended my thesis I had already started working tho, so I went to my boss and said, hey can we pack some of my work of the past 3 months and turn it into a report and then you can fill an evaluation form? He said yes, so I could avoid actually doing "training" for 3 more months.

hope that makes you feel a wee bit better, uni bureaucracy fails us all my boy.

Anywaaaaay...how much work load will you have if you take all the required classes? Can you do anything else?

[IanSaysHi]

Do you have a favorite whisky, Ian?

Not really! Not rich enough yet to have a preference but usually end up at friend’s houses who have about 12 different bottles, who tell me what each one is, but by the end of the night I’ll have no idea.. Usually I buy a commercial brand called Black Bottle.. cheap and cheerful!

[CellarDweller]

I'm feeling very relaxed this evening.

[Chase]

I'm feeling exhausted. About to have my third cup of coffee just so I can finish my homework for the day

[InbetweenDreams]

Do not use rocks intended for landscaping in an aquarium, sure some might work out or in my case the room now smells like sulfur. No fish were in the tank or anything but I will have to drain and refill the tank because who knows what else was in those rocks, might be chemicals...ugh. Well looks like there will be a lot of black. I did find some driftwood though... See the problem is everything is too damn expensive. I could spend hundreds on some driftwood at a local pet store when you can in a lot of cases just do your own... The rocks didn't work out but I think the wood will be alright. I've got the wood soaking and then tomorrow going to spray it down with some hydrogen peroxide and hopefully that will suffice and when I do finally get around to actually putting fish in they'll live lol