Re: Random Thoughts: The Randoming

[litterature]

You know you have way too much makeup on when stuff actually sticks to your face...

Spoiler:

[Enail]

But it looks good!

[litterature]

But it looks good!

:> :> :>

[WJMorris3]

Any salad can be a Caesar salad - if you stab it enough!

[Guest]

[Guest]

Must be spring, the Leafs are out

[Wondering]

I showed my baby photos of the five candidates left in the presidential race. She liked Hillary Clinton best. Maybe it's because she's a budding feminist.

Or maybe it's because the men were all wearing dark suits and Hillary was in yellow.

[Guest]

I'm not trying to say that work has been especially stressful lately or anything, but my walk home has begun to look more than a little like this:

[Enail]

Pagliacci, that is a very evocative clip (which I may...borrow for future use   )! Hope work calms down soon!

[Guest]

Must be nice to be Chris Pratt.

Maybe I should give Daredevil a try...

[Guest]

Finally got to see a cicada today. At least, I think it's a cicada from the noise; all I saw was it's rear end. Which was quite skinny. Aren't they supposed to be somewhat rotund?

[Werel]

You ever get one of those professor-crushes where you're not attracted to the person at all, you just want to kneel before them and offer them your sword forever? Full-on NOTICE ME SENPAI feelings towards this visiting prof I just met. Every single word out of her mouth was like "yep those are the things I'd say if I were the best and truest and bravest and most brilliant version of the person I hope to be in this field." And when I spoke to her and she got wind of the Notice Me Senpai vibes she gave me the sharpest hawk-eyes ever, like I'd have to really earn her regard someday. DREAMY.

[Robjection]

So my antivirus has just given me a message telling me about how hackers and governments can see what I'm doing on my computer.

Considering what I was about to do on this computer, if anyone is spying on me, I want a webcam feed to theirs because the looks on their faces will be priceless.

[Wondering]

You ever get one of those professor-crushes where you're not attracted to the person at all, you just want to kneel before them and offer them your sword forever? Full-on NOTICE ME SENPAI feelings towards this visiting prof I just met. Every single word out of her mouth was like "yep those are the things I'd say if I were the best and truest and bravest and most brilliant version of the person I hope to be in this field." And when I spoke to her and she got wind of the Notice Me Senpai vibes she gave me the sharpest hawk-eyes ever, like I'd have to really earn her regard someday. DREAMY.

Yes! I had that happen. Only my prof crush was a guy, and he thought the "notice me!" vibe meant I had a romantic crush on him. Sigh.

[Prajnaparamita]

You ever get one of those professor-crushes where you're not attracted to the person at all, you just want to kneel before them and offer them your sword forever? Full-on NOTICE ME SENPAI feelings towards this visiting prof I just met. Every single word out of her mouth was like "yep those are the things I'd say if I were the best and truest and bravest and most brilliant version of the person I hope to be in this field." And when I spoke to her and she got wind of the Notice Me Senpai vibes she gave me the sharpest hawk-eyes ever, like I'd have to really earn her regard someday. DREAMY.

Yes! I had that happen. Only my prof crush was a guy, and he thought the "notice me!" vibe meant I had a romantic crush on him. Sigh.

I used to address my advisor as "Your Celestial Professorship". She took it in good stride, mostly

[BasedBuzzed]

Two years and still this meh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUFJnBemgp8

Not enough flow between the steps, still treating the dudette as porcelain, too stiff in the parts of the body I'm not using, and worst of all, drilling this in is not about thinking but about feeling. I know most people don't see this in the moment and being able to dance is positive, but how can I improve if I don't nitpick?

[waxingjaney]

Code 46 is a weird-ass movie.

[Werel]

Leslie Marmon Silko's allegory of the cave rings much truer in my head these days than Plato's.

[BasedBuzzed]

Went looking for the name of that one British company prez who dissed his own product jokingly and subsequently caused a collapse in customers, found this instead. Dunno how easily this is debunked by small sample size/localism, but interesting regardless: https://psych.unm.edu/people/directory-profiles/miller-papers/2008-selfdeprecation-humor.pdf

[Guest]

Went looking for the name of that one British company prez who dissed his own product jokingly and subsequently caused a collapse in customers, found this instead. Dunno how easily this is debunked by small sample size/localism, but interesting regardless: https://psych.unm.edu/people/directory-profiles/miller-papers/2008-selfdeprecation-humor.pdf

Soo... if I'm not rich/physically attractive and make self-deprecating jokes my attractiveness goes down the tubes?

Eh, at least my mom thinks I'm funny.

In other non-self-deprecating joke news, I set up and mounted our new smart tv to the living room wall.

[Robjection]

Today I heard a coworker talking about how he was unable to participate in a conversation with his girlfriend's friends because the only things they talked about were things he knew nothing about and had no interest in, and yet he felt like he couldn't change the subject in a non-jarring way.

And all I could think was "Welcome to the background radiation of my life."

[waxingjaney]

Mayonnaise was named for Hannibal's brother.

[reboot]

Poor Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, stuck with an unwieldy acronym because Greece will not share

[Wondering]

I thought I read somewhere once upon a time that Greece is worried their province of Macedonia will secede and join the country of Macedonia of the country gets that name by itself. Does that seem at all like an accurate assessment?

[sky]

At work, we need a database, but what we have is a google spreadsheet. While waiting 20 minutes for it to load and restarting my browser three times, I checked XKCD, and it turns out the current comic is perfectly appropriate for the situation.

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