the nice thing in english is you don't have to use any of them

the nice thing in english is you don't have to use any of them

 

Touche - naivete ftw

57 minutes ago, grawk said:

the nice thing in english is you don't have to use any of them

Pfff

6 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

pƒƒƒ Pfff

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Hey, that's music notation, innit?  I never noticed that one of my favourite expletives was comprised of the letters for pianissimo and forte.

I got it from here but it certainly looks similar enough. Imagine doing a poco fortississimo in real life, though  

10 hours ago, swt61 said:

But did you react to it?

OMG, yes. Unstoppable diarrhea

They played some passages pretty loud!

11 hours ago, mypasswordis said:

I got it from here but it certainly looks similar enough. Imagine doing a poco fortississimo in real life, though  

 

Just came home to a surprisingly happy and grateful pair of teenagers. Got the girls to come down to the car under the guise of helping us with groceries. Got them an iMac and an LG E6 for the living room. Was half expecting them to roll their eyes and go back to their phones but they actually seem excited and are asking for help with setting the stuff up. I feel happy. And satisfied.

I did some assembling by myself.

Ikea is wrong:

And shitty gamer chair (actually it is quite comfortable):

The LG E6 purchase did not go as planned. While a great deal, it was on a floor model and when we brought it home, it had some really nasty burn in/image retention. Went back to Best Buy and spoke with the manager who very kindly offered a heavy discount on a new in box B7. Just set it up and it is quite nice Happy again. 

1 hour ago, crappyjones123 said:

The LG E6 purchase did not go as planned. While a great deal, it was on a floor model and when we brought it home, it had some really nasty burn in/image retention. Went back to Best Buy and spoke with the manager who very kindly offered a heavy discount on a new in box B7. Just set it up and it is quite nice Happy again. 

An hour of random pattern would probably have cleared up the image retention, but I believe the B7 is an upgrade, so fist-bump. 

Edited August 7, 20178 yr by EdipisReks1

I ran the random pattern over night to no betterment. The tv was run on loop for 5600 hours on the floor. The image was pretty well "retained." It was bad enough that the manager and the floor sales guy both apologized for not catching it before the sale. 

Damn. That's almost impressive!

5600 hours/16 hours per day ~ 350 days. The E6 came out around this time last year so it was likely in that spot on their wall since then. 

5 minutes ago, crappyjones123 said:

5600 hours/16 hours per day ~ 350 days. The E6 came out around this time last year so it was likely in that spot on their wall since then. 

The point was that their demo system is impressively ill suited to the job. 

Went out to Guerneville for lunch and a sedate paddle on the Russian River. It was the last day of "Lazy Bear Week" and there were still plenty of strapping, hirsute gentlemen in evidence and drinking bellinis at the Big Bottom Market. (Though I assume many of them are actually big tops.)

Didn't get the job.  I was brought in last week for a first in-person interview, and they hired somebody yesterday, so I'd say that they already had somebody chosen, and were just wasting everybody's (theirs and mine) time due to organizational rules.  This would have been an exceptional fit, and I honestly thought the phone call was going to be setting up an interview for the next round.

Sorry to hear that. 

That sucks.  

I'm pretty disappointed, but it is what it is. 

You probably nailed it Jacob.  If they chose someone that quickly, they likely had them in mind already.  Sorry to hear it, though!

5 minutes ago, skullguise said:

You probably nailed it Jacob.  If they chose someone that quickly, they likely had them in mind already.  Sorry to hear it, though!

Thanks man.  I can't be too irritated: I've been on the other side of the situation. 

Shit, Jacob, disappointment is understandable. 

^^^ This. Hang in there dude, it will just be that much sweeter when you land the perfect job.