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Trouble making gains in bouldering.
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I have been climbing on and off for the last 3 years and at least twice a week for the past 7 months. I started top roping and worked my way up to about 5.10-5.11 (working a few 12's). My partners and I switched from our top rope gym to a bouldering gym.
The bouldering gym completely knocked me down a step or two.
I can finish all the beginner's routes except on the steepest walls (completely inverted transitioning to 45-vertical). I am working on those and just need to piece them together.
My question is, how do I go from these *easy* routes to the harder sloper routes. Crimpers I can do alright but it seems like bouldering focuses more on slopers. I can't even start to hold onto some of these holds. I admit that I need to loose some weight I am up to about 210-215 but what else can I do.
Any suggestion on exercises, stretches would be great. I know that form and balance play an important part in a lot of these routes, how do you learn what works? (Just watching others?)
Is there a technique for holding holds on 45 degree and higher overhangs? I am starting to get very bad callouses that rip off while I am climbing. I never had that happen with crimpy top rope routes. Is this part of joy of climbing or am I doing something wrong?
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A desperate plea for wise council (Garage Band crash)
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Greetings, lovelies-
I will spare you the myriad reasons why the song I lost is important...suffice it to say that far more weeks than I care to consider are at risk of being wasted and far more is at stake that I think I am even capable of considering without growing a bit faint if I cannot get back what I have lost.
Short story: I was working on my laptop off of my external drive. The USB cord connecting the two was kicked loose. Garage Band quits unexpectedly. Upon reopening, my song is back to its infantile form...a stage it was at months ago. Disaster. Tears.
Short explanation of actions already taken: I downloaded Data Rescue 3 and ran a deep search on both drives. I recovered a trillion unlabeled aif's, AIFF's and the like, though none that I have opened are from my song so far (300 down, 999,999,999,700 to go) and my beloved .band file is nowhere to be found.
Is all hope lost? I know all too well the importance of backing up files, making it endlessly more painful that this happened right as the apex of my harddrive space crisis was upon me. I tend to drag the session onto the desktop of my laptop whenever I am working on it, that being the reason I Deep Scanned my laptop's harddrive as well...but I'm working with something like 25KB free these days.
Thank you, dearest music makers, for listening to my long-winded, panicked begging. If anyone can help, I know it's you.
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Reddit, help me make a funny.
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*I am terrible at thinking of punchlines, so help a brother out*
So there's three Americans. They are on the plane ride home from a vacation in England, complaining about service they got in various pubs they visited.
The first American says "I went up to the bartender and I asked him for some chips, and the fucker gave me french fries!"
The second American says "That's nothing. I asked a waiter if they had any chocolate, and he says he'd get me some biscuits. I didn't want any fuckin' biscuits, I wanted chocolate."
The third American says "I came prepared knowing the British use some different terminology. I asked around for a fag, and eventually I got one."
The first American asks him "Oh, really? How are British cigarettes anyways?"
The third American replies "..."
*I'm sure it could be improved in so many ways. I'm sure you can figure out where the punchline is going, but I can't figure out the wording that is snappy and not so drawn out. Any suggestions?*
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How big is your porn folder, Reddit?
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Mine :
It would probably be a few gigs larger if I downloaded the favorited videos from Spankwire, but I'm saving that for a very very rainy day.
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If you pointed a 150mw laser into a photo radar camera, would it disable it?
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Let say you were 1000 meters away and pointed this hand held laser into a photo radar camera. Would it disable the camera? Permanently?
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I don't want to see any [10]'s on here.
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[10] is the maximum bakedness, at that altitude computer skills become very fuzzy. If your sober enough to use the computer then your not high enough to call yourself a [10].
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Call for debugging articles
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Hey folks,
Well, I asked for ideas, and you all responded. Let me say that you all have some very sophisticated topics you would like to have covered. I've got a lot of work to do in order to be able to cover all of these topics.
The number 1 topic by far was debugging tools. To be honest, I currently don't use anything more sophisticated than units test, println & a REPL. I'm working on getting a monad or two up my sleeve. Still, my stuff is primitive.
Which is where you all come in.
Some of you here are debugging geniuses. You know every tool out there, and how to integrate it with Clojure in ways none of us are dreaming of yet. Please, write about your techniques. Post the links here. Don't worry about everything being 100% correct. Just get the ideas out there.
Lend a hand. Show us what you've got :)
Sean
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Hey reddit, any ideas for valentines day?
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So I have a girlfriend and we have only been dating for a month now. I met her this summer and we have been very close ever since. We are almost the same from music to humor. We both really like each other and spend lots of time together. I'm going to take her for dinner most likely but any other ideas that would be helpful for me?
thanks reddit.
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Looking for a good fantasy movie...
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Hey guys,
Went and finally saw Avatar the other night. The fantasy setting was absolutely amazing. The only thing I can compare it to in terms of fantasy immersion was Lord of the Rings.
What other movies are set in some imaginary land and manage to immerse you in their world?
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Who else here was "spiritual, but not religious" before accepting atheism, rather than coming from wither a religious or secular background?
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*either, not wither
Prior to atheism, I believed in a god that was simply a benign creator who loved us, yet had no dogma or bias about our lives. It simply observed and furthermore, rather than being separate from us, it literally was us experiencing all that we experience through us and as us. Therefore, any cruelty or kindness was done by itself, to and as itself, under the self-imposed illusion of not knowing it's true nature.
That sustained me for a long time, as most arguments from atheists against god focus on the Christian/Judaic/Muslim versions of god, and the kind of god I believed in was protected from 99% of those arguments because there was nothing dogmatic or anti-scientific about it to argue against.
Along with this, however, I bought into a lot of new age woo woo stuff like various kinds of divination, psuedoscience, reincarnation, astrology, dowsing, crop circles, homeopathy, and a vast laundry list of unfounded claptrap.
Once I started taking an interest in science, and found most of those "accessory" beliefs debunked, I had to take it one step further and apply the same rigorous protocol to my belief in "Spirit", as I called my version of god.
I came to the conclusion that, in the end, since this being I believed in was not judgmental and there was no heaven or hell to go to, then it didn't really matter if I believed or not. After all, if I was wrong, this being wouldn't have minded anyway. I didn't have to deal with the fear of pissing it off or being punished.
So, I had to take the most honest stance I could: there is no evidence for this being, therefore, nothing to support a belief in it. I now lack a belief in this being, which makes me an atheist. If I do end up surviving my death, perhaps I will recognize it as this being experiencing through me what it's like to lack such a belief, then fine. But, since there is no evidence, the only honest stance is "I don't know, but I certainly don't see any evidence to support it."
Did anyone else go through a similar journey to atheism, rather than the usual "I broke away from religion" or "I was always of this mindset"?
tl;dr - Came to atheism through a different route than many people, curious who else was in a similar boat.
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I want to buy the reddit alien thumb drive...
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but it's only 4GB, I can't even put a DVD ISO on it. Come on, Reddit. Make a 32GB version please.
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What is good advice for adult children of alcoholics in getting help.
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Ok so I am mainly looking for advice on dealing with emotional/ personality issues that stem from growing up in an alcoholic / neglectful household.
I recognize that my life is a disaster right now and would like to take steps to change it. That being said I am pretty terrified of the next step.
I am kind of turned off by groups like Al-anon mainly for the vague religious/spiritual connotations (I am an atheist). Basically I have found most of the groups that deal with this sort of thing are of the 12 step variety and I just can't take it seriously. I don't know... maybe I should but it's a superficial turnoff that I would like to avoid. Has anyone had luck with these groups?
I guess I would like to talk about this sort of stuff with other people but also am terrified.
Has anyone had much success in reading books that deal with this issue?
There is an adult-children subreddit but it's somewhat dead.
Thanks in advance, any sort of advice / experience would be appreciated.
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Hey Reddit, what's the best decision you ever made?
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I picked up "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and haven't stopped reading ever since.
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Willpower issues with weightloss....
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**tldr**
Been losing weight for months, have lost all willpower and started overeating last couple of weeks. Am soliciting advice/comments/motivation
**Full Version**
Well I've been on a calorie deficit for months and have lost most of the fat that I wanted to. I was within 6 pounds of my goal weight. Now I'm within twenty. I'm young and I exercise, and I'm 100% confident that the weight will come back off as quick as just put it on, but as I'm sure some of you have dealt with before I've hit a vicious cycle:
overeat -> gain weight -> feel sorry for self -> comfort self with food. Rinse and repeat.
For some reason I've lost the willpower that's been with me pretty much without fail ever since I made the decision to seriously focus on getting in shape, a good few months ago now.
So I'm doing okay, this is just a minor road bump, but it's no fun. Those of you who have been here before, commiserate with me and offer me advice! =P
Thanks for reading, reddit.
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(potential spoilers) Have you beat mass effect 2 yet? Whats the saved games time say?
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I just beat Mass Effect 2 on Saturday and im kinda disappointed. The ending was great but i thought there was going to be more. Somebody said "40 hours for the main quest" i did 25 hours on normal and did pretty much every quest. I imported my character for a second run through on Insanity.
So have you liked the game so far?
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Have you ever wondered if Obama's whole being a Christian thing is a big political charade?
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I mean most highly educated academics tend to be either agnostic or atheists, and he is one of them. If you read his books you'll learn that he only embraced Christianity through the United Church (the most liberal church) in his early thirties, before then he was an agnostic. I've always thought that the whole Christianity thing was a political move on his part. I certainly don't blame him, seeing that most americans would never vote for someone who describes himself as an atheist or an agnostic. But is something that has always been in my mind. Any thoughts?
Edit1: I know its not that much proof on my contention that most highly educated academics are either agnostic of atheist but this graph seems to back up my claim. (Thanks to thesteeeve for the link)
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I'm having pain during sex. Please help!
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Whenever anything is happening like even something little like a finger it hurts like poking a scab, best way to describe the pain.It has stopped me from doing stuff. It's been going on for at least 2 1/2 years and I'm scared to go to the doctor for fear of what it could be. Is this something normal when beginning to have sex and will pass or should I go to the doctor?
I thought it might be psychological at first, but it hasn't really died down even though I'm comfortable with my boyfriend.
Any ideas what could cause this?
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What do you like in portfolio sites?
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Hi there,
I just registered a new domain to show off my photography instead of just using my flickr]( or having [a subdomain on my current site. Nothing is built yet and I'd like your input. I am not a graphic designer and am just learning php, but know html and some css. My husband is a programmer and has offered to help out, but he's not a designer either. I'm planning on building this myself and getting help when I'm stuck from my DH. I want to build something clean, fairly simple, and manageable. I want to be able to show off various styles of photography - photojournalism, portrait, events, nature, etc.
* What do you like in a portfolio site?
* Should I use flash or just html and/or php?
* I would like it to be easily updatable - what are your thoughts on wordpress?
* This tool]( built by [danwin looks cool, but it's flash - thoughts?
* Thanks!
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Looking for sites for audio steaming.
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I'm looking for sites where I can up load audio tracks for people to steam but not download. Does anyone know some good recommendation preferably free sites?
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can't write to partition table (trying to install slackware from a DVD)
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(posted this to various slackware forums but I still haven't found a solution)
I am currently running Linux Mint 8 on a Thinkpad T60p and I decided to free up 20 GB for Slackware. Used GParted to unallocate the space.
I was able to install Slackware with VirtualBox with my Linux Mint host and I was able to follow through with a full installation without any problems.
However when I tried to install it on a real partition with a DVD I got the below notification:
"You will not be able to write the partition table.
Note: Sector size is 2048 (not 512)
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel.
Building a new disklabel with disk identifier 0xf4252222.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Warning: Invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table will be corrected by (w)rite"
If you know what I am missing I would appreciate a push in the right direction.
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Mass Effect 2 on 360 won't import my ME1 character, even though I beat it. Anybody else with this problem? Any solutions?
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A little back story - My old 'box got banned so I'm playing on a new console, but I copied all the saves over to the new 360 with a memory card. It says that it can't see any characters in the import menu.
Also, I mailed ME1 to my brother so he could play through it before he gets started on ME2. Am I out of luck? I want my old actions to be intact.
I killed Wrex for questioning orders, killed the bug with acid because it was a bug, killed that one chick (for getting all lippy), and killed the council and took over the galaxy. What is the default character like? I suspect he's going to be a pussy.
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I have attended a Burning Man-style event (Burning Flipside, specifically) AMA!
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So I figure there are probably a good number of burners on reddit, but there's probably a lot more non-burners.
For those of you that don't know what a burn is, here]( is a link to the article on the actual Burning Man event, and [here is info on Burning Flipside, specifically.
For those of you that have mice that are allergic to links, I would sum up a burn as a temporary community in the middle nowhere, based on free expression. We build an entire society, with an effigy at the center of it. And everyone basically does their own thing, often involving themselves in theme camps. (One of my favorites is "The Purple Taco" camp that always serves tacos at noon.) On the last night, we burn the effigy. Then, on the last day, we completely erase our society from existence and go on our way. The motto is "leave no trace."
Burns are a lifechanging experience, beyond a doubt. So if anyone is curious, or has been thinking about going to one themselves, feel free to AMA!
*edit* Downvoted to zero? =\ Just wanted to share an experience with people, sorry if that's somehow offensive to you.
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i need help regarding torrents(details inside)
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I'm running Snow Leopard, I am somewhat of a torrent newcomer. I wanted to download and use The Rosetta Stone. How do i make it work? All this talk about cracks and ISO(wtf does this mean?" is making me dizzy. i was wondering if someone could explain how to do it in common speech step by step, any help would be appreciated.
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What are you drinking right now?
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Death in the Afternoon! Supposedly invented by Ernest Hemingway, and rather tasty so far...
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Trying to get google calendar to sync with the iPhone, not much luck. Help?
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Hey guys, just got my iPhone 3Gs, must say am pretty happy so far. Plan to jailbreak it later this week.
Anyway, I sync'd up google calendar as per instructions from google, and it worked, except the only calendar that is on my iPhone is the one that is named by my email address. I have several calendars within my google calendar, for organization purposes. For example, I keep really important things on my komali...@gmail.com calendar, then I have my "english reading assignments" calendar, "math homework", etc. None of my extra calendars transferred over. How can I get these things on my iPhone, save from just making all my stuff under komali...@gmail calendar?
If I'm not explaining myself very well, here's a picture to help illustrate my point:
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IAMA Pro basketball player.
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I'm not answering any questions that can be used to identify me because doing this violates my contract. I will tell you that I come from the US, I was projected to be drafted (2nd round) but went undrafted and signed overseas.
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Expansion of a gas down an infinitely long tube, while continuous energy is added at one end. Help?
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Imagine an infinitely long tube that starts out at vacuum pressure. Now imagine at one end of the tube, a set amount of energy is continuously added (in the form of molecules, some number of Joules/second). The gas would expand away from the start and down the tube.
The pressure would always be highest near the injection point. As time passes the pressure down the tube would increase because energy is constantly being added to the system, but it would always be higher at the injection point.
I'm looking for an equation that would show the average velocity down the tube for a set of molecules at a time 't', at a distance down the tube 'x'. It'd start at 0 speed, but because of the high pressure near the injection point and the low pressure at the other end of the tube, would accelerate continuously. Feel free to pick any arbitrary tube diameter or energy injection rate. Also assume the tube is a closed system and doesn't leak heat or anything.
From thinking about it, I think there'd be some energy injection rate and tube diameter relationship (and possibly also time from t=0) where the gas wouldn't be able to expand fast enough to compensate, so the pressure would just continue to build and build at the injection point. Gas injected later would encounter more resistance to expand because there would be gas already present, so the pressure gradient wouldn't be as steep.
I'm kind of lost on where to begin math-wise.
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Poll: Predictions aside, who actually has a technologically illiterate older relative who wants to buy an ipad? What's their reaction when you tell them about it?
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Internet consensus phase 1: the ipad is an oversized, underpowered iphone
Internet consensus phase 2: Sure, *you* don't want one, and neither do I. but apple isn't thinking about you. This is for your mom who can't use a regular computer.
The problem with theory 2 is that its been made by people who, by and large, do not actually plan to buy an ipad themselves, making their opinion a matter of punditry. Until the grandmas of the world raise their voices, we really don't have a way of knowing if its a reasonable prediction.
So let's do a poll: what do your own elder relatives say about it? Are they interested?
In the case of my own parents, they are both tech illiterate and would rather not be bothered with big, complex computer decisions. But for them, the path of least resistance is not to buy an ipad. For them, the simplest solution is just go to a store and buy a full sized computer for the same price with windows on it, and make do with what they've always known. The very people in my life least happy about complicated computers are the very people least likely to buy an apple gadget, regardless of how good it is.
How do your elderly relatives feel about it? Have they thought about it?
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Hi /r/pets. I need help deciding on which dog breed I should adopt.
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I currently have a 4 year old male boxer. He is great with other animals and I've decided I want to get another dog. I think I would like to have another short-haired dog or one that doesn't shed much. I"ve been considering an english bulldog but I also like labradoodles. I have a low fenced in back yard so I need a breed that doesn't climb or jump fences. Any recommendations reddit?
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Reddit, can you help me identify this song?
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I have no idea who the artist is. All I know is that it sounded like an oldie from the 1950s or 60s. The song's main riff used "Westminster Quarters" with a strong backbeat. I've checked the Wikipedia entry on Westminster Quarters, but it's not any of the songs listed.
I know it's not much... but any ideas?
**EDIT: It took me almost a year but I finally figured out it was "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" by George Harrison.**
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Why is it always Kirk vs. Picard for top Captain? Janeway, Archer, and Sisko had excellent qualities as well.
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I've been watching a lot of DS9, Enterprise, and Voyager recently and think that in some ways their Captains are superior to Kirk and Picard. Keep in mind that Picard will probably always be my favourite Captain. However Janeway was able to hold together a crew of half Maquis, half Starfleet through some really rough times and across many years with the odds stacked greatly against them. Sisko had to juggle being the Emissary to the worm hole aliens, but also as Captain of DS9 and the Defiant and a leader in the Dominion War. That fella had a tough job. Same goes for Archer. He was the first out in space dealing with new alien species (Earth? Never heard of it). He also didn't have the Prime Directive or any other set rules to follow. Archer had to fly by the seat of his pants and hope that everything turned out ok. He also had to deal with the Xindi terrorists in the only way he knew how.
Why does the battle for best Captain always come down to Kirk or Picard? There were excellent Captains of other ships dealing with worse problems. Does anyone think that Kirk or Picard would be able to lose half their crew, being lost 80+ years away from home and kill the Borg on the way?
Discuss, please. This subreddit needs some discussion and love.
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I cranked out an awesome game in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam! Did anyone else participate?
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The global game jam went down this past weekend and my studio hosted a location down near Phoenix, AZ. In 48 hours I got about 6 hours of sleep, and the result was a game called **depict1**.
Download it! (6 megs)
More about it
For anyone out there that game jammed this weekend, what were your results?
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What made you lose faith in humanity? If you still have some, why?
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For me it was the lack of support I received when my dad passed away. Never have I seen so little sympathy seen from the people I cared about. And now I'm considered a weirdo because of depression and panic disorder, when mostly what I need is some support.
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Hi Reddit, what is the most devious or infuriating instance of griefing in an MMO you've experienced or inflicted?
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* In WoW, before there were a lot of high levels on the server, maybe three weeks after the beta, my friend took his high level rogue, stalked this horde hunter, and would kill the hunter's pet only. The hunter ended up dual wielding to complete quests. Poor guy.
* A friend of mine played UO where houses which were apparently an expensive thing to get. He would hold open houses under the pretense of selling his house and kill people once they entered the house.
EDIT: Also, I remember that me and a friend infiltrated a fundamentalist christian WoW guild under the pretenses of being reformed Nigerian christians.
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My computer won't boot with anything installed(CD drives, Modem, USB attachments). Help?
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I got a Dell Deminsion 5150. I put 2 sticks of 512 Ram in it and a HDD. when I try putting the CD-ROM drives it wont boot up. It also refused to boot up when I hooked up my USB keyboard and mouse. So to get it up and running initially, I use my internal with an external IDE to usb Adapter kit and installed windows XP like that. It was up and running I got some of the programs intsalled. VLC, Firefox, Smart Defrag, etc. I didn't get the drivers installed yet but I don't think that is the problem. It won't boot up with ANYTHING installed or attached. the only thing that it will boot up with is the VGA and HDD, and RAM. I couldn't install the modem...yes I still have dial up but not by choice. So in conclusion WTF is wrong with my computer. The power supply is ok it has been tested. I am thinking it may be a motherboard issue which I hope it is not the issue.
Someone just said I should flash the Bios page....Idk how to do that. never had to do it before. any tips?
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Hey Reddit, can you recommend me some good metal bands?
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I am not quite sure what sub-genre i am specifically talking about, but i recently got Mastodon's "Crack the Skye" and am really enjoying it. What are some other good bands and albums similar in style to them?
Edit: this is really good you guys Thanks alot! I guess maybe i should tell a little more about myself, i have listened to metal before such as slayer, the fall of troy, Dethklok, angra, Metallica, symphony X, and some other stuff listed under "metal" in my music library. But this is still really useful, bands i am seeing echoed frequently are:
Slayer, Baroness, Pantera, Gojira, opeth, Isis. and more obviously, and this is just based off of repetition. thanks for all the advice you guys.
Also btw: i clicked on every link posted, so in retrospect, that was the best way to promote the band you like, even over the more thoughtful review - like posts...
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My Girl Friend is a Female Cage Fighter, AH(er)A
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My girl friend has been training to be a cage fighter for around a year and has fought in the cage once last September. She saw me do an AMA and thought it would be fun to do her own.
Ask Her (almost) anything.
[EDIT 1] Which Moderator should I send proof to?
[EDIT 2] Bed time, we will resume in the morn.
[EDIT 3] I am a girl.
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So /r/ music, what do you guys think of the Grammys this year?
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I think the Grammy's are losing touch with music more and more every year. They are increasingly losing sense of what entails "music" and just uses popularity charts for their decisions. I'm glad that Phoenix won something but I'm disappointed in their pseudo-snub of Lady GaGa, who is easily the best songwriter in pop music and only won dance Grammy's I believe. What do you guys think?
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Hey Reddit, I Just Got A New Puppy. What Should I Name Her?
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The name has to be approved my my nine-year-old brother because it's technically "his" dog, but I'd love to hear some suggestions. Here is a picture of her. Name away, Reddit!
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What's the highest you've ever gotten?
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I took half a hit of some weed I can't completely remember the name of... I think it may have had chem e as part of it, but I didn't realize how strong it was and ended up flipping out for the next several hours. I literally felt like the music in the background was apart of me and had to keep reminding myself where I was, also keep in mind this was only like a $3 hit. Craziest fuckin experience of my life.
On another note, anybody know some good sites to identify types of strains? Crazy experience as it was, I do not want to go through that again.
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My xbox just red ringed for the 3rd time in 2 years, WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS!!!
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Now another month+ of wasting my gamefly and netflix fees! Why is it not illegal for them to keep sending me another defective xbox!
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I wonder if someone could explain to me why Christians became so indignant when Pat Robertson implied that the earthquake was divine doing for false religion. The Bible is absolutely full of quakes, floods, droughts, etc. to punish the non-believing. What Robertson said seems in line with the text.
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Further, what did they think these things look like? You kill a city of people, it isn't pretty regardless of faith.
Just wondering.
Edit: I know that Robertson is not representative of all Christians and that most do not believe this. My only point is this: when your holy book is rife with similar experiences, one oughtn't be too surprised when a contemporary draws a similar conclusion and, in fact, he may be correct in doing so as the bible establishes the precedent for such theories.
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How can I change the levels of all computer sound output and not just iTunes?
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I want to turn the bass up/down and so on, but for all sound output and not just iTunes(using equalizer). Is there any way to do so?
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Hey reddit can you cheer me up? My best friend of 11 years hasn't contacted me in 2 weeks.
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First of all I'm 19, and I've known him since 5th grade. I haven't spoken to him in 2 weeks but before that we texted daily or talked on the phone.
Anyways, I'm not sure if he "broke it up" between us, but I can see why he would. I almost never leave my house unless I'm going to school, and I haven't hung out with him in months. Today Ive been trying to get a hold of him, texting him, and I even resorted to messaging him on facebook as he's almost always on.
I keep having horrible thoughts like, what if he got in a terrible accident and his family doesn't know how to contact me. Or what if he just doesn't like
me anymore and just broke up with me but decided not to tell me, so that I could figure it out on my own.
Today I called his cellphone and some old man answered, I hung up and reassured myself that he had lost his phone, so I hang up, but then they call back and apparently I misdialed my uncle. I was reassured that he had lost his phone, but then suddenly proven wrong. So, I dial the right phone number and it goes straight to his leave me a message recording..
Can anyone please reassure me/ cheer me up?
**EDIT: I've decided if we have a confrontation, and he tells me that we shouldn't be friends anymore. I'm gonna make one last joke, it's kind of an inside joke, but you see, in high school we used to hang out with a bunch of Mexican girls, and I decided one day that the group should have a name, so I came up with W.O.M.B (women of Mexican bitches).. Yeah the name isn't supposed to be super creative, but I couldn't think of a similar word for 'group'..
Anyways, if we stop being friends I'm gonna as for my 50 stock share that I invested into W.O.M.B...**
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DAE think they could get away with murder?
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I find myself in the situation of the teenagers in Murder by Numbers. I think that if I decided to kill somebody, I could actually get away with it. Now, hand to god, this is idle speculation brought on by that movie, but I find myself thinking what could(would?) go wrong. Am I alone in this?
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A question about boric acid and dissociation
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I'm currently taking the first level of college chemistry, and while attempting to finish a lab report, I became ridiculously confused.
The post laboratory questions include the statement that both H3PO4 and H3BO4 are polyprotic acids, and refer you to the textbook for information on how to write out the disassociation steps for each of them. The phosphoric acid (H3PO4) brought up no issues for me. However, I had read online that boric acid (H3PO4) did not dissociate in water. I looked up "boric acid" in the index of my textbook, and turned to a section on boron compounds. H3BO3 was mentioned, and refered to it as boric acid. The text explicitly stated that boric acid was not a polyprotic acid, but a monoprotic acid - instead of losing a hydrogen ion to create H30, H3BO3 accepted an OH ion from the water to create B(OH)4.
I wasn't too worried at that point; though both H3BO3 and H3BO4 were referred to as boric acid, the formulas were different, so it seemed entirely possible that H3BO4 could dissociate in water though H3BO3 could not. But when I looked online, I couldn't find very much information on the difference between the two. I found H3BO3 being called orthoboric acid, but occasionally the formula for orthoboric acid was given as H3BO4. Though I couldn't find much mention of H3BO4, it was most often called perboric acid, which I couldn't find any useful information on.
The easy thing to do would be to use the same dissociation steps for H3BO4 as I had for H3PO4 with every P replaced with a B, but since I know one form of boric acid is unique in that its formula resembles that of a polyprotic acid but actually is a monoprotic acid, I'm not sure if something strange would also be going on with H3PO4.
... I am so confused. Anyone?
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Did anybody else get confusing feelings about Sigourney Weaver's avatar?
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ok, maybe not "confusing", but it was definitely made to get a certain rise out of people.
edit: no pun intended
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Thoughts of suicide becoming ever more prevalent.
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I've been moderately depressed for a long while now (probably 7-8 years). Normally it really isn't all too bad. But as of late my lows have become much more devastating and my highs less frequent to where I feel like I'm constantly fighting an uphill battle.
I maintained a 4.0 for my first three and a half years of college but now I can barely even bring myself to open my textbook to do my homework. I've started questioning whether I actually care about anything. I can't really see myself enjoying the life I have planned for myself, or any other life for that matter.
I've also started neglecting my health. Since last summer I had gotten incredibly healthy and lost somewhere around 80-85lbs of fat and put on a significant amount of muscle. But as of late I've returned to eating shitty food and making self-destructive choices. I've started playing around with doses of the different pharmaceuticals that I normally take without much concern to what I am probably doing to my body. Last night I consumed probably 5oz. of everclear and 75mg of ephedrine sulfate just to see what would happen. I've never done anything like that before...I don't know what the hell is going on with me.
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I Blew my old Denon integrated amp. Any advice on how to fix it?
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I have a Denon PMA-700V integrated amp. It's a mid-range amp from the mid 80's. I'm no audiophile, but I loved it.
This weekend I had a party and some jackass decided to hit the loudness switch on it when it was already running at a high volume. It took about an hour for it to blow. Now it only plays music at a very low volume and very distorted.
Anyone have any ideas about repairing it? I haven't opened it yet but I assume that the transistors need to be replaced. I've replaced transistors on a bass amp before, but these stereo amps seem more complex.
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Whatever happened to Junkyard Wars?
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So today, Adam Savage came to my university to speak. After listening to him talk about Mythbusters and watch his compilation video of the best explosions from the show (set to the ending of the 1812 Overture, of course), I realized that the popular show Mythbusters may help popularize science and help make people curious, it still relies too heavily on large explosions and flashy "experiments" that SHOULD NOT BE TRIED AT HOME.
Now I bring the question to the old show, Junkyard Wars / Scrapheap Challenge. What happened to it? What happened to shows that were about making things, engineering and human ingenuity? What's with all these flashy explosions?
Before someone answers my rhetorical question, I just wanted to say that I know the answer. The show got canceled in the US after the 7th season (Junkyard Megawars 2) because the production costs were too high. I was 16 at the time.
There was something special about that show. Something that I believe popular shows like Mythbusters completely neglect. The ability to make things, instead of destructively testing them. The kind of frantic creativity that was characteristic of this country from the Cold War. Not saying we need a political/military stalemate to get our science on, but seriously, just look at the situation in colleges today. America isn't producing nearly enough engineers.
Junkyard Wars helped inspire a few of the engineers I find myself working with today. However, the majority of the engineers I find in my classes have not even heard of the show. They are boring, uninspired and do not realize that engineering can be a fun, productive endeavor. They do not appreciate the beauty of making things with your own hands. They like their books and their equations.
Sure, I like my academic life too, but inside my heart I still harbor this one little dream. The same dream I had when I was 14 - that a show like Junkyard Wars might come to being, and I'll finally be old enough to apply.
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IAE able to pop their ears without chewing gum, yawning, or even opening their jaw at all?
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When my ears pop from flying or driving through high altitude areas, I'm able to fix them by just controlling the muscles that specifically pop the ears. I didn't think it was a big deal, but nobody else I know can do it. (It is a little frustrating though. I think I do it so much that they pop in and out really often.) Does anyone else have this ability?
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Reddit, tomorrow my friend is having a swim meet. I need sign ideas.
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Clever, water based ideas would be key.
These will go on a few poster board sized signs to be held up at said swim meet.
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Any advice for a web dev student thrust into a freelance internship?
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I'm just starting my second semester in a web development program at a local technical college. Immediately after the first semester concluded, I was offered an internship via one of my professors. It's a NPO that has been around for almost two decades and their website, obviously, has a lot of content built up already; most of the recent content is dynamically driven, but the older articles are static and using templates.
The job is to convert all the content to WordPress and create an entirely custom theme to display various types of articles and news from each of their chapters. Of course, afterwards, I’m to provide training and technical support for a period of time. It was estimated (by my professor) the whole ordeal would take about eight months and they offered me next to nothing. I would make over twice as much continuing to work at my minimum-wage job.
I countered for twice as much, assuming they wouldn’t be able to afford it and was okay with that. I didn’t feel like it would be a pleasant experience considering their offer. But they came back and said they could afford about that much, so I accepted and took time off my previous job to do it. I’m sorely regretting it now.
Considering I have no experience with the business aspect and freelance is hard and terrifying for even seasoned web developers, I expected I’d be getting some direction and heavy guidance from my professor. Not so. He offers very little until I do something the wrong way. If I contact him with questions, I usually get patronizing and semi-rude responses. It’s also worth noting he was the previous (and volunteer) developer for the organization and seems to be pretty close to the client.
I’m feeling extremely discouraged and turned off to the whole project. My friends/family know how I’m feeling about the whole thing but I’m getting very little support. They seem to think I should just suck it up and do it for the experience, no matter how dismal it seems to be.
Are they right? Will I screw myself out of further opportunities if this one doesn’t work out? If not, is it even worth it for me to try to “save” the project? At this point, I haven’t turned in a project plan yet and I doubt there will be any contract signing.
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My dad got two 22. rifles on his 10th birthday. He game them to me on my 10th birthday. These are my guns. (plus an old Sears brand 12 gauge) [PICS]
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All of them
Springfield Model 15, bolt action
Winchester Model 06, 10-round pump
J.C. Higgins Model 20-12 GA
I know the rifles are really old, but I dont know how old or how much they're worth (not that I would ever sell them). Any insight you guys have would be awesome.
Wikipedia says the JC Higgins was the Sears brand name and they stopped making them in 1961 and WikiAnswers says its worth about $100.
And sorry about the crap digital camera I'm stuck with.
edit: Also, my dad was born in 1946, just to give you an idea of their age.
edit 2: Just found this page and found out the second one down is the **Standard Model 1906, Blued Frame Version of the 1906 Winchester**, manufactured around 1924.
edit 3: The Springfield 15 was manfactured in the 1930s and sold for $3.19 new - this guy said he found one for $180 wikianswers. A few other sites have priced them at around $100.
So it looks like these guns aren't rare or valuable by any stretch of the imagination. But, they were my first guns and the fact they were my grandfathers makes them priceless to me. Hope I can pass them on to a son one day.
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Casual work for the government?
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With the upcoming federal election, state election, (Vic), and the Census, I was wondering if anyone has worked as a vote-counter/stat-recorder on a casual basis? If anyone has done this, how did they get the job?
Cheers.
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American Redditors: How much time per day do you spend fearing for your life?
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As I live in Canada, I am very unfamiliar with guns or crime of any sort whatsoever. Violent crime (anything more than pickpocketing) is essentially eradicated in Canada. So I am interested in finding out what it's like living in a country with a dangerously high crime rate where murders/shootings/robberies are a common place occurrence.
So, some questions. What is it like for you to get up in the morning? Is this why America is a car heavy culture unlike every other developed country, so that people can commute in (relative) safety? Do people walk around freely in the open there? I can't imagine not being able to visit a park and stroll around without being constantly on guard.
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I've been down again recently, and I just found myself having some pretty terrible thoughts
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Hey, guys and gals. It's me again.
I'm sure that you're all familiar with my story, or at least my type. I have this tendency to get depressed around the winter months (though my blue feelings seem to know no seasonal boundaries), and for the most part, I've held it off this year.
Recently, though, I've noticed some terrible changes in my character. I feel lethargic all the time, and it makes me feel as though my life is pointless. I'm in this weird paradox where I want to be alive, but I don't want to suffer through the boring spots. I've also been trying to shed this whole thing where I put being in a relationship on a pedestal. It worked for a long time, but at least once every few days it comes back to haunt me.
All of these things have made me incredibly nasty towards at least one of my friends, and I find that coming out and talking to my friends is as effective as talking to a brick wall. I have a feeling that it's because I've got this one track mind, and it's so difficult for me to break it.
I've read a lot of different stories from this particular sub-Reddit where people are trying to get over relationships, and part of the responses is "it just takes some time." I think that I'm just realizing how long it really will take for me. I wasn't just in a relationship with my ex-girlfriend, I had a crush on her for three years, and I still think about her (though it's getting to be less frequent as days go on).
I can't find a job, but at the same time I acknowledge that I certainly haven't put forth the necessary effort. I know that there are people who turn in applications every day, and I only fill out a handful of applications periodically only to be disappointed when no one calls. My dad convinced me that I had a slam-dunk over at a gas station, because the manager offered *him* a job; but when he went to check, the manager told him that they weren't hiring because they're short on hours as it is. Need less to say, I was incredibly disappointed.
It hasn't been all bad being single and unemployed, though. I went back to school, and made the Dean's List last semester. I suppose it's just difficult for me to put the good things on a similar level as the bad things.
The reason that I'm writing tonight is that I had fantasies about cutting myself not 45 minutes ago. It's the first time I've had such morbid thoughts in a very long time, and it convinced me that I needed to write something that someone would read and give me a decent response, and not just "Oo."
tl;dr version: I'm feeling like a great pile of excrement, could someone please help?
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My friend's shop was ripped off earlier this week, reddit, help us find the bastards!
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My friend has a bike shop in Portland called WTF Bikes. If you saw anything that night! Here is a link to the article:
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DAE take solace in the 'belief' that Christianity will eventually become as rare as paganism.
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I believe we are relatively close to the end of Christianity and that atheism will be the next 'age'. If Christianity began 2000 years ago, I believe (albiet by no scientific judgment) that Christianity would fit nicely in a bell curve. Maybe it would be a lopsided bell, but a bell it would be.
Slowly starting, gaining virtually no momentum at first, being simply written off as a silly cult in modern day culture (scientology, whoa). But then for various reasons (Tom Cruise, some disciple) it started to gain popularity and fast (steep curve).
This popularity continued to rise till its peak, lets say the spanish inquisition (I dunno). And ever since then has been on a steady downcline (is that a word?).
I believe now we are at the end tip of the bell. Think about a bell, it starts with a shape incline that quickly levels out. Then it slowly increase before it sharply shoots up (in popularity). The same is true with the other side of the bell. I believe that we are on the leveling out of the other side of the bell. The bell reached it's peak and took a steady decline, but now we are at the slight decline part.
Christianity is slowly declining and eventually it will take a steep decline into myth. Students in the future will read the bible as we now read books such as Odysseus (not that Odysseus was an overtly religious book, just that it was an epic book that was telling of its time and thinking).
And to be honest, I consider myself an overt cynic, but that is just how certain I am of this. Albeit, I might not be young enough to enjoy it myself (or alive at all), but hopefully I will have a great grandson (or daughter) that I can tell stories to, to make him feel grateful that he can go out and fuck freely any willing girl, guy or shemale (is that an offensive term, I really have no idea and apologize if it is) out there. And he will know, no matter what he does, his family will love him.
note: I said him for simplicity, don't hate me.
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DAE remember the days when looking up a word involved using a dictionary?
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I remember asking my dad all the time what a word means as a child, and he'd always say the dreaded, "Look it up," and hand me a dictionary. After a while, I just gave up on asking him what anything meant anymore. Now: Google.
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Local Commercial - Rons Automotive
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My first local tv commercial has a talking dog, a space shuttle and laser. I shot, edited and wrote the (epic) music.
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I am a first year engineering student in Ontario, Canada. AMA
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No, I don't go to Waterloo and yes, I should be studying right now. Fire away comrades!
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I can't figure out where this relationship goes from here.
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She and I have been together for 3 years. It started slowly - exclusivity was "fallen into" after 4 months of dating, the L word was said at about 9 months into it, and we now have lived together for 9 months total.
We have plenty of good things: we enjoy doing many of the same things, we love each other, we very rarely fight, and we tolerate each others' quirks and give each other the appropriate amount of space.
However, I'm just not ecstatically happy in this relationship. I feel like I could do better in the personality department. She's not very sexy or flirtatious, and tends to get very anxious or be very competitive/aggressive. She doesn't act very feminine. The sex is ok, but not great - I get hella turned on by passionate noises, and she is too embarrassed to make any. We don't have many long or deep conversations.
I don't know, after 3 years, whether she's the girl for me. But I don't know how to break it off, since I've never told her any of the things I don't like. Yeah, I guess I have my own issues. I mean, I ask her to make noise when we're having sex, and I ask her to flirt more, but she never does.
It's like it's a choice between settling for something decent, and pursuing greatness.
I guess I just need some advice here.
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Some good atheist/anti-religion songs?
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So, I play the ukulele and the banjo and perform once a week at an open mic kind of deal (all music). A guy I was thinking about working with seems to favor anti-religion type music (his last song was called "Blow me, just don't blow me up") So I thought it would be nice if before we get working together I could have some songs to work on. Any suggestions? (anything smart about social change is welcome too, also it doesn't have to originally include ukulele or banjo)
I found one called "Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis" but I'm not a huge fan of it.
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Geek Love: Activities so I can relate to my boyfriend...
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I've been dating my boyfriend for roughly 8 months. He is a geek - I mean this in a completely non-derogatory way. In fact, I find his geek interests and tendencies to be ridiculously sexy. I'm more of an indie-music/literature gal, so we are definitely into different activities although we share some common ground. This past Friday, I participated in his weekly Game Night and played the Battlestar Galactica role-playing game. Although it was fun, I can't get over the fact that I'm the girlfriend newbie. I don't want to hold up the group, but I'd love to have a hobby that I can share with my boyfriend. Is there a way that I can improve my role-playing abilities so I'm not so self-conscious playing with the group? For the other fellow geeks in this corner of the web, are there other activities or hobbies I could pick up that we could share together? He's always supportive of things I like to do, so I'd love to share something he likes to do with him.
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The best way to store passwords in your application...
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...is only as good as the policy you enforce. Don't depend on any hashing or encryption algorithm to protect your users' data. Given time, any method you implement can be circumvented. Force your users to use long, strong passwords and change them often.
Security is a mindset, not a set of problems that can be solved with technology.
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I am about two large gulps away from finishing a bottle of Jim Beam.
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I drank a lot already so I could easily do it. But then immediately feel bad. If i finished i will feel shitty tomorrow at work. If I don't then I will be awake for the rest of the night and I will be tired as shit tomorrow at work.
I will either drink it or not drink based on the most creative answer. And if the most creative answer proves to be bad for my health I will post pictures.
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[0] Where do you stash your stash?
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As I'm currently a [0], I'm in need of some weed culture to keep my sober self occupied. Where do the ents hide their stashes? I have a hollowed out hardcover book where I put my pipe, papes, green and a lighter. Also, my weed money goes in there, and having just smelled it, it reeks of delicious kush ;)
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Craziest thing your parents have ever said?
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Mine would be from my mother. I wanted to purchase a shirt with a skull on it and her immediate response when seeing it was "You can't buy that, it reminds me of the killing fields in Cambodia."
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Hey Proggit here is my first program, a mixture of python and bash scripts. Tell me what you think
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It's an application that emails you when your dynamic ip changes. Please try it out and tell me what you think.
EDIT:
uploaded to different site so you don't have to register to download
I guess I should also state that this is meant for linux. I think it should work for Unix but I have not tested that.
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I finished Baldur's Gate 2 + Throne of Bhaal, and Psychonauts for the first time ever, and yet I feel so empty...
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I started Baldur's Gate 2 for the first time roughly 6 years ago, but never got to finish it. I finally managed to beat it recently, along with Psychonauts. I put in roughly 6 hours everyday for the past 4 days, but I finally managed to beat it (the scavenger hunt was a bitch to finish, and the urge to cheat was certainly there). What puzzle/platform games can people recommend which are in the same vein as Psychonauts? Same question, but RPG games similar to BG2.
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Is it reasonable to ask your partner not to watch porn if...?
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...they are willing to provide some of themselves?
I was a bit surprised to see the vehement "no" responses to the question. I was in the same situation with my girlfriend. She told me that she didn't approve of me masturbating to other girls. Later she said that she understood that I needed "visual aids" for masturbating, and that I could take pictures of her doing whatever.
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Hey /r/movies, I had the worst day today and need a good comedy to relax to. What should I watch?
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I'm a huge comedic nerd already so I've probably seen a lot of your suggestions. I'm just looking for something not a lot of people have seen and is really funny. Grandma's Boy
EDIT: Or television shows.
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A simple line following robot for a robotics course. [video]
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This is a simple line following robot for a robotics course I'm taking. It's a simple algorithm. If it's on the line, turn right (away from the line), else turn left (back onto the line) and it seems to work pretty well.
The most annoying part of construction was actually finding the right thing to use for the third wheel (to stabilize the base of a differential drive robot). We considered some round surfaces to drag along the ground and some claw type things which generated an insanely annoying noise and made the robot look like a headcrab \(video, but those all didn't work because they generated too much friction on the tape line. But caster wheels have the annoying characteristic of slightly changing the direction, which we could live with.
Also had to deal with wheel slip issues if our motor inputs were too high.
Anyways, enjoy and please share your comments!
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[4]First time posting to /r/Trees.
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Just wanted to say that I love reading the links and comments in /r/Trees, even though I hardly smoke. Tonight is a rare occasion and I'm quite enjoying it. At a [4] laying in bed and reading reddit. Going to aim for a [7] or [8] and then drift into sleep. Thanks for filling my nights full of fun and entertainment.
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I used to be a neo-Nazi - AMA.
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Back in high school between the ages of about 16-19 I got sucked into the white supremacist ideology. It was a relatively short phase of my life, but if anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
To start off with:
No, I never hurt anybody, I was not a member of any racist group (unless you count my friends). My "activism" was limited to anonymously leaving copies of racist rock music albums around school bathrooms. I never supported violence, only the idea that racially segregated countries were inherently better and more peaceful. I got started in it when a friend gave me a copy of a Skrewdriver and started listening to it ironically, but eventually it started to make sense.
Edit: I also openly and honestly believed that the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated.
Another thing I forgot to mention was that I drank heavily during that period. I was taking care of my dying grandfather who'd had a stroke, and wiping someone's ass and feeding them their food can make you pretty sad, so you could definitely have called me a teenage alcoholic. I drank probably 3-4 nights a week during that time (heavily - about a half gallon of vodka a week), and when you drink that much you develop a lot of undirected anger inside. I stopped drinking altogether for about 8 or 9 months and it was during that time that I came to my senses.
Also, I realize this may not be the most interesting AMA because I was only in it for a short time and never really did anything about it - this AMA was mainly supposed to be for anyone who had questions about the mindset.
**Edit** 3:15AM - Going to bed, I'll answer more questions in the morning if there are any.
Edit: 12:45 - Gotta go to work, I'll try to answer some more questions if I find any tonight. I've tried to get to all of them so far.
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Anyone a fan of the Red Army Choir?
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I love music from the Red Army Choir. These are some of my favorites:
Farewell of Slavianka
Kalinka
Hymn of the Soviet Union
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Hey Reddit, what kind of website doesn't exist that you wish did?
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Hey Reddit, what is a website that doesn't exist that you wish did? For example, Kelly Blue Book of medical procedures, Girl Scout Cookie Fan Site, a blog about politics that has common sense...
Basically what do you think would make a good website that there isn't already one of?
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Help Make My Future, Give Me Advice About the Military
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tl;dr: getting a degree soon, what military service will let me do cool stuff and then work in the intelligence community?
Hi Reddit. I'm going to graduate from university soon and I need your advice.
My long-term goal is to work in the intelligence community. Whether I get to travel around and kick down doors (I'd love to do that!) or work as a case officer, that's what I want to do.
My shorter-term goals are: to get professional training, have adventures/experiences, give a few years in direct service to my country and preferably work either in the Pentagon or Afghanistan. Hopefully having a rite of passage, getting discipline, etc. Getting to do badass stuff is a bonus.
I have no qualms about enlisting with a college degree, in fact I think I would prefer it to earning a commission (going officer would be a much longer and more uncertain option, at least from what I've seen).
I've heard that you can get Army Special Forces, that would be pretty kickass. What does Reddit suggest — what branch, what specialty?
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IAMA Request: Heavy equipment operator
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I feel like this is a job I would really enjoy, at least for a couple years, which seems like the limit of my attention span for anything. Is it a job I can get into knowing that it wouldn't be for life, or is it something that people dedicate themselves to?
That would be my first question.
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Your recommendations for movies or documentaries for business owners/entrepreneurs - Whether for inspiration, motivation, symbolism, whatever-
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I'll start it off- I have watched several movies like Pirates of Silicon Valley]( It has a great story. I overheard that [Boiler Room]( was a good movie for sales people. I sometimes watch MTV Cribs for inspiration. ([lame What are some of your suggestions?
edit- imgur'ed
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I dedicate this to all those.....
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....who kept me going by posting here during my darkest moments, even though you had no clue that's what you were doing. But I especially dedicate it to those who are having their own trying times.
I know redditors aren't big on country music, but this one isn't too "country-ish-", so maybe you could bear with it just long enough to hear the message.
One Day You Will
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DAE ever feel that he/she could do something forever and not be tired?
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I just had this insane feeling while playing piano. I played for 90 minutes, and it felt like nothing. I felt like I could do it forever and not be tired because I loved it so much.
Anyone else get this feeling? If so, with what?
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My girlfriend (this account) is slaughtering the English language
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Her sentence:
"After thoroughly reading though all of the current <Field> faculty research projects, I found the <Sub-field> research of <Person1>, <Person2>, and <Person3> particularly intriguing and I would be honored to work alongside any one of these professors this summer. However, I am most intrigued by <Person1>’s research into <Subject>. "
I think that she should remove the however as she is not comparing two different people but a group of people including the first person to just the first person. She does not believe me. Also, can you see anything else wrong? Help me grammar reddit!
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Reddit, one of best friends, former boss in college, and a father figure to me has died. He was passionate about his family and art. Please visit his website and view his art.
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davidoliverstudios.com If anyone is interested in purchasing a piece, please call. I'm not sure if his wife would be interested in selling. She may be filled with joy, because it is what Dave would have wanted. He left a wonderful wife and 2 beautiful children behind to continue to spread his passion for life and art in this world. What a wonderful person. If it wasn't for him, I would have never opened my mind up to the world around me and not be where I am today. You will be missed.
Here's an article about him. Davo
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I love & hate midnight showings of cult films.
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Last night I went to a midnight showing of The Big Lebowski. I missed it the first time it was in theaters, so I wanted to go to the screening. I took my girlfriend who had never seen the film, and got her all prepped for, what was going to be, a great time.
We got seated and saw people dressed up as Walter, Jesus, and even a Nihilist...but then these drunk fucks sat behind us and got really obnoxious. They kept throwing popcorn at people, and became louder and louder. As soon as the movie started, I heard the crack of beer cans opening and giggling from the people. Then came the reciting of dialog...almost every line from the opening scene this one stupid fuck kept belting out. People around him started to yell at him and tell him to shut the fuck up...but he wouldn't listen. The whole movie he was like this...pissed me off.
At the end of the movie, they were the first ones to get up and run out of the auditorium. I overheard some people talking about them and looking to "kick their ass", but they were long gone.
I understand the fandom that comes with seeing these kind of films in theaters with a die hard crowd. I just hate the fucks that act like children and ruin it for the rest of us.
HAE had any experiences like this at cult film screenings?
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What strange/awkward/otherwise wrong ways have you introduced yourself to people?
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Whenever I contact someone for the first time, mostly online, I can't help but make a bad introduction. I have a habit about mentioning the day where I tracked down an online friend and sent him a photo of my dog, seaweed, a fake credit card, and a couple other random items. Or I say something that makes no sense, e.g. "I beat a lizard man in the face with a shovel, can I come home now?" About half my IM list consists of people who like bouncing insanity off of me; the other half are a little scared of me.
So, any introductions that could've gone better? Pickup lines acceptable.
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thanks to the little trees, this is the way i feel - a small story about tonight's euphoria.
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Two friends and I just indica'd to a 6, put on Radiohead's In Rainbows with rain on repeat, and lay down on a super thick, super comfortable queen size mattress.
I wanted to tell everyone how AMAZING it was - it felt like I was both swimming backwards through *the* **rain** *and the* **sound**. I've tried describing this to [0]'s... but they just looked at me like, "Oh... he's stoned and doesn't know jack shit right now."
So this is why I submit my observation to the forest of trees. Because I know at least you guys will have a little deeper understanding of what it's like to float the way I did tonight. Or at least know the secret combination of soft surfaces, relaxing music, rain sounds, and our favorite green plant.
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This is one of the best looking sub reddits I've ever seen.
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You guys sure know how to make a place feel welcome and warm. I think I'll stick around some.
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The AV2010 virus will not leave, any ideas, Reddit?
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After 6 hours of trying to delete the Antivirus 2010 virus, I've still been unsuccessful. At this point I've deleted the files that gave me the virus, scanned with Malwarebyte, Registry Booster, Spyware Doctor, and AVG, all of which have done absolutely nothing. So, Reddit, any ideas?
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What are the best strategy/god-type games that don't (necessarily) focus on combat. Think SimCity, RollerCoaster Tycoon.
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I'm looking for some new "economy" type games. I'd appreciate any suggestions of strategy games, such as Red Alert, but I'm primarily looking for new "non-combat" games, such as SimCity.
Some of my favourites that others might like are:
SimCity, RollerCoaster Tycoon]( I recently found a really small, quaint 2D game that's fairly entertaining for a few hours called [My Tribe]( And if you've never played it, **you have to try** [Monopoly Tycoon cause that game seriously rules - multiplayer is truly awesome.
And these ones have more "combat" situations but are still nonetheless exceptionally fun as "god" sims:
Dungeon Keeper]( [Black and White.
Don't avoid suggesting games that have too much fighting in them but I'd love to learn about other strategy games that are less focused on building a military force!
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I'm sick of the alliance bitching from people.
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on /r/wow and /r/gaming all they can say is DERP DERP ALLIANCE DERP
Pisses me off. Just felt like sharing. Good lord.
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Have you ever been a complete social outcast? Did you wish to be accepted by your peers? Can you give some decent advice?
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This is a problem that I've faced since middle school. Since the age of 12 or so, I've noticed that people treat me much differently than my peers. I'm 20 years old, male, a virgin, and I don't have any real friends. I am of average height, overweight by 50 lbs, and have an unattractive face.
I spend my weekends and free time on the internet, not by choice, but instead for lack of anything better to do. I've always wanted to hang out with people, but I never get invited anywhere. I've tried hosting parties at my place, but people never show up. In most activities or clubs I've showed up at, I always come in alone, and find that most people have formed friendship groups (with me excluded). I've tried to be outgoing, friendly, and open to other people, but nobody seems to accept a casual invitation.
I've tried being kind. When I do, people end up taking advantage of me, using me for favors, or walking all over me. I've tried entertaining people, to be the life of the party. This usually ends in people encouraging me to make a fool of myself, and I used to fall for the bait.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm sitting here almost in tears, wondering why I can't fit in anywhere. Why I've never had a real friend, why women aren't attracted to me, why I've failed miserably at basic social interactions.
Whenever I try and chat up a girl, I get this **strong** vibe that she doesn't want me there. It's not irrational, it's not anxiety. Many will simply stop talking to me, or be unresponsive. I'm not overly pushy, but never get the chance to talk about anything other than simple greetings. It feels like talking to a wall, or like batting against an empty machine. You can swing for the fences, but what's the use if you're never given anything to hit?
So where do I go from here? It is so frustrating to be ignored when talking in a group. It is heartbreaking to have a table of people go from friendly chatting to dead silence when I sit down. I'm not creepy, I'm not confrontational, and I understand basic etiquette. Do I become a complete jackass? A miser? A hermit?
I wish for nothing more than to be accepted by my peers, to feel as if I'm a part of a group, or of something. Yet, this seems far out of reach.
I lived in mass denial of this for years, and have felt depressed about it for the last couple of months. Please reddit, if you have any advice or help, I'll take it at face value.
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DAE wish universities would hire qualified teachers to lecture?
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...rather than just getting their pet academics to do it?
With a few shining exceptions, I've found the quality of the teaching at my uni to be beyond abysmal. Most just read the prepared slides that the textbook publishers provide, and most of the rest just have no clue about imparting information.
And, having been privy to the teaching committee mailing lists, I can confirm that the vast majority of academics have unbounded contempt for both lecturing and coursework students, which they see as an utterly degrading distraction from their precious research, like a five-star chef being forced to clean the toilets.
It strikes me that there's an obvious solution that would make everyone happy. Lock the academics away with their researchers and PhDs, and let them get on with it without having to stain their lily-white hands. And hire a bunch of actual fucking *teachers* to present lectures. People with communication skills, legible handwriting, an understanding of pedagogical technique and the ability to explain things. Someone with dual degrees in the topic at hand and teaching would strike me as the perfect combination.
It wouldn't be that much more expensive, and the same institution could then have world-class research *and* world-class teaching. Which would rake the students in hand over fist, more than offsetting the cost.
Yes, UNSW, I'm looking at you.
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After being broke for months, facing eminent eviction and no cash, I decided to become a freelance iPhone developer.
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IMA programmer and entrepreneur. I've been bootstrapping my life over the past year while I work on a project that I'm passionate about.
Within the last 3 months, I have ran out of cash and ABSOLUTELY refused to get a job. I started selling off all my stuff just to pay the bills.
I was served an eviction and was forced to look for cash desperately. You have no idea how poor I became and how depressed I was. For several days, I didn't have $1 to get a candy bar. Nothing.
So, I decided to become a freelance iPhone developer, which is a skillset that I have acquired over the past year.
I had a few weeks left on a slicehost account, so I made a portfolio and advertised my skills on Craigslist.
By the following week I picked up 7 projects, worth over $12k. The retainers saved my ass and now I'm doing this full-time.
Btw, I do all the design and coding, including the web service infrastructure. I quoted $500 for the first app, but then realized I was way below market rate (I didn't care; needed cash). Now that I have some money, I am charging $2k - $5k with a 3 week turnaround.
Question to fellow iPhone freelancers... is it common to pick up clients at this price range? Am I too high or low? Any advice? I am now trying to build a very successful mobile consultancy.
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[6]Organized My Desktop, Tell me what you think
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Desktop
It is 3:05am and i just spent the last 3 hours writing a paper. So i smoked a bit with my roommate Cryl, and decided to put all the things my computer needed dealing with strait on my desktop. As if it was an actual desktop. I guess i hadn't ever really thought to think of a virtual desktop as an actual desktop. I dunno, I'm just stoned. What do you guys think?
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If you don't know who Hans-Hermann Hoppe is, get on it.
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe posits World War I as the End of Civilization at the Costs of War Seminar.
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Controlled Opposition: Hard Questions About Alex Jones | Black Sun Gazette
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Many readers of Black Sun Gazette are doubtless familiar with Alex Jones, the Austin, TX-based radio show host and film maker. I have long struggled with what to make of Alex Jones. On the one hand, he provides people with difficult to find information about the frightening truth of the American government’s lurch toward police state and global empire. On the other, he is a frothing at the mouth crypto-fascist who seems to do little more than lead people down blind alleys and arguably does more to terrorize people into inaction than anything to spur resistance. Recently, however, information has been brought to my attention that is worth sharing with my reading public. This article is meant to be primarily speculative, though I think that the issues that I raise bear consideration.
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DAE absolutely loathe ketchup?
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The taste, the smell, I can barely watch someone eat it.
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Landlord/Condo Ass. Screw over? Help?
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I just recently got a new apartment, I love the place. I was told I could have a dog (I have the emails to prove this), and it is explicitly stated so in my lease.
Today, there's a note on my door from the condo association, telling me that it is urgent and I need to call the management company. So I do.
They inform me that I am not allowed to have a dog, that only owners can have any animals at all and that renters cannot. Now I tell them that my lease says otherwise.
They tell me, pretty rudely, that my landlord then must be an idiot, because he "well knows" that this is not the case. They pretty much just say "tough cookies, get rid of the dog."
To clarify, my landlord owns and rents the unit in the condo complex.
What the hell do I do? Getting rid of my dog is, for me, a non-option. I tried my landlord but didn't get an answer, I'll call him again tomorrow. I just moved in after months of apartment hunting (my former residence, which I rented, was foreclosed on. I apparently pick shitty landlords), and just finally got settled in. I don't want to, and honestly cannot afford to, move again.
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