View Full Version : In the night! Dream delight!!! (Night Thread)
I need to go to bed.
But... I can't. Fuckin' insomnia. :redface:
I'm doing laundry right now.
I'm going to go play on the wiki while I wait.
mr_chun
08-12-2008, 01:35 AM
You have insomnia like for real for real, or you're just not sleepy?
I just have a hard time sleeping, is all.
mr_chun
08-12-2008, 02:22 AM
I have been this summer. Rather, I have a hard time going to sleep, but not a hard time sleeping for long period of time.
DarthArcturus
08-12-2008, 03:34 AM
good night
I too must turn in for the night. Though it has been an awesome night of posting thanks to the fools that were up for the late night shenanigans.
Good stuff crackers.
mr_chun
08-12-2008, 03:39 AM
Man, i need to go to bed. My dad get's up for work in an hour. :lol:
EDIT: Word, JP. It shall be an interesting morning for those that turned in early.
BAH! There's nothing going on here right now. Where's M2D?! Where's mr_chun?! Why is the late night wrecking crew MIA!?!?!?!?!?
Bah! I'm going to bed. :redface:
in the morning....I have kids.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
1st day of school...179 more until summer, LOL!
Oh God I just had the most grueling day of work ever. UGH! Fucking sucked.
Class in the morning. I would be really excited if not for the shitty day of work. FUCK!
Hunter
08-19-2008, 03:13 AM
Well, its late, so im done for the night. See you all tomorrow.
DarthArcturus
08-19-2008, 03:14 AM
Well, its late, so im done for the night. See you all tomorrow.
now the real drama can begin :sneaking:
MAD.MANTIS
08-19-2008, 03:25 AM
*Puts Darth in an e-headlock*
Advocate
08-19-2008, 03:26 AM
*punches Mantis in the vagina.*
MAD.MANTIS
08-19-2008, 03:27 AM
Jokes on you....I wear iron undies. Muahaha
The Skies
08-19-2008, 03:28 AM
simulated drama is my new favorite saying now. :D
Advocate
08-19-2008, 03:28 AM
**fights through the pain.**
DarthArcturus
08-19-2008, 04:50 AM
w00t hope all you guys die tomorrow :D
Moriya
08-19-2008, 04:55 AM
I'm on vacation this week. So I'm just sitting here in the dark, listening to music, and waiting impatiently for 11 more days!
Bruhaha69
08-20-2008, 09:16 PM
TV is fixed. Both A and D board had chips that were replaced. D boards were the bad ones, but according to the tech, these boards are ticking time bombs and will need to be replaced at some point. We had him replace both.
So Luminous......if your TV goes back as far as mine (model KV-34XBR910), you might consider upping the warranty or getting the replacement boards for the A and D board. This tech told me that Sony knew about the problem and started using these new chips in all the TV's since.
All told, it cost us a little less than $250 for the repair. Better than a new TV , in my opinion. HD is back, baby.
MAD.MANTIS
08-20-2008, 11:19 PM
$250 isn't too bad.
DarthArcturus
08-21-2008, 12:13 AM
yeah not to bad. Nice that sony knew about it and did not notify customers.
Advocate
08-21-2008, 12:23 AM
yeah not to bad. Nice that sony knew about it and did not notify customers.
wow that's a shocker.
GG Sony.
Luminous
08-21-2008, 09:01 AM
TV is fixed. Both A and D board had chips that were replaced. D boards were the bad ones, but according to the tech, these boards are ticking time bombs and will need to be replaced at some point. We had him replace both.
So Luminous......if your TV goes back as far as mine (model KV-34XBR910), you might consider upping the warranty or getting the replacement boards for the A and D board. This tech told me that Sony knew about the problem and started using these new chips in all the TV's since.
All told, it cost us a little less than $250 for the repair. Better than a new TV , in my opinion. HD is back, baby.
I know mine is a newer model (bought it in 2005), but I keep forgetting to check on the exact model number. Hopefully I won't have an issue, but I still might try to extend the warranty. So if my TV does die and they can't fix it I will get the original purchase price back and that will get me real close to a nice big 1080p TV. :D
Thanks for the info!
Another all-nighter for no apparent reason....
The last time I did sleep, though, I had a pretty trippy dream. Well... I won't go into the story, but one part in particular was really interesting to me. At the end of it I had to jump into a lake to get into this underwater cave, so I dove down from this cliff, and as soon as I hit the water I went through this whole slow-motion sequence... sunlight was streaming down into the lake, and these fish and flowers and stuff were floating all around me and this music was playing that was reminiscent of the ending credit music in Rez... just this really relaxing music like 'tranquility at last'... but I can't remember any other dream I had where I actually heard music like this... it was so fucking vivid, I can still just about remember how it went.
Usually something like that (music) in a dream would just be sort've abstract-- in my sensory background, so to speak. This was like completely enveloping me. It seemed really unique.
Anyways, that's all.
MAD.MANTIS
08-23-2008, 11:06 AM
Wow, sounds like you had an out of body experience. :O
I rarely remember my dreams. When I do, they usually involve me moving into a haunted mansion on some cliff. Why I have this recurring dream, I dunno. I'm sick of it tho.
RawkHawkHarrier
09-14-2008, 04:59 AM
Alright... I'm going to bed! It's 1:40 a.m. PACIFIC FREAKIN' TIME and I'm about to crash!!! It's been fun actually getting to post this weekend though!!! :D
I guess Mortal Monday is over, but still... HAPPY MORTAL MONDAY Y'ALL!!! You deserve it!!! Hopefully I can post again before my flight out tomorrow... We'll see if I have a hangover or not come tomorrow morning! ;)
GOOD NIGHT ALL!!! ;)
I'm tired. Its 1AM. I'm about to go to bed.
Oy. I have a Fourier Analysis exam this week. Half of it is a take home part we have to do using computer software, so eh, that'll be easy enough. The rest is just... going to be lame. Fourier series and then a little bit of complex analysis (which is REALLY funny to me since I'm taking ACTUAL complex analysis, so all the dinky rink stuff we do in Fourier is shit I'm having to derive in Complex, :lol:), then some dumb shit with graphics and piece-wise smooth and continuous and rah rah.
Not really digging that class. Its engineer math, and engineer math is lame. Anyone can do engineer math. You don't have to actually THINK about engineer math. I want to hurry up and get in grad school already so I can be working with theoretical stuff. Thats where the fun is.
Speaking of which, I got my first exams in Foundations of Math and Complex Analysis back.
Foundations was awesome. There was a problem on the test he hadn't "sufficiently covered", so he decided to let it be a take home problem instead after the fact. Of course, I did it on the test (AND the bonus) so... I don't have to do that. And I gots a 99 on that bitch. Whut!
Complex Analysis made me sad though. I mean, yes, half the class (8 people, now 4) dropped because of the first test, and yes, I had the highest grade in the class, but fuck an 87. Fuck. that. It was carelessness too that caused it... but still. :redface: Still, it SHOULD have been a 90.5 because he originally took off .5 for some careless mistake, and then went back and changed that .5 to 4! So lame... so lame.
But whatever, in most upper level math a 60 is a B. So... I still got an A. Just not a dope A with a 90+. :frown:
But the Complex Analysis got sadistic today. We hit power series. I hated series and sequences. Hated them. Or rather, I hate the way they get presented. Convergence and divergence... bah!
But... Thursday... we're hitting Lebesque integration. I was unaware we would be covering that. Its not listed in the class description... and uh... if you're going to cover the REAL version of integration (as opposed to Riemann's integration, which is what everyone learns), you would think it would be in the class notes.
But no... Thursday is Lebesque integration. Thats kind of scary. I was told by my Fourier professor that only like, 1 out of 100 mathematicians ever has to see Lebesque integration. Like, Riemann's shortcomings are mostly applicable in OTHER spaces, it works fairly well in the really-real world, but starts to fall apart elsewhere. Lebesque integration works EVERYWHERE and is a bit more accurate from what I understand.
So... that will be interesting.
DarthArcturus
09-24-2008, 02:10 PM
thats hilarious JP because we got hit with series yesterday in diffy Q. fucking hate that shit too man...I'm not looking forward to this chapter since its about solving 1st order with series :|
Bruhaha69
09-24-2008, 09:35 PM
Was George Bush rubbing the microphone cables during that broadcast? What the hell was all that noise.
Bruhaha69
09-27-2008, 02:33 AM
What's going on with the cursor since the last Firefox update? Anyone else have this? Anywhere I click on a web page will place my flashing cursor after an object or text, as if I am able to edit the pages at any time.
I'm going to bed.
Long day. Ha, spent a lot of time on ole' Raiden IV. Nice game.
Outside of that, school is awesome. Like, my professor for Complex Analysis and Foundations of Math is so fucking cool, and is pretty open anymore about me being his star student (well, to me). Its really surreal when a professor disses the other students in your class to you when no one else is around (and does so only while he's ragging you for missing something obvious and answering a problem TOO hardcore, haha!)
Basically, I needed to analyze the differentiation and convergence of a power series in the complex plane. So I went all out and described its disk of convergence, found the radius for said disk, applied the theorems for power series, etc. etc. What did he want? Just for me to compare it to a geometrical series and take its limit. Oh well. :lol:
Outside of that... my life is weird. Some stuff has gone down and... I really don't know what to make of it. Its either a very good thing or the build up for a very horrible thing, and I hate it when I can't apply logic to figure out what the probable outcome will be.
Its a weird situation. With other weird situations converging to it. And I have no fucking clue who to talk to all this nonsense about. So for the time being, guess I'll just enjoy the ride until I see a cliff at the end of the road, and then I shall bail out.
Bruhaha69
10-04-2008, 03:52 AM
Meengya, man. Uncertainty definitely sucks. The good thing is that you've always known where you wanted to go, anyway, so no matter what comes up in the meantime, you always have your original goals to get to.
Bed time for me, too. I gotta get out tomorrow and maybe buy some really flaming shirts for my cruise. I guess there are two formal nights and I wanna get some bright and faggy
(no offense to all you faggots here, of course) colors to wear with my drab grey suit. Not looking to spend a whole lot, either. See ya later nitz
Its night time.
Lets get the night thread crackin'. Fuckers.
<_<
>_>
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0_0
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I'm disappointed.
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In all of you.
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FAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bruhaha69
12-05-2008, 12:54 AM
Sorry......I'm here. I was playing the latest Prince of Persia and wanted to take a little break. i love the revived series, but I think a 9.3 was an overrate on IGN's part (fuck that idiot Hilary). It's a very pretty game but it really isn't doing a whole lot more than the other games. So far, I'd give it a solid 8.5. Looks great, sounds great, has great voice acting, plays pretty good (there are far more misjumps and unplanned falls than hilary noted) and doesn't feel too repetitive. If you liked the others in Ubisofts series, you'll like this, but don't expect to have your mind blown.
I was told to say nice things about Morgan on whatever message board I'm on.
So!
Despite the fact that she is the reason a Playstation is currently hooked up to my TV and I'm... I'm... going to... play a... game... on it... (:cry:)
*cough* Composure... composure... OK. Despite all that, Morgan is totally awesome and I love her to death. So... there. I said something nice.
Its late.
And I'm chillin' listening to the new Gehenna Christmas song.
It is fucking awesome. Despite being rushed as hell. But it still turned out nice. Josh straight up worked some mixing magic, thats all I gotta say on that!
DarthArcturus
12-18-2008, 12:21 PM
Its late.
And I'm chillin' listening to the new Gehenna Christmas song.
It is fucking awesome. Despite being rushed as hell. But it still turned out nice. Josh straight up worked some mixing magic, thats all I gotta say on that!
is that on the Gehenna myspace page?
No.
But it will be shortly. Josh just put up for download on the Dank webpage. :)
http://www.dankweb.com
So, you can snag it there! Its kinda rushed, but enjoy!
DarthArcturus
12-18-2008, 01:30 PM
No.
But it will be shortly. Josh just put up for download on the Dank webpage. :)
http://www.dankweb.com
So, you can snag it there! Its kinda rushed, but enjoy!
just gave it a listen not bad at all I think I like it better than your old xmas song.
Thanks man!
Here's the lyrics if ya want 'em:
Verse 1 (Dank):
Presents are the kids and the kids are the presents
See ya gotta go and tear them up like heretic peasants
Gotta take 'em and break 'em and fuckin' glue 'em and make 'em
Stuff 'em all full of toys even all in the limb
Man put 'em by the tree with the girls and boys
Oh shit, what was that, bitch what's that noise
They're screaming and crying and crawling in pain
But stop motherfucker! That's the big wheel lane!!!
My wife's a blue package with a little red bow
Little Susie is a gift bag but she's got room to grow
And Jack's a green package always covered in blood
When he jumps at his gifts man it all starts to flood
I woke up in the morning but the gifts are gone!
Motherfucker look at that they're crawling in the lawn!!!
Got the kids to round 'em up, hit the wife for some lovin'
While the kids fed the trash to the Easy Bake Oven!
Chorus:
Its tots for toys, so what could go wrong?
Come on sing along to your favorite song!
What what?
Dank what in the fuck are you talkin' about man?
What? What?
You need to be stickin' to the original fuckin' plan!
Verse 2 (Inferis):
Shhh! Listen to the silence/
Its my second Christmas trapped inside of the asylum/
They locked us up in '06 for spreading our Christmas cheer/
Now its 2008 and we're gettin' the fuck up outta here/
Shit, up on the rooftop I keep hearing all these clicks/
Seems like the lunatics is gettin' a visit from Saint Nick/
So I, just chill, awaitin' for this fucker to come around/
'But Dank goes down, back, high punch disappearing into the ground/
Then Dank pops into Santa with an uppercut blow/
Santa falls across our cell and I'm grab him by his throat/
So take my Christmas cutter and put a slit into his neck/
Now Santa's white beard is my favorite shade of red/
Dear Dead Santa all I want is to be free/
So I reach into his jacket and I get the prison keys/
Then Dank and I jack his fuckin' sleigh for a ride/
Merry Christmas to all now you're all gonna die!/
verse 3:
Dank:
Santa Dank's back yall and we're comin' to town
Bitches best unlock your doors or we gonna kick it down
Don't want property damage as a result of blocking me
I mean afterall it's not very Christmasy
Let me in, let it begin, trust me, it's my grin
Like my Santa suit? Good, man I made it out of skin
Here's a severed limb and a fuckin' ginger bread cookie
Now show me to your mom cuz I gotta get some nookie!
Inferis:
While Dank was stuffin' ya Mom's muffin', I snuck in/
And I left a couple of presents in ya muthafuckin' oven/
Something about highly flammable keep away from open flames/
But ya house was kinda chilly so I'm thinkin' I saved the day/
I turned the oven up and crept the fuck outside/
Yo Dank quit fuckin' that slut unless you really wanna die/
So we're chillin' on the lawn watchin' pretty Christmas lights/
Loving the music that is screams from the family locked inside/
And Gehenna-Os is going to be the shit!!!!!! Yeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!!!!!! I'm glad thats finally announced, I've been piecing stuff together for it for a year now in my head. =D
Bruhaha69
12-26-2008, 10:01 PM
Bored. Fuck friends, as well.
Side not, I'm extremely impressed with myself and how well I'm doing with my rage. I mean, I'm still getting mad, but I don't think I'll blow any gaskets.
I got home from Christmas stuff today.
I'm about to have to hit the road again though since I think my grandmother's husband-of-5-years-that-isn't-my-grandfather is about to die, so I have to go to the funeral.
Really wanted to get ready for classes this week too... :redface:
Good evening mofos!
I'm in a C Programming class right now. Don't ask. :redface:
So... yeah. I'm just surfing the web while I "learn" about stuff I taught myself over a decade ago.
Today was interesting. Stopped by Dr. Morales' offfice and wound up chillin' talking to him for 2 hours. :o
Edit:
23 min 'til class is over. Boo! :redface:
I'm at work.
This sucks. :redface:
Bruhaha69
01-29-2009, 08:45 PM
I wonder what it's like in the future. Can we have the PC that hosts this message board somehow give us streaming video of what's to come in the following 30 minutes?
That would be great.
Then maybe I could find out when Morgan is going to quit flipping out on me because of SuperYen (of all people) being in my top friends on myspace and leaving some comment or something.
'Cuz I am really getting fucking sick of this nonsense... :frustrated:
Bruhaha69
01-29-2009, 11:33 PM
O jeez. That's the kind of shit we're supposed to leave in high school. That stuff pisses me off......such a waste of energy having arguments and attitudes about that kind of thing.
Tell her to start worrying when she's on top of your dick.
Frogacuda
01-30-2009, 02:47 AM
Hey, how does she know you aren't sneaking around with a girl who lives 3000 miles away?
DarthArcturus
01-30-2009, 02:51 AM
LOL superyen of all people?
Luminous
01-30-2009, 06:16 AM
That would be great.
Then maybe I could find out when Morgan is going to quit flipping out on me because of SuperYen (of all people) being in my top friends on myspace and leaving some comment or something.
'Cuz I am really getting fucking sick of this nonsense... :frustrated:
Oh my....yeah women can get like that. My wife every now and then gets antsy when I mention the same woman's name too much (nevemind that I work with these people and really have no choice but to interact with them regularly).
How dare you know a female that is not her?????
This whole situation is one of the most ridiculous things I have seen in my life...
I'm not kidding. This is just absurd. If she doesn't calm the fuck down soon... then... ugh.
I will admit, I did laugh when she said I was "keeping my secret feelings for my secret lady just that, a secret!" I'm like, "Yeah... she's all in the top 3 on my little myspace dealie, thats uh... quite a job of hiding her from you I'm doing there."
I might move this story to the lounge... 'cuz this is just... wow.
LOL superyen of all people?
Eh, Jen is like, one of the only females on my myspace that doesn't throw up "suspicious" or "racey" stuff on my little comment box. I swear to God I figured my roomate would get me in trouble before anyone.
With Jen its just... comic books and videogames. :shrug: So its really fucking weird that Morgan would flip out over her! There was another issue she was pissy about, but now its like she forgot about that one and its just, "OMG SHE COMMENTED ON YOUR MYSPACE WTF WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
I'm like... "Um, talking to my friend?" :shrug:
Frogacuda
01-30-2009, 05:09 PM
Yeah, that's messed up. You gotta put your foot down and get that jealousy stuff in check.
Hurray!!!!!
4 hour conversation later and all things are well. :)
Frogacuda
01-30-2009, 08:59 PM
At least until you get your next spam message from a webcam girl.
WHO IS KANDKATY AND WHY DOES SHE WANT YOU TO CUM CHECK OUT HER PICS?!
Luminous
01-30-2009, 09:04 PM
At least until you get your next spam message from a webcam girl.
WHO IS KANDKATY AND WHY DOES SHE WANT YOU TO CUM CHECK OUT HER PICS?!
:lol:
Too true.......
At least until you get your next spam message from a webcam girl.
WHO IS KANDKATY AND WHY DOES SHE WANT YOU TO CUM CHECK OUT HER PICS?!
:lol:
Na, I think we're good to go. :p
And even if this does happen again, now I know how to handle it. :nod:
superyen
02-01-2009, 05:00 AM
yea... just get all 32499 93293 92300 999 393209 0092929 on her ass. :nag:
rofl
Mmm... dunno about that. I think for the time being random sequences of numbers should be kept far away from her. :scurred:
superyen
02-01-2009, 08:21 PM
http://artforprofits.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/explosion.jpg
xchplooosh! :nod:
Thats pretty accurate, right there.
You secret lady you!
DarthArcturus
02-01-2009, 11:03 PM
be careful what you post JP...;)
:scurred:
Morgan, if you see this, I love you, I'm just kidding, don't kill me, and... um... you're beautiful and wonderful and... stuff.
I hate my programming class.
Hate it!
I'm so bored. I know all this shit. Bah! :redface:
I am at work.
Bored.
Bored bored bored.
I think I'll go do some math.
Yay!
DarthArcturus
02-10-2009, 01:06 AM
its 11:35 pm and I still have studying to do YAY!
its 11:35 pm and I still have studying to do YAY!
Its 1:12AM and I still have Math Modeling homework to do. :frown:
DarthArcturus
02-10-2009, 02:50 AM
what kind of modeling? color me interested :nod:
superyen
02-10-2009, 08:33 AM
it is 5:00 and I woke up early to study for my math test before school. ...yay? o_o
what kind of modeling? color me interested :nod:
Flow of traffic.
I'm in my programming class again.
Forgot to bring in my Differential Geometry homework.
BOREDOM!
Bruhaha69
02-15-2009, 10:23 PM
Bored as hell. Finished getting all the data stuff in FEAR 2 and went to Walmart (closest store I could motivate myself to drive to) but they had SHIT for games, so I left empty handed. Now I'm just bored.
DarthArcturus
02-15-2009, 10:56 PM
unzip my pants and get on your fucking knees
Bruhaha69
02-15-2009, 10:58 PM
Sorry man, I already ate too much cum today and my face is sore from the flogging of life
DarthArcturus
02-15-2009, 11:58 PM
Sorry man, I already ate too much cum today and my face is sore from the flogging of life
damn, I forgot it was Sunday. Overtime hours for you :frown:
Bruhaha69
02-16-2009, 12:10 AM
Sloppy Sunday. Being a man's man-whore is tough. I should just go to bed. Wish I didn't have all that tea and coffee.
Luminous
02-16-2009, 12:22 AM
Ewwww......gay talk.....ewww.....
I am going to bed real soon.......
DarthArcturus
02-16-2009, 02:30 AM
Ewwww......gay talk.....ewww.....
I am going to bed real soon.......
I'll be there shortly ;)
Luminous
02-16-2009, 08:16 AM
I'll be there shortly ;)
Luckily you didn't show up, my wife would have kicked both of our asses. :gun:
I. fucking. hate. my. C. programming. class. I. already. know. this. shit. I. don't. need. to. learn. it. again.
Or better yet...
#include <stdio.h>
void main (void) {
printf("I am so goddamned bored because I already know all this shit"
"and I don't feel like learning it again. \n Dammit!");
}
DarthArcturus
02-24-2009, 08:09 PM
LOL is that seriously what your having to do in that class? Shit even I know that stuff and I've only taken 1 programming class in my life
Right now we're doing user defined functions and loops. :disgust:
I'm in programming class.
I already wrote the program for this period.
LALALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!!!!
Bruhaha69
04-05-2009, 01:04 AM
Well, I finally went ahead and ordered parts for a PC and got it built today with my buddy. One hitch on the build, but it's all together and working fast as shit.....did some pretty solid 3D Mark scores, too. Now I just need to find somewhere to set this fucker up. Need to buy a new monitor, too.
I'm in programming class.
I am bored.
Sadness.
I gets paid tomorrow though! Yays!
Bruhaha69
05-20-2009, 06:17 PM
Had another interview a couple hours ago. Job seems pretty decent. I should be getting a face-to-face interview scheduled in the next few days, so this might be promising. Not getting ahead of myself, but one of the first things they asked me was for my salary requirements.....if I do end up getting an offer after interviewing with them, they'd better not dip below the range I gave them. That happened to me last year and it blew my mind. Why ask for a range if you don't plan on hitting it? Negotiation is one thing, but completely low balling and saying "that's the best we can do" is another. Let me know ahead of time and I can save us all the trouble of these forced social interactions.
Bruhaha69
06-11-2009, 07:57 PM
Well, didn't get the job.....guess the face-to-face didn't go so well....ahhh, back to the job hunt.
ShinobiWan1
06-11-2009, 09:58 PM
sorry about that Bru, their loss right bud? That really sucks :(
DarthArcturus
06-11-2009, 11:34 PM
fuck them, they have no idea what they passed up.
Bruhaha69
07-22-2009, 09:05 PM
Spent the last couple of days in DC. It wasn't too bad. I love that all of the museums are free.
perfekchaos
07-23-2009, 07:37 PM
I played poker last night and stayed up til 6 am. Then I had work at 10 :(
perfekchaos
07-25-2009, 09:47 AM
Hmm, I'm still up after a night of drinking.
Bruhaha69
11-12-2009, 10:59 PM
Well, another job applied, interviewed and denied, haha. I'm fairly certain I lost this one because of my salary requirements. The only time when I thought things weren't going great was when they asked what I wanted on the phone screening. I told the HR woman, she hesitated a moment ( I expected her to say "that's a little out of our range") and then said they could probably work that out. My face-to-face went as good as those can go and I was even asked if I could come back in this past week for a second interview. They never scheduled the interview and sent me the shitty-ass canned "thanks, you have a lot of good shit but other applicants had shit that fit our needs better, we are going to file your resume" response. I'm gonna call or e-mail this cunt and ask her if she can just level with me like a human being and give me the real reason why I was passed on. I could have done this job with my head screwed on backwards. It HAS to be because of the money I asked for. If that's the case, though, I'm pissed that they even had me in to waste my time.
Back to absolutely no good prospects and applying for more shitty jobs.
Luminous
11-12-2009, 11:40 PM
Sorry to hear that Bru. A good friend of mine just got back to work after 2 years without a job. So I can at least appreciate what you are going through to an extent.
Keep plugging away.
Bruhaha69
11-13-2009, 12:21 AM
Yup, nothing else to do but keep on applying.
I've been out for nearly 2 years, but the first 6 - 9 months was all my fault. I was lazier than anyone ever should be about getting a job. Unfortunately, that's right about when the job market went from bad to worse. I'm trying my balls off now, though. I have to get going on making my own life, whatever sad life that may be, haha.
lordsnarf
12-13-2009, 09:13 PM
I just woke up, after sleeping about 13 hours....fuck me.
Bruhaha69
03-08-2010, 05:37 PM
Well, same job I applied to, interviewed at and then got denied, recently re-interviewed and offered me a job. I'm not making as much as I was at my last place, but I haven't worked in over 2 years, so I gotta get back into it. The best part is that it's only a 10 minute ride from me. I've never had any job that was within 6 miles and 10 minutes of driving.
Luminous
03-08-2010, 06:18 PM
Well, same job I applied to, interviewed at and then got denied, recently re-interviewed and offered me a job. I'm not making as much as I was at my last place, but I haven't worked in over 2 years, so I gotta get back into it. The best part is that it's only a 10 minute ride from me. I've never had any job that was within 6 miles and 10 minutes of driving.
Awesome! Congrats and good luck with the new job.
I would love a commute of even 20 minutes.
Bruhaha69
03-08-2010, 07:22 PM
Thanks man and I hear ya. My whole life, whether it has been school, work or hanging out with friends, has always been a 20 mile/30 minute drive minimum. Never had something this close to home. When I move out, I plan on staying in Southern NH, so it should still be a fairly short drive to work if and when I get out of here.
DarthArcturus
03-09-2010, 02:23 AM
congrats on the job Bruhaha.
I'm in the process of applying to a job I feel really good amount. I've networked a lot with the company and hopefully it leads to an interview.
perfekchaos
03-09-2010, 04:52 AM
One of my friends just got a job at Yelp doing data entry and said some people recently quit and there are more openings. I want to apply because the job sounds sweet and easy, and it pays much better than my current job...
But it's full time or at least requires a minimum of 30 hours a week and I don't know if I can really handle 3 10+ hour days when I'm still in school. :frown:
It's a long commute to San Francisco too.
Luminous
03-27-2010, 11:16 PM
Evening Sestren. I forgot to post this, but I received a nasty surprise at work this week. Our IT department is on a blocking spree lately so now I can view Sestren, but can't post from work. :|
Anyway I am just relaxing and watching some NHL highlights. I do love having the NHL network in HD. :D
Hunter
03-29-2010, 12:27 PM
Damn, we're going to have find a workaround for that. Maybe if you use some sort of proxy site.
Luminous
03-29-2010, 10:30 PM
Damn, we're going to have find a workaround for that. Maybe if you use some sort of proxy site.
It's really annoying. I know it is pushing me to get a good internet capable phone next time I am due for one. :| It's not just Sestren, they are blocking sites I had no problem getting to just a couple of weeks ago.
Moriya
11-19-2011, 08:36 PM
6:30pm is night by current standards, dark as shit!
I am coding away, my current project is getting close to 1.0 status.
I also ran a 5k today and PR'ed (runner's speak for beat my previous best) so I'm quite stoked about that.
What's up Sestren?
Yay!!!! Night time thread.
Hey Moriya, do you know many people who use UML or work as software developers? I'm getting a math masters degree, but I'm taking a course in UML at the moment and I'm really loving it. I'm not as big into coding (i.e. I don't like wasting my nights away chasing dangling pointers :p), but I love the software design aspect, which has had me wondering if you can be a software designer or something that doesn't spend much time coding.
Moriya
11-20-2011, 11:00 AM
UML is really old fashioned and even largely considered to be obsolete. You'll still find it being used in some really conservative shops like military contractors, financial markets, etc. But for the most part it's largely shunned. It's been replaced with "agile" which is basically an umbrella term for "have processes that allow you to adapt quickly and easily, so you don't have to do much, if any, upfront design." There are many ways to accomplish agile, like XP, kanban, scrum, etc.
UML is mostly associated with the waterfall process, which is a huge upfront design session that puts out requirement docs, then a huge coding session where the developers attempt to meet those requirements, a huge testing phase where testers assert the requirements were met or not, and finally a release phase where mostly developers hate life and write documentation and abstracts about the software. I worked at a job that required this and it was brutal :) Agile is much more about small cycles of a tiny smidge of design, a bit of coding, and testing, repeated often and quickly. The ideas is that stake holders can change their minds just about whenever they want and adapt the software to meet actual needs instead of estimated or assumed needs.
Hate to burst your bubble if you're enjoying UML. But sadly in most of the industry you'll find it completely ignored now. I last used UML about a decade ago.
Damn... I guess they hammer on it so much here because I live in a military town. Every CS class I've had has preached the waterfall design and how it's virtually required for government contract work.
Moriya
11-20-2011, 03:32 PM
Yeah government contract work is often waterfall because the government places such strict requirements on everything. But even that is changing. There are efforts to try and become more agile from within the confines of the government.
It's also hard to truly design software without a lot of experience writing software. Again not trying to disappoint you, just being honest. There is demand out there for software architects and software design. Those are generally tough jobs to get (and pay major bucks, at the cost of major stress) because a given company might have 50 developers and 1 or 2 architects (that's about the ratio at my company)
Moriya
11-21-2011, 12:18 PM
If you ever want any advice or whatever about the software dev business, give me a hollar. I've worked for companies with 8 people up to one of the largest software companies in the world and everything in between. It's a great industry over all. And generally speaking when making new hires, people with math degrees are quite desirable.
Thanks man! I appreciate it.
You know, I don't really know what I'm going to do once I finish up the ole' MS in math. Ideally I would've loved to have been a professor of mathematics, but I dicked around too much as an undergrad and now I'm almost 30, so fighting for tenure at 40 just doesn't sound like it would be much fun (that, and I'd have to go to a different school as no one at mine does research in my favorite field, I'm a pure mathematician at an applied math school!)
I was digging the idea of being a software designer, but after reading your posts I'm not so sure. I enjoy the software development aspect (what has been taught to me as doing the requirements document, the models, etc.), but if that's going out the window and folks want people that do that and want to sit around doing code I'm not so sure. I was really big into programming back in high school, but these days I go nuts trying to chase down dangling pointers and finding out at 3AM that I accidentally typed in the wrong variable at one spot in hundreds of lines of code and that my program is crashing because of that. :lol: I mean, I can do it, I just don't think that I want to.
Ah well. I think I'll take some Simulation and Modeling classes next year. I'm trying to well-round myself in grad school so I can have some solid options if doing cryptanalysis with the government doesn't pan out (which at this point is my primary goal, so my math course work is being tailored towards that despite there being no cryptography courses at my school).
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