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Originally posted by editengine:
Eating rice crispies now. They are the left overs of a extra credit assignment from the Girl's physics class. Drop an egg from the second floor and if the egg does not break you get some extra credit. So there we were, drunk off our butts at 1am on our deck tossing a ziploc full of rice crispies and an egg as far in the air as I could. Worked too, except that when she got to class it was way over the weight limit. She had to improvise something but still got her extra credit points so WIN!

Tissue paper parachute. Seriously, I did that in grade two.

No bastard thinks laterally any more.

we went Go-Carts with the crowd from work.
I bummed. I wasn't in the super slow team, nor did I get out of the road any. But there were people that passed me by at least 3 times....
I was totally chicken shit slow.

Just moved to my new office, and was issued yet *another* picture ID badge. My laniard weighs almost as much as my purse.

Also found out that my supe used to teach at U of A South and is friendly with my former professors. Small world, indeed.

Hey all, Been a while- I've been pretty busy, made an box garden in my yard, and just trying make the place look pretty- Plus, doing up keep just to land manager off my butt- Plus, Jenn and I have this public garden going- Tho, honestly she has been doing most of the work on that one-
Entered a new program, the old one has been getting new- Pretty much every day, it drives a girl nuts and makes me want to bash in a sup's head- So, I went some place with less stress-

Which is good, cause the kidney's are finally on their last leg- I go in on the 17th to get holes in me and a hose of some sort insert into me so I can do the dialysis at home-
I couldn't do the 3 times a week thing-

I'm getting a health insurance thing that will help me with the money fun stuff once i have to go in for the transplant-
Next up-
I am turning my shed in to a little work shop- I just have to clean it out, and seal it from the squirrel that think my shed is it's home-

I hope all are well-
Still need to catch up with everyone here-

All the best from Minxilla, Noir. Sending good wishes and lots of love as being the best we can do.

What a productive gal you are, Noir.

Hope the home dialysis works well for you, and am happy you'll get some help financially with the transplant.

Much love from me, too. Stay in touch!

Lots of mojo Noir.. I still hate the fact that you, and others, have to worry about how life saving treatments will be afforded *sighs* Keep us up to date yeah?

The three of us are off on our jolly-days for a week.. going to stay with a friend near the sea side in my favourite part of the country, and I'm very excited!! Think we need a bigger car if we're going away for a week these days though *lol* Small person requires ALOT of stuff!

Keep on keepin' it green, Noir! Planting is good to do.

Wellness mojos for your medical things as well. Good to hear that something is going right with health care.


Today I just saw Public Enemy, which was alright but there was something wrong with it that I can't pinpoint except that there was a certain lack of cinema-ectoplasmic energy. Fell asleep at one point.

Also re-worked and added more educational value to my Climate Defender Scratch game to use for the teacher training workshop next week. 20 or so public school teachers learning animation, gaming, and video making techniques to incorporate into teaching. I love the smell of forward-thinking in the morning.

Lots of mojo from greece too Noir!

sorry noir. my uncle had a new liver installed a few years back. Not sure how similar the supply versus demand situation is but when he really got the the point where he NEEDED it they were pretty quick about getting him one.

Work last night was slow due to rains of Noah-esque proportions we have been having. On top of that after not wanting to add any new people for weeks we got 6th guy to work the door for us. Seeing as I had been working the door I guess that menas I was mucking things up Big as hell and redneck as shit he does armed protection and security... not sure why he was working a $9 an hour gig but I guess not a lot of people have the money for fancy protection services anymore. With the high number of combat experienced vets coming home from Iraq and getting into the security business it must be a tight market.

He got a little overwhelmed by the process of checking ids while watching the door, scanning for fakes, and keeping an eye and ear out for trouble. A friend advised me that a kid trying to come in was using a fake id. It was in fact my friend's ID and the kid had stolen it the week before. The new guy checked the id and let him in. I waited until he had paid his $5 and asked for the ID. It looked NOTHING like him. I showed it to the door guy who admitted he didn't even look at the picture. It is ok, I told him, we all fuck up at times. I decided to keep it between us. I guess I could have been a dick and mentioned it to the manager but I don't like doing things that way.

Class today, primero prueba de clase. I think I did ok. no dificil pero no facil.

After the test we watched a video about Columbia. We discussed it in spanish afterwards. The instructor asked about popular crops and without thinking a said la coca.

oops.

totally forgot she is from Columbia.

Maybe I should have waited until after the quiz was graded to insult her home country?

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Originally posted by editengine:
Big as hell and redneck as shit he does armed protection and security... not sure why he was working a $9 an hour gig but I guess not a lot of people have the money for fancy protection services anymore.

Maybe he shot someone.

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I decided to keep it between us. I guess I could have been a dick and mentioned it to the manager but I don't like doing things that way.

Afraid he'd shoot you?

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The instructor asked about popular crops and without thinking a said la coca.

oops.

totally forgot she is from Columbia.

Maybe I should have waited until after the quiz was graded to insult her home country?

Maybe she'll shoot you.

Oddly he looks just like Simon Cowell. If Simon Cowell were 6'6" and 260lbs. I think it less likely he would shoot me than tell me how bloodly awful I was.

This is Florida though, we do shoot people over things like parking spaces and pickup trucks.

Did they pass the law that lets you shoot someone because you think they might be a threat?

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Originally posted by symmetry:
I FULLY FINISHED MY PHYSICS DEGREE THIS AM.

Finally, we can get the WGB Nuclear Weapons Program back on track.

Just catching up here, and I saw this. Well, I'm available. I was kicked off one nuclear weapons programme. It's a fact. This is all true. Having moved across from the physics department at Wits University, I was doing honours in applied maths in 1977. The whole point of doing this was a course in what we called RQEMHD: relativistic quantum electromagnetohydrodynamics, or plasma physics.

I went to the first lecture, collected the notes for the course, and then was called in by the head of department.

You can't do that course, he said.

But that was the whole point of my moving to your department, I said.

Well, you can't do that course. You're doing too much physics.

But we agreed: I am doing three physics-type courses. General relativity; axiomatic quantum mechanics; and RQEMHD. That's three out of 15. What are you talking about?

Well, you can't do that course.

But ...

YOU CAN'T DO THAT COURSE.

I did a course in biological modelling instead, got hooked, and wrote my thesis on the evolution of ecosystems.

Funny thing, we were not a big department, but I never saw those guys doing RQEMHD again. I studied the notes, though. Beautiful stuff. Basically the equations of fluid mechanics, but with relativistic and quantum dynamics built in.

It was only years later that I twigged. At the time, the South Africans were in the middle of their atom bomb programme. That course was probably compulsory for the bomb-builders. I'm sure the spooks took a look at my background, and said -- keep *that* guy o-u-t.

One of the reasons I left physics, actually, was because of the bomb. At Physics Society cheese and wines, we had one Afrikaans professor, expert on Green's functions, who would lean forward, late in the evening, and say: "And why SHOULDN'T South Africa have an atom bomb?"

I still see him around, looks like an old clerk, you would never guess. He used to play the clarinet too. I heard he wasn't so good.

Green's functions are very spikey. They are zero everywhere except at one point, where they are infinite. Kinda like an explosion. Kinda figures.

Belated congratulations, symmetry. I've lost the notes, but man, it's not so hard. I know where to get some uranium, I have a pal who worked on a big uranium mine in Namibia.

First target: that large hardon collider. Competition is a sin.

How did the old T-shirt go:

It's you and me against the world;
When do we attack?

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Originally posted by editengine:

totally forgot she is from Columbia.

Maybe I should have waited until after the quiz was graded to insult her home country?

Colombia. Can't talk for her, but I'd be more pissed if people kept having that typo than about my country's reputation.

And best wishes, Noir, in making the system work.

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Originally posted by fuldog:

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Originally posted by editengine:

totally forgot she is from Columbia.

Maybe I should have waited until after the quiz was graded to insult her home country?

Colombia. Can't talk for her, but I'd be more pissed if people kept having that typo than about my country's reputation.

I'm in Columbia. Which requires a whole different type of insult.

COLOMBIA

wow a good thing I wasn't texting the instructor. I would have added insult to injury.

really I dig this class. I am thinking about continuing with the next level of Spanish regardless of my grade. I don't need it to graduate but I always felt closed off from such a large part of my community because I don't speak it.

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Originally posted by lithos:
Did they pass the law that lets you shoot someone because you think they might be a threat?

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The 2008 Florida Statutes


Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 776
JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE
View Entire Chapter
776.012 Use of force in defense of person.--A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other's imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if:

(1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony; or

(2) Under those circumstances permitted pursuant to s. 776.013.

Yeah. The world hasn't ended though. It is actually proven difficult to show you think you are in danger unless the other guy really is about to try and kill you.

Surprising given the fact you can get a concealed weapons permit here almost as easily as you can buy a lottery ticket.

Soooo...if I walk down the streets o' Tampa naked, I'm good?

Well you might threaten people to the point they are in fear for their lives, what with your funny accent and ... weapon?

GayBor days is this weekend. Huge coming out event for the Gay people in Tampa and we were busier than ever last night. Drag show and a strip pogo stick contest.

Drunk people. In their undies. Pogo jumping.

It didn't really work out that well.

At the end of the night the count was two people tossed out by me (one covered in vomit). Three people carried out by their friends because they were too drunk to walk down the stairs. One girl denied entry because she solicited drugs in front of me. And one cute Asian girl pissed at me because I tried to hook her up with a friend of mine she thought was too young for her.