This reminds me of when my ex-gf would go to auto repair shops for service and play dumb. Then when they tried to shop-talk her into paying for unnecessary services, she'd show her true colors and embarrass them into giving her a good deal on the work she needed.
Unfortunately, I think Nadouku gets the "dumb chick" treatment, without the upside.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Sounds like you are saying form experience. I'm adding that to my PROTIP note.
I personally would prefer to make someone else do this - i just love to manipulate sometimes.
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I just found out today that the class I'm supposed to be TAing (for those of you not accustomed to this short form, a TA is a teaching assistant) will likely be cancelled on Monday unless by some miracle 5 more students sign up for the course over the weekend. The department has told me that there aren't any other positions available, so if this is cancelled, I no longer have a job. Not good news for me, when I was counting on this to be able to pay my rent. Now I'm going to have to start on the long and distasteful process of applying to part-time jobs to be able to make it through the semester. I'm not angry about it, just.....really sad.
How much do you get paid for participating as a Teacher Assistant?
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Currently playing: All of your games, probably.
TA jobs are pretty hard to get because they're such a sweet deal. I think some TA jobs can go towards credit for your postgrad degree. I hope it works out for you KitKat.
I work in an IT office with lots of expensive equipment unsecured. Unfortunately I share the office with a guy from another department and he has no qualms about letting people into the office to use the phone or printer or just to get some coffee. Besides the thousands of dollars of company equipment, we both have lots of personal electronics and property laying around. I'm thinking of telling him to cut it out, and I don't want to come across as selfish or paranoid, but I'm tired of returning to my office to notice things moved and wondering what might be missing.
edit: so I decided to be a dick and when the latest guy entered my office to borrow something, I told him to get lost. I feel kind of crappy about it, but also happy that I set things straight. Unfortunately the guy works for maintenance so the next time I need help from them, this could bite me in the ass.
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“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I am not a gambling man nor am I a football fanatic. But after a debate with a friend that is a major Eagles fan we made it bet.
The Giants lost ( horribly ) and now I am parting with a small sum of money and I have to wear an Eagles cap or sweater for an entire month.I can only imagine the shit i am going to have to put up with. But a bet is a bet and I don't go back on my word. Should be a fun month.
___---------------------------- "THE DROPOUT CREW"--------------------------------________Deblas, IfingHateTonTon, RyougaZell, dragonrage.________
________ we may fuck up alot but we always pull thru.
at least you're getting to keep your hair?
current bitch : Windows 7.... I was just curious and wanted to DL on friday when they said the beta was released but they kept posting saying they'd taken it down due to traffic and would put it back up.
well, now they have a link to download it. it brings you to the windows live login page, then to a dead page because its no longer available via microsoft. so now if i want to use it i have to get it elsewhere, which probably will be alot easier than trying to get it from MS
I bought a pair of electrical crimpers the last time I was in Japan and I thought it would be the best tool I ever bought. Sadly I was disappointed when the handles hurt my hands and the cutter dulled, and I wondered how Japanese quality and craftsmanship could fail me so badly.
So when I was in the US recently I bought a pair of Ideal brand electrical crimpers and thought these would be a perfect replacement for that "Jap crap" pair that I was ready to throw away. 30 minutes of use and the new pair was warped and the sides did not align anymore. I compared the new crimpers to the Japanese ones and the Japanese ones use twice as thick steel as the cheap ones. I used a metal file to sharpen the cutting edge and it cuts perfectly now. I also switched out the handles from the new pair to the Japanese ones and it no longer hurts my hands. I ended up throwing away the new crimper and keeping my trusty Japanese model.
That'll teach me to question the superiority of Japanese products to all others. Everyone should know learn this lesson as well. Buy Japanese.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Holy crap, U.S. Airways is the worst airline I've ever been on. The seats are about as comfortable as squashing yourself in a cushioned iron maiden, the plane itself was a rickety peice of shit, you have to pay for drinks and headphones, and the entire staff treads the line between incompetancy and disrespect. It didn't make it any better that my journey was 4 hours longer than it usually was because I had to stop over in Charlotte to catch my connecting flight.
At least I learned something new. When the plane hit the runway, and the hostess welcomed us to Charlotte, North Carlolina, I tried my very best to pretend I already knew which state Charlotte was in.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
My $40 earbuds don't work anymore. It's got a couple of design faults in it which I noticed straight away. For some reason, the manufacturers thought it was a good idea to make the cord out of rubber instead of plastic. The rubbing transmits the sounds all the way up into your music. Even though it's got sound canceling silicon plugs, you still get another form of sound interference.
Rubber also means it gets yanked around alot when something brushes past, as opposed to plastic. That, combined with a poor design at the tail/pin junction meant the internal wiring is now busted after 2 months of use.
I'm just hoping there's some sort of warranty, though I doubt it. Bitch.
(FYI, these were Griffin tunebuds, and Griffin offers a 1 year limited warranty, which I'm not sure my local retailer will acknowledge. )
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Surely the retailer wouldn't be selling them if they didn't acknowledge the warranty. Or maybe you need to send it to some national warranty handler. To get a new piece of faulty hardware in return...Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
why would the retailer do anything about a manufacturer's warranty? unless you're still within your exchange period with the retailer, you're most likely going to have to deal with the manufacturer directly. at least, that's how it works here
we got this obvious spam/phishing email yesterday w\ a zip attachment and of course this lady opens it and despite our recent upgrade to norten endpoint protection... her computer is hosed.
symantec is obviously trash. We just spent over $1000 upgrading out licensing and i'm off downloading third party free-ware off the internet to clean off her system because symantec scans and finds nothing despite the flashing wall paper and task bar items saying you're infected !!!!
its time for me to leave work but I cant because i need to have her computer up and running so she can work in the morning.
Cockroaches. Big, fat cockroaches. And it's not even time to replace the baits yet
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they have some kind of spray that is odorless that is supposed to last for 6 months + got it at home depot
i've only seen 2-3 cockroaches in our apartment and only 1 of them was alive, the others apparently died when they came anywhere near where the spray had been sprayed.
Lol roaches, I haven't seen one in like..15 years.
Look for Bengal Tiger brand roach spray, then spray your house and leave for the day. That stuff works for 6 months (might be the same brand itadakimasu mentioned). We lived in front of a bayou growing up. Lots of critters come from there and into your house.
Just be glad you don't have German roaches. They're tiny, numerous, and impossible to get rid of without several visits from a professional pest control agent.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I finally got around to collecting all the trophies that Sonic Unleashed has to offer, but my god, why did the developers decide to put in a 30-60 minute long final stage? On top of that, the stage is like a rom-hack, where if you don't do anything within the first few seconds, you die, and again and again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm0VQjAFDFg - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kDQY...eature=related - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Jxh...eature=related - Part 3
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Currently playing: All of your games, probably.
I just bought a dell 19in wide screen LCD monitor about 2 weeks ago and used it for less than a week. Bam! 1 dead pixel shows up.And according to Dell, you need at least 6 dead pixels for them to replace under warranty.
How rare are dead pixels these days? I've used 6 LCD monitors over the last few years without a pixel problem at all. Should I consider myself lucky, or are you the unlucky one?
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