stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 6/23/2016 at 12:54 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 6/22/2016 at 10:03 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I'm back from a 10 day tour and I don't know what to do with myself. I just want to be back on the road for another 20.

 

alcohol

That seems to be the most popular solution.

I can't make this fucking voice over to fit in the mix properly!

  On 6/23/2016 at 9:12 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 6/23/2016 at 12:54 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 6/22/2016 at 10:03 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I'm back from a 10 day tour and I don't know what to do with myself. I just want to be back on the road for another 20.

 

alcohol

 

That seems to be the most popular solution.

 

it's a band-aid sometimes

anyone been wondering whether led zeppelin copied the 'stairway to heaven' intro? worry no more. they did not

I'd be surprised if in all my years of songwriting/track making I didn't once inadvertently rewrite something I had heard previously. It just seems like something that's inevitable if you do something enough.

Especially with rock music since it more closely adheres to standard song forms.

Drunk, which in and of itself is fine, but work buddy got even drunker than me and kind of hurt my feelings by saying there were "multiple reasons" he didn't want to let me go on the rooftop of his flat even though 3 of his flatmates (2 of whom I was having a very nice time with, one of whom was very flattered when I told him he looked like Ninja from Die Antwoord), plus me, were itching to go up. Oh well. He was busy making out with someone else's girlfriend, so I think that is probably one, probably 2 or 3 of the reasons. He was probably just jealous because I'm taking a week off starting tomorrow. Also, speaking of tomorrow, my mom is coming to town tomorrow so I need to tidy the house quite a bit and mustn't let myself be hung over, so I'll polish off this Powerade Zero before I pass out.

Also, speaking of hangover prevention, this is in no way whatsoever a problem, but I stopped by a lovely Mexican restaurant on the way home (who, God bless them, were still open at 11:30) and ordered two chorizo tortas. I didn't realize how big tortas are, especially being $5 apiece. Well, that's both pre-hangover midnight snack and post-hangover breakfast sorted. All I'm missing is another bottle or two of PZ. Should be a nice Friday.

It's only 9am and I've already spoken to 3 work colleagues who appear to've voted OUT seemingly on the toss of a coin. Each one of them then said, after I'd spoken to them, that they wish they'd talked to me before and would've voted IN.

I'm now wondering how many people voted out for similar non-reasons.

  On 6/22/2016 at 3:32 PM, eugene said:

i also started learning and doing a bit of programming for some data preparation jobs i'm doing recently in stata, i don't even know if you comp.sci hunks consider stata stuff as programming but i do so fuck you. didn't even realize that i'd like it so much, it's so satisfying to make some logical contraption do what you need it to do perfectly.

here's the creation i'm the most proud of so far (i'll even put it in code formatting like a pro):

 

sort pid syear
g cumu3 = 0
g cumulative3=0
g cumu3_final=.
forvalues i =2013(-1)1991 {
replace cumulative3=0
	foreach k in `i'-2 `i'-1 `i' {
	replace cumulative3= cumu3+lf_disconnect if syear==`k'
	drop cumu3
	egen cumu3=max (cumulative3) if cumulative3!=. , by (pid)
	}
replace cumu3_final= cumulative3 if syear==`i'
replace cumu3=0
}

it basically counts the number of times a person was disconnected from the labor force in the last 3 years and creates a variable that signifies it for each year. i nearly came when it actually did what i wanted after hours of frustrations.

Don't have much state experience (more sas), but what i've seen is that stata excels in simple code for creating statistic models (with useful output), but it's just not that handy in the data preparation department. Sas is the other way around. Although its biggest win is that you can use sql statements, i guess. I was hoping for R to be a good substitute. But I havent fallen in love, yet.

My only spare SATA cable that's not in storage is too short to reach from the hard drive hotswap bay to the motherboard

my best friend is from germany, she's been here for 10 years and has been more support to me than my mother and anyone in my family.

we now have to wait and see if she will be able to stay in the country.

went out the back garden to do a bit of weeding for 15 minutes, now suffering a massive case of hayfever. have emptied half a pack of tissues already.

  On 6/24/2016 at 10:06 AM, hello spiral said:

It's only 9am and I've already spoken to 3 work colleagues who appear to've voted OUT seemingly on the toss of a coin. Each one of them then said, after I'd spoken to them, that they wish they'd talked to me before and would've voted IN.

 

I'm now wondering how many people voted out for similar non-reasons.

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After Brexit Vote, Britain Googles 'What Is The EU?'

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/24/480949383/britains-google-searches-for-what-is-the-eu-spike-after-brexit-vote

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I'm sick as hell, it's my birthday, I've got to work until 11PM, and then again early morning Sunday.

I guess it's fine I'm sick then since I can't plan anything anyway. Still sucks. Might be pneumonia again, I can barely breathe, fluid in the lungs.

Sorry to hear that step. hbd anyway :)

fwp: google play won't accept any of my payment methods, I just want nanoloop again!

  On 6/24/2016 at 9:38 PM, StephenG said:

I'm sick as hell, it's my birthday, I've got to work until 11PM, and then again early morning Sunday.

 

I guess it's fine I'm sick then since I can't plan anything anyway. Still sucks. Might be pneumonia again, I can barely breathe, fluid in the lungs.

by all means.. go to work and get your coworkers sick. ;)

if america was the first world you might be able to stay home with paid sick leave.

happy birthday.

He's Canadian.

HBD StephenG!

Brexit overload

no media for the next 50+hours

  On 6/24/2016 at 9:55 PM, ignatius said:

 

  On 6/24/2016 at 9:38 PM, StephenG said:

I'm sick as hell, it's my birthday, I've got to work until 11PM, and then again early morning Sunday.

 

I guess it's fine I'm sick then since I can't plan anything anyway. Still sucks. Might be pneumonia again, I can barely breathe, fluid in the lungs.

 

by all means.. go to work and get your coworkers sick. ;)

 

if america was the first world you might be able to stay home with paid sick leave.

 

happy birthday.

 

I wish I could stay home! I help manage a lean facility, without me here there's noone to run it.

Thanks everyone for the bday wishes =)

I've got a beer or two waiting for when I get home, methinks.

A belated happy birthday, boss!

indeed!

Oh yeah. Happy birthday StephG!!

Thanks pal =). I'm getting off work now (1013PM) so that's not too bad. Enough time for a beer or two still.

first world success I guess!