drdeadringer

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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Which is sad. Said "as an introvert".
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I don't see the problem with leaving when you're ready if that's before the party's over. Not "overstaying your welcome" goes both ways. It is legit to feel "I'm done here", say the thank-yous, a
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Before he retired, the head of my major's department would make you wait until he finished a game of Minefield before addressing you. I didn't believe it until I experienced it myself. He needed to retire long before I signed up,
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
"... Aren't you going to get that?" "Right now, I am talking to you."
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
You could have lost vision, or passion, or creativity, or motivation, or soul, or similar thesaurus words for these spheres of Humanity. Realms of possibility range from personality type, depression, burn out, or simple disinterest as you a
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I recall a young man building a portion of the 'Game Of Thrones' theme video. Think watching a real-life mechanical, clockwork Winterfell or Kings Landing twisting and rising all out of pop-up flatwood in your spare bedroom. I&#x2
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
This is a really nice clock and far from what I am able to do. Several years ago I went through several phases of "hands-on junk-to-art". The "third phase" was putting together clocks from found material. So now I have a
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Why bother with the whole charade if you're going to go with an internal person anyways? My understanding is providing a nice song and dance for legal reasons.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Go on about what the price of labor should be. For you.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
What is complicated about wires? Plug-and-go. Any day I'll trade any complaints about "spaghetti" against blutooth connectivity, having to charge yet another one more device, the possibility of loosing the base media device b
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
One contracting job I had, on my first day one of my tasks was to do some grunt work right in front of the bathrooms. The men's door was squeaky as all hell. "Oh don't worry, it's always done that." I lasted as long
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I agree. I also sense a desperate Hollywood clinging to this as a "reboot" to 'Them!'.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Not everyone's parents are good role models [define "good" as you wish], or actually want you there, &c.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I disagree about having an Objective Statement. I replaced mine with a Summary long ago. Also, talking about your interests should happen during an interview or even a phone screen. You don't list "Film Noir" when applying to
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
The "New Zealand Quarantine" is effective.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> despite the two-hour commute I've lived/worked in the Seattle area. I've also, in a different location, had a similarly long commute. In either case, I would have gladly taken a 10% hit to save all that time, stress, and
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I recall a Youtube video [can't find link right now] between Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson where they discuss probable expectations of alien biology based on parallel//independent evolution on Earth. Eyes were one e
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
The book 'Evolution' by Stephen Baxter. Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(Baxter_novel)
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I recall a scifi story by Stephen Baxter where a human-made probe on Mars eventually evolved into advanced, aware, spacefaring Von Neumann probes. After a few million years, one curious probe traces serial numbers back to Earth in search of
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Not parody. It's what happened as I did it.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Did the walkouts at Google change anything? I was a "TVC" at Google several times. One of those times was during the walkout period. Even though I had no way of finding out about it until a lucky "right now in 3 minutes&
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
When that episode started I was so confused. "Mom, I thought this was Reading Rainbow." "It is." "But it's ST:TNG openings credits!" "... huh. It is." "And it's 330pm - ST:TNG isn'
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Apparently I am out of a loop: Farmers are denying climate change? If my livelihood depends on good climate, how can I not notice a good climate going bad? I'd like to understand. Is this something beyond wilful denial?
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I imagine my manger saying this. I'm already not wanting to work there any more.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> The threat about driving is hilarious. So she drives, gets caught driving or speeding. Who are they then going to charge? Whatever answer you come up with, the response will be: But she's dead. Now what? They'll have to charg
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I also grew up on the East Coast. My first "real" job out of University had me pinball around the continental US, which eventually lead me to California. When I drove down from Washington [state], I passed through a grove of Redwo
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
3-4 hours is a long time. That sounds like a leisurely dinner set on "Italian Mode" [no offence] with a reservation, not a work lunch on Tuesday in the US. This ritual or ceremony of waiter, menu, waiting, ordering, signalling for
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> One of my family members is in his late 70s, loves dining out, and only owns a flip phone with no internet connectivity. He’s already excluded from much of our increasingly digital society; I remember reading a Sci-Fi short story where
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Perhaps I'm "old" for this. I don't "get" Instagram. I'm not on it, I don't use it, all that "I just don't just because". I have a room mate // romantic partner who does use I
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> I've been considering making the switch to a Linux distro full-time I forget what my last straw was, but I went full Linux for all of my home computers around 2012 or so. At the time it bricked a piece of novelty hardware for me w

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