Wow, this... kinda bugs me.

[kickaha]

Remember that project I was on last year, where I literally worked myself sick to the point of needing an MRI to check for strokes to explain the blackouts, and months of endocrinological work to try and figure out what had happened?

I just got a note that they're removing the code from the project, and if I want a copy, I should go grab it.



Well *that* was a complete waste of 8 months of my life, apparently...

Edit: OTOH, I refuse to be made to feel bad about my code design by a group that uses goto. By choice. Rar.

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

...Not to mention the time it took off the end of it...

Welcome to Corporate America, where working hard is like wetting your pants in a dark suit--you get a brief (ha!) warm feeling, but nobody else notices.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

You are *such* a ray of fucking sunshine... :D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I keep telling you, I get paid an embarrassing amount of money to be professionally negative.

You get it for *free*. What the *fuck* are you complaining about? :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Isn't that Mike Tyson's reasoning when he beats the shit out of someone in a bar?

Delivered an octave *higher*, mind you, but...

;)

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

Oh yay, I thought that kind of shit ended after grad school.
Did you at least get a nifty picture of your brain?

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

Because I was thinking, if I had an MRI of my brain, I'd get it scanned, then put the picture on a t-shirt and say 'THIS IS THE PROBLEM HERE FOLKS'. And it would excellent. But you don't have to do that.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

I... *LIKE* that.

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

See, fuck the negative people, there is ALWAYS something interesting to be had! So there you poopy heads!

nAHHH NAH NAH NAAAAH NAAAAH.

(sorry, I think I drank some acrylamide earlier)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

What's acylamide?

And you may appreciate this: http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

I use it as a component to make SDS-PAGE to run proteins through so I can beat them until I am satisfied!

And thanks for the share, that is really funny XD (I like the Settlers reference too. Get your nerd on kiddies!)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Well, now I knew as much as I did before...I guess that's what I get for not being a scientist. :p

[morgyne.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry! I erred on the side of caution because I assumed you were a big nerd too :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

So you can separate proteins based on their size if you run them through a matrix, in my case acrylamide. After it polymerizes (assembles) it forms this gel like goo. It is also a neurotoxin, so you can bake it into cakes and kill people and shit.

(SDS-PAGE: Sodium Diethyl Sulfate Polyacrylimide Gel)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Haha, nerd yes, scientist no. I have an art degree, I work in video games. :D

Yay for killing people with SCIENCE!

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Isn't it more like killing people with math?

XD

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Come on, dude, you should know better by now. You are not a unique snowflake. ;p

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Must...Resist...Straight...Line...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Actually, I am.

But I am not my fucking khakis.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

You wear them often enough. :p

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm a Levi's 501 buttonfly man.

Preferably with a raunchy tshirt, and a flannel buttondown over the top.

With hiking boots.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Thank ghod you only have one flannel... and it's not plaid. :D

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I need more flannel. :D

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Things can disappear from the laundromat.

I would like to maintain my loss-less status.

That is all I have to say on the matter.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Flannel decomposes to threadbare too quickly. Lightweight Polartec or chamois are the way to go.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Back in college my then-lady and I referred to my button-fly jeans as my 'easy-access' jeans. ;)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

TMI, dude.

(But me, too--in fact, "easy access" was/is a criterion for certain articles of clothing on both sides.)

(*MY* jeans and *MY* lady, but you knew that.)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

I still say front-clasp bras are best for that, but I am up against an entrenched opposition party on this point.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I find that having to reach around behind, slow down, and actually *think* about what I am doing results in a higher likelihood that the garment will be usable a second time.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I merely believe that they are unreliable in the wild beyond a certain volume.

They are, however, a perfectly acceptable option in other arenas. ;)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

That's a feature, not a bug. :D

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

*cough*

*cough*

*ahem*

That's exactly how he counters. :D

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

He is a doctor! :D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I thought about pointing out that a single clasp tends to be insufficient, given M.'s, um, ampleness? Amplitude? Yeah, amplitude.

But then I thought that would be tacky, so I didn't.

Besides, people might think I was bragging. :)

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

.... Wouldn't that be because you are bragging?

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. But I don't want people to *think* that. :)