Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 08:50PM
Hell, it was a popular icebreaker on the ancien boards ...
Get up close and personal with excruciating details of your quotidien
existence!
How's your dirty laundry?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2007 09:44PM by tomierna.
Cloudscout
– May 10, 2011 09:33AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Absolutely. I still owe you one for shipping that Commodore stuff to me a few years ago.
Mokers
(Moderator)
– May 13, 2011 07:00AM
Formerly Remy Martin
are we getting some booze today sparby? do you have my cell number?
Cloudscout
– May 13, 2011 08:27AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Yes, let's try to get together tonight. I don't have your number, though. I'll send you a PM with mine.
ddt
– May 13, 2011 09:07AM
Email me when you decide on space-time coordinates?
ddt
Cloudscout
– May 13, 2011 09:10AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Sorry we weren't able to make it last night, ddt, we ended up having dinner with family in Napa.
ddt
– May 13, 2011 09:25AM
No worries and thanks for even considering it. It was more disturbing that few faculty and students were at my talk (there were two others at the same time). Tough to do it right when there's such a low energy in the room.
ddt
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Mokers
(Moderator)
– May 14, 2011 11:54AM
Formerly Remy Martin
It was great meeting Sparby yesterday.
Sumary:
Smart.
Funny.
Likes Old-fashioneds.
Randomly bumps into people he hasn't seen in 10 years.
johnny k
– May 14, 2011 01:29PM
Other than the turnout, how'd you do?
johnny k
– May 14, 2011 01:29PM
ddt, other than the turnout, how'd you do? Do you have a final paper?
Cloudscout
– May 14, 2011 04:50PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Yes, it was cool meeting Mokers. I can check another Sporker off my list now.
ddt
– May 14, 2011 06:23PM
Agh, sorry dudes, I didn't think of checking PMs here and I don't have it set to alert me w/ a real email.
Thanks, JK. The questions the judges asked seemed to indicate I hadn't made the point totally clear. What I was trying to do is discover affordances that'd encourage information sharing in adult, out-of-school people who do NOT want to social netwrok. And they kept asking, "Well, if you allowed people to set up groups of friends so they could chat... ." I did not win an award -- three out of the five projects in my track did.
Not sure I'm going to follow up on this but here:
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/programs/masters/projects/2011/everydayquest
Meh, it's done with. Now to figure out how to get to HIIT in Finland.
ddt
Jeff Cooper
– May 15, 2011 03:56PM
I'm on my way to SF early tomorrow morning, but it's for a stupidly short trip that will have me in the city for only 36 hours. If anyone happens to be in the area of Union Square on Tuesday around lunchtime, give me a shout; otherwise, I'll plan my next trip better.
Jeff Cooper
– May 17, 2011 07:39PM
On my way back to Indy after a short and strange trip. Sorry I couldn't meet up with anyone; next trip, perhaps.
John Willoughby
– May 17, 2011 09:14PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
What a short, strange trip it's been...
El Jeffe
– May 18, 2011 12:47AM
What a journey.
Hey now
El Jeffe
– May 18, 2011 04:28PM
What a journey.
a few hours to clean up one small bedroom has somehow become a bill/lawsuit for twice the value of the house. Mom to lose house. I LOVE the USA!
Cloudscout
– May 18, 2011 04:31PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Buh? How the hell did that escalate so far? Is she losing the house for sure or is there hope for fighting whatever it is? I hope it all works out.
I'm seriously worried that I'm going to be on the unpleasant side of layoffs in the next few days, myself.
El Jeffe
– May 18, 2011 04:41PM
What a journey.
I don't know. My parents never discussed their finances around us growing up. They never wanted to burden us with that kind of talk. Tonight she was so distraught.
I know the basic premise. I just can't for the life of me contemplate one person doing a handful of hours of work, and in six short years and 4 days, I find out she'll be signing some papers at the bank next week.
She just had a stroke and isn't even talking coherently compared to beforehand. This bites. sigh. Again, I wish I was the drinking type...
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 18, 2011 05:25PM
Um, I'm not following this story properly.
Your mother was paying someone to clean her house a few hours a week?
Said person injured themselves at your mother's house?
dharlow
– May 18, 2011 07:54PM
Ya I must have missed this too, what exactly went on? I want to make sure I protect myself (though I think my homeowners insurance has coverage for this now, but should double check).
Daniel
