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Re: dymt reloaded

Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:03 am

Michael Bay should watch Transformers: Prime, and take notes how to make a Transformers film.
 
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Re: dymt reloaded

Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:56 am

Personell issues at work piss me off. People bring them to me because I'm senior, but I'm also not a manager and have 0 actual authority. It's getting very frustrating. I have some VERY limited authority over a few things, but I can't write someone up or issue a warning or tell them any behavior not directly relating to a call isn't acceptable. I am NOT the big boss, don't ask me to do things only the big boss can do. I'm not even chain of command!
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Re: dymt reloaded

Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:01 pm

paulWTAMU wrote:
Personell issues at work piss me off. People bring them to me because I'm senior, but I'm also not a manager and have 0 actual authority. It's getting very frustrating. I have some VERY limited authority over a few things, but I can't write someone up or issue a warning or tell them any behavior not directly relating to a call isn't acceptable. I am NOT the big boss, don't ask me to do things only the big boss can do. I'm not even chain of command!

On the plus side, people want to bring this information to you, which usually means you look and act trustworthy.
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Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:06 pm

Yeah. But I have to talk with our boss and see about getting people clarified on chains of command and actual authority. I don't want people getting pissed because they think I'm not doing what I should or (in the case of my boss) they think I'm taking away from thier authority and competing with them for any power. My boss is pretty laid back but if I started chewing out coworkers without speaking to her first there'd be hell to pay (and rightly so).
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Re: dymt reloaded

Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:22 pm

paulWTAMU wrote:
Yeah. But I have to talk with our boss and see about getting people clarified on chains of command and actual authority. I don't want people getting pissed because they think I'm not doing what I should or (in the case of my boss) they think I'm taking away from thier authority and competing with them for any power. My boss is pretty laid back but if I started chewing out coworkers without speaking to her first there'd be hell to pay (and rightly so).

That's why there's always two chains of authority in any office situation. The formal pecking order and the behind-the-scenes moral authority. You've bubbled to the top of one of those without trying.
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Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:55 pm

Well, I have a meeting after lunch with her to float some ideas that may resolve some of it in a fairly workable fashion. We'll hope it goes well.

There's only 7 of us, how much behind the scenes can there be? :lol:
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Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:58 pm

The true source of quantum mechanics:

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Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:24 am

Sleep Number beds.

Hellaciously over-priced, yet it's the first time I've woken up without back pain since the waterbed went bye-bye (wife was unable to sleep on the bubble).
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Re: dymt reloaded

Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:34 pm

paulWTAMU wrote:
hadn't realized how much my nightcaps were helping me sleep till I had to quit them :? Not a concern about alcohol, just a calorie thing (my weight loss stalled and that seemed a good few hundred calories to ax).

3-4 oz of whiskey or rum or tequila on the rocks every night was apparently really helping me sleep easier :X I know nightcaps in theory don't really do much for your sleep but jeez, I haven't gotten more than 5-6 hours, and it comes hard. This is 10 days in.

I hadn't been sleeping more than 4-5 hours a night for about 3 weeks. As a skinny guy (140 pounds) take this with a grain of salt, but I didn't start sleeping well until I started getting more exercise. Also, join fight club.
 
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Re: dymt reloaded

Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:19 pm

I'm lifting 3x week (dumbbells and kettlebells) and walking at least 2.25 miles/day 6 days a week (sometimes it's a hike in Palo Duro Canyon, sometimes it's just laps around a city park--I'm keeping it at 15.5 minutes/mile so I'm not running but I'm not lagging either on those). It's helped jump start my weight loss again though, which is nice. See if I can get this next 50 off.

I've also cut soda out after work--no caffine after 5pm :(
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Re: dymt reloaded

Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:00 pm

interestingly every time I seem to check back here two things are the same:

1) were talking about fitness
2) it still exists!
 
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:51 am

Holy crap....page 700!
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:51 am

imi wrote:
1) were talking about fitness

And alcohol! :D
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:47 am

well thats a given!
 
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:16 pm

sweet, sweet fermented malted barley.
 
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:40 pm

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MrBojangles wrote:
http://columbus.craigslist.org/ele/2984822730.html ......>.>

Says it was flagged for removal. :(
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Re: dymt reloaded

Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:26 pm

Figured that would happen this was the add post in electronics "I have a gently used pair of scissors with light rust on the blades that can easily
Be taken care of with some WD-40. There is a couple of scratches on the handles and the white part is a little dirty. Other than that they work great sometimes and the blades are too dull to cut anything so safety won't be in issue in regards to children. I had a feeling that my uncle used them to trim his pubic area so for your convenience, I thoroughly disinfected them. Asking $365 or trade for an iPhone 4 or 4s 64 gb. Please no low ball offers and only serious buyers. Thank you. "

along with a few pics of said scissors for sale.
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Re: dymt reloaded

Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:31 pm

confused?
 
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Tue May 01, 2012 9:09 am

Aside from my pre-workout, Im don't have caffeine or soda. I lift heavy (deads, squats, bench with some accessory work mixed in) and those nights I sleep the best. Nothing feels better than sore hands and muscles with a full belly and a soft bed. I'm sleepy all of a sudden :cry:
 
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Re: dymt reloaded

Tue May 01, 2012 9:26 am

steelcity_ballin wrote:
Aside from my pre-workout, Im don't have caffeine or soda. I lift heavy (deads, squats, bench with some accessory work mixed in) and those nights I sleep the best. Nothing feels better than sore hands and muscles with a full belly and a soft bed. I'm sleepy all of a sudden :cry:


Those lifts work more of the body than any other lifts. It's no surprise they tire people out the most.
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Re: dymt reloaded

Tue May 01, 2012 9:31 am

Dizik wrote:
Holy crap....page 700!


And I thought the FT02 over at the [H] thread was epic.

Good thing we know how to diversify! :D
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Tue May 01, 2012 4:59 pm

http://bigthink.com/ideas/563-pop-by-la ... g?page=all

An interesting pair of charts here. Human population by latitude and by longitude. I'll be puzzling over these for a while.
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Tue May 01, 2012 5:41 pm

It isn't really all that puzzling. A much larger percentage of the Southern Hemisphere is covered by ocean, and the largest continent located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has no permanent population.
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just brew it! wrote:
It isn't really all that puzzling. A much larger percentage of the Southern Hemisphere is covered by ocean, and the largest continent located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has no permanent population.

Which is why I find the longitude one interesting.
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Re: dymt reloaded

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just brew it! wrote:
It isn't really all that puzzling. A much larger percentage of the Southern Hemisphere is covered by ocean, and the largest continent located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has no permanent population.

Which is why I find the longitude one interesting.

India and China are no surprise. I guess the spike at about 30E is moderately surprising...
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just brew it! wrote:
Captain Ned wrote:
just brew it! wrote:
It isn't really all that puzzling. A much larger percentage of the Southern Hemisphere is covered by ocean, and the largest continent located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has no permanent population.

Which is why I find the longitude one interesting.

India and China are no surprise. I guess the spike at about 30E is moderately surprising...


The text of the article wrote:
The largest spike of the Euro-African continent again seems to correspond to Cairo. And to Moscow, and Johannesburg. Sort of.
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Re: dymt reloaded

Wed May 02, 2012 5:35 pm

Who stole my energy and can I have it back please? Feeling like hell. Only got 1/5 of my workout done before I basically quit working--I finished the whole thing Monday but today I just...bleeech. And everything in my body's throbbing. Whatever the hell's going on, I don't like it.
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