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by lfvoy
Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:06 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Happy Birthday!
Replies: 36
Views: 40152

Re: Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Weeble!
by lfvoy
Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Birfday Extreme
Replies: 60
Views: 11985

Re: Birfday Extreme

Thank you so much! This one makes nineteen times two. I still admit to my age, but I'm getting to the point where I look askance at the calendar...particularly when I realize that there are adults, having children now, who cannot remember when there was only one Enterprise and its call letters were ...
by lfvoy
Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Happy News thread
Replies: 2825
Views: 254937

Re: The Happy News thread

Kotik wrote:Carnival is great. Wolfi got laid. First sex in the last 8 years. Totally worth it


I'm not going to explain why, but this update made me smile because it reminded me that I'm not abnormal.

*skulks quietly out of room now*
by lfvoy
Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:49 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Sad announcement.
Replies: 17
Views: 19712

Re: Sad announcement.

Requiem Aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetuae luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen
by lfvoy
Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:25 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Happy News thread
Replies: 2825
Views: 254937

Re: The Happy News thread

My cousin took home a bronze medal (500m speed skating) and a GOLD medal (777m) at the Special Olympics World Games!
by lfvoy
Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:14 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 6826
Views: 696432

Re: Randomness

Is this something new? I certainly don't see any sign that the many part-timers at my college are being counted in that way now -- if we want insurance, we have to pay for the entire cost of it. Small group is < 50 employees in most states (<100 in a few). And I'm talking about whether or not an em...
by lfvoy
Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:40 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 6826
Views: 696432

Re: Randomness

Anyone who takes what the ratings agencies says on faith after how they did before the crash is insane. It's funny I ran across this post today, Alelou , because we had a fairly interesting conversation at work today about the ratings agencies. It seems that (at least where I work) at least one of ...
by lfvoy
Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:10 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Hunger Games
Replies: 31
Views: 19307

Re: The Hunger Games

I'm still personally getting over the idea that the next book needs two movies to tell its tale.

...really? Where I come from, editing is considered a good thing, and goodness knows Collins edited the holy crap out of the books before submitting them for publication. :duh:
by lfvoy
Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:51 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 6826
Views: 696432

Re: Randomness

Agreed. It took me long enough, growing up, to learn how to write a dollar sign. That weird sort-of-kind-of-but-not-really-an-E thing that goes in front of Euros? Really just looks like a spiderweb to me...
by lfvoy
Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Have you ever done something really stupid?
Replies: 79
Views: 15649

Re: Have you ever done something really stupid?

Okay, I have got to quit with the chemical roulette. A few weeks back I ended up mixing a large quantity of alcohol with painkillers, muscle relaxants and low blood sugar (I didn't eat for 12 hours). Fortunately, I was in the doctor's office and already on the table when I passed out. It was, I prom...
by lfvoy
Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:19 pm
Forum: Drabble Fanfiction
Topic: Alphabet Drabble Game
Replies: 30
Views: 17690

Re: Alphabet Drabble Game

I'll bite, though I felt like it was probably a good idea to invent an OC here instead of picking on someone else as the main character. Subsequent writers: feel free to switch names around from the below. ************************ She told herself it was just because she was bored , but the truth wa...
by lfvoy
Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:08 pm
Forum: Conventions
Topic: London 2012 Convention
Replies: 19
Views: 13139

Re: London 2012 Convention

I'm intrigued by your reference to a budget. I've never been to any of these conferences, but I suppose that I've always assumed that you pay your ten quid or whatever at the door and then wander around in the trekkie equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet, queuing up to see whatever part of the e...
by lfvoy
Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:06 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: education systems
Replies: 37
Views: 3793

Re: education systems

Needless to say I have watched college tuition rise at twice the rate of inflation for better than 30 years, and i do not understand why. That's the main reason I haven't gone back to finish my bachelor's degree. I don't see the point of going $30k+ into debt to raise my salary a few thousand dolla...
by lfvoy
Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: education systems
Replies: 37
Views: 3793

Re: education systems

11.000 a year :shock: I've heard some horror stories about 'working poor' in the States, but I always thought they were exaggerated :o The sad thing, Kotik, is that she was a teacher. Though, to be fair, part of the reason I disqualified was because she'd used the life insurance money to pay off th...
by lfvoy
Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: education systems
Replies: 37
Views: 3793

Re: education systems

It came up in one of the colleges where I teach because someone had actually applied for a position using one of these fake degrees. They also offer fake transcripts -- that's one thing you always have to get sent to a college when they hire you. The person screening the applicant did a little rese...

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