You havent been following my lack of success with engineers

Post #208,661

5/26/05 9:32:26 AM

It's not me doing the rejecting- It's them!

I'm darn friendly. I smile, I make witty conversation, I laugh, I bat my eyelashes... I'm a real catch.

And as for you guys, well, I dont see any of you knocking on my door.

Post #208,675

by broomberg

5/26/05 10:26:21 AM

My arms aren't that long

And my wife would kill me.

Post #208,677

by bepatient

5/26/05 10:27:44 AM

Ditto the wife thing.

Sorry dear. I bet you are "da bomb"

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition}

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Post #208,681

by broomberg

5/26/05 10:44:05 AM

Whattaya mean bet

We've seen her and we've had extensive interaction with her projected
persona (and she's kept it up, so even if it is not her real one
she could probably maintain it in "real" life, which means the same
thing).

You should be able to rate right now.

I'd give her an 8.5. Smart, yet not obnoxious. Pretty, not stunning.
Decent body - dunno - I assume based on the limited pictures. Responsible,
professional, financially independent, ie: not a clinger or someone who
can be easily manipulated.

Kids can be either a plus or minus depending on the person doing the
rating - I don't think they should count against the number. She seems
to have loving interaction, which is a plus.

At what point does "da bomb" start? I figure around 7.6 , ie: better
than 3/4s of the choices. And since no matter how attractive some woman
are, intellectually or personality wise they suck, they fall under the 7.5
mark if you can't stand being around them for more than a week.

Post #208,682

by bepatient

5/26/05 10:55:16 AM

I don't do AC...I like the "sure thing" bets. Sue me :-)

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition}

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Post #208,698

by jbrabeck

5/26/05 12:35:59 PM

You're DC?

/ducks

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"

Post #208,789

by bionerd

5/27/05 8:06:45 AM

Hmmmm.....

There\ufffds something vaguely unsettling about being meticulously reduced to the parts of your sum. At least I got a passing score.

Post #208,793

by imric

5/27/05 8:23:32 AM

*chuckle* You got way more than a 'passing grade'.

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Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.

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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.

Post #208,904

by Ashton

5/28/05 4:59:50 AM

It's a digital thing; think 'IQ'

It's pretty hard to get away from the mercantile habit of assigning stupid fucking Numbers to every -thing and -one. Maybe it's the "when you learn to use a hammer.." syndrome or possibly.. by now, the spreadsheet has done permanent damage to the collective neuronal nexus (?)

[OT: ever look into any of the stuff one Carver Mead (Cal Tech) was doing, trying to synthesize neural networks? Just curious if such material ever gets into the field, actual-workers' territory -- or it's just too surreal..?]

But I think you'll find that most here don't Really 'mean it', y'know?
People who understand how "significant digits" (and their frequent misuse) relate to the precision or probability of some measurement - know better. It's the ones who really Believe that the numbers (never mind their 'units') Mean something re humans : watch out for Those.

But then - you knew that. Right?
(I sure hope that modrin psych or psyche repairfolk don't assign numbers to their charges. Tell me they don't! write stuff like "87.3% paranoid/delusional, 13.26% BPD, ___")

Yours for writing all dossiers in longhand, sans arithmetic - but enough adjectives.
(Ok.. maybe.. a few video clips of the client telling her story. Animatedly.)

PS, re your field - a friend is dealing with a family member who is skirting the territory of bipolar (a term it's difficult ever to use 'with Any precision', I gather from several long-winded essays). She found the book, Stop Walking on Eggshells. It is even in English. Enter: how best to test the pharmchem soups -VS- realizing how little is done ($$ spent) to study the cross-interactions of the many popular soups. Etc.

It is clear that she will be of vastly more importance in any outcome than - the (pridefully way-overbooked) #1 shrink. Fortunately she has also learned tact, the creative evasion of ego-induced testiness. 'Computer Science' is trivial (hell, it's ALL mere logic) compared with This Gig.

Why.. I'd bet it's 87.15% harder than say, designing say, some old Linux kernel?

:-\ufffd

Post #208,921

by bionerd

5/28/05 10:12:42 AM

I read what you wrote

and only understood about 1/3 of it. *Groan* Will have to respond back after I've showered and had my coffee and have the brain power to decipher.

Post #209,028

by inthane-chan

5/29/05 11:08:57 PM

Better get used to it.

That's how he ALWAYS speaks. He's like the anti-Box.

Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, aleph-null bottles of beer.
You take one down, you pass it around,
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall!

Post #209,031

by n3jja

5/29/05 11:17:45 PM

Re: Better get used to it.

Now there's a choice, eh? One who barely writes Engrish and another who's prose looks more like the path of a pinball going for the high score.

Post #209,034

by broomberg

5/29/05 11:37:41 PM

5/29/05 11:39:59 PM

Oops - double submit - read other

Edited by broomberg May 29, 2005, 11:39:59 PM EDT

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Post #209,035

by broomberg

5/29/05 11:38:06 PM

Remember, Ashton is usually juggling 3 or more concepts at once.

So it's like the pinball game that goes beserk, and puts several balls into play at once.

Post #209,058

by tuberculosis

5/30/05 10:48:09 AM

8/21/07 5:42:18 AM

Balls-A-Poppin was the first of the multi-ball machines IIRC

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush

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Post #209,067

by pwhysall

5/30/05 12:09:12 PM

The Batman machine was, imho, just about perfect.

The one that was released to coincide with Burton's film, that is.

Like this: [link|http://www.boomersamusements.com/batman_pinball_machine.htm|http://www.boomersam...nball_machine.htm]

Post #209,088

by broomberg

5/30/05 6:25:55 PM

My favorite was the Addam's Family

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