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Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Dtrain323i - 06-26-2012

Go see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

It is the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen and I love it.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - rumsfald - 06-27-2012

(06-26-2012, 11:13 PM)Dtrain323i link Wrote: Go see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

It is the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen and I love it.

What pisses me off is that most people will sit there and champion the living and Lincoln as a beacon of good. What most people refuse to believe is Lincoln's belief that undead assimilation was impossible as he believed people and vampires were social unequals..and he planned to ship vampires back to Transylvania.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Turtle - 06-27-2012

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9gag get the fuk out

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Didzo - 06-28-2012

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Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Squishy3 - 06-29-2012

(06-28-2012, 03:48 PM)Didzo link Wrote: [Image: 15Vqn.jpg]
Zangiefpug?

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Dr. Zaius - 06-29-2012

pugotaurhawk


also, i got a virus today. avast! didn't even go off. did some research and happened upon spybot - search and destroy... and it seems to have worked. anyone else use this before? or other legitimate anti/virus removal programs for that matter. not kaspersky, i already know about that.

i'm still pissed that avast failed to do its job and caused me about an hour of grief for my baby.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - StolenToast - 06-29-2012

(06-29-2012, 08:49 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote: pugotaurhawk


also, i got a virus today. avast! didn't even go off. did some research and happened upon spybot - search and destroy... and it seems to have worked. anyone else use this before? or other legitimate anti/virus removal programs for that matter. not kaspersky, i already know about that.

i'm still pissed that avast failed to do its job and caused me about an hour of grief for my baby.

spybot's good, also Superantispyware: the scammiest looking legitimate security software ever.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - A. Crow - 06-30-2012

I used spybot all the time last time I worked IT.  Which means it's probably been around long enough to be crap now. 

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - HeK - 06-30-2012

I don't normally post TF2 videos, but when I see the first real use of Source Filmmaker....

Source Filmmaker - Meet the Family

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - k0ala - 06-30-2012

Quote:- This was made with the old SFM leaked alongside the TF2 beta in 2007, not the official SFM -

The official one's going to be even cooler.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Didzo - 06-30-2012

I'm in the Sequoia National Park area for the next few days, so no computer and only highly limited phone internet access for me. I will be taking a bunch of photos though. I'll share if I get something worthwhile.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Evil Cheese - 07-03-2012

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Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Didzo - 07-05-2012

I have a dilemma.

My current summer plans are to move back to campus area and work on a team of students to design and test a nanoscale structure/device/machine out of biomolecules (DNA origami) for a competition held in the fall. The risk in this project are needing to secure funding from outside sources, having to pretty much figure out what to do and how to do it on our own, and relying on an all-student team (first time for any of us doing this --- we're all capable, but this is unknown territory) with just a grad student and a professor as mentors. The rewards are potentially making something totally new and cool on our own, having access to pretty much any lab equipment found anywhere, and being able to represent the university in a competition where teams from all over the world compete. I have already made living arrangements with the person who organized the team and am supposed to move back this weekend, so bailing now would be an inconvenience for the team and for the person I'd be living with considering that this was arranged a bit in advance.

Enter the new option: a family contact who works in a big-name biotech company said that there is a paid internship position available in the company. It's probably going to be pretty basic stuff in a manufacturing lab (checking product specifications, cutting tubes and parts to size, and so forth). The disadvantages to this are that it's nothing particularly exciting and will likely be grunt work. However, it's paid, I won't have to move anything anywhere, and I can make contacts in a well-established, recognizable company. There are already many people interested in the position, so I need to decide ASAP.

So, BRBU, what would you do if you were in my place?

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - LV15GAMER - 07-05-2012

(07-05-2012, 05:01 PM)Didzo link Wrote: I have a dilemma.

So, BRBU, what would you do if you were in my place?

The student project sounds flaky but fun. IMO you should go for the internship. It seems like exactly the kind of thing that all your classmates are striving for and they should understand just tell them that you need to seize an opportunity. That said, people will be people and there might be jealousy and butthurt. However, the internship seems like too big an opportunity to let pass. Unless you're sure the project will go somewhere and gets you recognition I'd go for the internship. After all, projects like those will probably just end up as a means to get what you've just been offered.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Dr. Zaius - 07-05-2012

paid internship?

paid internship.




Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - k0ala - 07-05-2012

When I was having a hard time in college, I had a family contact offer me a job in an oilfield near Cross Plains for summer cash. I took it, worked it, and went back the next summer.

I broke more shit, got in more trouble, and had more fun, than at any other time in my life.

Looking back from my career, choice in video game, and group of friends, I'd say I'm glad I took him up on it.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Didzo - 07-05-2012

(07-05-2012, 09:10 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote: paid internship?

paid internship.

It's minimum wage and I'm not hurting for cash, so it's a symbolic pay more than anything. I think I'll try for the internship though. The rational side of me is going "yeah, this is probably a better plan."

Edit:

So uh... Talking about this with the team leader / the person I was supposed to room with was very uncomfortable. I sensed multiple levels of offenses being taken.

:-\

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Dr. Zaius - 07-06-2012

(07-05-2012, 11:03 PM)Didzo link Wrote: [quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=2632.msg248972#msg248972 date=1341540601]
paid internship?

paid internship.

It's minimum wage and I'm not hurting for cash, so it's a symbolic pay more than anything. I think I'll try for the internship though. The rational side of me is going "yeah, this is probably a better plan."

Edit:

So uh... Talking about this with the team leader / the person I was supposed to room with was very uncomfortable. I sensed multiple levels of offenses being taken.

:-\
[/quote]

it'll happen, that's understandable, but the bottom line is you still need to look out for yourself and what will benefit you the most.

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - Saxxy - 07-07-2012

(07-06-2012, 03:08 AM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote: [quote author=Didzo link=topic=2632.msg248979#msg248979 date=1341547382]
[quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=2632.msg248972#msg248972 date=1341540601]
paid internship?

paid internship.

It's minimum wage and I'm not hurting for cash, so it's a symbolic pay more than anything. I think I'll try for the internship though. The rational side of me is going "yeah, this is probably a better plan."

Edit:

So uh... Talking about this with the team leader / the person I was supposed to room with was very uncomfortable. I sensed multiple levels of offenses being taken.

:-\
[/quote]

it'll happen, that's understandable, but the bottom line is you still need to look out for yourself and what will benefit you the most.
[/quote]

Undergrad competitions like iGEM and whatever you're in usually never work, because you're dealing with a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing (the undergrads), while being advised by people who sorta/kinda/don't really know what they're doing (the grad students), topped off by someone who doesn't know what they're doing and doesn't care (the faculty).

also you don't go to harvard or cambridge, so you automatically lose Sad

Re: New/Improved Longest Thread - StolenToast - 07-08-2012

(07-07-2012, 09:33 PM)Saxxy link Wrote: [quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=2632.msg248995#msg248995 date=1341562129]
[quote author=Didzo link=topic=2632.msg248979#msg248979 date=1341547382]
[quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=2632.msg248972#msg248972 date=1341540601]
paid internship?

paid internship.

It's minimum wage and I'm not hurting for cash, so it's a symbolic pay more than anything. I think I'll try for the internship though. The rational side of me is going "yeah, this is probably a better plan."

Edit:

So uh... Talking about this with the team leader / the person I was supposed to room with was very uncomfortable. I sensed multiple levels of offenses being taken.

:-\
[/quote]

it'll happen, that's understandable, but the bottom line is you still need to look out for yourself and what will benefit you the most.
[/quote]

Undergrad competitions like iGEM and whatever you're in usually never work, because you're dealing with a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing (the undergrads), while being advised by people who sorta/kinda/don't really know what they're doing (the grad students), topped off by someone who doesn't know what they're doing and doesn't care (the faculty).

also you don't go to harvard or cambridge, so you automatically lose Sad
[/quote]

Unfortunate, stupid, but true.  The internship will payoff in a very long run, it sounds like.