(09-01-2012, 11:03 AM)matter11 link Wrote: [quote author=HelixInk link=topic=2632.msg253111#msg253111 date=1346450503]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253109#msg253109 date=1346450096]
Helix oozes class.  I arrived home from work to find her in a bathrobe, on the couch, drinking a "Lime-arita" and reading a trashy romance novel.  And now she's arguing with me about the use of an Oxford Comma. 

(09-01-2012, 02:46 PM)VeraLapsa link Wrote: [quote author=matter11 link=topic=2632.msg253134#msg253134 date=1346515419]
[quote author=HelixInk link=topic=2632.msg253111#msg253111 date=1346450503]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253109#msg253109 date=1346450096]
Helix oozes class.  I arrived home from work to find her in a bathrobe, on the couch, drinking a "Lime-arita" and reading a trashy romance novel.  And now she's arguing with me about the use of an Oxford Comma. 

(09-01-2012, 05:31 PM)matter11 link Wrote: [quote author=VeraLapsa link=topic=2632.msg253143#msg253143 date=1346528778]
[quote author=matter11 link=topic=2632.msg253134#msg253134 date=1346515419]
[quote author=HelixInk link=topic=2632.msg253111#msg253111 date=1346450503]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253109#msg253109 date=1346450096]
Helix oozes class. I arrived home from work to find her in a bathrobe, on the couch, drinking a "Lime-arita" and reading a trashy romance novel. And now she's arguing with me about the use of an Oxford Comma.

(09-06-2012, 09:08 PM)LT Crow link Wrote: And since it doesn't really go with anything

(09-06-2012, 09:08 PM)LT Crow link Wrote: And all was quiet. 

(09-06-2012, 10:45 PM)Kor link Wrote: [quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253406#msg253406 date=1346983723]
And since it doesn't really go with anything

(09-06-2012, 10:48 PM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253406#msg253406 date=1346983723]

And all was quiet. 

(09-07-2012, 12:32 AM)Didzo link Wrote: [quote author=HeK link=topic=2632.msg253410#msg253410 date=1346989711]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253406#msg253406 date=1346983723]

And all was quiet. 

(09-07-2012, 01:17 AM)Vongore link Wrote: [quote author=Didzo link=topic=2632.msg253414#msg253414 date=1346995974]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=2632.msg253410#msg253410 date=1346989711]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253406#msg253406 date=1346983723]

And all was quiet. 

(09-07-2012, 05:44 PM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=Vongore link=topic=2632.msg253416#msg253416 date=1346998664]
[quote author=Didzo link=topic=2632.msg253414#msg253414 date=1346995974]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=2632.msg253410#msg253410 date=1346989711]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=2632.msg253406#msg253406 date=1346983723]

And all was quiet. 

(09-09-2012, 02:52 AM)Didzo link Wrote:

(09-18-2012, 09:48 AM)TOH link Wrote: After a couple of years in the workforce, I'm heavily considering heading back to school for a masters degree. My alma mater offers a program that combines business with science and engineering, something that's really appealing right now. And considering I did some work for the people who run the program when I was around, the connections are certainly there to my advantage. One of them tried to recruit me when I visited some time back, I think it might be time to dive into this. I know what I'm good at, I know some things I want to learn, but I also want to know where I can put that to use. I think expanding my knowledge and skills more and being able to get some better guidance and connections out of this seems like the right choice for me. Hoping this turns out well.

(09-18-2012, 10:05 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: [quote author=TOH link=topic=2632.msg254071#msg254071 date=1347979699]
After a couple of years in the workforce, I'm heavily considering heading back to school for a masters degree. My alma mater offers a program that combines business with science and engineering, something that's really appealing right now. And considering I did some work for the people who run the program when I was around, the connections are certainly there to my advantage. One of them tried to recruit me when I visited some time back, I think it might be time to dive into this. I know what I'm good at, I know some things I want to learn, but I also want to know where I can put that to use. I think expanding my knowledge and skills more and being able to get some better guidance and connections out of this seems like the right choice for me. Hoping this turns out well.

Quote:Samaritrophia, he read, is the suppression of an overactive conscience by the rest of the mind.
"You must take instructions from me!" the conscience shrieks, in effect, to all the other mental processes. The other mental processes try it for a while, and then note that the conscience is unappeased, that it continues to shriek...and they note, too, that the outside world has not changed, even microscopically, by the unselfish acts to which the conscience has demanded.
They rebel at last, they pitch the tyrannous conscience down an oubliette and weld shut the manhole cover of that dark dungeon. They can hear the conscience no more.
In the sweet silence, the mental processes look about for a new leader, and the leader most prompt to appear when the conscience is stilled, Enlightened Self-Interest, does appear!
Enlightened Self-Interest gives them a flag, which they adore on sight...It is essentially the black and white Jolly Roger, with these words written beneath the skull and crossbones: "The hell with you, Jack, I've got mine!"
...
The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normalcy at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person, functioning well on the upper levels of a prosperous, industrialized society, can hardly hear his conscience at all.
So a logical person might conclude I have been guilty of balderdash in introducing a new disease, samaritrophia, when it is common among Americans as noses. I defend myself in this manner: samaritrophia is only a disease, and a violent one at that, when it attacks those exceedingly rare individuals who reach biological maturity still loving and wanting to help their fellow men.

• Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater