Walsingham

To quote a Canadian I know: Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics. Veterans talk toilet paper.

Feeling low. Tea. Boiled up a thick-walled stockpot with water. Roughly two litres. Added three good quality black tea bags. Cinnamon, cardamom pods, cloves, cracked black pepper, crushed fresh ginger, all to a good quantity. Seethed for perhaps twenty minutes. After this time, added a tablespoon of brown sugar and another of molasses. Boiled again. You could at this point add milk, but I can't be bothered. Drank thick and black.

Sneezed so hard I hurt my neck. Just wrapped up warm, eating fresh root ginger and drinking tea. Playing Baldur's Gate 1. Listening to an audiobook of War of the Worlds.

Not sure where the humour is on this one.

Weird thought: when was the last time we discussed avatar arse size? Think this might indicate we're a bit over-concerned with boobs (in game).

This makes me happy. But it has to happen right from the start of the game. Maximum hardcore difficulty, and NO tutorials or hand holding or assistance in game. Look here, old man. If you want to have a harder experience just take shrooms or something.

I am basically dangling over losing a week or so of my life, thanks to you. You ape-bastard.

I just had the almost overpowering urge to play Baldur's Gate. It all came flooding back. EDIT: DAAAAAAAAAAMN YOUUUUUU!

If someone breaks wind loudly and repeatedly during a concert performance I can ignore its impact on my senses. But I shouldn't have to. The offender should be hurled into the street and run down by a passing horse.

I think it's simplistic to assert that kids toys are the whole problem. In my experience you get far more problems at management level. Male engineers are _obsessed_ with following procedure, and extremely hierarchical. Whereas in my experience women, even female engineers are more results and people focussed. The consequence is that they can never agree on priorities. The men appear foot dragging and nitpicking. the women appear soft and impatient.

Pantsless Eternity.

It seems to me that the factors governing helmet design are: Functional Materials available, govern the thickness and rigidity of the armour Weapons govern the style of the threat and whether a helmet is designed to stop the threat, or some subset of the threat (e.g. a knight's helm, vs a modern tankist's headgear) The industrial/artisan processes needed to shape the materials. So the culture may have access to iron, but it can't shape it easily, so it makes helmets out of bronze An emphasis on the 'warrior' culture. i.e. the Zulu had plenty of iron and leather, but refused protective headgear Social 'Spare' weight delivered by materials or design gives rise to additional ornamentation This can be offset by sedentary wear, either official, or by stirruped cavalry Materials used are polishable metals like gold or brass, and feathers or horsehair. ~~ EDIT What I mean by this is that given equivalent social structures and materials yu will get convergent designs of helmet. hence 'real world' designs make a lot of sense. However, if you introduced materials which are lighter, stronger, or easier to work than real materials then designs may alter. A weak, easily worked materials would produce corrugated designs of great strength. A heavy difficult to work, but cheap material might produce common but very ugly and cumbersome designs Similarly, if you change the threat then you change the armour. In PE we have magic. So some designs may be oriented to protect chiefly against magic. You might have something like ringmail, made of interlocking sigils!

I just had the almost overpowering urge to play Baldur's Gate. It all came flooding back.

Well, a bank is ultimately just numbers. I get worried by IT jobs being advertised and it's pretty obvious that they're being simplistic about the requirement, and inevitably going to reject solid applicants. All this discussion has got me wondering to what extent unemployment (in the first world) is due to HR practices being so incredibly weak. ...Probably there's a gap in the market for an agency which could recognise good candidates for persistently re-occurring roles, and then upskill good people into those requirements. Not actually doing much upskilling, just doing enough to tick the boxes.

Now that had everything.

I think it's really a failure to run with his 'new' image. If you picture him wearing viking furs and brandishing a bar stool, he seem oddly plausible as mayor. He could also have a silver-embossed cow-horn crack pipe. It's just the suits which are letting him down.

I disagree. That's like saying "i don't mind that this incontinent vagrant crapped on my coffee table, because at least I got to give the living room a good clean."

What baffles me is teh baseline logic of having a department of (typically) very poorly educated and paid mediocrities selecting (typically) selecting much better educated and... Hang on. It's obvious really. It's the slimy ****ers getting their revenge! I feel much better, actually. Knowing that.

You son of a bitch. I'm thirsty now, and it's not even 10 a.m.

I've gotten that several times, to the point that it's now obvious to everybody that I'm batting in a league beneath my own, just because nobody else was willing to take the risk. 99 % of the time, I don't even get interviewed, these days. Often just hear precisely that from the back channels... Personally consider it to be an excuse for middle management, when they feel that you might rocket past them, if they hire you. I've gotten a lot of tall poppy syndrome at workplaces, too. Current place is probably the first one where it's not an issue, due to the flat organisation! Yes, but you see I've spent years perfecting my mindless sycophantic henchman-ism. It takes special genius for a middle manager to be such a sparkling mediocrity to be afraid of being able to effortlessly glom off my delivery.

Either it will or I will on this pharmacy of meds before me. Give each of the individual pills individual names.

I watched 'Castle' at the weekend. For some reason Castle reminded me of Raithe. Honestly can't say why.

Hang in there, Cal. If the system is trying to chew you up, make sure it chokes.

Nice post, Orogun. What's the background on those figures. Just your experience?

Mate, to echo my esteemed colleague: - Go outside - Find a field - Feed sugar to a horse or fling a rock at a squirrel - Realise that every passing moment is like a lover's breath - Then realise that, inferentially, completing fedex quests while being forced to search every single ****ing random container to find overpowered loot is like having your own breath slowly forced out of you by a moose farting in your ear - Then realise that being fedexed around the place with random loot could only be made worse by being forced to interact with shallow meaningless characters - Then realise that the only thing WORSE THAN THAT is Neverwinter Nights 1.