Re: More Meetups

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anyone in the NY area who wants to meet up for drinks election night and not talk about it, let's do that, too.

I read this at first as "let's do this and not talk about it," and I had this image of the unfogged hivemind firing neurons promptly at 6:30 pm and 20-30 people arriving, bemused, at the same bar.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 12:45 PM
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So far, Dr B, Megan and I will be in attendance. If we have to drink all by ourselves, we will raise our glasses to Unfoggedarians in absentia. And come up with really good rumours about Ted Haggard and [fill in your name here].


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 12:46 PM
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I could maybe go, as long as we're somewhere with a tv so I can check the returns. And someone brings a laptop.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 12:49 PM
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You're missing the point.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 12:50 PM
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To the NYC meetup, not the LA one, if that had not been clear.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 12:50 PM
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I'll have my Sidekick. We can check internet returns on that and I can give my number out for people to send me text messages with election results and lascivious come-ons. And as we get drunker, we can send them drunken text messages in response. Everybody wins.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 1:11 PM
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Becks is the geniuse!


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 1:31 PM
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LA! I'm really excited to meet more of you, so that after, I can come back home and insult you in public. It will be great.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:09 PM
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when can we have a d.c. meet up? the public demands it!


Posted by: catherine | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:31 PM
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9 -- what are you talking about? Don't you guys have like an ongoing drop-in meetup down there?


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:33 PM
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(Maybe I mean "an on-going drop-in meet-up".)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:34 PM
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Ok, as long as Beckse brings the Sidekick, and as long as we pick a place that is child-friendly...


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:36 PM
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Dude, I so want to fly out to LA for this meetup. Dr. B, Domineditrix, and Megan? Teh awesome.

Unfortunately, I have to take the MPRE (ethics portion of the bar exam) this Saturday.


Posted by: m. leblanc | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:40 PM
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Child friendly? Eh?


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:43 PM
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14: after my behavior last time, we need someplace that will accommodate childishness.

I am pro-a bar with a TV to watch the returns, 'cause after all, misery loves company.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:46 PM
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Well, in case the Clown child needs to come this time, I don't want to have to bite anyone.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:46 PM
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I am pro-a bar with a TV to watch the returns

I thought this said "reruns", and I thought, yes, that's what we'll probably be watching.


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:50 PM
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13: The advice I got on the MPRE was to look at every question and think WWJD? The non-denominational version of that was "Would you do it with your mother in the room?" With that, you don't even need to have studied. (Oh, some of the judicial questions are trickyish, but it's not like you need to do well, just pass.)

14: Last meetup, Clown tried to bring his daughter in to say hi, and was cruelly rebuffed by the kid-hating staff of the Gingerman.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:56 PM
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18 - The advice I got for the MPRE, which I didn't take, was to always choose the second-most ethical choice.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 2:59 PM
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The problem with using WWJD is that he kept breaking the law - y'know, committing battery on those money changers, practicing medicine without a licence, making wine in excess of the amount allowable per household per year... and probably over-fishing and baking without a health permit.


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 3:42 PM
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And how did the LA Meet-Up thread get high-jacked so quickly by those New Yorkers??? C'mon, people, get your own thread. Sheesh.


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 3:44 PM
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13: LeBlanc, we're meeting on *Sunday*. Take the stupid exam, then get on a plane Sunday morning. I'll pick you up at the airport! And we can get drunk! And you can spend the night, or a couple nights, here chez Brady!


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 3:52 PM
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10: we do, sort of. but believe me, it gets old. we need some fresh unfogged blood up in here.


Posted by: catherine | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 3:53 PM
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I'll be in DC for Thanksgiving, but I may not have time for a meetup (lotsa family stuff to do). I'll be back in December and January, though.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 3:57 PM
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I keep on thinking work is going to make me have to come down to DC (it's happened reasonably often in the past) but there's nothing on the horizon. When it does, consider yourselves all met. (Or remet, as applicable.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 3:57 PM
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My trip to DC that I mentioned someplace has gone out the window. I hate you all and your accessability to each other.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 4:01 PM
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But Chopper, you have *me*.

Well, once in a while.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 4:03 PM
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26: Drat. I was actually thinking that that might be a good enough reason to get myself to DC somehow, considering the unlikelyness that I'll ever get out to Minnesota.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 4:08 PM
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Fear not, catherine! A DC meetup is tenatively scheduled for the end of December, to coincide with Alameida's trip to the states, Teo's visit, and the APA philosopher convergence.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 5:56 PM
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Just a reminder that there will be a Portland meetup around Dec. 15, consisting at the moment of Jesus and I.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 6:02 PM
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My visit in December will not coincide with the APA; I'm not sure when exactly it'll be, but definitely before Christmas.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 6:02 PM
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The Boston meetup went well. arthegall, mrh and I all agreed that we felt vaguely stalkerish, cause we talked a bit about the rest of y'all.

I totally want to go to the DC meetup. I miss D.C. Are there free floors available at chez Bloje?


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 8:08 PM
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I miss D.C.

They'll give you hell for this, but I couldn't agree more.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 8:17 PM
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I don't know how you all can think about NOT watching the election returns. I'll be glued to my monitor, then my radio, then my TV, with 5 or 10 minutes of angsty transition in between each move because something might happen while I'm walking the 20 feet to my car/house. Where will you all find the restraint to not be lunging at the nearest media source?


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 8:31 PM
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They won't.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 8:52 PM
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32 -- "agreed that we felt vaguely stalkerish" s/b "ditched Brock".


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:01 PM
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I would go to DC except I couldn't afford it.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:21 PM
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You could afford to come down to LA.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:44 PM
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I've met you and Megan before. I demand greater than 1/3 original content.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:50 PM
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Speaking of meetups, I met Chris the erstwhile lurker tonight. Nice, nice guy.


Posted by: dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:56 PM
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I demand greater than 1/3 original content.

But DE is YOUR MOM.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:57 PM
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Chris: Not as bald as he looks.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 9:57 PM
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By the way, since you're up and commenting...what's a haX0r? It's been driving me nuts.


Posted by: dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:02 PM
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41: You could drive down to LA too, Mr. Ogged.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:03 PM
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Haxor. It was Mr. Smasher's decision to name the groups that way.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:05 PM
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You could drive down to LA too, Mr. Ogged.

You have me confused with a younger man.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:05 PM
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Oh. You kids and your crazy lingo.


Posted by: dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:07 PM
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Chris isn't bald at all.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:07 PM
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I will be at a gathering with three (3) televisions for election-night, and my texts, since they will originate in New York, will travel rapidly. I volunteer to do this if it's actually needed.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:12 PM
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46: You know, you used to be pretty.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:17 PM
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Cute, even.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 2-06 10:24 PM
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I demand greater than 1/3 original content.

I could come! I know you've all been dying to meet me!

Admit it or I'll cry.

Forever.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 12:49 AM
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(Cue "Christmastime Is Here")


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 12:53 AM
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Dying!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 12:58 AM
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29: w00t! who else would come to that?


Posted by: catherine | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:46 AM
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28: Well, let me talk to the missus. We originally thought we would go to her high school friend's wedding, but decided we couldn't afford the $1200 or so for two plane tickets and 3 nights of hotels, plus gift, restaurants, etc. I could maybe swing a solo trip if I can score a spot on a floor and pick up a cheap ticket. But then there's no reason to tie myself down to the one date.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:57 AM
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29: Date?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:58 AM
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Yeah, since I botched my last DC trip unfogged-wise I'm looking for a make-up quiz. When's this tentative date? I wish we'd had this thread before I bought my ticket to go to LA between Dec. 21-28.

Speaking of which, LA people and nearby California residents (I'm looking at you, w-lfs-n), I'm going to be in LA Dec. 21-28.


Posted by: m. leblanc | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 9:06 AM
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who else would come to that?

I'd probably drive up for that.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 9:09 AM
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M leB - Then we'll have to have a Solstice meet-up. Perhaps we can go around singing carols in a peculiarly Unfogged sort of way...


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 12:28 PM
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Scott Erik Kaufman, glad you'll join us on Sunday. I'm all excited to meet everyone.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 12:30 PM
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51 is a follow up to 42, and not to 50, right? Right?

And thank you Ben for saying what so needed to be said.


Posted by: Chris | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 1:18 PM
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Chris, I submit that you aren't allowed to be touchy about being the only non-bald person on earth who nevertheless shaves his head for no publically obvious reason.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 1:44 PM
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He's Aryan Nation.


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 1:47 PM
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no publically obvious reason

It assures potential partners that he's free of lice.

I'd never seen that spelling of publicly before. OED returns the following examples:
"Individuals leaping on to the stages of Danish sex clubs and publically copulating."
"The publically valued institution of marriage."
"It was sometimes hard for parents to accept publically that their children had mental or physical difficulties."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 1:52 PM
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I'd never seen that spelling of publicly before

You must not have been paying very close attention. Even the hoohole returns dozens of instances of its use on this very blog. I myself used it in a comment very recently.


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 1:58 PM
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very very very. Verily I say unto you...


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 1:59 PM
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He's Aryan Nation.

This is probably true, or you have this stuff on the brain. On that note, have you considered casting the blonde Unfogged children in your movie?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:04 PM
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What the heck is the link in 65? And doubly what the heck is this?


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:05 PM
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Hope that not an indiscretion error. If it is it's Apo's fault. I like the bunny gif!


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:07 PM
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(a) w-lfs-n has kindly (and somewhat illegally) made the services of the Oxford English Dictionary available for public querying.
(b) w-lfs-n has created found poetry from a random intermixture of comments found on the site.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:08 PM
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On that note, have you considered casting the blonde Unfogged children in your movie?

This is really the only way to go, I figure.


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:15 PM
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Clicking on figures innocently named b.jpg while you are at work: not such a good idea.


Posted by: gg | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:34 PM
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73- so of course I had to do it after reading this... not a good idea at all. Ben, you should really warn people about stuff that's NSFW.


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:49 PM
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Yeah, no kidding. And it isn't even B.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 2:52 PM
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Brock:

w-lfs-ncomments.txt was used as data for this adventure in markov chain–related bizarrerie. It's simply a text file of all the comments I'd made up to whenever it was that file was made.

As to warning people about what's NSFW: you browse directory listings, you get what's coming to you.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 3:39 PM
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That is, this adventure.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 3:39 PM
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As to warning people about what's NSFW: you browse directory listings, you get what's coming to you.

Of course--I was just joking. Is that really B?


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 3:41 PM
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It's really her.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 3:45 PM
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When she was younger, and had perkier breasts.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 3:58 PM
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I'll try to come, but would need a ride up from Irvine. If anyone's headed up there from down here, drop me a line. I'll even pay for all the gas. (Yes, I get free gasoline but have no working vehicle. This is the kind of world I live in. Someday you too could be a graduate student!)


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 3:59 PM
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You get free gas?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 4:04 PM
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Only in the poli-sci department.


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 4:25 PM
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82: Yep. O what a lucky bastard I would be, if I owned a working vehicle!


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 5:47 PM
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So you live in southern California without a car? How's that working out for you?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:28 PM
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Not very well.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:39 PM
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Man, that sucks.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:51 PM
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Yes—but the act of linking to, funny!


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:58 PM
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Er, "linking to it." Foiled again!


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:59 PM
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Oh, absolutely. Well played.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 6:59 PM
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Whew. Didn't anybody to mistake this for a pity party.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:05 PM
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How is your back? Did they catch the guy?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:09 PM
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That post is dated from May, so I'm assuming he's fine.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:17 PM
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Never caught the guy, and I'm down to about two hours of rehab daily. I'm in the best worst shape—worst best shape?—of my life.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:32 PM
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Holy shit, you're still doing rehab? Sorry to hear it, Scott.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:39 PM
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Back injuries suck. One of my friends got his Iraq tour cut short by a back injury. Thrown from a fuel truck at like 50 miles an hour. He's 31, barely older than I am, and his back is fucked. He's going to have to be careful with his back for the rest of his life.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:45 PM
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On a related note, don't jump off bridges (even if everyone else is doing it).


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 7:50 PM
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Back injuries, they're the worst.

I mean, really people, take care of your backs.

Unless you want to go the gym, sit on a yoga ball and lift embarrassingly light weights while all the bullies take turns kicking sand in your face.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:08 PM
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Scott - Does The Pit still exist for grad students in the English department? Or did they finally realise that killing off the teaching staff by depressing them and depriving them of sunlight was cruel and unusual?


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:11 PM
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The Pit still exists, only now it's in the bowels of Krieger instead of Humanities Hall—which makes absolutely no difference to the poor, sunlight-deprived saps who cower in it.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:22 PM
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Why do you care about the bullies, SEK? You have a hot wife.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:34 PM
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But I'd like to keep her. She's sees them treating me like that and BAM! she'll shack up with the first C14th scholar she sees.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:39 PM
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I bet if she sees you writing things like "She's sees" she'll start having her doubts, too.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 8:46 PM
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Nah. None of those folks she studies believed in regularized spelling or grammar either. It's totally the sand.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 9:13 PM
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Scott, you totally have to come. I'd give you a ride, but it's something like three hours from me to your place, which is a wee bit much. Rent a car?

That said, I'll have the car back tomorrow, so I'm back on for giving Megan a ride, at least.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 10:09 PM
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Also, that pic is so not me. One, I eat; two, I don't have fake boobs; three, I would *never* put that stupid bow in my hair; and four, I haven't had that vapid an expression since I was an infant, if I ever did then.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 3-06 10:12 PM
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Using the bus here in LA isn't that bad, although the busses are equipped with monitors that blare Chuck Norris commercials at riders. This week I rented a car, and witnessed some stupid unsignalling mofo swerve itself into the median and generate lots of smoke if not fire (I kept going). Next week I'm back on the bus, napping and reading. Next week sounds lots more peaceful..

I may see y'all at the French Market. Am right up the street. I don't think they serve drinks other than beer, but you can smoke.


Posted by: goofyfoot | Link to this comment | 11- 4-06 12:23 AM
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Go for it. Smoking good! Yay smoking!

Are you the goofyfoot who wrote the book I'm supposed to review?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11- 4-06 12:34 AM
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Nope. I'm just a dilletantish[sp], local, smoking goofyfoot. But if the other one doesn't ride a skateboard in the goofyfoot fashion, s/he's definitely an imposter of sorts.


Posted by: Goofyfoot.1 | Link to this comment | 11- 4-06 12:57 AM
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Are you supposed to signal before swerving onto the median? They didn't cover this when I took driver's ed.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11- 4-06 4:32 AM
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Scott - If you want to take the train up, I can arrange to pick you up/drop you at the station.

I don't think anyone I knew is still in the department other than Linda Georgianna. Who, upon being asked by someone if she advocated teaching the Bible in grammar school, replied 'Certainly! Especially those parts in Leviticus about the penalties for fucking bunnies!'

OK, people, we need something to signal who we are - any brilliant ideas, or should I just wear bunny ears and carry a sign that says "Unfogged"?


Posted by: DominEditrix | Link to this comment | 11- 4-06 11:52 AM
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DominEditrix, that Georgianna story doesn't surprise me in the least. She's my wife's adviser and I've heard plenty similar ones.

As for tomorrow, I'm going to try to come. I think can drive up there now, but hopefully, I'll see you lot tomorrow.


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 11- 4-06 6:48 PM
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