The Off Topic Topic

[ulmont]

Well, getting into Harvard was nice but didn't make me any saner, and the last year-and-a-half has probably aggravated my mental state much worse than it was this time 2009, which wasn't that great to begin with...

Mental state is overrated.  Self-medicate like the rest of us.

[Ideologue]

  So I am glad you are doing great.

Well, getting into Harvard was nice but didn't make me any saner, and the last year-and-a-half has probably aggravated my mental state much worse than it was this time 2009, which wasn't that great to begin with...

I'm still proud of you.

You'll be okay.

[Capetan Mihali]

I'm still proud of you.

You'll be okay.

Well, regardless, I'll be in Charlotte, N.C. from May to August 2012, and we should find the time to sink a few bags of Reese's if you're still in Columbia (and dry).   

[Josquius]

Apparently, my hometown in Ohio is a hotbed of trainspotting. Or "railfanning". A youtube search for the town returns hundreds of boring-ass videos of trains going by. 

I don't get that railfan shit.   Dudes like to go to every train crossing out there and watch trains cross it, right?  um.... why?

Trains are cool.
Though they do take it way too far, their obsession with exact details is disturbing. And I just really don't get those train sim games.

[Valmy]

Diaper manufacturers rejoice!  Mrs. Valmy is preggo again.

[Barrister]

Diaper manufacturers rejoice!  Mrs. Valmy is preggo again.

Woohoo!



What's the due date?

[jimmy olsen]

Diaper manufacturers rejoice!  Mrs. Valmy is preggo again.

Congrats!

[Syt]

I hated my written law exams. Usually we had five hours time. It took you between 30 to 60 minutes to understand the case and the questions posed, and make a draft of your approach. Then four hours writing like mad to bring this concept into the required formal prose, praying you wouldn't run out of time.

Five hour exams? Harsh. Ours were usually two or three.

Yeah, but a lot of it was public service procedural with which you spent one hour. Also, a lot of it was owed to the stilted prose formally required:
- Name the paragraphs in questions
- go through the prerequisites of the paragraph and define them, one by one
- examine whether the prerequisites are met
- decide whether the paragraph is appliccable or not
Move on.

The least popular exams in administrative law were usually: Third party contractor does something for a public body. Something goes wrong and another party is damaged. Case question would invariably be: "Examine all possible claims."

I greatly preferred welfare law; though a year after I graduated, this was completely rewritten by German legislature.

Our non-law exams were piffle. They were usually scheduled for three hours, and it felt weird to walk out after an hour of, say, outlining a workflow for a given task with a number of built in dependencies and some basic decision tables and receive an A+.

[Syt]

Diaper manufacturers rejoice!  Mrs. Valmy is preggo again.

[Zoupa]

Diaper manufacturers rejoice!  Mrs. Valmy is preggo again.

Damn, good for you man 

[Eddie Teach]

Apparently, my hometown in Ohio is a hotbed of trainspotting. Or "railfanning". A youtube search for the town returns hundreds of boring-ass videos of trains going by. 

I don't get that railfan shit.   Dudes like to go to every train crossing out there and watch trains cross it, right?  um.... why?

Yeah, gotten way more than my fill doing that from my car.

[Ideologue]

Why is Trainspotting called Trainspotting?  I've only ever seen the movie.

[Syt]

Why is Trainspotting called Trainspotting?  I've only ever seen the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(novel)#The_title

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(hobby)#Trainspotting

[Ideologue]

Applying to Teach for America.

The GPA on the app is a little pull-down menu.  Looks like this:

GPA
Select one
3.8 and above
3.4-3.7
3.0-3.3
2.8-3.0
2.5-2.9
2.49 and below

Does anyone notice anything... missing?  Like, perhaps an infinite number of things missing?

Maybe these retards should go back to school themselves.

[Eddie Teach]

Just round it to the nearest tenth.