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MrChips posted:So I bought a scratch ticket on a whim when I was out buying gas. I just won five grand. Normally I'm not a gambler because it feels like paying extra taxes, but gently caress, good on you for winning! I started doing my taxes already today to get a ballpark of how much I'm getting back  It's kind of like the lottery in that it's taxes I pay/paid, but different because there is less randomness about when I get the cash back 
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Who needs ketchup on fries when you can eat poutine instead? Wise words. I love poutine so much Dry Ice is expensive... I bought some for the first time yesterday and I mean, I guess I thought it wasn't going to be much different than a bag of ice, not 4x the price!
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Regardless of OS I think we can all agree that most of the phones we buy should probably be better than they are for the price they cost. So I guess lol at us?
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Congrats on the promotion Maker of Shoes! Keep fighting the good fight fjelltorsk, we're rooting for you. The stories you read about making sure to wear protection when handling dry ice aren't joking, I guess I leaned against some with my left arm when I was working on my floor pan and didn't notice the burns until just now, but man they don't feel great! It's not bad or anything, but surprising because I didn't even notice it happen.
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Jan 6, 2015 05:57
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Rhyno posted:It's an 84 GTS, all black without a hint of rust on the trunk. It's not even on CL yet as the seller is a friend of a friend and the info was passed my way. drat you and I are one the same page man!  I'm watching for new of the RS too and if it ends up being AWD there is a 95% chance it'll be my next car. And for RWD Celica's, that was actually on the top of my last when I was project car hunting a year and a half ago, but they were all either too expensive, clapped out our both. That's how I ended up with a slightly rusty 2002 ti homage because it was the 'affordable' option. Man I hope the RS is AWD  Tommychu posted:Found out I've got a SIX DOLLAR GODDAMNED RAISE, as of next month Six dollars an hour? drat dude, nothing like a $12,480/yr raise! Congrats! Are you going to get any of that back pay? fjelltorsk posted:and for those playing along at home, i had a CT done yesterday, and the biggest tumour i have had shrunk by approx 15% since i started radiation Yayyy!      Motronic posted:Undoubtedly some manner of Myers-Briggs personality sorter that only first year psych students and upper management that has been to a seminar place any value on. I still don't understand the popularity of the personality test with more recent HR departments, at least for professional/technical positions. But I guess it does probably succeed in filtering out the low intelligence sociopaths so that you only get smart sociopaths. keykey posted:Management even thinks this is a joke. To distill everyone down to only 16 types of personalities is a crock of poo poo. The latest management methodology du jour is SCRUM, previously it was waterfall and agile. Although I do sort of want a SCRUM cert only so I can scratch out master and write in LORD. I typically will make fun of sigma six agile black belt whosawhatsit stuff that feels like it's one step removed from being on a late night television informercial, but my team adopted some of SCRUM about two and a half years ago in part by having a 15 minute collaborative meeting every morning and if you're given flexibility in how you implement it, it can be nice. For us it ends up being a forum to talk about challenges, issues, resolution and plans and has ended up being a great way to educate my newbies, get the veterans to make sure they're sharing knowledge (and work) and make sure everyone is on the same page before any meetings that day. So I guess maybe I drank the kool aid a bit, but only because it smelled and looked nice.
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Jan 9, 2015 20:18
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Look at how many of you are trying to be helpful for Sperg like he will actually listen, it's so cute  .Hey Sperg make sure you use some of the WD40 on those hood pins, don't want to get a UTI!
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Jan 11, 2015 05:47
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leica posted:Could somebody re post that TV review/comparison site that was posted awhile back? IIRC Motronic posted it. Was it rtings.com? I think so, because I found out about that site through here and it ended up informing my TV purchase strongly.
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Jan 13, 2015 07:26
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Fucknag posted:I dont want to see a dog willy imo Come on guys don't be crude, we don't want to jinx the possibility of an AI goon/AI goon relationship. If they decide to get married I think 13 should officiate, Viggen should give away the bride, TT can be the flower goon, IOwnCalculus will be the best man and HotCanadianChick will be the maid of honor. I'll be in the audience doing my best not to cry as they walk down the aisle together to a celebratory revving of loud engines. *sniff* AI love is so beautiful *sniff* Location would be Circuit of Americas and party favors would be Jamal supplied miata, BMW and Subaru poly bushings.
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Jan 17, 2015 06:06
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leica posted:Don't know if anyone else watches football, but I'm a Packer fan and the game yesterday was probably the most brutal loss I've ever seen by them and I've been watching games since the horrible Lynn Dickey era. I usually don't get too upset by football games but Jesus this was a hard one to take, I've never seen a game just given away by a myriad of mistakes in the final minutes before. Unbelievable. As a Seattle fan I feel for you from how hard of a loss that must have been and because our offense played like poo poo for most of the game. And it was easily the most stressful football game I've ever watched. I still feel stressed out today. It's cool how much this town has become a football town, the other day I was wearing team gear on my way to the ATM and someone yelled 'Go Seahawks' at me from their car. This is in a city known for it's "keep you at an arms length nice" that I admit even I'm guilty of so that was basically like getting a huge from a fellow Seattleite.
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Jan 20, 2015 05:58
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Found out today that I got a promotion to Supervisor along with a nice raise and annual bonus. Happily I'll still get to continue working at least a certain amount on high level analysis, but while also getting to coordinate my team, our budget and all of the software we work on.  Keep fightin' the good fight AI I really want a burger with rings from that place 13 is at. edit: RIP Stig cat, may you get the best of that car in kitty heaven.
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Jan 24, 2015 07:09
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Goober Peas posted:So when are you guys going to gently caress? The sexually tense antagonistic relationship is Viggen/Meatpimp, not Meatpimp/Phone. Meaty is just gettin' under skins like he enjoys doing. As for labeling people SJW (which evidently means 'Social Justice Warrior'... news to me) if you're asked not to be a piece of poo poo in AI and are being called on it, I'm going to quote rscott because he summarized my thoughts succinctly: rscott posted:If you can't adequately insult someone without resorting to slurs then you are kind of dumb imo meatpimp posted:In other general chat news, I'm going to look at a duplex to buy for an investment property. :fingerscrossed: Have you been a landlord before? The returns include a lot of downsides. Unless you've got a property management company that'll take care of it for you or something... NEVER AGAIN for me. edit: just saw your post above. If the renters are 'ok', there is low turnover and you've at least somewhat mentally prepared yourself to deal with some poo poo, then maybe it is an ok idea. Property certainly is a good way to diversify and good renters mean a stream of income. edit2: gently caress I can't spell today. Mat_Drinks fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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meatpimp posted:That's what I thought... until now. Viggen has only been gone a few days though, his side of the bed isn't even cold!! meatpimp posted:Never been a landlord, need to diversify. Too much sitting stagnant, need to put some into play. Totally understandable. Do you have a real estate agent you like and know well? A lot of them also handle property management as a way to keep a steady stream of income coming in during the slower seasons. If you purchase the duplex through him/her you may also be able to work out affordable management so that you don't have to deal with the 2am 'the sewer is backed up' calls. It may be worth lowering the profit for the security of knowing someone else that does it for an at least partial living is taking care of it for you. Make sure you have a good handyman and/or subs lined up too in case poo poo blows up so that you're aren't having to pay high rates for repairs that are required in short periods of time.
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iwentdoodie posted:Just had Thai food. I like it really hot. My wife, with her great sense of humor, ordered mine and in special instructions she put "as hot as possible. No, hotter than that. Yeah, that hot." My favorite is when the Thai food is "two beers hot" and the back of my neck starts to sweat. So good.
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rscott posted:if you eat quinoa you're driving the price of it up so high that poor people in south america can't afford to buy it anymore and can't make traditional dishes as a result It's sooo good though! I'm a weirdo and my favorite type of cereal is bran cereal (no joke) with just a touch of sugar. My favorite has quinoa and a bunch of other crazy poo poo in it that I don't care about but it all comes together to make a super crunchy cereal that stays crunchy in milk: http://us.naturespath.com/product/heritager-flakes
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fjelltorsk posted:I will not go quietly into the night I finally saw Interstellar this weekend so I'm going to pull from a poem that's partially quoted a few times in the film because I've been thinking about it, life, and the ideas it presented. Dylan Thomas posted:Do not go gentle into that good night, Stay strong dude, we're pulling for you.
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Holdbrooks posted:Everybody in AI getting new jobs it seems. I am just waiting for my customary interview now. For Pharmacy Manager or are you going to go off the rails and become a Willow analyst?  Or I guess you could go into direct patient care with Anti Coag or something On the tax chat topic I just finished mine and my refund is going to be big enough that it's got me thinking I should really adjust my W4 since Mat Jr is due 2/11 and our government is pretty nice to breeders like myself. I don't need them holding TOO much of my money. Liquid Communism posted:Keeping mine, but they just promoted me to a supervisory role. Let's see how much stress it takes to ruin it for me. fellow new supervisor. Do you think HR will have issues if I jokingly yell 'Everyone is fired!"?
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Jan 30, 2015 07:05
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Holdbrooks posted:My other hospital wants me to come back and start an ER program for pharmacist there. So it will be a more clinical job than me current pediatric gig and direct patient care at the bedside which will make use of the doctorate that I got. So I'm pretty excited to do it but not sure if they can make it worth while to commute 600 miles a week until I hire another person to work with me and go to a 7 on 7 off rotation again. That sounds pretty drat good, but wow what a brutal commute.
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LloydDobler posted:I'm trying to stop spending on cars and pay off consumer debt. Good god it's boring. Sigh. I hate trying to be a grown-up. BrokenKnucklez posted:I hear you. I decided no more car poo poo till the credit cards are paid off. Somewhat Heroic posted:You guys a debt free life is incredible. If you haven't ever been there or it's been a while since you have I highly suggest giving it a go. We've had no consumer debt for almost three years. You get on top of that mountain and there is nothing worth getting off of it for. We have just our house payment (~$1700/mo) and that's it. We could have a larger home/handle a bigger payment if we wanted to but our home is plenty big and I hope to have it paid off by the time I'm 40 (turn 30 next month). I wanted to chime in and encourage any goons with personal debt to get as free and clear of it as you can as soon as possible. Home, student, and car loans are pretty common and often necessary, but personal credit card debt and/or miscellaneous debt like payday loans is just giving away extra money to banks or worse. And it's really nice to be on the other side where you just don't have to worry about it and that money can be saved. I've never listened to Dave Ramsey, but whatever works to get folks to a better place is something I'm for. My trigger to get on top of my finances was when my wife and I got married almost seven years ago and we started combining our finances. I started to do the math and what we were paying just for having debt, not even to pay it off, was insane. I never did total my pre marriage fees up, but I wouldn't be surprised if I spent $10k in interest my early 20s just for having rolling credit card debt. And the joke is that the total debt wasn't even that high! A lot of it was for stupid poo poo that I just couldn't be patient for... Stuff I HAD to have right then (brand new BFG M/Ts for my truck, a lift for said truck, gears, going out, bar tabs where I bought a huge group of friends a round) angryhampster posted:Buying a house isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be. The upsides are you can do whatever the gently caress you want, when you want. The downsides are that EVERYTHING costs money and EVERYTHING will eventually break and need to be repaired. Some repairs are super cheap..some cost thousands of dollars and weeks of time. When you buy a house it becomes a hell of a lot more difficult to move as well. kastein posted:Most of those repairs cost under a grand and some evenings if you are reasonably handy. For example replacing 35 feet of rotten sill plate and rebuilding the foundation under it has cost me roughly 800 bucks. I think owning a home is probably the kind of thing a lot of AI goons would like because we're also the kind of people that change our own oil, and fix/restore our own cars... We'd rather do something ourselves and save the money versus having someone else do it that might not even know the right way. If you're willing to put in the time and effort that sweat equity can be worth it, especially because at the end of it you've got a house and yard that can be exactly how you want it to be. But all of that said sometimes it can really suck if you're stubborn about doing as much of it as you can. Last weekend I worked on the insulation on the second floor of my house and as if working with fiberglass insulation isn't bad enough (I hate that itchy poo poo), I had to army crawl through old rock wool to get back behind a dormer to survey what was going on with the insulation behind a bedroom closet. gently caress that forever. At least I'll be able to get rid of it come next spring when I demo the closet.
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meatpimp posted:Which is the only downside to paying down your house, as you get deeper into the mortgage payments, the interest you're paying drops. Good, since you're just piling up equity, bad because your interest deduction goes down by the year. It's definitely a weird dance we end up in, where sometimes just a little more interest pushes you into a lower bracket meaning less taxes. BraveUlysses posted:It's really only beneficial to people who have obscene loans, 500k and up because you can write off 25k in interest every year on the first few years of a 500k loan. The 100B annually we spend (keeping this as a tax break) overwhelmingly goes to people with 800k and up homes (this is so loving stupid). There should be a cap at 25k for interest deductions. If I remember correctly too depending on meeting certain rules second home interest can be tax deductible too. For high income earners it ends up being a loophole to drive the percentage of taxes due down, not unlike capital gains taxes versus earned income. But that kind of inequity is unfortunately pretty common here and I don't have confidence we'll see it change any time soon. Our state (WA) isn't very equitable either.
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So I emptied out the upper cabinet of my tool chest because I bought a new rolling chest and when I went to move it I heard something rolling around inside that wasn't in the drawers. I suddenly remembered partially tipping it on it's side when I moved ~7 years ago and realized that after the rush of the move I never went back and retrieved all of the sockets out that had fallen out of the drawers into the chest. After buying one of those grabby things with a light built in (which is seriously loving awesome: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/cP/bike-dads-07-0613-lgn.jpg) I pulled out 19 sockets! Fuckin' A!
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