Indeed, thanks to the hosters, this was a great contest (drama near the end aside). Would be nice if the winning photos of the creativity contest could be posted together, if that's possible.
Course I'm not one who should talk. My diet is pure preservatives, dash of carbs, and dust. How else can they make ramen noodles for 10 cents if it wasn't mostly preservatives and dust? Plus I like adding salt to my noodles.
As far as epic lulz qualifications go...I once applied for a dish washing job that wanted 7 years experience. I told them I knew how to wash dishes and had a B.S. Degree....but wasn't good enough for them. Maybe they'll accept me with a Masters?
That's the way the economy is now. Why bother training someone in how to do a job (even if it's easy to learn) when in the 100 applications you're going to get, you're sure to find someone else who needs no training and has far better efficiency at the job. Though on a side note, if I ever had 7 years experience washing dishes, AND I was looking for ANOTHER job as a dish washer, I'd have to kill myself.
Like you ever read a book, Cyan, much less went into a library
Shelving is the bottom of the totem pole there, + guess what? If you **** up the shelving, the whole point of a library is out the window 'cos nobody can find anything.
Cataloging has its own entire syntax. So yeah, you need to learn the language to do it right, or hey! Nobody can find anything.
Also, libraries aren't just shelves of books anymore. There's a whole internet of databases full of information that are severely complex to find, much less find things in. + I'm not talking Google.
Now start in with copyright law, which any decent librarian needs to know up + down.
This doesn't even start in with the fact that libraries are basically businesses, so you need to have a head for money + staff if you're ever going to head up a library.
How about a law library or State archives? Yeah, total no brainer stuff.
Sometimes I wonder if you think before you post, Nick.
Tell it brother! Anyone who doesn't respect librarians clearly knows nothing of the job. I still don't see why a well educated person who is well versed in a number of important topics couldn't do well in the job though. Sometimes I think the requirements for specific degrees are a little silly, when knowledge and aptitude should be much more important than a single piece of paper.
In other news, we pulled 1st place in the Clan Contest! Good work guys, I think we really pulled together a creative entry. Original entries went a long way with the number of internet entries, but we seem to have pulled the Creative vote too. Let's keep it up, we may have a shot at Clan of the Year. . .
Score! Who's awesome? We're awesome!
* Binary Dragon turns on the music, cracks open an 18 pack of Sprite, and gets the party started.
EDIT: Checking the results, we didn't just win, we SMOKED the competition. We spanked them HARD!
So, now that the contest is over, can we get around to making me an official member again?
Not just a degree, but a special degree in library science. And you won't move up easily unless you get your masters. Many of my closest friends are librarians, so I know this well. I still don't really understand why it's this way though.
I'm confused. Is the homework about cataloging and thus dry? Is it homework about cataloging of the dry variety? If so, what is dry cataloging? If the first option, what on earth class gives you homework about generic cataloging?
Well, it's common enough for new vego to not realize you need to find a source of B vitamins or yes, you suffer from depression, as does anyone not getting their B vitamins. As for tossing statistics out there, whatever. Post proof or retract
Saying you've eaten tofu is totally vague. If you mean the flavourless white stuff with creamy or crumbly texture - good on you, you may like to try wood chips too. Seriously, it needs to be flavoured + textured, at which point it can taste or look like anything.
Word. Although I'll caveat that the only vitamin or mineral that's not readily found in a vegan diet is B12 (due to current farming methods) and that a vegetarian diet easily has everything anyone needs to live. And B12 is found in abundance in plant milks, vitamins, and nutritional yeast. Anyone who knows about it should have no problems getting enough.
I'd like to add to Brian's comment that having plain, raw tofu is like eating a spoonful of flour. Both are ingredients that need to be properly prepared before they can turn into a delicious cake, not eaten plain.
Thinking about fake chicken patties and, even worse, fake turkey, makes me happy that I eat meat. I've had tofu before, and it was terrible. Completely disgusting. I can't imagine that it is somehow miraculously better if it's 'turkey tofu'.
I've made mock meat dishes, taken them to a Thanksgiving dinner with a large number of omni friends, and they were far more popular than the turkey. Yes, tofu tastes like **** if you don't know how to prepare it properly. Come over to my place sometime and I'll have you eating things you would never know here made with tofu unless I told you they were.
For example, you would probably be surprised if you looked up the # of reported cases of manic depression(bi-polar disorder) and how many of them are vegetarian/vegan. The ratio is much, much higher than it is among the general population.
Meh...I don't care for it. I think it was mike who told me that you can't treat soy as a milk substitute but as an independent drink in and of itself.
Course then I've heard vegans complain about wanna-be vegans who eat meat substitutes and what not. True Vegans don't need substitutes. Mmmm...Glutin.
There's nothing wrong with meat substitutes. I eat them, as do most vegans I know. Generally, we do it not because we miss the taste of hamburger or whatnot, but because we like that style of food, be it being able to dip something firm and chewy into mashed potatoes or sticking something in a bun or just having something that isn't green in your stir-fry. It's really never about replacing the animals so much as it is about mimicking a culinary style.
Some interesting news here. My roommate has an ex-boyfriend stalker. The one sided account I get from her is that the ex was crazy psychotic, possessive, and abusive. Well I don't know how serious she is about the threat the ex posses but there has been some recent threats. She's called the police, changed phone numbers, and has me telling random folk who come to my door that she no longer lives here. She's talked about the knives in the kitchen as defensive tools and even borrowed my hatchet which is now strategically hidden behind the couch.
I'm not sure what to make of all this. She seems calm when talking to me about all these things, but the fact that she has proactively taken some precautions tells me that she is worried and that there may be a real threat. So I've decided to keep my six shooter loaded. I've gotta admit that the prospects of a loaded gun by my bed makes me a bit uncomfortable. No threat of it accidentally going off or anything, but when I was loading it up I spent a bit of time just thinking. I couldn't help but consider various scenarios where I would actually need it. All defensive, but none too pleasant. Here's hoping all this is a fluke eh.
That sounds crazy, awful, and awesome. Here's hoping for something exciting to come out of it, but not so exciting that people end up getting hurt.
Gee, way to kill the thread you two. It was going great, and then you had to go all meta on it.
Glad to see the soy milk love. Umm, been watching Star Trek (starting with the original, I'm going to work my way through all 727 episodes and 11 movies, in order of air date. My life is boring, but cool.
Mike...you should have entered into a trade while the job market was hot. Now it looks like staying in school for extra years isn't paying off. It's a shame really....everyone needs plumbers, but we only need a small number of highly trained scholars. Don't feel like you're the only one. There are thousands of recent grads that can't find anything in their discipline. Many are taking what they can get and continuing to look for work.
See, that's the problem. I never for a second thought I could get a job in physics, and I've been looking for a job in whatever. Thing is, with the job market so saturated with laid off workers, companies have no reason to hire entry level people, and everything requires 2-3 years of previous experience. Secretary, call center, ticket booth sales, all of them want experience. Hell, I even saw an ad for a job as a fluffer that wanted a detailed list of previous experience.
You are right that I'd have been much better getting a job 4 years ago and working up the ranks, maybe getting A+ certification or something along the way. Now I'm kinda screwed because I can't get a job, and I can't go to school again to help get a job seeing as i'm pretty broke.
Perhaps they are marketing the same stuff as "green" and charging a premium for it, perhaps not. But it makes sense that any alternate version of something should cost more. Before people cared about things being "green," companies had no incentive to use anything but the cheapest possible formulation. Thus, by definition, any alternative must cost them, and thus you, more. I'm not saying they aren't ripping you off, just that they aren't ripping you off quite as much as you think they are.
In other news I'm becoming completely discouraged that I'll ever find a job. I've had 5 interviews that ended in me being offered the job, but only 2 of them ended in me actually getting hiring paperwork, and neither of those have actually gotten me any work.
I really liked alot of the pictures submitted for the first part of the scavenger hunt.
Looking at the entries, I think me have a real chance at this one. Of course, it'd be better if our captions were included and we had an extra day to get the easy images that we were missing (how do we not have an original cardboard airplane photo?)
What was he calling them? Grab-lands? They fetch lands!
Last night the fool was trying to convince me they were called "sac-lands." I was all "huh?" and then he described them and I was all "oh you mean fetch lands!" and he was all "no, they're called sac-lands" and I was all "whatever fool."
Some day I'll get you to eat better.
That's the way the economy is now. Why bother training someone in how to do a job (even if it's easy to learn) when in the 100 applications you're going to get, you're sure to find someone else who needs no training and has far better efficiency at the job. Though on a side note, if I ever had 7 years experience washing dishes, AND I was looking for ANOTHER job as a dish washer, I'd have to kill myself.
Tell it brother! Anyone who doesn't respect librarians clearly knows nothing of the job. I still don't see why a well educated person who is well versed in a number of important topics couldn't do well in the job though. Sometimes I think the requirements for specific degrees are a little silly, when knowledge and aptitude should be much more important than a single piece of paper.
Score! Who's awesome? We're awesome!
* Binary Dragon turns on the music, cracks open an 18 pack of Sprite, and gets the party started.
EDIT: Checking the results, we didn't just win, we SMOKED the competition. We spanked them HARD!
So, now that the contest is over, can we get around to making me an official member again?
Not just a degree, but a special degree in library science. And you won't move up easily unless you get your masters. Many of my closest friends are librarians, so I know this well. I still don't really understand why it's this way though.
Word. Although I'll caveat that the only vitamin or mineral that's not readily found in a vegan diet is B12 (due to current farming methods) and that a vegetarian diet easily has everything anyone needs to live. And B12 is found in abundance in plant milks, vitamins, and nutritional yeast. Anyone who knows about it should have no problems getting enough.
I'd like to add to Brian's comment that having plain, raw tofu is like eating a spoonful of flour. Both are ingredients that need to be properly prepared before they can turn into a delicious cake, not eaten plain.
I've made mock meat dishes, taken them to a Thanksgiving dinner with a large number of omni friends, and they were far more popular than the turkey. Yes, tofu tastes like **** if you don't know how to prepare it properly. Come over to my place sometime and I'll have you eating things you would never know here made with tofu unless I told you they were.
I call bull**** on this.
* Binary Dragon chalks it up to all the cholesterol he eats gumming up his brain or something.
* Binary Dragon also wants just one more week before the rains so he can bike along the Columbia Gorge.
* Binary Dragon wonders why he is speaking in the third person.
That sounds crazy, awful, and awesome. Here's hoping for something exciting to come out of it, but not so exciting that people end up getting hurt.
* Binary Dragon wants contest results already.
Glad to see the soy milk love. Umm, been watching Star Trek (starting with the original, I'm going to work my way through all 727 episodes and 11 movies, in order of air date. My life is boring, but cool.
See, that's the problem. I never for a second thought I could get a job in physics, and I've been looking for a job in whatever. Thing is, with the job market so saturated with laid off workers, companies have no reason to hire entry level people, and everything requires 2-3 years of previous experience. Secretary, call center, ticket booth sales, all of them want experience. Hell, I even saw an ad for a job as a fluffer that wanted a detailed list of previous experience.
You are right that I'd have been much better getting a job 4 years ago and working up the ranks, maybe getting A+ certification or something along the way. Now I'm kinda screwed because I can't get a job, and I can't go to school again to help get a job seeing as i'm pretty broke.
In other news I'm becoming completely discouraged that I'll ever find a job. I've had 5 interviews that ended in me being offered the job, but only 2 of them ended in me actually getting hiring paperwork, and neither of those have actually gotten me any work.
Looking at the entries, I think me have a real chance at this one. Of course, it'd be better if our captions were included and we had an extra day to get the easy images that we were missing (how do we not have an original cardboard airplane photo?)
Last night the fool was trying to convince me they were called "sac-lands." I was all "huh?" and then he described them and I was all "oh you mean fetch lands!" and he was all "no, they're called sac-lands" and I was all "whatever fool."
See Chris, told you that's what they're called.
I think this should worry you more than making under 20,000 a year.