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Television Netflix buys exclusive rights to stream Seinfeld
Nokra replied to Jason's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
Yeah to be clear, I don't find it any less enjoyable or count it as a point against the show. I realize that it's a legit plot device of the time. It just makes me laugh to see the change; now I guess people would just say "my battery was dead!". -
I’ve posted this before, but to ask again, do you like your job?
Nokra replied to gamer.tv's topic in The Shower
I actually do enjoy the work, generally, it just doesn't pay well enough for me to want to stick around too much longer. I'm working as basically a contractor for IT support at Intel. It has been very interesting to learn more about the hardware side than I picked up in my CS studies, and they've got me in the team lead position so I'm getting some good leadership experience. My coworkers are also good, and even management is tolerable. Plus, as a long-time computer geek, it has been really cool to be involved in a company that's such a key part of the industry, and getting to play around with hardware before it's publicly available (CPUs, GPUs, servers, etc.) has been really fun. However, it's not really the field I originally thought I would go into, given my CS degrees, and I don't think I'm being compensated fairly (near-daily decisions I make can cost Intel hundreds of thousands of dollars if I make a mistake). I'm only getting paid $48k/year. Which isn't terrible in itself, but with the cost of living around here, wanting to retire someday, the amount of responsibility, and my degrees hopefully offering better alternatives, I don't think I'll be sticking around here too much longer. As a contractor, they always just claim their hands are tied when it comes to raises so I don't see the situation improving. -
Television Netflix buys exclusive rights to stream Seinfeld
Nokra replied to Jason's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
I've really been enjoying going through Seinfeld. I never really saw the whole series. My parents would watch it when I was growing up and I remember catching occasional episodes, but watching it in order has been a treat. Most of it holds up pretty well, though there are a few things that are definitely dated. For example, it always makes me chuckle when the plot device is "couldn't reach you because you were out". Cell phones killed that trope. -
~~ CEB Community Thread ~~
Nokra replied to CitizenVectron's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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It's so ridiculous that it would be hilarious, if not for the real suffering in North Korea.
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Hollywood's Complicity in the Lost Cause Myth
Nokra replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
Ha ok I'll see what I can do. My ex girlfriend was in his cohort in grad school at UNC Chapel Hill and he and I are Facebook friends at least, so we're basically BFFs. -
Hollywood's Complicity in the Lost Cause Myth
Nokra replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
Let me know if you want a signed copy and I can probably get you one. -
Hollywood's Complicity in the Lost Cause Myth
Nokra replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
If anyone is looking to read a book by a historian on the Lost Cause narrative that well illustrates precisely how the Confederacy was about slavery and how/why the myth is perpetuated, I can recommend a book I read last year called The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Prof. Adam Domby. -
~* Tripe/Counter-Tripe *~
Nokra replied to GeneticBlueprint's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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What about Vancouver, WA?
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Got to the pharmacy for my booster and there was a long ass line of around 15 people. Asked a guy if I should get in line if I have an appt. for a booster and he said yes, so I did. Just a couple minutes later someone else said "anyone here for a vaccine? Please come to this other window" and of the 15 people in line, I was the only one to do so. I'm going to hope that every other person already had theirs. This is in a red county about an hour from Portland, so probably not. Edit - boosted!
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Favorite accents of non-native English speakers speaking English?
Nokra replied to a topic in The Shower
After living there for so long, hearing Germans speak English is still a favorite because of the memories. I also like Finnish English. -
Canada bans gay conversion therapy
Nokra replied to CitizenVectron's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
Oh noes, it's teh gay agenda bearing fruit! -
This reminds me of a favorite quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trying to normalize the nation's gun fetish. Your tax dollars at work.
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I can look out my window and see a dispensary, there's another two blocks away, and a third one maybe four blocks away (Portland ). But still, my total is $0. Just isn't really my thing.
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I saw this too. Guessing it's his kids, but maybe he just really loves 1000 FPS while clicking those cookies.