What do you do and where?

[Signe]

Yes, you have lovely cheese.  Sorry! 

[Sky]

I would love bars that close early. I can't understand why people need to start things at 10pm. That's the reason I don't get to many open mic nights to play, by 10pm I want to cozy up with a book. The good open mic starts at 6 or 7 and closes down at 10. It's kinda funny because all the musicians start to filter out around 9:30-10 and the 'party' crowd starts to show up. It's an oddly incompatible mix. I especially love the trampy girls texting in booths. I'm so glad I grew up long ago before technology invaded.

[schild]

I would love bars that close early. I can't understand why people need to start things at 10pm. That's the reason I don't get to many open mic nights to play, by 10pm I want to cozy up with a book. The good open mic starts at 6 or 7 and closes down at 10. It's kinda funny because all the musicians start to filter out around 9:30-10 and the 'party' crowd starts to show up. It's an oddly incompatible mix. I especially love the trampy girls texting in booths. I'm so glad I grew up long ago before technology invaded.

So, in short, you're an old man now.

Also, I don't know this phrase "good open mic." What is that? Are you into shitty emo-poetry, bad acoustic guitar playing, and born-again hippy songwriting?

[Signe]

I always preferred doing everything late.  The later, the better.  I wasn't usually able to do anything fun until after 2 AM anyway because of work.  Late clubs and after hours were my fun, generally.  If I were to suddenly have energy and inclination, it would probably still be that way. 

[Sky]

So, in short, you're an old man now.

Also, I don't know this phrase "good open mic." What is that? Are you into shitty emo-poetry, bad acoustic guitar playing, and born-again hippy songwriting?

While I'll admit I'm no longer a young kid, that's not my point. I can understand going out late when you're underemployed. I do not understand people going out at 10pm when they have to get up for work the next day. Go home from work, eat, shower, go out. What is taking five hours?

Good open mic = sitting in with local musicians and jamming. We have one other (the 10pm one) that features a bad house band and mediocre musicians, but it's good for preparing for the better jam night.

[schild]

I find that jams and open mics in general are vastly better for the people involved and/or playing the music than the people listening. Unless you're really really really baked.

[Endie]

"Good open mic"?  Ack.

That said, I remember one time I was at a good open mic night at an Edinburgh Festival comedy show.  Someone got up and started doing entirely straight-faced interpretative dance to their own poem.  After initial goodwill (it was hilarious) the crowd realised that this person was entirely serious, and indeed that they were rather angry about the laughter (to be fair, they demonstrated their feelings well through the medium of dance-poetry).  Fuck, did that turn ugly, quickly.

[Sky]

Well, the good open mic I refer to isn't really open. It's a members-only blues jam, open in that any of the members can get up and play with the house band or any combination of folks. There have only been two guys in three years who were sucky, and they quickly went back to their bedrooms. It's mostly seasoned blues bands and "new" guys like me sitting in with them. We see national acts that aren't nearly as good as the improv stuff we get at our blues jams.

The other open mic...yeah, it's awful. There's one guy who always plays the dave matthews version of all along the watchtower, and he even acts like dave when he plays. It's creepy. So I do know bad open mic. But I also know good!

[Endie]

That sounds way better.

[Draegan]

I don't think I ever posted in this thread.  I'm in Engineering Sales.  I deal with compressed gas filtration and separation.  Putting my Mech. Engineering degree to good use.

[Oban]

I don't think I ever posted in this thread.  I'm in Engineering Sales.  I deal with compressed gas filtration and separation.  Putting my Mech. Engineering degree to good use.

Is that just a fancy way to say you sell underwear?

[Llyse]

Late joiner, but 

I'm a release engineer for the IT division of an Investment Bank in HK (God only knows why I still have work  )

[Engels]

Late joiner, but 

I'm a release engineer for the IT division of an Investment Bank in HK (God only knows why I still have work  )

What is a release engineer? Is that were you drop employees off the top of buildings due to budget cuts?

[Merusk]

I thought it was a fancy way of saying you give hand jobs to geeks.

[bhodi]

He probably does QA and then deployment of software releases.

[Draegan]

I don't think I ever posted in this thread.  I'm in Engineering Sales.  I deal with compressed gas filtration and separation.  Putting my Mech. Engineering degree to good use.

Is that just a fancy way to say you sell underwear?

DURABLE underwear.  It's a selling point.

[Oz]

So I just applied for a job at Kansas University Medical Center...wish me luck.

[Signe]

Good Luck! 

[Hindenburg]

Criminal defense lawyer.

[Engels]

most defense laywers get that rap, ya.

[apocrypha]

Good Luck! 

Signe you are the undisputed Queen of the Smileys. 

[Nebu]

So I just applied for a job at Kansas University Medical Center...wish me luck.

Good luck!

[Feverdream]

I'm very new here, so we'll see if my post even survives the screening necessary as a result of the herd of MJ-stalkers.

I work in HIV/AIDS research that's focused on behavioral health: stuff that helps people stay adherent to medication, or stop sharing needles or having unsafe sex, or learn how consistently do the things that keep them healthy, etc.  I'm lucky in that I like my work a lot. 

I've gamed for a couple of decades now, and spent several years working as a senior developer for a text-based game (back when dinosaurs walked the earth).  I found I'd rather "just play" than develop games, so now I'm just a cranky old PvPer who still loves to talk about and follow developments in the field.

[apocrypha]

Welcome! And personally I think this is the best thread to make your first post in - and not just cos that's what I did 

Sounds like an excellent job, glad you enjoy it too, keep it up!

[Murgos]

I work in HIV/AIDS research that's focused on behavioral health: stuff that helps people stay adherent to medication, or stop sharing needles or having unsafe sex, or learn how consistently do the things that keep them healthy, etc.  I'm lucky in that I like my work a lot. 

So, culturally approved brain-washing?

[Nebu]

So, culturally approved brain-washing?

The preferred terms are "positive reinforcement" and "behavior modification".  "Culturally approved brain-washing" is reserved for the religious community. 

[Feverdream]

I work in HIV/AIDS research that's focused on behavioral health: stuff that helps people stay adherent to medication, or stop sharing needles or having unsafe sex, or learn how consistently do the things that keep them healthy, etc.  I'm lucky in that I like my work a lot. 

So, culturally approved brain-washing?

Of course.

In future, be careful not to position your posts too close to mine, as it may activate my mind-control beams which are capable of intercepting your synaptic activity and modifying it so that you may achieve the correct level of Right Thinking.

The noobie-baiting starts right away around these parts, doesn't it =P

[Murgos]

I'd have started earlier but you hadn't posted then.  It's more just to see if you froth easily, for an example I recommend you take a look at the last 3 or so pages of the Richard Garriot thread in MMOG.

[Sky]

You're fucking with darwinism. Hasn't the last eight years taught us anything?

[Feverdream]

I'd have started earlier but you hadn't posted then.  It's more just to see if you froth easily, for an example I recommend you take a look at the last 3 or so pages of the Richard Garriot thread in MMOG.

Did you send me to that thread just to haze me? I got to somewhere around the seventh page and went comatose by the time I got to the rant about the biomechanics of quadripedal locomotion.  Good lord.

Though it's weird/interesting how anything involving Garriott (discussions, games, whatever) always manage to get really weird really fast.

Anyway, I won't derail the purpose of this thread any further.  If I am one of the hatchlings allowed to make it all the way out to open sea, I'll start posting in other threads.

And I'm joking about the 'hazing' part.  Sort of.

[Lantyssa]

Welcome!  If the Garriot thread didn't scare you off, you might just make it here.  Don't think of it as hazing so much as a (in?)sanity check.

[Nevermore]

The hazing starts later. 

[Sky]

It does all get hazy after a while.

[Oz]

Whatever you do don't eat the "peanut butter."  They tell you its peanut butter, but its a lie.  Just like the cake...

[Cyrrex]

The best part about F13 is that all the same people can be in the one thread being a bunch of complete jizz guzzlers to each other, and then being perfectly amicable in a thread like this one.  Best to stay away from Politics entirely for now, and read the MMO threads but don't post in them.  Welcome.