Useless Conversation

[Nebu]

Found out the 13 year old cut her (very distinct) name into the wall of a restaurant we frequent in town, along with her friend while we were there a few weeks ago.  Part of me wants to get out the tire iron and go to the woodshed out back and the other part of me wants to know why I happen to have the world's dumbest kid who thought "I know, I'll put MY NAME on the wall, NO ONE will figure out it's me!!!" And this isn't the kind of place where people do that regularly like a dive bar either, so no clue what possessed the world's stupidest kid to think this was ok.

My daughter does things like this.  I've found that, with her, it's because she really doesn't consider consequences in her decision tree.  Seems she is so in the moment that it never occurs to her that it's a bad idea.  I'm such a planner that I find her actions and attitude completely foreign.

I wish you the best. 

[schild]

Give her a shitty tattoo, that'll teach her.

[Sky]

I've found that, with her, it's because she really doesn't consider consequences in her decision tree. 

This is the norm. We are the exceptions.

[HaemishM]

We have constant construction too, but this is the first time I've seen it slow traffic down in town; it usually just fucks the highways. It doesn't help that the bridge in question is located centrally between my house and my job, so I have to take (different) elaborate detours to and from work to avoid sitting for hours.

Did you piss off Chris Christie?

[Rendakor]

[Nebu]

Give her a shitty tattoo, that'll teach her.

My daughter already has several... fits given my description above.

[Yegolev]

It occurred to me that Lantyssa lives on a riverbank in Houston.  Has anyone heard from her?

[Rasix]

It occurred to me that Lantyssa lives on a riverbank in Houston.  Has anyone heard from her?

Guess it's time to log into Black Desert. Of course, that may only confirm that her computer is alive and, perhaps, fishing.

[Selby]

It occurred to me that Lantyssa lives on a riverbank in Houston.

My ex lives in the same area and it isn't pretty down there right now.

[Ard]

It occurred to me that Lantyssa lives on a riverbank in Houston.  Has anyone heard from her?

She's alive, I was talking to her earlier today.  The storm mostly avoided her area, so far at least.

[Morat20]

Found out the 13 year old cut her (very distinct) name into the wall of a restaurant we frequent in town, along with her friend while we were there a few weeks ago.  Part of me wants to get out the tire iron and go to the woodshed out back and the other part of me wants to know why I happen to have the world's dumbest kid who thought "I know, I'll put MY NAME on the wall, NO ONE will figure out it's me!!!" And this isn't the kind of place where people do that regularly like a dive bar either, so no clue what possessed the world's stupidest kid to think this was ok.

Brain development. It'll get worse before it gets better. I got about a zillion earfuls about this, but the short version is: Kids aren't miniature adults, they don't have adult brains, and they don't think like adults. Even when they're teenagers. It's pretty instinctive to think of them, especially once they hit puberty, as basically adults lacking education and inexperience. They don't actually think like adults until their mid-20s.

Specifically, from about her age onward, the bits of the brain that weight future repercussions is basically....barely working. Like really obvious immediate stuff it can sometimes work out (not that it stops them from doing stuff with immediate, short term, wtf results). Which is weird because you can lead them through the logic chain from A to B and they'll follow it. They'll just literally never think it up themselves, or more specifically apply it to themselves.

It gets worse. The last five or seven years or so it'll be working, but it'll be mostly bypassed -- her brain will heavily weight the short term over the long. Which is why, when you were in college, you did shit you KNEW was a bad idea even as you did it. Because your brain was capable of saying "This will end in tears" but it was shouted down by the bit saying "SOUNDS FUN NOW" because fuck future you.

On the bright side, she should steady down in about 10 to 12 years. :) My kid's 19. I'm looking forward to him gaining the ability to think ahead.

Edited to add: And yes, the weather down her has sucked. And I'm on the side of town that got hit lightly. I've got relatives on the parts that really got drowned and it is ugly. Not quite Allison bad, but way too close.

[MahrinSkel]

[Sky]

I still believe most people never progress to the 'considering consequences and acting accordingly' phase. Or at least those folks are so visible it seems that way.

Example: putting the light of the sun into your car's headlights. "Hey I can see great! Safety!" Actual consequence: blinding all operators of vehicles hurtling at you at deadly speeds while engaging in the most dangerous activity most people will ever engage in.

[Abagadro]

I don't know if this is THAT new but Crown Royal has a newer whiskey called Northern Harvest Rye is that I just discovered that is fantastic. Only 30 bucks or so too.

[Salamok]

I don't know if this is THAT new but Crown Royal has a newer whiskey called Northern Harvest Rye is that I just discovered that is fantastic. Only 30 bucks or so too.

It has outraged quite a few whiskey aficionados that the Whiskey Bible listed it as the best whiskey of 2016.

[Abagadro]

I wouldn't go that far, but it was pretty good for 30 bucks if you like Rye.

[IainC]

I'm currently looking for a new job, have been for about a month now and while my phone hasn't exactly been ringing off the hook, I've had a steady drip of design tests and phone/Skype interviews. Things are proceeding slowly, but normally. Generally for jobs at my level, there are 2-3 Skype interviews, a written design test and an extended multi-day office interview to make sure I'm a good fit for the team and the project. Normally it seems to take about 2-3 months for the process to go from initial request for a first interview to making an offer.

Earlier this week, my agent asked if I'd be interested in working on a project in Slovakia. I'd never heard of the game in question but it looked promising so I said sure and she sent them my CV and a few lines I'd written for her on my particular experience that was relevant to the project. The next day she called to tell me that they wanted a Skype interview with me and was I available the following afternoon. I said sure and read a bit more about the project as preparation. This afternoon, I had an initial 30 minute Skype interview which was about 50% comprised of the lead guy telling me about his experience and 50% various people asking me about mine. At the end they said they'd want to schedule a second interview soon and would let me know within a few days when that would be. Two hours later I get a message asking if I can be on Skype again in an hour. I log in and they offer me the job on the spot.

So, if things shake out nicely with the logistics and the offer details, I'm going to be working on The Mandate with Perihelion. I'm still a bit floored by the fact that they are hiring me based on 30 minutes of conversation and the fact that one of them knows a guy I used to work with and who apparently bigged me up in no uncertain terms when these guys asked him about me.
 

[Rasix]

Work is not fun right now.  Plus, next week I get to do even more of it while my family is on vacation.

[Trippy]

This game?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate/description

[IainC]

This game?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate/description

Yep. They have been quiet for a bit and hiring a lot apparently but they are developing at a steady pace.

[Sky]

Glad you found a place relatively quickly, Iain!

Some friends are opening a brewery in town, running an IGG campaign for some starter capital. Nice IGG launch party this evening, and I backed them at the '2 beers a month for life' level :)

I mean, I'm already a few free beers and sammiches in already, heh. Got talking to one of the brewers about the bourbon barrels they use, and he said if you leave it in too long, it will just hammer you with bourbon flavor and heavy vanilla. I think he meant it as a negative, but now it's on the wishlist for an 'experiment', a bourbon beer run, yay!

Second best hefeweizen I've had, though their pale was more of an india pale (I don't like hops sledgehammers).

[Furiously]

WayAbvPar and I just took our kids to the best baseball game ever!

We got to see Macklemore perform (The first pitch, but hey, that counts as seeing him live right?)

It was the slowest game ever. with a 0 to 1 score in the end! I spent 5 times the cost of the ticket on beer. 

[Salamok]

So I have been not paying attention very closely but 5 years ago when Oracle pretty much forked and rebranded Cent OS as Oracle Linux so they could slap an "Enterprise Support" plan on it I thought it was pretty ridiculous but when in gods name did they decide to rename it "The Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel"?

edit - Also if it is "The Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" why does anyone need a support contract on it ;)

[Chimpy]

The unbreakable part is your organization's contract with the Devil Oracle.

[Yegolev]

I don't know when it happened but it was prior to 2013, I believe.

[Trippy]

Oracle 9i was what started the "Unbreakable" nomenclature at Oracle.

[Merusk]

Any of you accounting types licensed to work in Ohio or have recommendations in the state?

[Paelos]

Any of you accounting types licensed to work in Ohio or have recommendations in the state?

You don't have to be licensed in a state to file a return in that state. Or are you talking about actual accounting work?

Either way, the answer is no on my end.

[Merusk]

Actual accounting work/ advice. It's re: Federal stuff though.

[Endie]

Glad you found a place relatively quickly, Iain!

Some friends are opening a brewery in town, running an IGG campaign for some starter capital. Nice IGG launch party this evening, and I backed them at the '2 beers a month for life' level :)

I mean, I'm already a few free beers and sammiches in already, heh. Got talking to one of the brewers about the bourbon barrels they use, and he said if you leave it in too long, it will just hammer you with bourbon flavor and heavy vanilla. I think he meant it as a negative, but now it's on the wishlist for an 'experiment', a bourbon beer run, yay!

Second best hefeweizen I've had, though their pale was more of an india pale (I don't like hops sledgehammers).

Scottish brewers Innis and Gunn actually do something like this for one of their pale ales: http://shop.innisandgunn.com/products/bourbon-pale-ale 

[Signe]

Did you guys know that you can buy margaritas in a can?   

[01101010]

Did you guys know that you can buy margaritas in a can?   

Can? Yes. Should? NO. Will ever? Nope. 

[apocrypha]

Scottish brewers Innis and Gunn actually do something like this for one of their pale ales: http://shop.innisandgunn.com/products/bourbon-pale-ale 

Innis & Gunn always have 330ml bottles in the Tesco's '4 for £6' thing where all the other beers in it are 500ml bottles. So nobody ever buys them. Which is a shame because they're really nice.

[Sky]

My neighbor has a margarita machine, so if I feel the need for one, she makes a batch.

More often, she drunkenly knocks on my door and hands me one. I've come to enjoy surprise margaritas.

[Yegolev]

Did you guys know that you can buy margaritas in a can?   

Sounds like you've been had.