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- Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:34 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Trek Thread
- Replies: 1343
- Views: 297012
Re: Trek Thread
Gene had a massive hard-on (ha ha) for Future Sex and wanted that to be an important theme in TNG. We got "fully functional and anatomically correct" out of it, so there's that. Unfortunately, we got the Edo out of it, too. It's too bad early TNG directors interpreted "quick moving&qu...
- Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:48 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
- Replies: 2364
- Views: 223030
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
OTOH, I may as well announce this now: a couple of you probably remember I was working off-and-on on a Voyager rewrite a few years ago. Well, I did a page one rewrite of it and I'm posting it on TEO as a weekly serial starting December 1. As promised, this has been posted on TEO. Read it here , if ...
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:46 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
- Replies: 2364
- Views: 223030
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
I'm going to make one last push at publication over the winter; if I don't get at least a nibble by next Memorial Day, I'm self-publishing at zero profit for me; the paper version will be printing and shipping costs, the ebook will be free. Red if real publishing doesn't work out, maybe talk to me....
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:13 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
- Replies: 2364
- Views: 223030
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
I'm going to make one last push at publication over the winter; if I don't get at least a nibble by next Memorial Day, I'm self-publishing at zero profit for me; the paper version will be printing and shipping costs, the ebook will be free.
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:03 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
- Replies: 2364
- Views: 223030
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
OK so HI publication: Short version is that I had an agent at a big boy agency and we were about two weeks from going into submission when my agent got laid off. I immediately sent out a bunch of agent queries, got a pile of rejection slips, got dispirited, and stopped working on it for a while (thi...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:40 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
- Replies: 2364
- Views: 223030
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
You're welcome.Sandman wrote:Still, the inverse of Sturgeon's Law probably applies, and for every ten iterations of SMARMAGEDDON!!!!11!!!!1!?!£!?$!^$&$ you likely have something for which the act of reading isn't entirely like suffering toothache in prose form.
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Lament 2: Cry Harder
- Replies: 1118
- Views: 117203
Re: Lament 2: Cry Harder
For someone who wants to join the army, you don't seem to have a very clear idea what life in the army is actually like.Darksi4190 wrote:Oh do they test for that? Shit.
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:59 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Lament 2: Cry Harder
- Replies: 1118
- Views: 117203
Re: Lament 2: Cry Harder
Because it feels p. great. I mean, why the shit do you think people do drugs?adr wrote:why would you want to do drugs?
- Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:50 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Trek Thread
- Replies: 1343
- Views: 297012
Re: Trek Thread
The man took Harry's glass and had a small sip. He started laughing.
"What?" said Harry.
"This isn't Romulan Ale," said the stranger. "This is synthehol and Wild Berry Tasty-Ade. Next time make sure he hasn't switched bottles on you."
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:11 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: So Meta and I almost died
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4093
So Meta and I almost died
So Meta and I just spent a week in the Outer Banks (North Carolina barrier islands) and had a really great time right up until Friday afternoon, when we almost drowned in the Atlantic Ocean. The surf all week had been fairly rough, but our usual swimming spot, near the condo we were staying in Duck,...
- Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:30 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Testing Chat Thread
- Replies: 2504
- Views: 181184
Re: Testing Chat Thread
My dad was a coastie in the early 70s. The way he tells it, they spent most of their time smoking dope and drag racing up and down Long Beach Island.
Sounds shitloads more fun than the army. Especially in the early 70s.
Sounds shitloads more fun than the army. Especially in the early 70s.
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:07 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
I was grouchy and sarcastic and mean to a poor person in Bangalore yesterday because his employers (Comcast) have provided terrible service through no fault of his. It was really satisfying at the time, but now I feel kinda bad about it.
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:15 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
only when it's on saleBaks-kun wrote:do you go greek on yogurt?RedImperator wrote:man I go through all the trouble to fill my house with good and delicious snacks like clementines and peaches and blueberries and yogurt and now i want doritos
thanks brain
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:10 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
man I go through all the trouble to fill my house with good and delicious snacks like clementines and peaches and blueberries and yogurt and now i want doritos
thanks brain
thanks brain
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:06 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Godammed SDN
- Replies: 12193
- Views: 761699
Re: Godammed SDN
oh hey there guys
so i moved to a new house and i havent had internet for like two weeks
did i miss anything lol
so i moved to a new house and i havent had internet for like two weeks
did i miss anything lol
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:57 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Godammed SDN
- Replies: 12193
- Views: 761699
Re: Godammed SDN
Guys they had Fox News on in my office and I'm telling you watching Karl Rove's piggy face go from triumph to confusion to heartbroken in the space of ninety seconds was amazing television.
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:39 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
I got polite and reassuring, yet authoritative.Gands wrote:i got "condescending and robotic".zhaktronz wrote:Though apparently I sound arrogant on the phone.
Meta just said "this sounds like a race to be Boyd Shreave"
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:19 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
you just can't win when you work in those call centers so among the ways they rate you are: 1) did you force in specific sentences from the script (regardless of the conversation flow)? That was definitely what made me lose my cool. The transcript I posted might imply I was being curt earlier; I to...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:02 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
I'm positive he was reading from a script; occasionaly I feel bad because nearly all my conversations with [student loan company]'s operators end up with me saying something sarcastic and rude. I briefly did call center work and I know what it's like to have to say something stupid because it's in t...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:12 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
Operator: Thank you for calling [student loan company], how can I help you today? Me: Hi, I'd like to change my due date. It's three days before my payday and I'm perpetually three days late. O: Yes, I see you are currently three days delinquent. We can't change your due date while you are delenquen...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:36 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Godammed SDN
- Replies: 12193
- Views: 761699
Re: Godammed SDN
Keeping in mind that this is stuff I've picked up via osmosis from Meta: Descartes (famously) wrote about the difference between the actual really real world and our subjective experience of it. It's the "what if I'm really a brain in a tank or a simulation or something God happens to be imagin...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:03 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Godammed SDN
- Replies: 12193
- Views: 761699
Re: Godammed SDN
I'm sorry in advance that I don't subscribe to your wholly inconsistent, entirely unoriginal scientism (that's "science-as-religion," by the way; I wouldn't explain this, but then you haven't even read Descartes, so I'm trying to be charitable). I await your personal attacks with open arm...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:36 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Godammed SDN
- Replies: 12193
- Views: 761699
Re: Godammed SDN
Better. If the freeze dried food leaks, you're not on the hook for half a million dollars in environmental remediation.starku wrote:better or worse than 20,000l of pertrol in the yard
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:30 am
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: Godammed SDN
- Replies: 12193
- Views: 761699
Re: Godammed SDN
The weirdest thing is that New Jersey, which is about as corrupt and rotten as it's possible to be, has a constitutional amendment mandating sensible legislative districts. SCOTUS has ruled political gerrymandering is just super, btw. Which is why I tell people that you shouldn't rely on the Supreme...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:45 pm
- Forum: New Testing
- Topic: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
- Replies: 2735
- Views: 193212
Re: The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution
don't worry we'll just use my credit instead that should be fine right
oh god
oh god