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"story645" (story645) 08/27/2015 at 18:45 • Filed to: cross thread, open thread

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Hello happy kinja people and how are you today? Today’s cross thread is super late ‘cause I’m on vacation in London, and so I both blanked and have to deal with a 5 hour time difference. What were/are your summer vacation plans?

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k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:48

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Summer vacation plans? Summer vacation is for closers, Story.

For Sweden > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:49

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Just FYI

Ghost in the Machine > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:51

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I’m not sure if this image is better with or without a caption.

HammerheadFistpunch > For Sweden 08/27/2015 at 18:52

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cause of the Ikea thing?

EL_ULY > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:52

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My plan was to take at least 1 day off work.... lol nope :] Everyone else got time off tho. Typical. I did take my wife to the beach for the first time in her life. She liked it a bunch. We only stayed for about 2 hour because the sun was just brutal. Yay being super pale Mexicans lol :]

Hope everyone has a good weekend :] Here is a racecar

k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! > For Sweden 08/27/2015 at 18:52

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Alas.

For Sweden > HammerheadFistpunch 08/27/2015 at 18:53

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The IKEA brand must be protected

Kastle, Queen of . . . > For Sweden 08/27/2015 at 18:53

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That reminds me, I have cheese.

St. Borg de Chupacabras ¯\_()_/¯ (  ) > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:54

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For some reason I’m attracting a LOT of dudes on okc who want to either have babies or want a mom for their babies. It’s weird...

HammerheadFistpunch > For Sweden 08/27/2015 at 18:55

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Amazing they were able to fit that all in a flat pack box, and with only 4 spare lugs.

HammerheadFistpunch > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:57

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Still hoping to take the kids and trailer out one more time, probably to capitol reef cause its amazing and relatively quick.

dawnell > story645 08/27/2015 at 18:58

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Summer plans? Right now, not much except wishing it was over. I didn’t get to go anywhere.

Right now I’m about halfway through watching the first episode of Twin Peaks. I just did not get into it first time around, and I’ve tried to watch it again but usually it doesn’t go well.

Lexador > story645 08/27/2015 at 19:01

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Hey tech people and school pranksters (please share if your sub-blog would be so inspired),

My dad is an engineering teacher in high school and has noticed that his kids don’t get too involved unless there’s something in it for them, like robotics competitions.

My suggestion: a school prank. Something that would get school permission but would let the kids feel like they’re getting one over on their classmates. A robot routine at the pep rally, a snack server at lunch, etc. Ideas?

StoneCold > HammerheadFistpunch 08/27/2015 at 19:04

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An engine compartment in which everything is female hex (torx I can deal with a bit better) is my greatest nightmare. I don’t know if it’s the way I turn wrenches, but I always seem to round them out within two to three...screwings, without fail.

Edit: Oh gosh, now I’m imagining an interior done in cheap black laminate.

Noooooo!

Arpad Okay > story645 08/27/2015 at 19:06

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Diary of a Teenage Girl came out and you should go see it because it is a-fucking-mazing .

“Diary of a Teenage Girl [is] failing at the box office because young people won’t go to American independent films. How sad missing out on Diary of a Teenage Girl, so courageous and transgressive in portraying the lively, raunchy, not always healthy sex life of a 15-year-old. There is no male gaze here: a splendid film written and directed by a woman from a novel by a woman, and everything from a female perspective.”

For Sweden > Lexador 08/27/2015 at 19:20

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kids don’t get too involved unless there’s something in it for them

true

RobGronkowski'sPartyBusDriver > story645 08/27/2015 at 19:27

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Don’t worry about being late. If i can get Fact Of The Day posted on O-Deck by my own self imposed 8 am eastern deadline I consider that to be a good day. But half the time it’s several hours late and no one seems to care.

I wanted to wait to ask this in the cross thread. I will be attending DragonCon in Atlanta. I was wondering if there were any other folks around here planning to go, and if so, would be interested in organizing some kind of Kinja get together. I’ll be with my friend and his fiance most of the time but i’m sure there will be an hour here or there where i’ll be free. I also have never been to this con so I can’t really suggest good places to meet. Anyway, I was just wondering what people’s thoughts were on that.

story645 > Lexador 08/27/2015 at 19:27

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There are a bunch of fun youtube videos of rube goldberg type machines that I think they could have fun rigging up. Oh, I know, a friend was telling me about this trashcan robot at a state fair that would follow ‘em around and make jokes and the like and her family thought it was awesome.

Chuck E. > story645 08/27/2015 at 19:28

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I just finished a ten-day forced march back and forth between my inlaws homes and my mother’s house, all back in Connecticut. I guess you could say it was a vacation because my wife and children and I flew there from Seattle, rented a car, and stayed in a hotel and spent thousands upon thousands of dollars doing so. But was it relaxing? No. No it was not.

Chuck E. > Arpad Okay 08/27/2015 at 19:31

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I literally just leaned over to my fifteen sixteen-year-old daughter and showed her this and said, “You really should go see this movie. It’s supposed to be amazing.” And she said, “I don’t care.”

Erinaceus > story645 08/27/2015 at 19:34

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http://grantland.com/features/the-w…

Today’s must-read story: MLB now owns 27 of the 30 team URLs... Giants.com is owned by the NFL and will never be relinquished; Rays.com is a Restaurant in Seattle not looking to sell; here’s the profile of the... interesting pair of guys sitting on Twins.com.

story645 > Chuck E. 08/27/2015 at 19:35

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My vacation is with my brother, mother, and grandmother, so it’s also low on the relaxing factor and so much sympathy.

alimum > story645 08/27/2015 at 20:20

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We went camping in Yosemite. It was great, but we did not see any bears.

story645 > alimum 08/27/2015 at 20:25

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Oh, super jealous. And Yogi!

story645 > k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! 08/27/2015 at 20:27

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Yeah I kinda had to warn my adivsor I may not get any work done while here...coincidentally our servers have been on the first and so I probably wouldn’t have been able to work anyway.

Ishamael > story645 08/27/2015 at 20:30

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You got me all confused I didn’t even realize it was Thursday because of no Cross Thread.

story645 > Ishamael 08/27/2015 at 20:32

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Then I’ve achieved my goal of the cross thread being enshrined as a regular part of people’s schedule! ;)

Ishamael > story645 08/27/2015 at 20:35

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lol I used to always try to post Naruto Gaiden around it so I wasn’t bumped on TAY. Eventually I realized that was a pointless endevour as Thursdays was a major posting day it seems so I’ve moved most of my major posts to Friday’s. Also the weekends got to love the deadness of the weekends.

umataro42 > alimum 08/27/2015 at 20:47

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If you didn’t come down with the plague, I’d consider it a good trip.

http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourv…

Also, I get angry anytime there’s a news story of a bear being euthanised because it killed a human in a national park. It’s their damn home, why don’t they get to use the “stand your ground” rule?

SnipGoTheShearsOfAtropos > story645 08/27/2015 at 21:16

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I went to Finland for an academic conference. Next is California for another conference, I’m presenting this time. Then London to look at a school for my PhD and meet with my potential advisor again.

These aren't vacations, but they're time away from the office and I enjoy them. My work in mental health is so stressful that any time away is good self care.

jpomonkey > alimum 08/28/2015 at 00:51

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I hope you left a comment about the lack of bears. They should really fix that.

jpomonkey > story645 08/28/2015 at 00:57

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I went camping last weekend with two of my friends. It was at another friend’s mom’s house. She lives next to a beautiful river in a great spot. Since my other friend (her daughter) was out of town, I called her mom up and did it old-school. “Hi, this is ___, your daughter’s friend. Can I come up to camp on your property this weekend?” She was so gracious about it, it was sweet.

I’m in Portland, and tons of smoke from nearby wildfires engulfed the city for the weekend. It was weird emerging from my house and smelling campfire all around. Apparently a lot of people called 911 so the authorities specifically had to say, “Please don’t call 911 unless you see a fire.”

Still hoping to get a few camping weekends in, but it’s supposed to rain this weekend. Which is great because we obviously need it, but not so great for spending time outdoors.

jpomonkey > Chuck E. 08/28/2015 at 00:59

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Typical. Has she seen The Perks of Being a Wallflower? I love that movie.

Moon > Chuck E. 08/28/2015 at 01:26

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Do not forget this. All who are reading this, do not forget, either... ALL forced marches end in Siberia. Wherever you are, whatever the supposed occasion, you are on your way to hell.

Moon > Ishamael 08/28/2015 at 01:30

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My text-to-speech reader said “end-e-vor” when it ran into “endevour”. And I thought, ‘what’s an endevor?... is it a creature that eats the last part of things?’

Could that be why nothing is really over?? Because the *endevor* ate everything? : )

Moon > story645 08/28/2015 at 01:36

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Story, well I didn’t do too much this summer. I bought a bike. Also, I vowed to keep my place clean, for the first time since I’ve lived on my own, and that vow is still in effect, has been since late June.

I also had the privilege, like so many other Earthlings, of seeing Pluto up close for the first time, thanks to New Horizons. That of course was July 15.

I gave my first ‘apartment warming’ party, on Tuesday. I had three friends over and I was not expecting them to bring me anything but their company, they brought stuff. I got one of those huge food baskets from one friend, and new fancy beddings from another. And like I said, I didn’t expect any gifts. There were no rules, just turn up, while I supplied the food.

Chuck E. > jpomonkey 08/28/2015 at 01:38

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She says, “No!”

jpomonkey > Chuck E. 08/28/2015 at 01:51

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I used to be a teenage girl. Good luck with that.

Chuck E. > jpomonkey 08/28/2015 at 03:18

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She’s my third and last. Her older sisters are 18 and 21. My 18-year-old told me, the other day, she was better at adulting than I am. She’s not incorrext. I still have no idea how to deal with them.

orcim > Lexador 08/28/2015 at 05:58

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Or a learned person that sees them as people first, and not “kids” - since at that age, at least the intellectual aspect is 100% ‘adult’ (not talking emotional, experiential, wisdom, etc... just brain processing machinery here.) The person who treats them in that different and upfront way, without shying around hard questions, can get them to do almost anything.

Access to adult information, presented as to an adult, is something they crave at that age. All the “polite” and “PC” and “appropriate” way we treat them is something they don’t need - hard data is what they need.

Activity wise, maybe the pranks would work, that’s an old, old tribal method of getting younglings engaged. (It got me engaged back in the 80’s for April 1st stunts at a startup.)

story645 > Ishamael 08/28/2015 at 06:26

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I picked Thursday ‘cause back then Hackerspace had Monday-Wednesday-Friday open threads and for some reason Tuesday was jam packed...

story645 > Moon 08/28/2015 at 06:36

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Aww, the party sounds nice. And congrats on the keeping clean. I’ve uh...been slacking lately.

Ishamael > story645 08/28/2015 at 06:38

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I guess just every day has that day. I find Tuesdays and Thursday’s are packed for us on TAY.

story645 > jpomonkey 08/28/2015 at 06:40

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That camping trip sounds lovely. My only camping experience was a campground next to a beach and it was much fun (also ‘cause it was tagging along with a weather camp, so loads of people)

story645 > SnipGoTheShearsOfAtropos 08/28/2015 at 06:42

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I love conferences that take me to new places, and I feel you on them being good as a break from the office and daily grind and they’re a chance to socialize.

story645 > Ishamael 08/28/2015 at 06:44

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Back when I was choosing the thread day, it was the Whitenoise-GT-Hackerspace tech thread. I didn’t plan for it to grow back then.

Ishamael > story645 08/28/2015 at 06:53

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Thats what tends to happen I suppose things grow as other people buy in as it were.

Lexador > orcim 08/28/2015 at 08:58

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I’m not sure where your PC rant came from. I came here asking for ideas to motivate and engage students. I’m not asking how best to hold their hands as they cross the street.

Froggeek > story645 08/28/2015 at 09:29

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My vacations start at the end of next week. Plans : getting my stupid driving license, and possibly go paragliding if logistics work fine. Also, find a new game to play on Xbox One, because I’ll probably have finished Far Cry 4 by this time...

SnipGoTheShearsOfAtropos > story645 08/28/2015 at 09:54

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Yes, I met loads of friends at them! The academic heavy metal music community is really cool. I’m lucky to be in a field like this. How’s London? The Tower is one of my favorite places because I’m Anne Boleyn reincarnate, but I love the Boudica statue too.

Aikage > story645 08/28/2015 at 10:16

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OK I’ve decided to go ahead and try to do a quiz bowl with all of kinja. Step 1: Hibernate and make questions. Once I have enough questions for at least a few hours worth of quizzes, I’ll emerge with more details. If anyone wants to contribute, join in and message me on discord

story645 > SnipGoTheShearsOfAtropos 08/28/2015 at 12:04

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There’s a small symposium (part of a huge conference) that I’ve been going to for like 4 years now and the chair described it as seeing friends once a year.

I haven’t been around London much yet. Took the train down from Edinburgh and geeked out a bit at arriving at King’s Cross ‘cause I spent years in the Harry Potter fandom. Today my mom and I ventured out to the Jewish community in Golder’s Green to stock up on food, so it was a chance to see the underground and the suburbs but not so much London.

story645 > Froggeek 08/28/2015 at 12:06

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Man, I also need to get my license. I’m so *meh* about it that I let my permit lapse.

SnipGoTheShearsOfAtropos > story645 08/28/2015 at 12:43

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Oh I have a picture there with my Gryffindor scarf! Edinburgh is my favorite city. My partner and I want to get married in the castle one day (although I don’t have princess fantasies- for the history only). I highly recommend the Tower of London.

story645 > SnipGoTheShearsOfAtropos 08/28/2015 at 12:53

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I think we may already have tickets for the Tower of London, otherwise it’s definitely on the list. My mom loves big old houses, so we went to the castle (which yes, much history and fantastic views), Holyrood Palace, and Stirling Castle, and I think Buckingham and Windsor are both on the list for London. I’m trying to sneak in a visit to Bletchley Circle ‘cause I almost feel like I have to visit since I’m in computer science, and otherwise it’s mostly museums (which I love).

Ishamael > story645 08/28/2015 at 14:48

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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-08-2…

Ah HELL YA! My city is getting a screening I can actually go to!

orcim > Lexador 08/28/2015 at 15:31

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Sorry if it came across that way - didn’t mean to. Most people consider my ideas too radical and weird, but then they meet the kids I’ve had or the ones that are part of homeschool/mentoring groups or the results of the volunteering at elementary school trips and they can see how the kids become more engaged.

Honestly - I shouldn’t have said anything now that I think about it. It’s a two beer discussion with way too much to talk about. I retract the comment (except about pranks - those really are engaging as long as someone doesn’t let it get mean.)

I’ll leave it at this comment. I can feel the pain of your dad, and everytime I come across a typical high schooler I can hardly even get them to meet my eyes consistently - they almost always look down. That’s not natural in my opinion and getting them engaged is very good work. Good luck.

story645 > Ishamael 08/29/2015 at 16:36

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Congrats!