How's the evening going this cross thread?

"story645" (story645) 01/14/2016 at 20:34 • Filed to: cross talk, open thread

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Hello happy denizens of the kinjaverse. Welcome to the pan-kinja !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! cross thread. What’s on your plate this evening?

CB > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:39

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I went to the grocery store and found some steak for 50% off since its best before date was today. It’s also wrapped in bacon, so as a student, I came out pretty well.

k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:40

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Ghost in the Machine > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:43

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Right now salad is on my plate since it’s dinner time (I eat dinner around 5 pm like an old person).

Shameless plug time: If you watch Syfy’s Face Off here is my recap of the premiere of the new season.

story645 > CB 01/14/2016 at 20:44

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Yay! Scoring deals at the grocery store rocks.

k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! > CB 01/14/2016 at 20:46

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Hooray for sell-by, freezers and rice recipes, yo, champion fodder of poor peeps everywhere.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:47

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I’m eating cake.

CB > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:47

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Yeah. I like shopping the day I eat because I don’t have to worry about food expiring.

CB > k2b: da man trynta steal mah bloggy!!!!!!! 01/14/2016 at 20:47

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Amen.

Patrick Nichols > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:48

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Hackerspace main page is down for some reason. Hopefully they fix it before the open thread tomorrow. I can still find articles through links but I don't know what's up with that.

Svend > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:50

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Peppered and salted fried steak, steamed new potatoes in herb butter (then lightly tossed in the frying pan with the steak juices) and carrot and swede mash with a knob of salted butter.

Result, meal full of taste and flavour.

story645 > Patrick Nichols 01/14/2016 at 20:53

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Eek! Wanna ping kinja tech?

YetAnotherRachel > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:56

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Tech week is over!!!! Holy fuck we open on Saturday. I’ve been teaching all day, then riding a bus straight to rehearsal where I’m stage managing a children’s production. Tonight was our final dress. I get my weekday evenings back, but lose my weekends for the rest of the month. I’m okay with this trade-off.

My husband is also in tech week and tonight is his final dress. He opens tomorrow night. I look forward to seeing my husband during the week again. I miss him.

$kaycog > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:57

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Howdy! Just watching TV and relaxing. I had leftover Papa Murphy’s chicken, bacon, artichoke Delite pizza for dinner.

Arpad Okay > story645 01/14/2016 at 20:58

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I went to see Star Wars today.

Tomorrow is my first day back to work after a week and a half off. Holiday temp work ended but they picked me up for permanent staff so nice, starting off 2016 having a job is nice. At LUSH Cosmetics . So I am doing a catalog studying this evening to be on point tomorrow morning.

I threw together a brief little thing about the forthcoming Gardener album over on Mezzotempo . I have actually been having some pretty bad anxiety issues lately and am taking a little hiatus from writing, at least the serious stuff for Doom Rocket. Side shit endless always.

brightersideoflife > story645 01/14/2016 at 21:15

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Leftover sweet potato, carrot, and parsnip mash. With a second course of cheese because reasons.

I learned today that Gates McFadden from Star Trek Next Gen regularly worked for Jim Henson pre-ST:TNG days, doing choreography on Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.

HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT???

BehindDarkGlasses > Ghost in the Machine 01/14/2016 at 21:24

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So shameless! I also eat dinner relatively early, between 5-6. So let’s be old together in our dinner eating. #solidarity@5pm

d15b > CB 01/14/2016 at 21:27

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They do that a lot in Japan (buy food for that day, to cook).

BehindDarkGlasses > story645 01/14/2016 at 21:45

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Soup and a turkey & cheese pressed sandwich.

I’ve been looking for work the past month since consulting gigs have been sparse and I only have two classes to take to finish my graduate school work. Unfortunately I couldn’t take them both this semester since they’re offered on the same night. C’est la vie.

Anyway, I had two interviews (initial and final round) a few weeks ago and didn’t end up getting that position. Which is fine, I wasn’t a perfect match (probably a 75% match) but the work was something I’m interested in. But another position opened up today in that same department that I am %110 match for and, while different from the first position I interviewed for, is another area I’m very interested in.

So I’m going to apply for the new position and I want to do a good cover letter to include in the materials. My past cover letters have been more about connecting my skills to the job which according to Lifehacker is the opposite of what I should do. Which means I’m going to attempt to craft a cover letter that demonstrates my personality and what I can bring to the organization that can’t be easily quantified on my resume.

Anyone else have any successful stories about using a cover letter like this? Any pointers? The examples they gave on The Muse all came across as very corny.

FoilyDoily > story645 01/14/2016 at 21:48

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Tonight, I was alone in the ladies room with someone semi-famous in my field and whose work I respect immensely. I have been kicking myself all evening for not saying hello and instead only giving her the polite ladies room smile.

Retired Jackaroo > story645 01/14/2016 at 21:50

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As it’s daytime down under where I am and I’m at “work” working out my notice, I’m just hanging out in a room, pretending to work and watching Lost Girl on my iPad.

#winning

Owl is lost > Svend 01/14/2016 at 21:50

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Looks delicious.

story645 > BehindDarkGlasses 01/14/2016 at 21:50

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G’luck. Ask a manager has a bunch of good advice:

http://www.askamanager.org/category/cover…

Owl is lost > brightersideoflife 01/14/2016 at 21:51

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Very cool and very interesting.

BehindDarkGlasses > story645 01/14/2016 at 21:52

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Thanks, I’m going to check that out right now. :-)

Birddog > story645 01/14/2016 at 21:55

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Today is technically my Friday so some Sailor Jerry and Dr.Pepper are in my glass this evening.

And as a bonus the Rum came in a cool can with a beautiful Pin Up Girl print!

Svend > Owl is lost 01/14/2016 at 22:07

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It really was good.

Steak and potatoes of any sort go together perfectly.

CB > d15b 01/14/2016 at 22:41

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Huh, didn’t know that.

brightersideoflife > CB 01/14/2016 at 22:42

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When I was in school, I knew what time the butchers marked down the meat at my local Winn-Dixie. Tuesdays were especially nice since any extras from the weekend had to go!

brightersideoflife > Birddog 01/14/2016 at 22:43

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Dr. Pepper and spiced rum goes really well together! Excellent choice!

DocWalt > story645 01/14/2016 at 22:44

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I’ve just been crashed out of three races in a row in iRacing. Only one could have been considered partially my fault, and that’s pretty debatable since the trailing car just understeered into me. Blech.

Birddog > brightersideoflife 01/14/2016 at 22:45

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The only way to go!

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > story645 01/14/2016 at 23:01

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Schmoyoho, accent on the yo!

The Otters Knew Alex Was Still Around > story645 01/14/2016 at 23:01

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Maybe a tamale. Maybe leftovers from last night. Also I’m grouchy because my running partner is flaking on me for the third time this week so he can go to crossfit, and I am feeling salty and selfish about it. I realize it’s not really reasonable or fair for me to throw it at him that he isn’t working fulltime (or really at all), and he could easily go to a different crossfit class tomorrow and we could still run together (he does double-days pretty regularly), but I kind of want to.

Anyway, wine first. I’ll feel better in 5, 4, 3 ....

mrsfinch > Arpad Okay 01/14/2016 at 23:10

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I went to a visitation for someone I knew who just died very unexpectedly. She was an animator, and there was some talk that she had done some work on SWTFA. I am seeing it next weekend and had already counted on crying through the film from sheer nostalgia (I have waited 40 years for this) and emotion, and now, when watching the credits as is my habit, if I see her name, the waterworks will begin all over again.

Came home emotionally wrecked but a kind neighbour came upstairs with some beer, so I’m trying to talk myself down.

Arpad Okay > mrsfinch 01/14/2016 at 23:32

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I took my 9yo nephew to see it for his third my first time. Definitely felt my heart in my throat on more than one occasion, if you think you might cry you probably will but it’s no big deal as we are all feeling it.

Sorry for your loss. Bravo to kind neighbors.

The Gaysian > story645 01/15/2016 at 00:06

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So I was learning quite a bit today, because of these stunning 1700 year old portraits:

http://thesaladbowl.kinja.com/today-i-learne…

bluehinter > story645 01/15/2016 at 02:32

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Had an absolutely horrendous day at work, but came home to find my wife had bought me this book as a birthday present:

It’s a collection of awesome stereoscopic images of hell from the 1850's. And yes, it does come with a stereoscope. Here are a couple of my favorites:

This is pretty much what I imagine the inside of Mike Mignola’s subconscious looks like 100% of the time.

KateFromIowa > Svend 01/15/2016 at 08:02

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Hey, what happened to the "what did you cook" thread at Jez? That was fun, and sort of made up for losing Kitchenette (at least for that one day a week it did.)

KateFromIowa > Arpad Okay 01/15/2016 at 08:07

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Any info on what the hell’s going on at LUSH? Things are disappearing from the website at an unprecedented rate...are they doing all new lines of stuff or something? Between Christmas and now (when I’m planning what to do with my birthday money) like 50% of the damned soaps disappeared. And I need to plan ahead for a company like LUSH, I’m allergic to bananas, plantains and avocados and *shrug* so much of their stuff contains one or more of those things. Also, wtf is up with the perfumes? It's been almost a full year now that they've been promising new perfumes and a perfume version of Veerappan, and I've seen nothing.

Svend > KateFromIowa 01/15/2016 at 08:10

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I don’t know. I never saw that post on Jez.

I used to look at Kitchenette for the strange customer stories.

I recently made a comment on another page regarding cooking by sous vide. I didn’t reply to some comments as they were odd.

KateFromIowa > Ghost in the Machine 01/15/2016 at 08:10

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URGH. FaceOff in it's first week is already going better than Top Chef in it's what...sixth? I don't get this season of TC, half the people on it I keep wanting Tom and Emeril to sit down individually and just grill them on "do you want to fucking be here or not" because it feels like (yes, still, even though we've had weeks of competition and sudden death/elimination quickfires) like about a third of them still just can't even be bothered to TRY.

KateFromIowa > bluehinter 01/15/2016 at 08:13

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Happy (late) birthday! And that dinner party of the dead looks like more fun than many dinner parties of the living that I've been to.

KateFromIowa > Svend 01/15/2016 at 08:44

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Yeah, rolling so many of the sites together has caused...commentariat collisions. Mostly unfavorable. I'm having to relearn toll control. *sigh*

Svend > KateFromIowa 01/15/2016 at 08:56

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I usually hide in the safe area of OPPO, occasionally pop over to Jalopnik then Jezebel, Gawker and filter through other sites but I post on them with caution as there are a lot of strange people out there who will argue black is white for the sake of it before sending everything out on a tangent.

I like food but don’t always get time or have the energy to really appreciate it how it should be.

KateFromIowa > Svend 01/15/2016 at 12:27

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I love food, and cooking is one of my hobbies. With the loss of kitchenette, it was nice to have the continuing food-related thread, but I haven’t seen one all month. It’s disappointing, because it was one of the few threads that did get almost as big as the kitchenette comments, and it stayed really very civil.

Organized Chaos > mrsfinch 01/15/2016 at 12:37

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I am secure enough with my manliness to admit that I got choked up quite a few times during the movie. Including when the Millennium Falcon first appeared.

Svend > KateFromIowa 01/15/2016 at 12:55

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Kitchenette stories was my favourite. It was amazing to think (as well as horrifying) that people could behave like that as a customer.

Behind Closed Ovens started up on Wonkette.com

http://wonkette.com/596424/stories-of-the-worlds-most-awful-restaurant-customers

I haven’t navigated round it yet but at least some of the customer stories are available to read.

KateFromIowa > Svend 01/15/2016 at 14:38

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Yeah, but I can't have those ads showing up on my computer here at work, and I don't have a computer at home, just my cell phone.

Svend > KateFromIowa 01/15/2016 at 15:05

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I’ve gotten used to seeing ads really. It only annoys me when it slows down the page response as it uploads all the, well, crap I’ll ultimately ignore.

I couldn’t not have a computer at home though maybe I’d sleep better if I didn’t have one.

KateFromIowa > Svend 01/15/2016 at 17:30

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If it wasn't so T&A heavy, I'd go, and damn the slow browser. But even if I was willing to sit though all the eyespace given over to that mess, I bet it would be only two or three Mondays before the IT guys blocked the site.

Arpad Okay > KateFromIowa 01/15/2016 at 17:36

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Well, as I am a sales associate, I’m not sure how qualified I am to speak on all this stuff. In my experience, Christmas is huge for Lush so after Christmas a lot of stuff is gone. Also after Christmas is the Buy One Get One sale so a lot of what was left is also gone too. On the other hand, they just released half a dozen new and returning items for Valentine’s Day, so, like always, stuff cycles in and stuff cycles out.

They are reformulating two or three kinds of perennial soap and put the old recipes on BOGO sale so that is probably a large contributing factor to the state of soaps.

Banana is only in a couple of things but avocado is in tons and tons of stuff, you definitely need to be careful. Complete ingredient lists for each product on the website.

They just did a bunch of perfumes that are exclusive to the kitchen? I don’t know what their plans are moving forward with general release.

KateFromIowa > Arpad Okay 01/15/2016 at 17:49

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Ah, if they're reformulating a lot of the base items I suppose that would make sense. The website just looked so depressingly bare when I went through it the other day, it really threw me. And given that I've shopped LUSH since before it was stateside (it was perfect for gifts for a couple of friends I have in England and Ireland,) it was really disappointing to see.

Svend > KateFromIowa 01/16/2016 at 00:07

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Damn those I.T. guys.