Just wondering if anyone else can make it to this meet or if any plans have changed.

Well...?

Take it again. I took the SAT twice. And if you want to know how I feel about the SAT in general, I think it is a mind-numbingly boring exam and it only added to the stress and fatigue for me near the end of my high school years.

Also, I don't feel like posting my scores in this thread even though they were pretty good (think 570-730 per section).

At 11/23/09 10:19 PM, AlphaCentauri wrote: Same sig since the first day of the redesign, and.... nothing? Guys. Come on.

I recognize yours.

I still probably have one of the oldest sigs out of everyone mentioned in this thread so far.

I immediately thought of Kingston, NY after reading the thread title.

At 11/22/09 11:15 PM, Canas wrote: i'm almost positive I remember the actual thread in which your sig originated in and to this day continue to be surprised that you haven't gotten anything cooler

Oh really?

My sig originated in this 5-year-old thread (scroll all the way down to the bottom). I just don't think it's worth it to change a sig this old, and people have, on and off, offered to make new sigs for me which I turned down repeatedly.

At 11/22/09 10:43 PM, Ragnarokia wrote: Wish you luck with that, 'professionals' were useless to me and didn't even care to try helping.

Same here and I don't know why I still keep trying. I've been going to shrinks, psychologists and regular counselors for years and haven't really gotten anywhere.

I'm useless, poor, and I have no goals in life.

I originally wanted to become a high school math teacher, but recently I learned that the Mathematics Education program at my college has been slashed due to budget cuts, so that gets thrown out the window. Likewise, people who want to become French, Spanish, Earth Science and chemistry teachers at the secondary level face the same problem.

I'm failing every single one of my classes due to high levels of stress and major depression. I actually tried early in the semester, then just gave up altogether. I will consider myself very lucky to pass even one class. My energy levels are lacking and I struggle to think clearly and get out of bed every morning.

Also, I need to continue gathering my thoughts because I have to discuss my problems with a professional tomorrow morning at 9:30 AM.

I've had this sig for more than 5 years, so I know there are people who recognize me by mine.

As someone who already is fucked up in the head...

Believe me, mental illness is not what it's all cracked up to be. Of course, it depends on the illness(es) you have, but most of them slow you down physically and mentally and destroy your thought processes, which makes doing simple tasks and going through life much harder than it should be.

At 11/21/09 11:57 PM, PennyPigtails wrote: It was hot

Very hot, but it would have been way hotter had I not been distracted by everyone else in the room.

At 11/21/09 02:44 PM, EJR wrote: The new AIM has had tabbed messages for a few versions already and I haven't seen any news ticker messages at all. Pretty much everything you can do with AIM is customizable, from the skin to alerts, to sounds, etc. Try it out.

Nice, you have an IM tab open for me, even though I haven't gotten any IMs from you today so far.

Also, is that what AIM 7.0 looks like by default? I still have 6.9. Maybe I'll upgrade soon.

Soda is the dominant term in most of New York and it's what I've always used, but if you go over to Western New York and much of the Finger Lakes and the western part of the Southern Tier, you'll see "pop" used more often than not.

At 11/21/09 10:51 AM, DannyJay wrote: wait. was that when the guy set off a bomb on wall street?

Exactly, and it's right over on the southeast corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. The damage from the bombing almost 90 years ago is indeed still there and I last walked past the building sometime this past spring.

My NG account is now 6 years old.

Congrats on the new baby, Sanjay. Hope you raise him well.

I'll probably never be a father, but that's okay with me because I don't think I'll have the energy and money it takes to raise a kid.

At 11/19/09 02:07 PM, Monocrom wrote: Also, I've been thinking about the alternate location that was proposed. Meeting at the ass-end of Manhattan near Water street, instead of Bryant park. You organized this, so it's up to you. There's a few historical spots near Water street. But yeah, more fun stuff near Bryant park.

I'll most likely take everyone down to Water Street eventually anyway--it just won't be the initial meet up spot. I briefly toyed around with making the initial meet location at Liberty Plaza Park on Church Street and Liberty Street or just anywhere along South Street, but then I finally settled with Bryant Park because I thought it'd be easier for most people to get to, especially considering that a few people coming to this meet have never stepped foot in NYC before.

I did. Still got sick this season, but it probably would have been a lot worse had I chosen not to receive any flu shots.

New room since Scud's was deleted:

http://stickam.com/member/loadChatRoom.d o?roomId=1403494

At 11/18/09 03:30 AM, Monocrom wrote: Who's going to attack you in Flushing? The Koreans who took over the neighborhood almost 20 years ago? I lived there for 22 years before moving near Jamaica nearly 8 years ago. I've found both to be pretty safe parts of the city.

To answer your first question: many of the inhabitants of NYCHA's projects situated in Flushing. I guess I should have said the parts of the neighborhood where the projects are, because I've seen some pretty intense fights there at times. Then again, there tends to be a lot of fighting and questionable people around just about every NYC housing project. Don't get me wrong though...I still visit Flushing every now and then, and there are many parts of it that are tolerable, but I still wouldn't live there.

Jamaica, on the other hand...well, North Jamaica is walkable. Not livable though, because I often see a lot of questionable people walking around. Some of them even have the nerve to stop me and ask for money to get on the F train, and I just want to tell them to fuck off. South Jamaica sucks a lot more ass though.

You really should have taken the breathalyzer test to begin with. It could have saved you all this trouble, and it wasn't an unreasonable request on the cop's part. Next time something like this happens, just do it.

At 11/17/09 06:33 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: but please feel better and take it easy gowwy :(

I really do hope I get much better. This shit has been going on since Friday. I'm trying to take it as easy as I can.

Also, I'm on cam with the mask again right now.

Even though I was administered both the swine and seasonal flu vaccines a few weeks ago, I'm still very god damn sick.

I'm coughing constantly, my throat is really fucking sore, I still have a fever, I can barely speak, and bad headaches and body aches.

If anyone wants to see me wearing a mask on cam, hurry up.

I have to cough every 10-20 seconds, so as a courtesy to everyone else, I muted myself.

At 11/17/09 09:25 AM, JoSilver wrote: Yeah... I live in queens.... =(

What's wrong with living in Queens?

Would you rather live in the middle of nowhere with no transportation, few businesses, and with the nearest grocery store at least 1-2 miles away?

But yeah, there are some select Queens neighborhoods I mostly tend to avoid and that I think aren't livable. I consider Jamaica to be the most dangerous neighborhood, and I only go there for the Central Library and the 165th Street bus terminal. Many parts of Far Rockaway, Ozone Park and Flushing also have pretty high crime rates and questionable people just loitering outside buildings.

I don't know if I'll have time to take everyone to Queens when this meet happens, but I do want to spend a somewhat significant amount of time outside Manhattan. I think Brooklyn has quite a bit to offer...both the Transit Museum and the NY Aquarium I mentioned in my first post are in Brooklyn, but in completely different neighborhoods. Most of that will probably be reserved for the second day, though.

Happy early birthday, Wade.

Here's a sexy knife for you.

I should also look and see if I have any old flashlights that you might find more useful than I do.

At 11/15/09 10:06 PM, HeavyMetalGuy wrote: XLBigFatLardo has joined the Stickam chat and he says that someone kicked him. You're supposed to give newcomers a warm welcome, not a kick in the face.

I don't really have much of a recollection of him, but either way, it wasn't me.

Here's how to actually do it step by step:

Point-slope form of a linear equation is: y - y1 = m(x - x1)

One of the coordinate pairs is (-2, 6), so x1 = -2 and y1 = 6, and m = 5.

y - 6 = 5(x + 2)
y = 5(x + 2) + 6
y = 5x + 10 + 6
y = 5x + 16

Now let y = 4 to find the x-value missing from that coordinate pair:

4 = 5x + 16
-12 = 5x
x = -12/5

At 11/14/09 06:30 PM, InnerChild548 wrote: Fahrenheit 451 was a great book.

Yeah, I actually liked it too, although I haven't read it since my sophomore year of high school.

God damn it. So what's new? Anything interesting? Well, I feel sick as a god damn dog, so please, someone, anyone...cure me.

At 11/14/09 09:47 AM, JoSilver wrote: How.... Have I just heard of this... I like live 2 blocks from there! YAY!.... expect to see my ugly face there...

I had no idea you lived in Manhattan. I thought you lived in Queens.