3,475 Forum Posts by "RydiaLockheart"
One thing I can say about this project: I got to draw up a plan to invade Paraguay from Argentina. Now how cool is that?
My boyfriend didn't share my enthusiasm though. He was all "Who would want to invade Paraguay besides you?" XD
At 11/7/09 10:39 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Will this have anything to do with the library background you had or is this a new track altogether? In any event, how neat.
Could be either, honestly. I haven't decided yet. But right now, maybe I oughta quit procrastinating.
Wow dude, where have you been?
At 11/7/09 12:29 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: Paraguay?
Oh yeah. Been doing it all trimester. Of course, right before I hand everything in is when Lino Oviedo decides to start causing trouble...
I just got my military map of Paraguay back in my inbox not too long ago and got a really good grade on it. There are a few things I don't agree with in the grade, but when I only lost two points, maybe I shouldn't beleaguer the point.
Since my Spanish is not too good, I've been reading Google Translate versions of all the newspapers and sometimes the translations are funny, like "ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IN YOUR NIECE." The only issue with the newspaper is that every country seems to have a "La Nacion" and I need to remember which is the right one.
Overall though, if we have to pick world regions, I'd like to stay with Latin America.
At 11/7/09 01:07 AM, SevenSeize wrote: What degree are you working on now?
Applied intelligence. Analyst work, mostly I've been studying Paraguay all trimester, and now everything's coming together. Part of it is compiling previous work, but a lot of this is new, too. I wouldn't have to spend so much time doing one thing if I hadn't got a lousy grade on it before. Bleh. The software I need to do one part of the project is proprietary, so I need to head to the lab tomorrow to use it...but I also need to fit in grocery shopping and cleaning. Double bleh.
I also need to prepare a presentation. It'll be on Thursday. I don't even wanna think of it until I get the written project part done. I think if I get that done the presentation will come easily.
Seven, why didn't you tell us your latest game was out? I saw it the other night in submissions, but didn't get a chance to play. Think I might go do that now.
I'm tits-deep in a final project. Might go to the lab tomorrow to use some software. Can't do it here since it's proprietary to the university. However, Windows Vista did give me a major advantage on one part of the project. With the Snipping Tool, I didn't have to waste time cropping screenshots or anything. I just took what I wanted, pasted it into my project, and boom, I was done.
Of course I'll need to go to the lab on the day I need to clean my apartment. Figures.
I wrote a blog post complaining about this a while back. If you're committed enough you're wearing rings, just go buy a damned engagement ring. Promise rings sound like something 14-year-olds would do.
I don't see why people are saying the New Jersey governor's race was a referendum on Obama. Sure, Obama campaigned for Corzine, but politicians campaign for other politicians all the time. And, what happened was the voters tuned out Obama and voted for the opposing candidate because Corzine was an absolutely godawful governor. Two of the girls in my class are New Jersey voters, and are lifelong Democrats, but voted for Christie anyways because Corzine did an absolutely abysmal job.
But of course, losing two governor's races is terrible for the Democrats, who have the presidency, majorities in both houses, and just picked up a seat that hasn't been held by Democrats since the Civil War. I don't see the 2009 elections as being a referendum on Obama, but 2010 definitely will be.
Nice to know natural selection still works.
My apartment in Ohio had spiders every now and then. One time I had a giant spider crawl out of my garbage disposal. Freaked me the hell out. Also had two large centipedes. One was the largest I'd ever seen. Now, I realize I may be a woman and supposedly scared of bugs because that's how women are, but if you see one of those suckers crawling up your wall or across your kitchen floor, I think you've earned the right to scream like a pussy.
At 10/29/09 06:27 PM, stafffighter wrote:
That's gonna cost him points.
They're letting people go there now. The level of fucked up that is is just immeasurable.
Well, the instructor agreed with his analysis. XD
That's strange though...Three Mile Island has three sections, and only one is still running. People also can't go in. I'm guessing one reason is it's still operational.
At 10/29/09 01:16 PM, morefngdbs wrote: should have picked Libya.
That country has NO rivers !
;)
Libya was not available unfortunately. But I seem interested in South America, so I picked one of the two countries down there that were available. People have been putting red polygons (no go) and yellow polygons (slow go) over various parts of their countries. The guy who has the Ukraine slapped a giant red polygon over Chernobyl. XD
Almost done with the rivers though. Once I figured out the pattern, it became easier. Then I get to look for other areas in Paraguay that need yellow or red polygons. Yay.
I will probably be doing homework Halloween night while waiting for knocks on the door. I have a very large Google Earth mapping project of Paraguay that's due next week. Right now, the biggest pain in the ass is using the polygon tool to map out the paths of the rivers. There are a lot of rivers in Paraguay. The hardest to draw were the ones on the borders.
Now finding the military installations should be fun. If the project extends like I think it will, then I have to do the countries around Paraguay, which include Argentina. I got off a lot easier than some of my classmates since Paraguay only has three border countries. As opposed to the girl doing Kyrgyzstan...
At 10/27/09 10:03 PM, Korriken wrote: How long do you think it will take for the republican party to finally realize that a "moderate" party will sink like the titanic? you have moderates on both sides, democrat side has some moderates and a pile of liberals. the republicans are trying to have a full on moderate party.
I disagree. When I think "conservative," I think Bobby Jindal, Barry Goldwater, or Dwight Eisenhower, not Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin. You need to have moderates to keep the Palins and the Huckabees of the party from dragging it into crazyland. If it's in crazyland, it alienates people and there's no real opposition party. Who'll be around to bandage the bleeding hearts if conservatives are too busy purging moderates from their ranks?
At 10/26/09 10:20 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: What's next, an elephant?
My boyfriend sponsored an elephant the way one sponsors a child in a foreign country. One of our friends asked "Does the elephant write to you?" I can imagine a giant crate with an elephant footprint imprint inside. He did get occasional progress updates on the elephant. Unfortunately, the elephant died of old age a couple months ago. He's considering sponsoring another one.
Of course, Skunky's post is good advice for ANY kind of dog. It's true that there are specialty breeders though. The township police get their K-9 dogs from a local German Shepard breeder.
When my parents and I got our Maltese way back when, he was the last one in the litter, so we didn't get to meet his siblings, but his mother was on site. One good sign was the breeder showed us around the property and where she kept all her animals. She bred two types of dogs only: Maltese and Great Danes. The Great Danes hung out in horse pens because those dogs are HUGE.
That's another sign of a good breeder: only specializing in a certain type of dog, not just breeding several.
At 10/24/09 10:49 PM, Proteas wrote: I'd be more worried about the dogs reacting badly to the kid right now than I would the kid pissing the dogs off. Pets tend to get neurotic when a kid is introduced after they've had all the attention in the world. But... if the kid is three months old and they haven't had any incident, I guess everything is going all right. Let's hope the parents teach the kid how to act properly around the dogs in question.
That happened with me and said poodle. Though to be honest, that dog didn't like kids period. My other cousins could try to pet him and he'd just growl. But the poodle once bit me just because he could. Dad reacted by throwing him down the stairs. Not the best course of action, but the poodle never bit me again unless I did something to deserve it.
What, no happy ending?
My boyfriend always uses the phrase "Nintendo hard" to describe a really hard game or level. Those of us who have played lots of NES games will know why. Some of those games were damn hard.
For me though, I think the hardest childhood game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES. It was so hard that by Area 2 it stopped being fun.
One of my pet peeves of any game is escort missions. The one in Twilight Princess is a good example. The jousting part was kinda cool, but having birds drop bombs while a bunch of kids scream because their covered wagon catches fire gets old quick. Also, Eileen in Silent Hill 4? Downright annoying. She's so fucking slow so you have to constantly backtrack and keep enemies away from her, assuming you don't want her to get cursed.
Open up the phone book and call a lawyer. We really can't give you much advice pertaining to your situation. Though if I were you, I'd demand a paternity test on the kid just to be on the safe side. Who knows what she might pull.
One of my buddies IMed me to say he has swine flu. Well, shit.
As for dogs, I'm surprised at how well Labs can be trained. My experience with Labs is that my blind friend uses them as guide dogs. One had to be retired after it saved her from getting hit by a car. It literally pushed her out of the intersection.
As for pit bulls, well, I'm worried about someone I know. She just had a baby three months ago. She and her husband have three pit bulls. Now, kids don't always know any better, so I guarantee that kid will do something to piss one of those dogs off. I remember getting bitten by the family poodle when I was little because I unintentionally antagonized him.
Okay, I'm probably reading too much into this, but it's creeping me out.
Got a drunk dial from, well, someone. I thought she was my one friend because it was a restricted number, and 98% of the time, restricted numbers are that friend. I kept thinking it may be her because the voice inflections and expressions and whatnot were similar. But man, was this girl drunk. At least she admitted she was out of it and drunk. She even made noises that said friend makes when she is sober, which made me wonder.
Several things made me wonder. This friend doesn't drink (but may be driven to it since she's done crazy things lately) and would remember my virginity status. She would also remember I have a boyfriend. She did mention something about a specific someone in her class...I may know him, now that I think about it. But I did hang up after five minutes.
Is there any way to unmask restricted numbers? As for blocking them, I now know how to do that, but I don't think this should be a problem. Odds are it was a wrong number and I'll never hear from her again, but that doesn't make it any less creepy. She was drunk, so it's possible.
Assuming someone didn't hit the wrong number, there is only a small amount of people who know my number. And for people in my class, that number is very, very small.
God's Day is when Santa comes and we get presents, right?
I can't stand GTA4. Sure, you can leave your phone off so people don't annoy you with dumb side missions, but then you can't follow the main plotline. People call you ALL THE TIME, too. I already hate being bothered IRL through too many phone calls, so why would I want it in a game?
I'd better put up my flame shield for this one, but I hated FF8. That's a separate topic though. FF9 and FF10 were better. But FF12? TRAINWRECK. I like the series and all, but after that, it's a little hard to get excited for new games.
After Sonic Adventure 2, the series went to shit. It's beyond beating a dead horse. Didn't Zero Punctuation say something to the effect of they're using Sonic's corpse to yiff with or something?
I think this is stupid week for me or something. I had a Spanish test this morning, and in some parts, you wrote sentences. I was trying to write "but." But I mistook the word "but" (pero) for the word "because" (porque). Aw crap.
Boy, I'm an idiot. I had no idea my wireless network was wide open until an hour ago. I got it last weekend, set it up, did some projects and forgot about it. Fortunately pretty much everyone else here has one.
My Paraguay project is about to get a lot more interesting now that they're calling for President Lugo's impeachment. At least I didn't do anything this weekend or I'd be stuck redoing the whole damn thing.
Also, sirens have been going off all evening. This is the only time I don't like living near a firehouse.
This is lulzy enough for me to post about in General.
My boyfriend came up this weekend. He said he bought me a present. It was porn. Matter of fact, it was the Roller Dollz DVD. The packaging is cute--it comes in a box with a pink shoelace up the side. Haven't watched it yet, but I will when I have time this weekend and I'll let him know what I think. He picked it because some of our favorites are in it, but we'll probably skip over Bree Olson's scenes since she's an ugly skank.
