Topic: What I learned today! (Read 195301 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #840 on:** October 17, 2009, 10:34:43 PM »

Went to the bookstore that I am technically an employee. I just haven't gotten hours in... about a year now. That's not too unusual. I was hired during the fall a few years back when all the college kids were gone. They came back to stay so I wasn't really needed. But I was a good little salesman and knew my shit so they'd go a 6 months or so without any hours then I'd be at 30 hours a week. I walked in today and saw a new guy I haven't seen before there. That was a little odd. He started his spiel "Hi. Welcome to Waldenbooks are y-y-y-yoooou-you l-l--" by this point he was stuttering and tripping over his words so bad he couldn't get anything else out. One of the managers walked by and said "Oh don't worry about him. He used to work here. You'll see him all the time."
Just LAST WEEK. LAST FUCKING WEEK. I walked in and asked if they needed any extra help. I told them I was free and wouldn't mind working the shitty shifts. She said they were fully staffed still and everyone was still scrambling to get as many hours as they can. She promised to call if even 5 hours showed up I could get.

As I walked out the guy apologized. Said he was nervous. It was his first day and all. He asked for some advice. I feebly gave him some answer about trying not to sell the book, but to help people find the books that are right for them. He nodded eagerly and asked if I had anything else. I shrugged. I didn't know what to tell him. I don't even know why I was let go. I was an competent employee who knew the ins-and-outs of the system, was voted best employee by the customers, and never got a complaint from employees or customers. I was even the lowest paid employee!

So!
tl;dr
I got fired and no one told me

Brentai · « **Reply #841 on:** October 18, 2009, 06:49:33 PM »

Welcome to adulthood, sucka.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #842 on:** October 19, 2009, 08:27:16 PM »

I learned that lemmings don't really run off cliffs and drown. I feel so lied to. And it was all Disney's fault. Bastards ;-;

Brentai · « **Reply #843 on:** October 19, 2009, 08:31:25 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on October 18, 2009, 06:49:33 PM

Welcome to adulthood, sucka.

Dooly · « **Reply #844 on:** October 19, 2009, 11:38:45 PM »

Quote from: Lady Duke on October 19, 2009, 08:27:16 PM

I learned that lemmings don't really run off cliffs and drown. I feel so lied to. And it was all Psygnosis' fault. Bastards ;-;

Büge · « **Reply #845 on:** October 20, 2009, 08:57:00 AM »

I learned what "bogan" means.

Also: skanger, yobbo, pikey, bodgie, dres and raggare.

Mongrel · « **Reply #846 on:** October 20, 2009, 10:28:17 AM »

Did you just watch Snatch or something?

Mongrel · « **Reply #847 on:** October 22, 2009, 06:19:25 PM »

That they're filming a remake of Red Dawn.

Büge · « **Reply #848 on:** October 25, 2009, 01:59:29 PM »

That some people didn't get the memo after Mike Huckabee.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #849 on:** November 05, 2009, 06:14:49 PM »

The Fat Man in Fallout 3 is based on a real weapon.

Catloaf · « **Reply #850 on:** November 09, 2009, 07:52:38 PM »

I learned that my school now offers Simulation, Animation, & Gaming as a major.

This struck me as if I was in an RPG where I've been playing a wizard*, but kinda wanted to be a rogue**, and now an update has come out to allow multiclassing so I can now sneak up on people, light them on fire, then escape unscathed rather than my previous just light them on fire bit.

Thank god the two things overlap and I haven't taken any horrible classes that I didn't actually need to take. But it's still rather irritating in that SAG has more than twice the required courses than COSC.

*Computer Scientists really are wizards--They Study crazy sounding things that no one can actually see or fully comprehend without study, then go on to control the bizarre power for their own uses, always coming up with a new way of doing amazing shit. Also, they often have trouble performing tasks that seem simple to everyone else.

**Not as good as an analogy, but I don't think Artists really fit all that well to an RPG class archetype.

Büge · « **Reply #851 on:** November 10, 2009, 06:21:17 AM »

Interesting. I have a friend who made the analogy that artists are like wizards (or sorcerers). You have to practice for years to get any good (or be a prodigy) and you're a wizened crone before you are recognized as talented (or you're some kind of hotshot flash-in-the-pan whiz kid).

Mongrel · « **Reply #852 on:** November 10, 2009, 07:25:36 AM »

Don't forget the whole crazy/genius thing.

But then the idea of Wizards was mostly created by artistic types in the first place, sooooooo......

sei · « **Reply #853 on:** November 10, 2009, 09:33:39 AM »

Screwing around with VPython, I learned that from its current position, if earth

were about twice as massive, it would have a more strongly elliptical orbit
were about four times as massive, that it would have a rather similar elliptical orbit, but that the orbit would slowly rotate around the sun, and pretty much retain its max and min distances from the sun during that rotation
were somewhere around six times as massive, instead of behaving nicely like the 4x mass situation, the orbit would not only rotate, but grow and shrink in (to me) unpredictable intervals, before eventually being flung out into the black, indifferent void of space

Also, left running long enough, that second case makes a spirograph-looking thing that looks pretty neat and alive as the arc drawing functions glitches out.

Catloaf · « **Reply #854 on:** November 10, 2009, 10:48:49 AM »

Quote from: Büge on November 10, 2009, 06:21:17 AM

Interesting. I have a friend who made the analogy that artists are like wizards (or sorcerers). You have to practice for years to get any good (or be a prodigy) and you're a wizened crone before you are recognized as talented (or you're some kind of hotshot flash-in-the-pan whiz kid).

Okay, I guess one black magic and one is holy magic.

But I still like my version better. Which one has actually succeeded in creating functioning golems(robots)?

Classic · « **Reply #855 on:** November 10, 2009, 05:24:42 PM »

What about the physicists who use their magic to divine truths about the world around them, and/or build impossible tools of destruction?

Or the mathematicians whose quest it is to call something by its True Name and in so doing gain mastery over it?

Hard science is occult. Art is somewhat understandable even to the layman with the barest of explanation, even if he won't "get it".

PS. Picasso blows.

Lottel · « **Reply #856 on:** November 10, 2009, 05:43:44 PM »

The only people who are doing it right are the bards. Take a bunch of gen ed, smoke pot, play guitar in the quad, then sleep with a bunch of chicks.

Büge · « **Reply #857 on:** November 11, 2009, 12:34:06 PM »

Quote from: Classic on November 10, 2009, 05:24:42 PM

What about the physicists who use their magic to divine truths about the world around them, and/or build impossible tools of destruction?

Or the mathematicians whose quest it is to call something by its True Name and in so doing gain mastery over it?

Hard science is occult. Art is somewhat understandable even to the layman with the barest of explanation, even if he won't "get it".

And math and science are somewhat understandable to the layman using simple analogy.

Art is problem solving. It is understandable because artists are able to synthesize images in a way that pleases the eye or makes the meaning clear. And artists integrate math into their work. This is why a painting that is 5x3 is more pleasing to the eye than one that measures 5x7.

I'm talking about making art, by the way, not just viewing it.

But then of course, you get the argument "my kid could paint that."

Mongrel · « **Reply #858 on:** November 11, 2009, 01:03:21 PM »

LOL Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #859 on:** November 24, 2009, 07:59:59 PM »

Today I learned that a dislocated fingertip feels pretty much exactly like you'd expect.

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