Iron Crotch
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I have to think this move was about acquiring a much needed young Center and we had to give up someone of value to make that happen. I wonder if there is/was something behind the scenes with Kassian???
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...'cus you just can't have enough 180 lb. centers on the roster!
(Hodgson can score, so I give him that)
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Just saw that. for Cody Hodgson?
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I like the Sweet Home Alabama version better (being that I live in Tennessee and all)...
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My complaint (not a knock on the above posts) is people who throw up their hands and say they can't do something when if they when to Google, typed in what they were looking for, spent five minutes reading throught one of the 1000 websites that would teach them how to do it, it'd be done. Why do I have to do this for them?
Also, I'm sick of Tennessee drivers. They absolutely REFUSE to use turn signals. Is it too much effort to let the other drivers know why you appear to be randomly stopped in the left lane of a busy road?
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I'm eating a giant bowl of oatmeal right now. :)
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Stuck in my head today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm72DPJCX58&ob=av2e
(down, oh down... like the Sabres in the standings)
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So we had friends over for dinner last night, and dude shows up with 4 of these 22oz bombers
http://www.averybrew...com/our-ales/86
Add in the wine with dinner and after dinner drinks...
Needless to say, have not been doing much today ...but damn hats a nice imperial IPA
I used to live about a mile from the Avery brewery in Boulder (became a total beer snob living in Colorado & Oregon, but I digress...). Used to go over there all the time for samples. The brewery is amazingly small and low-tech. Their labeling machine is about the size of my desk! Boulder Beer Company (Hazed & Infused, Never Summer Ale, etc.) is a bit bigger but still smaller than you'd expect.
Damn, you guys are making me thirsty!
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The only chick in rock that could truly bring it. Nice.
Not a genre that most people like, but I think Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy brings it (although I normally have a strong preference for male singers when it comes to heavy music).
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Its not at UV its Radford but Digital Literacy Instructor/Professor is the job title and thank you, I really need to get this and be done with buffalo for personal reasons.
Had many good friends who went to Radford (I went to Virginia Tech right up the road from there). New River Valley is a great place to live. Good weather, affordable, nice people... again, good luck!
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I made it through the first round of cuts for a job at a University in Virginia and now have a scheduled 1 hour long phone interview for Jan 5... If that goes well I will then be invited for an all day in person interview and then if that goes well I will then be offered a job...
Its like job survivor, just gotta keep surviving the rounds and come out on top in the end.
If you don't mind me asking, what sort of job at UVa? Good luck!
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I'd like to complain about one of my dogs having explosive diarrhea this morning. Nothing ruins your morning more than having to clean smelly dog diarrhea off of a new rug ('cus they can't possible go on the hardwood floors, which cover about 95% of the house and is much easier to clean). I damned near threw up in my mouth when I was trying to clean it up. Urgh...
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Complaint?
Yet another tragedy at Virginia Tech happening right now. Two have been shot and confirmed deceased on campus, including a police officer. We're in lockdown now, but it's really f***ed up that they haven't found the shooter yet.
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Cereal - I'm a Virginia Tech grad and can't believe this keeps happening in what is an otherwise really quiet town. Nothing eventful ever happened in 'the burg' when I was there in the 90s... now this. Sickening. Hang in there...
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Dickel is my whiskey of choice.
Love me some George Dickel! It's one of the two Tennessee Whiskeys you can readily get (although there are a few more down here). Not the best tasting whiskey/bourbon, but it sure if fun to order at a bar...
Many good suggestions on this thread. One for the tequila drinkers to look out for is Cuestion (http://cuestionspirits.com/about/) It hasn't made it's way up to New York yet, but it will soon.
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Sorry guy, but academia relative to most other endeavors is definitely "cushy."
Yes, working in a research lab for a university (major or minor) does result in long hours, but let's face it, a lot of those hours aren't necessarily terribly productive. Working in the real world might result in shorter hours (or it might not) but the pressure to produce whatever widget you make is much more direct. 'Production is down because of x, well get a replacement for x in here yesterday, so we can start making money again' is the refrain in the real world. 'You can't run y experiment because you don't have z? Well, go order another z, charge it to the yy budget, and get back to me in 2 weeks when it comes in' is only SLIGHTLY exaggerated. (Technically it should have been 'you can't run y experiment because you don't have z? Well, go order the parts you need to make a z, charge it to the yy budget, and get back to me in 3 weeks when the parts have come in and you've assembled the parts.')
There is pressure to produce in academia, but efficiency is not often highly valued. (Which if you are efficient can and does induce it's own stressors.) Yes, a proposal for a grant has a specific deadline, but it usually is known well in advance and there is ample time to get everything in order. Yes, there are other deadlines as well, but typically they are well known in advance and they can be met without pulling all-nighters (though oftentimes the all-nighter becomes part of the process). The pressure is rarely the same as it is in the real world.
Cushy is rarely related to the stress level of a job; it is far more often related to the amount of physical labor required, the immediate urgency of performing the task at hand, and the relative level of how much of the 'grunt' work can be avoided by passing it off to underlings or administrative staff. Academia is, when looked at this way, cushy. It also typically is quite stressful.
Remember, if it was FUN, they wouldn't call it WORK.
I worked in "the real world" (your terminology) for over a decade and I do quite a bit of "real world" consulting currently. But, those who say that academic jobs at Tier I research institutions are cushy almost invariably have never tried their hand at it. That is my point. We mock that which we do not understand. Hence the complaint in my original post (since this is "complaint Thursday") :D
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And to think that earlier I was going to complain that my thesis isn't writing itself! :lol:
That's what I thought about a career in academia before I came back for grad school. Key word: before. To really, really make it cushy in academia (at least engineering/sciences, I'll say), you have to make it at a top school, and then you've got years of political b.s.: scrambling for grants, endlessly writing proposals, competing for alliances between professors, networking with completely fake douches from universities across the country, etc. Once you get tenure, though, you get to breathe a wee bit...
I started off on a PhD track, because I really enjoyed teaching; then I realized how a career in academia really is, and I'm taking my Masters and running. Be wary, young Liger.
Better? :pirate:
I'd like to complain about the fallacy that academia is an any way "cushy." If you're at a research institution, you will work far more than you will at any comparable non-academic job. And, (as you've figured out) if you're pre-tenure you have to deal with constant pressure to produce cutting edge research, get strong teaching ratings, keep your senior colleagues happy since they'll eventually be voting on whether you can stay or not...
... not to mention teaching is nowhere near as fun/rewarding as it sounds.
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A mere 512 point dow drop. That's as brutal as it gets. Hope all our legislators lost their collective shirts today too..
Love this article: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/08/are-representatives-congress-worth-what-we-are-paying-them
The article contains my complaint for Thursday, August 4, 2011.
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As 'ole Roby would say..it's hotter than a dogs breath down here in NC. Temps of 100+ F in the forecast the next three days and heat index of 112+. It's absolutely brutal. The summers here in the south are the only times when I begin to seriously think about moving back to Buffalo.
Heat index of 110 in Nashville today... and my *$&*! air conditioning went down yesterday! Urgh...
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Ever since hearing this song between periods during the Sabres-Preds online feed yesterday, I can't get this damned song out of my head!
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I'm angry at numbers.
There's, like, too many of them.
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One minor penalty called on Boston the entire game.
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Good goal, game over.
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Why couldn't the Sabres have made the deal to bring him to buffalo?
Oh yeah, thats right, Darcy regier, he was probably too busy working out an extension for Connolly or getting ready to go Dumpster diving for his big "FA splash"
It is a cruel joke that Connolly actually makes more than Horton. ($4.5 mil. for Timmy and $4.0 for Nathan this year)
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Why do all the calls go against us in Boston? We get guys punched in the head without a call....
Kassian to Vancouver for Hodgson
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We get another German player in Sulzer! We now lead the league in Germans.