The Random Thoughts thread

[CrystalKitten]

Well, I got mine at a vendor on campus. The style seems pretty popular around here in the winter. There's a couple people that bring them to their on campus booths (our university center pretty much is like a side-walk sale type in you see in malls most days... Or club/event booths), and some of the booths/carts in the mall get them too, heh.

[CrystalKitten]

"Threatening" to contact the proper government agencies to report employee rights problems is awesome. I've had some issues that have been pretty much unresolved for 3 or 4 weeks now.. And they're issues involving me not receiving pay. After contacting them NUMEROUS times to try and get the issue resolved I finally said "Okay.. if it's not done by the end of the week, I'll have to contact the labor board, sorry. I hope it doesn't come to that, but I have to do what I have to do".

After almost 4 WEEKS of no actual response on the issue... I get a call within HOURS of making that statement. Saying "Okay, I'm really sorry, I'll try and get that time pushed onto your next deposit, I'll get back to you in an hour or so and let you know what the plan is" ...

Knowing who to complain to to go over EVERYONE'S head is awesome Or even just pretending you do >.> Though.. I actually do.. One of my previous employers was REALLY bad with employee rights...

[Mychelle]

This thread is a good idea!

I figured out tonight that you can explain why Horde (or Alliance) sucks at battlegrounds using Nash's game theory. When you're winning, people realize that they should be getting more hk's for even more honour (instead of, say, defending things). So they go out and do that. However, when everyone does that, you don't win, and everyone gets less honour. So even though they were better off defending than losing, you'll still end up losing instead of defending because everyone sees the potential for more honour.

That's right, you can use a 50-year old economic theory to explain why people fail in battlegrounds. I love that!

You dont know how many times I have wanted to scream at people in battlegrounds... LOOK AT YOUR BUFFS. YOU GET MORE HONOR FOR FIGHTING *ON* A FLAG. OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING AT STABLES. (Lowbie horde BGs. lol)

And then, I actually got raged at in a battleground chat because my rogue with a full 4 total HKs compared to this Hunter who had like 15+ had more honor so far in the game then he did. And he tried to say that I was either 1.) Hacking, or 2.) The game was broke. Its amazing what fighting on a flag will do for you.

[Vephriel]

I'm loving today's WoW Moviewatch over on WoW Insider. I've had the song stuck in my head all day and I keep going back to watch the video again. The song is so fitting for the Forsaken.

Sylvanas <3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihec3Y4bII4

[Chimera]

i love love love that song, but her lips look so akward... makes me wish they had just simply made the voice apart of the background and just show a story instead >.>;;

mmmm Arcti and i are having so much fun together <333 one more lvl till i can start camping/gathering herbs n ore in sholazar here loque loque loque~

[Nahale]

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[Atalanta]

My eye is starting to hurt me, sigh. ><

[CrystalKitten]

YAAAAY! I WIN!

[Chimera]

Sooo many rares... Silver Dragon keeps pinging... arahfghkg XD And yay im getting close to ambassador title <3 well.. kinda.. erm, yea not really >.>;;

[Aritria]

Scott Pilgrim Vs the World with drunken roommates on a friday night? Hells to the yeah! Me? I'm having water, my tummy's been a bit wonky for the past couple of days.

[Azunara]

I am really hungry, but I was Good Daughter and let people make their lunch before me. And, argh, DMV, why is your line so long? I don't mind waiting till next week to get my learner's permit, but seriously. WHY SO LONG?

And, of course, we're still in a financially tight spot, which is never fun.

[Atalanta]

Not gonna lie, I was totally having withdrawals from this website when it was down.

[Aritria]

*recites*
Oh, for a muse of fire that would acend to the brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene... Then, should war-like Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars, and, at his feet, leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire crouch for employment.

But pardon, and gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that hath dared this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object. Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram, within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?


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I will be able to memorize this by tonight! I will, I will, I WILL!

[Azunara]

Piiiiiiiizaaaa. Yuuuum.

[CrystalKitten]

I'm makin Butter chickens!!!! Mmmmm tasty

[Chimera]

Mmmmm, i hope Lucky gets an appetite soon, im glad he seems to be sleeping now tho, i wish i could xP *continues to grind Mag'har to stay awake* Give me talbuks.. Thunder Bluff rep will be easy to grind but you Mag'har, you are tedious

[Worba]

*recites*
Oh, for a muse of fire that would acend to the brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene... Then, should war-like Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars, and, at his feet, leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire crouch for employment.

But pardon, and gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that hath dared this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object. Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram, within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?


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I will be able to memorize this by tonight! I will, I will, I WILL!

You will - just keep running through it. The unconscious is amazingly teachable.

The thing that always worked best for me was to try and imagine, "what if I was ONLY allowed to speak in Shakespearean", how would I phrase simple things, e.g. make it into some sort of working vocabulary (I seem to recall working it into a few drinking games...), and then the words will seem (at least here and there) more "functional" and less strange/flowery.

Eh. Just a thought - good luck!

[Aritria]

Thanks, Worba! It's the second half that I'll have to run tonight until I can't stand it anymore. A lot of people discredit Shakespeare, but the language and especially the alliteration (the vasty fields of France) is just beautiful. My Uni did The Life and Death of Richard III last year, and doing Hamlet this year. My Theatre Geek is very happy.

In other random thoughts: It's nice catching up with friends that I haven't seen in four months. I've missed that Italian freak way too much.

[Atalanta]

I'm so crazy in love. ^//^

[Miacoda]

Stuck at campus waiting for my mom to pick me up (ihome is a 30 min drive from here and I lack a car >.<) so I'm waiting here and some guy gets out of the elevator. He's talking on his cell phone and says "What have you done with my wife?" I think that's a little odd but then he says "Oh... So what are you gonna do with her?" I try not to stare at this guy. The way he said these things was just rather humorous and a tad creepy xD

So now I am just sitting here wondering who he was talking to. O.o