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Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 6:59 pm

Who engineers the aerospace engineering engineers??

(Also, thank the gods this wasn't the Classics dept. I don't want to try it in Latin.)

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:11 pm

Holman wrote:Who engineers the aerospace engineering engineers??

(Also, thank the gods this wasn't the Classics dept. I don't want to try it in Latin.)

Metamaterials engineers. At some point, it just gets meta all the way down.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:21 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:Feeling some major weltschmertz after the shooting at UCLA today. It's over 300 miles away and I don't know too many people who are still there, but it has still left me shaken.

I'm guessing that's because it hits close to home and what I love, but it still seems irrational.
Murder-suicide

The gunman in a murder-suicide at the University of California Los Angeles was a graduate student who apparently nursed long-simmering hostility toward the victim, his former engineering professor, who he accused of stealing his computer code, according to police and local media reports.

The gunman was identified Thursday as Mainak Sarkar, an engineering graduate student, according to Officer Jenny Houser, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. The victim was identified as William S. Klug, 39, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering engineering.
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The motive remained unclear although police said they would focus on Sarkar's grades and a "longer-standing" poor relationship between the two men, KABC-TV reports.

Murder Rampage - Suicide, apparently:

Mainak Sarkar, the gunman who opened fire in a murder-suicide at UCLA, left behind a trail of evidence that led investigators to another victim.
A woman found dead on Thursday in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, was Ashley Hasti, CNN affiliate WCCO reported.

Hasti was Sarkar's wife, officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, said. Those officials did not confirm Hasti was the woman found dead.
Hasti and Sarkar married June 14, 2011, Hennepin County Communications Officer Carolyn Marinan said. It was unclear if they were still married at the time of their deaths.
Police who searched Sarkar's Minnesota home found a note with an ominous title, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters.
"Kill list," it said, spelling out the names of three people, according to Beck.
One of them was William S. Klug, the UCLA professor Sarkar killed.
A woman's name, apparently Hasti, also was on the list. She had a gunshot wound and had apparently been killed before the UCLA shooting, Deputy Police Chief Mark Bruley told reporters.
The third person Sarkar intended to target was another professor at UCLA, Beck said. That faculty member was off-campus Wednesday and was unharmed, the police chief said.

Thank goodness for Tues/Thu faculty schedules I guess...

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:22 pm

FWIW, I'm doing much better today, but I was in a funk all day yesterday.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:32 pm

It must be a terrible thing for the whole campus, but especially for the department. So many people no doubt knew everyone involved.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:35 pm

Note to Society: If you ever fill compelled to kill a whole bunch of people and then just off yourself, please seek help - or at the very least - Reverse the order of your attack list.

what a shitty thing to go down.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:55 pm

Note to Unagi: You just moved up two spots on my list.

Love, Society.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:10 am

In news that doesn't deserve it's own thread, about 10 days ago I was having a sinus infection. After a week, it ended up moving down to my throat once my nose felt better. Now it's been 4 days of poor sleep, coughing up sludge, feeling like I have a lump in the back of my throat, pain with every swallow - and this morning it stepped up to blood in the phlegm. I'm just skipping for joy at the thought of another doctor's visit when I get out of work at 11:00 today.

On the bright side, I've had little appetite because eating hurts, so I've lost a couple pounds.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:14 am

Ack! Get well soon.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:53 am

My mom is retiring today after 45 years of teaching special-ed in public schools. I'm a little bit in awe when I think about how many lives she has impacted over the years.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 10:21 am

Skinypupy wrote:My mom is retiring today after 45 years of teaching special-ed in public schools. I'm a little bit in awe when I think about how many lives she has impacted over the years.

Big kudos to her. That's not an all an easy job nor one that gets the recognition it deserves.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:26 am

Florida Man accused of burying boss in dirt with front-end loader

A man who goes by "Pork Chop" was up to his ears in stress Wednesday, so he buried his boss up to the waist, according to an arrest report.

A 32-year-old Sanford man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly burying his boss — Perry A. Byrd, 57, of Orlando — in dirt with a front-end loader and beating him into unconsciousness, a report said.

Erick A. Cox was arguing with Byrd at the construction site of the new Wal-Mart on U.S. Highway 17-92 in DeBary about 7:20 a.m. Wednesday when a witness said Cox dumped a load of dirt onto the site superintendent's head, according to a report.

The witness told Volusia County deputies that the dirt pinned the JEL Site Development, Inc. boss to the ground, so when Cox went to dig up another load, Byrd could not move. Cox then unloaded another pile of dirt onto Byrd, covering almost half of his body, according to a report.
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That's when Cox hopped out of the front-end loader, picked up a 6-foot aluminum level and started whacking his pinned boss in the head with it, according to a report.

Byrd was eventually knocked unconscious and the witness saw Cox "standing over [him] cussing and laughing about the situation," according to the report. Byrd suffered a "large" cut to the back of his head that required stitches.
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Cox told investigators a different story — one of verbal assaults and Cox as the victim.

Cox said when he got to work that morning at 6:30, he and Byrd began cussing at each other, according to the report.

When Cox climbed into the front-end loader and began moving dirt, he said Byrd continually yelled profanities at him, then threatened to beat him up, according to the report.

Cox said after Byrd swung a fist at him and spit in his face, Cox tried to leave. That's when Cox claimed Byrd threatened to "cut" his "head off" and reached into his pocket, according to what he told officials.

Byrd later ended up on the ground, where Cox claimed he accidentally buried Byrd's leg in dirt when he "bumped the bucket control-lever as he was reaching for the keys," according to the report.
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Cox, whose alias is "Pork Chop" has a criminal history dotted with aggravated battery, domestic violence and battery convictions stemming back to 2003, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:49 am

wonderpug wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:My mom is retiring today after 45 years of teaching special-ed in public schools. I'm a little bit in awe when I think about how many lives she has impacted over the years.
Big kudos to her. That's not an all an easy job nor one that gets the recognition it deserves.

+1

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:13 pm

Skinypupy wrote:My mom is retiring today after 45 years of teaching special-ed in public schools. I'm a little bit in awe when I think about how many lives she has impacted over the years.

As a public school teacher the idea of 45 years amazes me. Tell her thank you.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:37 pm

As a Dad with a special needs kid, thanks from me as well.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:20 pm

New upstairs neighbor was playing music every evening from around 6 to 11pm with the bass cranked up. It was driving me nuts. So I finally got up the nerve to go pound on his door and demand he cut it out.

First knock, everything went quiet. Long pause. Then a huge guy opens the door and asks what I want. I told him what was wrong. Short pause. "Man, I'm really sorry about that. I hope I wasn't too annoying? I'll definitely tone it down!"

I was taken aback, but ended up just shooting the breeze with him for a few minutes. Haven't had trouble with the bass reverberating through my place since.

Sometimes people turn out to be not quite what you expected. And it can be a good thing.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:23 pm

hepcat wrote:New upstairs neighbor was playing music every evening from around 6 to 11pm with the bass cranked up. It was driving me nuts. So I finally got up the nerve to go pound on his door and demand he cut it out.

First knock, everything went quiet. Long pause. Then a huge guy opens the door and asks what I want. I told him what was wrong. Short pause. "Man, I'm really sorry about that. I hope I wasn't too annoying? I'll definitely tone it down!"

I was taken aback, but ended up just shooting the breeze with him for a few minutes. Haven't had trouble with the bass reverberating through my place since.

Sometimes people turn out to be not quite what you expected. And it can be a good thing.

Did you tell him he could drop by any time for free beer and boardgaming?

Edit: Though you should probably warn him about the "pants" situation...

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:24 pm

What exactly does "baked fresh" mean? I see this on ads and it's the slogan for a bread truck I see around town. How is it possible for bread to not be baked fresh?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:40 pm

TheMix wrote:
Did you tell him he could drop by any time for free beer and boardgaming?

Edit: Though you should probably warn him about the "pants" situation...

That guy moved. And I conveniently lost the phone number he left me. He wasn't a bad guy. He just had some sketchy-ness to him. While playing a game with him after he heard us playing one afternoon and stopped in, he told Seppe and I he had to go meet someone "down by the river" to give them some money he owned them. Then he said he was going to walk. When I asked why he didn't just drive, he said the car was his wife's auto, and that he legally couldn't drive. I felt that if I'd kept going, I'd eventually have learned he was responsible for the Kennedy assassination, global warming, and Rip.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:42 pm

I hadn't heard (that he'd moved). Grats on getting some of your sanity back. We all know that you need every little bit you can get.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:51 pm

McNutt wrote:What exactly does "baked fresh" mean? I see this on ads and it's the slogan for a bread truck I see around town. How is it possible for bread to not be baked fresh?

lexology

Claims that products are “fresh” can be problematic because “fresh” may have multiple meanings to consumers, and its meaning can vary based on context. Government guidance is not definitive either. Specifically, the applicable FDA regulation, 21 C.F.R. § 101.95, provides that “fresh” is acceptable on food labels “if the term does not suggest or imply that a food is unprocessed or unpreserved”;
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21 CFR 101.95 (addressing use of “fresh”; “fresh frozen”; “frozen fresh”; and “quickly frozen”). The regulation is less clear in giving specific details on other permissible uses of “fresh” – such as when can “fresh” be safely used to describe when or how a food is made?

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:01 pm

The people driving that bread truck are high on marijuana and often inappropriate with their female customers.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:31 pm

Skinypupy wrote:My mom is retiring today after 45 years of teaching special-ed in public schools. I'm a little bit in awe when I think about how many lives she has impacted over the years.

Congratulations Mom!

A couple of months ago I was at a Microsoft Azure Training event in their downtown SF offices. As I walked from the ferry to their offices, I was looking at how much dot-com money had gone into SF over the past 15 years or so, and was thinking that I could have been a part of that if I hadn't decided to work in Education.

Then I thought about my 15 years here at State, and figured with our enrollment around 34k, and an average graduation time of say 5 years, that meant that I've been a part of helping about 100k students make a better life for themselves, and I didn't miss the money much... I can live with that decision.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:41 pm

OK, I have an OO lore question: what is "Mortoned"?

I gather that Morton refers to a past OO regular, and the verbification of him refers to something you do in reply to a post. But what are the parameters exactly?

Scorn me for a newbie if you must.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:45 pm

If I recall, it's when someone quotes a previous post and changes the text of the post.

Holman wrote:Scorn me for a hillbilly if you must.

Mortoned

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:49 pm

The classic way to edit someone else's post is to quote it, make the change, and then add "Fixed" to the end.

Rob Morton, former prolific poster, once said that he hated this practice, so in tribute to him, people started to refer to it as "Mortoned" instead of "Fixed".

(Add "The more you know" image here.)

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:55 pm

ImLawBoy wrote:(Add "Phteven" image here.)

Mortoned

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:12 pm

Remus West wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:My mom is retiring today after 45 years of teaching special-ed in public schools. I'm a little bit in awe when I think about how many lives she has impacted over the years.

As a public school teacher the idea of 45 years amazes me. Tell her thank you.

I'll echo Remus. I'm thinking of leaving teaching in a few years after 20+ years. 45 is great service.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:44 pm

hepcat wrote:
TheMix wrote:
Did you tell him he could drop by any time for free beer and boardgaming?

Edit: Though you should probably warn him about the "pants" situation...
That guy moved. And I conveniently lost the phone number he left me. He wasn't a bad guy. He just had some sketchy-ness to him. While playing a game with him after he heard us playing one afternoon and stopped in, he told Seppe and I he had to go meet someone "down by the river" to give them some money he owned them. Then he said he was going to walk. When I asked why he didn't just drive, he said the car was his wife's auto, and that he legally couldn't drive. I felt that if I'd kept going, I'd eventually have learned he was responsible for the Kennedy assassination, global warming, and Rip.

I will let him know you lost his number. I'm sure he will pop in to remind you what it is.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:48 pm

ImLawBoy wrote:The classic way to edit someone else's post is to quote it, make the change, and then add "Fixed" to the end.

Rob Morton, former prolific poster, once said that he hated this practice, so in tribute to him, people started to refer to it as "Mortoned" instead of "Fixed".

(Add "The more you know" image here.)

Yea, OOers can be dicks like that.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:06 am

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:39 am

It bothers me that Spielberg and Disney believe they can use "BFG" in a movie title and expect gamers to believe it stands for "Big Friendly Giant". No, no it does not.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:43 am

Isgrimnur wrote:Yup

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:07 pm

I am impressed.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:18 pm

I just watched a movie called The Witch. It had really good reviews and I could barely finish watching it I thought it was so bad. I'd be hard pressed to give it one star. Wife felt the same way.
Must be a generation gap thing.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:37 pm

Smoove_B wrote:It bothers me that Spielberg and Disney believe they can use "BFG" in a movie title and expect gamers to believe it stands for "Big Friendly Giant". No, no it does not.

I saw a trailer for it while the littles were watching Disney Channel on Saturday. My immediate thought was that there are a hell of a lot of old-school gamers who will be doing a double take when they see that title.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:56 pm

stessier wrote:I am impressed.

We all were. Two years ago.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:23 am

It always amazes me when somebody in real good shape suddenly dies quite young for no particular good reason.
At the same time, it still kind of tickles me that a fat person like me who doesn't do anything can still live to be olde.
I feel justified in not exercising all my life.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:32 am

New Visa ad for me:

Viewing videos on internet about using toothpaste to remove minor scratches from a car bumper?

Free

Scrubbing too goddamn hard during the process and damaging the clear coat?

300 dollars

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:05 am

CNN

An Australian ocean photographer has captured a one-in-a-million example of the cruelty of life in the deep -- a fish peering out into the ocean, helpless, from inside a jellyfish.

Tim Samuel, a self-described "ocean obsessed... lover of photography and adventures," captured the image off Pass Beach in Byron Bay, Australia.