Baaah

Because I'm sheep and I saw this in several flisters journals....

Modern, Cool Nerd 86 % Nerd, 73% Geek, 39% Dork

For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eeked out for themselves a modicrum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)! Congratulations!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 93% on nerdiness You scored higher than 90% on geekosity You scored higher than 60% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid

A Rant

Dear UPS,

Thank you for being completely and utterly useless when it comes to customer service and delivering packages to us, which is of course your only function. I was only a little peeved yesterday when I called to try and arrange a time to delivery after getting your 'first attempt' notice and your call center person informed me that since I have two more attempts, all shall be well and hung up on me. This comes after your automated system ACTUALLY heaves a sigh and says if I'm sure I must talk to a customer service rep, who have no more info than the stupid atuomaton does, she'll connect me. I can see the eyeroll from the snotty tone of the machine. All I was trying to do was to tell you to come on Friday since I'm home most of the day and knew I would not be in at all on thursday and it has to be signed for.

Of course they try again to deliever and I once again call the 1800 number (it's 1-800-833-9943, go ahead and call it and hear the voice) and this time the rep is on my side. She agrees UPS doesn't take into consideration that people actually have to work and can't be there. She sets up the time between 10-2 just like on the delivery slip says could be an option. She has to do it TWICE because there's two packages (no matter that it's the same shipper). This takes forever.

No more than ten minutes go by and the local chapter of UPS calls me and informs me that no I can not do this and of course callwave picks up the call and I have to call them back long distance to say WTF you just did it at the national center. What do you mean I can't do it? It says call this number and set up a time. If I couldn't do it, then why did I waste nearly a half hour doing so? Larry can't tell me that and puts me onto a supervisor after three seconds of hearing MY tone. Henriette proceeds to tell me because it's ground and not air, I can't dictate times of delivery. But I work. I can't be here and no, you can not deliver to my place of work (well they probably could but... I don't know the address and I don't want that) I said fine, let me just waive the sign for thing and you leave it. No, they can't do that. They'd lose their job. How about we have a neighbor sign for it ma'am? Excuse me, you want me to have a STRANGER sign for my stuff? Explain the sense in this. I said, I did not ask for the sign for and I want it waived because I'm an not running to Chillicothe a 120 mile round trip to pick up two couch pillows from QVC. Harry snottily informs me I should just have it shipped air mail next time if I want to dictate delivery times. So, Harry, you paying that extra postage? So, I can't be here for delivery, you won't waive the sign for, you won't come in the morning as asked in spite of offering to do so and your only suggestion is to send it back to QVC?

THanks for fucking nothing UPS. I flat out told her this is why I always use DHL and I'll be informing QVC that they might want to make the switch to a comparable and less annoying service.

Ask What Brown Can Do For You? I'll tell you Brown, curl up and die like a squashed spider, you useless asshats.

Survived my first week

Yes, I have three day weekends all this semester and thank god for it. Today's my long day from 1030am -9pm including 3 hours with the nursing students. Well today's technological fiasco...you knew there would be one right? I'm in one of the only two smart rooms (of course it's the nurses, I've yet to be to a college that doesn't pamper them...and yes, I'm still stunned how tiny little Nicolet could have smart rooms and this place not...)

No one has told me HOW to run it. There's buttons all over the podium...i'll figure it out as I go, right? WRong. Well for once I can't make the powerpoint projector turn on. Worse, the computer won't let me sign on with the generic 'guest' log in we use on the portable laptops. So, I go thru the syllabus with the students then go on early break and ask the nursing secretaries because they 'know everything' according to the students (who introduce me as the physics teacher. I'm glad they know the name of the class they're taking) Well i just needed to put my usual school sign on here and the projector's controller is hidden so they had to show me where. Simple. We're flying through the PPT when I hit a wrong button and everything dies. I do eventually get it back but argh.

They told me I was going at JUST THE RIGHT SPEED. I could have kissed them. No one's ever said that to me before.

I have a huge break between them and my night class (like 4 hours, two of which are office hours) so I figure I'll work on my PPT for next week. Well teh emailed one died in transit. Sob. So no problem, I know what images I want. I know that disc won't work here. I'll just pull of the images there and email them. No dice. Too big. CC, the other new hire, stops in to tell me how she's modified lab so I can do the same tonight and I ask her how to use the flash drive she was letting me borrow. Turns out it's dead. I'll try to buy one (maybe when I'm driving to chillicothe to get those pillows). It would save huge gobs of trouble in transporting and using these PPTs

Lab went okay except for some young ass hats who want to goof around and see if i'll fail them. They failed last year because they screwed up lab. Guess we're going for two years in a row.

CC and I are going for drinks at Bennigans. If they don't have that Granny Apple Mead drink, heads will roll

icon meme

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc.

Okay not bothering to cut it because well it's too dang short. This is what comes of tailoring your icons to your RPG only. I used last names for the alphabetizing and didn't include VK because it made the count unequal. We already know he makes up a huge chunk as Connor

Angel/Klaus Baudelaire - Oh, that's SO wrong
Connor/Dawn - well, they're both so weird it can work
Dru/Giles - Um er? Okay someone needs to write that one
Spike/Keith Urban - Well...they have nothin in common but I'd want to be in that sandwich