An open thread for personal stuff, continuing from here.
As usual for these threads: no trolls, no MRAs, no I’m-not-really-an-MRA-buts, don’t be mean.
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We Hunted The Mammoth
Kirby, have you ever had any trouble with security from running this? It’s still throwing up lots of security warnings about unlimited access, and I’m feeling a bit twitchy about allowing it.
@kittehserf:
Nope. And I’ve run it quite a lot. I don’t know what the deal is with the security things, but the client is widely used without issue.
Great!
I’m looking in the English game room, should your nym be on that long list?
@kittehserf:
Yup! Right click it to message me. If the list is sorted by rank, I don’t have one at the moment so I’d be near the bottom.
I saw your messages come up there – HOW does one join, and where? How the heck does one even send a message?
@kittehserf:
In the chat tab, you can send a message by typing in the white bar on the bottom of the window. To join a room, go to the “rooms” menu bar, hit “rooms list,” and find the “mammoth go” room.
I mean, your messages come up – hi, you’re added, you can join in – but I can’t even see how to reply, there’s no cursor, nothing comes up with typing.
How long are you guys gonna be playing Go? It’s about dinner time for me and I’m going out for sushi but if you guys are still playing when I get back I would love to join.
I’d imagine for a while, redpoppy. I know I want to be around for a bit so everyone can join if they want.
How’d the Go, um, go? I just tried stopping by but I think I missed you.
@grumpycatisagirl:
I’m still here. Kittehserf and AL3H are about to play a game, but they wanted a break first. I’m looking into making cookies in the meantime. Sorry to have missed you! Come back if you want!
My nana found a kitten.
Aww. Haz eyeboogers.
Yep, I set her up with some eyedrops.
Yeah, I just got home. About 6 hours later than expected.
Hope those who played go had fun with Go! So tired. And hungry. Have not had dinner yet.
Need food, and bed. Will eventually catch up to everything going on here. Hugs for those that need them!
Just dropping another random bit of environmental news, a depressing one this time. Scientists have figured out what’s causing colony collapse in the bee population, and yep, as usual, it’s our fault. There have been studies done on this before, but since this one comes from Harvard it’s actually getting press in the US.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2014/05/12/the-cause-of-colony-collapse-disorder-disappearing-bees-becoming-more-clear/
If anyone has any ideas about what we can do to persuade the US government to adopt the same kind of regulations the EU has on neonicotinoid pesticides I’d love to hear them. Monsanto et al seem to be lobbying pretty hard against any attempt to ban or limit their use here.
AL3H is the Go champion among us newbs. Three games won! Kirbywarp and contrapangloss are playing now, I think, but AL3H and I have logged off. Go is fun and kirbywarp’s a great teacher. Now if only those cookies he was making at the same time could be sent via the interwebs.
Glad you Go folks all had fun.
I hope we can get another game going with more people joining in sometime. Kirbywarp set it up so we played a demo game, where everyone’s making comments at the side. Having kirbywarp’s commentary on the game and a Mammotheer peanut gallery made it much more fun!
I might join in the next one, was a bit in the middle of my sleeping pattern though 🙂 (What do I have to live in Europe for eh) I know the very basic rules but nothing more than that.
You’re ahead of where we were … are … already, then! 🙂
Did not go to bed. Went to Go. Now needs going to bed. Fry brain!
It was fun, though!
Highly recommended!
So, how do I go about pursuing a coworker without being creepy? I’ve had this crush just pop up out of nowhere over the past few days. I might just wait it out. It’s been so long since I’ve even been interested in anyone it actually took me a little while to figure out I even was interested.
Here’s the issue. We have a pretty casual and friendly office and we socialize outside of work but it usually involves lots of booze and pot. That’s all well and good but he doesn’t do those things because he’s recovering. He rarely goes to get togethers. Usually I rely on alcohol to get flirtation going because I’m pretty shy. So I’m at a bit of loss here with my one tool taken away.
I have absolutely no idea if he’s remotely interested. He’s sort of a quiet and reserved person. I think there might have been a couple of good eye contact moments but I might just be making it up in my head.
Does anyone have any tips for the socially awkward and inept?
Ugh. By alcohol as a tool I meant that I have a few to take away my social anxiety. I didn’t mean that I like to take advantage of the drunk. I’m no red piller!