flying fish Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Warning: I strongly discourage the reading of the following rant: Uhg... Why is everything going downhill? Several of my friends are pissing me off for a plethora of reasons, including carrying on their april fools joke WAY too long (if it turns out not be a joke, I'm going to be even more pissed), not returning calls, and generally making me want to tear them in half. And we just wrecked a critical component (a directional light coupler) to our fiber laser at work. Well either we just wrecked it, or it was already bad. I spend the whole fricking day trying to couple light into it and it never worked. We finally decided the thing was trashed. That's after SOOO much production time needed to create that particular component that it almost makes me want to cry. What a headache! Oh, And you guys probably don't remember, but I posted here asking if you guys thought I could survive Organic 1. Well, I've heard more horror stories since then. One girl told me "no, that's a really bad idea. I'm a strait A student and I failed Org 1." A friend of mine from school said "oh, that's just an awful, awful class. You could probably survive but you'll have to start memorizing stuff now" Another friend of mine from school said "That class will make you cry." My supervisor, who knows the instructor personally said, "he's a great guy, but he really kills his students. Taking his class generally sounds like an awful plan." I also heard a story about someone who failed the class 3 times in a row. Am I doomed or what???! Oh, also, my phone ran out of batteries and I can't find the charger. [/rant] On a happy note, my grades from last semester are in and they are all 4.0's except for one (out of 5 classes). Edited April 10, 2009 by flying fish
Richtee Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 On a happy note, my grades from last semester are in and they are all 4.0's except for one (out of 5 classes).Nice grades... build a shell. It'll seem much better :{)
flying fish Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I do plan on it! It will probably be a couple weeks before I get that far though; I haven't made up any stars yet, and I only have the weekends to do pyro. I'm thinking some sparkeling Tigertail with some of that Ti.
Richtee Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Well, gentlepeople, I am retiring. An update... of..well..nothing. Damnit I'm here wondering WTF and NOTHING. No news is good news? BS. I hate this.
hst45 Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Yeah, that sucks. If I'm fucked let me know and I can deal with it, but twisting slowly in the wind is it's own hell. Hopefully the reality of your situation is dawning on the powers-that-be and they are realizing that you're no more of a hazard to the general public than my pet Airedale, and you'll fade gradually into the background and all this will be dismissed and fade away. (Think positive thoughts...think positive thoughts....)
FrankRizzo Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Building a shell isn't setting off HE you silly goose.
flying fish Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Nearly two weeks and no word? I won't pretend like I understand what the "authorities" do for situations like this, but it seems like if they really wanted to get you, you would know it by now. Like hst, I seriously think the most likely possibility is that as soon as they realized that you weren't a terrorist or something, they decided not to try and screw you over. Or they were just too lazy or unable to try and screw you over...(too much paperwork, not enough worthwhile crimes to actually charge you with...). Plus, you obviously *just* made the shells before the police got there, so you *weren't* breaking the storage regulations. That in itself seriously limits the amount of stuff they could charge you with if they wanted... I'd try not to worry about it as I don't think anything is going to happen. But I guess that's easy for me to say...
Mumbles Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 I hate to add fire to this situation (no pun intended), but since he's not deemed an immanent threat, they're probably in no hurry. The ATF works slowly. I've heard of people getting visited over a year after incidents.
Richtee Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 I hate to add fire to this situation (no pun intended), but since he's not deemed an immanent threat, they're probably in no hurry. The ATF works slowly. I've heard of people getting visited over a year after incidents.Well.. they can visit whenever- I'm clean now and will be then. But this waiting on any possible sanctions/penalties sux.
Swede Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Can you be proactive and call that agent you met? Did you get a card, a name and number? A simple "Am I going to be charged with anything" seems harmless enough. Good luck bro. Find another hobby to fill your time. My base hobby is and always will be machine tools. Get yerself one of those mini-lathes and work on some tooling or something. Or build and fly some RC planes. Everybody needs a hobby and a passion.
Richtee Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Can you be proactive and call that agent you met? Did you get a card, a name and number? A simple "Am I going to be charged with anything" seems harmless enough. Good luck bro. Find another hobby to fill your time. My base hobby is and always will be machine tools. Get yerself one of those mini-lathes and work on some tooling or something. Or build and fly some RC planes. Everybody needs a hobby and a passion. Yeah... sent an email asking just that the other day. No reply. Well, as you may know- I HAVE been cooking/smoking/curing alot of meat lately. Plans for a 50 Lb. batch of sausage this coming week too. Heh...Hungry? Stop on by! Doing 3 slabs of ribs today for Easter dinner tomarrow. Tired of ham... I do have a Shopsmith...1940's vintage. A wood machine mainly... but it's really not my bag. Guess I could get back into the electronics thing too..sigh- I just don't have the fire for that anymore. Umm no pun intended-
optimus Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/is_...rror_state.html http://wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-extremism.pdf I think these articles should speak for themselves!
TheSidewinder Posted April 25, 2009 Posted April 25, 2009 Probably the nice weather. At least, it's nice here. Neighbors are all doing yard work. I'll be joining them shortly.
Mumbles Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Now the Passfire forum is down. I don't know what to do with myself. What am I going to do to distract myself from my paper now? Expect a lot of post whoring here.
TheSidewinder Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Well, since this IS the Random thread... Today's hot deal can be found at namecheap.com, where they have a sale going on. .info domains are on sale for $2.99 and, while that's a damn good price for a domain name, it gets a whole lot better. You also get free Whois Privacy with each registration, something which most hosts charge for. AND you get a free PositiveSSL cert (by Komodo) with each domain you purchase. You can register it to ANY domain, anywhere, and can hold it "unregistered" for up to a year. That's about $65 worth of goodies for $3. A better than 95% discount. Just in case anyone wants to buy some throwaway domain and play with a homewebserver that has SSL, this is one hell of a deal. I bought 6 .info domains today, for less than $18, and have 6 SSL certs sitting in my account waiting for good homes. Hell, I can resell them if I want to. Hmmm....
FrankRizzo Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Now the Passfire forum is down. I don't know what to do with myself. What am I going to do to distract myself from my paper now? Expect a lot of post whoring here. Speaking of that. I don't remember seeing a planned outage notification, did you? What a jerk.
crazyboy25 Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Well, since this IS the Random thread... Today's hot deal can be found at namecheap.com, where they have a sale going on. .info domains are on sale for $2.99 and, while that's a damn good price for a domain name, it gets a whole lot better. You also get free Whois Privacy with each registration, something which most hosts charge for. AND you get a free PositiveSSL cert (by Komodo) with each domain you purchase. You can register it to ANY domain, anywhere, and can hold it "unregistered" for up to a year. That's about $65 worth of goodies for $3. A better than 95% discount. Just in case anyone wants to buy some throwaway domain and play with a homewebserver that has SSL, this is one hell of a deal. I bought 6 .info domains today, for less than $18, and have 6 SSL certs sitting in my account waiting for good homes. Hell, I can resell them if I want to. Hmmm.... WHO ARE YOU?!?! And what have you done with sidewinder! The sidewinder I know would never promote such shameless advertising. Whatever, I like this one more. Just kidding
tentacles Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Oh, you didn't get the memo? He sent around a TPS report to all the forum members days ago...
Mumbles Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Yeah, but it didn't have the right cover sheet, so I just ignored it.
TheSidewinder Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Oh, hell, I MEANT to post that notice in the Random Thread, not the Occasional Depression thread. Owell. It'll get read here just as much. LOL @ crazyboy. No, normally I don't do any "advertising". But this is such a great deal for anyone who's looking for a dirt-cheap SSL cert (let alone a cert, a domain AND whois privacy) that I figured it was worth typing up. However, an even better deal can be found HERE. (Remember those info domains I mentioned?)
Mumbles Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 Nice, the passfire forum s back up. It will take a while to get used to though.
TrueBluePyro Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 Holy crap I just had a look at passfire, what have they done? looks really nice though, heaps better than the old forum, well I think anyway
TheSidewinder Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 Wow, I just looked at Passfire. Looks like Kyle put in a lot of work, too. Sure nice to see that forum section replaced. The old one was the red-headed bastard stepchild of Satan.
TrueBluePyro Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 The old one was the red-headed bastard stepchild of Satan. HA nice, lol. It is HEAPS better than the old one, that is why I never used the old one.
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