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tarepanda posted:Just bring up "soda" vs "pop" vs "cola" vs "coke" and watch people swarm out of the woodwork. I think we had a fun discussion about it a few months ago. Ugh, pop. And coke. I'm from the south and even lived in Georgia for a while but it blew my mind when I was told people there order everything as 'Coke'. It was just 'soft drink' for me for a long time. Now that I'm in Iowa, here's a fun regional grammatical weirdness: Needs xed. For example, straight from a billboard outside: "Does your sign need serviced?" Iowans don't notice this as being wrong at all, but my outsider brain sees the mistake of not saying either "Does your sign need servicing" or "Does your sign need to be serviced?" It's all over the place. "That server needs fixed." augh it just grinds at my soul.
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Golbez posted:Ugh, pop. And coke. I'm from the south and even lived in Georgia for a while but it blew my mind when I was told people there order everything as 'Coke'. It was just 'soft drink' for me for a long time. It's not just Iowa, either; it happens in a lot of places in the Midwest. I worked at a music camp for a few years during college, and I especially noticed it from people from Ohio. However, Michigan generally seems to have avoided that specific quirk.
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I just finished running an interview weekend for applicants to my school's neuroscience PhD program. Today I discovered that someone registered my first and last name as a gmail address and was asking the applicants for really specific info, stuff that they're not supposed to give out, such as their order of preference for schools and such. Is there anything I can do about this? If it's one of the other applicants I want to know! Edit: annd it looks like everyone else has already sent in the info. Only the goony kid was smart enough to realize that it was suspicious. dopaMEAN fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Feb 21, 2012 |
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dopaMEAN posted:I just finished running an interview weekend for applicants to my school's neuroscience PhD program. Today I discovered that someone registered my first and last name as a gmail address and was asking the applicants for really specific info, stuff that they're not supposed to give out, such as their order of preference for schools and such. You can look at the header of the email and see the origination IP address. That may or may not give you a clue as to who sent it.
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dopaMEAN posted:Edit: annd it looks like everyone else has already sent in the info. Only the goony kid was smart enough to realize that it was suspicious. Well, there's your first suspect.
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Noni posted:Well, there's your first suspect. I thought about that, but if he hadn't mentioned it, we never would have known. I did get weirded out a bit when he was photographing people on the last morning... Spog- I'm asking for the header info now. dopaMEAN fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Feb 21, 2012 |
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I need some advice. I've been getting calls for a couple months asking if my magazines were arriving ok, thing is, I don't get any magazines. Never have. I told them several times to take me off their call list, there must be a mistake and they said they'd take care of it. Yesterday, I got a call from their "collections" dept. saying I owe them money. I think the name of the company was "publishers international." I've gone over my bank statements, there's no charges to them or anything, and they have my address listed as where I lived a little over a year ago. I told the dude I'm not paying for a service I never signed up for (and never got magazines for!), and he refused to let me speak to a manager, saying he was just the collections agency. He said i'd be marked down as "refusal to pay." Should I be worried about this poo poo? I can't find the company anywhere online, and most importantly, anyone know how i can get back at these rats for harassing me?
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thecolorsymphony posted:I need some advice. I've been getting calls for a couple months asking if my magazines were arriving ok, thing is, I don't get any magazines. Never have. I told them several times to take me off their call list, there must be a mistake and they said they'd take care of it. Ask me about dealing with debt collectors should help you out!
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Someone posted an ap here in SA that shows the good/bad ratings for the videos on the Youtube sidebar so that you have an idea what you're clicking on. Does anyone have a link to it or know what the hell I am talking about?
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thecolorsymphony posted:I need some advice. I've been getting calls for a couple months asking if my magazines were arriving ok, thing is, I don't get any magazines. Never have. I told them several times to take me off their call list, there must be a mistake and they said they'd take care of it. Did he actually have your name and information, or did he just call and say "Hey you on the phone, pay us or else"?
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Is there a clock radio that acts as an iPod dock and that can play a particular song from the iPod as the alarm? I'm finding a lot of clock radios you can dock your iPod with, but they lack the alarm functionality I'm looking for. Does something like this exist, and if so, can someone recommend me one in the $40-$60 price range?
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:Is there a clock radio that acts as an iPod dock and that can play a particular song from the iPod as the alarm? I'm finding a lot of clock radios you can dock your iPod with, but they lack the alarm functionality I'm looking for. Does something like this exist, and if so, can someone recommend me one in the $40-$60 price range? It's not exactly what you're looking for, but this is a free downloadable alarm that can play a song from your iTunes library.
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User-Friendly posted:It's not exactly what you're looking for, but this is a free downloadable alarm that can play a song from your iTunes library. Thanks, but right after I posted that I realized that there was an alarm clock built into the iPod so all I need is any old speaker/dock.
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FCKGW posted:Did he actually have your name and information, or did he just call and say "Hey you on the phone, pay us or else"? They have my name, or at least my last name, and my address from a couple years ago. They have my phone number, clearly, but not any of my Credit Card info. Don't know where they got anything because those eels don't answer my questions.
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The Dregs posted:Someone posted an ap here in SA that shows the good/bad ratings for the videos on the Youtube sidebar so that you have an idea what you're clicking on. Does anyone have a link to it or know what the hell I am talking about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0obzYBEcs Download links are in the description. I really wish it would show on search results as well since it's so useful
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Golbez posted:Now that I'm in Iowa, here's a fun regional grammatical weirdness: Needs xed. For example, straight from a billboard outside: "Does your sign need serviced?" Iowans don't notice this as being wrong at all, but my outsider brain sees the mistake of not saying either "Does your sign need servicing" or "Does your sign need to be serviced?" I didn't know this was such a midwest thing. It's really high up on the Pittsburgh dialect lists too, perhaps only behind "yinz" and "dahntahn".
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I am looking for an approximately 10 year old digital watch. You could program birthdays into the calender, and it would play a "cute birthday song" on birthdays. It would also track the phases of the moon, and a little digital wolf would come out to howl at the full moon. Does anybody have any idea the make/model on this thing? My best friend had one years ago, and lost it, and I've always wanted to get it for her as a gift. Any help would be amazing.
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Golbez posted:Now that I'm in Iowa, here's a fun regional grammatical weirdness: Needs xed.
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Elijya posted:It's much older than that. The TV show didn't start until 2009, people have been making jokes about Jersey for decades. "Who run
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Anyone know much about Pool Cues? I'd like to get MY WIFE one for her Birthday. I'm looking for a step or two up from house cues, but not "what the pros use". She's only been in a league a couple years now, but who knows how long it will last. I was thinking of asking in SAS, or even doing a "TELL me about pool cues" thread, but figured I'd play it safe and start here.
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Could anyone tell me what medium this picture is done in? I know next to nothing about art. I really like the smoothness of the image and wouldn't mind learning more about the style.
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HagridOfTheLibrary posted:Could anyone tell me what medium this picture is done in? I know next to nothing about art. It's digital - ie all done in CG on a computer. It's by Sergey Kolesov.
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marshmallard posted:It's digital - ie all done in CG on a computer. Thanks a bunch! Found the picture on imgur roulette so I didn't even have the artist.
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HagridOfTheLibrary posted:Thanks a bunch! Found the picture on imgur roulette so I didn't even have the artist. TinEye is useful for that.
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KillianLett posted:I'm looking for a step or two up from house cues, but not "what the pros use". A $20 wal-mart cue is a step above a bar cue. A broom handle with a decent tip is a step above a bar cue. If she plays in a pool hall that sells cues, go pick out a McDermott/Joss/Cuetec/Stealth in the $75-$150 range and you are - hell, I can't even say how many "steps" above a bar cue you would be. It would be like if your wife had spent the last 2 years in a pasture eating fungus off of cow pies and you were going to a grocery store to pick up some food that was a "step or two" above that. Any two-piece that
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SkunkDuster posted:A $20 wal-mart cue is a step above a bar cue. A broom handle with a decent tip is a step above a bar cue. If she plays in a pool hall that sells cues, go pick out a McDermott/Joss/Cuetec/Stealth in the $75-$150 range and you are - hell, I can't even say how many "steps" above a bar cue you would be. It would be like if your wife had spent the last 2 years in a pasture eating fungus off of cow pies and you were going to a grocery store to pick up some food that was a "step or two" above that. If I had a pool table in my house and didn't plan on taking my cues anywhere, is there any advantage of having a two-piece cue?
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SkunkDuster posted:A $20 wal-mart cue is a step above a bar cue. A broom handle with a decent tip is a step above a bar cue. If she plays in a pool hall that sells cues, go pick out a McDermott/Joss/Cuetec/Stealth in the $75-$150 range and you are - hell, I can't even say how many "steps" above a bar cue you would be. It would be like if your wife had spent the last 2 years in a pasture eating fungus off of cow pies and you were going to a grocery store to pick up some food that was a "step or two" above that. I know she wants two piece, 19oz and a case. Don't know that she knows much more either. I was mainly looking for name brands to look into/avoid. I'll check out the ones you listed there and get a feel for them. Thanks!
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hooah posted:If I had a pool table in my house and didn't plan on taking my cues anywhere, is there any advantage of having a two-piece cue? The main difference is that I don't think you can buy a decent one-piece cue. That market is reserved for bar cues and bottom of the barrel K-Mart crap. Somebody may prove me wrong and post a $4000 one-piece cue with unicorn horn inlays. Two-piece cues are the overwhelming standard for personal cues. As for actual advantages: With a one piece, if you want to change the weight, your only option is to get a heavier butt-weight (probably not the correct name) which will make your cue rear end heavy. With a two-piece, you can add weight in the middle and/or the butt to balance it. If your cue warps, you can get a new shaft for a two-piece. A big part of the price in two piece cues is in the butt with all the inlays, wraps, fancy wood, and whatnot. The butt isn't going to warp unless you leave it in your trunk in a Georgia summertime or something like that. If a one-piece cue warps, which it will, it's shot. Almost all of the action is in the shaft (thin end) and tip. The butt (rear end end of the cue) is mostly just something to grab onto that looks pretty and costs a lot of money. With a two-piece, you can swap out shafts and use one for breaking and one for regular playing without having to buy two separate cues. If you are the type that prefers a very delicate shaft with a soft tip (Meucci comes to mind), you wouldn't want to break with it because it would mushroom the tip and possibly break the shaft. In that case, you'd screw on your tank shaft for the break and switch back to your good shaft for the rest of the game. My experience comes from growing up in pool halls and spending about 4 years of my life playing rack after rack of 9-ball for 5-6 hours every night with a used McDermott and a Stealth backup. There are probably goons that have spent 20-30 years playing rack after rack for 5-6 hours a night, so if one of them chimes in, just disregard what I have to say and listen to them.
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I'm struggling a bit with Google Calendar. When I input an appointment on my Android phone's calendar, the phone automatically syncs it with the web, so that when I open up my calendar in my browser the appointment will be there. I figured it also worked the other way around; that anything I added to my calendar via my web browser would be downloaded to my phone. It didn't. I missed an appointment because of this. What do I have to do with my phone to get it to periodically check the my web calendar?
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Baron Bifford posted:figured it also worked the other way around; that anything I added to my calendar via my web browser would be downloaded to my phone. It didn't. I missed an appointment because of this. What do I have to do with my phone to get it to periodically check the my web calendar? Did you refresh your calendar on your phone after updating your calendar from the web? I've added a lot of things through the web and they show up fine on my phone without me doing anything (I assume at some point my phone syncs once a day or something).
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I need a laptop sleeve that offers good protection but will fit inside a backpack. My netbook's screen is 11.6" diagonal, and the overall dimensions are 11.49" (L) x 8.46" (W) x 0.83 - 1.26" (H). Any recommendations? It would also be cool if someone could explain why the height is listed as 0.83 - 1.26".
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Absolute Lithops posted:I need a laptop sleeve that offers good protection but will fit inside a backpack. My netbook's screen is 11.6" diagonal, and the overall dimensions are 11.49" (L) x 8.46" (W) x 0.83 - 1.26" (H). Any recommendations? This is totally a guess, but could it be that it's wider where plugs or ports are and narrower in other places?
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Absolute Lithops posted:I need a laptop sleeve that offers good protection but will fit inside a backpack. My netbook's screen is 11.6" diagonal, and the overall dimensions are 11.49" (L) x 8.46" (W) x 0.83 - 1.26" (H). Any recommendations? Most laptops are not a uniform height, but slim down a bit towards the user.
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Absolute Lithops posted:I need a laptop sleeve that offers good protection but will fit inside a backpack. My netbook's screen is 11.6" diagonal, and the overall dimensions are 11.49" (L) x 8.46" (W) x 0.83 - 1.26" (H). Any recommendations? I'm not sure about special protection. I just went into a computer shop and looked around. If you have to, Best Buy probably has some stuff, but mostly for Macs and marked up horribly. I don't know what kind of computer shops are in the US, but Canada has Canada Computers. It doesn't sound like you're searching for something specialized. Incase is pretty good, has a nice soft lining.
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Goons, my mom took it upon herself several years ago to put a security freeze on my credit reports at all three agencies. I have not been affected by this in the past because I don't use my credit for anything. However, I am trying to get a new cell phone plan and they are trying to pull Equifax's report. I got the Transunion and Experian freezes lifted (Transunion apparently never even placed one even though my mom paid for it?) relatively easily online. Equifax requires a pin thing that I never received, most likely because my mom had it mailed to her. Their site to request a replacement pin online does not work. I'm hesitant to just mail them a picture of my ID and a letter with my social security number and a check. Does anyone know of any way to deal with this that is less of a headache? I can't call them because there is no number anywhere on their site for this.
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thecolorsymphony posted:They have my name, or at least my last name, and my address from a couple years ago. They have my phone number, clearly, but not any of my Credit Card info. Don't know where they got anything because those eels don't answer my questions. It could be a fake collection agency or a very shady real one. It's a scam where they'll harass people about debts they don't actually have to extort money from them. It works because people get freaked out thinking they're in trouble for some bill out there that they just forgot to pay. So they pay the money just to make it go away instead of asking questions. If this is the case they probably got your info off some mailing list or something. This site offers a pretty sensible step-by-step guide on how to handle this sort of thing (yes it's kind of outdated looking, but it's got good info). Usually if you can verify you have no debt and call these people on their poo poo they'll back off. Make sure it's by certified mail so you have proof that they received it. You also might want to check and make sure this isn't something like identity theft where someone's out there running up bills in your name. Kimmalah fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Feb 23, 2012 |
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I am going in for the in-person phase of interviews at a large tech company, and they want me to email them with some more details - including current and expected salaries. I am freaking out over what to put for "Expected Salary" - I currently make 50k/yr at a startup, and planned to just bump that up to 60-65k/yr. Then I checked out the position on http://glassdoor.com, and it reports that the average salary for my position is nearly 90k. This seems... well, obscenely high, to be honest. Does it matter what I put down? Are they going offer me basically the same thing no matter what I put down, or might I start out and find out that I'm making 20k less than someone else in the same position as me?
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Gravity Pike posted:... It matters, most large(r) companies have windows/grades/bands for salaries and (sadly) take your previous salary as a factor in what you "want" or should be offered now. That said, for the same reasons you won't find people (with the same education, experience, position, etc.) making wildly different pay. In most situations the worst is that you will be offered the "low" of the grade/band/etc. which isn't all that bad because you have room to move up. Basically there is a "lowball" for the position, but it doesn't get lower just because of your expected/wanted wage. Just be honest about what you want and realistic to what your skills, education, and experience bring and you will be fine.
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Gravity Pike posted:I am going in for the in-person phase of interviews at a large tech company, and they want me to email them with some more details - including current and expected salaries. I am freaking out over what to put for "Expected Salary" - I currently make 50k/yr at a startup, and planned to just bump that up to 60-65k/yr. Then I checked out the position on http://glassdoor.com, and it reports that the average salary for my position is nearly 90k. This seems... well, obscenely high, to be honest. Frankly, I would never put an "expected salary" in writing. I'd give my current salary honestly, since that's easy for them to verify, and say my expected salary depends on the details of the position and overall benefits package (bonus potential, 401k match/contrib, stock options, etc.) If forced to fill in a "salary requirement" line on an application I'd put 25% over the highest similar going rate i could find on on salary.com or glassdoor.com, etc. and be prepared to negotiate down a bit if they balk. They're not just going to give up and say gently caress you with no further conversation if you don't happen to guess the number they have in mind.
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