Posts made by WTFE

@Luna said:

@WTFE I'm the daughter of an Engineer.

You poor person. If you ever need to talk, <frasier>I'm listening</frasier>.

@Luna said:

@WTFE Engineers are straight up crazy people.

I know. I'm a co-founder of a small engineering startup. All my partners are engineers of varying kinds.

Serious RL peeve: engineering companies who let their engineers write the documentation. Goes double when the engineers in question are EFL types. (EFL → English as their Fifteenth Language)

Engineers are barely able to communicate within their own circles. Why would you unleash them on people who are not in that circle without some editing for consistency and comprehensibility?

Unfortunate timing in action.

For me "pampering" is "not being forced into a self-criticism by the Party cadres today".

Thanks guys. I was really missing the traditional WORA bloodbath. You came through for me. I love you all!

I'm not sure how slicing major chunks of skin off my face daily is "spoiling myself a little", mind, but hey, different strokes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_which_do_not_contain_themselves

Are you sure you wanted to turn that to eleven here and now? The guitar solo is still ahead and you won't have that extra "kick" if you keep up at this pace.

These go to eleven!

I'm wondering, @Balerion: can you be more pompous or is this as grandiloquent as it gets from you? I mean don't get me wrong: that was amazingly fustian. (It probably helps that I'm hearing it in the exaggerated "received pronunciation" voice of a 19th century grammarian pedant.) I'm just wondering if you're going all out, balls-to-the-wall with your pomposity or if you've got that little bit extra left over for the guitar solo?

@Sunny said:

ETA: If this were the hog pit I would have added quite a bit to this. There are a couple of choice words I'd be throwing around. I'll just let everyone use their imaginations. We do that, around here.

To make @Jeshin feel more at home, I could write up some code that generates expressions using those choice words. After all, apparently exercising imagination doesn't fall under the purview of things he likes to do…

@Jeshin: Which language would you prefer the choice words generator to be written in? Pick one of Prolog, Rexx, Lua, Mercury, Forth or Erlang.

Getting back to my professional roots. I gave up on embedded systems and moved into mainstream software decades ago. I burned out so badly from this that I gave up ALL software 15 years ago. Now I'm back making embedded software and … WTF did I leave this for? This is incredibly fun!

Don't do things that make people bitch you out?

@Ide said:

@Thenomain, my first thought was Castle Marrach, but d'Image isn't bad either (come to think of it, weren't Marrach and d'Image related somehow? I can't remember).

They were related in that there was a castle at the core of the setting. In every other respect Castle Marrach and Castle d'Image were radically different. Marrach was code-heavy and based on a ridiculous "verbing adverbly" communication style (enforced by the engine!). Castle d'Image (at least when I played on it) was a MUSH that had some coded stuff, but mostly was just like regular MUSHes with poses and emits and the like.

Meanwhile, in Second Life (the game for people who lack a first):

I got mine by breaking my back. (Well, OK, by rupturing a disk in my spine, but the fluid bulged straight into the spinal cord.) The downside was over a month of someone running a blowtorch up and down both legs and my crotch and ass, or so it felt. The upside is that it completely reset my definitions of "pain" to the point that pain that in the past would have been debilitating and caused me to stay home from work is now "meh". (Hint: this is really not an upside…)

Sciatic pain is not anything I'd wish on even people I hate.

I don't know if this is hilarious or terrible. (It may be both.)

If the sight of non-Latin text sends you into paroxysms of panic, just ignore the text, look at the pictures, and pay special attention to the brand name…

@icanbeyourmuse said:

I am always pokeable …

Must. Resist. Childish. Boorish. Joke!

@Derp said:

@Ganymede said:

@Derp

I used to think that way until I got kids on my own. It's not always that simple.

Ah. Yes. I do happen to be childless (to my knowledge), so I suppose that I can't directly relate to these circumstances.

I'm not childless. I still maintain that it is that simple. If you need to get away from the kid, get away from the kid. Don't drag the kid with you in the name of getting away from it and thus inflict it on everybody else around you. If your child is such a problem to you that you "need to get away", what the everloving fuck makes you think inflicting that kid on others without pay is right!?

There are times when I stumble over things that are absolutely sublime.

Ladies, gentlemen, other: I present to you cassia wine:

Newly-acquired bottle of cassia wine

It's so sweet it should be cloying, but ... isn't. It's fruity and has a distinct note of peach to it.

Related is this tea:

Yiwu pu'er raw tea

The round one peeking out of the basket, that is, and not the slab-shaped one barely visible. That is a raw pu'er tea from Yiwu, made in 2005. The reason why it's related? It, too, has an oddly fruity note to its aroma when brewed properly. This tea is a perfect complement to the cassia wine.

Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't also show the way I use to prepare that tea when I want to do it correctly while outside of my home:

Portable near-"kung fu" tea set

The pen is there for scale, but basically the cups are 50ml in size. (A normal tea mug is closer to about 250ml.) While not brewing tea quite as good as a proper "kung fu" set, it comes very close and is much easier to carry around. (It even comes with a lovely case, not shown, for convenience.)