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Samoth!!! sup bro!!
I demand all Nimbus' questions be answered, I also have the exact same questions!
I demand all Nimbus' questions be answered, I also have the exact same questions!
Samoth, drinking slushee, taking questions for the next hour
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Hiya!!!
Yeah, those are some pretty deep questions. Lemme finish this 4loco first, that should help.
he's not a shill
Oh yeah, definitely. Over her as much as I will ever be. I mean, we had some fantastic times together. Some of the best times of my life. We were together for around 2.5 years; and it was during the last year or so of school for both of us and we ventured out into the real professional world together. An important and memorable time in one's life, regardless of who you're with. Stefka's a fantastic person and part of me will always
her.BTW, thanks for the candles, KB. They looked good on our mail table.
I'm not a PhD, and decided against grad school in the sciences some time ago, so it cannot be the latter. You can't really "contribute to science", in the way you're referring, without an advanced degree and academic life... or at least a quasi-academic life at a national lab or at CERN or something.
For the former, meh. It's only money. I never cared about getting rich. I'm moar interested in the ability to be able to support a family (whether or not I have one, or have kids, etc.) as the sole income-generating person (whether or not a SO wants to work doesn't matter... I grew up in a single-income household and kind of hold that as the measure of a man). Stability is important, too, but only so far as I'm not flying out to Shanghai to get clients because I don't have an income or something.
Short-term, making friends, having fun, and furthering career. I probably emphasize the first two because I don't really know many people here or hang out with colleagues... I work in ARE COUNTRY where people my age are all married, buying houses, and working on having their nth child. I don't really fit in here. But I'm moving in the next couple weeks, so we'll see how that goes.
I never know how to answer these questions. Probably why I'm not the best at interviewing or bar-flirting or times when I need to talk about myself.
I'm pretty average all around, with no major strengths or weaknesses (physically, mentally, psychologically; good upbrining, family, friends, mostly normal, interesting experiences and interests), so I'm pretty capable of doing anything I set my mind to. I have a "smart" degree, ex-competitive PLer and strong/muscular, good mental state (no weird mental flaws that I notice more and more in others as I get older), good upbringing...
Least, I suppose, is that I tend to overshoot/overestimate things and myself. Typical never good enough at x, y, or z, never where I want to be, e.g., financially (some people are millionairs and CEOs at 30, some people have a 2800 total at 30, some people have been married for 10 years and have a house and 2.3 kids, etc.), but I set my sights and goals higher than is generally reachable, so I'm fine with that. But my perceptions and attitudes can come across as skewed to others, especially in ARE COUNTRY... if you talk about entry-level jobs in primary markets starting at $160k and BIGFINANCE bonuses in the six figures or even the stock market, people look at you like you're crazy (although there are a few people interested in such city-folk things).
Probably lack of friends and fun. But, to be fair, I willingly left a lot of that kind of stuff to venture out into the world, follow my heart and dreams, etc. My old friends are the type to not leave the comfortable known, place they grew up, place they have friends, etc. to take chances, go somewhere new, or push the boundaries.
Oh, and not being a multi-billionair CFO/CEO ibanker hedge fund startup CERN senior physicist working <60 hours/week with a healthy family life and 2.3 kids in a 8000 sqft Long Island mansion who can B/S/D 500/800/700 raw. But I ain't gonna cry about it.
No. My social scene consists primarily of people I know from work who all grew up here, went to school here, and are generally very unlike me. Most people I know are married, and most are my age or younger. Even if I found someone worthy of pursuit, I wouldn't, as I am leaving this area shortly, and I'm not the fling or lead-someone-on type.
Jeez. Anything else, man? lol
Disagreeing with the modgod policy. Specifically, giving other members karma and agreeing with poasts stating such and making comments against it [that is, cannot question the modgod rule, cannot "talk back" to mods when they're poasting, cannot "question" mods or anything they say, mods' words are final and infallible, etc.].
I maintain that EF, at least C&C, should be ran as a discussion board, and rules applying to members must necessarily apply to mods. Moreover, the moderator position is not one of power, karma, kickbacks, or product-pushing, but one where the individual *moderates* (that's it, just moderates) the discussion board, and nothing more. If a mod wants to poast in chat, such poasts should be taken in the same manner as anyone else, and the same rules should apply as they do for anyone else.
Throwing a fit and locking/banning someone who: disagrees with you; says something objectively non-positive about a sponsored product or board sponsor; says "fuck you, you're wrong!" when such a response is perfectly normal for the situation in question and you're not moderating but merely poasting; questions your "power"; ad nauseum, is not the character of a moderator on a board of EF's stature. I'm wrong, of course, but these are my opinions. And such opinions are not -- or at least were not at the time -- shared by many others. Some mods emailed support, but were unwilling to sacrifice their status to publicly agree with me.
I guess this is why I will never be a politican, lol.
you wood be a poosie if you were a mod...Samoth is a man LOL
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