Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

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oh, and quincie, what science meeting are you going to??

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

The Carnegie Institution has a public seminar series called "Capital Science Evenings", and tomorrow's lecture is about origins of life. The speaker is a friend of my date (who is a high pressure geophysicist! And hott!) and apparently is a very cool guy. I'm particularly intersted in this topic as my undergrad degree is from Lehigh, home of "Darwin's Black Box" author and big-time intelligent design proponent Mike Behe. Never would have thought that odd little man would have his 15 minutes.

Anyhow, forget what I said about not making it to FAP; if ya'll plan to park at Pharmacy then I can meet up with you after the lecture, duh--probably nine, nine-thirty-ish. I will do my best not to totally dork out on you all.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

saying he's both a high pressure geophysicist and hott is a bit redundant, no?

i thought totally dorking out was implicit in fapping. have i been doing it wrong?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I bet you guys' definition of totally dorking out is nothing like my definition.

SCENE: A GOVT WORKPLACE FULL OF DUAL-SCREEN WORKSTATIONS WHERE EACH SCREEN IS A 24" WIDE FLATPANEL AND ALL WORKERS HAVE TWO KEYBOARDS AND TWO MICE. TOMBOT IS SEATED AT THE CENTRAL WORKSTATION. ANDYBOT IS SEATED DIRECTLY TO HIS LEFT. STEVEBOT IS STANDING OVER TOM.

TOMBOT: Classified, Expletives, Classified Classified

STEVEBOT: Classified HEY IS THAT THE WORLD MAP FROM SUPER METROID ON YOUR DESKTOP WALLPAPER

TOMBOT: YEAH DUDE

STEVEBOT: I KNEW THAT WAS ONE OF THE METROID MAPS

ANDYBOT: MY COUSIN DOWNLOADED THE SPEED RUN OF THAT WHERE SOME DUDE PLAYED THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME IN AN HOUR AND A HALF

The End.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

carly: hey guys, it's 8:57 pm. that's a prime number!
all: ...
carly: ok who wants to watch buffy now?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Prime numbers are gay. Relatively prime combinations of numbers are where it's at. Where it's at, boom boom, two relatively prime numbers and the multiplicative inverse

Why do you have to be at work at 8:57pm?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Yesterday I got caught between two book designers going on about paper stock and high-end page varnishes. It was like hearing barflies talk about Johnny Walker Blue.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Scene: quincie forced to attend PIFIT training for an hour and half EVERY FUCKING TUESDAY

QUINCIE (to similarly screwed coworker): I've finished balancing my checkbook and preparing my grocery list. Now what? Oh, I think I will compile a helpful PIFIT glossary.

"Asset"=some sort of document
"Artifact"=some other sort of document
"Configuration Items"=what the fuck, I don't even know
"Incident Investigation"=someone fucked up! Lets pick the most despised person on the project and blame HIM.
"Supplier Agreement Management"=send us our shit, assholes!

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

aww, i'm really sorry i won't be there on thursday to totally dork out with you guys.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

You're extra sorry you don't have two 24" widescreen monitors to stare at 10 hours a day. That's 4.6 million pixels people.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I am just not coming to this event anymore.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Lack of funds and the impending DOOM of the MPRE preclude my attendance. Enjoy the Pharmacy.

(collective sigh of relief from the DC group)

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

big loud mountain ape, your presence is always appreciated when alcohol is being imbibed. that's meant as a compliment.

tombot, that was my impression of me dorking out at the fap, at 8:57. i did in fact do this at work the other morning at 8:57, which led to a flood of vague memories about relative primes and congruences.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Today I am going to a printer's facility to inspect page proof ON PRESS. Words like pica may be used. Hardcore mid-20th-century dorkiness.

I'm hoping there will be ink-stained pressmen named Irv, and scruffy newsies.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Washington Post awesomeness: the 2005 Dining Guide and a bar guide... ON YOUR IPOD

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/entertainmentguide/togo/

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Pica

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

awesome.
now to fashion a rumour about the high rate of pica in the washington dc area...

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

If that includes paste, then my entire third-grade class had it.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm just back from lunch--talk about dorking out, the table of dudes next to me was discussing (I think) FANTASY BASEBALL!

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

mookieproof: hey guys, it's 6:33. in his diary, longtime canadian prime minister william lyon mackenzie king used to keep track of the angle of the clock hands when he woke up--he thought it was an omen.
all: ...
mookieproof: i wonder what he would have done with a digital clock?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

added up all the 90 degree angles?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

oh no we are speaking different dork out languages!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

HOW MANY OF US WILL BE AT FAP I MUST KNOW.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

ALSO WHAT TIME IS IT

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

IT IS 4:13 PM WHAT DID THEY NOT TEACH YOU TO TELL TIME AT DUCK???

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't. I was going to make the 2.5 hour drive to DC yet again to go to some open houses and visit some other places & then stop by the FAP, but I'm just not up to it. I'm so tired. I'm sick of driving. Have to wait for the next one. I slept for like ten hours and I'm still exhausted.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

7:30! 7:30!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! wait. is this tonight?!?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Shut up, you already know it's tomorrow.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

ha ha I just printed out a bunch of schedules (between date and FAP I will get to take three! bus lines tomorrow) and yeah I didn't note that each of the pdfs are about twenty pages long and my coworkers are all like "bus dork WTF?" as they wait for their print jobs to come off the shared printer.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

BUS schedules, that is. Also forgive lack of subject-verb agreement. I R an editor, you know.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, seriously, what day is it?

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Tomorrow (Thursday).

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

THURSDAY 7:30

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

WAIT IT'S NOT STANDARD TIME YET IS IT?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 27 October 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, I asked myself that question for most of Sunday. And probably will again.

I'll be at the FAP, but don't let that stop you.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 27 October 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

How will I recognize everyone?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Cherchez les dorks!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 27 October 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, well then. I knew there was a reason I couldn't get my shit together to head to DC today.

Wait, what's that in military time plz?

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 27 October 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

What are the cross-streets?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 October 2005 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I think my date will wrap up around 8:30 or so (alas, my hott geophysicist has to return to his stunning wife and gorgeous children), after which I'll hop the 42 bus and join you all. Keep an eye out for an unusually tall brunette carrying a red bag filled with PRESENTS!

― quincie, Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Stephen, if you weren't at the FAP I actually think I'd be pretty sad.

Mary I'm not sure what the cross streets are but it's smack in the middle of the 18th St drag in dreaded Adam's Morgan (that's like what Columbia & 18th?). On the same side of the street as Heaven & Hell, a few doors down from it IIRC. You will recognize me as Girl #3 from The Magician.

In military time, that is 1930.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

18th & belmont. oooh, presents!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I am wearing black pinstripe pants from H&M, black doc marten square-toed loafers and a grey ribbed zip mock sweater. I'm Hi, Dude Generic.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Aw, Ally.

I look like one of the guys they bring in to fill out police lineups.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh god, I will never find parking. I didn't realize it was in the smouldering heart of Adams Morgan. I am wearing: black sweater, jean skirt, brown boots, black tights, brown plaid blazer. Will be reading: The Princess Cassamassa if arrive before everyone else.

― WORKER, Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Is j.lu here posting under a different name? If not, where is she??? Tis the season to be KNITTING.

― quincie, Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

there is usually (or at least there was when i lived there three years ago) parking available on florida around v st/ontario. walk up 18th, though, rather than cutting through the marie reed center.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry to distress anyone, I just haven't been posting as much on ILE these days. Although I have been following this thread. Pharmacy Bar tonight after 7:30? See you there.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

this is zack and me - we'll be there at 730 or so...

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/38/62/812683/17266996249641l.jpg

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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