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[theinevitable]

Is that brutal honesty? I just assume people aren't interested in excuses when I didn't get something done.

[jaydub]

In my experience, they just want to know when it is that you will complete it.  Anything else is just emotional upset being vented.  I learned this from my mom, along with the distinction between an excuse and an explanation.  Excuses just make people mad (because it's an attempt to avoid responsibility), and an unsolicited explanation is a waste of time.

[theinevitable]

Have been aggravated all day about a data thing that was not working. Also discovered a big mistake I made at my internship that will result in a lot of extra work.

But then I got so annoyed that I googled exactly what I needed ("FAR2 Zip Code Populations 2010") and found a file that had it. And it was put out by the government so I can assume it is as accurate as I could get by trying to figure it out myself.
Now I feel so much better. Google is a wonder.

(FAR2 Zip Codes are zip codes that are more than an hour away from a municipality with 50k people or more, when driving the speed limit. There are more places that are that remote than I ever would have imagined.)

[theinevitable]

Ever since moving up here I have been in search of My Beer. In St Louis I would just ask "Do you have any Schlafly beers on tap" and get whatever they had. Nice and easy. Going to the grocery store? See what Schalfly beer is in season and grab a six pack to take to the party.

Here in the northeast I have never found my ideal. Local breweries are crazy expensive (practically everything is $10 for a six pack at the liquor store near me) and never that satisfying.

But then:


On the other hand, a lifestyle where I only drank once every few weeks was OK for the last two years. There was one semester where I partied a lot but this year was bland aside from one debacle. Which was fine.

[pmcd9]

Around for over a century. Not a part of the craft brew revolution.

[KeithHernandez]

Once I started drinking miller lite I started liking beer again.

Sometimes nowadays I'll grab a coors.  Sometimes a Pacifico.  But...well, I have a brand.

[jaydub]

If it's a choice between B/M/C and Pacifico, then the Mexican lager is what goes in my cart every time.  Learned about it from my mom many moons ago when I was at the store with her and she asked me to get her a 12-pack of beer.  I grabbed Corona, and when I brought it to her she said - "Don't they have Pacifico?"

[theinevitable]

I know research was harder before the internet, but bibliographies must have been a lot easier when everything was on paper in front of you.

[theinevitable]

Actually I take that back, because now I am imagining re-typing all of the entries because I messed up the alphabetical order.

[wombat]

Yeah, no, nothing was easier before the internet. Bibliographies in particular not only don't have to be retyped, I don't even have to type them in the first place. I type part of the reference into Google, find where someone else used the same source and used the right format, and copy-paste the whole thing.

You know how old I am? I was alive when you had to actually physically go to the library to find out if they had a particular book.

[AugustWest]

God, bibliographies and footnotes on a typewriter.  Holy shit but things are better in this modern day and age.

[Victoria Waterfield]

God, bibliographies and footnotes on a typewriter.  Holy shit but things are better in this modern day and age.

Counterpoint: there were so much fewer people in every damn field and subfield even just twenty years ago, you had the time to do all of that and not have to worry that ten other more hard-working researchers would publish on the exact same topic that you were working on before you got a chance to dot every i in your bibliography, and as a result leave you without any career prospects by the time you were thirty, you lazy asshole.

Why yes, I am bitter.

[wombat]

Actually we did worry about that twenty years ago. Not only that, sometimes we had to wait several weeks for the interlibrary loan before we found out for sure whether that paper had scooped us, instead of just being able to download it from the internet.

But, sorry, that sucks.

[theinevitable]

man, this lifestyle where I take a shower before bed because I feel sticky and then wake up 8 hours later drenched in sweat and shower again is for the dogs.

[jaydub]

The Eastern Seaboard in the summer lifestyle?