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[theinevitable]

Mostly the blocks with big discrepancies are mostly in poor neighborhoods. Not places with good ramen or whatever.

Today my fear was confirmed: a man accosted my coworkers and chased them away because he was convinced they were taking notes about where immigrants live for President Trump.  Yeesh.

[jaydub]

Ask him if Danzig would kick his ass.  That should go over well.

[Doc]

Today my fear was confirmed: a man accosted my coworkers and chased them away because he was convinced they were taking notes about where immigrants live for President Trump.  Yeesh.

Is it a gubmint job? Are they technically correct?

[theinevitable]

It is a government job, and the Census does record where immigrants live. But our job is just recording all of the mailing addresses in New York City, so they can send them a questionnaire for the census in 4 years. If this guy wants to write down that he's a Native-Born White Male I don't think anyone would catch him.

But yeah, his fears are reasonable. In the 1940s the Census handed over the addresses of all the Japanese-Americans.

[Doc]

There was some drama here this year because there was a decision to stop de-identifying data as thoroughly in this year's census (my understanding so they could provide longitudinal data going forward) and a lot of people didn't fill it out as a protest thing. Or at least a lot of people said they wouldn't do it on facebook. At the time those fears seemed a bit abstract but then there are people talking about muslim registries, so who knows anymore.

[jaydub]

I am delighted that I got to speak to Henry Rollins, even if by proxy, and that was a solid answer.

[Carlos del Vaca]

When there's an e-mail from the building manager saying "All workspace moves have to be coordinated by me," you know that means someone just up and moved themselves into an empty cubicle.

The move from my office to a cube farm is taking some getting used to. I can overhear a lot of extraneous conversations. On the other hand, today I spontaneously went to lunch with co-workers for the first time in years.

[AugustWest]

The move from my office to a cube farm is taking some getting used to.

You get used to it.  It does have some ok aspects.

[jaydub]

My company got acquired by Titanic MegaCorp, Inc over the summer, and finally the shoe has dropped.  We are contracting our campus footprint from 3 buildings to 2, after shedding about 15% of the personnel over the last 6 months.  Since I currently possess 2 double-size cubicles worth of real estate, my fiefdom is going to contract from about 600 square feet (no lie) to a portion of this veal pen abomination:

We are getting more "collaboration space" - lounge-y type areas with white boards and maybe image projection, and I spend a lot of the day in the labs, but this rearrangement is going to suck.
In addition, since the buildings are going to be renovated in the process, we are going to play musical chairs for 3 months: Building A moves to Building C, while A gets renovated; they move back and Building B moves to Building C while it gets renovated, then we move back and Building C gets closed.  We're also losing our onsite catered lunch for a lesser option TBD.

[pmcd9]

We are getting more "collaboration space"

I think that's corporate code for "your cube partners are going to be so annoying and distracting you'll need to wear headphones at all times in order to get any work done."

[Carlos del Vaca]

That is damn similar to what I've just gone through. Get ready to throw away a bunch of old crap and still have too much stuff to move.

[theinevitable]

I got my first paycheck, and of course it's only for 1 week of work. I was flat broke ($12 in my bank account) so this feels really good.

Now I find out that the guy I thought was taking over my bedroom in Philly fell through, so I'm on the hook for $400 (for some weird reason rent is due on the 15th of every month, so, yesterday). Looks like a couple more weeks of good Financial Discipline practice.

I am telling myself that if I am going to be making a lot more money than I've ever made, but living in a very expensive place, it's good that this is forcing me to get in the habit of eating meals at home, finding free events to attend, etc. But I'm getting some serious... what is the non-vulgar term for "blue balls."

[pmcd9]

what is the non-vulgar term for "blue balls."

I think blue balls IS the non vulger term. What would another option be, horny? Wait, that's not right. Horny is a strong desire to have sex, blue balls is expecting to have sex and being denied. I'm not sure there is a clinical term for that.

[theinevitable]

Well, I meant a term that didn't refer to anatomy or sex at all. I guess just frustrated!

[theinevitable]

Great moments. Spent too much on XMas presents and then the electric bill came, I was down to $20 in my checking account. Not great. And then I remembered those board games I sold on Amazon... did the money from that ever show up? Dug around and found out that every time I've sold anything on Amazon, the money was being put in my account at a St. Louis Credit Union that I forgot I had (in fact, I thought I closed it). So I happened upon $200. For once my stupidity has worked out.

Also: just now on the street a man got in my face and said "FUCK YOU, YOU F***** N*****." So I think I'm a provisional official New York resident, at least.