How the heck are colleges allowing people to still use those emails addresses so long after graduation? That's the odd thing to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
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How the heck are colleges allowing people to still use those emails addresses so long after graduation? That's the odd thing to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Some schools give email for life. Easy way for them to keep track of alums (for fundraising purposes)Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Wharton too, go figure alsoQuote:
Originally Posted by babybear
Makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by half-fast
I still use my college email. It’s nothing prestigious or fancy, but it’s my name with an easy domain. I never found a particular reason to switch. I don’t really use my personal email for much except for things like maintaining accounts or the odd listserv for groups. Who actually sends personal email these days?
Living in a college town it was a pretty common email address, so it was easy to communicate and denoted some inclusion. Google is the back end….
There's certainly something to be said for having a stable email address, especially for things like password retrieval from accounts you've forgotten about.
Literally the first time I’ve heard of someone not using their dartmouth.edu address in perpetuity and also mentioning Dartmouth twice in every conversation.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
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Dated someone back when I lived in San Diego who had a Harvard degree, Anthropology or History maybe. Hilarious to hear from my circle of friends how she’d work it into conversations. Half my group of friends were in the indie rock / art ‘career’ path, gave zero fucks about her Harvard degree, other half were biotech etc and all had PhD’s, gave zero fucks about someone’s undergrad degree. All this deflated her, which was amusing.
My wife's M.Ed is from Harvard. Her PhD is from Tufts. It is rare (like, really rare) that the schools she went to come up in social conversations, but if they do people rarely ask or care about the masters once they realize she has a PhD. It's all about perspective I guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
She uses Gmail for personal email fwiw. She does have a Harvard address, but it's her work account as the hospital she works at is affiliated with the medical school.
The dumbest postdoc I had the misfortune of working with did his undergrad at Harvard. It went downhill from there, PhD from some shithole in the midwest and postdoc at the U of U which will never be regarded as a prestigious institution in my field.
He was VERY keen on mentioned Harvard but never bothered clarifying that he only did his undergrad there and not grad/post grad education. He still used his Harvard email instead of his UofU email and had everything forwarded to and from the more prestigious box. The whole thing was really weird since everyone around him knew full well that going from Harvard to the U isn't a sign of brilliance, just evidence that mom and dad's money could buy his entrance into undergrad but once the real selection process began shit began to unravel.
If Christians want to help the oppressed based on the alleged teachings of some Jew 2000+ years ago, more power to them. We'll see if Hobby Lobby is serious or just Jesus-washing. There was a time when when liberation theology was a significant faction of the Catholic church in Latin America (see the assassination of Archbishop Romero). There were the antiwar activities of the Berrigan brothers. And in Sacramento the Jesuit brothers were sending kids off to get arrested protesting the School of the Americas--the US torture school for Latin American despots. Which is funny--although the parents didn't think so--because Jesuit is the number one jock school in Sacramento. Seems like that strain of progressive religion is out of favor for the most part. (My son's MIL is a very progressive minister in Truckee--with a tiny congregation). Now religions just want to tell everyone else how to live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel
My kid has a MPH from Harvard--like every other unsuccessful med school applicant waiting to apply again. Although in his case he got it in the middle of his residency for reasons that escape me, but at least it was free. My wife likes to tell people he's in a Harvard residency--whch is true, although it's the 3rd tier of Harvard's residencies, not MGH (#1,) or Brigham and Women's (#2).Quote:
Originally Posted by JayPowHound
Yeah. I don’t think it’s Jesus that most people have a problem with. He seemed pretty chill, actually. It’s all the people running the churches that are the assholes
Just get your own domain, and you have a personal email for as long as you want it. Easy, and cheap.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Edit: You also get infinite email addresses, which is very handy.
My wife is LOT smarter than most of those clowns, especially in matters other than education.Quote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
(Humble-brag?)
She has her masters in an entirely different discipline at another prestigious University, but we aren’t talking about that.
Is the cost one time or do you need to keep paying to keep the domain? I know my wife pays Blue Host for web hosting and it seems like a big money sink to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive
Gotta pay in perpetuity; but it’s cheap, if all you need is the domain registry, not hosting.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
And let’s face it, we have lots of other things we pay monthly for too; it’s just one more. And you can pay in three year increments, so it’s pretty painless.
I have a harvard.edu addy and one from a small college in western mass. Never occurred to me to use them. I should log on and find out how much spam is on them.
Like the bumper stickers "Dear God, please protect me from your followers..."Quote:
Originally Posted by Supermoon
A huge contingent of the Christian religious right should be walking around with bloody stumps at the neck, because their heads exploded.
They had kittens that Clinton had an affair, and made "family values" and all the other stink around "values matter" etc. But then when naked power shows up and offers them SC justices in exchange for their souls, they couldn't toss down fast enough.
If you believe in karma, justice, or God's judgement, well, I'd hate to be those folks when the balance comes due.
Shit fucking gotdamnit motherfucking cunt ass shit fucker no good sonofabitch assface monkey shit crap dumbfuck fucking fuck fuck.
Fuck.
What a way to start a Friday.
Do go on.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Sounds like Monday and Friday we're fucking and forgot which one was pitching and which one was catching.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Another dishwasher loading complaint?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Must be a client dropping some real bullshit on a Friday morning. That happens way too often.
“It’s Super Bowl weekend Carl! You dick”
I try not to be a realist, I try to be an optimist… But I know, deep down in my heart, that Fridays really are the new Saturdays…Fridays used to be rad.
Wouldn’t that raise Thursdays up in Radness?
(That’s me being an optimist!)
Getting old is annoying…
Rope drop for Devil’s Castle yesterday. Was about 80th in line outside the gate at Sugarloaf. Had already committed to going all the way to the wall. Was through the initial crux and about 1/2 way on this long right foot climb and already down to only 10 or so in front of me. The plan was playing out as expected. Started the final heavier sidestep up the last pitch when - slap! Felt something in my right calf. F@&k! Had to stop and assess. Something had definitely just ripped. Stood aside and only 1 more went past over the next few minutes. Gathered myself and knew I couldn’t continue. My R leg was useless and I’m in the middle of DC traverse looking at a bunch of untracked. I skied out but now how I imagined (on one leg). How do you pull a muscle on the traverse on day 37 on snow….
Getting old sucks.
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Somebody sniped a mint 1995 XE Assfinder with transformer wheels out from under you for $3K?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
RAGE CALL GENERATOR IS BACK!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Woot
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Originally Posted by rideit
Absolutely yes. I am now relegated to celebrating life on Tues, Weds, Thurs.
Yeah, FUCK Monday, right in its sorry ass.
The true Jesus (his words) just proved you wrong, murdering a cyclist in OC for no reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supermoon
From the Orange County Register (paywalled)
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The Long Beach man accused of running over and stabbing a beloved physician in Dana Point earlier this month confessed to the killing in a jailhouse interview Friday, Feb. 10, saying he has no regrets and was entitled to commit murder because he is both God and Jesus Christ.
In a rambling, hourlong conversation with a Southern California News Group reporter, Vanroy Evan Smith cited end-of-world scriptures from the Bible’s Book of Revelation and said that if the public knew he was the Messiah and the “king of kings,” they would think differently about him and his crime.
“I have killed,” Smith, 39, said during the interview at Orange County’s Intake Release Center in Santa Ana. “If they knew who I was, they would let me walk out of here. They would fulfill all my desires.”
Smith, who has pleaded not guilty to homicide charges in the death of Dr. Michael John Mammone, is being held in jail on $1 million bail.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Mammone, 58, was riding his mountain bike in the bicycle lane on Pacific Coast Highway at Crown Valley Parkway when he was struck from behind by a white Lexus driven by Smith. The impact hurled the doctor into the air.
Smith then got out of his car and stabbed Mammone with a large, long knife, sheriff’s deputies said. Witnesses on cellphone video are heard describing it as a machete. One man directed others to find it in nearby bushes. Bystanders detained Smith until deputies arrived.
Mammone died after he was rushed to Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, one of the hospitals where he had served as an emergency medicine physician.
Smith, who denied in the jailhouse interview that he is mentally ill, said he awoke on the morning of Feb. 1 fully expecting to kill someone by the end of the day, adding that he has long been plagued by troubling “communications” from others and conflict because of his mixed-race heritage.
Smith said he placed a BB gun, intended to be used as a distractionary device, into his Lexus, and drove to a Long Beach area gun store, where he purchased the knife.
He also said he considered using a bow and arrow, but ultimately decided against it.
Smith recounted that after the knife purchase, he began driving around and felt compelled to run over Mammone and then stab him. “It was my right,” Smith said, adding that he feels no remorse for the killing. “He was in the crosswalk and presented himself.”
thats sucks:( .. it could be worse though; I lost a season to a calf /hamstring tear quite a few years ago. Hope you heal up fast!Quote:
Originally Posted by ski_the_fraulein
The genius who designed our townhome complex used the same street address number on two different buildings, one on the main loop road around our complex and the other on a short side street off of that loop.
Both buildings face onto the loop road, and it's not obvious the one on the side street is not "on" the loop road. Especially to delivery drivers.
Most see the first building, get out and try to deliver and are stumped when the unit numbers they're looking for are not there. The lazy ones (and there are a lot) drop the package there anyways and carry on. The better ones look further and see the second building with that number 100 yards further along.
And then some, like UPS, mark the package delivered but then take it back to their delivery hub. Looking around for it it's not at any of the usual doors drivers wrongly drop packages at. Go back and click track package again, and now it says "Address Information Required". Try to change delivery to add a note for the driver or just pick up at a UPS store, and there is no way to do that. So then the question...do I want to spend an hour on the phone trying to fix this today....or see if they figure it out on their own.
Speaking of Fridays, it’s annoying that my colleague schedules meetings on Fridays. He’s always waxing about the good old days when Friday meetings were avoided as a policy. We control our schedule, and it’s generally not an issue to push people off to Monday, but he can’t help himself.
While we’re at it, Monday meetings are also annoying. Cram that shit into T-Th
Motherfuckingpiecesofniclandimingshit, I'm talking about Welch's. Their little packets of fruit chews just went from .9 OZ to .8 Oz. Just raise the price, you cheap fuckwads.
Obligatory Lawrence
Our niece and her family live in Temecula CA on Something or Other Court, which is many miles and on the other side of a major freeway from Something or Other Blvd., also in Temecula. After driving 6 hours in Thanksgiving traffic it took us another hour to find her house, (which looked exactly like the houses in the wrong neighborhood.)Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
I just bought a new house, so new it’s not on Google maps. My local internet provider says my address isn’t real, so they can’t provide service yet.
The world is getting more weird/annoying by the second.