The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by divisionten

Just got a Kindle. Book suggestions?

The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hunger Games
The Color of Magic (Discworld)

There are also various classics which you can obtain for cheap/free, but I haven't worked out which version of certain books might have the best formatting out of the box.


Also, there are tools I highly recommend:

Calibre (eBook Library Manager)
K4MobiDeDRM Calibre plugin (to aid in conversion of eBooks from one format to another. Allows you to repair formatting problems with purchased eBooks)
Sigil (word processor specifically made for eBooks)

[StrongBrush1]

Originally Posted by Johro

Don't dip your pen in the company ink!

Seriously though, It's not a big issue if everyone is able to act like a mature adult if things don't work out. You don't need a simple breakup to lead to factions developing on the job. You have to look at things that way going into the relationship as hard as that sometimes is to see. Think to yourself, if things ended badly, how would either of us react at work?

Yes, I've done it. Things were fairly okay afterwords. Our work friends kind of split though. We didn't ask them to "pick sides" or anything. They just kind of did. We were both mature enough not to sink to the lows of trash talking or gossiping to others.

Wasn't this the subject of discussion in an episode of "How I Met Your Mother"?

[puzzlebox]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

The only reason people say don't date coworkers is because when you break up yur job will be even more miserable than it was before.

I dated a coworker. Breaking up WOULD make things pretty awkward right now, mostly because we've both left the company and are living happily in sin together on the other side of the continent.

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Everything is soluble given enough water and time.

What about lipids and other hydrophobic substances?

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by divisionten

Just got a Kindle. Book suggestions?

I'm half-way through The Blazing World, and I'm enjoying it a lot (it's one of the first science fiction books, about an alternate world which can be accessed through the Earth's North Pole, written by Margaret Cavendish, the Dutchess of Newcastle, in 1666). The book's alternate world contains talking animals and insects which walk upright and covers everything from the known science of the time, to philosophy, religion, and politics.

As I mentioned in the Books: A Literary discussion thread, I went through some trouble finding the book in ePub format, so I made my own. Here's my ePub of it so you don't have to go through the trouble yourself. And since you have a Kindle, here it is in mobi format (converted with Calibre).

[Iryon]

Originally Posted by puzzlebox

What about lipids and other hydrophobic substances?

That's in fact a good point. Although hydrophobic substances seem not to be soluble in water (resulting in a two-phase system), small amounts of their molecules always migrate into the hydrophilic phase. So Rather Dashing's statement is true, but you really need loaaaaads of water to completely solve even a small amount of those substances.

[divisionten]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hunger Games
The Color of Magic (Discworld)

There are also various classics which you can obtain for cheap/free, but I haven't worked out which version of certain books might have the best formatting out of the box.


Also, there are tools I highly recommend:

Calibre (eBook Library Manager)
K4MobiDeDRM Calibre plugin (to aid in conversion of eBooks from one format to another. Allows you to repair formatting problems with purchased eBooks)
Sigil (word processor specifically made for eBooks)

Let me be a bit more specific- Obscure stuff. I have the audiobooks of all those things.

I did a Project Gutenberg run already too.

[GaryCXJk]

So I assume you already got Struglend Tales.

[divisionten]

Originally Posted by GaryCXJk

So I assume you already got Struglend Tales.

I will have it by the end of today! Now that I have a reader that let me blow stuff up huge.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by divisionten

Let me be a bit more specific- Obscure stuff. I have the audiobooks of all those things.

So... like Jude the Obscure? Haven't read it myself, but I've enjoyed most of the things Hardy writes.

More seriously, if you like dark fantasy detective-y/romance type things, Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale is a pretty fun read. I enjoyed it because it was a different type of story from most of the fantasy I've been exposed to and was also short enough so that I could read it and still do actual work.

[coolsome]

Now that replacement hand grafting is a thing I am going to chop off my hand graft some jerks hand to mine and then hypnotize my self into believing I am Liquid Snake.

[corruptbiggins]

must improve myself...

[Giant Tope]

Originally Posted by puzzlebox

I dated a coworker. Breaking up WOULD make things pretty awkward right now, mostly because we've both left the company and are living happily in sin together on the other side of the continent.

Well, I started dating someone at work (who I wasn't friends with prior) and everything is going really well. My only concern, I guess, is that things are going so well to the point that things seem to be moving kinda fast, but it feels right. So I don't know what to do? I don't want to get into a bad situation. How do I know if I'm making the right decision?

[Alcoremortis]

As someone who's never been in a relationship, I can give you the advice of what I would do if I felt a relationship was moving too fast. First, I'd turn off my cellphone. Then, I'd move away with no forwarding address to Tahiti and only come back several years later after I stopped panicking.

In short, I haven't got a clue what to do.

[WarpSpeed]

Originally Posted by Avistew

As for not dating friends, I haven't heard that one before. I don't see why anyone would want to date someone who isn't their friend. "Only date your friends" is way closer to being my rule then the other way around.

Can't believe I remember you posting this two years ago in this thread:

Originally Posted by Avistew

- The "friend zone" isn't that inescapable thing you're thrown in a can't get out of. It's an excuse for not dating you because the person isn't interested, no more, no less. The actual cases of "I would, but I don't want to ruin our friendship" are super rare. More often than not, it's "I wouldn't, but I don't want to ruin our friendship so I won't say it so bluntly".

- As I said, the friend zone isn't inescapable. I was friends with Seamus before we became a couple. For that matter he showed his interest pretty much right away, and I turned him down at the time. Then a few months later, after confiding in him pretty much every day, becoming close friends, etc, I'm the one who went after him. If he had tried to avoid the "friend zone", I never would have fallen in love with him. Actually, as far as I'm concerned, the friend zone is pretty much a requirement if you want to reach the boyfriend zone. I'm not saying everyone is the same, but I can't be the only one who is like that.

Yes, it's that "friend zone" crap. The point about not trying to date friends is that if you're wrong, it gets all awkward, and you might lose the friend. Obviously, this is not something you personally have a problem with, but a lot of people do.

Originally Posted by Giant Tope

Well, I started dating someone at work (who I wasn't friends with prior) and everything is going really well. My only concern, I guess, is that things are going so well to the point that things seem to be moving kinda fast, but it feels right. So I don't know what to do? I don't want to get into a bad situation. How do I know if I'm making the right decision?

You've already gone too far for the co-worker requirement, so it's now the same as any other boyfriend.

• Don't get pregnant.
• Don't get any horrible diseases.
• Make sure he's someone you can trust. Like he's not stealing your stuff and selling it on eBay.

If you've got that covered, then go as fast as you want to.

[RetroVortex]

I have nothing valuable to add to this conversation...

[Avistew]

Tope, I might be wrong, but from your last post it seems the problem is that everything is going well, but you're worried it won't always be that way.
Well, some things will go wrong, they always do to some extent, but I think you should enjoy the things that are going well, and it will help you deal with whatever doesn't There is no reason to worry if your only problem is that there is no problem.

[monkey_05_06]

Do you think two friends who aren't sleeping together can remain friends?

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by monkey_05_06

Do you think two friends who aren't sleeping together can remain friends?

Absolutely. A platonic relationship (friendship) between a male and female is certainly achievable. Well, at least it has been for me. But, speaking as only one individual (and a unique individual at that), I guess I can't represent everybody. But, in my experience, I've been able to maintain a number of platonic relationships with the opposite sex - one of them being particularly strong, to the point where I can talk to her about anything, and feel extremely comfortable around her in any situation, without ever feeling tempted to progress the relationship to any level beyond 'very good friends'.

Maybe it's because I have very specific preferences that most female friends don't fall under, maybe it's because the thoughts of 'anything more' don't cross my mind as much as they do in other males, or perhaps this is merely a feat that's possible for everybody, and maybe I've just been lucky enough to have had more of these types of relationships than other people. I don't really know, which is why I'd like to hear other peoples' responses.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by coolsome

Now that replacement hand grafting is a thing I am going to chop off my hand graft some jerks hand to mine and then hypnotize my self into believing I am Liquid Snake.

Then put your chopped off hand in a jar and pretend it's The Tenth Doctor's hand.

[DAISHI]

Better to make a bad decision than no decision.