Take this tool and ram it into the hole. Move it up and down a few times to roughen up the inside. You don't have to go nuts on it, a few solid pumps should do it.

http://autorepair.about.com/od/fixityourself/ss/tire_plug_5.htm

I'm surprised you got a decent print out of that...didn't think the resolution was high enough to make a 8.5x11. soudesuka.

i approve of some of your alconom, btw. can't read the wine labels, but can identify the taylor fladgate and rangpur. also the wine rack and glassware collection is pretty classy

Also, pretty sure I can't call out my boss. Or I could and risk losing a week's pay (which is almost equal to 2 weeks pay as a grad student)..or i can keep doing what i'm doing and work shorter hours than everyone else, haha...granted that may be because i have nothing to do anymore besides bitch-paper work

Q: What happened when Frog's Leap Winery tried making beer?

A: It wasn't very successful; critics said they made it too hoppy.

Eh? Eh?

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"If you like fast, you'll love faster."

Context: WRX. I'm playing with go fast/drive fun cars. Next is Mini! Then Tesla?

Not a TWSS but still lol.

"A USB microscope? Now THAT'S pimp!"

Context: Pimp My Ride. This nerdy Asian chem major has his van pimped and was given a USB microscope as a present.

One of my new favorite lolcats:



Aaron,
Would you be out of place to call out the person who threw you under the truck for changing her reason? That would honestly piss the shit out of me and I'd be tempted to either challenge her/him (I'm getting your boss, boss's boss, and boss's boss's boss confused) at the meeting or confront her/him afterward. Though maybe I'm just being confrontational. I've never been an intern before so I don't have a firm grasp of office decorum.

Also, I used one of your pics to blow up and put on my wall...hope that's ok :).

So what is this, a drying machine? AC control? Interesting choice of options either way ...

(Click on the picture to see the rest of it)

So uh, my boss is the greatest person ever.

Before my final presentation, we came to the mutual conclusion that one of my projects was fucked. Wasn't my fault. I was supposed to calculate amount of waste product generated and estimated time spent switching between various products (changeover time) based off of the way the lines are currently running...one line ran 150% of the "alotted" time for changeovers last month. The month before that, they ran only like 5% over. That's pretty much how it was since April. So when my boss's boss saw all the data and saw how I hadn't calculated all that stuff because of the bad data, she was like "yeah...don't worry about that, there's nothing you can really do and it isn't your fault it all"

My boss before my presentation was like "Hm...that...yeah...you really can't do anything about that...I assigned you this project before I realized how screwed up the process is down there. I didn't know until like 2 weeks ago (we found out the same data at the same time through different meetings)...so...yeah, just present this and say that this is how it is and that you can't do much about it"

During my presentation, my boss's boss's boss asked a question as to what all this data meant for my project...my boss explained that the current situation is so bad that no one can do any meaningful data analysis from it...she would know, she's now assigned on a team to figure out how to fix the problem. After like 2 more minutes of questioning, she changed the reason why I didn't have results calculated to:

"Oh, well, he spent too much time on one of his other projects and didn't focus on this one enough. In hindsight, I would have told him to start this project a lot earlier."

This was during my presentation. Afterwards I was just like "...wtf...show some backbone and respect to your intern...especially when he's literally standing right in front of you"

During our "presentation review," she told me that the reason why I didn't have deliverables on this project was because I didn't start working on it early enough and that it was my fault I had nothing to show in terms of theoretical calculations for waste product generated and changeover times.

When she said that I was just like "Man, it's a good thing I don't care about a job offer from this place, holy shit, I just got thrown under a semi-trailer truck towing a bus made of lead"

"He was only in there for a few seconds, I wanted more."

"He was only in there for 20 seconds!"

Context: Brendan Fraser's role in GI Joe

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"It was this big around *circle motion*, about this thick *fingers show thickness*, and had 'happy birthday' written on it."

Context: Cake

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"Eat the damn thing and like it."

Context: Cafeteria food?

"Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it."

Context: some guy was wearing a "Big Johnson Tequila" T-Shirt and that's what it said. Not sure if that's a real tequila.


So. background check done! i'm not a criminal. let's just hope that all the weed i've inhaled through Ben and Logan will not affect my drug test results.

Home Sweet Home

It's ok ka, i was also disappointed when I realized it didn't say fail.

Ran accross this little tidbit in a cornell blog, in a list of building criticisms:

"Olin Hall – might suit a department of alchemy better than chemical engineering"

(Who said there was any difference, anyway? In one, you make stuff up and hope it works. In the other. . .)

"you can't beat it for 20 cents a minute anywhere else"


context: radio ad, for 1-800-free-sex, where they tried to convince you it's not just sex.


so im looking at the bottom of this blogging window, where you can add labels for this post. i swear i thought it said "e.g. scooters, vacation, fail". i got really excited for a second until i realized that it actually said "fall"

also, since the same radio station has been playing "epic" fairly often nowadays, i finally sat down and listened to the lyrics. omg.

Emicly, wow.

Also, from work! My boss's boss (probably the equivalent of a step under owning an entire national business) believes that the definition of "land-locked" is having no floor space. Landlocked means...well...look it up. Long story short, that's not what it means

Also, I have to update this Excel spreadsheet that has a bunch of info on it for a model. Which basically means I opened it and went like "Damn. Not only are half the numbers wrong, there's a crapload of useless or redundant info."

Two pairs of sheets were redundant. One of those pairs had this magical reference "map" (did trace dependents) on ONE cell in each sheet. (Obscured "sensitive" info that no one would use ever)


I'm fixing that mess. Technically twice. Yayyyyyyy...y.

Edit: So there's a lot more wrong with this sheet than what I've mentioned/shown. For example, the Summary sheet is referenced in the calculation sheets. Several times. Repeat...the Summary (results, end product) is referenced by the calculation sheets (process) as inputs. The original writer also couldn't decide whether or not to lock column references whenever he wrote code, so copy-pasting or dragging cells across to new columns will alternatively work or not work. Despite having a general information tab for cells to reference, he allows the user to change equipment specs on the calculation sheets. The equipment info was completely different on the calculation sheets and the eqpmt spec sheet. Aaaaaand, the original writer is the equivalent of my boss's boss.

More fun than find-the-corkscrew (my favorite moving game)

"This is the thing you do. . ."
"Sex!"
". . .when you want something from someone. . ."
"Sex!"
". . .and you have something hanging over their head"
"Sex!"

Context: Taboo with shpang and theosaur. (target word: blackmail)

"The flavors just explode in your mouth!"

Context: Food Network, customer reviewing the Bloomin' Onion at Outback

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"Gusher or dry hole?"

Context: Have no clue

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"Meaty deliciousness!"

Context: Mar?

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"If you eat it right, you'll have lots of spots on your shirt."

Context: BBQ

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"I saw kids doing it. It was the coolest thing in the world and I wanted to do it too."

Context: Marglmarglmargl

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"It was about this wide. Basically an appropriate width for its length."

Context: Forgot

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"If you go down there, sometimes you can find something that's not really that bad, like it's all pretty tasty, depends on if it's worth the price."

Context: Restaurant.

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"I pulled it out and it just started gushing. I was like 'REALLY?!'"

Context: uh?

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"It really made my tongue happy and kept me thirsting for more."

Context: Dunno

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"Opens wide for great taste.

Context: Beer can

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"Says 2 slots oughta be empty at all times, so 2 slots need to be empty!"

Context: Mar

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"I told you it was too big to fit in my mouth, Boss."
"It is always better to do it together than by yourself."
"I've done it both ways, sooooo...."

Context: Whiteboard at the plant

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"The area and amount of protein in contact changes depending on how much is held inside the hand."

Context: Taco Bell food prep machines

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"We only do hard woods."

Context: Flooring company

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"My mouth's burning right now."

Context: Peppers?

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Sorry, kept forgetting to post those. That's weeks of twss's

Also, I'm really looking forward to going back to Ithaca and not having shit to do! Taya/Zeke and I will have fun, although I'm sure it's weird as fuck.

On a beer-related note, these Midwesterners can make decent beer. Not talking about Budweiser (St. Louis), St. Louis has a few good brews (Morgan Street Brewery, Schlafly) and Kansas City has at least one (Boulevard)

"Non-greasy? It's making me feel so slick right now! I feel like I can stick this into things! I am completely lubed!"

Context (unfortunately): My little brother referring to his bottle of moisturizer being "non-greasy". But I guess he must've put a whole bottle of it onto his leg. Kids these days...

"I still can't figure out how to put it in there."

Context: These two guys trying to figure out how to add contacts into their cell phones.

Let's say that when you know that you don't belong to Ithaca anymore, it feels super weird going back. Going to 301 NOT 2A is also very weird, since the door code still hasn't been changed.

But I did managed to get my best friend hooked on to Ithaca/Saranac/Yuengling beers that he spent $65 at Wegmans.

Close Enough.

So uh...I gave my midpoint presentation last week. I followed the Varner Design principles of powerpoint: everything in a title, lots of pictures, using words, having links to actual information, and being able to show/conduct/explain all the calculations when asked. I also tailored the presentation to not have too much technical data because I was told the bigwigs wouldn't care too much about the little numbers not related to money. This meant keeping Excel and such open to show the actual mechanics of what I've done.

Feedback? Manager said my slides were "very informative and artistic, but not very technical. Don't be afraid to show bar graphs, line graphs, and/or bullet points during the final." To which I almost said "I know. That was the point. That was also what you advised. And how am I supposed to show visual representations/comparisons of NUMERICAL data with no NUMBERS or basis for comparison?" But I held back. I usually hold back a lot of my thoughts here to not make people feel upset about how dumb I think their thoughts are.

Just thought you guys would like to see how I've used my Design skizzles. Apparently everyone did like how everything looked awesome.

"$1000 a hole."

Context: Some commercial for Entourage or something. It was golf related.

Hi from Kansas City, Missouri! Which is pretty much the same as Kansas City, Kansas

"If you want to get a man's attention you have to buzz his tower"

Context: Heard it on a golf channel commercial when a guy tells a girl to hit a ball at a group of douchey guys. I started to laugh and my dad looked at me, smiled, and shook his head.


I definitely love having a camera now and have been practically spamming pictures since I got it. Aaron, it would be awesome to have your pics but the big gap period I was referring to was from October of freshman year to January of Sophomore year. In that 15 month period I have only one set of pics (though that set is pretty epic...DKE jello party with jello wrestling!).

Now all I have to do is survive through monsoon season in Florida.

Ka, I totally agree with you about Bobby Flay. It makes me so happy when I see him lose those throwdowns.

Finally, this is an absolutely amazing a cappella rendition of Africa by Toto. The intro is especially fantastic.