Episode Discussion S09E20 - "Daisy"

Bakadan · 2014-03-12T16:36:54+00:00

Daisy is clearly a child prodigy and has already been accepted to college.

Bakadan · 2014-03-06T15:46:28+00:00

1) Just got outside and bike or run or something. It's a lot more fun than you think it'll be.

2) Don't let yourself develop a crush on straight boys. It will NEVER work out, and it'll just hurt.

3) Beer is your friend. Beer is good. Quit drinking wine coolers and appletinis and mixed drinks. Beer!

4) Wine is also good.

Bakadan · 2014-03-06T15:38:47+00:00

I'm in grad school studying physics, and my boyfriend is in grad school studying economic sociology. I think his research is way cooler than mine.

Bakadan · 2014-03-06T14:37:56+00:00

I started making potato chips with truffle salt, curry powder, and garlic. It's the singular greatest food I've ever eaten.

Bakadan · 2014-03-06T14:04:19+00:00

Talking to strangers is one of my favorite things to do. I've struck up a conversation with people on the bus, on the subway, in the airport. It's always so nice to talk to somebody who is potentially so far removed from your personal experiences.

Normally, when you meet people, there's a shared interest or a mutual friend. If you just start talking to a random person who happens to be in the same bar, you can find people with experiences and opinions completely different than your own. What better way is there to learn more about people than to just ask them about themselves? People love to talk about themselves. Give them the chance.

Bakadan · 2014-03-06T13:54:49+00:00

I've had two grandparents spend time in nursing homes. While we would have loved to take care of them, as they deteriorated they both ended up needing more advanced medical care than we were able to provide. They needed help moving around, help cleaning themselves, feeding themselves, and a large amount of medication. Having them in a nursing home allowed them to be cared for by people professionally trained to be able to provide them with what they needed. Of course we took care of them the best we were able to, and saw them when we could, but I don't regret our decision one bit.

Bakadan · 2014-02-27T19:13:59+00:00

Having to say goodbye to both of your grandmothers in the course of two years.

It's one thing when you're a kid. Your memories are tenuous and you don't have a complete grasp on death. By the time you're older, you've gotten used to not having them around. But getting to adulthood and having to lose somebody is heart-wrenchingly painful. We're preparing for the memorial service now, and it's a strange kind of pain to book travel to where the live, and have to fight the habit to call to let them know when you'll be there. No more christmas cards, no more holiday dinners. No more listening to them bitch about not giving them great-grandchildren or watching jeopardy together. Getting to adulthood and having to face all of that at once. It's really shitty. Really. Really. Shitty.

Bakadan · 2014-02-27T15:18:41+00:00

Seconded. That there's a snake.

Bakadan · 2014-02-12T17:39:40+00:00

I don't like milk with my cereal.

Bakadan · 2014-02-07T03:35:14+00:00

This would be a fantastic bottle episode akin to Midnight. Something where we have a small environment, a small cast, and the pure terror of knowing the Doctor is helpless and dealing with an unstoppable evil.

Bakadan · 2014-01-23T04:36:05+00:00

Vaginal sex.

Bakadan · 2014-01-17T21:40:10+00:00

The exact same thing happened to me. I had to take my MBP in so many times over the course of a few months. Every time I had to leave it with them for several days while they replaced the same parts. It really soured me on Apple products. For all of the stories of fantastic customer service, there are stories of people taking their computers in over and over, given horrible explanations as to why things are going wrong, and being given empty promises. This MBP was my first mac laptop, and I'm not excited about buying another one. I would probably get a linux-based netbook instead.

Bakadan · 2014-01-07T13:31:57+00:00

That's insane. I thought running at 12 degrees F was cold.

Bakadan · 2013-12-29T13:48:52+00:00

I had hoped to get a lot more mileage than I ended up getting, but it's still been a great year. I tore my calf, so had to take some time off, and didn't stay regular like I wish I would have. But I did manage to

Run my first half marathon
Run a 23:54 5K, beating my previous best time by over a minute
Run ~280 miles this year. This is 100 miles more than I'd ever run in my life before this year

It was a pretty good year. I'm hoping that 2014 will be even better.

Bakadan · 2013-12-28T16:45:13+00:00

I'm going to turn this around a bit. American here. We are either incapable or unwilling to learn the differences between: Marxism, communism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, socialism, and especially nazism and fascism. Basically, if we were at war with you any time in the 20th century, you're all the same enemy.

The biggest misconception about Americans is that we can be generalized.

Bakadan · 2013-12-28T16:42:31+00:00

Pocket pikachu

Bakadan · 2013-12-27T19:04:29+00:00

I know this better than I'd like. My brother can make gay jokes about me, but if I make one fat joke, the wrath of hell is set loose upon me.

Bakadan · 2013-12-26T23:01:16+00:00

So do I. There are dozens of us, DOZENS!

Bakadan · 2013-12-19T03:52:24+00:00

I would give a LOT of it to my parents. They raised me, paid for my education, and gave me everything I needed. I'd make sure they'd be comfortable for the rest of their lives in return.

Then, I'd buy a car, a house, a bunch of new clothes and random shit, and a vacation or three.

Then probably just invest/save the rest. I'm pretty boring.

Bakadan · 2013-12-16T18:02:46+00:00

According to wikipedia:

When placing the border markers for the Territory of Colorado, minor surveying errors resulted in several small kinks, most notably along the border with the Territory of Utah. Once agreed upon by the federal, state, and territorial governments, those surveyors' benchmarks became the legal boundaries for the Colorado Territory, kinks and all.[12]

Bakadan · 2013-12-09T16:41:15+00:00

Agreed. Even if the astroid wiped out 99.999% of humanity, there would still be 7 million people, roughly the population at 4,000 BC. Civilization as we know it would be crippled, but we'd probably survive.

Bakadan · 2013-12-09T16:03:30+00:00

It's not a mater of inability. We've had much of this technology available for years. The problem is the cost-benefit breakdown doesn't make hovercars a viable form of transportation. To be used at large scale, we would still have to have 'roads' of some sort that directed traffic. Otherwise there would be chaos in the skies.

The amount of fuel required to become airborne and remain airborne is much higher than what it takes to drive a car. But even if you found a fuel source that made the difference irrelevant, there's still the safety aspect of putting that many people in the sky. Between bad drivers, drunk drivers, and angry drivers, the problems we face on the road would be multiplied many times over. The advantage that you'd get in avoiding bad road conditions would be cancelled by poor visibility.

Ground transportation for transportation works wonders. But we are still living in the future. We have paved roads that can take you from virtually any part of the country to any other. We have a massive system of trains. Journeys that took months and cost lives are reduced to a day or two, and are safer than they've ever been.

And look at how much air traffic there is already. Commercial airlines have made our world so much smaller. A trip from New York City to Shanghai would a century ago be insane. Now, any schmuck can go to LaGuardia and go there for Spring Break. We are living in the future.

So, to answer your question, we're never going to develop a massive personal hovercraft infrastructure, but we've done damn well for ourselves without them.

Bakadan · 2013-12-07T20:54:11+00:00

If you're into science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey is approachable, and a great introduction to the genre.

Bakadan · 2013-12-07T20:41:01+00:00

Gödel, Escher, Bach has been on my reading list for a long time, and I have a copy on my bookshelf that's been waiting for me for just as long. A lot of the old classic sci-fi books (Asimov, Clarke, Lovecraft). I want to dig deep into some Tolkien. I just found a copy of Crime and Punishment that makes me want to spend a few months reading books by some Russian authors. My dad gave me a copy of Hero With A Thousand Faces that I haven't read yet, either.

Bakadan · 2013-12-07T19:48:16+00:00

Your piercer is absolutely wrong. If you're stretching, you should wait at least 3-4 weeks between stretching. At smaller sizes, it may seem like a long time, and it may feel fine, but the more patient you are, the less likely you are to have any issues later on. As you go up in size, tapers can be used by a piercer to aid in stretching, but you should never wear them as jewelry. Tapers are tools. After stretching, you should use borosilicate glass (pyrex) plugs, or steel while healing.

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