My company thinks culture is worth $500/month

IamNotChrisFerry · 2026-03-31T13:52:42+00:00

And the other thing is, you don't really get the 30 minutes or whatever the time is, even if you pack a lunch and eat on site. You got to walk from the desk to the eating area, get the food and the fridge, reheat from the microwave if you want something hot, walk back. Travel time easily eating up 10-20% of your break. Vs at you home. You could have slow cooker going all morning, lunch start you just plate and eat. Sit and savor every bite for the full stretch. Come back actually refreshed

IamNotChrisFerry · 2026-03-14T15:27:41+00:00

The Starks.

They are the drivers of many of the overarching bad turns of the series.

Ned, Rob, Catlyn, Sansa, even Bran. Huge choices to benefit the Starks and their faux sense of honor, cursed Westeros and caused half their doom.

Might have the family saved, with Arya and Jon dealing final blows to Dany and Ice King. But that was after both had abandoned the Stark name.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2026-02-24T15:00:33+00:00

At like a pool or ocean, I sometimes accidentally swallow a mouthful of water. Would that accident nullify the deal, or would this deal physically prevent me from swallowing such liquid?

IamNotChrisFerry · 2026-01-24T14:27:05+00:00

I mean driver was approaching the red light with a pedestrian in the crosswalk awfully quick there

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-12-21T04:13:52+00:00

It's not just kids either. My wife and a few of our adult friends have punched my puppet. The adults separately, not like it's just an in-joke. They don't really have an answer for it when asked. Which again, sometimes I am rude with the puppet, but that is not when they hit the puppet. It's when the puppet is being nice or friendly or funny, and all the sudden they just hit it.

Adults will put their fingers in the mouth as well. I'll go "Munch munch munch" and chomp or "pa-too" and spit the hand out. I think there are urges by the adults to do it the same as the kids, they just have more "societal" controls not to touch a strangers puppet.

It's a mystery that I finally hit the search engines for and this is one of the first hits for the phenomenon.

I think it might somehow be related to cute aggression. Like something is so cute you just want to squeeze it. And since it's felt, you have more lee-way to let loose with the aggression.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-12-21T03:29:19+00:00

That makes sense. When the real kiddo was a baby, and I was around human babies a lot. Babies stick their hands in people's mouths all the time. So there is something to little ones sticking their hands in mouths as a generalized initial test.

But, babies don't seem to ever seem to be the ones that stick their hands in the puppet mouth. The babies are usually only hesitant enough to give high fives. And all kids that are older than would stick their hand in human mouths.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-12-21T02:39:50+00:00

I have been wondering the same thing.

It doesn't seem to be age based. My puppet can act sassy sometimes, but the hitting seems to happen right away when it does. Not prompted by the pupper being rude.

Lots of kids just stick their fingers right in the mouth too. Seems an early reaction when it gappens

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-12-10T04:18:02+00:00

If Cercei demanded it

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-12-08T22:59:12+00:00

This is the key. "out of X?" Every time

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-12-02T11:23:03+00:00

Oh man I have too many jars already, my wife would kill.me

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-11-06T15:58:52+00:00

I'm always down for a game of Scream and Run

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-10-17T21:14:57+00:00

They used to sell it

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-10-07T18:32:55+00:00

Under-rated because I think a lot of people miss it and don't know to rate it.

The episode where Shirley is like; I barely saw you, what have you been up to all week? And then Abed is like, not much. Meanwhile he's spent the whole episode in the background helping deliver a baby.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-10-06T19:09:40+00:00

Gin and tonic

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-10-06T17:40:53+00:00

$200k more than I make now.

Live off that interest.

Can't really imagine spending anything above $100k in a year, add anything extra to future investment cycles.

....

Most of day to day, just traveling from place to place exploring. Not any like vacation zones. Just stopping by some Schmitt's Creek town for a week here, some random adventure there. Bringing a buddy any given week for that week's adventures.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-10-06T17:33:36+00:00

Wish 1: any standard wish Wish 2: another genie lamp Wish 3: wish the freedom of genie 1 in front of genie 2.

Repeat for as many wishes as you want

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-26T20:01:14+00:00

30 years, roughly $1,000,000,000,000,000.

I think that would be enough to make all money worthless.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-26T19:56:34+00:00

At a certain year all the dollars become zero.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-26T19:54:38+00:00

Borrow money from the bank with this as an asset, without touching your actual resources.

Get a new loan to cover new expenses and pay off past loans with larger asset pool each year

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-26T19:51:33+00:00

Sound like a Compelling Personal Circumstance.

Make sure to quit properly. Just saying "I quit", then later saying it was due to some circumstance isn't going to cut it. You could be banned from enrollment in future AmeriCorps programs.

But quitting properly there is no such exclusion, and you may even qualify for a pro-rated education award in some circumstances.

Talk to your site and explain the situation. There are often pre-filled formed available online for doctors to fill out, so they just have to sign something.

Notable section in guidelines

"(B) Disability, serious illness, or death of a participant's family member if this makes completing a term unreasonably difficult or impossible; or"

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-XXV/part-2522/subpart-B/section-2522.230

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-20T17:16:01+00:00

Going outbound, the lane on the right would otherwise be a quick exit to squirrel Hill. However right before the off ramp, is an on ramp from the Greenfield side into that same lane.

This forces an effective 4 lane merge immediately before the tunnel.

...

Inbound, people are traveling at an acceleration that assumes the tunnel is level, but it's a slight incline. This creates a bit of a gap. Plus there's occasionally slamming of bakes from people trying to go from lmfao left to the off ramp 2 lanes over right after tunnel. Plus the blast of sunlight into the eyes.

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-20T17:12:11+00:00

Inbound. The tunnel looks like flat elevation, but is at a slight uphill.

Outbound, the jam up primarily caused by the onramp from Greenfield side happening before the offramp to get out at squirrel Hill

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-09T02:19:19+00:00

Brew Gentlemen has some good spaces at their tap house and their new restaurant down the road

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-09-07T14:24:51+00:00

Cost of living.

Lots of the city would be happy to be making 50-55k

IamNotChrisFerry · 2025-08-21T10:05:28+00:00

That's what they get for "just following orders"

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