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My favorites:
Liquid Crack (other drinks carry the name, but this is the version my college friends and I always made): 2 cans of cheap light beer, 4 shots of vodka, 4 scoops of country time lemonade. Sounds bad, but the name fits.
German Leg Spreader (shot): 1/3 jaeger, 1/3 creme de cacao, 1/3 100 proof peppermint schnapps
Deep Blue Something: 1/2 can red bull, 2 shots vodka, 1/2 shot peach schnapps, 1/2 shot blue curaco. stir so it has a green color, then pour more blue curaco so it settles and the drink fades from dark blue at the bottom to green at the top
Orange Tic Tac: 1 can red bull, 2 shots bacardi O
No idea what it's called, but it's not bad: 2 shots tequila, 1/2 shot peppermint schnapps, splash of lime juice
And, my long time favorite: 151 and coke...crazy, I know.
For something straight, tequila on the rocks.
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Originally Posted by jtoast
In the Marines we were determined to be the best at whatever we did and it showed.
I have never spent time in the military myself, but I worked very closely with all 5 branches during my time at a defense contractor, and all left very strong impressions on me. These impressions come from the perspective of a civilian who worked with people currently in the military and had former military working for him.
jtoast is exactly right...the Marines are determined to be the best, and it definitely shows. There was only one small unit where I worked, but whenever I'd see one of them around, I had to marvel at how they carried themselves. Everything about them personified perfection. When I had the opportunity to work with them, they were more efficient, professional, and respectful than anyone I'd worked with in the past. In my mind, when I think of the way a Marine carries himself, I can't help but think that they are what men were meant to be.
The Army seemed much less disciplined. The people I worked with who were in the Army seemed to be, again, as jtoast said, sloppy. That carried over into the people who were former Army that worked for and with me. If I wanted something done right, I was better off doing it myself than asking someone in or retired from the Army to do it for me. Granted, however, most of the people that worked for me who were former Army only made it to e5 or e6 in 10 years...
The Navy seems to train people in *very* specific disciplines. Most of the people I worked with were very good at one thing and one thing only, so asking them to do something outside of the scope of their knowledge was sometimes futile. The only exception to this was someone who worked very closely with me who was thirsty for knowledge. He was determined to do his best and wanted to learn everything, so he was a pleasure to work with, but he was rare.
The Air Force is like a big corporation. The officers behave exactly like someone on the board of directors for a company...knowing enough to keep up with the conversation, but not willing to listen to the ideas of people outside of their perception very often. I worked the most closely with Air Force officers as I was on an AF contract, and, while they were smart and enjoyable to work with at times, they seemed like they were more interested in the regulations and procedures than they were in getting the job done, and often they didn't seem to know why the regulations and procedures were in place...just that they had to be followed. The Air Force trains upper management more than anything. As always, however, there is one exception, and that was a brilliant man who worked for me who had been e9 in the AF 8 months before working for me. I can't speak highly enough about him.
The long and the short of it: go Marine. They're everything the military should be, in my opinion.
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... Fort Collins native?
Went to school in Boulder then lived there for another 2.5 years. Before that, grew up in a ski town in CO. The growlers of Fat Tire were a "hmmm...we're bored...let's go get a couple growlers" saturday afternoon thing to do...well, and sometimes monday...well, every day we got bored.
Only had heavy handed once, but it was good. Lefthand makes a lot of really good stuff (they are in Longmont, btw...on the west side of main st).
I have yet to see Fat Tire out here, unfortunately, but that's because I don't know of a good liquor store yet...just hit the beer aisle in the grocery store (gotta love the lack of ridiculous blue laws), so it's not like I've seen all that great of a selection. I have from a friend in DC that they have it out there in a few bars now. Oh how I long for the days when it's stocked everywhere.
A lot of Colorado beers are starting to make it out here, however. There was a "strong ale" festival in Carlsbad a couple months ago where the minimum requirement for a beer to get in was 8.5% abv. Quite a few of them were from CO, and the strongest at the festival was by Avery Brewing in Boulder...called The Beast, and man was it ever...18.1% abv. Gotta love coming from the state that, per capita, brews and drinks more beer than any other.
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Fat Tire (it's best when you go to the brewerey and get a growler of it for $5 or something insanely cheap like that, and every 5th growler is free)
Hazed and Infused
Guinness
Sunshine Wheat (another new belgium)
Sadly, when I go to a liquor store now, I check the prices of 30 packs of Keystone Light because I had so much of it in college that I've kinda developed a taste for it and buy it if it's under $0.50 per can...reminds me of all the good times I vaguely remember.
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Regardless of intent, in today's corporate world, such behavior could, with 1 more ingredient, fall under the umbrella of harrassment (not sexual harrassment, but just plain harrassment). That 1 more ingredient is someone confronting him about the issue. It doesn't have to be someone who is personally concerned about it, and in fact, all larger corporations will preach to report it directly to your supervisor who will in turn take it to the offending person's supervisor to address anonymously and in private to them. If the person complies by quitting doing said things, then it is ok, although there could be lasting effects (the people originally reporting it treating the person differently than other people because of something they had done in the past but are no longer doing). If the person does not cut it out, then it's harrassment by the definition commonly used by the big companies and that person is commiting an "HR violation" and subject to the punishments set forth in the company's books and books of legalese.
Again, if nobody is at all concerned by it, and nobody bothers to report it, the guy will continue to do it and be in the right assuming there is nothing written down anywhere that says "no person shall display images of people in clothing or otherwise that could be misinterpreted yadda yadda yadda".
At least, that's how it works at the big companies. Unfortunately, when I was lead of my group at my old job, I was required to take all the training required by the company to deal with such issues (I used to have a certificate to prove it too...it was quite fancy, but I lost it in my move to San Diego), but fortunately, I had good management above me who took care of such issues very effectively, so the 2 times something was reported to me, I just had to pass it up the chain and could continue sitting with my feet on my desk watching the cloc...I mean working very hard. Where my former employer took it to the extreme, I think, with their definition of what's acceptable, but they were protected by law as was everyone that worked there. I won't bother to list, but there were some things that everyone in the classes, including the people teaching them, couldn't give a reason for. Displaying Victoria's Secret catalogs on his desk is *definitely* considered harrassment under their definitions.
Labyrrinth, since there's enough of a question in your mind about it, I'd advise talking to someone in management (unless you or he are management), asking to remain anonymous and just saying that you don't think it's appropriate and recommend someone talk to him "encouraging him to knock it off before someone does get offended and make it a legal issue". If he's the stereotypical sex crazed male idiot his behavior could be dictating, he could possibly have an attitude of "some stupid woman got offended" and make an issue of it. If he does do that, however, at least it will bring it to light and put it into the hands of management and whatever legal department the company may have leaving you, your coworkers, and the company protected under any of the big books of legalese they may have should he decide to pursue it as something "within his rights". Since everyone you have talked to doesn't know how to feel about it, it's not normal, and when someone new gets hired who is immediately offended, it'll get ugly. Better to try to quietly and civilly put a stop to it than wait for it to blow up.
Heh, even after sleeping through the compliance training classes and blind guessing my way through the tests, I guess I still soaked up something. Whoda thunkit?
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O F F I C I A L V A N G U A R D F O R U M S
Feb 07, 2005 - 11:11 PM - by
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Originally Posted by Rorius
I don't think the players realize the world doesn't revolve around their arse. Most of the Owners are a conglomeration of owners, billionaires, or corporations so to them it's just another investment that is going sour, they can wait forever.
Longish hockey/business rant follows
While I agree that it is greed motivated, to say that it's the players just asking for more money is a bit off. One of the big sticking points the players have is that the owners are wanting to take away their medical coverage and other benefits after retirement. Yeah, they do make a lot of money and can afford to pay for a lot more themselves than Joe Average working in an office building, but their career is a lot shorter than yours and mine giving them less time to build up that next egg. Unless they're Gretzky and can survive on endorsements etc, or well spoken enough to be a commentator, they're not going to have much opportunity for income later in life. To further compound the issue, their bodies take a much heavier beating than yours and mine, and it's brought on by the work they do giving them proportionally higher medical bills. Any employer who requires long term physical damage to their employees will offer some sort of benefit to offset that if they respect their employees. The NFL does. The owners are making this decision based on the grounds that it will make them more money, what at what cost? Not very ethical if you ask me. Having spent some time with a professional hockey player when he was close to retirement (Uwe Krupp), it's definitely a big concern for them.
Anyway, enough of that...
I missed the second quarter right up until the last 2 minutes because the parents were in town, but I'm glad to see the pats won. I really like the attitude their coach has, specifically with things like sitting a player for a couple plays if they make a tackle and strut around like they're some avatar of God, yelling and screaming and taunting anyone and everyone. Given my thoughts on it, I found the Simpsons after the game to be quite entertaining.
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O F F I C I A L V A N G U A R D F O R U M S
Jan 26, 2005 - 05:17 AM - by
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Originally Posted by Taranis
That's sort of what the concept was behind a game called UltraCorps that we (MS) did with VR1 back in the late 90's (released in Sept '98 and ran for less than a year). It was essentially a strategy oriented MMO based on a game concept like Stars ... where each instance lasted anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months. The cool aspect was that feuds and alliances evolved during and bridged between sessions ... the downside was that it was soooo addictive and time consuming that the ends of sessions became big events where we'd see large groups of players leave. Anyhow - it was a really fun game that burned brightly for a short period of time and then flamed out.
UltraCorps ruled. Many a physics class in college did I spend planning my UltraCorps turns. But, as Taranis said, as soon as the instance was over, there was such a sense of loss that made you contemplate whether or not you'd play the next instance.
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In my quest to get a Masters in Computer Sciences I am taking prerequisite Calculus II. If you aren't familiar with Calculus you will want to stop reading now.
- I have one problem to find the general antiderivative of arctanx/1+x^2 * dx. This is an even numbered problem so I don't have the answer. But I assume the answer is (arctanx)^2 * 1/2. Is that correct?
- Next I have to evaluate the antiderivative on a set doman of x * square root of 1+x. I know how to evaluate on the domain, so there's no point in worrying about that part. But finding the antiderivative seems to elude me as that extra X is floating around out there.
Looks like you might be on the right track with the first one since
d/dx arctan x = 1/(1+x^2), so you basically have
int( f(x) / f'(x) ) and you know, since it's a canned problem in school, it means a lot of stuff is going to cancel out. I'd look for some sort of identity for int (f(x)/f'(x)) if that's not what you already did.
With the second one, try rewriting it as
x * (1+x)^(1/2) and see if that gets you anywhere.
Xyrrus: arctan is tan^-1
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