It's Personal...

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:39 am

Hyrkanians were one of the peoples in Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. Red Sonja was Hyrkanian.

Arthur Machen was born today, so I thought I'd show off my collection of Machenalia: http://imgur.com/a/lultm

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:38 am

My son no longer qualifies for special ed!!

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:07 am

Congrats Maj! I know just how that feels.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:07 am

isn't that . . like . . a step down in the US?

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 1:16 pm

For my sons, they received special services at preschool and kindergarten due to language delay and developmental delay. But they caught up with their peers so well that for my elder he basically graduated out of needing additional help and my younger seems on pace to do so as well (we had a progress meeting on Friday). For a while it was expected they were going to need special Ed help in middle school due to autism.

If they hadn't gone to preschool i imagine their development wouldn't have turned out so well. Made me appreciate public school system we live in whereas before kids I was torn between homeschool and private school due to my low opinion of Indianapolis public schools. But neither private nor homeschooling have access to the resources that were such a boon (had speech therapist, physical therapist and psychologist).

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:41 pm

Maj wrote:My son no longer qualifies for special ed!!

Some serious congrats yer way, Maj. I was always a SpEd, so I know what this means for your kids.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:27 pm

Thanks! Like erik said (and his experience correlates almost perfectly with mine)... We received a lot of support for Lowercase Gi from the school system that we wouldn't have had access to otherwise. And preschool starting at age 2. In Olympia, he had an entourage of eight people - therapists and such - who worked with him. After the move, the team got smaller - down to five. Now it's just two - the school counselor and his teacher.

What it means is that he won't be tracked - put on an academic course based on what random school peeps project for him. He nearly was.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 1:20 am

Ah, good on you then!

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 2:10 am

My family and I got to go see Sanders at Grand Valley State in Michigan, last night. It was fun, and despite the super long line, we were inside within 30 minutes. Also, it was crazy to walk around on the campus of the college I used to attend, seeing all the new buildings.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 2:24 am

http://www.rehtwogunraconteur.com/the-s ... rd-part-2/

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:07 pm

Sites running anti-adblock scripts are starting to piss me off. Particularly because "sites that harass you if you're running adblock" overlaps almost perfectly with "sites that are the reason you're running adblock in the first place."

Let's take Forbes, for example. A couple months ago Forbes was caught serving third-party ads which would attempt to install malware on the users' computer through known security exploits in flash. The moral of that story is one we've known for years - if you are running a website and actually care at all about your users' safety, do not serve third-party flash ads. Flash is an incredibly commonly used vector for malware, criminals have been buying ad-space to deliver malware payloads since the beginning of the fucking internet, put two and two together and stop serving third-party flash ads you negligent fucks!

So reading Forbes without adblock is kind of like fucking a prostitute without a condom - it's the sort of thing that professionals would strongly recommend against doing. And yet, Forbes has adopted the "give adblock users shit" strategy. Hm. No, Forbes, I'm not going to bareback you. I can literally see the sores. Get away from me.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:36 pm

DSMatticus wrote:Sites running anti-adblock scripts are starting to piss me off. Particularly because "sites that harass you if you're running adblock" overlaps almost perfectly with "sites that are the reason you're running adblock in the first place."

Let's take Forbes, for example. A couple months ago Forbes was caught serving third-party ads which would attempt to install malware on the users' computer through known security exploits in flash. The moral of that story is one we've known for years - if you are running a website and actually care at all about your users' safety, do not serve third-party flash ads. Flash is an incredibly commonly used vector for malware, criminals have been buying ad-space to deliver malware payloads since the beginning of the fucking internet, put two and two together and stop serving third-party flash ads you negligent fucks!

So reading Forbes without adblock is kind of like fucking a prostitute without a condom - it's the sort of thing that professionals would strongly recommend against doing. And yet, Forbes has adopted the "give adblock users shit" strategy. Hm. No, Forbes, I'm not going to bareback you. I can literally see the sores. Get away from me.

I use noscript to block javascript completely. I get a big lisof all the sites that are serving scripts to the page and can block or unblock them individually. With Forbes, I can unblock the part of the site that serves the adblock checker without unblocking any of the ads.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Mar 12, 2016 1:11 am

If my numbers stay good for another two months my doc will reverse my diabetes diagnosis. Being less likely to die in less than 10 years is always good news.

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:06 am

Gratz!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:29 am

Sweet, congrats Count!

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 4:36 am

That's totally awesome, CA. Good luck.

Mask_De_H · Post by **Mask_De_H** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:08 am

Good to hear, man.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:09 am

Congratulations, dude, keep it up!

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:59 pm

It changed when I finally accepted I couldn't outrun my fork like I could 20 years ago and changed what I eat. Currently I'm on a ketogenic diet which seems to help (any side effects I have from that aren't as bad as the side effects from being fat). Still, had a pretty good run, you'd be surprised at how many woman would go for a grilled cheese sandwich if offered.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:17 am

Today is the last day of Maslenitsa, a slavic holiday through the second week of March where people eat blins (which represent the sun and the flaw in my diet), and burn the effigy of Morena to represent the end of winter. 100% christian holiday you guys /s

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:52 pm

is that . . a puppet made from pancakes? O.o

Schleiermacher · Post by **Schleiermacher** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:43 pm

Blini, which I thought were spesifically Russian but which apparently are a bit more widespread than that. Basically pancakes, yes.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:05 pm

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:29 pm

Stahlseele wrote:is that . . a puppet made from pancakes? O.o

Not just a puppet, it's very clearly a russian woman in old traditional winter clothing

@Count, noice. To the left is smetana, which is kinda like sour cream, to the right is (obviously) roe.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:24 pm

http://www.rehtwogunraconteur.com/the-s ... rd-part-3/