Darth InSidious Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 You should call yourself Doctor InSidious. I'd say you've earned it. "My lord" will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurges-Ahter Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Do you call your PhD useless because you're not using it, or because it's not usable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Do you call your PhD useless because you're not using it, or because it's not usable? Both, really. I work in a museum, so I'm not using it, and there's next-to-no permanent work in the field, unless you want to be a tour-guide, so it's not that useable, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderWiggin Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Both, really. I work in a museum, so I'm not using it, and there's next-to-no permanent work in the field, unless you want to be a tour-guide, so it's not that useable, either. Â So it leaves you a lot of free time to do some real work - modding. Â _EW_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 So it leaves you a lot of free time to do some real work - modding. Â _EW_ Modding isn't work - it's slavery! You don't get paid, and the hours are terrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderWiggin Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Modding isn't work - it's slavery! You don't get paid, and the hours are terrible!  Hmm, I guess that makes me a happy slave. I like those hours  _EW_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Hmm, I guess that makes me a happy slave. I like those hours  _EW_ You like the 168-hour week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 You might find this humorous, DI, but my sister got a bachelor's in archaeology and ended up being a missionary in the Amazon. This was 13 years ago... Â ...and she's still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 You might find this humorous, DI, but my sister got a bachelor's in archaeology and ended up being a missionary in the Amazon. This was 13 years ago... ...and she's still there. That doesn't surprise me. There are just too many people in too small a field. And mission work does seem to take a long time. So no, I don't find it especially humourous - although the leap from archaeologist to missionary is a little large for most to make... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravnas Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Well six years ago I planned to propose to my girlfriend and get a quiet job in my hometown, instead, she moved to the other side of the country and now I'm scraping by in a community college having just finished a 3000 word paper and getting my resume cleared up so I can get a job to pay for my dingy apartment . Â Boy, time flies by fast when you're having fun eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 Both, really. I work in a museum, so I'm not using it, and there's next-to-no permanent work in the field, unless you want to be a tour-guide, so it's not that useable, either. Â Dude, I'd love to work in a museum. Of course, I mean an art museum. I've always wanted to get an advanced degree in art history and work with archaeologists identifying relics and handicrafts of civilizations past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Dude, I'd love to work in a museum. Of course, I mean an art museum. I've always wanted to get an advanced degree in art history and work with archaeologists identifying relics and handicrafts of civilizations past. Â You've seen too much Indy Jones. Archaeology is as much about pickin out pottery shards from mud than unearthing the ark of the covenant. Of course, every now and then, a momentous discovery is made... Â Any qualified archaeologist will tell you, nothing is better evidence to help date a stratum than a piece of pottery Then, there is a wealth of info to be gained from seeds, quite often found among faecal remnants, be it of animal or human... I personally think being a historian is more interesting, and less muddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 @Darth InSidious: Found any Sith temples yet ?  Perhaps if we continue modding for another 10 years, we can start a museum on that, unless LA releases K3 within years.  Then we'll have to wait 10.000 years untill K1/TSL modding gets a museum as it'll be all burried under heaps of dust.  Now only to catch Shem for a good looking Mummy to protect the servers for daring archeologosists  10 years ago I was 12 ! No idea what I was doing then... hmm, StarCraft ! Yeah, playing SC against some friends, when LAN first appeared in our lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Unless you were working for Sony at the time, that would be a false statement. Its development wasn't announced until March 1999. Â Wow, how time flies. It must've been the N64 then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 OK, so I just returned from a short trip to my old hood (had to work there for a client), just to find my old school is almost gone. Just a big pile of stones, metal and half of one last building left. I saw how it was built in 1983 shortly before I attended it, looks like it lasted pretty much for 25 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 OK, so I just returned from a short trip to my old hood (had to work there for a client), just to find my old school is almost gone. Just a big pile of stones, metal and half of one last building left. I saw how it was built in 1983 shortly before I attended it, looks like it lasted pretty much for 25 years. Â *Astro plays "Remember the Days" by Cat Stevens on his kazoo* Â mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Dude, I'd love to work in a museum. Of course, I mean an art museum. I've always wanted to get an advanced degree in art history and work with archaeologists identifying relics and handicrafts of civilizations past. It's also a hell of a lot of paperwork, cataloguing, photographing, phoning, arranging, packing and unpacking, moving heavy boxes...the fun stuff is the highlight, believe me. Â Any qualified archaeologist will tell you, nothing is better evidence to help date a stratum than a piece of pottery Then, there is a wealth of info to be gained from seeds, quite often found among faecal remnants, be it of animal or human... I personally think being a historian is more interesting, and less muddy It can be good fun - provided it doesn't rain, and you aren't the one organising it. Also, mud is less of a problem in Egypt. I would also like to say that pottery is: Â a) monumentally dull, and b) Only of great interest in Predynastic Egyptian archaeology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 It's also a hell of a lot of paperwork, cataloguing, photographing, phoning, arranging, packing and unpacking, moving heavy boxes...the fun stuff is the highlight, believe me. Â Â Sounds like teaching....just without the kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Sounds like teaching....just without the kids. No - we only get them occasionally..."Please, stop rocking that display cabinet. The things in there are very valuable"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 No - we only get them occasionally..."Please, stop rocking that display cabinet. The things in there are very valuable"... Â Â Okay, so its teaching with only occasional kids. I still think I'd enjoy such work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Okay, so its teaching with only occasional kids. I still think I'd enjoy such work. Ah, but with extra postgrads who want to 'look' at artefact Y. Â "What else do you want to do with it?" Â "Nothing, nothing. Just chip off half the side, grind it into dust and feed it through Glorified Carbon-Dating Method of the Month..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 *Astro plays "Remember the Days" by Cat Stevens on his kazoo*Aw, crap. Why be sad. Â Let's see -- I err ate there, I slept, made wee, made poo. I saw people wet their pants, I got a kick in the nads, I fell down the stairs, I met an old friend from the kindergarten, I visited the principle on a regular basis yet my mother was ordered there only once, it guided me from socialism to capitalism, I found a pea gun, I was famous for my Colt Seavers Car Matchbox, I had a girl, and she broke my heart, I was 5 minutes late to like every lesson in the 7th and 8th grade, I made tons of class trips involving wild pigs, old castles, shoes stuck in the mud, and itching powder, I broke a window, spilled acid, took a scissor, lost a pack of chewing gums, set it under water, on fire, spray painted it, and cleaned it. I loved it. Â Farewell old school of Ray. Â Â ^^ Â Oh, and, remember kids, DON'T play with open fire and flammable glue, and especially NOT when in school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 lolz.... wild pigs, castles and arson, you should write kids books Ray JK Rowling stuff sounds dull in comparison  mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Ha, I only read like 10 books in my childhood, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jule Verne's stuff and something I can't remember atm. But I went through each one about 20 times minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 What about Dr. Seuss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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