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Celery Man

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  1. I need one with a really rad cover so that people know I'm not a stodgy old AA guy. I may sit in chairs backwards and wear my hat backwards, but I'm going to give it to you straight.
  2. I don't care deeply and am not enough of a regular participant in AA to rightly have a strong opinion one way or the other. But, generally, I think that the idea that the literal words of the big book are sacrosanct, have mystical properties, and must be literally treated like scripture is bad and reflects one of my least favorite parts of AA culture. The whole thing about the higher power, people have so much of a hard time with that based on their feelings about religions and Jesus and whatever diety and the nuns or their mother or authority and on and on and on, and we try and tell them the truth which is that it does not matter and this is not that and that God does not need to be an old man on a cloud or whatever it is. And then truth be told so many AA meetings feel exactly like a Bible study. Some amount of that is inevitable, it is in fact a similar thing, but thumping the book and quoting the scripture and holding the book and dissecting the sentences and examining the gospel of Bill. I always feel a little twinge of something when I say that it isn't religious and it's not church - it doesn't need to be and it isn't exactly but uhhhh yeah man. Anyways, they'll get to sell a lot more books and that language is much more clear. I don't think of the big book as being that dense but it really is a lot of dickety aught aught onion on the belt getting run over by a trolley swell language of the time. Hopefully it helps some people to have updated language to help them on the path.
  3. yeah dino jr is obviously a big influence. I've seen a lot of pictures of him with one of those Squier J Mascis Jazzmasters. I kinda want one, even though the one I picked up off the wall at the local GC felt like shit. Badly setup guitar at eye level in a guitar center, I want to believe that it's a super cool cheapish guitar I wore Sha Sha out in my 1996 Pontiac Sunfire, and then I don't think I listened to it for another 10 (checks calendar, fuck) 15-20 years. "Falling" came into my head one day when I was singing my daughter to sleep, and then his kid died tragically, and I've kinda rediscovered those songs. There was something about his preciousness that I always didn't like but that album holds up really well IMO. It's interesting listening to it on Spotify and seeing the full credits - like Kimya Dawson does backing vocals on the title track? Had no idea. Wasted and Ready and Commerce TX are both peak "getting shithammered and being excited about high school is almost over" songs for me.
  4. Yeah I think this is the one for me. I really like the live version of Knocking as well.
  5. Very unlikely that I’m going to try and go use this patent, lol. What an asshole. I had completely forgotten about filling out the paperwork, I do remember thinking that the idea isn’t all that novel, just a natural application of existing technology. Either way kinda cool though I guess to get my name on a patent if it goes through - not something I anticipated doing in my career.
  6. Yeah I’m on the bandwagon. It’s interesting - I don’t have a single song that is the “oh check this guy out” song. I don’t know that any of his songs are 10s for me but he has a whole bunch of 7s and 8s.
  7. I had a folder of “Too Many Cooks” gifs saved on my phone in hopes of an illustrious career. Dashed.
  8. I can’t tell how “big” MJ Lenderman is. He seems huge in my algorithm but he keeps not being known by people I would expect to know him. New music video for wristwatch
  9. Yeah I mean I signed a thing that says I have to do this and I did “invent” this thing on company time for company purposes and I’m not trying to be a pain in the ass to get back at the company or whatever. If they had fucked up and not obligated me to give them some IP that they need to move forward with the stuff I spent a lot of effort convincing them was obviously a good idea, I would have been happy to try and get them to write a check and it would have made me look back on them cancelling my corporate card before the charge for my Lyft to the airport cleared with a bit more of a smile. Either way, that’s not what’s going on here - much appreciate the help and being able to avoid spending money on a lawyer to tell me to check my employment agreement (dumbass).
  10. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
  11. Ah yeah, found an invention section of my employment agreement that covers this, so it does seem pretty straightforward.
  12. Ok, figured as much when I first got it - appreciate the insight.
  13. That's absolutely what I would expect to be the case and would not be surprised if it is still the case. The thing they are trying to get me to sign right now is a Combined Declaration and Assignment for a Utility Application, which would seem to be the thing that assigns that right. But also it would seem to be the thing that declares me an inventor, and if it's as simple as that I don't know why they wouldn't just take my name off of it. Probably nothing but I'd love one more bonus.
  14. I worked as a digital product manager for a biotech company for a number of years before being shitcanned along with a bunch of other folks after a merger last year. I just got an email from a lawyer from the company asking me to sign and return some documents. They are relevant to a patent application that was filed probably at the beginning of 2024, on which I along with my old manager and one of the scientists on our team are listed as inventors. The gist of the document seems to be that as an inventor i would be assigning to the company global and exclusive rights in perpetuity blah blah blah. I should talk to a lawyer about this right? And any tips on doing that (google patent lawyer in my hood?)? I'm not incredibly liquid at the moment so on the one hand I would love if this was some free money but also I'm not trying to spend a bunch in lawyers fees if this is unlikely to be worth anything. I'm not particularly mad at the company, but I'm also not trying to just give stuff away to them (and they did fucking fire me while I was on a business trip with a 6 month old at home). And while I don't want to burn bridges I also don't think I'm likely to return to their industry specifically and certainly not the niche sector of the industry where my team was most active (which is a fairly small world). This feels like the kind of thing where they should have had me sign this before giving me severance or even as the patent was filed. But the company is run by scientists moonlighting as business folks and is particularly stupid in that area. I don't believe that the patent has been granted ("30 mo US phase filing" is part of the email). Included in the email is the previous email from December where legal had tried to contact me to sign the documents, apparently unaware that I had been fired. Anyways, any informed perspective from some of our law homies here would be appreciated.
  15. Someone buy me this
  16. Maybe it’s a Speed type situation where if the market drops a certain percentage in a single day he explodes.
  17. I wish people like @realgreggym were smart enough to understand just how fucking stupid they are. But alas.
  18. I want to be James’ dad when I grow up.
  19. I’m only eating pussy
  20. They should do a crossover sequel where the Accountant gets on the server and organizes the elements into layers.
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