Wizards Den

Fabby

16:14

@ShadowWizard Two of the things that makes you such a nice guy, is that you have a sense of humour and the other one being that you have an open mind...

(Both are, of course, linked and I could easily add "smart")

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby Recipe for disaster, if you ask me.... :P

Fabby

@ShadowWizard In the presence of dumb people? Definitely...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Shadow Wizard

hehe and if you happen to know real tricks to hold the need to pee you're welcome to answer my new question on LH! :D

(it's real... I got blood test and urine test tomorrow morning!) o_O

I think in previous years I didn't listen to what the doctor said and didn't give the first morning urine as requested, but better try and give them what they want.... lol

Fabby

@ShadowWizard I'm like a camel: When I drink, i drink and when I pee, i pee

Do you have a link?

Shadow Wizard

I hate the 12 hours fast it requires... so used to eat around 9-10 PM... :(

Fabby

16:18

this one will make you sile...

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby LOL... that was a great movie!!! :P

@Fabby what's that strange URL you're using?

why proxy the image?

Fabby

It was! And I suspected he was dead after... 30 minutes?

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby lol you're too smart for movies... :D

Fabby

@ShadowWizard Because I use startpage.com for all my searches.

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby link

FOX 9000

16:20

@ShadowWizard poly (?)

Shadow Wizard

@FOX9000 gon

FOX 9000

No associated word found for gon.

Fabby

It's just easier to keep the proxied link than to fetch the real link

And then people I post to are protected from Google too.

Shadow Wizard

ohh smart!

Fabby

@ShadowWizard reading...

Shadow Wizard

16:22

:)

Not much to read... usually my questions are short and simple.

When possible, with FHRC. :D

But can't FHRC urge to pee, so....

Fabby

@ShadowWizard Before I respond on the site, asking if the following ideas are worthwhile:

How about getting a sterile container from the lab beforehand and just pee when you need to pee and hand in the container?

Shadow Wizard

Any idea is worthwhile, keep in mind it should be helpful for others too, with different situation e.g. one during important exam who can't go out for few hours. :)

@Fabby it answers the specfic example, but yeah... that's a nice idea. Though it will require me to go twice to the lab and lose twice work hours.

I'll try tomorrow to hold, and in case of failure will indeed do it, I guess. Unless getting better tricks. ;)

EKons

hm, don't they sell containers in pharmacies?

Shadow Wizard

The blood and urine tests can wait, I just prefer to do it as soon as possible to have it behind me. :)

Fabby

@ShadowWizard Why not kasher a container right now?

Shadow Wizard

16:26

@EKons not that I know of... I reach the lab, give the paper with the test details from the doctor, and they give me a container.

Fabby

I mean: The elders that started Judaism were millennia ahead of their time...

EKons

ah, where I live it's very easy to get a couple containers from a pharmacy, no paper and stuff :P

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby must be medical container, with proper seal, etc.

Fabby

Kashered = sterile...

@ShadowWizard A nearly empty cough syrup bottle?

Shadow Wizard

not sure it will be accepted....

EKons

16:27

@Fabby lol

FOX 9000

@EKons That word is already said in the latest 10 words. Please use another. (In case I'm mistaken, run >>rmword lol and then >>reply 7391449)

Shadow Wizard

Prefer to follow procedure, and in case I fail, try plan B. :)

Fabby

@ShadowWizard You're in bloody Israel! I expect it not to be accepted in dumb Germany, but in Israel where Jewish scientists grok it???

:0 :0 :0

Shadow Wizard

lolz

Well, we have standards. :D

Fabby

Disclosure: I'm a scientist by education, not by trade...

Shadow Wizard

16:29

@Fabby More than most people here! :P

EKons

@Fabby welcome to Greece! :D

Fabby

Sterile container is all it takes... If you don't have time to get a lab-approved one before tomorrow, make your own!

@EKons The Greeks are 2nd on my list of smart people.

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby I am lazy.... too much work. I prefer to hold and suffer. :P

Fabby

Whereas the Jews invented healthy nutrition and sterilisation, the Greeks invented everything else that's worth something:

EKons

@Fabby Greeks are smart by education, but they almost never get the job they studied for in the university ;-)

Fabby

16:31

Democracy, philosophy, orgies, ...

Shadow Wizard

To be honest, I was able to hold for hours in the past in army and later during exams.... but I was much younger and never tried to hold the first morning pee. :(

Fabby

(The romanse just perfected orgies, the Greeks invented them)

Shadow Wizard

lol

Fabby

:D :D :D

EKons

true dat

Shadow Wizard

16:32

just don't make me laugh like that tomorrow morning!! :D

Fabby

@EKons Nor did I... Disclosure: I worked in Greece...

@ShadowWizard Another tip: stop drinking fluid now, go to the toilet before going to sleep, set an alarm in the middle of the night and go again ...

... that will make holding morning pee easier as it will be less.

Another crazy idea: have half a pee in the morning...

EKons

alternatively, pee before going to bed, and then, when you wake up, first thing go to the lab :P

Fabby

I'm going to answer all those.

EKons

@Fabby ouch, that will make it harder...

if you've already started peeing, the flow is harder to stop

Shadow Wizard

@Fabby huh! not sure it's legit, it will make the urine test pee the second pee. I think. Dunno. lol

But you can totally give the other tip as answer. Pretty sure you'll get some rep from that. :D

Fabby

16:37

@ShadowWizard Good enough.

Shadow Wizard

:)

@EKons can't do.. kids.... waking up in 6:30, putting kids in school, lab open only at 8 anyway, I think.

EKons

ooh, clever idea: attach some sort of bag... oh wait, not sterile :/

Shadow Wizard

@EKons nah, I can stop in the middle, did it few times "for science". :)

EKons

I can also stop, but it's painful...

Shadow Wizard

The issue is that I'm not sure the "second half" will still be considered first pee. ;)

@EKons not for me... :)

EKons

16:40

btw, I'm pretty sure that "first morning pee" really means "pee before eating anything"...

at least that's how I've done urine tests in the past

Fabby

@ShadowWizard Thinking...

I would say yes, if you don't drink anything...

5Clarifying answer)

If you tell me not to think of a pink elephant, the first thing I do is think of a pink elephant... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Fabby 24 secs ago

P.S. +1 on the Q! That one will get you lots of views, but I'm prettty sure: not many upvotes...

EKons

I didn't just think of ~~Adriaan~~ a pink elephant...

Fabby

>:-)

EKons

Q&A, not Q&UV! :P

Fabby

OK, I'm done now

(especially as writing about peeing so much has made me... Guess what??? need to go to the bloody toilet!!!) @ShadowWizard

BRB

Fabby

17:04

@EKons So what's your education???

(you're probably working in IT too)

EKons

lol no

I don't even have a job yet :D

even though I make monsters...

Fabby

@EKons :O

Did you uninstall Ubuntu seeting that you haven't posted any answerse since 2016???

EKons

nope :P

Fabby

@EKons Yeah, saw that: 30K!

Dual-booting and using mostly Windows then?

EKons

dual-booting and only using Windows lately :P

but I would never want to remove Ubuntu!

Fabby

17:08

I still have a dual boot but the only thing I use Windows for is:

1. Updating Windows.

2. Changing the keyboard backlights as that's not in the kernel yet...

3. Using shit that doesn't work on Ubuntu (WebEx for job interviews mostly)

EKons

well... actually, I reinstalled Windows after an nVidia update went haywire

yeah, the screen was eternally black

Fabby

@EKons Sounds like an Ubuntu problem! :D :D :D

EKons

but they're on separate partitions!

Fabby

Ah, you mean: you added Windows after an Ubuntu problem!

EKons

nah

my laptop came with Windows :P

Fabby

17:11

@EKons With me, they're on separate HARD DRIVES!

(well, I have 2 M2s of 256GB and one is for W10 and the other for Ubuntu.

EKons

first thing I did, install usual plugins, Kaspersky AV, Ubuntu :P

Fabby

Data is shared on a 1TB HDD.

What kind of job are you looking for? @EKons

EKons

definitely exact science, no theoretical fluff

most likely tech

those job ads over SO do make me wish I was able to even work at all... :/

so many perks

Fabby

@EKons OK, well: can't help you there as I've been working in IT because I've never been able to land a job in science....

(And I'm an old fart)

EKons

lol Greek terms are shady

what we call "exact sciences" is basically whatever is based on logic

Fabby

17:16

@EKons IT is not an exact science IMHO.

EKons

yeah, you don't follow scientific procedures :P

Fabby

Chemistry, physics, Mathematics, ...

EKons

there's no experimenting or proving in the traditional sense

Fabby

Biology, medical science, IT are not...

(but I'm a Chemist, so...)

:P

If you would have wanted to work in IT, I would have asked you: "Do you want to work in a crazy fucked up company?"

(and then I would have asked you to send me your CV prvately, and then sent you a link to the jobs we've got open)

EKons

the first objective is to have sufficient income to live a life

Fabby

17:18

@EKons The question then becomes:

57 secs ago, by Fabby

If you would have wanted to work in IT, I would have asked you: "Do you want to work in a crazy fucked up company?"

(nice pay though, and yes: we're in Greece too)

EKons

the second objective is for my job environment to be comfortable

Fabby

@EKons Ah, definitely not around here...

EKons

yeah, this second objective might be tossed away in some circumstances

Fabby

Which communication media outside of StackEchange do you have available?

Skype?Telegram? SMS? email? LinkedIn? (I don't do any of the FaceBook ones, so no FB, WhatsApp...)

EKons

I have a lot, although that might've changed when the time finally comes :P

Fabby

17:22

@EKons Want to talk to me privately? I'll post in here whichever of the above you have

EKons

uhh... sure, I guess, a hello never hurts :P

let me see

Fabby

add Google Hangouts to that list.

EKons

no, no Hangouts

Fabby

:-) I don't use it much neither: just with one person and I delete all conversatiobs afterwards.

EKons

I do have Discord, Twitter and Telegram, for example :P

Fabby

17:24

@EKons Do you have it?

EKons

yeah, wait a sec

Fabby

Not leaving that up... (only limited time before it becomes permanent)

EKons

don't worry, it's in my clipboard now :P

got anything? :P

Fabby

17:51

@ShadowWizard as you're the room's owner, you have the deleted information too. Feel free to use it, but not disclose to anyone else...

;-)

I'm off: walking dog and fetching food as I'm dog sitting...

KennyBOT

18:56

~ In the Shadow of the Sandcastle

Shadow Wizard

19:36

@Fabby used (it ;))

FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard calibration (?)

Shadow Wizard

Hope I pasted the number correctly, otherwise someone is going to be really confused... ;)

Oh yeah no mistake:D

Fabby

@ShadowWizard >:-)

With me it's rather straitghforward

Now I'm going to look for that expalnation.

(Sorry! CAPS LOCK error)

Fabby

19:52

What's one of the keywords to look for when searching history for the explanation of what Shadow Wizard means?

Back to gaming...

Shadow Wizard

20:12

No worry I will look for it for you!

EKons

lol

Fabby

Smoke! BRB...

Princess Luna

@Fabby Please tell me you don't mean smoke like from a fire xd

Fabby

@PrincessLuna Smoke as in:

I'm going for a smoke, thus I'm AFK...

Princess Luna

Good

Fabby

20:27

0:-)

Princess Luna

well, not good xd It's not exactly healthy

But at least nothing is on fire ^^"

Fabby

@PrincessLuna Well, bad actually, but better than a fire!

@PrincessLuna Telepathy!

:D ;-)

Princess Luna

xD

EKons

ah, and there I was, preparing the obituary...

KennyBOT

21:33

~ I'm a little bit lonely...

Fabby

23:07

Hah! I forgot I posted this one on lifehacks previously:

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A: What is a permanent solution for black mold?

Depending on the environment this is happening in (pets, children, food preparation, ...) this permanent solution might not apply. A bit of back-ground: Mould is one of the oldest life forms on Earth and thus pretty resistant to pretty much everything... You can temporarily stop growth, but ev...

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