Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

mudbunny wrote:

I have a router, I will be getting a modem in about a week (once my FIL brings it back to Canada from Florida), and then it will only be a few short weeks before I am off of Bell Canada and onto TekSavvy.

Same speed, 4 times the bandwidth for $15 less a month.

High five for not supporting the telecartels!

Strangeblades wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

Our label got a Grammy nomination in the Classical Compendium category for Harry Partch's Bitter Music
http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage...

:)

Have you filed a worker compensation claim due to injuries from tripping over Grammies?

Heh

While much of the excitement has died down, I still have a huge smile on my face. Things are being signed, and official start date is January 7th. This month will be spent cleaning, packing, finding a place to live, figuring sh*t out. It's going to be stressful, but I'm so ready for this to happen. Everyone has been informed, family has even agreed to help out financially so we can get on our feet. I haven't cried yet, but I have a feeling that I might once everything finally hits me.

Mrs. Gravey is sick, so I took a family illness day to help take care of the baby. Everyone's napping right now, I'm wrapping presents, and overdosing on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was finally added to Netflix Canada.

I think I got the hang of Thursdays.

Hmm. Finished a nice interview with a prospective employer for another reporter job. Gonna see if I can up my pay by about $1,000 a year. The newsroom sounds nice. They have four people (FOUR!) and I would be the fifth one if I got hired (FIVE!). That alone almost sold me (FIVE WHOLE PEOPLE! NOT LIKE THESE TWO BISECTED CLOWNS I WORKED WITH!). The editor is really sticking to his guns about keeping a positive mood at the workplace. No more 15-hour days, seven days a week for me! (if I got hired)

Parallax Abstraction wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

I have a router, I will be getting a modem in about a week (once my FIL brings it back to Canada from Florida), and then it will only be a few short weeks before I am off of Bell Canada and onto TekSavvy.

Same speed, 4 times the bandwidth for $15 less a month.

High five for not supporting the telecartels! :)

I am just waiting for my wife to make a choice on what TV channels she wants from Videotron so that I can have the Videotron guy come in to hook up the TV, phone and internet all the same day. (Note that, according to TSI, they just hire a Videotron contractor to hook up the internet.)

Gravey wrote:

Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was finally added to Netflix Canada.

That is all kinds of awesome!!

mudbunny wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was finally added to Netflix Canada.

That is all kinds of awesome!!

Gravey, not just an awesome sauce, but now an awesome source!

mudbunny wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was finally added to Netflix Canada.

That is all kinds of awesome!!

Sounds like it's time to give Netflix another shot.

Spoiler:

Is it any good?

My son got accepted to one the universities he applied to, along with the offer of a $60k academic scholarship over 4 years ($15k a year).

Too bad the school costs approx. $45k a year to attend. Better be some more scholarships coming.

MacBrave wrote:

My son got accepted to one the universities he applied to, along with the offer of a $60k academic scholarship over 4 years ($15k a year).

Too bad the school costs approx. $45k a year to attend. Better be some more scholarships coming.

Awesome! The cost of college scares the bejeezus out of me though.

Chairman_Mao wrote:
MacBrave wrote:

My son got accepted to one the universities he applied to, along with the offer of a $60k academic scholarship over 4 years ($15k a year).

Too bad the school costs approx. $45k a year to attend. Better be some more scholarships coming.

Awesome! The cost of college scares the bejeezus out of me though.

Congrats MacBraveJnr!

We're 'lucky' down here. We can opt to defer our Uni fees and then have that amount taken out of our taxable income once we are gainfully employed and earning over a certain threshold.

Makes it easier to study up front, but you end up paying for it over a longer period of time. And although it is super low, there is still interest charged on that amount I believe.

MacBrave wrote:

My son got accepted to one the universities he applied to, along with the offer of a $60k academic scholarship over 4 years ($15k a year).

Too bad the school costs approx. $45k a year to attend. Better be some more scholarships coming.

Woo! Only been there once, but it looked pretty. Congrats to him wherever he ends up going

Game of Thrones.
I never re-watch anything. Well, rarely.
Re-watching it now.

Trick is, I couldn't read the book after seeing the series. I was thinking about starting on the next book.
Where do I start after the TV series ended, and what would I be missing?

Ghostship wrote:

Game of Thrones.
I never re-watch anything. Well, rarely.
Re-watching it now.

Trick is, I couldn't read the book after seeing the series. I was thinking about starting on the next book.
Where do I start after the TV series ended, and what would I be missing?

Honestly it's worth it to read all the books from the beginning. The first season stays pretty close to the books, but there is a bunch of stuff in the second book that they didn't include in the series. Most likely for budget reasons.

But to answer your question the first two series cover the first two books.

Ghostship wrote:

Game of Thrones.
I never re-watch anything. Well, rarely.
Re-watching it now.

Trick is, I couldn't read the book after seeing the series. I was thinking about starting on the next book.
Where do I start after the TV series ended, and what would I be missing?

Season 2 roughly covers book 2; there's a lot of depth, characterization, minor characters and descriptions of food and heraldry that you've missed by not reading books 1 and 2, though. Season 3 (starting this Spring) will roughly cover the first half of book 3.

The volume of food and heraldry descriptions cannot be overstated.

Deadmonkeys wrote:
mudbunny wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was finally added to Netflix Canada.

That is all kinds of awesome!!

Sounds like it's time to give Netflix another shot.

Spoiler:

Is it any good?

Netflix Canada is still pretty anemic compared to the stuffed-to-the-gills US Netflix, but unless you've already seen everything under the sun, there's enough to justify $8/mo (e.g. watch at least two movies a month). And it's getting better too, slowly but surely, even if sometimes there's a step back when contracts expire and stuff is removed (my sister-in-law calls Netflix every time Thomas the Tank Engine isn't available) (she f*cking loves Thomas the Tank Engine).

Bath time - My 8 month old daughter loves to splash in the water and it makes my whole night worth while.

Deadmonkeys wrote:
mudbunny wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was finally added to Netflix Canada.

That is all kinds of awesome!!

Sounds like it's time to give Netflix another shot.

[spiler]Is it any good?[/spiler]

Of course it is, especially once the beard arrives (we're in season 3, but watched when it was new).

MacBrave wrote:

valpo

Man, so many ska concerts. (It's been over a decade. I assume that's still happening, right?)

Phishposer wrote:

The volume of food and heraldry descriptions cannot be overstated.

I feel like not combining them was a missed opportunity.

"The banners of the [random rarely discussed house] blazed with a full tableau of the traditional Westerosi breakfast offerings, including a blood red sausage on a field of light yellow gravy, trimmed with a variety of leeks, onions, radishes, peas, honey seared beeswax with a light glaze of whipping cream fresh from the dark chestnut heifer featured prominently in the background, striped with ham."

Today's my last day of work for 2012! I need to use up a bunch of vacation days before the end of the year, so I'm taking the rest of December off. Today is a good day.

The threat of a strike no longer looms over my head before Christmas. The union and employer have agreed to meet in January and postpone strikes.

You had me until

MyBrainHz wrote:

honey seared beeswax

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muttonchop wrote:

Today's my last day of work for 2012! I need to use up a bunch of vacation days before the end of the year, so I'm taking the rest of December off. Today is a good day.

...and now my office is having a party with free beer. Today is a very good day.

muttonchop wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

Today's my last day of work for 2012! I need to use up a bunch of vacation days before the end of the year, so I'm taking the rest of December off. Today is a good day.

...and now my office is having a party with free beer. Today is a very good day.

Awesome.

I should also mention that today my work is very quiet and I decided to put a chair in the elevator. At lunch time when everyone uses the elevator, I went and sat in the chair and when people would enter, I would proclaim "going up" or "going down" ring the elevator bell and then press the button. It went over very well.

Now matter how fun that was, I wish I could be hanging out at Muttonchop's work for the party.

muttonchop wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

Today's my last day of work for 2012! I need to use up a bunch of vacation days before the end of the year, so I'm taking the rest of December off. Today is a good day.

...and now my office is having a party with free beer. Today is a very good day.

We call those Fridays (seriously). We usually get new hires to bring us margaritas, too. Still awesome for you, though.

Yeah, free booze is pretty rare around here. We used to have regular rooftop barbecues in the summer, but one time some folks got too rowdy and the police were called. Now office beer is limited to very special occasions.

Cry of Fear.

A free Half Life (yes, Half Life 1) mod. It's been Greenlit, so it should hit Steam pretty soon. Love me some creepy games, but goddamn this one gets under my skin. I play with headphones on, at night, in the dark. The main difference between Cry of Fear and most other horror games is that I actually have to take breaks when I play this game. There are plenty of jump scares, but the sense of dread is overpowering at times.

Although the visuals are dated, the game looks surprisingly good. The sound design and atmosphere are fantastic, and the duel-wielding system offers some interesting gameplay tradeoffs. Some of the enemies are really messed up: one of 'em tries to make you commit suicide. You see the hand model flip your gun (or other weapon?) around, and your character whimpers as you hammer M1 to keep yourself from pulling the trigger.

A Reviewer wrote:

Cry of Fear is soaked in loneliness, dread, foreboding, guilt, deep introspective messages (hyperbole city) and thoughtful negotiation with your inner demons. It's violent, shocking, loud and original and presents its story clearly with a sullen acceptance of death and decay.

This game is truly messed up.

I love it.